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Camela Galano named president of New Line Int'l
Camela Galano, who has been living in London as executive vice president and European supervisor of New Line International (NLI), has been named president of New Line International. She takes over international duties from Rolf Mittweg whose job at New Line Cinema was recently expanded when he was named president ...
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M6 to buy French distributor SND from RTL Group
M6, the French broadcaster which has been quietly been acquiring all French rights to films such as Martin Scorsese's mega budget Gangs of News York, is in the process of taking control of its theatrical distribution operation with the purchase of RTL Group's SND.RTL is also a main shareholder in ...
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Hundred Steps producer lines up Palestinian movie
Fabrizio Mosca, producer of the Italian Oscar candidate The Hundred Steps, is lining up three English-language pictures, including Return to Haifa - a breakthrough Israeli-Palestinian-Italian film about Middle East tensions. Return to Haifa is based on a book by a leading Palestinian author, Ghassan Kanafani, who was killed by Mossad ...
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Tokuma mounts new project from Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tokuma International has moved quickly to capitalise on the intense heat surrounding Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, following the acclaimed Un Certain regard screening of his Pulse (aka Kairo).Tokuma is to handle world sales on his next directorial effort, an untitled drama about the uneasy relationship between two men. ...
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Miramax buys Rabbit Proof Fence, Fox grabs Jessica
Buying heated up in the weekend sun at Cannes as an acquisitive Miramax Films put down $4m for North and South American, UK and Italian rights to Phillip Noyce's aboriginal period drama Rabbit Proof Fence.Fox Searchlight Pictures also used the festival to unveil its acquistion of worldwide rights to Charles ...
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Weinstein teases Bac's Labadie, then regrets it
Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein became the unwitting talking point of this year's Cannes Film Festival after poking fun at Jean Labadie, the head of French distribution house Bac Films and also Miramax's regular theatrical partner in the territory.Taking the microphone at this year's annual luncheon held by Miramax International ...
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Hammer teams with Sturridge to scare up six films
Resurrected UK horror brand Hammer Entertainment has partnered with FirstSight Films, the production outfit of Charles Sturridge, Francesca Barra and Selwyn Roberts, to make a slate of six films over the next three years.The deal is the first step back into feature film production for Hammer after it was bought ...
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CANNES: WEEKEND DEALS AND NEW PROJECTS
TF1 International has boarded The One And Only, a romantic comedy produced by the UK's Assassin Films and to be directed by Simon Cellar Jones.The world-wide acquisition and sales arm of TF1 Group, which is co-producing the title along with Pathe UK, will be handling worldwide sales with the exception ...
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The Mummy 2 smashes competition; Knight opens OK
The Mummy Returns, Universal Pictures' blockbusting sequel, dominated the North American box office for a second weekend with a powerful $32.2m for a ten-day total of $116.5m. Although the film lost 53% of its audience, it is still on track to become the first film of the year to gross ...
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Lacklustre Cannes festival leaves d'Or still ajar
At its exact midway point, with only five more days to go, the 54th edition of the Cannes Film Festival registers as a solid but not particularly exciting programme. No major discoveries, no artistic breakouts, not many commercial hits -- not even real controversies or scandals to stir festival watchers ...
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Lolafilms boards Serrano's Cannibal's Daughter
Spanish heavyweight Lolafilms has boarded Mexican production The Cannibal's Daughter (La Hija Del Canibal), which reteams the director and producers of box office smash Sex, Shame And Tears (Sexo, Pudor Y Lagrimas).Lola, which handled distribution in Spain on Tears, will co-produce and take all Spanish rights to the $2-2.5m comedy-thriller ...
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Myriad, Tapestry team for co-production alliance
LA/London financing, production and sales outfit Myriad Pictures has teamed with LA production outfit Tapestry Films for a multi-year co-production alliance under which Myriad will provide Tapestry with a development fund and the two will co-produce two films a year. Myriad will retain international distribution rights to all the titles. ...
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Gaga buys Jeepers Creepers from Capitol Films
Japan's Gaga has picked up Jeepers Creepers from UK-based Capitol Films.Capitol has sold a host of overseas territories on the American Zoetrope title, with Spain's Tri-Pictures taking the film as part of a three-picture package including City Of Ghosts and CQ.Jeepers also went to Scandinavia's Scanbox, along with Robert Altman's ...
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Colifilms buys Assassination In February
Spanish producer Elias Querejeta has sold French rights on Cannes Critic's Week entry Assassination In February (Asesinato En Febrero) to specialist French distributor Colifilms. Querejeta says negotiations are also underway for sales to the US, UK and Italy. The feature film documentary, written by Querejeta and directed by newcomer Eterio ...
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Colifilms buys Assassination In February
Spanish producer Elias Querejeta has sold French rights on Cannes Critic's Week entry Assassination In February (Asesinato En Febrero) to specialist French distributor Colifilms. Querejeta says negotiations are also underway for sales to the US, UK and Italy. The feature film documentary, written by Querejeta and directed by newcomer Eterio ...
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Lothian & Metzstein to make Soul with Ideal World
Late Night Shopping writer-director team Jack Lothian and Saul Metzstein are to make romantic comedy Northern Soul for Ideal World Films, the Glasgow-based production operation behind their highly regarded Berlin festival debut.The music-fuelled story of a group of young people partying in Blackpool in the north of England will also ...
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US buyers go to war at Cannes
North American buyers continued an aggressive streak yesterday as new deals were unveiled on at least four films and a bidding war erupted over well-liked Bosnian competition contender No Man's Land.Sony Pictures Classics acquired North American rights to Fabian Bielinsky's Nueve Reinas (Nine Queens), a box office sensation in its ...
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USA greenlights Who Goes There'
USA Films has greenlit Who Goes There', the first production it is bankrolling from its three-year deal with Charles Finch and Luc Roeg's London-based company Artists Independent Network (AIN).The film is to be directed by AIN client Ben Ross (RKO 281, The Young Poisoner's Handbook) and to star Jamie Bell ...
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Slate, FilmFour set for Laurel and Hardy comedy
The Full Monty writer Simon Beaufoy is scripting an original comedy about Laurel and Hardy as one of the debut projects on Andrea Calderwood's FilmFour-bankrolled production outfit, Slate Films.The untitled project, set up with Footprint Films, will be set behind the scenes in the world of 1930s comedy talkies. Also ...
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BVI finalising first-look with Harbour
Buena Vista International (BVI)'s UK comedy label is finalising a first-look pact with Harbour Pictures, the production outfit behind Women's Institute naked calendar picture, Calendar Girls.Along with Calendar Girls, BVI is backing Harbour's Kinky Boots, a story written by Lizzie Mickery about a 100-year-old traditional shoe factory whose owner diversifies ...