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Sundance: a foreign affair'
For foreign buyers, the Sundance Film Festival has never been easy to navigate, let's face it. Intrepid acquisitions executives not only have an epic trip trekking to its home in the ski resort of Park City. Once there they are also faced with a raft of unknown films, struggle to ...
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First Run takes US rights to Garrone's The Embalmer
US independent First RunFeatures has acquired US theatrical, TV and home video rights to MatteoGarrone's The Embalmer (L'Imbalsamatore) which world premiered in Directors Fortnight atCannes last year.The film was produced byDomenico Procacci's Fandango and is based on a tabloid case in Rome inthe 1990s about a provocative love triangle between ...
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Alliance Atlantis takes international rights to hot Sundance pic
AllianceAtlantis has acquired international rights, excluding the English-speakingworld and Latin America, to David Gordon Green's All the Real Girls, his second feature following hisaward-winning debut George Washington. The picture, which will receive its world premiere indramatic competition at Sundance and is to screen in the International Forum ofNew Cinema at ...
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Cavu buys worldwide rights to second film The Holy Land
Cavu Pictures,the New York-based independent production and distribution outfit founded byfilm-makers Michael Sergio and Isil Bagdadi, has acquired worldwide rights toits second feature, Eitan Gorlin's award-winning debut The Holy Land. The picture won the Grand Jury Prize forbest Feature Film at the 2002 Slamdance Film Festival and is a coming-of-agetale ...
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Sundance to get 10-screen cinema complex
Resort Theaters Of America (RTA) - the recently established cinema circuit which has to date bought, built or identified over 100 screens in US resorts - has teamed with The Sundance Film Festival to build the RTA Theater in Park City, Utah, home to the festival.The $7m, 10-screen site will ...
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Production designer Mel Bourne dies aged 79
Mel Bourne, theproduction designer and longtime Woody Allen collaborator who received threeOscar nominations during his career, has died in New York. He was 79. He was born inChicago on Nov 22, 1923, and after serving in the Second World War became anassistant to the legendary theatrical designer Robert Edmond Jones ...
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Val Kilmer joins the cast of Anselmo's Stateside
Val Kilmer has joined the cast of writer-director RevergeAnselmo's romantic drama Stateside,a joint venture between Anselmo's Seven Hills Pictures and First LookMedia. Already on board are Joe Mantegna, Rachel Leigh Cook, who starred in JosieAnd The Pussycats, Jonathan Tucker, whowill be seen in the upcoming remake of The Texas Chainsaw ...
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Hart Sharp launches US video distribution arm
John Hart andJeff Sharp's New York-based Hart Sharp Entertainment, the productioncompany behind Boys Don't Cry and You Can Count On Me, has launched a stand-alone US home entertainment companyHart Sharp Video (HSV) to be run by the key staff of former USA Films divisionUSA Home Entertainment (USA HE).Joe Amodei,former president ...
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Kangaroo Jack
Dir: David McNally. US. 2002. 86 mins. Jerry Bruckheimer's first stab at younger-skewing family fare is a mishmash of an action comedy with buddy bonding, chase sequences and eye candy for the adults and fart gags and a computer enhanced 'roo for the kids. Arriving in US cinemas this week ...
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Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei)
Dir: Yoji Yamada. Japan. 2002. 129mins.The winner of a slew of film awards at home and a competition selection at Berlin next month, The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) may finally propel director Yoji Yamada into the international spotlight, after a long and highly successful career. Ironically, the film is in ...
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World premieres and directing debuts topline Berlin's Kinderfilmfest
Berlin's 26th Kinderfilmfest has announced that its 2003 edition will boast 14 feature films and 16 shorts, including six directing debuts and a large number of world premieres.The Kindfilmfest opens on Feb 7 with the Danish film, Someone Like Hodder (En Som Hodder) (pictured). Directed by Henrik Ruben Genz ...
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Spanish Film Academy predicts 'The Crisis to Come'
Titling its annual report on the state of the national film industry 'The Crisis to Come,' the Spanish Film Academy has warned that '2003 will be a critical year' for Spanish cinema.The report, which analyses statistical data on the industry (official year-end figures have not yet been released by the ...
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Start-up UK distributor launches with Balzac
New London-based distribution outfit Soda Pictures is to launch with Dai Sijie's Golden Globe-nominated Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress, which it has picked up for release in the UK and Eire in early May.The film, based on the novel of the same name written by the director, follows two ...
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Capitol Films takes world sales rights on I'm Not Scared
Capitol Films has acquired world sales rights on Academy Award-winning director Gabriele Salvatores' I'm Not Scared (Io No Ha Paura), which will screen in competition at next month's Berlin International Film Festival.Medusa will release the film in Italy in March, followed by 20th Century Fox in Spain. Jane Barclay, joint ...
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Pathe takes world sales on Broken Wings
Pathe International has picked up worldwide sales rights on Broken Wings, Israel's foreign-language Academy Award entry.The feature debut of Nir Bergman will make its European premiere in the Panorama section at the Berlin International Film Festival before a market premiere at the AFM. 'This is a very beautiful and moving, ...
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Sony Pictures Classics promotes Leiner
Dylan Leiner has been promoted to senior vice president of acquisitions and production at Sony Pictures Classics (SPC), reporting to company co-presidents Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Marcie Bloom.Leiner was instrumental in the New York-based company's acquisition last weekend of worldwide rights to rave movie Groove at the Sundance Film ...
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South Korean exhibitors enjoy robust health
South Korea's top three cinema circuits enjoyed strong growth in 2002 on the back of a building boom and an overall 20% rise in admissions. Taken together, CGV, Megabox Cineplex and Lotte Cinema now account for 45m admissions, a 42% share of the nation's total 107m admissions.Market leader CGV, ...
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Breillat starts phase two of Anatomie d'Enfer shoot
Controversial director Catherine Breillat (pictured) heads out to Portugal this weekend to begin shooting phase two of her latest film, Anatomie d'Enfer. The film is based on her book Pornocratie and will once again examine the depths of sexual compulsion.Working with porn star Rocco Siffredi for the second time since ...
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Rendez-Vous heralds vintage year for French Cinema
With French film riding high across the globe, 2003 looks primed for a good start at the Rendez-Vous of French Cinema which begins today. Approximately 340 foreign buyers will descend on Paris to screen films, meet with sales agents and cut deals at the five-year old event which many consider ...
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Vanity Fair faces production setback
Monsoon Wedding director Mira Nair's upcoming production of Vanity Fair faces uncertainty after it emerged that US star Reese Witherspoon may have to delay shooting.Producer Janette Day said that the adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel might only be delayed for a few weeks if a compromise can be reached, ...