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Four Minutes takes top prize at Shanghai festival
German drama Four Minutes, directed by Chris Kraus,won the Jin Jue best film award at the 9th Shanghai International Film Festival(SIFF) on Sunday night, while Chinese director Qi Jian's The Forest Ranger was awarded the Jury Grand Prix.The nine-day festival had astar-studded closing night with Ed Norton, Catherine Deneuve and ...
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Steckler, Greenfield join Searchlight in production roles
JeremySteckler and Matthew Greenfield have been appointed senior vice presidents ofproduction at Fox Searchlight Pictures. They will report to production chiefClaudia Lewis.Stecklerarrives after three years at di Bonaventura Pictures, while Greenfield is aproducer who previously had two films, The Good Girl and Star Maps,distributed through Searchlight."Matthew'sstellar reputation in the independent ...
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Click tops US box office for Sandler, Sony with $40m
Sony's latest Adam Sandler comedy Click took control of the box office as itdethroned Cars toopen on an impressive $40m estimated three-day haul.Thiswas in the range of previous Sandler releases: The Longest Yard launched on $47.6m in May 2005, 50 First Dates took $39.9m in February 2004, and Anger Managementproduced ...
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Balcony picks up US rights to Al Franken doc
Balcony Releasing has pickedup US rights to Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus' cinema verite picture AlFranken: God Spoke To Us.Balcony plans an autumnrelease on the picture, which shot over two years and tracks the former SaturdayNight Live comedian and Liberalpolitical commentator as he tackles everyone from right-wing broadcaster BillO'Reilly to ...
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Cowboys, Cuba screen at Rewind/Fast Forward in Miami
Billy Corben's Cocaine Cowboys, Jay Rosenblatt's I Want To BeSomebody and MeganWilliams' Tell Me Cuba areamong documentaries at the upcoming 5th Annual Rewind/Fast Forward Film &Video Festival in Miami Beach.The festival explores all facets of documentary film-making, filmand video preservation, film and TV history and the use of archival images ...
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Spanish exhibitors threaten to escalate Scary Movie row
A stand-off between leading Spanish exhibitors and BuenaVista over the local release of Scary Movie 4 could have ramificationsfor the majors in Spain.Four of Spain's biggest exhibition chains - Cinesa, YelmoCineplex and the newly merged Abaco-Cinebox - have refused to carry ScaryMovie 4 because of a disagreement over rental fees ...
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Oxfam Novib signs on as IDFA principal sponsor
Anti-poverty organisation Oxfam Novibhas become the principal new partner of the International Documentary FestivalAmsterdam (IDFA). The partnership is set for one year with the optionfor a three-year extension. Oxfam will contribute $90,198 (Euros 72,000) to thefestival's organisers. IDFA is now planning Oxfam NovibDay, with proceeds to benefit the charity, to ...
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Capitol promotes Schoukroun to head of sales
Capitol Films has promotedEve Schoukroun to head of sales and has recruitedJames Norrie as its new sales director. Schoukroun replaces Simon Crowe, who has been with Capitolsince October 2004 and is leaving at the end of June to work with new UK-basedsales company Velvet Octopus.Schoukroun has been at Capitol for ...
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Palace in talks to buy Budapest's Hollywood Multiplexes
Palace Cinemas says it isnegotiating to purchase the Hollywood Multiplexes in Budapest owned by Andy Vajna'sproduction, distribution and exhibition company InterCom.Neither Palace Cinemas nor InterCom would comment on the price, date of handover,number of facilities involved or whether the purchased cinemas would remain inoperation. Admissions have beendropping precipitously in Hungary ...
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Cappon appointed new RAI chief
Italianstate broadcaster RAI has named Claudio Cappon as itsnew director general. He replaces former chief Alfredo Meocci.RAI's board members are nominated by the Italianparliament. Cappon, currently head of the Italian TVproducers association APT, was previously directorgeneral of RAI between 2001 and 2002.Inhis role, Cappon will be responsible for theday-to-day running ...
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Vue's buyout should help with flexible planning
Following its managementbuyout earlier this week, UK exhibitor VueEntertainment is aiming to open as many as 20 cinemas over the next threeyears. "We are continuing with a very aggressive expansion programme in the UK," Tim Richards, CEO of Vue,told ScreenDaily.com. The new cinemas will be ineither greenfield sites or will ...
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Few major international openings as World Cup rages on
As the World Cup enters the second round this weekend with morehot weather forecast for most of Europe, distributors are looking toconsolidate their gains.Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI)'s The Da VinciCode, currently on$485.2m, and Fox International's X-Men: The Last Stand, now on $186.2m, have been the majorplayers in recent weeks. ...
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UK's Slingshot plans 10 digital features in 3 years
Slingshot, a new UK-baseddigital film production and distribution company, hasannounced plans to finance, produce and distribute a slate of 10 low-budgetfeature films over the next three years. Arvind Ethan David, Rachel Connors and Thomas Hoegh have founded the company, which will be based atEaling Studios. David previously served as managing ...
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Icon promotes Buckner to senior sales manager
IconEntertainment International has promoted Anthony Buckner to the post of senior salesmanager, effective immediately. Bucknerhas worked at Icon since 1996, most recently as international sales manager. Inthe new position, he will be responsible for new territories including Spain, Latin America and Benelux. He replaces sales managerJames Norrie, who is departing ...
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Uwe Boll's Boll AG starts trading on Frankfurt Exchange
Trading in Germanproducer-director Uwe Boll's publicly listed Boll AGopened at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange's Entry Standard on Thursday morningwith shares valued at $38.39 (Euro 30.50), above the previously fixed issueprice of $37.14 (Euros 29.50).Boll expected to raise around $11.3m (Euros 9m) from the stock marketflotation to invest, among other things, ...
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Locarno opens doors to 11 projects from Southeast Asia
Eleven projects from Southeast Asia have been selected for this year's Open Doorsworkshop to be presented to potential producers and co-producers during the Locarno International Film Festival in August.Commenting on the selectionmade from 50 projects entered from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, Open Doors project manager VincenzoBugno explained that the ...
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Madrid Screenings deals continue to rack up
Summer Rain,Antonio Banderas' second directorial effort now inpost-production, has pre-sold to two territories in the latest of dealsannounced out of the three-day Spanish Film Screenings of Madrid (June 18-20).Based on a two-minute promo,Strada picked up the Spanish-language coming-of-agetale Summer Rain (El Camino De Los Ingleses), for Greece and Cyprus, while ...
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Lucy Moore wins new UK horror prize
Writer Lucy Moore has wonthe inaugural Golconda Films Horror ScreenwritingCompetition with her script Lullaby.Moore was recently featured as one of Screen International's 2006 Stars of Tomorrow.She will receive a $1,845 (£1,000)advance on a script option to make the horror film and will work with producersGolconda Films during the development process. ...
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PIFF steps up support for documentaries
The Pusan International FilmFestival (PIFF) is launching five film funds to invigorate Asian documentaryproduction. Grouped under the title ofthe "Asian Network of Documentaries" (AND), the combined funds will award up to$50,000 to documentary filmmakers.Four previously establisheddocumentary funds - the Youngsan Fund, Unikorea Fund, Kyungsung Fund andDongseo Asian Fund - will ...
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First Look secures $80m credit facility with Merrill Lynch
Los Angeles-based First Look Studios has closed a three-year $80m creditfacility with Merrill Lynch as it continues its push to become a majorvertically integrated entertainment company.Prentice Capital Management, the New York-based hedge fund thathas hitherto provided financial support, will convert its initial investment inFirst Look Studios from convertible debt to ...