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United States/Denmark - Lit Fuse
In the 10 years since he moved from his native Denmark to Los Angeles, Mikkel Bondesen has established himself in the competitive world of management and expanded into film and TV production.Fuse Entertainment, the literary management company he launched in 2004, has a list of writer clients including Josh Schwartz ...
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United states/Europe - Water works
For Mark Horowitz and Andras Hamori, the recently launched international sales and co-production arm of H2O Motion Pictures is part new venture, part professional reunion.The two executives previously worked together in the late 1990s, when Hamori was president of the Alliance Pictures production operation and Horowitz served as president of ...
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Spain - Saints above
Like The Da Vinci Code before it, Ray Loriga's Teresa (Teresa, El Cuerpo De Cristo) has drawn the ire of the Catholic Church from Madrid to London before the film - which stars Spanish siren Paz Vega as the 16th century saint - has even premiered.Controversy, says writer-director Loriga, "is ...
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Czech Republic/Poland - Ay Karamazov!
Numerous directors have filmed Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, most notably Richard Brooks in 1958 and Russians Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov in a 1969 joint effort. Now Czech director Petr Zelenka (Wrong Side Up, Year Of The Devil) thinks the novel's time has come again."It's quite a thrilling ...
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Sony fills key posts
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has named Adrian Alperovich as senior executive vice-president and general manager, and hired former Momentum VP of acquisitions Lara Thompson as senior vice-president of acquisitions. Scott Shooman has been promoted to executive director of acquisitions, and Lia Buman has joined as director of acquisitions.
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Participant social action role for Schreiber
Participant Productions has hired event producer John Schreiber in the newly created position of executive vice-president of social action and advocacy.
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Furst and Kessel move to Starz's Overture
Sean Furst and Robert Kessel have been appointed executive vice-presidents of productions and acquisitions at Starz's new theatrical division Overture Films. Furst's brother Bryan arrives as senior vice-president of productions and acquisitions.
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Fukuda tapped by NBC Universal in Tokyo
NBC Universal International has named Taichi Fukuda as managing director, Japan Representative, to be based in Tokyo. He will work with divisions including the home-entertainment arm Universal Pictures Japan, TV and New Media Distribution, Mobile Entertainment and Cnbc.Fox promotes Echeverria Eduardo Echeverria has been promoted to executive vice-president of Latin ...
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Film Movement promotes Gartenstein
Adley Gartenstein has been promoted to president at distributor Film Movement. Stuart Litman, who previously held the role, will continue as CEO of the business.
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Kasell leaves Hamptons
Hamptons International Film Festival executive director Denise Kasell is leaving her post after nine years. Artistic director Rajendra Roy remains in place.
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Burton joins Bradley's Indievest launch
Wade H Bradley, CEO and founder of film financing outfit IndieVest, has launched production and distribution house IndieVest Pictures and hired Mark Burton as head of production.
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United Kingdom - Banking on sales
Like many producers, Phil Hunt of Head Gear Films had ambitions to expand into other areas of the business. "I knew in-house sales was a good idea, it was just a question of finding the right people to partner with," Hunt says. "There aren't that many good sales agents out ...
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United Kingdom - Who's the daddy'
Eight months ago, Anand Tucker had every reason to be disillusioned with the movie business. He had been preparing New Line's fantasy epic The Golden Compass for 18 months and then left the project abruptly due to "creative differences".Producer Stephen Woolley immediately called to entice him on board And When ...
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Foreign Language Films - And then there were five
In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for the first time unveiled a shortlist of nine films for the foreign-language film category, a week before the nominations were announced. Some 61 films were submitted in October 2006, nine were shortlisted and the final five were announced on ...
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Mister Lonely - Set report - Only the lonely
It has been a decade since Gummo and a good eight years since Julien Donkey-Boy, and Harmony Korine is finally back behind the camera with Mister Lonely. He co-scripted the story about celebrity impersonators - the key characters being "Michael Jackson" and "Marilyn Monroe" - with his younger brother Avi, ...
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Heaven scent or just a bad smell'
German producer Bernd Eichinger has been involved in some pretty sizeable hits, including The NeverEnding Story, The Name Of The Rose, Fantastic Four, Downfall and Oscar-winner Nowhere In Africa.He has made dumb German comedies (Werner) and smart German comedies (Der Bewegte Mann) and some outright stinkers (Prince Valiant, Body Of ...
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Analysis: International box-office - Weekend January 26-28
International box office continues to favour Night At The Museum despite new entries from local films making significant dents in the chart.Fox's comedy adventure spends its sixth-week running at the top spot, grossing $15.2m at the weekend, taking it up 2% despite dropping from two territories. Bollywood romance Salaam E ...
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Market focus - Is China really set to roar'
Chinese box-office revenues will almost double over the next three years, from $336m to $720m by 2010, according to analyst Screen Digest and Nielsen NRG.The rapid box-office growth has been driven by the opening up of the Chinese market, and the swift development of modern multiplexes looks set to continue.The ...
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Editorial - Screen says Trend of an era
By far the most enjoyable anomaly in the Oscars nominations is the one for adapted screenplay for the improvised Borat. Twentieth Century Fox's publicity for the film hailed "a new form of film-making for an age in which reality and entertainment have become increasingly intertwined".Perhaps here is the future of ...
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In Focus - Academy awards and the nominees are..
The nominations for the 79th Academy Awards see Dreamgirls leading the race. But the hit musical has been shut out of the best picture and director categories. It also received three nominations for best song, meaning that it can only win five Oscars at most.Best picture nominees were Alejandro Gonzalez ...