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Lola nominees announced
Tom Tykwer's lavish adaptation of Patrick Suskind's Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer and Chris Kraus's prison drama Four Minutes are running neck and neck with eight nominations apiece for the German Film Awards - the Golden and Silver Lolas - which will be presented in a gala ceremony ...
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Korea's T-Entertainment buys stake in Sio Film
KOSDAQ-listed T-Entertainment has announced it is buying into production company Sio Film. The entertainment conglomerate has acquired a 29.3% stake in the company that produced Park Chan-wook's Old Boy among other hits. T-Entertainment was formed last year when the publicly listed online games firm Nako Entertainment merged with music specialist ...
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Tribeca announces final films for key sections
2007 Tribeca Film Festival organisers have announced the third and final group of feature selections for the Discovery, Showcase and Family Film Festival sections. Discovery includes 39 narrative and documentary features from up-and-coming directors from 12 countries. The line-up encompasses Matthew Barbato's sex reassignment documentary Alexis Arquette: She's My ...
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Magnolia picks up Great World Of Sound
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Craig Zobel'sGreat World Of Sound at the South By Southwest Film Festival.Patrick Healy and Kene Holliday star as two ordinary men who getcaught up in a record industry talent search and learn the finer - andnot so fine - points of being ...
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Vitale to step down as First Look president
Ruth Vitale will step down as president of First Look Pictures on April 30 following the board's decision to scale down its theatrical operations in the wake of Henry Winterstern's departure two weeks ago as CEO and co-chairman. Vitale will continue to oversee First Look Pictures' first wide release on ...
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Aja to put Piranha back into the water
Alexandre Aja will write and direct Dimension Film's upcoming Piranha remake, almost 30 years after the original opened in 1978. Atmosphere Entertainment founder Mark Canton, currently enjoying success with 300, is producing along with Marc Toberoff from IPW, Aja himself, and Gregory Levasseur. Alix Taylor, J Todd Harris ...
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Fortissimo picks up Yau Nai Hoi's Eye In The Sky
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights, excluding Asia but including Japan and Korea, to action thriller Eye In The Sky from Hong Kong 's Sundream Motion Pictures. The directorial debut of Johnnie To's regular screenwriter Yau Nai Hoi, the film recently premiered at Berlin and is one of the opening ...
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Kadokawa Group Holdings launches licensing company
Japanese conglomerate Kadokawa Group Holdings (KGH) has established a licensing company, Kadokawa Production, to handle rights management and licensing for the group's various media subsidiaries. The move will consolidate and strengthen Kadokawa's ability to license its vast library of books, animation and films with its main focus on the domestic ...
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Shadow Of The Dog wins best film at Mumbai fest
Girish Kasaravalli's Kanada-language film In The Shadow Of The Dog (Nayi Neralu) won the best film award at the International Film Festival of Mumbai (IFFM) which concluded on Thursday. A trophy and a cash prize of $2,300 (Rs100,000) were presented to the director and a trophy and cash prize of ...
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SPC takes US rights to Buscemi's Van Gogh remake Interview
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has picked up US rights to Interview, Steve Buscemi's drama based on the late Theo Van Gogh's 2003 Dutch film of the same name which played at Sundance and Berlin this year.Buscemi directed from his own screenplay and stars opposite Sienna Miller as a jaded political ...
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Entertainment Expo Hong Kong 2007
This year's edition sees many changes as Expo raises its profile in the international calendar. Filmart, HAF and Hkiff will start on the same day and work more closely to provide a platform to support the production and distribution of Asian and other international films.In addition, the opening night of ...
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HAF 2007 - Invested interest
Co-production markets have become a must-have accessory at film festivals from New York to Tokyo. The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) is slightly different, however, in that it is a financing platform that was conceived independently and only later became attached to a film festival.Organised for the past two ...
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New Chinese buyers - Slice of the action
Until recently, international sales companies were showing little interest in China. The market's rampant piracy and censorship were major turn-offs, as was the fact that unless a film is selected as one of China's 20 annual revenue-sharing imports, it can technically only be sold for a flat fee to state-owned ...
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Filmart - HK market stakes global claim
This year, many Asian sellers decided to skip Berlin's European Film Market in February and focus on the Hong Kong event (March 20-23) instead - a telling sign that the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (Filmart) is raising its international profile.Indeed it looks like not one but two ...
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First look dealer
These are challenging times for First Look International (FLI) president Stuart Ford, one of the participants at Screen International's US financing summit in London. Several months after Ford launched FLI's London office to handle sales and source acquisitions and co-productions, the UK Treasury announced it was effectively closing the door ...
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Entertainment Expo Hong Kong - Power surge
HONG KONGIt has been a year of ironic contradictions for the Hong Kong film industry. Undeniably, local producers are still struggling with falling production levels, as investors put resources into fewer but larger films, and local box office for home-grown productions continues to shrink.Yet despite the gloom, Hong Kong talent ...
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Exhibitors: windows on the world
John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theatre Owners, told this week's ShoWest that release windows are the industry's top priority. He speaks for the majority of exhibitors in his alarm that the average window between theatrical and home release slipped last year by 10 days, to four months ...
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Hong Kong International Film Festival - Match makers
This year marks a radical shift in the ambitions of the 31-year-old Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff). Although respected for the quality of its programming, the festival has traditionally focused on local audiences and has not had a high profile on the global film-festival circuit or been regarded as ...
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D-Street, Volkswagen team on US release of Summer
Fledgeling US distributor D-Street Releasing has partnered with Volkswagen AG to support the marketing of the upcoming domestic release of Andreas Dresen's Summer In Berlin.The deal is part of an ongoing collaboration between D-Street and Volkswagen to promote and celebrate international film in the US market. The German film opens ...
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Capri taps Mongrel for Canadian co-release pact
Toronto-based distributors Mongrel Media and Capri Releasing have entered into a national co-distribution agreement that will see Mongrel handling Capri's theatrical releases going forward as well as DVD. The deal follows the departure earlier this year of Capri Releasing vice-president Robin Smith.Mongrel president Hussain Amarshi told Screen International that the ...