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UK's Momentum restructures home entertainment arm
UK distributor Momentum Pictures is to restructure its home entertainment division, with director of retail video Conrad Withey leaving the company this month to set up his own production company and rights business.Peter Dutton, head of Momentum's rental video division for the past three years, is promoted to the newly ...
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Till maps out European cinema future
In one of his first public speeches since becoming chairman and CEO of United International Pictures (UIP), Stewart Till has said that he does not expect to see a European multi-territory distributor emerging in the near future - due to a lack of both money and expertise. "With some honourable ...
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Ranvaud proposes new sales paradigm
The producer of City Of God and Central Station is teaming up with a group of Latin American and European producers to launch a sales company. Talking at the Screen International European film finance summit in Berlin, Donald K Ranvaud said he wanted to reduce costs and improve the management ...
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Beauty scores with limited UK release
UK cinema-goers gave a hero's welcome to the release of the Sam Mendes-directed American Beauty when it opened on 23 prints over the weekend. The limited London release pulled in £425,558 ($687,700), registering a blistering £18,503 ($29,900) screen average. The three times Golden Globe winner widens to over 300 sites ...
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Kevin Williams Associates adds to Berlin line-up
Madrid-based sales house Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has added Chiqui Carabante's debut feature film Carlos Against The World (Carlos Contra El Mundo) and Palm Springs Film Festival entry The Impatient Alchemist (El Alquimista Impaciente) to its line-up for Berlin.The story of a working class twenty-something who leads a double life ...
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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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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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Screen International Summit assesses European issues
Smarter thinking, savvier marketing and greater professionalism across the European film industry were recurrent themes at the Screen International European Film Finance Summit.Starting with the keynote guest Stewart Till, speaker after speaker highlighted a need for greater understanding of the film industry on the part of film-makers in Europe and ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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HAL, Miramax confirm split
Miramax Films and HAL Films, the production venture headed by David Aukin, Colin Leventhal and Trea Hoving, have disbanded their London-based partnership, Miramax announced today (Feb 1).Aukin and Leventhal are to pursue interests in the entertainment industry through HAL, the company they founded two years ago with Miramax backing. Hoving ...
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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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Paramount Classics concludes Singing Detective deal
ParamountClassics has finalized its deal with Icon Entertainment to buy rights in NorthAmerica, Latin America and Japan to The Singing Detective, Keith Gordon's film version of DennisPotter's landmark 1986 TV series which world premiered at the Sundance FilmFestival last month,Negotiations for the film which stars Robert Downey Jr,Mel Gibson and ...
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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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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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UK's First Light film awards to be held this month
The UK's inaugural First Light Film Awards are to be held in London on February 26.The awards are part of a $1.6m initiative launched in May 2001 between UK funding body The Film Council and Birmingham-based Hi8us Projects to give young people aged between 7 and 18 the opportunity to ...