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IDT closes broadcast, theatrical deals on second Horror series
IDT Entertainment Sales has secured a raft of pre-sales on thesecond Masters Of Horror series that begins production in Vancouver this week.IDT Entertainment, Industry Entertainment and Nice Guy Productionsare partnering up on the series that, like the first, will air on ShowtimeNetworks in the US.Theatrical, television and home entertainment rights ...
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Buena Vista kicks off MIP with France Telecom VOD deal
Highlighting the buzzwords of this year's MIP TV market - content, convergence and multiple distribution channels - Buena Vista Television International (BVITV) and France Telecom have announced a multi-year video-on-demand deal set to provide a selection of BVITV's film catalogue to subscribers of France Telecom's Wanadoo broadband and MaLigne IPTV ...
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WBITD signs output deal with Bulgaria's Nova-TV
WarnerBros International Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a multi-yearoutput deal with Bulgarian broadcaster Nova TV.Theagreement gives Nova TV exclusive free television rights to such librarytitles as The Matrix Reloaded, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, and The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, among others.NovaTV is owned by ...
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Caiman, Crime Novel lead Donatello nominations
Nanni Moretti's The Caiman and Michele Placido's Crime Novel scooped the lion's share of nominations for the David Di Donatellos, with 13 nods each.Placido's crime epic and Moretti's political expose-cum-marital drama both earned nominations in all the main categories for Italy's top film awards, including best film, best director, and ...
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Keri Moore gets senior vp stripes in Universal marketing dept
Keri Moore has been promoted to senior vice president of creativeadvertising for Universal Pictures.Moore, who most recently was vice president of creativeadvertising, is based on the studio's Universal City lot and will continue toreport to marketing president Adam Fogelson.After joining the studio in November 1999 as manager Moore rosethrough the ...
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LA home entertainment distributor Liberation opens in Europe
LosAngeles-based distributor of home entertainment content LiberationEntertainment has established a London office and appointed Spencer Pollardmanaging director.Thewholly owned company will be called Liberation Entertainment Ltd and will acquirefeature and television content out of the UK and Europe as well as selling andmarketing the existing library.Pollardis assembling staff to handle finance, ...
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French screenwriter files Syriana plagiarism suit
A French screenwriter has filed a plagiarism complaint againstWarner Bros and Section Eight, the producers of Stephen Gaghan's Oscar winning Syriana.Agence France Presse (AFP) reported Tuesday that screenwriter StephanieVergniault had filed against the two companies and Gaghan jointly in Paris. Ahearing is scheduled for Monday April 10.According to the report, ...
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Kwak to adapt controversial Japanese novel
Korean director KT Kwak,whose credits include Typhoon, Korea's most expensive film to date, is set to direct a film based on famousJapanese novelist Murakami Ryu's Hanto ODeyo (Get Out Of The Peninsula). The controversial noveldepicts a North Korean commando unit taking over the island of Fukuoka in 2010 when Japan ...
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Senator upbeat after end of insolvency crisis
SenatorEntertainment's CEO Christopher Borgmann has struck an upbeat note on the Berlin-based producer-distributor's future afterthe company was officially withdrawn from insolvency proceedings.According to Borgmann, the slimmed-down company will now work "atfull stretch" to build its activities again with a concentration onthe (co)production and distribution of German feature films as well ...
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Czechs await Prague spring for production
After a busy second half of 2005, Praguestudios are experiencing a slow period. No major international productions haveyet been announced to shoot in the Czech territory, which is not unusual. A similar production gap opened in mid-2005before Young Hannibal: Behind the Mask, Omen 666 and Casino Royale filled localstages. Rumours ...
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Theatrical drives big leap in Kinowelt profits
Theresurrected Kinowelt Group trebled its year-on-year annual profits to $4.3m (Euros3.6m) on revenues of $95.1m (Euros 78.5m), up 41%TheLeipzig-based group says the "extraordinarily high" growth in overallturnover was largely thanks to the success of the theatrical division with suchreleases as Mr & Mrs. Smith (3.5m admissions) and TheMarch Of The ...
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Box office meltdown as Ice Age opens top in 29 markets
Ice Age: The Meltdown burned through the international marketplace this weekend,grossing an estimated $43.4m through Fox International on 4,571 screens in 29territories.Records toppled around the world as the animated sequel stormed tonumber one in every territory, mirroring its dominance in North America whereit took an estimated $70.5m.The weekend result does ...
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Goldcrest picks up international rights to 39 Pounds
Goldcrest Films International has acquired all rights to DaniMenkin's documentary 39 Pounds Of Love excluding the US and Israel and will introduce to buyers atMIPTV.39 Pounds tells the story of Ami Ankilewitz, an American-bornIsraeli who at the age of one was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophythat renders ...
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Ice Age sequel breaks March opening record with $70.5m
Ice Age: The Meltdown produced the first sensational box office weekend of the year asit opened to a spectacular estimated $70.5m, while another sequel Sony/MGM's BasicInstinct 2 flopped intenth place on $3.2m.The animated sequel beat the $46.3m March 2002 launch of IceAge and eclipsed theall-time April opening record of $42.2m ...
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James McAvoy on board for Joe Wright's Atonement
James McAvoy has joined the cast of Working Title Films' production of Atonement, starring alongside Keira Knightley. Knightley will be reuniting with director Joe Wright, who previously cast her in his debut film Pride & Prejudice. Atonement, based on the Ian McEwan novel, is about a man who falls in ...
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Commonwealth festival to open with Life With My Father
Manchester's fifth-annual Commonwealth Film Festival will open on April 28 with Sebastien Rose's Canadian drama Life With My Father. Sarah Watt's Australian hit Look Both Ways will close the festival on May 7.The festival, which promotes film production in the Commonwealth countries, will screen more than 200 features, documentaries, and ...
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London's first East End Film Festival recruits industry experts
London's East End Film Festival has announced the programme for its inaugural event, to be held April 27-May 4. The festival opens with Richard E. Grant introducing the London premiere of his directorial debut Wah-Wah.Grant will also be the festival's director in residence, with a discussion and a screening of ...
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New movie fund FarFalla Films launches with The Good Life
Production has begun in Winnipeg on Steve Berra's directorialdebut The Good Lifestarring Mark Webber, Chris Klein, Zooey Deschanel and Bill Paxton.The picture is the first to be produced by FarFalla Films, a fundcreated by the company's partners Lance Sloane, a producer at Warner Bros, andhis brother and company chief Devin ...
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Golden prize night ends groundbreaking Guadalarajara
The 21stGuadalajara International Film Festival handed out a record $525,000 in prizemoney on a glittering awards night.TheGolden Mayahuel for the best Iberoamerican film - with a $50,000 purse -was shared jointly by Rodrigo Moreno's Argentinian/ Uruguayan/ French/ Germanco-production El Custodio and Brazilian Marcelo Gomes' AspirinasE Urubus (Movies, Aspirins and Vultures).In ...
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Romantic comedy All Bar Love to start London shoot
Romantic comedy All Bar Love will start shooting in London on April 3. Te Papa Films, founded by Aubs Tredget, is producing.James Derbyshire, who hasworked in fringe theatre, is directing from a script written by Julia Boggio with Kristen McGorry andDavid Hofmyer.The film follows Martin, afriendly man who is inept ...