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Universal promotes Nicholas, Edwards and Perez in London
Universal Pictures Internataional Entertainment, the international home entertainment division of NBC Universal, has announced several staffing changes in its London-based management team. Melanie Nicholas has been promoted to senior vice president, marketing. In addition to her current responsibilities for International Licensees and Russia, she will now also lead international marketing ...
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Lust, Caution (Se Jie)
Dir. Ang Lee. China/US, 2007. 156 mins. One of the main attractions in Venice this year, Ang Lee's new film promises much more than it actually delivers. Lavishly handsome and elegant, possibly too much so for its own good, this sprawling adaptation of a short story by Eileen Chang risks ...
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Lucky Red takes Italian rights to Rush Hour 3 from New Line
Italian distributor Lucky Red has acquired rights to New Line's Rush Hour 3, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker and directed by Brett Ratner. The film has grossed over $110m in the first three weeks of its Stateside run while European grosses figure at $16.5m for the UK after three ...
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Match Factory adds second Wayne Wang film to sales lineup
Cologne-based sales company The Match Factory has added a second Wayne Wang film - The Princess Of Nebraska - to its sales lineup to join Wang's A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers which will have its international premiere in Toronto's Masters section and screen in competition at San Sebastian. The ...
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Sebastien Beffa now overseeing acquisitions at Films Distribution
French sales outfit Films Distribution is restructuring its sales and acquisitions department and will launch an international TV sales arm.The company announced the news Wednesday saying that Sebastien Beffa would oversee all acquisitions and also take part in corporate development alongside existing Films Distribution principals Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, Francois Yon and ...
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Western European box office set to grow 17% over next five years
Box office gross in Western Europe is predicted to surge by 17% over the next five years largely due to advancements in digital cinema and expanding local film industries, new research predicts. According to a report from Dodona Research, box office in the Western European market - which includes 13 ...
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Film Agency For Wales backs illegal logging script
The Film Agency For Wales is backing Blind Eye, written by Penarth, Wales-based writer Anna Holmes. The film is currently in development. The story is about a freelance forestry consultant whose principles are challenged working for the UK government in Indonesia, where illegal logging is a problem. New Zealand-born Holmes ...
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UK thriller MindFlesh finishes post-production
Post-production is wrapping up on UK indie horror title MindFlesh. The thriller stars Christopher Fairbank, Peter Bramhill, Lucy Liemann, and Carole Derrien. The story, adapted from William Scheinman's White Light, is about a taxi driver whose obsession with a ghostly goddess becomes real. MindFlesh shot on location for four weeks ...
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Deauville festival opens tonight with Cahill's King Of California
The 33rd Deauville Festival of American Cinema, running in the French town Aug 31-Sept 9, will open with King of California, which stars Michael Douglas stars a newly-released mental patient juggling his obsession for hidden gold with his relationship with his teenage daughter (Evan Rachel Wood). The film is directed ...
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Danny Dyer to star in UK low-budgetfeature 7 Lives
Danny Dyer, Kate Ashfield and Mary Stockley are set to star in a new UK low-budget feature, 7 Lives. The plot follows a man who is attacked by 'hoodies' and then falls into a dream state where he lives out other lives and confronts his own adultery. The film will ...
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Rezo boosts Toronto slate with Sayles' Honeydripper
Following its success with Julie Delpy's 2 Days In Paris , France 's Rezo Films will handle international sales on another English-language film, John Sayles Honeydripper. The film will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this month and is a 'rock-n'-roll fable' about a 1950s juke joint ...
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Myriad acquires foreign rights to Double Whammy
Kirk D'Amico's international sales outfit Myriad Pictures has acquired international distribution rights to Tom DiCillo's latest picture Double Whammy starring Denis Leary, Steve Buscemi and Elizabeth Hurley. The deal was completed between Myriad and the film's producers David Kronemyer and Marcus Viscidi. Kronemyer's Gold Circle Films retains domestic rights.IN-motion AG, ...
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Telluride unveils unofficial world premieres
Telluride Film Festival organisers have unveiled the roster ofunofficial world premieres, many of which have been previouslyconfirmed for Venice and Toronto.The Colorado festival is set to run from Aug 31-Sept 3 and this yearboasts such high profile titles as Sean Penn's Jon Krakauer adaptationInto The Wild, Noah Baumbach's Nicole Kidman ...
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Dokument takes Strike to Toronto
Dokument Films, a new distributor of independent features for thetheatrical, DVD and digital download markets, has boarded VolkerSchlondorff's Polish Solidarity movement drama Strike under itsinitial slate.The Gdansk shipyard saga is accompanied by John Waters' one-man show This Filthy World directed by Jeff Garlin, and the investigativedocumentary RFK Must Die from ...
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Shrek's staggered release keeps revenues rolling
Paramount Pictures International (PPI) bucked the summer trend by notreleasing DreamWorks/Paramount's Shrek The Third day-and-date with the US, and has enjoyed the consequences as the tentpole continues togenerate revenues throughout the summer.The animated hit has already done most of its business but PPIexecutives are anticipating a robust boost to the ...
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Film Sales Company takes on Argentinian drama
Andrew Herwitz' New York-based Film Sales Company is moving intoproduction with the remake of Jorge Gaggero's Argentinian dramaLive-In Maid.Herwitz picked up English-language remake rights to the portrait ofthe relationship between a grand dame and her live-in maid.Rodrigo Garcia is attached to write and direct the project, which isexpected to begin ...
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EFA People's Choice nominees include The Queen and Black Book
The European Film Academy has announced the nominees for this year's People's Choice Award.Film fans across Europe vote for the winner online from Sept 1 to Oct 31. Past winners include Volver, Amelie, The Full Monty and Good Bye, Lenin!. The winner will be announced at the European Film Awards ...
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London agency ICM changes name to Independent
Leading London-based talent agency ICM is changing its name to Independent Talent Group, or Independent. The change follows 2002's management buyout from ICM Inc.The change reflects 'the group's true independence from ICM Inc. in the USA and is also to obviate confusion in the marketplace,' the company said. Independent represents ...
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Norwegian animation Elias to launch in local versions
Norwegian directors Espen Fyksen and Lise I Osvoll's fully-animated Elias and the Royal Yacht, which has taken 230,000 admissions locally, will be launched in Sweden on Sept 28 - in a local version, with a star cast, and backed by strong marketing and merchandising campaigns. Denmark and Finland will follow. ...
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Former Sina exec launches China's first fund for docs
Former Sina.com executive Ben Chiang has launched CNEX, the first private fund for documentaries in China. The Beijing-based outfit aims to become a fully-fledged film production, sales and distribution outfit, focusing on documentaries produced in the Greater China region. The first three films on the CNEX slate are: Du Haibin's ...