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CineLink selects 11 projects for 2006 market
CineLink, the Sarajevo Film Festival'sco-production market for South Eastern Europe created in 2002 in co-operation with Rotterdam's CineMart, hasselected 11 projects for this year. The 2006 CineLink selection is:Alive, written and directed by Artan Minarolli, AlbaniaCircus Fantastikus, written and directed by Janez Burger, SloveniaFrom Belgrade With Love, written and directed ...
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Warner Bros ends home entertainment distribution in Czech Republic
Warner Bros' European homeoffice has decided to cease home video distribution in the Czech market, WarnerBros Czech Republic managing director Ladislav Stastny told ScreenDaily.com.Stastny cited an increase in piracy which, combined with adecrease in pricing, resulted in dramatic decline in revenues from 2004 to2005. According to a report broadcast on ...
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Fortissimo boards Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want To Sleep Alone
FortissimoFilms has acquired worldwide sales rights to Tsai Ming-liang'sI Don't Want To Sleep Alone, set in Malaysia.Thefilm is one of the seven New Crowned Hope (NCH) projects, which willbe shown at Vienna's NCH festival inNovembercelebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.IDon't Want To Sleep Alone stars LeeKang Sheng and Chen ...
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Japan's Talk takes best film at Singapore fest awards
Japanese director RyuichiHiroki's It's Only Talk won best filmat last night's [April 28] Silver Screen Awards, held as part of the SingaporeInternational Film Festival which closes today with Royston Tan's 4:30.The tragicomedy, whichfocuses on the life of a single woman, was chosen as it "reveals the lonelinessof daily life in ...
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Tirante El Blanco: The Maidens' Conspiracy
Dir. Vicente Aranda. Sp-UK-It. 2005. 122mins.One of Spain's most revered classics - it is sometimescompared to Don Quixote in importance - Tirante El Blanco(or Tirant lo Blanc in its original Valencian), has been transferred to the screen by Vicente Aranda for a big, handsome period production.Unfortunately,the 15th-century Byzantine sets and ...
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Media Luna adds six new films to Cannes sales slate
TheCritics' Week title pingpong,director Matthias Luthardt's feature film debut, isone of six new titles acquired by Cologne-based Media Luna Entertainment forits Cannes sales line-up this year.Dutch-bornLuthardt's family drama was produced by Berlin production house Junifilm with the broadcaster MDR, the Academy for Film& Television (Konrad Wolf) in Babelsbergand KOPP Film. ...
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Two segments dropped from Cannes film Paris Je T'aime
ProducerClaudie Ossard from Victoires International has restructured the portmanteau Un Certain Regard opening title Paris Je t'Aime, with the contributionsfromDanish director Christoffer Boe and French-Israeli director RafaelNadjari left on the cutting-room floor.The decision has gone down badly with Boe, who hasreleased an angry statement.Thedecision has also sparked a disagreement with ...
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Sony's RV tops domestic box office with $16.4m
Sony's comedy RVpulled up to the number one spot on an estimated $16.4m as the top 12 picturesgrossed $90.7m to surpass the same weekend of 2005 by 12%.Universal's9/11 docudrama United 93 openedto a wave of exceptional reviews in provisional second place on $11.6m, justahead of Buena Vista's gymnastics comedy Stick ...
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Fabrication holds Hoole's Court for Cannes
Los Angeles-based distributor Fabrication Films has picked upworldwide rights to Rohan Michael Hoole's Australian thriller Court Of LonelyRoyals.Fabrication has arranged private screenings for distributors inMelbourne and Sydney prior to its market screenings at the Cannes Film Market.Hoole also wrote and produced the story of four intertwined livesin a dystopian future ...
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De Bont to direct Intermedia/QED actioner Stopping Power
Jan De Bont will direct the action thriller Stopping Power for Intermedia, fledgling LA-basedproduction, finance and sales house QED International, and German production andphysical effects house action concept.Intermedia, QED International and action concept are producing andco-financing and expect to begin production in September in Germany. QEDInternational will begin worldwide pre-sales ...
