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Vinterberg completes All About Love financing
Months of controversy ended early this week Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love completed its financing. The Danish Film Institute (DFI) reversed an earlier decision and decided to back it with $600,000 (DKR5m) and Nordic Film & TV Fund raised its support by $110,000 (NKR1m) completing the $10.2m (DKR85m) budget. ...
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France's ARP first to sign up for Chelsea Walls
Ethan Hawke's Chelsea Walls, a star-studded digital video production that receives its world premiere in the Directors' Fortnight section of this year's Cannes Film Festival this year, has been acquired for France by ARP Selection. It is the first territory to be sold on the film outside North America where ...
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Fortissimo strike early sales for Taiwanese pair
Indie distribution powerhouse Fortissimo yesterday scored a trio of sales on each of its two Cannes competition films from Taiwan, Millennium Mambo and What Time Is it There'Hou Hsiao-hsien's Mambo was sold to Les Films de l'Elysees for Benelux, Prooptiki for Creece and to Classic Films for Italy, the latter ...
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Atkinson to become Scottish scout for Ecosse
Ginnie Atkinson is to join Ecosse Films as a consultant producer with aremit to establish an active Scottish presence for the London-basedproduction company. Working from Edinburgh, she will serve as a talentscout for the company."Basically, I am their 'Man in Havana', " she said. "They want apresence in Scotland ...
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Producers to be feted by EFP at Cannes
Fu Works' San Fu Maltha, X-Filme creative pool's Maria Koepf and Renegade Films' Ildiko Kemeny are among 17 up-and-coming producers from 16 European countries who have been selected by members of the pan-European promotional initiative European Film Promotion (EFP) for "Producers On The Move" at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival ...
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Doing the Cannes-Cannes
Everything from Moulin Rouge to the British philistines appear in this week's edition of Screen International (May 4-10), the leading authority on the international film business:ON THE GRAPEVINECANNES BUZZ Screen correspondents search from Pusan to Buenos Aires for the films that are tipped to be favourites in the art-houses around ...
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Strike talks move into third post deadline meeting
Hollywood writers and producers today (4 May) began another day of negotiating, amid persistent rumours that a deal may not be far off. The negotiations have already stretched two full days past the official expiry date of the writer's previous contract with producers. Reports say that the situation still remains ...
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Early Chabrol to be celebrated by Jove
The 16th annual Cinema Jove International Film Festival (June 16-23) will dedicate a retrospective to the early films of French director Claude Chabrol.The retrospective, set to cover the director's films from the late 1950s and early 1960s, is dubbed "The young' Chabrol." It follows last year's debut of a section ...
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Germany's e-m-s adds East European rights
German DVD company e-m-s new media has acquired East European rights to 73 feature films as another step in the internationalisation of its activities.The package covers all stages of the rights chain from theatrical release through TV to home entertainment. The package of mainly US titles, which was acquired by ...
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Aurum owner Asensio dies
Francisco Matosas has been named president of publishing and media giant Grupo Zeta following the April death of Zeta founder and chief Antonio Asensio.Asensio's son, Antonio Asensio Mosbah, will take over Matosas' position as vice president of the Group. Asensio, 53, passed away in Madrid on April 20.Zeta publishes a ...
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Film Co adds pair to Cannes starting line-up
On the eve of Cannes, UK sales outfit The Film Company has added titles from Rob Green and John Luessenhop to its slate.Green's The Bunker stars Jason Flemyng, Jack Davenport and Christopher Fairbank and is a drama about trapped German soldiers during WWII. It is produced by Daniel Figuero for ...
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ONrequest signs pay-per-view deal with Buena Vista
Digital pay-per-view service ONrequest has signed a film licensing agreement with Buena Vista International Television.The deal gives ONrequest - a joint venture between ONdigital and SDN - digital terrestrial television pay per view rights to a package of films including Scream 3, The Cider House Rules, High Fidelity, Gone In ...
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UK's Optimum adds Grosso's Peaches
Optimum Releasing has acquired UK theatrical rights to Peaches, a Stone Ridge Entertainment production written and directed by Nick Grosso.The acquisition follows Optimum's acquisition this week of three titles: comedy thriller Ginger Snaps; French-language film Le Secret and Suri Krishnamma's coming-of-age drama New Year's Day (Screendaily.com, May 2).Peaches is billed ...
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Intertainment opens Window to life after Franchise
Intertainment, the rights trader which is locked in an ugly litigation tussle with Franchise Pictures, has set A Window To Atlantis as the first project to flow from its deal with Hollywood veteran Arnold Kopelson.The German group said on Friday (May 4) that it is now actively looking for new ...
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Full rundown of Writers Guild contract agreement
The first potentially catastrophic labour strike which has hung over the Hollywood film industry for over a year now has been averted. In a press conference called for Friday afternoon, the Writers Guild Of America (WGA) said that it had reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance Of Motion Picture ...
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The Mummy Returns is a monster; opens on $70.1m
Universal Pictures celebrated the second biggest opening in cinema history at the North American box office this weekend, as its adventure sequel The Mummy Returns grossed a spectacular estimated $70.1m. Only one film - Universal's own The Lost World: Jurassic Park - had a bigger three-day take of $72m in ...
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The Mummy Returns is a monster; opens on $70.1m
Universal Pictures celebrated the second biggest opening in cinema history at the North American box office this weekend, as its adventure sequel The Mummy Returns grossed a spectacular estimated $70.1m. Only one film - Universal's own The Lost World: Jurassic Park - had a bigger three-day take of $72m in ...
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San Sebastian unveils three retrospectives
Making his first announcement about content, MikelOlaciregui, the new director of the San SebastianInternational Film Festival, unveiled a 2001 programmecontaining three retrospective sections.The festival, now in its 49th edition (Sept 20-29),will feature a "classic" retrospective dedicated to USdirector Frank Borzage, a "contemporary" retrospectiveof the works of director Otar Iosseliani and ...
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Searchlight's Lisa Fragner joins Rudolph & Beer
New York entertainment law firm Rudolph & Beer (R&B) has formed a new division R&B FM (Film & Music) to be headed by Lisa Fragner, formerly head of east coast production and development for Fox Searchlight Pictures. Fragner has been at Searchlight for four years in production and development, ...
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Barrandov dispels early sale rumours
Rumours have flown in recent days concerning an imminent purchase of Czech film studio Barrandov, but the company says that a quick deal is unlikely.The weekly Prague Business Journal last week reported that an unnamed "small group of Los Angeles film makers" were making a bid for Barrandov and ...