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Rotunda starts crime shoot in UK second city
UK production company Rotunda Films will start shooting this weekfor Lycanthropy, a feature film set in Birmingham.Kevin McDonagh (Open Window, Idol of Evil) iswriting, directing, and producing, with David Beaumont executive producing andserving as cinematographer. ITN Distribution are handling pre-sales and arelaunching the project during this week's AFM.The producers ...
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Rizvi, Merrill Lynch finance recapitalisation of ICM
US talent agency ICM has recapitalized as part of its expansionstrategy in a deal financed by Connecticut investor Suhail Rizvi's RizviTraverse Management and Merrill Lynch's Asset Based Finance Group.Terms of the deal remain confidential. What is known, however, is thatthe deal will allow agency chief Jeff Berg to develop ICM's ...
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Horizon sources new supplier in Stadium
Rob Straight's Vancouver-based Horizon Entertainment has signed a dealwith Randy Purcell's Stadium Entertainment under which the partners will bringfour to six new pictures to world markets in 2006.The alliance will announce in due course their upcoming roster of English-languagetitles and promise pictures with worldwide appeal, name cast and globallyrecognisable directors.Horizon ...
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Indie thriller shoots in Oxford and London
UK-based Cat's Paw Productions hasstarted production on low-budget independent film Framed on location in Oxfordand around London. Shooting started on September 28 and will continue throughNovember 6. Jon Kirby (Jack of Diamonds,Requiem)is directing, with Crispin Manson and Matthew Stradling producing and Stephan Evans(Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Mother) ...
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Indie thriller shoots in Oxford and London
UK-based Cat's Paw Productions hasstarted production on low-budget independent film Framed on location in Oxfordand around London. Shooting started on September 28 and will continue throughNovember 6. Jon Kirby (Jack of Diamonds,Requiem)is directing, with Crispin Manson and Matthew Stradling producing and Stephan Evans(Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Mother) executive ...
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Scorsese, Kiarostami to teach workshops in Morocco
Martin Scorsese and Abbas Kiarostami will teach filmmakingworkshops in Morocco as part of an educational initiative between the TribecaFilm Institute and the Marrakech International Film Festival Foundation.Sixteen Moroccan and New York film students will participate inthe Marrakech/Tribeca Filmmaker Exchange set to take place from Nov 6-20 inconjunction with the fifth ...
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Foreign sales begin to dominate thinking for Korean producers
A seriesof hits have helped home-grown titles to a 58% share of the South Korea this year but Screendaily's latest production listings shows the growing importance of the international market.Squeezedprofits are forcing producers to rely on foreign sales in a way that is beginning to have a clear effect.The most ...
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Mexican star hits out at Hollywood stereotyping
Leading Mexicanactor Gael Garcia Bernal has attacked what he says is Hollywood stereotyping of Latin America.Speaking atThe Times London Film Festival in London, the star of The Motorcycle Diaries, said there seemed to be two roles forHispanic people: "the bad guy" and "the good Latino from the slums."The26-year-old, who came ...
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Film Council increases UK sales support at AFM
The UKFilm Council US is doubling its support for start-up and smaller independentsales companies at this year's AFM.The movewill allow many companies to exhibit there for the first time and others tocontinue their push to international buyers.Underthe single banner of the UKFCUS export office: Carnaby International, CentreFilm Sales, Cross Day ...
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Media Luna adds dance doc to AFM slate
Onthe eve of the AFM, Cologne-based sales company Media Luna has added ArneBirkenstock's documentary 12 Tangos -Adios Buenos Aires to its market line-up.Producedby Fruitmarket - Kultur undMedien and TradewindPictures, 12 Tangos follows the livesof several tango dancers in crisis-ridden Buenos Aires where the dance wasoriginally created by European immigrants.Theacquisition by ...
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Bedside manner earns Bize the Golden Spike
Chilean-Germanco-production In Bed scooped the Golden Spikeaward at the 50thanniversary edition of Spain's Valladolid International Film Festival.DirectorMatias Bize's film (En La Cama) turns on two strangerswho meet, decide to rent a hotel room for a tryst, then unexpectedly spend therest of the night talking. Thefilm picked up the top prize ...
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Toronto says $44m in sales achieved at 2005 film festival
The Toronto International Film Festival says an estimated $44m(C$52m) changed hands as a result of buying and selling at this year's event,including $24.5m in North American deals and $19.5m in international deals fromterritories such as the UK, Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, and Spain. The record sum, based on estimates from ...
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Dimension picks up 2929 remake Black Christmas
Dimension Films has swoopedon US rights to 2929 Productions' remake of the 1974 horror thriller BlackChristmas, which will be made byJames Wong and Glen Morgan, the filmmaking team behind Final Destination and The One. 2929 International will becommence pre-sales at AFM on the project, which is scheduled to beginproduction in ...
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ContentFilm chairman talks up restructured company at AGM
ContentFilm chairman Alton Irbysaid that the company has seen at "encouraging results" after its acquisitionof the Fireworks International library and restructuring. Since the Fireworksdeal closed in July, that TV and film library has generated $10 million in cashflow and $4.5 in new contractual sales. Speaking at the company's annualgeneral meeting, ...
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Weinstein Co creates multi-year marketing alliance with L'Oreal
The Weinstein Company hasentered into a multi-year marketing alliance with L'Oreal Paris that paves theway for a raft of product placement and promotional opportunities. L'Oreal's makeup and hairteams will support all promotion of titles on The Weinstein Company slate, andthe cosmetic brand will be the official exclusive beauty sponsor of ...
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Trio of German stars joins cast of Amiel's Angel Makers
Germanstars Daniel Bruhl and Benno Furmann - who both appear in ChristianCarion's French foreign language Oscar entry Merry Christmas - and Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run, DasExperiment) have joined the cast ofJon Amiel's Angel Makers. FilmBridge International is handling worldwide distribution on the picture, whichas previously announced stars Helen Mirren, ...
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Avant-garde focus for Rotterdam programme
A retrospective of the workof two of the world's most challenging film-makers, Stephen Dwoskinand Nagasaki Shunichi, will be among the highlights of the 35th edition of theInternational Film Festival Rotterdam.The focus on London-based Dwoskin coincides with the launch of a 14-film DVD boxset of his work, while Shunichi is hoping ...
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Bac picks up French rights to Shortbus from Fortissimo
Bac Films has acquired JohnCameron Mitchell's Shortbus forFrench distribution. The deal was announced this week by Fortissimo Films. Shortbus is the long-awaited follow up to Mitchell'scritically acclaimed 2001 hit Hedwig And The Angry Inch. The film revolves around the lives of threesexually diverse characters, each facing different challenges, who meet ...
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Seidelman to embark on black comedy That Loving Feeling
Susan Seidelman, whose latestdrama Boynton Beach Bereavement Club recently had its world premiere at the Hamptons International FilmFestival, is to direct the black comedy That Loving Feeling. Seidelman with reunite withher Boynton Beach Bereavement Club screenwriterJonathan Brett on the story of a mild-mannered Manhattan dentist whose plan tokill his wife ...
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Newman named executive director of National Board Of Review
Eileen Newman has been namedexecutive director of the National Board of Review, which traditionally kicksoff the awards season and will announce its winners on Dec 6. Newman most recently servedas senior director of programming at IFP/New York and will work closely withthe board of directors in all matter, specifically in ...