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Bergstein, Tutor buy Capitol as core of ambitious group
The three owners ofLondon-based Capitol Films - Sharon Harel, Jane Barclay and Hannah Leader -have announced that their long-in-the-works sale of Capitol to LA-basedentrepreneurs David Bergstein and Ronald N Tutor has been completed. Bergstein and Tutor now haveambitious plans to form an international entertainment group which will becalled Capitol with ...
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IFC takes North American rights to Hamer's Factotum
IFC Films has picked up all North American rights to Bent Hamer'sCharles Bukowski adaptation Factotum, which had originally been bought after its Cannes worldpremiere by Picturehouse but which was returned to the market last week.The picture, which screened at Sundance this weekend, has earnedMatt Dillon plaudits for his portrayal of ...
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Sundance launches arthouse anniversary initiative
The Sundance Institute has launched The Sundance Institute ArtHouse, a partnership with national arthouse theatres that will screen filmsfrom the festival past and present as part of the year-long celebration of theInstitute's 25th anniversary.14 theatres in cities ranging from Orlando, Florida, to Nashville,Tennessee, and Bellingham, Washington, are among those that ...
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Penguins director Jacquet announces Fox movie
Luc Jacquet has announced in Sundance what his next film will beafter his worldwide documentary smash March Of The Penguins - a narrative-documentaryhybrid with the working title The Fox And The Child.Filming on the Euros11m project is scheduled to run from March2006 to March 2007 in France, Italy and Romania ...
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Narnia leads international box office for fifth weekend
The Chronicles Of Narnia extended its international supremacy to a fifth consecutiveweekend as it added an estimated $13.3m through Buena Vista International (BVI)to raise the running total to $342.6m.Boasting a worldwide total just shy of $614m, Narnia currently ranks as the 27th biggest filmof all time after it overtook The ...
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Sony Classics swoops on Russian Oscar entry The Italian
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has picked up North American rightsfrom Lenfilm to Andrei Kravchuk's feature directorial debut and Russian 2006 submissionfor the foreign language Oscar The Italian.Set in 1942, The Italian charts a five-year-old orphan's efforts to avoid adoption byan Italian family as he tries in vain to locate his ...
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Sundance wakes up with Sleep, Tired deals
In the second major acquisition at this year's Sundance, WarnerIndependent Pictures has paid $6m for North American and UK rights to Michel Gondry's surreal romance The Science Of Sleep.WiP chief Mark Gill and his team swooped after the French-producedpicture's world premiere here on Sunday night, which drew rapturousapplause for attending ...
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Screen Gems tops US with Underworld sequel
The Sony stable enjoyed an excellent weekend at the North Americanbox office as Screen Gems' supernatural sequel Underworld: Evolution romped to the top of the charts andColumbia's Fun With Dick And Jane crossed $100m in its fifth weekend.Underworld: Evolution opened number one far ahead of the competition on an estimated$27.6m, ...
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Korean conglomerate acquires LJ Film
Korean conglomerate Prime Industrialhas acquired Seoul-based production company LJ Film in a move to expand intothe entertainment sector. LJ Film is reportedlyexchanging $18.1m in stocks with Innotz, a subsidiary of major Korean softwarefirm Haansoft, which in turn belongs to the Prime corporation. Prime - which has corebusinesses in development and ...
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Warner Bros goes west with Sichuan partnership
Warner Bros InternationalCinemas (WBIC) is expanding into the mid-south and southwest corners of China through a strategic partnership with Sichuan PacificCinema Circuit, one of the leading circuits under China Film Group. The two partners will makejoint efforts to explore this region of China which is relatively undeveloped compared to thewealthier ...
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Global growth cheers French cinema at Rendez-Vous
Audiences for French films around the world grew 49% year-on-year in 2005, led by March Of The Penguins in the US, according to figures revealed at the 8th annual French FilmRendez-Vous in Paris.Themarket, which closed yesterday, heard that French films had been seen by 73.6 million internationalcinema-goers, generating $448m(Euros 369m). ...
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THINKFilm strikes US marketing partnership with MySpace.com for Beastie Boys doc
North American distributorTHINKFilm is partnering with the online lifestyle portal MySpace.com to promoteits upcoming Beastie Boys concert film Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That.The process began prior toSundance, when MySpace users were invited to make a music video for one of twoBeastie Boys songs - "Sabotage" and "Shake Your Rump". The ...
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Da Vinci Code to open Cannes
RonHoward's The Da Vinci Code has been selected to open the 59th Cannes Film Festivalthis May, where it will be presented out of competition. Organisersannounced the news on Saturday in Paris, where some of the film's crucialscenes were shot.StarringTom Hanks as a Harvard professor who gets embroiled in a murder ...
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Sundance deals heat up with a ray of Sunshine
In the first big play ofSundance 2006 Fox Searchlight has taken worldwide rights to Little MissSunshine in a deal believed to be inthe region of $10.5m.The deal is also reported, by the New York Times, to have given the participants 10% of all gross revenues on the film, a total ...
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Potente debut among dozen surprises in German sidebar
Billed as "a surprise package of recent German cinema", the first films in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme include the directorial debut of Franka Potente, the German actress who became an international star on the back of Run Lola Run and The Bourne Identity and its sequel. Celebrating its fifth ...
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Britdoc provides support for Sundance doc Black Gold
Britdoc, the Channel 4Documentary Film Foundation, is providing completion and marketing funding forthe documentary Black Gold, directedby Nick and Marc Francis.Black Gold looks at the global economy through the story of hugely profitablemultinational coffee companies and the coffee farmers in some of the world'spoorest countries such as Ethiopia. The marketing ...
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Berlinale Forum list is finalised
Originalityand innovative strength are the keywords at this year's edition of the Berlinale's Forum programme which will focus on directorialdebuts by young filmmakers.Amongthe strikingly original debuts are Fujiwara Toshi'snarrative experiment We Can't Go HomeAgain, Khalo Matabane'sgenre-bending documentary Conversationson a Sunday Afternoon and Laura Poitras' on-the spot political film My Country, ...
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Berlinale Forum list is finalised
Originalityand innovative strength are the keywords at this year's edition of the Berlinale's Forum programme which will focus on directorialdebuts by young filmmakers.Amongthe strikingly original debuts are Fujiwara Toshi'snarrative experiment We Can't Go HomeAgain, Khalo Matabane'sgenre-bending documentary Conversationson a Sunday Afternoon and Ben Hopkins ethnographic documentary with ...
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Bavaria Film International adds to sales slate
Bavaria Film International has added five new Germanlanguage titles to its sales slate, all of which will be having their worldpremieres at the Berlin filmfestival next month.Three of the films TheFree Will, Requiem and Slummingwill be presented in Competition. Matthias Glasner's The Free Will (Der Freie Wille), starring Juergen Vogel ...
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Malaysian box office reaches record high
Malaysia's box office revenues grew by 21.5% to hit $64.87m(RM243.63m) in 2005, making it the biggest year ever in the territory's boxoffice history. Last year was also thefourth year in a row that Malaysia enjoyed double-digit growth. An average of 20.5% perannum growth was recorded over the three years from ...