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High Point takes on sales for French pair
London based High PointFilms have taken on international sales for French language titles, Montreal competitor Miss Montigny and Julie Depardieu starring Moon on the Snow.Starring Cesar nomineeSophie Quinton, Miss Montigny isthe first feature for documentary director Miel van Hoogenbemt. It tells thestory of a 19-year-old girl who is coerced into ...
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The Island swims past $100m in international
The Island crossed $100m through Warner Bros PicturesInternational (WBPI) following an estimated $9.7m weekend haul on more than4,500 screens in 48 markets that raised the running total to $101.6m. The picture was expected torank number one in Italy on $1.7m including previews and 216,700 admissionsfrom 332 screens.It also opened top ...
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Film Source hires Jordon as director of acquisitions
Alex Massis' Florida-basedsales outfit The Film Source has hired independent filmmaker Edward Jordon asdirector of acquisitions."My role at the Film Sourceis to provide the company with topnotch product that will first demand and thencommand the attention of our international buyers," Jordon said."I am searching for allthose undiscovered gems that haven't ...
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Grimm opens well, but Virgin rules domestic box office
Universal's comedy The40-Year-Old Virgin held on to topspot over the weekend as it stayed marginally ahead of a solid debut byDimension's The Brothers Grimm,the latest picture to issue from Miramax's end-of-term conveyor belt. The only other opener in thetop 10 was Screen Gems' The Cavein sixth place, as overall box ...
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The Suspect impresses at Japanese box office
The Suspect, the fourth in the series of films that startedwith the massive local hit Bayside Shakedown, had an impressive opening at the Japanese box office overthe weekend.The Fuji TV film, aboutthe inner workings of the Tokyo police, finished its opening weekend (August 27to 28) with a gross of $5,859,026 ...
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Lambert signs on for vampire western Midnight
Mary Lambert has signed onto direct the vampire-western High Midnight for Beverly Hills-based production company TreasureEntertainment.Denis Faye's screenplaycentres on a down-at-heel sheriff who is forced to team up with a vampirehunter to stop an undead force from consuming a frontier town in 1892 NewMexico.Treasure co-chairman andchief operating officer Mark Heidelberger, ...
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Live And Become flies off with Copenhagen award
Romanian director RaduMihaileanu's Live And Become took the Golden Swan for best film and thebest script prize at this year's Copenhagen International Film Festival.Mihaileanu's Live AndBecome, about Ethiopian Jews rescued from Sudan by the Israelis in the1980s, opened the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival inFebruary.The Death of ...
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Burnett gets top domestic publicity job at Weinstein Co
Liza Burnett (pictured) hasjoined The Weinstein Company as head of the domestic publicity department. Burnett arrives from asix-year stint at New York-based PR outfit Dan Klores Communications where shemost recently served as senior vice president.Reporting to Harvey and BobWeinstein, she begins work on Sept 12 and assumes oversight of all ...
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Tsotsi storms off with Edinburgh prizes
SouthAfrican/UK feature Tsotsi emerged as the major prize-winner at this year'sEdinburgh Film Festival, winning both the Michael Powell Award for the bestBritish Film and the Standard Life Audience Award as the public favourite. Setin the shanty towns of South Africa, Gavin Hood's third feature is based on an AtholFugard novel ...
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Lady Zee takes top Sarajevo honours
The 11th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 19-27) endedon Saturday night with main award going to Bulgarian film Lady Zee (Leidi Zi) by Georgi Bulgjerov, out of 11 films incompetition. The tragic comedy about an orphan girl won the main Euros25,000 "Heart of Sarajevo" prize, which was awarded by president ofthe ...
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Australian hit ready for international breakout
TheAustralian drama Look Both Ways may become the country's long-awaited international breakout after taking $230,000(A$300,000) on home soil in its first week from only 17 screens.The film, which has its international premiere at Toronto, has beenthe number one film in every cinema in which it opened and was the seventh ...
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Northern relations boost southern box office in Korea
Therunaway box office success of Welcome To Dongmakgolhas driven home a point about the South Korean box office: films about NorthKorea sell. Dongmakgol,based on a stage play by Jang Jin, is centered around two South Koreansoldiers, three North Korean soldiers, and an American pilot who meet in aremote mountain village ...
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New US outfit Kindred teams up with HispanoFilms
Fledgling NewYork and Pennsylvania-based boutique distributor Kindred Media Group ispartnering up with HispanoFilms Distribution on the US distribution of EnriqueRenteria's Mexican comedy Dame Tu Cuerpo (Gimme Your Body).The partnerswill seek to broaden the reach of the picture, which has grossed more than $4min Mexico, as part of a strategy by ...
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Leigh, Ladd Jr win special awards at Flanders in Oct
Mike Leigh andUS producer Alan Ladd Jr will each receive the Joseph Plateau Award for theiroutstanding achievements in filmmaking at the upcoming Flanders InternationalFilm Festival.Leigh willreceive his award from Imelda Staunton, the Oscar nominated star of his 2004drama Vera Drake.Leigh's other credits include Naked, High Hopes, Secrets And Lies, and ...
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Directing Change names Dalton to work with Eyre on Scandal
BAFTA award winner Hattie Daltonhas been selected as the latest female director to benefit from Women in Filmand Television (WFTV) initiative Directing Change.She will work alongside SirRichard Eyre on upcoming feature Notes From A ScandalDirecting Change is designed to address theunder-representation of women directors in the UK industry. It gives ...
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New Line hails Crashers as year's top comedy
New Line' s WeddingCrashers has overtaken Hitch to become the biggest grossing comedy ofthe year in North America, racing to a $180m domestic running total since itsJul 15 launch.WeddingCrashers now ranks asthe second biggest R-rated comedy of all time behind Beverly Hills Cop, which finished on $234.8m. It is alsothe ...
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Warner revs up Dukes in UK, France, Spain, Mexico
The Warner Bros PicturesInternational (WBPI) duo of The Island and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory are expected to lead the international pack onceagain this weekend.Sci-fi actioner TheIsland, which has been the highestgrossing international release of the last two weekends, opens in Italy on Aug26. It has amassed $85.3m to date.Meanwhile ...
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Giant recognised at Haugesund
Norwegian documentary Giant has walked off with most of the top prizesat the NorwegianInternational Film Festival in Haugesund, which wrapped today (August 26).Arne B. Rostad and Hallvard Bræin's film aboutNorwegian artist Erik Bye took home the top Andreas Award as well as theaudience and local critics prize.Bye, who died last ...
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Israeli director completes Venice competition jury
Amos Gitai will complete the main competition jury at theupcoming 62nd Venice Film Festival, the Biennale has announced.The Israeli director will join jury president DanteFerretti, Chinese writer Acheng, directors Claire Denis and Edgar Reitz,Icelandic musician and actress Emiliana Torrini and producer Christine Vachon.Meanwhile, the Venice Film Festival has unveiled heightenedsecurity ...
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Cannes prizewinner opens documentary festival
An award-winning study of women's legal statusin a small community in Cameroon opens this year's 18th International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).Britishfilm-makers Kim Longinotto and FlorenceAsiyi's Sisters In Law follows the work of the female publicprosecutor and judge in a traditional community in the African country. The filmwon the Prix Art ...