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SPI takes Eastern Europe rights to 9 Cannes titles
Warsaw-based distributor SPI International has announced several acquisitions on the back of Cannes. The company has taken theEastern European rights to the $100m (Euros 80m) Asterix At The Olympic Games (from Pathe), whichwill star Gerard Depardieu, Alain Delon, Jean ClaudeVan Damme, David Beckham, Michael Shumacher,Zinedine Zidane and GiselleBundchen.The distributor also ...
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Three arrests made in Wales over film piracy
South Wales Police have arrestedthree people in raids targeting film piracy. Operation CARDwas carried out by the police working with Trading Standards, the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT),the British Phonographic Institute and European Leisure Software PublishersAssociation. Six addresses in Aberdare and Merthyr Tydfilwere investigated, with one linked address in Brecon. ...
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Hauer plans directorial debut Changing Fortunes
Dutch star Rutger Hauer is to make hisdirectorial debut feature with ChangingFortunes, a drama set in occupied Holland during World War II.The $11.3 million projectis being put together as a UK/Dutch/Belgian co-production by Glasgow-based AlbaFilm Productions.Hauer is also in line to play a part in the film, based onthe true ...
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Australia sets box-office record in first five months of 2006
Australian cinemas have recorded their biggest ever result for the firstfive months of a year, taking $275m (A$373m) in ticket sales through May 31.The result represents $35.8m (A$48.4m) or 15% more than sales during thesame period last year and about $7.7m (A$10.4m) more than in 2004, which gavethe industry its ...
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Locarno taps jury for Filmmakers of the Present
LocarnoInternational Film Festival's new artistic director Frederic Maire has announced the names of the five jurors for theFilmmakers of the Present sidebar, which will be competitive for the firsttime.In addition tothe previously announced Argentine producer Hernan Musaluppi (The MagicGloves), the jury will include French-Iranian director RafiPitts, who was in Locarno's ...
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The Works takes UK rights to Shortbus
TheWorks UK Distribution has licensed John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus from sales companyFortissimo Films.Thefilm, Mitchell's follow-up to Hedwig And The Angry Inch, is an explicit story of relationships in"New York City's polysexualbohemian scene." It played in official selection in Cannes. Thecast includes Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, PJ DeBoy, Raphael ...
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Kimmel International reports 85 sales deals at first Cannes
Kimmel International topbrass said the company closed more than 85 sales at Cannes on a diverse slatethat included Billy Ray's FBI thriller Breach, Ed Stone's romantic comedy Griffin And Phoenix, and John Poll's coming-of-age tale CharlieBartlett.Deals on Breach closed in Germany (Prosieben), Latin America (TVAzteca), Brazil (Paris Films), Russia (Lizard ...
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Uwe Boll issues boxing challenge to his harshest film critics
BloodRayne and Alone In The Dark director Uwe Boll is reportedly so incensed bysavage reviews that he has decided to get in the ring. The German filmmaker haschallenged his five harshest critics to a series of boxing matches that he plansto insert into his upcoming video game adaptation Postal. Boll ...
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Kirsten Dalgaard to leave Camera for Nordisk
Thismonth, Kirsten Dalgaard will leave her job as head ofCamera Film, Denmark's leading art-housedistributor, to join Nordisk Film.Asof August 1, Dalgaard will begin a new position in the new sales and marketing division of Nordisk, which is expanding its work with independentfilms. "Ilook forward to continue working with art-house movies ...
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International Indian Film Academy weekend opens in Dubai
The seventhInternational Indian Film Academy (IIFA) weekend has opened in Dubai. The weekend opensat Dubai's Grand Cineplex with Jagmohan Mundra's Provoked,starring Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews, Miranda Richardson and NanditaDas.On Thursday, organizers will kick off the new IIFA Film Festival with Chandramukhi. Thefestival will also screen 30 other films. Indian actorsappearing ...
