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Skouras picks up US rights to Swimmers
Skouras Films has picked upUS rights to Doug Sadler's award winning drama Swimmers and plans an early 2006 release in the majormarkets.Since it launched at Sundance Swimmers has played at numerous festivals, winning the Seattle InternationalFilm Festival's grand jury prize award for best new American film.Cherry Jones, Shawn Hatosy, Robert ...
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Village Roadshow takes on December Boys...
Village Roadshow has takeninternational sales rights to DecemberBoys, the feature starring Daniel "Harry Potter" Radcliffe that goes intoproduction before the end of the year.Roadshow Film Distributors,as part of this new deal, will also co-distribute the coming-of-age dramalocally alongside Becker, which is the production company behind the film.Village Roadshow does notcommonly ...
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Daldry, Dornford-May partner on South African pics
Golden Bearwinner Mark Dornford-May (U-Carmen eKhayelitsha) and Oscar-nominated director StephenDaldry (The Hours, Billy Elliot) are to partner on a series of three new films in South Africa.The firstfeature, already in post-production, is tentatively titled Son of Man (aka Jezile). This is an extension of award winningglobal theatre success Yiimimangaliso - ...
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Brief Encounters unveils shorts festival line-up
The 11th Brief Encountersfestival in Bristol has announced a line-up of more than 200 short filmsfor this year's event, which runs November 23-27 at the Watershed Media Centre.The programme includes filmsfrom 25 countries during the five-day event. More than £10,000 will be awardedin prizes. Film highlights include MartinMcDonagh's Six Shooter, ...
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Weinsteins secure $490m equity backing
Harvey and Bob Weinsteinhave slotted into place a major piece of the financing jigsaw behind theirfledgling company with today's announcement of a $490m private placement ofequity.Ever since the brothers unveiled plans for The Weinstein Company (TWC) earlierthis year ahead of their split from Miramax, speculation has centred on theprovenance of ...
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AFC appoints Fitchett as acting development chief
The Australian FilmCommission (AFC) has announced that it won't appoint anyone to the influentialposition of director of film development until early next year and hasappointed two people to fill the gap until then. Independent writer/producerChris Fitchett will act in the role from October 31, and Lori Flekser, aproject manager at ...
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Focus hires Timothy Collins as vp business affairs
TimothyCollins has joined Focus Features as vice president of business affairs,effective immediately.Collins will be based in Los Angeles and his duties will include negotiatingtalent deals for Focus and Rogue titles. He reports to Focus' senior vice presidentof business affairs Howard Meyers.He most recently served as MGM's director of businessaffairs and ...
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Stop motion animation rules international box office
Fired by seven openings and a strong UK hold, DreamWorksInternational's Wallace & Gromit added an estimated $15.8m on 3,72 sites in 32 marketsthrough UIP over the weekend for a $63.7m international running total.Aardman's animated romp dropped a mere 31% in its secondweekend in the UK to stay top on $8m ...
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Disney signs up to Cinea's anti-piracy plan
Heralding a significantdevelopment on the awards season horizon, Disney has become the first US majorto adopt Cinea's anti-piracy technology.The studio will send out itsscreener DVDs for awards contenders Shopgirl and The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The WitchAnd The Wardrobe on discs encryptedby Cinea.The discs can only beplayed on Cinea's ...
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Forsaken Land wins top prize in Bangkok
The Forsaken Land, from Sri Lankan director Vimukthi Jayasundara, picked up the bestpicture award at the 3rd World Film Festival of Bangkok on Sunday night (Oct 23).The best script award wentto Peruvian feature Days Of Santiago,directed by Josue Mendez, while best art direction went to Russian directorIlya Khrzhanovsky's 4. The ...
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Irish industry bolstered by flurry of winter shoots
The Irish production sectorhas experienced its most difficult year since its resurgence in 1993 - but the hopenow is that a flurry of year-end shoots will help remove some of the tarnish.Several live-action featureprojects are set to go before the camera in the next couple of months, amongthem The Front ...
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Nina's Heavenly Delights cranks up in Glasgow
ScionFilms and Priority Pictures have announced the start of production on Nina's Heavenly Delights. The filmstarted shooting October 3 in Glasgow. Nina's Heavenly Delights marks the feature filmdebut for director Pratibha Parmar,who also is producing the film. Andrea Gibb (Afterlife, Dear Frankie)wrote the script, about a Glaswegian family running an ...
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Video Island extends rental deal with Tesco
Online DVD rental service Video Island has extended its partnership with UK retailer Tesco.com for at least two more years. Tesco.com launched its DVDrental service, which is powered by Video Island, in March 2004. The extended partnershipalso covers digital downloading of filmed entertainment content and other newinitiatives.Video Island runs the ...
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MPA fears UNESCO ruling may lead to film quotas
The 15th annual Beaune Film Forum wrapped on Sunday after aweekend rife with discussion and debate surrounding Thursday's UNESCO vote onthe Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of CulturalExpressions.The UNESCO decision, opposed by only the United States and Israel, givesmember states the ability to promote and ...
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Fortissimo takes on world sales for House Of Sand
Fortissimo Films is to handleworld sales outside of Brazil and North America for Conspiracao Filmes' The House Of Sand,directed by award winning Brazilian director AndruchaWaddington. Waddington's Me You Them won a Special Mention in theUn Certain Regard sidebar of the Cannes film festival in 2000 and the CrystalGlobe at Karlovy ...
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Village Skycity takes control of the Embassy
New Zealand's largest cinema circuit, Village Skycity Cinemas,has taken over management of the country's grandest picture palace, TheEmbassy, in a first step towards giving the chain a mainstream presence in Wellington.The Embassy had a majorrefurbishment in the lead-up to its hosting of the world premiere of The Lord Of The ...
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Fastest Indian shines at home and keeps selling
NZ Film has just signed overSpanish and French rights to The World'sFastest Indian to Alta and Rezo respectively, as the film has topped theNew Zealand chart in its first week of release with $542,000 (NZ$775,375), fivetimes more than nearest rival Dark Water.Kathleen Drumm, NZ Film headof sales and marketing, told ...
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Weinsteins appoint Deep Focus as online media planner
MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Location: file:///C:/50991B13/deepfocus.htmContent-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableContent-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"The Weinstein Company= hassigned Deep Focus as its online agency of record, overseeing all of thecompany's online media planning and buying, creative advertising, andpublic relations.Deep Focus chief executive officer Ian Schafer previously served as vicepresident of new media at Miramax and Dimension Films from 1999 ...
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Doom blazes to the top in slow weekend
Universal's video gameadaptation Doom met with futileresistance as it smashed its way to the top of the charts on an estimated$15.4m in a weekend that saw ticket sales plunge for the fourth consecutive weekend.Andrzej Bartkowiak directedthe high-octane story in which Karl Urban and The Rock lead a Marine unit on ...
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Deep Focus named Weinstein Co online media strategist
The Weinstein Company hassigned Deep Focus as its online agency of record, overseeing all of the company's online media planning and buying, creative advertising, and public relations.Deep Focus chief executive officer Ian Schafer previously served as vice president of new media at Miramax and Dimension Films from 1999 to 2002.The ...