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Pike, Dillane cast in Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces
UKactors Rosamund Pike and Stephen Dillane will take key roles in Canadianfilmmaker Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces, the long-gestating project to be produced by Robert Lantos'Serendipity Point Films with Athens-based Cinegram SA. Croatianstalwart Rade Serbedzija is also cast in a lead role.Basedon the Orange Prize-winning 1997 novel by Anne Michaels, the ...
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Pinewood profits slump due to UK tax uncertainty
Film studio Pinewood Shepperton reported disappointing financial results on Tuesday, blaming the UK film tax uncertainty of the past year and the overall downturn in UK film production. Pinewood Shepperton said that operating profits were down 70% last year, from £6.4m in 2004 to £571,000 last year. Profits fell from ...
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Lassally leaves LA management firm Kustom, Meisinger & Kolbrenner take the reins.
Robyn Meisinger and Adam Kolbrenner have been appointed to head upLos Angeles-based management and production outfit Kustom Entertainment followinga management transition.Tom Lassally, who along with CSI Capital Management founded Kustomin 2002, is moving to 3 Arts Entertainment and will take his client roster withhim effective immediately.'Tom has played a most ...
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Canada's Seville swoops on Seven Swords
Fortissimo Films has soldTsui Hark's martial arts epic SevenSwords to Canada's Seville Pictures, one of several deals that the Dutch/HK-based salesagent concluded at last week's Filmart in Hong Kong. Seville, a Montreal-based distributor, is planning a theatricalrelease for the film in late summer or early autumn this year. The dealcontinues ...
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Korea's Nabi Pictures moves into Chinese production
Korea's Nabi Pictures is establishing a branch in China, Beijing Nabi Pictures, to produce aChinese-language film. Speaking to reporters at China's Hengdian World Studios, Nabi Pictures co-CEOs JoMin-hwan and Kim Sung-soo claim this marks the first time that a Korean filmcompany has set up a local corporation in China to ...
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LoveFilm strikes download deal with Momentum Pictures
LoveFilm has struck a deal with UK distributor Momentum Pictures to add Momentum titlesto its film download service.Momentum will initially supply 100 titles fordownload at LoveFilm, including films such as Bowling for Columbine, The Mother, The Centre ofthe World, Stander, and People I Know."We're thrilled to embrace this new emerging ...
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First Danish-Austrian co-productions unveiled
ZentropaEntertainments and DOR-Film are to be partners on the first ever Danish-Austrianco-production with Jacob Thuesen's Erik Nietzsche - The Early Years. Thisalso marks the first collaboration between national public funds the DanishFilm Institute (DFI) and the Austrian Film Institute who are backing theproject that previously had Lone Scherfig attached asdirector. ...
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Uruguayan project wins $300,000 award at Guadalajara
Uruguayan film Eighteen Cigarettes and a Half (18 cigarillos y medio)was the first winner of the Tornasol award at the Guadalajara FIlm Festival.The prize guarantees co-production services worth $301,449 (Euros 250,000).Twenty projects participated for the top prize in thesecond Iberoamerican Co-production Meeting which came to a close today. Thewinning project ...
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Fortissimo buys world rights for Mexican feature
Fortissimo`s Wouter Barendrecht has secured world sales outside the US for the Mexican feature Broken Sky (El cielodividido) at theGuadalajara International Film Festival. The deal was concluded after the Fortissimoco-chairman saw the film during its Mexican premiere in the event's officialsection.This is the second time the HongKong/Amsterdam sales company has ...
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German Federal Film Board backs 11 projects with over $5.7m
Newfeature films by Marco Kreuzpaintner, Fatih Akin, Peter Timm and Ben Verbong are among 11 projects backed with over $5.7m (Euros4.8m) by the German Federal Film Board in its latest funding session.Thelargest amount $961,399 (Euros 800,0000) went to Kreuzpaintner'sadaptation of the children's classic Krabat for Claussen + Woebke Filmproduktion, while$841,365 ...
