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Warner's Factory opens in Italy, closes in on $200m
With no realistic contender in sight Charlie And The ChocolateFactory looks set tocontinue ruling international waters as it bears down on $200m.The family picture launches inItaly on Sept 23 through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI); it currentlystands at more than $180.3m including Roadshow territories.Warner stablemate Dukes Of Hazard opens in ...
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Orr joins Independent Film Sales in charge of acquisitions
Andrew Orr has joinedLondon-based Independent Film Sales as the executive in charge of acquisitionsand business affairs. Orr previously held asimilar position at The Works, where he worked on films including Bend ItLike Beckham, Whale Rider, and MySummer of Love. Luc Roeg and Ana Ayesta headIndependent Film Sales, which is affiliated ...
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Gregorian gets evp stripes at Warner Bros TV Group
Lisa Gregorian (pictured), a Warner Bros veteran of 19years, has been appointed to the new role of executive vice president ofworldwide marketing at Warner Bros Television Group.Gregorian willwork with the studio's internal television marketing teams and televisionnetworks and stations worldwide to maximise promotional opportunities forstudio properties.Her marketingteam will support and ...
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Swiss select Hiver as Oscar candidate
Greg Zglinski's featuredebut Tout Un Hiver Sans Feu hasbeen selected as Switzerland's entry for the race for the Foreign LanguageOscar.According toSwitzerland's Federal Office for Culture (BAK), Zglinski's film was chosen"for its broad cinematic staying power, its universally valid language,its sensitive mise-en-scene, its convincing screenplay and its cinematographywhich conveys a wonderful ...
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Glickman names Pisano COO and president of MPAA
Former SAG chief executiveofficer and top studio executive Robert Pisano has been named chief operatingofficer and president of the MPAA.From Oct 1 Pisano willassume daily operating responsibility for all domestic and international MPAAoperations other than Washington DC-based external and governmental affairs.Based in the MPAA's LosAngeles offices, he will report to ...
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UK MEDIA Desk organises co-production forum
The UK MEDIA Desk, withsupport from the UK Film Council and the EU's MEDIA Programme, is organising aco-production forum to be held during the London Film Festival. The one-daysummit, entitled Co-production Express, will be held October 25.The programme will offercase studies of recent UK-European co-productions Dear Wendy, Only Human,Merry Christmas, ...
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Miramax veteran Dickinson to head PMK/HBH London
Influential publicity firmPMK/HBH has announced that James Dickinson will head its new London office.Dickinson had been Director of International Publicity at MiramaxInternational, a post he departs today.Dickinson will start his newjob as VP, Group Account Director at PMK/HBH's London office on October 3. Hewill be charged with establishing the London ...
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Narnia set for royal world premiere in London
TheChronicles of Narnia: The Lion,The Witch and The Wardrobe is tohave its world premiere in London on December7 as the 2005 Royal Film Performance in aid of theCinema and Television Benevolent Fund.The film will screen in thepresence of HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchessof Cornwall at the Royal ...
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Revolver snags UK rights to 13, Ballets Russes
UK distributor RevolverEntertainment has acquired all UK and Ireland rights to Gela Babluani's debutfeature 13 (Tzameti), as well as all UK and Ireland rights to DaynaGoldfine and Dan Geller's Ballets Russes,a US documentary about the 20th-century dance troupe.Revolver plans a December 2UK release for 13 and a February release for ...
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Spain's Alta snaps up Gravehopping
Spain's Alta Films hasjumped in to take Gravehopping on the day of its world premiere incompetition at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.Gravehopping, produced bySlovenia's Staragara, was directed by Jan Cvitkovic, whose Bread And Milkwon Cvitkovic the Golden Lion Of The Future at Venice in 2001. Gravehopping isthe Slovenian director's ...
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Sarandon, Howard to receive career awards at Chicago in Oct
Susan Sarandon will collect the Gold Hugo Award at the 41stChicago International Film Festival's opening night screening of Cameron Crowe'sElizabethtown on Oct6.Sarandon won the best actressAcademy Award in 1996 for Dead Man Walking,and earned nominations for Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo's Oil, TheClient, and Atlantic City.Elizabethtown opens through Paramount in North ...
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Golden Horse to kickstart strong Chinese film awards season
While film industries aroundthe globe are busy selecting their foreign-language Oscar entries, the Chinesefilm awards season got underway this week with submissions for Taiwan's GoldenHorse, which claims to be the leading awards ceremony for Chinese-language film.Reflecting what has been arelatively strong year for Chinese cinema, the submissions include severalhigh-profile titles ...
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Ballroom, Enron, Murderball named on IDA shortlist
Thirteen features will compete for the 21st Annual InternationalDocumentary Association Awards, including box office hit Mad Hot Ballroom, and hot theatrical titles Murderball, Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room and Why We Fight.Two features from the shortlistwill be chosen for top honours when the winners are unveiled at the ...
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Vertigo gets Cock & Bull Story for Spain
Vertigo Films has picked up Spanish rights from The Works toMichael Winterbottom's comedy A Cock & Bull Story starring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon andGillian Anderson.The film-about-a-film recently screened at Toronto and SanSebastian. It marks the fourth collaboration between Vertigo and Winterbottom followingButterfly Kiss, 24 Hour Party People and In This ...
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IFP sets up training programme for independent film in New York City
New York-based film collective IFP is teaming up with the New YorkCity Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting and NYC BusinessSolutions to set up a workforce training pilot programme.The Independent Film Training Grant Initiative will offeron-the-job training to freelance workers on independent productions and offerproduction companies grants to offset ...
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Singapore exhibition market opens up
Singapore's box office is set for a shake-up following an openingup of the exhibition market which allows films to be played on more screensthan ever before.Until recently, filmsacquired by local exhibitor-cum-distributor Cathay had been excluded from the cinema circuits operated by its rivals Shaw,Golden Village and Eng Wah. Thanks to ...
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Forbidden winner of San Seb's In Progress prize
Brazil's EProibido Proibir (Forbidden To Forbid) has won the Films In Progress 8(Cine En Construccion) award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival,a prize which carries over Euros $400,000 in completion funding.Directed byJorge Duran, Forbidden was one of seven finalists selected out of 60entries to screen in front of industry ...
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Polychrome, Sundance pick up US rights to Love, Ludlow
Polychrome Pictures has picked up North American home video andcable and Sundance Channel has acquired pay cable rights from Washington SquareFilms to Adrienne Weiss' comedy Love, Ludlow.Polychrome is a joint venturebetween New York-based Lightyear Entertainment and Los Angeles-based BellaVicEntertainment, and the picture will be released in North America in December ...
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Arclight picks up Aussie war story
Arclight Films has boarded anuntitled war story about Australian soldiers in Papua New Guinea during World War II, which gives former Film FinanceCorporation Australia (FFC) head Catriona Hughes her first credit as producer.The film, which startsshooting on September 30, also marks the feature debut of director AlisterGrierson, whose short film ...
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Vinterberg to return Home to Dogme roots
Dear Wendy directorThomas Vinterberg is set to return to his Dogme roots with A Man Comes Home,a new project due to shoot in Denmark next spring.Vinterbergis billing the film, which will be made through production company Nimbus, as"a tragic love story but in an uplifting party surrounding...it will be inthe ...