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Focus unveils powerhouse Cannes lineup
Focus Features Internationalhas laid out its most ambitious sales slate to date for Cannes including aTouchstone Pictures production called Dan In The Real Life which Buena Vista will distribute domestically andkey territories on Sean Penn's Into the Wild which Paramount's specialty arm will distributedomestically."We really are trying to getthe message ...
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Mission III goes global on 9,500 screens
The spectre of Tom Cruise looms over the world this weekend as Paramountlaunches Mission: Impossible III in its biggest ever day-and-date release.The third instalment in the action franchise is set toopen through UIP in 55 territories on approximately 9,500 prints.M:i:IIIgoes out on May 3 in France, South Korea and Hong ...
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Chinese film Father wins first feature award at San Francisco
Ying Liang's Chinese picture Taking Father Home won the Skyy prize for first narrativefeature at the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival Golden GateAwards ceremony.The Golden Gate Award for documentary feature went to MichaelGlawogger's Workingman's Death (Austria), and the Golden Gate Award for Bay Area documentaryfeature went to Stanley Nelson's ...
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Riklin sets up foreign remake company Bridge Films
Former Showtime executive Matt Riklin has launched Bridge Films, acompany devoted to acquiring remake rights to non-English language pictures andsetting them up with US studios and financiers.Funded by private equity, Bridge Films employs a staff of 10 'agents'who will operate throughout the world to source promising material, A Bridgecontingent is ...
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Bubble set for multi-platform release in Korea
Steven Soderbergh's Bubble is set to be the first film in Korea to receive a day-and-date multi-platform release onmobile phones as well as theatrical, cable TV, DVD and video-on-demand (VoD).The film is to open on May 11.The experimental thrilleroriginally saw a simultaneous release in the US this past January in ...
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Buena Vista picks up Oz rights to Samoan Wedding
Buena Vista Internationalhas picked up Australian rights to feel-good New Zealand comedy SamoanWedding (aka Sione's Wedding) andwill release it in mid-July.Director Chris Graham'sdebut film grossed $2m (NZ$3.14m) for Sony in its first five weeks on homesoil. Putting aside US-funded local blockbusters such as the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and ...
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Ganz joins cast of Irreverent's Canadian comedy Restaurant
Bruno Ganz has singed to star in Vancouver-based IrreverentMedia's romantic comedy The Best Restaurant In The World. Ever.Ganz, who won plaudits for his role as Adolph Hitler in OliverHirschbiegel's German 2005 best foreign language Oscar nominee Downfall, joins Marc-Andre Grondin in the cast.Monica Mitchell directs from a screenplay by Rick ...
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Hopes high for end to funding chaos
Greek film production has undergone a financingcrisis during the last couple of years - but amid the chaos several projects havemanaged to move forward.The underlying uncertainty has been causedby the same debate that has echoed across Europe; whether public funds should financefeature production.Under Petros Tatoulis, then Greece's deputy Culture Minister ...
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Peckos exits Tartan, sets up niche US distributor
Distribution executive M J Peckos has left Tartan Films USA aftertwo years to launch the niche distributor Mitropoulos Films."The distribution business is changing at its core. Nicheproduct will require new venues and marketing strategies and Mitropoulos Filmsplans to explore this ever changing marketplace," Peckos said. "As filmmakers continue to face ...
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UK's Northern Film and Media funds three local documentaries
UK regional fund Northern Film & Media, working with digital TVstation Community Channel, has commissioned three local filmmakers to makedocumentaries about the North East. The documentaries now goinginto production are Emily Barber's Sing YourHearts Out, Louise Rea's The ChevyChase, and ReubenJacob Abraham's The Grass Never Goes.TheCommunity Channel plans to air ...
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Fortissimo drawn to Sketches Of Frank Gehry
Fortissimo Films hasacquired worldwide rights outside the US, France, Benelux and Italy to SydneyPollack's documentary Sketches Of FrankGehry, which screens in official selection, in an out-of-competition slot, atthis year's Cannes.Oscar-winning filmmaker Pollack- who is friends with acclaimed architect Frank O. Gehry and filmed thedocumentary over five years - will present ...
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Saw III to start on Monday in Toronto for Lionsgate, Twisted
Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures will start production on Saw IIIwill in Toronto on May 8and are expected to wrap in June.Lionsgate International president Nick Meyer and LionsgateInternational Sales president Stephanie Denton will commence sales at Cannes.As previously reported, the third instalment in the lucrativehorror franchise is set to open this ...
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UK's Jan Dunn recruits Bob Hoskins for Ruby Red Chequer
Writer/directorJan Dunn and producer Elaine Wickham of Medb Films are following up their British Dogme film Gypo with a second feature, Ruby Red Chequer. Ruby Red Chequer will star Bob Hoskins,French actress Josiane Balasko,and film newcomer Jody Latham (TV's Shameless)in the story of a widower who falls for his foreign ...
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Bavaria takes on sales for Norwegian Critics' Week feature The Bothersome Man
BavariaFilm International has added International Critics' Week title The Bothersome Man (Den BrysommeMannen) by to its Cannes sales slate. Norwegianfilmmaker Jens Lien's second feature, which is described as 'a fantasticand bitingly funny fable that bears echoes of The Truman Show, will have its world premiere in Cannes and thenopen wide ...
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German cinema admisions up 18% over last year
Germanexhibitors are on the rebound as cinemas reported a 17.89% year-on-yearincrease in admissions and 18.08% rise in box-office takings for the first fourmonths of 2006.Accordingto Jan Oesterlin, managing director of Zukunft Kino Marketing (ZKM), cinema attendance andreceipts this year even surpassed the strong beginning of 2004, with admissionsup 5.92% and ...
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MonteCristo brings two Singaporean titles to Cannes
MonteCristo International has added two Singaporeanfilms, Graham Streeter's Cages andKelvin Tong's 1942, to its salesline-up for Cannes this year.The US-basedsales company, which focuses on Asian and Eastern European cinema, will startsales for Cages at Cannes. The film, which premiered at Pusan last year, tells a story of threegenerations: a single ...
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Van Damme thriller Til Death wraps in Bulgaria
Director Simon Fellows hasconcluded principal photography on thriller Til Death in Sofia, Bulgaria. After 33 days on location on the outskirts of Sofia, the $15m project now moves to New Orleans for five days of shooting. The thriller stars Jean ClaudeVan Damme as a dirty cop who is nearly killed ...
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UIP CEO Stewart Till named chairman of football club
Stewart Till, the CEO ofUnited International Pictures, has been appointed as the new chairman of UK football club Millwall.Till told ScreenDaily.com that the role was non-executive and non-paid and wouldn't change his duties at UIP. "It's a dream come true for me, but obviously UIP pay my salary and they ...
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Optimum deal marks shift in UK distribution
Studio Canal's acquisition of Optimum, just a few months after Lionsgate's takeover of Redbus,marks a major shift for the UK indie distributionbusiness. Not so long ago, it was a side of the industry that waswidely seen as over-stretched, cash-strapped and scrambling to stay afloat. Distributors were invariably to be heard ...
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StudioCanal to acquire UK distributor Optimum Releasing
Confirming rumours that had been buildingfor weeks, French distributor StudioCanal announcedtoday that it will acquire UK distributor OptimumReleasing.The companies said, "The deal will helpOptimum grow by combining its resources with those of StudioCanal.This will give Optimum access to one of the largest film catalogues in theworld and to StudioCanal's line-up ...