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Stahman gets top domestic marketing job at re-energised MGM
Perry Stahman has been appointed to the new position of presidentof domestic theatrical marketing at MGM, reporting directly to chief operatingofficer Rick Sands.Stahman (pictured) arrives from 20th Century Fox where he served assenior vice president of creative advertising since 2004. "Having overseen the marketing for a number of high profilefilms, ...
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Ice Age 2 still leads international with $25.3m weekend
Fox International's Ice Age 2: The Meltdown is bearing down on $400m followinganother dominant weekend that generated an estimated $25.3m.Playing on 8,396 screens, the smash animated sequel has nowamassed $373.6m in international ticket sales.The highlight was a superb $4.7m second weekend haul in Italy on647 screens for number one and ...
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Germans dominate at Austrian and Swiss festivals
Germanfilms were the major winners at the Crossing Europe Film Festival, and the Visionsdu Reel Documentary Film Festival at the weekend.IsabelleStever's love triangle drama Gisela won theCrossing Europe Award in the European competition for first or second featurefilms, while Macedonian-born, German-based filmmaker Sergei Stanojkovskireceived the RAY Audience Award for his ...
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Indian government plans Pakistani film festival
TheIndian government is to organise a Pakistani Film Festival in Mumbai thisyear. TheIndian Minister for Culture and Tourism Ambika Soni, in a visit to Lahore forthe premiere of Indian film Taj Mahalmet with Punjab Governor Afzal Sahi and offered to screen Pakistani Punjabifilms. Earlieron 26th April, the premiere of Taj ...
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White knight rides in to save Taiwan's oldest studio
Taiwanese businessman GouTai-chiang is acquiring a majority stake in Taiwan's oldest film studio, the Central Motion PictureCorporation (CMPC), which was facing closure following its sale to the ChinaTimes Group at the end of last year. Gou is chairman of localelectronics subcontractor Foxlink, whose clients include Apple, Microsoft andNokia, although it's ...
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China greenlights secure box office reporting system
Auckland-based VistaEntertainment Solutions has been granted permission to sell its cinemamanagement software independently in China and has made its first sale to Hong Kong exhibitor MCL's new cinema in Shenzhen. Vista claims to be the first company offering globallyaccepted financial management and secure reporting systems to gain officialaccreditation from China's ...
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Arclight already closing deals for Un Certain Regard's 2:37
ArclightFilms will handle worldwide sales at the Cannes market for first-time Australian director Murali K Thalluri's drama 2:37, which was recently added to the Un Certain Regard line-up at Cannes.Arclighthas already closeddeals with Village Roadshow in Australia, SND in France, Manga in Spain, andCinequanon in Japan.2:37 is the interwoven story ...
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Canal Plus-Pathe continue talks for UK pact
France's StudioCanal appears to be forging ahead with talks to create a pan-European distribution network - a releasing apparatus that would effectively run alongside United International Pictures (UIP) should Canal Plus and its parent Vivendi succeed in their planned takeover of UIP partner Universal.According to well-placed sources, StudioCanal expects to ...
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Focus takes international rights on Gondry's Rewind
FocusFeatures has acquired international rights to Michel Gondry's upcoming picture BeKind Rewind starring Jack Black.FocusFeatures International will begin sales at Cannes on Focus' third collaborationwith Gondry following Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and Dave Chappelle's Block Party, which is on release in North America.Gondrywill direct from his own screenplay ...
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Ralph Alexander promoted to executive vp at SPRI
RalphAlexander has been named executive vice president of distribution at SonyPictures Releasing International (SPRI).Alexander,who has been with Columbia TriStar for almost two decades, takes on expandedduties in Europe and continues to report to SPRI distribution president MarkZucker."Ralph'sextensive distribution experience in all parts of the world makes him one ofSPRI's most ...