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Universal hires Duncan Clark as international distribution evp
Universal Pictures has made a key appointment ahead of next year'smove towards complete autonomy in overseas operations, hiring Duncan Clark asexecutive vice president of international distribution.Clark, who spent 13 years at Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI) and the last four as president, will be based in London and reportdirectly to ...
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Horizon picks up international on Thai/US co-production Journey
Vancouver-based Horizon Entertainment has picked up allinternational rights to Vietnamese-American director Ham Tran's Thai-US co-productionJourney From The Fall.The story follows a family'sescape from Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War and charts the contrastinglives of those who make it to America and those who remain in the re-educationcamps. Kieu ...
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Cannes festival line-up
Opening filmThe Da Vinci Code (dir:Ron Howard)Closing filmTransylvania (Tony Gatlif)Official selection - Out Of Competition special screeningsUnited 93 (Paul Greengrass)X-Men 3: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner)Over The Hedge (Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick) Official selection: Midnight screeningsShortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)Election 2 (Johnnie To)Guisi (Silk) (Su Chao-pin)Salle Bunuel Out Of Competition ...
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Brad Anderson returns with Transsiberian
Spain's Filmax has unveiled the first details ofdirector Brad Anderson's follow-up to well-received horror film The Machinist, a new thriller called Transsiberian.Principal photography is setto crank up in October with an international cast shooting between Spain and Eastern Europe.Horror title The Machinist, produced and sold bySpanish mini-studio Filmax, starred Christian ...
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Pitt and Blanchett among UIP stars for Cannes
JamieFoxx, Beyonce Knowles, Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett are among the starsconfirmed to attend Cannes next month.UIP, which is distributing their films in certain territories, has eight films at Cannes which include Paramount specialty arm's Babel, being sold by Summit Entertainment internationally, and An InconvenientTruth; excerptsfrom Paramount's World Trade Center; ...
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Kingsley to play assassin in mob comedy You Kill Me
Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoniand Luke Wilson are set to star in the mobcomedy You Kill Me for Code Entertainment, Kingsley's BiPolarProductions, Carol BaumInc, and Mike Marcus' Echo Lake Productions.John Dahl will direct the project and shooting is expected to beginbefore the end of themonth in Winnipeg, Canada.Kingsley plays an alcoholic ...
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Da VInci Code backer pulls out of film business
InvictaCapital is to quit the UK film business, says managing director Niall Bamford.TheLondon-based company, one of the powerhouses behind the sale andleaseback-driven production boom in the UK in recent years, is estimated tohave raised over $2.2bn (£1.25bn) for the film industry in the last five years.Recentprojects the company has backed ...
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Da Vinci Code backer pulls out of film business
InvictaCapital is to quit the UK film business, says managing director Niall Bamford.TheLondon-based company, one of the powerhouses behind the sale andleaseback-driven production boom in the UK in recent years, is estimated tohave raised over $2.2bn (£1.25bn) for the film industry in the last five years.Recentprojects the company has backed ...
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Baranski and Runge compete for Karlovy Vary grand prize
Andrzej Baranski'sSeveral People, Little Time and BjornRunge's Mouth To Mouth will compete for the grand prize at the 41stKarlovy Vary International Film Festival. Several People, LittleTime, an intimate psychological drama inspired by the relationship betweenthe Polish poet Miron Bialoszewskiand a blind woman. It stars Krystyna Janda who won the best ...
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Border Post unites former Yugoslav states
Croatian director Rajko Grlic has scored a highly significant hit throughout the former Yugoslavian states with Border Post (Karaula).Grlicwas one of the most important representatives of the Prague film school whoenjoyed a series of successes with You Only Love Once (1981)and In The Jaws Of Life (1984), and made influential ...