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UK Film Council announces investment in three new films
The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund has announcedsupport of three new films in production, Pawel Pawlikowski's TheRestraint of Beasts, Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger'sSparkle, and Sarah Gavron's Seven Seas.The New Cinema Fund's investment in The Restraint of Beasts is $1.1m(£650,000). As reported by ScreenDaily in February, Pawlikowski's black comedy ...
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Richard Attenborough starts Belfast shoot for Closing The Ring
Director Richard Attenborough started production Monday in Belfast on Closing The Ring,an epic love story that stars Shirley MacLaine,Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Brenda Fricker, and Pete Postlethwaite. Jo Gilbert is producing with Attenborough, with Martin Katzco-producing. Closing the Ring is apresentation of the UK Film Council, Scion Films, the Northern ...
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Lange named as recipient of annual Lincoln Centre tribute in NYC
JessicaLange will be honoured at the Film Society of Lincoln Centre's annual galatribute in New York City on Apr 17.A two-time Oscarwinner for Blue Skyand Tootsie, Lange hasacted in more than 30 features including Frances, Music Box, Country, Titus, and the current release Don't ComeKnocking opposite SamShepard.'JessicaLange is a very ...
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Forward clinches broadcast deals for Unknown White Male
Forward Entertainment hassold a raft of broadcast rights on Rupert Murray's amnesia documentary UnknownWhite Male.Rights have gone to Canal+in France, Fox International's Cult channel in Italy, HBO Ole in Latin America,YES - DBS Satellite Service in Israel, and Filmtrade in Greece.Forward principals SheriLevine and Michael Thornton will continue to sell ...
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Landmark opens New York office, hires Bunnell, Raddatz
USarthouse cinema chain Landmark Theatres has opened a New York office and hiredLisa Bunnell as its East Coast film buyer and Melissa Raddatz as director ofpublicity.Bunnellwill primarily be responsible for booking all of Landmark's East Coast screensand sites and reports to president of film and head film buyer Ted Mundorff.Shemost ...
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US citizen jailed for running piracy ring in China
Randolph Hobson Guthrie hasbeen sentenced to 45 months in prison and fined $15,000 by a Mississippi courtafter being convicted of jointly running an international piracy operation outof warehouses in Shanghai.Guthrie and five others werearrested in July 2004 after Chinese and US investigators seized more than210,000 counterfeit DVDs. Guthrie was extradited ...
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Fabrication, Strand team up on US release of Conversations
LosAngeles-based Fabrication Films is teaming up with Strand Releasing on the UStheatrical release of Hans Canosa's dual-screen drama Conversations WithOther Women.Thepicture, which will open in August, stars Helena Bonham Carter and AaronEckhart as wedding guests whose spontaneous affair leads to serious misgivings.ConversationsWith Other Women premiered at Telluridelast September and played ...
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NBC Universal International TV Distribution opens offices in Singapore, Russia
NBCUniversal International Television Distribution has announced that Rajiv Dhawnwill head up its new office in Singapore and Maxim Mikhailov will head up itsnew office in Russia.Dhawnhas been named senior director, sales liaison, Asia, and reports to vicepresident, sales liaison Haydn Arndt, while Mikhailov becomes manager, salesliaison, and reports to vice ...
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Korea's Jeonju film festival kicks off with Offside
South Korea's JeonjuInternational Film Festival (JIFF) has announced the line-up of its seventhedition (April 27 - May 5), which kicks off with Iranian director Jafar Panahi'sOffside, about a female soccer fan, makingits Asian premiere after winning the Berlinale Silver Bear this year.JIFF's closing film will bethe world premiere of Korea-Japan ...
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Troma clips headed for mobile phones
Zone Vision Network's ZoneMobile has struck a deal with Juice Mobile and Lloyd Kaufman's Troma Films to distribute film clips through mobiledevices. The clips will beavailable starting in mid-April through Zone's new Horror Channel WAP site. The deal will offer Troma clips that are under two minutes. "Zone Visioncontinues to ...