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Picturehouse takes Lopez/Anthony starrer El Cantante
Picturehouse has swooped on North American rights to ElCantante following itsworld premiere at Toronto in what sources close to negotiations said was thebiggest deal of the festival so far.The distributors' senior vice president of acquisitions Sara Roseand New Line's executive vice president of business affairs and co-productionsCarolyn Blackwood concluded marathon ...
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IFC Films steps up to buy Dahl's You Kill Me
IFC Films has picked up all North American rights in Toronto fromICM to Code Entertainment's upcoming mob comedy You Kill Me.John Dahl directed the picture, which is currently inpost-production and stars Ben Kingsley as an alcoholic hitman sent to the WestCoast to dry out. Tea Leoni, Luke Wilson, Dennis Farina, ...
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Fortune Star acquires China Star library
Regional broadcaster StarGroup's content arm, Fortune Star, has acquired 100 library titles from Hong Kong's China Star Entertainment Group, in a deal valued at $18m. Most of the titles wereproduced in the past five years by China Star production subsidiaries OneHundred Years of Film, China Star Pictures and S&W. The ...
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DOAP, Bella, Reprise top TIFF prizes
UK filmmakerGabriel Range's Death Of A President won the FIPRESCI prize while Joachim Trier's Reprise(Norway) won the Diesel Discovery Award as the 31st TorontoInternational Film Festival wrapped here on Saturday. The prizes went to arange of films, many of them debut features. The audienceprize, the People's Choice Award, was asurprise: ...
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IFP Filmmaker Conference kicks off Monday, keynote speakers include Battsek, Sehring
IFP's1st Annual Filmmaker Conference, formerly known as the IFP Market &Filmmaker Conference, will kick off in New York today and last for the rest ofthe week.Eventsinclude panel discussions, on-stage interviews, networking opportunitiesfor filmmakers, and screenings.Panelists scheduled to speakinclude Forest Whitaker and his The Last King Of Scotland director Kevin Macdonald, ...
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CASE STUDY - The King Is Alive
US backers and an international cast are not typical traits of the Dogme 95 school of film-making, but the makers of Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive stayed true to the "back-to-basics" manifesto while shooting in the Namibian desert. Jacob Neiiendam reports.Spring 1995 A collective of Danish film-makers founds Dogme ...
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Bong and Park to team on comic book adaptation
Old Boy directorPark Chan-wook is to produce a film directed by Bong Joon-ho, whose latestmovie The Host recently became Korea's top-grossing local film of all time. The project, which Bong iscurrently developing, is based on the French sci-fi comic Le Transperceneige, created by Jean-Marc Rochette and Jacques Lob.Park's production house,Moho ...
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Gridiron Gang tops lacklustre North American box office
Sony set a record tenth number one release for a distributor in asingle year as the American football drama Gridiron Gang starring The Rock opened top on anestimated $15m.Four new pictures were not enough however to rouse the businessfrom its early autumnal slumber as the top 12 pictures trailed the ...
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Barker & Bernard, Murphy to receive honours at HFA ceremony in Oct
Sony Pictures Classics' (SPC)co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard will receive the Hollywood LeadershipAward at the Hollywood Film Awards on Oct 23 in Los Angeles.Running With Scissors director Ryan Murphy will collect the Hollywood BreakthroughDirector of the Year Award.Barker and Bernard formedSPC with Marcie Bloom 15 years ago and their ...
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Qantas named best inflight entertainment airline by WAEA
Qantas has been named thebest inflight entertainment airline of all large fleets by a 23-personinternational media panel.The panel, sponsored by theWorld Airline Entertainment Association's Avion Awards, declared KLM and CathayPacific runners-up.Jet Airways (India) Ltd wonthe Small Fleet category, followed by Hawaiian Airlines and Sri LankanAirlines.The best inflight magazineaward went to ...
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Pirates breaks record in Italy, with $12.8m in five days
Buena Vista International(BVI) reported its second consecutive one-two punch overseas as Pirates Of TheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest crossed$600m and usurped Cars to returnto the top.DeadMan's Chest used a late Italiandebut to boost its already formidable box office, and set a new five-dayindustry opening record in the territory of $12.8m.The result ...
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Korean telco to install 100 digital cinema systems
Korea's leading telco KT Corp has signed a memorandum of understanding withexhibitors Lotte Cinema, Cinus and MMC to install 100 digital cinema systems intheir theatres by the end of the year.The move is part of KT'splan to install digital cinema systems in more than 500 screens, which isaround 30% of ...
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Orange on board for Northern Lights production prize
The Northern Lights FilmFestival has announced that Orangeis now sponsoring the North Star Short Film Award, the largest film productionprize in the UK. The award is open to UK film-makers and the winner will be assistedprofessional and financially to shoot a short film of any genre with a budgetof up ...
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Skillset backs new low-budget training from Film London
Skillset has awarded $166,100(£88,509) to Film London for its new Microwave Training Programme.The training scheme, with a total budget of $255,183(£136,000), is part of Film London's new Microwave scheme for low-budgetfeature production. The Microwave scheme got 71 applications and hasshortlisted 11 projects to attend the Microschool, a three day programmeof ...
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British Film Commissioner Norris to join Framestore
Visual effects company Framestore Ltd has appointed Steve Norris as managingdirector of its film interests. Norris will join Framestorein late November after leaving the post he has held for the past nine years, asBritish Film Commissioner with the UK Film Council.In that role, he had beenresponsible for bringing international productions, ...
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Tykwer's Perfume scores more than 1m admissions in Germany
Despiteless than enthusiastic reviews from many German film critics, Tom Tykwer's $63.3m (Euros 50m) adaptation of Patrick Sueskind's bestselling novel Perfume - The Story Of A Murdererattracted more than 1m admissions on its opening weekend for distributor Constantin Filmverleih in Germancinemas.The1.04m admissions from 700 cinemas - with a screen average ...
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Media Most claims investor will buy out debt
Russia's Media Most group, owned by recently jailed tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky, has claimed that an unidentified foreign investor is seeking to buy out its $211.6m debt to government-controlled utilities giant Gazprom.The beleaguered group has recently been under increasing pressure to pay back the loan. However one of Russia's largest daily ...
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John Hurt signs on for de la Iglesia's Oxford Murders
John Hurt will take aleading role in Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia'sin-the-works English-language thriller Oxford Murders.Hurt will play an Oxford University professor embroiled in the investigation of a series of murdersseemingly linked by mathematical symbols. The story is based on anaward-winning novel by the Argentinean writer Guillermo Martinez.The estimated ...
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Krauze's Saviour's Square takes top prizes at Polish festival
Saviour's Square, the new film from Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze, haswon the grand prize at the 31st Festival of Polish Film in Gdynia. The film also received bestactress honours for Jowita Budnik, best supporting actress for EwaWencel, best score for PawelSzymanski and a special award from the Polish president.A ...
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Universal strikes VOD deal for UK Freeview customers
Universal Pictures and Top Up TV are working together to launch PictureBox,a video-on-demand subscription service in the UK. The PictureBoxservice, owned by Universal, will launch this autumn on Top UpTV's new Anytime service (available to customers of Freeviewin the UK). PictureBox will feature current and library feature filmssuch as The ...