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Kingsley to headline Dahl mob comedy You Kill Me
Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoniand Luke Wilson are set to star in the mob comedy You Kill Me for Code Entertainment, Kingsley's BiPolar Productions, Carol BaumInc, and Mike Marcus' Echo Lake Productions.John Dahl will direct the project and shooting is expected to start before the end of themonth in Winnipeg, Canada.Kingsley, ...
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Innsbruck festival honours Tunisian director
TheInnsbruck International Film Festival (May 23-28) will be celebrating its 15thyear with a retrospective and exhibition dedicated to the Tunisian directorNacer Khemir, whose latest film Bab' Azizwill open the festival on May 23.TheInternational Competition of seven titles:Cinema,Aspirins And Vultures by Marcelo Gomez (Brazil)GrainIn Ear by Zhang Lu (China/South Korea)NineEmotions by ...
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MD Herrmann leaves Senator in management shake-up
BenjaminHerrmann, managing director of Senator Entertainment's production anddistribution divisions, is leaving the company "by mutual agreement"on April 30 as part of the group's ongoing management restructuring.Herrmannhad headed up Senator Film Produktion and Senator Film Verleih since 2000 andbeen responsible for such productions as The Miracle Of Bern, TheExperiment, Lammbock and ...
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14 projects line up for Sundance Director and Screenwriters Labs
14 projects have beenselected for the Sundance Institute's annual June Directors and ScreenwritersLabs, set to take place in Utah from May 29-Jun 29.The Labs give emergingfilmmakers the chance to work under the guidance of experienced mentors, whothis year include Atom Egoyan, Harold Ramis, Robert Redford, Antonia Bird,Caleb Deschanel, Keith Gordon, ...
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EFP selects 22 producers for Cannes Producers On The Move
European Film Promotion(EFP) has selected 22 aspiring producers for the Producers On The Movenetworking initiative that will take place during Cannes.The initiative, supported bythe European Union's the MEDIA Programme, offers young filmmakers the chance tomeet and discuss projects with members of the press and industry executives.Producers On The Move hasspotlighted ...
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Tartan UK signs three-year deal with Arts Alliance Media
Tartan Films Distribution(TFD) and European digital distribution service provider Arts Alliance Media(AAM) have signed an exclusive three-year digital rights and services dealcovering theatrical digital cinema and home distribution via video on demandand electronic sell-through.The deal marks the firsttime a content provider has signed up for the entire package of AAM's ...
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Dehmel, Cordova get vp stripes at Fox International
Craig Dehmel has beenpromoted to vice president of sales and strategic planning and Peter Cordovahas been promoted to vice president of finance at Fox International.Dehmel will report tocompany co-presidents Tomas Jegeus and Paul Hanneman and will manage releaseplanning and execution for all Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Atomic, FoxAnimation, ...
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Pathe distribution head takes Fox UK MD role
Pathe head of distribution Ian George has beennamed as managing director of Twentieth Century Fox UK. George has been with Pathefor the last seven years and enjoyed success with films including this year'sbest film Oscar winner Crash."After seven hugely enjoyable years at Pathe,it is a wrench to leave. However, I ...
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Holloway moves from Lionsgate to Fox Searchlight in national publicity
Melissa Holloway (pictured) hasleft Lionsgate to become vice president of national publicity at FoxSearchlight.She started work on Apr 24and reports to chief operating officer Nancy Utley.Holloway joined Lionsgate inJanuary 2001 and served as vice president of publicity since 2004, overseeingcampaigns for this year's best picture Oscar winner Crash, Monster's Ball,Amores ...
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Swiss hand out $3.6m reward for local film successes
Zurich-basedproduction house Dschoint Ventschr and distributor Frenetic Films were theleading beneficiaries when Switzerland's Federal Office for Culture (BAK) paidout $3.6m (4.6m Swiss Francs) "reference" funding to producers,distributors and exhibitors of successful Swiss films in 2005.DschointVentschr received $217,000 (276,000 Swiss Francs) for seven releases, includingSamir's Snow White, which was the second ...