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Persepolis opens Athens International Film Festival
The 13th Athens International Film Festival begins tomorrow night (Sept 19) with the gala presentation of Marjane Satrapi's and Vincent Paronnaud's French Oscar entry Persepolis. Todd Haynes' Venice Jury Prize winner I Am Not There, accompanied by its producer Christine Vachon, will be the closing film. The international jury for ...
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The Simpsons Moviemakes number one opening in Italy
The Simpsons Movie was the top film in Italy this weekend, openingwith $8.2m from 616 screens for a whopping $13,380 screen average.Fox International's animated adventure knocked Shrek The Third off the number one spot this weekend after two weeks at the top.Shrek, distributed by Universal Pictures International in Italy, fell ...
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Suzuki to head Paramount's home entertainment arm in Japan
Former NPD Japan president and representative director Junichiro Suzuki has been named president of Home Entertainment Paramount KK, Japan.Suzuki will be responsible for overseeing sales, marketing and distribution in Japan, and will report directly to Paramount Home Entertainment International president Dennis Maguire.Prior to NPD, Suzuki served as president and representative ...
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Alan Horn to get Producers Guild Milestone Award in 2008
Warner Bros president and chief operating officer Alan Horn will receive the Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) 2008 Milestone Award.The PGA will present its most prestigious honour at the 19th Annual PGA Awards in Beverly Hills on Feb 2.PGA Awards chair Mark Gordon said that under Horn's leadership the studio ...
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Persepolis chosen to represent France in Oscar category
Cannes Jury Prize winner Persepolis has been selected to represent France in its bid to snag a nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. France's CNC announced the selection of Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's animated work on Monday evening.Each year, the CNC chooses France's Oscar entry by committee. ...
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Ricardo Darin's directorial debut hits big at Argentina's box office
Ricardo Darin's directorial debut The Signal (La Senal), topped the Argentinian box office over the weekend with 105,000 admissions in its first four days of release on 62 screens. The $2.5m Argentina-Spain co-production accounted for 27.4% of audiences at the weekend and beat openings for Hollywood fare like The Simpsons ...
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Rio Festival to host world premiere of Newell's Cholera
Mike Newell's film of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's classic novel Love In The Time Of Cholera will have its world premiere as the closing night film of the ninth annual Rio International Film Festival on Oct 4.The first major international film in years to shoot in the walled city of Cartagena, ...
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SCREEN INTERNATIONAL AFM 2007 GUIDE TO SELLERSNOTE: Films under 70mins duration or films completed before 2003 will not be listedPRODUCT FORM (company name here) ________________________Please photocopy for more entries.TITLE ____________________________________________________Has this title been to any other market' Yes/NoGENRE (Only one can be used from list below)____________________Action/adventure Animation Black Comedy Children'sComedy ...
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SCREEN INTERNATIONAL AFM 2007 GUIDE TO SELLERSNOTE: Films under 70mins duration or films completed before 2003 will not be listedPRODUCT FORM (company name here) ________________________Please photocopy for more entries.TITLE ____________________________________________________Has this title been to any other market' Yes/NoGENRE (Only one can be used from list below)____________________Action/adventure Animation Black Comedy Children'sComedy ...
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Japan selects I Just Didn't Do It as Oscar entry
Masayuki Suo's I Just Didn't Do It has been selected as Japan 's official entry to the Academy Awards' foreign-language film category, the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan announced Friday. I Just Didn't Do It follows the struggles of a young man, played by Ryo Kase (Letters From Iwo ...
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First Look spends $3m on US rights to comedy Bill
As Toronto headed into the closing weekend, First Look Studios paid just over $3m to US rights for Melisa Wallack and Bernie Goldmann's comedy Bill starring Aaron Eckhart. Maple Films paid mid-six figures for Canadian rights.First Look Holdings co-chairmen Avi Lerner and Henry Winterstern and executive vice president of acquisitions ...
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First Look takes US rights to Bill for $3m
As Toronto wound down over the weekend, First Look Studios paid just over $3m to US rights for Melisa Wallack and Bernie Goldmann's comedy Bill starring Aaron Eckhart. Maple Films paid mid-six figures for Canadian rights. First Look Holdings co-chairmen Avi Lerner and Henry Winterstern and executive vice president ...
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Arthouse signs Canadian distribution deal with Mongrel Media
Arthouse Films has signed an exclusive output and distribution deal with Mongrel Media in Canada.David Koh and Lilly Bright negotiated the deal for Arthouse Films with Stanley Buchthal of LM Media along with Mongrel Media president Hussain Amarshi.The multi-year deal covers more than 10 titles a year, kicking of with ...
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The Brave One opens number one in the US
Jodie Foster drew in a largely female crowd as Warner Bros' revenge thriller The Brave One opened top on an estimated $14m.Foster, in her first lead role since Flightplan in 2005, stars as a radio host who turns vigilante after she is nearly beaten to death. Neil Jordan directed and ...
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Bourne remains top in international markets
Universal's The Bourne Ultimatum remained the number one film in international markets as an estimated $20.8m from 4,333 sites in 46 territories raised theinternational total through UPI to $125m.The spy thriller has now passed the lifetime totals of The Bourne Identity on $92m and The Bourne Supremacy on $112m and ...
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Visit Films takes international rights to Hannah Takes The Stairs
New York-based production and sales company Visit Films has acquired international rights to Joe Swanberg's Hannah Takes The Stairs, which will screen at the 2007 London Film Festival. Filmscience's Anish Savjani produced the story of a post-graduate heartbreaker and the various love interests she encounters over the course of ...
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Theodorakis to receive lifetime achievement honour
Mikis Theodorakis is to be presented with a lifetime achievement award at the World Soundtrack Awards at this year's Ghent International Film Festival (Oct 9-20).The Greek composer is best known for his iconic music for Michael Cacoyannis' Zorba The Greek. He also wrote the music for three other of the ...
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Maddin's Winnipeg sells to IFC, Soda, Maximum
Fresh from its victory for Best Canadian Feature at TIFF, Guy Maddin's idiosyncratic documentary My Winnipeg has been sold to IFC Entertainment in US, Soda Pictures in the UK and Maximum Films Distribution in Canada. The deals were announced by My Winnipeg producer (and DoP) Jody Shapiro from the podium ...
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Eastern Promises, My Winnipeg win top prizes as TIFF winds down
Guy Maddin's personal documentary My Winnipeg won the C$30,000 Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature and David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises won the C$15,000 Cadillac People's Choice Award as the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival wrapped on Saturday. Runners up for the audience prize, first and second respectively, were Jason Reitman's ...