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Mixed Doubles to close LA Indian Film Festival
Rajat Kapoor's comedy MixedDoubles will close the 4th IndianFilm Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) on Apr 23.Mixed Doubles premiered recently at the Rotterdam InternationalFilm Festival and follows a man's desperate efforts to spice up his 10-year-oldmarriage.Festival Director ChristinaMarouda announced that the audience choice and the jury awards for bestfeature, best ...
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Palm teams with Rockstar Games on Sunday Driver
Palm Pictures and video game publisher Rockstar Games have teamedup to co-market and co-distribute the low-rider documentary Sunday Driver in the US.The first documentary production from Grand Theft Auto creator Rockstar follows The Majestics,a group of California-based African-American former gang members who inspireeach other through their love of customised cars.Sunday ...
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Cannes selects Vincent Cassel as master of ceremonies
French actorVincent Cassel will handle master of ceremoniesduties for the 59th Cannes Film Festival, organisers announced Wednesday.Cassel's responsibilities will include overseeing the opening andclosing ceremonies. It is uncommonfor the festival to choose a master, rather than a mistress, though Cassel's selection does keep things in thefamily. His wife, actress Monica ...
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Hrebejk's Beauty In Trouble to premiere in Karlovy Vary
Jan Hrebejk's newfilm Beauty InTrouble has been announced as the first competition film inthe Official Selection of the 41st Karlovy VaryInternational Film Festival. Thefilm is produced by Ondrej Trojan, who also produced Hrebejk's 2001 Oscar nominee, Divided We Fall. "Whenwe were writing the script for Beauty in Trouble, we were ...
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Fauveau to head Paramount Home Entertainment France
Pascal Fauveauhas been named managing director of France for Paramount Home Entertainment International, tooversee all operations in France including sales and marketing. Fauveau most recently served as senior vice president andmanaging director of MGM Home Entertainment, France, a unit he createdstarting in 2002. He is also a veteran ofUniversal Pictures ...
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Nyon documentary festival adds pitching forum
The Visions du Reel International Documentary Festival (April 24-29) inNyon, Switzerland, has joined forces with theEuropean Documentary Network to stage its first pitching forum aimed atcreative documentaries focusing on an artistic visual approach.Twelve projects have beenselected for the Pitching du Reel session on April 24and will be presented to a ...
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Universal appoints new MDs for Scandinavia, Iberia
Universal Pictures International (UPI) has appointed Ivor Viljoen as managing director of Universal Pictures Nordic (encompassing Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland) and Edgar Adelmund as managing director of Universal Pictures Iberia (Spain and Portugal). Viljoen's appointment was effective from April 3. He formerly served as senior VP, Europe for Paramount ...
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Banderas to play Cortes in Conquistador
Antonio Banderas will portray Hernan Cortes in Hollywood Gang's upcoming$40m Spanish-language epic Conquistador to be directed by Andrucha Waddington.Based on a screenplay by Nick Kazan, the project charts the 16thcentury Spanish expedition that brings Cortes and his men into bloody contactwith the Aztec empire led by Moctezuma.Gianni Nunnari of Los ...
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ContentFilm says revenue is up 72% over last year
London-based film and TVsales company ContentFilm has announced that it expects to meet marketexpectations for the financial year that ended March 31. The company said that,subject to audit, it expects revenues for the year to be about $18.4m (£10.5m),up 72% from 2005. Earnings beforeinterest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) is ...
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Gooder gets new position between LA and Sydney at Icon
Mark Gooder is moving to Los Angeles in the newly createdposition of president of film acquisitions and development at Icon Productions.Gooder will continue to serve as chief executive officer of IconFilm Distribution Australia and will divide his time between California and Sydney.He will report directly to Icon Productions president Bruce ...
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Sumitomo buys controlling share in Asmik Ace
Japan's Sumitomo Corp has purchased a further 27.67% of production anddistribution company Asmik Ace Entertainment from Kadokawa Holdings. The deal gives Sumitomo a75.3% controlling share in Asmik Ace which becomes an official subsidiary ofSumitomo's media arm. The reported acquisition price was approximately Y500m($4.25m). The two companies previously held an equal ...
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Filmstiftung NRW puts $3.64m into six new films
New projects by Rolf Schuebel, Fatih Akin, Ulla Wagner, and Tony Loeser are among six feature films awarded more than $3.64m (Euros 3m) by North Rhine-Westphalia's regional film fund Filmstiftung NRW at its latest funding session. The largest amount -- $969,719 (Euros 800,000) -- went to Rolf Schuebel's English-language drama ...
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Ice Age sequel breaks box-office record in Argentina
Ice Age: The Meltdown scored the best ever opening in Argentina with 544,158 admissions from 155 screens in its first four-day weekend (March 30-April 2). The animated sequel beat the previous record set by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with 460,489 admissions from 115 ...
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Partnership not politics is key to co-productions - conference
Co-productiontreaties between governments are not a catch-all solution to creatingcross-national films, delegates to Screen International's NewFrontiers conference in London were warned.Many nations have bilateral agreements which allow film-makers from partner countries to access local tax breaks. Many more are likely to be signed with the emerging film powers like Russia, ...
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Box office makes sluggish start to 2006 in most territories
Early first-quarter box office figures show little sign of a bounce-back in most territories - although local-language product has eased the pain. Nielsen EDI statistics show a marginal year-on-year dip in its first 12 weekly figures for North America (-2%), UK/Ireland (-8%), Spain (-2%) and Germany (-3%).France is proving the ...
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Fewer sections and films planned for Locarno 2006
This year's edition of the Locarno International Film Festival (August 2-12, 2006) will jettison two sections and show fewer films, the festival's annual meeting was told in Locarno on Monday evening. The new artistic director Frederic Maire announced that the Video and Human Rights sidebars would not be continued in ...
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Focus, Random House acquire Koontz's new novel
FocusFeatures and Random House Films have acquired film rights to best sellingauthor Dean Koontz's upcoming thriller The Husband.Developmentwill begin straight away on The Husband,which will be published on May 30 in North America through Random House'sBantam Books imprint.Koontz'sstory centres on a harrowing 60-hour period in a man's life that begins ...
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Icon acquires Hammer library for worldwide sales
IconEntertainment International has boosted its library to more than 300 titleswith the acquisition of the Hammer film library for worldwide sales.Titlesinclude such genre classics as Dracula Prince Of Darkness starring Christopher Lee, Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell both starring Peter Cushing, and Quatermass & ThePit, which stars Andrew Keir."Hammeris ...
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French government appoints Maistre as film mediator
France's Ministries of Culture and Communication and Finance and Economy have announced the appointment of Roch-Olivier Maistre to the position of film mediator. Maistre replaces Francis Lamy in the post.The role of film mediator was created in 1982 as a means to help regulate competition within the industry notably concerning ...
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Goldcrest picks up worldwide rights to Arctic Son
Goldcrest Films International has picked up world sales rights toAndrew Walton's documentary Arctic Son, which explores the themes of family and self-reliance inthe Canadian Yukon region.The production from New York-based media company Arts Engine Incand Big Mouth Films will receive its world premiere at the Full FrameDocumentary Film Festival in ...