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Modern steps up to take on three new films at AFM
ModernEntertainment announced today (Feb 10) that it is expanding its distribution operationsto include international sales of new feature films, with the first threetitles named as The Pact, Liquid Bridge and Fear Of Speed. The company will be offering all three for worldwidetheatrical and television distribution at AFM next week. Until ...
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Ciment named guest programmer at San Francisco Film Fest
Michel Ciment, the long-running editor of French filmmagazine Positif, has been named as guest programmer at the 46th San FranciscoInternational Film Festival. Making the announcement today (Feb 10), SanFrancisco Film Society executive director Roxanne Messina Captor said Cimentknew the festival well after covering it for many years as a reporter. ...
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Iraq, Rouen go to US through Wellspring
Wellspring Mediahas acquired US rights to two new foreign-language pictures: BahmanGhobadi's award-wining Marooned In Iraq and Ma Vraie Vie A Rouen directed by Olivier Ducastel and JacquesMartineau. The company will release both films theatrically prior to a homevideo roll-out on the Wellspring label, with Marooned In Iraq set for release ...
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UIP's Rougier takes top job at TFM
Jean-PaulRougier has been named managing director of TFM, the stand-alone joint Frenchdistribution outfit launched by TF1 and Miramax Films in May 2002. Miramax COORick Sands and TF1 chairman and CEO Patrick Le Lay made the announcement today(Feb 10). Rougier most recently served as CEO at UIP, where he was also ...
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Just Married gives Fox its sixth biggest opening in Mexico
Fox International's DieAnother Day added another $3m from1,109 screens in 19 markets over the weekend for a $232.1m internationalrunning total. The James Bond picture is scheduled to open in Japan and Italyin March.Following on from itsrecord-breaking opening day in Mexico last week, the number one comedy JustMarried scored a terrific ...
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How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days tops the chart with $24.1m
Paramount's romantic comedy How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days showed how to win the audience's heartsin three with a terrific table-topping $24.1m bow over the weekend, accordingto studio estimates. Matthew McConaughey plays a commitment-phobe who bets hisfriends he can date a woman for 10 days or lose his ...
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TV5 to broadcast Cesars live on US network
TV5, in agreement with CanalPlus, will broadcast the 28th Cesar Awards live on Feb 22 on its US network,TV5 tats-Unis. The annual French film awards will be hosted by GeraldinePailhas, who won the Cesar in 1992 for best newcomer and recently starred inNicole Garcia's L'Adversaire. This year's leadingcontenders are ...
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Fiji opens LA office in advance of location tax breaks
In a drive to boost itsprofile as a location for international productions and promote proposed taxbreaks, the Fijian government has opened the Los Angeles offices of the FijiAudiovisual Commission (FAVC). Headed up by CEO Dan Bolea, the commission willact as a 'one-stop shop' for Los Angeles film industryprofessionals, promoting Fiji's ...
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Susannah Ludwig wins Silverman prize from Sundance
The Sundance Institute andthe Mark Silverman Fellowship for New Producers have announced that SusannahLudwig is to receive the 2003 Mark Silverman Fellowship. Set up in tribute toSilverman, who died in 1989 and worked on titles including Blood Simple and Raising Arizona, the award includes $5,000 for pre-production costs.Sundance will form ...
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TLA Releasing acquires North American rights to The Trip
TLA Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights toMiles Swain's award-winning gay romantic comedy The Trip, it was announced today (Feb 6). Thetwo-year-old distribution label, a division of TLA Entertainment Group, willrelease the film initially in New York on May 2 and then platform the releasenationally.'This was one of the ...
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FULL LINEUP OF AFM SEMINARS
Influential film-makersincluding Michael Apted, Kathryn Bigelow and Neil LaBute are scheduled to speakin a series of eight seminars to run during the 23rd American Film Market(AFM), which takes place from Feb 19-26. The seminars have traditionally been apopular draw among industry professionals and topics this year include actingin the digital ...
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Foley's Confidence opens Santa Barbara Film Festival
James Foley's acclaimed thriller Confidence, starring Dustin Hoffman, Ed Burns andRachel Weisz, will receive its West Coast premiere at the opening night gala ofthe 2003 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) on Feb 28. Foley andBurns will attend the screening. In addition, the festival's new executivedirector Jon Fitzgerald announced today ...
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Idiom Entertainment formed with Bardem, Wright Penn picture
Robert C Hawk, the former CEO of cable operator US WestMultimedia, and Quay Hays, a veteran executive most recently senior consultantat RKO Pictures, have formed Idiom Films, an independent production and financecompany that has two projects in pre-production, The Last Face and Hating Her. The company, which has its own ...
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Just Married opens at number one in Mexico for Fox
Just Married, the Fox comedy that opened number one in January in the US, hasscored the biggest ever opening day for a comedy in Mexico. The picture, whichstars Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher as newlyweds who embark on adisastrous honeymoon, opened on Feb 5 and grossed $465,916 from 250 screens. ...
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Michael Moore wins ground-breaking WGA nomination
Bowling For Columbine continued to blaze a trail through the industry today (Feb 6)when it became the first documentary to receive an original screenplaynomination by the Writers Guild of America (WGA). The picture, which exploresUS attitudes toward gun ownership in the wake of the Columbine High Schoolkillings in 1999, has ...
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Mosaic enters marketing arena with two corporate alliances
LA production anddistribution group Mosaic Media Group has moved into the marketing arena withthe formation of Elevation Entertainment, a joint venture with Denny Young andSteve Lindecke's Elevation Group of companies. In addition, Mosaicpresident Allen Shapiro announced today (Feb 5) that the company is to acquirehalf of The Steven Rifkind Company's ...
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Hopper, Stone & Parker get awards at Santa Monica Fest
Dennis Hopper will receive alifetime achievement award for persistence of vision at the upcoming SantaMonica Film Festival. In a statement released today (Feb 5) festival directorMichael Cain said: 'The opportunity to give Mr Hopper an award is anoverwhelming experience for me. With hundreds of critically acclaimed moviesunder his belt since ...
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Catriona Booth gets London-based communications job at Warner Bros
Catriona Boothwas today (Feb 5) named director of international corporate communications atWarner Bros, a new London-based post that bestows a panoply of duties as thecompany's official spokesperson in Europe. Booth will assume responsibilityfor corporate and business press at the various divisions and properties,including strategic communications for Warner Bros UK. She ...
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Kino teams with Viz & Tidepoint for Chaos, Japanese titles in US
Kino International has struck a co-distribution deal with Tidepoint Pictures of San Francisco, in collaboration with Viz, to launch the Viz/Tidepoint library of cutting-edge, independent Japanese films in the North-American home video market. Tetsuki Ijichi and Elizabeth S Wilkerson's Tidepoint Pictures was set up in San Francisco in 1996 to ...
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MGM 'in excellent financial condition', says Yemenidjian
MGM announcedfourth quarter 2002 net income of $58.7m or $0.24 a share today (Feb 5),compared to net income of $39.1m or $0.16 a share for the same period in 2001.Revenues in the quarter rose approximately 65% to $620.9m from $375.5m in thefourth quarter of 2001. Alex Yemenidjian, chairman and CEO ...