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Mike Leigh picked for Heart of Sarajevo award
Mike Leigh will receive this year's honourary Heart of Sarajevo awardat the Sarajevo Film Festival. Leigh has previously visited the festival to show Topsy-Turvy in 2000, to receive a tribute in 2002, andto serve on the competition jury in 2004. 'His presence and support has done a great deal in ...
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Sola/Atrix pick up international rights to Friel-starrer Bathory
German sales company SolaMedia/Atrix Films has picked up international rights to Juraj Jakabisko's Bathory, which stars Anna Friel as the murderous Countess ofTransylvania alongside Hans Matheson, Karel Roden and Vincent Regan. Friel takes over from FamkeJanssen who was previously attached to the role co-produced by Jakubisko FilmSlovakia, Film & Music ...
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Element closes slew of deals for Mr Brooks
Element Films International(EFI) has closed a raft of deals on thepsychological thriller MrBrooks starring Kevin Costner in theunlikely role of a compulsive killer. The co-production of LosAngeles-based Element Films, Costner's TIGProductions and ThomasAugsberger's Eden Rock Media is currentlyshooting in the US.Bruce A Evans directs thestory of a jaded killer pursued ...
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Toronto Film Festival creates new pass structure for delegates
The Toronto International Film Festival has instituteda new pass structure for its 2006 event for industry delegates offering moreoptions to choose a pass to meet their specific professional needs.Features of the new passes include access to publicscreenings, access to special sales premiere screenings, upgrades to includeindustry initatives programming and optional ...
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Spanish exhibitors' federation responds to ruling
The Spanish exhibitors'federation has called for the creation of a commission to ensure that thelandmark ruling handed down last week against five multinational distributors accusedof anti-competitive practices gets carried out.In last week's decision bySpain's Anti-Trust Court, Disney/Buena Vista, Sony Pictures, Hispano Fox, UIPand Warner Sogefilms were fined $3m (Euros 2.4m) ...
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Tillinger named production president at Scorsese's Sikelia
Emma Tillinger has been named president of production for MartinScorsese's New York-based Sikelia Productions.Tillinger will oversee all aspects of Scorsese's production operation and workwith him on the development of projects.Scorsese is currently in post-production on The Departed starring LeonardoDiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg, which will be releasedby ...
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Germany's FFA awards $4m to new projects
Sequels of this year's local box-office hits Wild Soccer Bunch 3 and WildChicks are among eight projects backed with more than $3.97m (Euros 3.1m)production funding by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) at its latestsitting.The largest amount - $768,569 (Euros 600,000) - went to SamFilm's fourthinstalment in The Wild Soccer ...
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UK distributor Revolver plans Kidulthood TV show
Film distributor Revolver Entertainment has announced plans to turn itscontroversial UK feature Kidulthood into a TV serial drama. The film's screenwriter Noel Clarke will work closely with the teambeing recruited to develop the TV project. "Kidulthood is a film that defines a generation," said Revolverproduct director Natascia Phillips. "It is ...
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Korea's YedangOnline acquires ShowEast
KOSDAQ-listed games companyYedangOnline Corp has acquired a 54.6% share in Korean production anddistribution house ShowEast. YedangOnline has bought120,000 of ShowEast shares for a total of $9.5m. It stated the move was made as"the first step towards creating an entertainment portal business comprisinggames, music, films and TV dramas" in collaboration with ...
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Kino picks up North American rights to Old Joy
Boutique US distributor Kino International has pickedup North American rights to Kelly Reichardt's critically acclaimed Old Joy whichwas a hit at this year's Sundance, Rotterdam and New Directors/New Filmsfestivals.The film stars Will Oldham and Daniel London as twoold friends in their mid-30s whose long relationship has reached a crossroadsdue to ...
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Anne-Marie Duff signs on for Bed Blockers
Anne-Marie Duffwill star in Alan Entwistle's UK black comedy/satire Bed Blockers. Duff previously starred in TheMagdalene Sisters andTV's Shameless and TheVirgin Queen.Entwistle willstart shooting in 2007. The film is about two Northern English mothers who takeon the system when the government threatens to withdraw health treatment forpremature babies. The film ...
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EastWest on board for Yarik sales
Austrian/UK sales companyEastWest Filmdistribution has acquired international sales rights to Russian dramaYarik. First-time feature directorsKlaus Hundsbichler and Cecile Henry direct the story about a Russian child whois abducted and sold on the black market. MBI, Fischer Film and OrkenFilm are the co-producers.EastWest will be invitebuyers to screen the project as ...
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Masterson to make feature directorial debut on Cake Eaters
Mary StuartMasterson will make her feature directorial debut on drama The Cake Eaters starringKristen Stewart and Aaron Stanford.The 57th &Irving Productions project is scheduled to begin filming this summer in the US;it centres on a prodigal son who returns to his smalltown homestead aftertrying to make his fortune in the ...
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CMG gets Tribeca favourite The Treatment for Cannes
Edward Noeltner'sCinema Management Group (CMG) has acquired all international rights to OrenRudavsky's romantic comedy The Treatment starring ChrisEigeman, Ian Holm and Famke Janssen.The story of anerdy schoolteacher who falls for a sensuous Manhattan socialite was one of themost talked about titles at the recent Tribeca Film Festival and won the ...
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Hooper named national publicity chief at Fox Searchlight
Michelle Hooper has joined Fox Searchlight as senior vice president ofnational publicity.The former vice president of entertainment publicity at Fox Broadcastingbegins her new post on May 31 and will report to Searchlight chief operatingofficer Nancy Utley.At Fox Broadcasting Hooper oversaw national publicity campaigns for suchpowerhouse shows as American Idol, Prison ...
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Swipe Films starts UK/Ireland student screenwriting competition
London-based filmproduction, sales and distribution company Swipe Films has launched a newscreenwriting competition for UK and Irish students. Undergraduate andpostgraduate Students will submit an original screenplay of 80-120 pages fromany genre. The top winner will option and develop the winning script. Swipesaid that the prize will include a "five figure" ...
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Head Gear, Spice Factory start completion fund
UK producers and financiers MichaelCowan of Spice Factory and Phil Hunt of Head Gear Films have launched a new fund for features needed completion financing.
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Liberty Media moves in on IDT Corporation
US entrepreneur John Malone's Liberty Media isplanning to buy IDT Corporation for $186m in cash and the assumption ofundisclosed existing debt.The strategic move marks an ideal marriage between carrier and content.Under a five-year output deal Liberty-owned cable operator Starz EntertainmentGroup will carry select IDT Entertainment CG animated releases and live ...
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Starz signs multi-year sponsorship deal with Hollywood Film Festival
Premium US cable movie service Starz EntertainmentGroup (SEG) has signed a multi-year sponsorship agreement with Carlos deAbreu's Hollywood Film Festival (HFF) kicking off with this year's event Oct 17to 23.SEG will also host the closing night party of thefestival after the Hollywood Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel inBeverly ...
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TWC seals multi-year deal with Roadshow
Roadshow Filmshas become the exclusive distributor of The Weinstein Company's (TWC) upcomingfeatures in Australia and New Zealand under a multi-year deal announced todayon the eve of Cannes.TWC recentlyclosed a similar exclusive deal in France with TF1, an investor in the companywhich was previously partnered with the Weinsteins when they ran ...