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Omega takes international rights to Anna Nicole
Swiss and UK-based financing, production and sales company Omega Entertainment has acquired international rights from Montage Films to the Anna Nicole Smith biopic Anna Nicole.Filming is underway in Los Angeles with US singer Willa Ford starring as the late model and TV personality who died last February from an accidental ...
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Kassar, Feitshan form Magnetik, sign three from Relativity
Mario Kassar and Erick J Feitshan's recently formed sales and consulting outfit Magnetik Media has signed three projects from Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media which it is selling in Cannes - James Mangold's 3:10 To Yuma starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, Rob Minkoff's Forbidden Kingdom with Jackie Chan and Jet ...
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Whitaker and Biel line up for Powder Blue
Forest Whitaker and Jessica Biel will star in Eleven Eleven Films' ensemble drama Powder Blue, which QED International will begin selling here this week. Whitaker will produce the project - made in association with Spirit Dance Entertainment and financed by Grosvenor Park - alongside Bobby Schwartz, Ross M Dinerstein, Tracee ...
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Meistrich resurfaces with Nehst Media Enterprises
Film Movement and Shooting Gallery founder Larry Meistrich has launched the New York-based production, financing and distribution company Nehst Media Enterprises.Meistrich has partnered on the venture with homedelivery.com and Chemical Records creator Ari D Friedman. The initial roster of titles and products will be announced shortly.Dana Offenbach is named president ...
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Becker takes on sales for new Bobby Sands feature
Twenty-six years after he died on hunger strike, IRA martyr Bobby Sands is to be the subject of a new feature film, Hunger. Becker International has picked up worldwide rights to the project, which is being directed by Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen.Backed by Film4, Hunger comes billed as 'a ...
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Asian-focused Tiger Festival to debut in Brighton
OORT and Terracotta Media are planning a four-day showcase of Asian films in Brighton, UK, with the debut of the Tiger Festival sponsored by Tiger beer.The event will run May 31-June 3 at the Duke of York's Picturehouse. There are plans afoot 2008 for a week-long event in 2008, post-Cannes.The ...
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BBC, Film4, UKFC and Pact come to terms on producer's equity
As discussed and expected, BBC Films, Film4 and the UK Film Council, the three principal public funders of feature films in the UK, together with producers group Pact, have confirmed an agreement to give producers an equity stake in features in which they invest.The agreement follows on the new UK ...
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Momentum takes UK rights to Burger's The Return
Momentum Pictures has taken the UK rights to Neil Burger's The Return from sales company QED.Robert Walak, Momentum's director of acquisitions, negotiated the deal with Kim Fox, SVP worldwide sales at QED.Lionsgate has US rights and is considering a December release. The drama is about three soldiers returning from Iraq ...
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Ingenious starts $200m fund for distribution slates
UK-based media investment company Ingenious, which has been hit by recent UK government clampdowns on various investment schemes, has now launched a $203m (Euros 150m) film distribution fund. Instead of backing the release of single films, the fund will take a slate approach with European independent distributors' entire portfolios, including ...
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Cork signs new three-year sponsorship deal with drinks importer
The Cork Film Festival has announced a new headline sponsor in Barry Fitzwilliam Maxxium, Irish importers of Corona Extra, Absolut Vodka and other products.Recently appointed Festival chairman Michael O'Connell, welcomed the three-year sponsorship deal of both financial and marketing support for the festival. 'This new sponsorship enables us to bring ...
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Banderas Berlin award-winner makes first sales
The first round of sales have closed on Antonio Banderas' latest directorialeffort, Summer Rain (El Camino De Los Ingleses), which recently won theEuropa Cinemas Label prize for Best European film in Berlin.Banderas' second film as a director after Crazy In Alabama (1999) hasalready sold in 12 countries, including the UK ...
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Silverdocs unveils 10 Sterling award entries
Organisers at the Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival have announced the 10 entries in the Sterling Award Feature Film Competition at the upcoming festival, which runs in the Washington DC area from Jun 12-17.The films are: Doug Pray's long-haul trucking tale Big Rig (USA); Eva Mulvad's profile of Afghanistan's first ...
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Global Tax Guide 2007
If you don't use soft money, you shouldn't be making an independent movie.' Ryan Kavanaugh, CEO of US financier Relativity Media, perfectly sums up the importance of tax breaks for film-making. 'It's free equity, literally. It's free money that doesn't generally require participation in a movie. And there's soft money ...
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Cannes at 60: a celebration
For six decades now the Cannes film festival has been at the epicentre of cinema. Screen's 60th celebration (below) looks at the enduring importance of Cannes and speaks to a range of Palme d'Or winners (see sidebar, right) about how it feels to pick up world cinema's greatest prize. Sun, ...
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Screenwriters playing against type
Arguments over the credit for a film are as old as the industry itself. Ironically, at first actors were insistent on not getting credits, embarrassed by their association with what was considered a fairground attraction. But as novelty grew into mass entertainment and art and - more importantly - into ...
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Araki and Mechanic line up for Venice jury duty
The Venice Film Festival has announced that American director Greg Araki will preside over the Venice Horizons section jury while the Lion of the Future prize jury (dedicated to first films) will be presided over by American producer Bill Mechanic.The Lion of the Future prize is a USD $100,000 cash ...
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Britdoc plans second festival for July; selections include We Are Together
Britdoc's second-annual festival will have a theme of 'Documentary Meets Art,' and will run July 25-27, again at Oxford's Keble College.The three-day event will include screenings, a Pitching Forum, masterclasses with the likes of film-maker Larry Charles, and speed meetings. Explaining the theme, organizers said: 'At a time when the ...
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Kinowelt International to handle sales of Bioskop Film library
On the eve of this year's Cannes Film Festival, Leipzig-based Kinowelt International has concluded an agreement with the Munich production house Bioskop Film to handle the marketing of its film library, including such German cinema classics as Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta's The Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum, Reinhard ...
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San Sebastian to feature Henry King retrospective
The San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 20-29) will feature a retrospective of the works by American cinema pioneer Henry King at its upcoming 55th edition.The festival will also offer a contemporary retrospective devoted to the new Nordic cinema with a selection of films made in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark ...
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The Edge signs distribution deal with Echo Bridge
The Edge, the US financing, production and worldwide distribution company launched by John Travolta's longtime producer Jonathan Krane and Beau Rogers, has struck a distribution deal with Echo Bridge Entertainment.Echo Bridge will handle worldwide sales and distribution excluding North American theatrical on two of The Edge's initial slate and will ...