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New Vancouver producer Irreverent begins first feature Gay Like Me
Newly-formed Vancouver-based development and production company IrreverentMedia is preparing to begin shooting in spring on its first feature, the suburbanmockumentary Gay Like Me.THINKFilm has acquiredCanadian rights on the $3.4m project, which was developed with the support of BCFilm and Movie Central. The producers expect to close out financing in Berlin.Michael ...
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Miramax seals third big deal of Sundance with Night Listener
Miramax Films has made it first Sundance acquisition under theDaniel Battsek regime, paying in the region of $3m for North American rights toPatrick Stettner's Armistead Maupin adaptation The Night Listener."Night Listener is a smart thriller with commercial appeal that is bothfascinating and topical and fits perfectly with Miramax's intention todistribute ...
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Branagh's Magic Flute starts shooting at Shepperton
Principal photography got underway on Jan 19 at Shepperton Studiosoutside London on Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute.Conceived and directed byBranagh, the $27m production features a newly-adapted libretto by Stephen Fryand takes place on the eve of the first world war as a pair of lovers hold thedestiny ...
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Paltrow, Wigmore sign deal with Moxie to direct commercials, music videos
Gwyneth Paltrow and Mary Wigmore have signed an exclusive dealwith Moxie Pictures to co-direct commercials and music videos.The move follows the Sundance premiere of their short film Dealbreaker, which is causing a buzz here in theshorts programme."We look forward to working with such talented filmmakers notonly here in the US ...
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UK distributors start spending at Sundance
UK deals dominated Sundancetoday [Tuesday] as the BBC announced it had bought Kirby Dick's documentary ThisFilm Is Not Yet Rated, Momentumpicked up Jody Hill's comedy The Foot Fist Way, and Pathe UK took Luc Jacquet's upcoming The Fox& The Child.The BBC will air ThisFilm Is Not Yet Rated to UKaudiences ...
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FACT battles DVD piracy in Glasgow, London
FACT, the UK's Federation Against CopyrightTheft, announced that a police raid on a Glasgow flat has closed the largest illegal DVDdistribution facility discovered in Scotland to date. More than 25,000 DVDs were seized.Strathclyde Police arrested a manfor allegedly selling illegal DVDs on the street, and then discovered thefacility based on ...
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French Critics' Syndicate selects the best films for 2005
The French Critics' Syndicate has named Jacques Audiard's The BeatThat My Heart Skipped as best film of 2005. The lauded film, a remake ofJames Toback's 1978 Fingers, is currently up for a BAFTA award as best foreign film.Created in 1946, the Critics' prize is overseen by the samegroup that organizes ...
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Brazil to keep the same screen quota system from 2005
The Brazilian National Cinema Agency(Ancine), an organ of the Ministry of Culture, will keep the screen quotasystem in place to protect local production against Hollywood hegemony in 2006.The system will ensure that a local film theatre with one single screen showsBrazilian movies for at least 35 days of the year ...
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Luxembourg and Austria sign co-production treaty
Collaborationbetween the Austrian and Luxembourg film and televisionindustries has been given amajor boost with the signing of aco-production treaty between the two countries.Theagreement will recognise films made under the auspices of the treaty asnational films and will allow Austrian and Luxembourg co-producers to benefitfrom all of the incentives available to ...
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Alliance Atlantis sign Weinstein Company films till 2009
The Weinstein Company and AllianceAtlantis Motion Picture Distribution (MPD) LP have signed an exclusive 80picture, multi-year distribution agreement anticipated to run through 2009. Under the deal, MPD willdistribute all films released by the Weinstein Company and Dimension Films. Thepact re-establishes the 12-year relationship of Alliance Atlantis and theWeinstein brothers during ...
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IFC launches 24 films for simultaneous theatrical/cable release
As 2929 Entertainment prepares to launch its experimentalday-and-date release of Steven Soderbergh's hi-def picture Bubble this week, IFC has entered the fray witha similar initiative.This year the New York-based company plans to simultaneouslyrelease in theatres and on cable 24 pictures that would typically struggle inthe cut-throat and overcrowded world of ...
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Picturehouse buys North America on Pan's Labyrinth
Picturehouse has picked up allNorth American rights to Guillermo del Toro's dark fairytale Pan's Labyrinth.Set in 1944 rural Spainduring Franco's facist regime, the story centres on the young daughter of anofficer who concocts an imaginary world to deal with the realities of post-warrepression. Mirabel Verdu, Sergi Lopez, Ivana Baquero and ...
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Kacandes joins Paramount specialty arm as head of physical production
Producer Georgia Kacandeshas joined John Lesher's new-look Paramount specialty division as executivevice president of physical production.Kacandes, who is currentlyserving as executive producer on New Line's Jack Black comedy Tenacious D InThe Pick Of Destiny, will overseeall aspects physical production and report directly to Lesher."I have known Georgiafor many years and ...
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Weinstein Co takes English-speaking world on Factory Girl
The Weinstein Company hasacquired North American, UK, Australian, New Zealand, and South African rightsfrom L.I.F.T. Productions to George Hickenlooper's Edie Sedgwik biopic FactoryGirl.The picture is currently inproduction in Shreveport, Louisiana, and is being financed by L.I.F.T. andproduced by Holly Wiersma and Aaron Richard Golub.J Malcolm Petal, Kimberly CAnderson and Morris ...
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Fortissimo picks up international rights to Kirby Dick doc
Fortissimo Films has pickedup worldwide rights excluding the US to Kirby Dick's film ratings documentary ThisFilm Is Not Yet Rated, whichreceives its world premiere at Sundance this week.The Independent Film Channel(IFC) production explores the MPAA's ratings system and asks whether it favoursaffiliated studios. The ratings system's wildly divergent attitudes over ...
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Megabox finds new backer following Loews pullout
Major Korean multiplex chainMegabox has secured investment from the private equity arm of StandardChartered Bank which has acquired a 45% stake in the company for $73m. The deal follows anagreement reached last month for former Megabox shareholder, US exhibitor Loews Cineplex, to sell its 50% stake inthe company for $79m ...
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Pioneering film competition to encourage use of new technologies
Screen International is holding a pioneeringfilmmaking competition at its Cinema Next conference on February 3rd.Three filmmaking teams will take part in The Cinema Next Mini-Movie Competitionwhere they will use mobile phone cameras to produce short films which will be shot,edited and screened at this London-based conference. The teams will be ...
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Israeli-Palestinian consortium joins forces to promote docs
The Israelis and Palestinians are about to join forces in arare alliance, on a project entitled Greenhouse, whose purpose is to train andcoach promising documentary filmmakers in the Mediterranean region. Originally initiated by David Fisher at theNew Foundation for Cinema and Television (NFCT) in Tel Aviv, and Adam Zouabi, the ...
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The Works gets on board Winterbottom's new film
London-based sales company The WorksInternational has acquired the international sales rights to Michael Winterbottom's TheRoad to Guantanamo, which will premiere incompetition at the Berlin Film Festival.The film is based on the true storyof four British men who travel from the UK to Pakistan to attend a wedding, just after 9/11. ...
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Foreign shoots brought $243m to France in 2005
Foreignfilm production in France for 2005 brought in $243m (Euros 200m) last year, accordingto Film France. RonHoward's Cannes opener The Da Vinci Codeand Sofia Coppola's Marie-Antoinettewere among major contributors to the figures.FilmFrance also announced that France's Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region (PACA) wasthe prime shooting location for foreign and local productions. In ...