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Wurtz moves to Film Movement as vp, business development
US distribution venture Film Movement has bulked up its executivesuite with the appointment of Meghan Wurtz as vice president of businessdevelopment.In the newly created role Wurtz will develop and implementsponsorship programmes, oversee theatrical releases, manage cultural relationsand secure new revenue opportunities for the company's library. She will reportto Film Movement ...
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Zhang's Curse lands at Sony Pictures Classics
SonyPictures Classics has picked up North American and Latin American rights toZhang Yimou's period epic Curse Of The Golden Flower.Currentlyshooting in China, the Beijing New Pictures production stars Chow Yun Fat andGong Li, and marks SPC's ninth collaboration with the director following, mostrecently, this year's Riding Alone For Thousands Of ...
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Deauville festival to welcome Lumet and Pollack
The 32nd annual Deauville Festival of American Film will run September 1 to 10 in the Normandy seaside town.Actress/director Nicole Garcia is set to head the jury with the rest of themembers to be announced in late July.The festival, which showcasesAmerican independent film and acts as an autumn European launch ...
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Venice Orizzonti to open with McGrath's Infamous
The63rd Venice Film Festival has announced that new Truman Capote drama Infamous will open the Orizzonti competition section.Infamous stars Toby Jones asCapote alongside Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdanovich,Jeff Daniels and Gwyneth Paltrow. It is directed byactor-writer-director Douglas McGrath, whose credits as a director include Emma (1996) and Nicholas Nickleby ...
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Sojitz, DBJ team for animation sales venture
Japanese conglomerate SojitzCorp, its affiliate Klockworx and the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) haveinvested $12m (Y1.4bn) in a limited partnership to buy animation contents andlicense them to the global market. Sojitz is contributing 64%,DBJ 28% and Klockworx 8% of the investment in the partnership. Internationalsales of the contents will be ...
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Spain's Telespan 2000 to merge with Telson
Leading Spanish producer Telespan 2000 is merging with Telson,the audiovisual arm of telecommunications giant Avanzit.The idea is to create anintegratedmedia holding incorporating companies from all sectors, withthe Telespan team heading content creation. The deal marks a first moveinto content creation for Telson, a specialist inpost-production services and thematic channel packaging, ...
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First ThinkTank draws 170 international delegates
The inaugural Copenhagen ThinkTank, which took place last week, has been pronounceda success by organisers. "I think it wasextraordinary. We had 170 people there, representing 34 countries including Australia and Canada," the Danish Film Institute's chief executiveHenning Camre said. During the conference, delegatesbrainstormed strategies for "strengthening and reinvigorating European film." ...
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Geertsen says European industry should pay its share for digital revolution
As the 15th CinemaExpo International got underway in Amsterdam today Anders Geertsen,director of distribution at the Danish Film Institute and director of the commercialmodule at the European Digital Cinema Forum, delivered a call to arms to theEuropean industry.Delivering the convention's firstkeynote address on the subject of digital cinema - a ...
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Berlin's World Cinema Fund backs five new projects
New feature projects by Mexico's Carlos Reygadas and Kyrgyzstan's Aktan Arym Kubat are among five filmprojects recommended for a total of $363,935(Euros 290,000) production funding in the fourth selection round ofthe Berlin-based World Cinema Fund (WCF). The WCF jury, comprising theFrench independent distributor Isabelle Dubar,UK-based curator Keith Shiri, Swiss Television'sprogramme ...
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Fortissimo gets four Hal Hartley features
Sales company Fortissimo Films has struck a dealwith director Hal Hartley and his Possible Films to add four of his films tothe Fortissimo library.Marking the first time Hartley has worked withFortissimo, the company is taking rights to 1990's Trust, 1995's Flirt, 1997'sHenry Fool and 2005's The Girl From Monday. Hartley ...
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Private investors fund new $22.6m The Red Baron
Germany's most expensive new production in 2006, Niki Muellerschoen's $22.6m (Euros 18m) English-language production The Red Baron (Der Rote Baron), begins principal photography on July 3 in Prague as a 100% privately financed project. The financing for the film about the legendary First World War fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen ...
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Spain's Cinema Jove gives top prize to Ryna
Tough coming-of-age Romaniandrama Rynawon top honours at the 21st edition of Spain's youth-oriented Cinema Jove International FilmFestival (June 17-24).The jury selected director Ruxandra Zenide's featurefor the Golden Valencian Moon and its $22,612 (Euros18,000) prize for its risk-taking and emotional toughness. The story turnson a young woman looking to escape her ...
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Bloom to join Bosworth in Seasons Of Dust
Orlando Bloom will join hisreal-life girlfriend Kate Bosworth in the independent drama Seasons Of Dust which has been written and will be directed byactor/film-maker Tim Blake Nelson (O, The Grey Zone) and is due to shoot this summer.Set in 1935 in Depressionera Oklahoma, the film is about a young farm ...
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Olguin signs to direct Mayhem Project's Clock Tower
One year-old LA-basedproduction and financing outfit The Mayhem Project has signed Chile's JorgeOlguin to direct horror film Clock Tower, based on the bestselling video game franchise from Japan's Capcom.The film, which is scheduledto go into production later this year, has been written by Jake Wade Wall (WhenA Stranger Calls, The ...
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London UK Film Focus to host 12 premieres
The London UK Film Focus(LUFF), the annual showcase of British films for invited UK and international buyers, is looking to set up aco-production market along the lines of Rotterdam's CineMart. "It may be at the beginningor end of LUFF in 2007," said Adrian Wootton, chiefexecutive of organiser Film London. "Initial ...
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Locarno to show Veronica Chen's Aguas Argentinas
Withless than six weeks to go before the launch of his first Locarno as artistic director onAugust 2, Frederic Maire has spoken toScreenDaily.com about the preparations for the 59th edition of the festival ashis programme shapes up."Thematically,there are large number of films with teenagers and children at the centre andthey ...
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Los Angeles Film Critics set awards dinner for Jan 14, 2007
TheLos Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) will hold its 32ndannual film achievement awards ceremony the day before the Golden Globes on Jan14 2007 in Los Angeles.Theevent will take place at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Century City.Thedate of the group's December 2006 voting meeting will be announced this autumn.
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Q&A with Shanghai jury president Luc Besson
In the same year that Canneshad its first Chinese jury president in Wong Kar-wai, China's leading filmfestival returned the honour by appointing a French jury president - filmmakerand EuropaCorp co-founder Luc Besson. In addition to his juryduties, Besson had a packed schedule of meetings with filmmakers, film studentsand government officials ...
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Poseidon, Code lead international box office
The start of the World Cup elimination rounds, hot weather acrossmuch of Europe and a lack of new wide releases contributed to a lacklusterweekend at the international box office.Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI)'s Poseidon led the pack with an estimated $9.9mgross from approximately 4,000 prints in 49 countries, raising the ...
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Offutt promoted to creative executive at Participant
AmberOffutt has been promoted to creative executive at Participant Productions,freeing her up to work on development and production at the Los Angeles-basedcompany.Offuttpreviously served as executive assistant to Participant executivevice-president of creative affairs and production Chris Salvaterra.Priorto joining Participant she worked at production companies LioneyesEntertainment and Ovation Entertainment. Offutt began her ...