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Connecting Cottbus market to present 13 new features
New films from Romania, Georgia, Serbia and Sweden are among 13 projects which will be pitched to potential production partners at this year's Connecting Cottbus East-West co-production market which begins on Thursday.According to Connecting Cottbus's artistic director Gabriele Brunnenmeyer, the 2007 lineup was selected from over 50 entries from 23 ...
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Lumina strikes North American deal for Lovesickness with Maya
UK-based sales company Lumina Films has sold North American rights to Puerto Rican comedy Lovesickness (Maldeamores) to Maya Releasing.Maya is the new distribution and acquisitions company that is part of vertically integrated Latino entertainment company founded by Moctesuma Esparza. Maya Releasing will distribute 8-10 films per year theatrically.Lovesickness interweaves three ...
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Shadows and Tracey Fragments lead Bavaria's AFM deals
Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski's mystery love story Shadows and maverick Canadian director Bruce McDonald's The Tracey Fragments lead a raft of deals signed by Bavaria Film International at the AFM.The Tracey Fragments was sold to Atlantik in an all-rights deal for Scandinavia, following a deal with the UK's Soda Pictures ...
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Seven Days
Dir: Won Shin-Yeon. South Korea. 2007. 124mins.Female-centric Korean thriller Seven Days presents an intriguing if slightly overlong mixture of the crime and procedural genres with a very personally motivated ticking-clock element thrown in for good measure. While trading in a bit of grisly imagery, the film for the most part ...
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Fred Claus
Dir: David Dobkin. US. 2007. 114mins.A full-on Vince Vaughn charm offensive gives loose-limbed holiday tale Fred Claus its own successful, charismatic personality and appeal. Re-teaming Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin and Vaughn for the third time, the movie wraps Vaughn's trademark quasi-improvisational runs of passive-aggressive patter around two wan storylines ...
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Nanni Moretti kicks off his first Turin programme with The Savages
The 25th edition of the Turin Film Festival has unveiled its complete line up under new artistic director Nanni Moretti.Traditionally known as the Italian film event dedicated to cutting edge and auteur driven fare sees only minor changes to its long-standing format.'I've always been passionate about the Turin Festival and ...
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Menemsha gets five new titles for worldwide sales
Neil Friedman's Menemsha Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to five new international pictures, furthering the company's ambitions to become a prolific seller of foreign-language and independent film from around the world. To date, Friedman has handled hit festival titles including Train De Vie, Color Of Paradise and The Life ...
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Japanese films take 9% of international box office
A slew of Japanese films made a powerful dent in the international top 40 this weekend, collectively taking more than $13m and accounting for 8.9% of the chart's total revenue. For the full chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.Ensemble drama Always - Sunset On Third Street 2 was the ...
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Arthouse strikes exclusive UK/Ireland output deal with Revolver
Arthouse Films has struck an exclusive output and distribution deal for the UK & Ireland with Revolver Entertainment.Revolver will handle all rights to Arthouse titles in those territories and also launch the label in the UK and Ireland.The multi-year deal covers more than 10 titles per year. The initial slate ...
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Dent and McQueen join new team at Curzon Artificial Eye
London-based exhibitor-distributor Curzon Artificial Eye has appointedLouisa Dent as its new Managing Director. Dent, the former MD of UGCFilms UK, will take up her position full-time from January 2008.Curzon Artificial Eye has also confirmed that Alan McQueen (who formerly ran UK independent distributor Downtown Pictures) has beenrecruited to help increase ...
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Ron Henderson to step down as head of Denver Film Festival
Ron Henderson, one of the founders and the artistic director of the Denver Film Society (DFS) and the Starz Denver Film Festival, is to step down as artistic director and will relinquish his day-to-day leadership responsibilities at the end of the year.After 30 years of service, Henderson will maintain ties ...
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AWP closes deals on The Poet starring Hannah, Scheider
Los Angeles-based American World Pictures (AWP) has closed key territories at AFM on Damian Lee's The Poet starring Darryl Hannah, Roy Scheider, Kim Coates and Colm Feore.Rights have gone to the UK (High Flyers Films), Germany (More Films), Russia (Vox), France (Emylia), Spain (Tot Media), Brazil (Ocean Pictures), Scandinavia (CCV), ...
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Lightning has strong AFM with Dafoe-starrer Anamorph
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has closed key territories on its slate at AFM, led by the serial killer thriller Anamorph starring Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman and Clea DuVall.Deals closed in the UK (Contender), Germany and Switzerland (Koch Media), France (Swift), Mexico (Quality), South Korea and Thailand (Noori), Russia (Soyuz), Italy ...
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Eric Robinson promoted to svp of production, development at TWC
Eric Robinson has been promoted to senior vice president of production and development at The Weinstein Company, (TWC).Robinson previously served as vice president of production and will continue to report to be based in New York and report to co-president of production Michael Cole.'Eric is an invaluable asset with his ...
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IDA to honour When The Levees Broke, Sputnik Media
The International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced two of the winning theatrical documentaries to be honoured at the 2007 IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award Gala Benefit in Los Angeles on Dec 7.Spike Lee's Hurricane Katrina film When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts will receive the Pare Lorentz ...
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Battle In Seattle to open fourth Bahamas Film Festival
Stuart Townsend's WTO riots film Battle In Seattle will open the 4th Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), which is set to run from December 6-13.Jason Reitman's Juno will close the event, which overall will showcase 83 films from 26 countries and feature the four competition categories of Spirit Of Freedom: ...
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Access rolls with boxing biopic Phantom Punch
Production has begun on actor-director Robert Townsend's Phantom Punch, a biopic of controversial US boxer Sonny Liston, a one-time heavy-weight champion whose fame is based more on whom he lost to than his winning bouts. In 1965, Liston was knocked down by Cassius Clay, the future Muhammed Ali, by the ...
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Paramount, DreamWorks pact for Chinese DVD distribution
Warner Home Video has inked an agreement with Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation to distribute their upcoming DVDs in mainland China. DreamWorks and Paramount's Transformers and DreamWorks Animation's Shrek The Third will be the first two titles distributed under the new partnerships. Transformers hit the shelves on November 1 while ...
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India's Yash Raj ventures into full movie downloads
Leading Bollywood studio Yash Raj Films has signed licensing deals with two VoD-enabled web-sites - www.watchindia.tv and www.tinselvision.com - which will offer digital downloads of its back catalogue and more recent films. Viewers outside of India will be able to download the movies and watch them once for a nominal ...
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First Prix Image at EFAs to go to Menegoz and Heiduschka
This year's European Film Awards will include the new Prix Eurimages, to recognise European co-production. The first award will go to two producers who have worked on many co-productions: Margaret Menegoz and Veit Heiduschka.Menegoz is Unifrance president and managing director of Les Films Du Losange and she has produced films ...