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Julie Sultan joins Peace Arch from Lakeshore
Julie Sultan has joined Peach Arch Entertainment Group as executive vice president of international theatrical film sales.Sultan arrives from Lakeshore Entertainment where she served as vice president of international sales. She will be based at Peace Arch's expanded California offices in Marina Del Rey and reports to Peace Arch Entertainment ...
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Freestyle picks up domestic rights to Civic Duty
Freestyle Releasing has scheduled a May 4 North American release for Jeff Renfroe's pyschological thriller Civic Duty after picking up domestic rights.Peter Krause stars as a happily married accountant who becomes obsessed with America's war on terrorism after he loses his job. Richard Schiff, Kari Matchett, Ian Tracey and Egyptian ...
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Marshall reunites with Weinsteins for Nine
Harvey Weinstein and Rob Marshall are reuniting for the first time since the Oscar winning 2003 musical Chicago on an adaptation of the Broadway show Nine.Marshall will direct the production with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, composer and lyricist for the original 1982 Broadway production that won the Tony ...
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China's CRIFST opts for secure Dolby digital system
Dolby Laboratories announced yesterday [April 12] that the China Research Institute of Film Science & Technology (CRIFST) has selected its digital compression, encoding, packaging and encryption SCC2000 Secure Content Creator for its facilities.CRIFST has also ordered a JPEG 2000-compatible Dolby Digital Cinema playback system for its facilities, to be supplied ...
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Sundance to play 21 features, 27 shorts at New York's BAM
The Sundance Institute and BAM (Brooklyn Academy Of Music) have announced full details for their second annual Sundance Institute At BAM series, set to run from May 31-Jun 10.The series comprises a highlights showcase of 21 features and 27 shorts from the festival last January, including the features Son Of ...
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Melkonian gets new marketing position at Sunset Gower
Terri Melkonian has been promoted to the newly created position of vice president of sales, marketing and corporate communications at Sunset Gower Studios.Melkonian joined 10 months ago as vice-president of sales and marketing and previously served as a production representative at Universal Studios for nine years.0Sunset Gower Studios is currently ...
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Box-office analysis: what dreams may come
The merger between London-based HanWay Films and France's Celluloid Dreams promises to produce 'bigger' films (see In Focus, p6-8). We'll have to see what 'bigger' encompasses in this case - but do not expect anything quite as grand as the sort of film Graham King produces or some of the ...
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Singapore: getting into bed with overseas partners
Given its tiny market - last year's box office amounted to just $86.5m (s$131m) - co-productions have become a practical necessity for Singapore to access the wider world.Daniel Yun's pioneering MediaCorp Raintree Pictures is leading the way when it comes to overseas partners. Yun has a long-term relationship with Hong ...
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Buy the book
From Oscar-feted films such as The Last King Of Scotland and Notes On A Scandal to the new wave of fantasy films led by Eragon, book adaptations are scoring at the global box office and reaping critical acclaim. The literary option market is showing no sign of deflation, with producers ...
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The London Book Fair: turning over a new leaf
The London Book Fair (LBF) has become a crucial forum for the European and US film adaptation market, both for new material and discussions of ongoing projects.Both Lionel Shriver's The Post-Birthday World and Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts were buzz books at last year's event, and a slew of ...
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Set report: Kim Ki-duk's Breath
Kim Ki-duk's eyes gleam with concentration as he surveys his actors taking their places for the final scene of Breath, the director's 14th film. It is a freezing cold day in Seoul and Kim is shooting in a former Japanese colonial prison where Korean independence movement fighters were once tortured ...
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Celluloid Dreams and HanWay Films: the power of two
There is a temptation to see the merger between Hengameh Panahi's Celluloid Dreams and Jeremy Thomas' HanWay as a commentary on the scary state of today's arthouse business. But the real issue is what it says about the digital future.The most obvious conclusion to draw from the merger of two ...
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Opinion: the digital dream
Consolidation in the independent sector has been an absolute inevitability, particularly in Europe, for some time. The position of the traditional sales agent has been quietly changing during the past couple of years, and the state of today's market makes the acceleration of that process virtually certain.So the news of ...
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Opening doors: Singapore International Film Festival
The Singapore International Film Festival (Siff) celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, opening with a Sri Lankan film for the first time - Prasanna Jayakody's feature debut Sankara, a Buddhist fable.This is in line with Siff's main function of forging bridges with lesser known cinema regions. When it was the ...
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Trendwatch: 'Franchise is still the magic word'
From the resurgence of chick-lit to the continuing appeal of the thriller franchise, these are the hot genres for film adaptation in 2007.THRILLERS'Producers are still asking for the new Bourne Identity - but there aren't many of those around,' says Nick Harris of Rwsh. He is backed up by Rebecca ...
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The smart money is on Singapore
As the Singapore International Film festival opens, Screen International examines how the territory is aiming to pull in new backers. A key global economic hub, Singapore has set its sights on becoming a media-financing centre for the 21st century and is positioning itself as a meeting point of finance and ...
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Sony signs VOD deal with VirginMega in France for TVs and PCs
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has struck a new video-on-demand (VOD) deal with France's VirginMega.The deal will cover content online at virginmega.fr and subscribers to the Alice IPTV platform and Mes Videos a la Carte service. Viewers will get 48 hours of unlimited viewing on either platform, with downloaded films ...
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Debuts dominate Crossing Europe Linz's European Competition
Debut features dominate the lineup for the European Competition at the fourth edition of Linz's Crossing Europe Film Festival (24-29 April) which will open on April 24 with the world premiere of the music documentary Attwenger Adventure by Markus Kaiser-Muhlecker and the Austrian premieres of Marcus J. Carney's The End ...
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Celestial strikes Malaysian, African deals for Shaw Brothers titles
Celestial Pictures has signed a home video distribution deal with Movie Master for the DVD release of more than 500 films from Shaw Brothers film library in Malaysia over five years. The titles include Justice, My Foot and Out of the Dark starring Stephen Chow and the Casino Tycoon series ...
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Apichatpong withdraws Syndromes from Thai cinemas after censors row
Acclaimed Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is withdrawing his latest film Syndromes and a Century from theaters in response to local censors' demand for four cuts in the film.The film, which premiered at Venice last year and recently won best editing at the inaugural Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong, was ...