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UK industry veteran Jim Sturgeon dies after illness
Creative Partnership founder Jim Sturgeon died January 10 after a long illness. Well-known and respected among his peers, Sturgeon co-founded the UK's Creative Partnership with Chris Fowler in 1979 as a 'one-stop shop' to produce trailers, posters, radio and TV commercials for the film industry.Says Fowler, 'Under his direction, the ...
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Kidz In Da Hood sweeps Sweden 's national film awards
Kidz In Da Hood raided the Guldbagge awards - Sweden 's national film awards - which the Swedish Film Institute presented at a ceremony Monday (22 Jan) in Stockholm 's Circus, televised by Swedish public broadcaster SVT1. A 2006 update of Guttersnipes, filmed in 1944 and 1974, the contender for ...
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CJE to invest $85m in local productions in 2007
Leading Korean distributor CJ Entertainment (CJE) has announced its 2007 business plan which includes investing $85m in more than 20 local productions this year, while at the same time expanding its global ties. 'While our local film industry was concentrating on sharing the pie instead of growing the market, domestic ...
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Death Note 2 passes $40m at Japanese box office
The second installment in Warner Bros Japan 's Death Note franchise, Death Note 2: The Last Name, has surpassed the Y5bn ($41.2m) mark at the Japanese box office from more than 4.15 million admissions. In a movie industry first, the sequel was released on Nov 4, following the first installment's ...
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Paris Hilton-starrer starts production for Purple Pictures in LA
Hadeel Reda's financing and production company Purple Pictures has begun principal photography in Los Angeles on its debut feature The Hottie And The Nottie.Joel David Moore, Christine Lakin and Paris Hilton star in the comedy about a young man who learns he will only be able to get a date ...
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Avalanche of pricey Sundance deals includes Clubland, Waitress, Joshua
The trickle of deals quickened to a torrent in Park City on Monday as buyers announced a slew of expensive acquisitions.Warner Independent Pictures (WiP) paid in the region of $4m for North American, UK and German rights to the comedy Clubland late in the afternoon. Separately, UK-based Goalpost Film sold ...
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Furst, Kessel to head productions and acquisitions for Overture
Sean Furst and Robert Kessel have been appointed executive vicepresidents of productions and acquisitions at Starz' new theatricaldivision Overture Films.Furst will be based at Overture's Los Angeles headquarters and Kesselwill operate out of New York. Furst's brother Bryan arrives as seniorvice president of productions and acquisitions and will also be ...
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King Naresuan tops Thailand's box office
Pegu's Hostage , the first part of the long-awaited Legend Of King Naresuan trilogy, raided Thailand 's box office over its four-day opening weekend, grossing $2.2m (80m baht) in Bangkok alone, according to distributor Sahamongkolfilm International. Although it was certainly the biggest opening weekend since 2005 action film Tom Yum ...
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Berlinale completes Competition with additions including Ozon's Angel
The line-up for the Berlinale's Competition has now been finalised with a total of 26 titles, including 19 world premieres, six international premieres and one European Premiere. Among the latest titles to be unveiled are the Argentine director Ariel Rotter's second feature The Other (El Otro) which deals with the ...
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Celtic Media nominees include The Flying Scotsman
The short list of nominees has been announced for the Celtic Media Festival 2007, which will be held in Skye from March 28-30. The event recognises work from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. The festival has 17 categories across film, radio and TV. Among the film nominees are feature-length ...
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Pathe Distribution acquires rights to UGC Films library
Pathe Distribution has acquired the library of defunct UK distributor UGC FIlms, including Walter Becker's Good Bye Lenin! and Francois Ozon films, including 8 Women and Swimming Pool.UGC Films UK was launched by French company UGC in 2001 and was hailedat the time as a big boost for arthouse cinema, ...
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Scalpel takes rights to Berlin-bound In Memory Of Myself
Pierre Menahem's Paris-based sales label Scalpel Films has picked up worldwide rights to Berlin competition title In Memory Of Myself (In Memoria Di Me), by Italy's Saverio Costanzo.Scalpel will also handle German title Hotel Very Welcome, by Sonja Heiss, at Perspective Deutsches Kino and Panorama title The Bubble, by Israel's ...
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Diffusion gets all UK rights to Joachim Trier's Reprise
New independent distributor Diffusion Pictures has acquired all UK and Ireland rights to Joachim Trier's Reprise. Reprise stars Espen Klouman Hoiner and Anders Danielsen Lie in the story of two twenty -something friends who are struggling to write novels. It picked up awards at festivals including Toronto and Karlovy Vary ...
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Sakuran to premiere in Berlinale Special section
Mika Ninagawa's debut feature Sakuran will have its world premiere on Feb 9 as the opening film of the Berlinale Special section at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, distributor Asmik Ace has announced. It will be the only Japanese film to screen as an official selection at the festival. ...
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Sundance deal-making starts slowly, but finally takes off
After several days of toe-dipping, buyers in Park City finally took the plunge and closed a flurry of deals at the weekend.Corporate stablemates Picturehouse and New Line swooped on rights to Seth Gordon's Slamdance documentary The King Of Kong.The Weinstein Company paid in the region of $4m for worldwide rights ...
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Fox's Museum remains top in international with $14.4m gross
Night At The Museum continued to dominate the overseas arena as the family film added an estimated $14.4m from 3,400 screens in 35 markets through Fox International to raise the tally to $173.2m.The film scored the fifth biggest industry opening in Uruguay to take $38,000 from only 13 screens. It ...
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Kasell steps down as executive director of Hamptons Film Festival
Denise Kasell is leaving her post as executive director of the Hamptons International Film Festival after nine years at the event.Board chairman Stuart Match Suna and the Hamptons board are searching for a replacement. Artistic director Rajendra Roy remains in place.'Denise's tenure has been a boon to the Hamptons Film ...
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Vantage teams with Morgan Stanley for $150m financing fund
Paramount Vantage has set up a $150m film financing fund with Morgan Stanley called Marathon Funding, which will invest in the production of at least 15 films.The arrangement covers Babel, as well as the 10 films scheduled to open through Vantage this year. Titles include Paul Thomas Anderson's oil prospector ...
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Little Miss Sunshine surprise winner of the PGA prize for best film
Fox Searchlight's Little Miss Sunshine trumped heavyweights Babel, Dreamgirls, The Queen and The Departed at the Producers Guild of America (PGA) awards in Los Angeles on Saturday [Jan 20].The comedy won the night's big prize, the Darryl F Zanuck award, in a result that recognised producers Marc Turtletaub, David T ...
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Stomp has second weekend at top of North American box office
Screen Gems' Stomp The Yard remained on top for the second consecutive while Fox's Night At The Museum held firm in second place and crossed $200m in its fifth weekend.Dance drama Stomp The Yard raised its tally by an estimated $13.3m to $41.6m while $13m eased Night At The Museum ...