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Sapadin named business affairs vp at KOCH
Lawrence Sapadin has been named vice president of business affairsfor KOCH Vision, KOCH Lorber Films, and KOCH Entertainment Distribution.Sapadin will primarily be responsible for overseeing all legalmatters and negotiations involving acquisitions, licensing and digital distributionfor each of the companies.Based at KOCH's distribution headquarters in Port Washington, New York,Sapadin will report ...
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NYC's Lincoln Centre launches Kieslowski retrospective a decade after his death
New York's Film Society of Lincoln Centre will present acelebration of Krzysztof Kieslowski on the 10th anniversary of his death.A Road Map Of The Soul: The Complete Kieslowski will feature a near-completeretrospective from Apr 5-23 and will include a roundtable discussion on workingwith Kieslowski on Apr 9.The retrospective will include ...
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Elephant Tales, Lassie, RV among family titles at Tribeca.
The world premiere of Mario Andreacchio's Elephant Tales, as well as Charles Sturridge's Lassie, DreamWorks Animation comedy Over TheHedge, and BarrySonnenfeld's RV areamong the Tribeca Family Festival screenings next month.The line-up of 15 features and four shorts programmes includes anew section, T4Teens geared towards young adults. The Family Festival will ...
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Universal's Inside Man arrives in Germany, UK, Brazil
Fox International will be looking to keep The Pink Panther in the number one international slotthis weekend with a major launch in Italy.The comedy remake is set to open on Mar 24 on 367 prints and todate the picture has amassed more than $50m.Date Movie,currently on $17.8m, goes out in ...
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Sundance buys eight-screen theatre in San Francisco
Sundance Cinemas has signed a purchase agreement with AMC Theatresto acquire the Kabuki 8 Theatre in San Francisco.Sundance Cinemas anticipates a late April takeover of theproperty, which will undergo a significant facelift following the San FranciscoInternational Film Festival, with plans to re-open in early autumn 06 as theSundance Kabuki.The announcement ...
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Malkovich joins Jane in Mutant Chronicles
John Malkovichwill join Thomas Jane in Ed Pressman's sci-fi adaptation of hit board game TheMutant Chronicles.Simon Hunter isdirecting from a screenplay by Philip Eisner set in the 23rd century in whichcorporations have ravaged the planet's resources, leaving humans and mutants tofight it out for the scraps.Malkovich willplay the omnipotent head ...
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Smoking team signs first look deal with Searchlight
Hot on the heels of the storming opening of Thank You ForSmoking, director JasonReitman and producing partner Daniel Dubiecki of Hard C have signed a two-yearfirst-look deal with Fox Searchlight Pictures.Reitman and Dubiecki want Hard C to become a "subversive"home base for their projects in development as well as a ...
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Icon, Infinity sign three-picture deal
Vancouver and LA-based Infinity Features and Mel Gibson and BruceDavey's Icon Productions have signed a non-exclusive three-picture developmentand production deal.First up is the sci-fi thriller Push based on David Bourla's screenplay aboutAmerican ex-pats with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities on the run from theUS government in Beijing.Push iscurrently in a packaging ...
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THINKFilm takes worldwide rights to Fuck
THINKFilm has picked up worldwide rights to Fuck, Steve Anderson's documentary about theworld's most common expletive.Fuckrecently premiered at the South By Southwest film festival and featuresinterviews with such luminaries as Ice-T, Kevin Smith and the late Hunter SThompson and features original animation by Bill Plympton.THINKFilm plans a 2006 theatrical release ...
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Hahn's Midsummer Madness starts Latvian shoot
Alexander Hahn's Midsummer Madness (Janu Nakts) starts principal photography this weekend in Riga, Latvia. The comedy stars Dominique Pinon, Maria de Medeiros, Tobias Moretti, Orlando Wells, Birgit Minichmayr, Detlev Buck, Roland Düringer, and Gundars Abolins. Austria's Fischer Film, the UK's Steve Walsh Productions, and Latvia's Kaupo Filma are producing.EastWest ...
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Nominations announced for German Film Awards
Florian Henckelvon Donnersmarck's feature debut Das Leben Der Anderenand Hans-Christian Schmid's Berlinalecompetition film Requiem dominatedthe nominations for this year's"Lola" German Film Awards which will be presented in Berlinon May 12.Von Donnersmarck's thriller, whichBuena Vista International opened in German cinemas March 23, picked up eleven nominationsincluding Best Film, Best Direction and ...
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Haneke slams Austrian producer's body funding plans
Austria's leadinginternational filmmaker Michael Haneke (Hidden)has spoken out against proposals by the Austrian Producers Association toconcentrate public film funding on the makers of commercially successful films.Speaking at the first offour roundtables on the state of Austrian film production at this week's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema, Haneke said: "If ...
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Universal offers downloaded Kong for keeps
Universal ispartnering with DVD rental service LoveFilm tooffer UK customers a movie download-to-own service. The first release will be King Kong, which will be available for permanentdownload on April 10, to coincide with the UK street date for the DVD release. "Universal is very proud tobe the first to launch ...
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Innotz/Prime Entertainment buys Korea Entertainment
Koreanfilm conglomerate Innotz/Prime Entertainment has taken over more established productioncompany Korea Entertainment, producer of commercial hits My Tutor Friend, Mapado, and The Art ofFighting. PrimeEntertainment acquired 100% of Korea Entertainment's stocks for $15m today. Asa subsidiary of Prime Industrial group and formerly a company focusing onsoftware, Innotz had recently announced ...
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Carlos Saura's Iberia to open Guadalajara Film Festival
The 21st edition of the Guadalajara Film Festival starts FridayMarch 24 with the gala presentation of Carlos Saura'sIberia.Mexico's most establishedfestival and a major one within Latin America finds itself at aturning point as it needs to redefine its image and scope after it turned intoa fully-fledged international event last year. ...
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Sogepaq picks up international on Spanish hit
Spain'sSogepaq has picked up international rights on local box office hit The2 Sides Of The Bed.Thefilm (Los 2 Lados De La Cama) from director Emilio MartinezLazaro wasreleased in Spain by Buena Vista on December 20, 2005 andhasearned more than $8.5m (Euros 7m) to take top ranking of local films for ...
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Filmart wraps with record attendance
The tenth edition of Filmartwrapped today with the organisers reporting record attendance and delegatesagreeing that this year was the biggest and busiest yet. More than 400 companies tookbooths at the market while the number of buyers increased to almost 4,000.Meanwhile projects market, the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), ...
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Naseerruddin Shah to be honoured at Indian Film Festival of LA
Indian star Naseerruddin Shah will be honoured at the 4th IndianFilm festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA), which runs from Apr 19-23.The festival will showcase two of Shah's pictures - MonsoonWedding and TheChurning (Manthan) - and Shah will take part in a30-minute on-stage discussion on Apr 21 after The Churning.His western ...
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Mashariki named production vp at Fox Searchlight
Zola Mashariki has been promoted to vice president of productionat Fox Searchlight and will report to production chief Claudia Lewis.Mashariki joined the company as a production intern in May 2000and rose to creative executive by January 2001 and director by November 2003.Her credits include Kinsey, In America, Le Divorce and ...
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UK industry gives cautious welcome to tax changes
With the UK's new film tax credit set to go into effect April 1, the government has finally provided details about its new tax regime.Producers say there's good news and bad news in the details. Unlike its predecessors, the Section42 and Section 48 regimes, the new relief will only apply ...