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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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Lust, Caution has record-breaking opening in China
Ang Lee's Lust, Caution grossed more than $5.36m (RMB40m) in its first four days (Nov 1-4) in mainland China, marking the biggest opening for a Chinese-language film so far this year. The film's total gross up until today of $6.7m (RMB50m) also makes it the biggest Chinese-language film so far ...
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Arthouse Films takes worldwide rights to documentary Obscene
Arthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights to Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O'Connor's documentary Obscene following its world premiere at Toronto.Obscene chronicles the life of American publisher Barney Rosset who fought censorship and worked with writers such as Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Che Guevera, among others.David Koh and ...
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Film Movement launches US VOD channel Film Festival channel
North American distributor Film Movement has launched nationwide VOD channel Film Festival Channel.The service launches with a roster of more than 100 films that previously screened at Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca.Every month the channel will present four features and four shorts, with early titles including Alexandra's ...
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Rob Scheidlnger joins TWC as evp of business affairs and production
Producer and former CAA agent Rob Scheidlinger has joined The Weinstein Company (TWC) as executive vice president of business affairs and production.Scheidlinger will work closely with executive vice president and co-head of business affairs Eric Roth and co-president of production Michael Cole.He will be based in TWC's Los Angeles offices ...
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Majid Majidi to make India-set film for UTV subsidiary Spotboy
Iranian director Majid Majidi will shoot his next film extensively in India for UTV Motion Pictures subsidiary SpotBoy.Majidi previously directed the 2005 Iranian box office smash The Willow Tree and his drama Children Of Heaven was nominated for a foreign language Oscar in 1999. Details of the upcoming film were ...
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Josh Lucas takes lead role in Scott Free's Tell-Tale
Josh Lucas has joined Scott Free's upcoming horror film Tell-Tale, which Hyde Park International has been pre-selling at AFM.Meanwhile sales chief Lisa Wilson announced that deals have closed in: South Korea (KD Media), Brazil (Playarte), Mexico and Latin America (Quality Films), Eastern Europe (Pa-dora), Benelux (Dutch Filmworks), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece ...
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THINKFilm, Image take US rights to Stuart Gordon's Stuck
THINKFilm has taken US rights at AFM to Stuart Gordon's drama Stuck starring Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea.The distributor is planning a spring 2008 release in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco among other top markets.Image Entertainment, an equity partner on the film, will release on DVD. Rigel Entertainment ...
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SPWAG takes multiple rights to Crank 2, Punisher 2
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has acquired international rights from Lakeshore Entertainment to Crank 2: High Voltage in Latin America, Japan, Australia and France, among others, and taken all international rights to The Punisher 2: War Zone from Lionsgate.Crank 2: High Voltage sees Jason Statham reprise his role as ...
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30 Days Of Night chomps into number two slot at UK box office
Vampire film 30 Days Of Nightwas the highest new entry in the UK chart this weekend, coming in atnumber two for Icon with a $3.2m (£1.5m) take, including $818,269 (£391,852) ofpreviews. For the full UK chart click here. The horror film, released through Icon Film Distribution, played across385 sites and ...
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Norwegian director wins Nordic Film Prize
Norwegian director Bard Breien's feature debut The Art of Negative Thinking (Kunsten A Tenke Negativt) received the $18,000 NDR Film Prize at the 49th Nordic Film Days in the German city of Lubeck.The film, about a man coming to terms with disability, previously won Breien the best director Crysal Globe ...
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Arthouse buys domestic DVD rights to The Cats Of Mirikitani
Arthouse Films has acquired North American DVD rights to Linda Hattendorf's documentary The Cats Of Mirikitani.David Koh and Lilly Bright did the deal on behalf of Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment along with Hattendorf and producer Masa Yoshihkawa.Arthouse plans a DVD release in early 2008 on the Arthouse Films ...
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TLA picks up Living And The Dead, Socket at AFM
TLA Releasing has picked up US non-theatrical and home video rights to Simon Rumley's UK thriller The Living And The Dead and North American and UK non-theatrical, home video and VOD rights to Sean Abley's US genre film Socket.TLA plans a March 25 2008 release through sister company Danger After ...
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Spottiswoode's Devil crosses C$1m at Canadian box office
Powered by strong audiences in Quebec, Roger Spottiswoode's Shake Hands With The Devil has passed the C$1m ($1.07m) at the Canadian box office, according to distributor Seville Pictures. Starring Roy Dupuis as the Canadian general rendered powerless to prevent the Rwandan genocide, the C$15m production opened on September 28 on ...
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Summit signs three-year output deal with Concorde/Tele-Muenchen
Summit International has slotted into place the German piece of its output deal jigsaw with a three-year deal with Tele-Muenchen Group (TMG).The agreement will kick off with Twilight and Sex Drive and covers all rights in Germany and Austria as well as television rights in German-speaking Switzerland through 2010.Going forward ...
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Damon Bryant heads new Arclight Films UK office
Los Angeles-based Arclight Films has launched a UK office and put former ICM agent and Natural Nylon founding partner Damon Bryant in charge.Bryant will head UK production and acquisitions for the company and its two divisions, Darclight and Easternlight.'It is important for Arclight's development to have a European base since ...
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Thessaloniki reveals 230 film line-up
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 16-25)programmeis to feature230 plus films representing 40 nations accompanied by a major push in Film Market and co-production activities. Among the 14 titles in competition - reserved to first and second films - is the world premiere ofGerman production Elli Makra by Athanasios Karanikolas.Two ...
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Three-way battle in $16.68m Japanese box office weekend
Resident Evil: Extinction, distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, triumphed in a threeway battle at the Japanese box office at the weekend.The horror action-fest earned $5.21m, shooting down Toho-distributed nostalgic drama Always: Sunset On Third Street 2, which earned $4.77m. Released on 331 and 330 screens respectively, per screen averages were ...
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Paramount on board for local distribution of Fraser's Dean Spanley
Paramount Pictures will distribute Toa Fraser's Dean Spanley in Australia and New Zealand.As previously reported, Toa Fraser will direct the whimsical father and son tale to star Peter O'Toole and Jeremy Northam.The film will start shooting Nov 12 on location in the east of England. Delivery is set for mid-2008.The ...
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Screen East contributes $1.58m to three new features
UK regional screen agency Screen East has announced more than $1.58m in investment in three new feature films to shoot in the East of England. Screen East's new Content Investment Fund is backed by the European Regional Development Fund.The three films backed are Toa Fraser's Dean Spanley starring Peter O'Toole, ...