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Reviews
Greenfingers
Dir: Joel Hershman. UK-US. 2000. 91 mins.Prod Co: Boneyard Entertainment. Int'l Sales: Overseas Filmgroup (1) 310 855 1199. Prods: Travis Swords, Daniel J Victor. Exec prod: Trudie Styler. Scr: Joel Hershman. DoP: John Daly. Prod des: Tim Hutchison. Ed: Justin Krish. Mus: Guy Dagul. Main cast: Clive Owen, Helen Mirren, ...
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Features
International - Flame burns bright
More than 100,000 Danes flocked to cinemas to watch Ole Christian Madsen's war epic Flame & Citron, which at $10m is one of the region's most expensive local productions.In its first three days on release, the two-hour-plus project boasted an impressive screen average of $19,118 from 73 screens for a ...
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3D needsfully-rounded pictures
Back in the late 1970s, there was a rumour that John Frankenheimer was preparing to make his next film in a bygone movie phenomenon called 3D. A call to the film-maker confirmed the scuttlebutt.He explained that during preparation of his horror film Prophecy, he was approached to employ a new ...
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Bromily, Elberg get senior executive roles at Image Entertainment
Bill Bromiley has been appointed chief acquisitions officer and Rick Eiberg has been named executive vice president of operations and chief technology officer at Image Entertainment.Bromiley spearheaded Image's feature film initiative as a consultant from June 2007 until he was hired by Image in January of this year. He reports ...
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Palm Pictures acquires Anita O'Day documentary
Palm Pictures has added Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden's documentary Anita O'day The Life Of A Music Legend to its line-up.The film charts the rise of the renowned jazz singer known as 'the Jezebel of Jazz' who achieved international stardom in the 1940s and eventually died in 2004.Ed Arentz brokered ...
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Stuck, Looking For Palladin among films at Monaco Charity fest
Stuart Gordon's horror-thriller Stuck starring Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea and Andrzej Krakowski's comedy Looking For Palladin with Ben Gazzara and Talia Shire are among competition entries in the 2008 Monaco Charity Film Festival.Overall nine world premieres will screen at the Mediterranean event, set to run from May 13 to ...
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Horton still likely to lead international with French opening
Fox International's Horton Hears A Who! currently rules the international waters and stands a good chance of holding on to its perch as it strides towards the $100m mark.The animated family comedy has amassed $80m and heads out to France on Apr 2. It could still be under threat from ...
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Film Sales Company picks up three in advance of Tribeca
Andrew Herwitz's The Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide rights to three titles ahead of Tribeca - the Sissy Spacek drama Lake City, coming-of-age story Ball Don't Lie and documentary Guest Of Cindy Sherman.Lake City stars Spacek as a mother who tries to comes to terms with her past ...
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Wim Wenders heads down new Road with company name change
Wim Wenders has changed the name of his Berlin-based production company Wenders Images to Neue Road Movies whose first project will be The Palermo Shooting which is currently in post-production and be tipped for a premiere in Cannes.In a press statement, it was stressed that there is neither a business ...
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Warner Bros takes on pirate comedy, Berlin Wall romance
Warner Bros. Pictures Germany has added Sven Taddicken's pirate comedy Zwoelf Meter Ohne Kopf, Peter Timm's tragicomic romance transcending the Berlin Wall Liebe Mauer, and Kai Wessel's Hildegard Knef biopic Hilde to its 2009 distribution lineup.Based on a screenplay by Matthias Pacht, Taddicken's tale of 15th-century North Sea pirates will ...
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UK landscape shifts as Warner moves to same-day VOD/DVD
Amid signs that the UK distribution market is in an increasing state of flux, British distributors are testing out more and more new ways of getting their movies in front of spectators.'Companies are beginning to look at imaginative release plans for films that 10 years ago simply wouldn't have been ...
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Reviews
Tigerland
Dir: Joel Schumacher. US. 2000. 95 mins.Prod co: New Regency Productions. International sales: New Regency (310) 369 8300. US dist: 20th Century Fox. Exec prods: Ted Kurdyla, Bruce Berman. Prods: Arnon Milchan, Steven Haft, Beau Flynn. Scr: Ross Klavan, Michael McGruther. DoP: Matthew Libatique. Prod des: Andrew Laws. Ed: Mark ...
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UK sales company Lumina rebrands as Salt to reflect wider remit
London-based Lumina Films has changed its name to The Salt Company, or Salt for short. The change is effective immediately.Samantha Horley continues as managing director with Lumina partners Robert Bevan and Cyril Megret now more hands-on as directors of Salt.Salt is part of the Monaco-based International Film Collective that also ...
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UK event to address impact of D-cinema on distributors
The role of distributors in the development of digital cinema is the subject of a London conference this month, organised by analyst Screen Digest and the European Digital Cinema Forum.The event - Digital cinema and film distribution: opportunities and threats - will be in the form of a series of ...
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Meurer, Curling to produce Stephen Fry's Handel biopic
Egoli Tossell Film Halle, the joint venture production company established by Berlin-based Egoli Tossell Film and the UK's Zepyhr Films initially to produce Michael Hoffman's $20.5m (Euros 13m) The Last Station, has other projects in the pipeline to be shot in Central Germany and particularly in the Land of Saxony-Anhalt. ...
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Skillset branches out with Northern Ireland careers service
UK audiovisual skills training organisation Skillset has launched a new careers service devoted to Northern Ireland.The service will work with both newcomers to film and TV as well as experienced workers.Three working professionals in the Belfast area have been trained as Skillset Careers Advisors and will offer one-to-one guidance or ...
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Charlotte Van Weede leaves HanWay for new Protagonist
Protagonist Pictures, the new UK-based sales company formed by Film4, Ingenious, and Vertigo, has hired Charlotte Van Weede as its head of sales.The company's CEO Ben Roberts announced the appointment of Van Weede, who joins from HanWay Films, where she is director of sales and distribution.Prior to joining HanWay in ...
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EC eyes plans to expand MEDIA to non-European countries
The European Commission (EC) today took the first step toward building a possible audiovisual cooperation programme with countries outside the European Union (EU).The MEDIA programme - the EC's support scheme for the audiovisual industry -published a call for proposals for cooperation projects with so-called 'third' countries, which could involve links ...
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Indiana Jones setfor Cannes premiere, accordingto star
The fourth filmin the Indiana Jones series will premiere at this year'sCannes, according to actor John Hurt, who appears in the film.There has long been speculation that the Steven Spielberg-directed film - Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of TheCrystal Skull - would be one of this year's big Hollywood attractions ...
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India's UTV restructures film division
UTV has restructured UTV Motion Pictures, its film production and distribution division, and promoted Siddharth Roy Kapur to CEO, UTV Motion Pictures.Previously Kapur was EVP Marketing, Distribution & Syndication, UTV Motion Pictures. He will continue to report to Ronnie Screwvala, CEO, UTV Software Communications and be responsible for spearheading the ...