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Roadside & Goldwyn buy Boynton Beach Club
Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films have jointlyacquired North American rights to Susan Seidelman's romantic comedy BoyntonBeach Club.Based on a story by Seidelman's 74-year-old mother Florence, BoyntonBeach Club follows agroup of grieving senior citizens who re-enter the dating game.Dyan Cannon, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Bologna, Renee Taylor, SallyKellerman, Len Cariou, Michael ...
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Camp Out, Gymnast top honour roll at Newfest
Larry Grimaldi and Kirk Marcolina's Camp Out has won the 18th Newfest Vanguard Awardcelebrating breakthrough or visionary achievement.The New York-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festivalalso awarded the picture best documentary honours, while the best US narrativeprize went to Ned Farr's The Gymnast.Best foreign narrative feature went to Ahmed ...
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Winter Sonata set for big-screen adaptation
Asia-wide hit TV series Winter Sonata, which is widelyaccredited for fuelling the Korean Wave and launching Bae Yong-joon and ChoiJi-woo to stardom, is to be made into a film.KOSDAQ-listed group PoibosEntertainment has bought the film remake rights to the drama series from KBSMedia. Poibos production subsidiary Culturecap Media, which previously ...
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Spain's new MPC focuses on crossover content
New company MPC has launchedin Spain with the objective of producing and acquiringcontent for multiple platforms.The name, which stands for"Multi Platform Content," belies the company's starting objectives: to produceand acquire content with crossover potential in cinema, television, internetand mobile phones."We've been talking about'convergence' for ten years but now it's really ...
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UK police arrest 10 in film piracy raids
The Metropolitan Police'sFilm Piracy Unit and Territorial Support Group have arrested ten people in andaround Greater London suspected of involvement in a large network dealing infilm piracy. Three have been released on bail.The arrests followed raidsin North Chingford, Harlow and Walthamstow at both residences andbusinesses. Police used information from sources ...
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Galway recruits Towne, Bates and Roeg
Writer/directorRobert Towne, actor/director Kathy Bates and directorNicolas Roeg will give this year's writing, actingand directing masterclasses at the 18th Galway Film Fleadh (July 11-16).Townewill give the screenwriting masterclass and present aspecial screening of Chinatown. Kathy Bates will give theactor's masterclass, facilitated by casting directorJohn Hubbard, and she will also be ...
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Karlovy Vary competition boasts six world premieres
The KarlovyVary International Film Festival has announced the competition films for its41st edition to be held June 30-July 8.In addition to thepreviously announced Beauty In Troubleby Jan Hrebejk, MouthTo Mouth by Bjorn Runge and Several People, Little Time by Andrzej Baranksi, the competition line-up includes a further dozenfilms screening in ...
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UK's Contender takes Suburban Mayhem
UK distributor Contender Entertainment Group has takenall rights to Suburban Mayhem fromsales company Fortissimo Films.Thefilm, in Cannes official selection, is Contender's first non-Asianfilm acquisition and its second deal with Fortissimo following Tsui Hark's Seven Swords. Australiandirector Paul Goldman's Suburban Mayhem followsa 19-year-old single mom who plans a murder that will ...
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Ken Russell to shoot Moll Flanders in Croatia
Ken Russell is gearing up toshoot his new adaptation of Moll Flanders.The $10m production willstart shooting in Croatia on August 7. Russell also wrote thescreenplay. Film newcomer LucindaRhodes-Flaherty will play the title role and the cast also includes BarryHumphries and Steven Berkoff. Harry Alan Towers is producing. Russell has previouslydirected ...
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Kinotavr honours Serebrennikov's Playing The Victim
Kirill Serebrennikov's Playing The Victimwon the Grand Prix at this year's Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr at the Black Sea resort of Sochi.The black comedy about a university graduate who earns money playingcrime victims in the reconstruction of events for police investigations was abig favourite with the festival's foreign guests ...