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Swedish Oscars acclaim Lilja 4-Ever
Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-Ever was the clear winner at Sweden's 38th Guldbagge awards ceremony held last night in Stockholm - winning in five of its six nominated categories.The dark, Russian-language drama about human trafficking triumphed with five awards, including best film, best director and best script. The film's cinematographer Ulf ...
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Nicole Mackey joins Capitol Films
Nicole Mackey has joined Capitol Films as head of international sales, replacing Josh Kramer who is relocating back to Los Angeles.Industry veteran Mackey most recently held the position of president, international sales at Stewart Till’s now defunct Signpost Films.Before joining Signpost in 2002, Mackey was president of international sales at ...
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Taormina festival plots date change to attract Hollywood
The Taormina film festival is to move one month forward, in a bid to establish the event as a European launch-pad for summer blockbusters. This year's edition will run from June 7 - 14.Ever since he took over the festival's reins in 2000, former Venice director Felice Laudadio (pictured) ...
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Babelsberg gets Around The World
Babelsberg Studios has been given a major boost with news that Jackie Chan's Around The World In 80 Days will be shot at the studios from this spring.Frank Coraci (The Wedding Singer) directs the big-budget production for US-based Walden Media at Babelsberg and on location including Berlin and Central Germany. ...
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Taxi 3 gets off to flying start
The third instalment in French action-comedy franchise Taxi got off to a racing start in three European territories this weekend. Taxi 3 sped into top positions in France and Belgium and saw an impressive launch in French-speaking Switzerland to take a total weekend haul of $11.6m.Launching in France last Wednesday ...
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French film critics vote documentary Etre Et Avoir as best film
Cesar nominees Etre Et Avoir and Talk To Her took the major French film critics' awards on Monday evening at a ceremony in Paris. Etre Et Avoir is a documentary by Nicolas Philibert centering on a small provincial school with only one class. The film's star, professor Georges Lopez, has ...
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Catch Me If You Can runs up European revenues
Catch Me If You Can swept through a host of new territories over the weekend notching up more than $15.5m from the nine territories that received it. These openings included UIP's launches in three major European territories: Germany, Italy and the UK.The unquestionable box office draw of megastar triumvirate Leonardo ...
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UK's Winchester gets Last Orders settlement
The UK's troubled Winchester Entertainment has reached a $2.5m (£1.53m) settlement with German fund MBP after a dispute over payments on Last Orders.The agreement sees $1.6m (£980,000) paid to Winchester in cash. The AIM-listed UK company will receive the balance of $906,500 (£550,000) in instalments over the next six months.The ...
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In This World to get UK release by ICA Projects
Michael Winterbottom's Berlin competition title In This World has secured a UK release though ICA Projects, the distribution-exhibition offshoot of UK cultural institute the ICA.ICA's acquisition of UK theatrical and video rights to the film continues its aggressive acquisition policy on specialist titles such as Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without ...
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Catch Me flies into the UK
UK audiences flocked to safe reliability and flirted with controversy amongst this week's openers as Catch Me If You Can landed the top spot and Irreversible played a solid limited launch.Steven Spielberg's latest, which received positive reviews in the territory and stars box office favourites Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, ...
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Tele Images to back Gaumont Television buyout
French production and TV sales operation Tele Images International is to back the buyout of GTV from integrated French major Gaumont.Tele Images founder Simone Halberstadt Harari and Christian Charret, chief executive of GTV (formerly known as Gaumont Television), have jointly bought out Gaumont's remaining equity interest in GTV. The two ...
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Marshall, Swedlin among four new BAFTA/LA board members
The British Academy of Filmand Television Arts/Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA) has elected producers Alan PMarshall and Rosalie Swedlin, Universal Studios Home Video vice president ofpublicity Vivian Mayer Sr, and Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, partner at Glassman, Browning& Saltsman, to its board of directors. The four new board members joinreturning directors Ian Abercrombie, David ...
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Former agent, producer Peter Shaw dies in LA, aged 84
Peter Shaw, the formerHollywood agent who married Angela Lansbury and produced her in thelong-running TV series Murder, She Wrote, has died of heart failure after a long illness. He was 84. Shaw was born in Reading,England, in 1918 and served in the Army in the Second World War beforerelocating to ...
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Lightning takes international rights on The Event
LightningEntertainment has acquired international sales rights to ThomFitzgerald's The Event, which will screen in the Panorama section of the Berlin FilmFestival on Feb 8, 9 and 10. Set in Manhattan, The Event explores the effect of one man'sdeath on his loved ones and boasts a strong ensemble cast that includes ...
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Changes at Myriad: Roberts signs three-year production deal
Moving tobolster the production and development divisions at Myriad Pictures, companypresident Kirk D'Amico today (Feb 4) announced that former vice presidentof acquisitions and development Karen Roberts has signed a three-pictureproducing deal with the company. In addition, Neil Butler has been promoted todirector of development and JC Rappaport becomes manager of ...
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Fine Line wins battle to release HBO Films' Splendor
For the second time in six months, HBO Films has sealed adeal to release one of its productions theatrically in North America before itsHBO TV premiere, this time teaming with AOL Time Warner sister company FineLine Features to release American Splendorwhich last month won the Grand Jury Prize at the ...
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Rosario Tijeras rights snapped up for adaptation
Mexican producer Matthias Ehrenberg of Titan Prods. (Sex, Shame And Tears) beat stiff competition for the rights to best-selling novel Rosario Tijeras by hot new Colombian writer, Jorge Franco Ramos, hailed as the precursor of a new generation of writers in Colombia. Up to 15 million copies of Rosario Tijeras ...
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Berlinale jury member wins Goldene Kamera
Berlinale international jury member and Mostly Martha star Martina Gedeck was named best German actress at this year's Goldene Kamera Awards which were presented in Berlin yesterday evening.Winner in the best German actor category was Juergen Vogel, who last year starred in Doris Doerrie's Naked (Nackt) and makes a cameo ...
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Skin Of A Man wins at Tromso festival
French production Peau D'Homme, Coeur De Bete (Skin Of A Man, Heart Of A Beast), directed by Helene Angel, picked up the Don Quixote Award at this year's Tromso International Film Festival (Jan 18-23).The award was founded by the international union of film clubs (FICC).Hungarian feature Simon Magus (Simon The ...