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Outfest, UCLA launch public film archive
Outfest has teamed up with the UCLA Film and Television Archive tocreate what they claim will be the biggest publicly accessible collection of lesbian, gay and transgenderpictures in the world.The Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation is supported in part byprivate university funds, as well as the David Bohnett ...
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Bac Majestic reports OK first six months results
Bac Majestic has announcedrevenues of Euros 8.9m for the first six months of 2005. Despite a drop inrevenues as compared with the same period in 2004, the figures are in line withthe company's objectives following last year's restructuring.Theatrical distributionaccounted for Euros 2.9m with 6 films released compared to 15 in ...
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Photography begins on LGF's Madea's Family Reunion
Lions Gate Films has announcedthat principal photography has begun in Atlanta, Georgia, on Madea's FamilyReunion, the directorial debut from DiaryOf A Mad Black Woman screenwriter TylerPerry.Based on Perry's stage play - like its predecessor that grossed more than $50min North American theatres through Lions Gate Films earlier this year - ...
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Video Island drafts in Calver as CEO
UK based online DVD rentaloutfit Video Island has drafted in Simon Calver as its new CEO replacingcurrent CEO and co-founder, Saul Klein.Calver has worked in seniormanagement positions at digital outfit Riverdeep, Dell, PepsiCola and Unilever.He has been brought intoVideo Island by Klein to help lead the company to further growth ...
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Six directors named for Cannes Residence
The Cannes FilmFestival has announced the names of the six directors who will take part in thenext Residence. The 11th session of the Residence, a four-and-a-half monthworkshop during which filmmakers are given room and board while fine-tuningtheir first or second projects and the chance to meet with industryprofessionals and other ...
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Friedman steps down as COO of Paramount
Rob Friedman is steppingdown as chief operating officer and vice chairman of Paramount Motion Picture Groupto pursue other interests.The senior executive hadbeen planning the move for some time, but was asked several months ago bystudio chairman Brad Grey to stay on to oversee the release campaign for WarOf The Worlds.Friedman, ...
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Pride, Shoes get gala world premieres at Toronto
Joe Wright's Pride& Prejudice andCurtis Hanson's comedy-drama In Her Shoes will receive world premieres as gala presentations at theToronto International Film festival (TIFF), while and John Madden'slong-awaited stage adaptation Proof will receive its North American premiere as a gala after aworld premiere in Venice.Pride &Prejudice stars KeiraKnightley as a redoutable ...
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Ogden's Traveller tale takes Galway honours
Perry Ogden's Pavee Lackeen took the bestfirst feature award at the 17th Galway Film Fleadh, promising a strong run atinternational festivals, including Toronto, over the coming months. Informed by his work as a stills photographerbased in Ireland for several years, Ogden's film is an intimate andnaturalistic story of the small ...
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Defiant London returns to business as usual after attacks
Last Thursday's terrorist attacks in Londonforced the closure of many cinemas with admissions dropping between 75% and 80%from the previous day. However, general consensus amongst UKdistributors on Monday was that little impact had been made to the capital'sweekend box office as resilient Londoners continued with their normalroutines.Box office for the ...
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Japanese Star Wars opening breaks galactic records
Star WarsEpisode III - Revenge of the Sith has recorded 500,000 admissions for a grossof $6.3m (Y700m) since Saturday'sopening - beating its predecessors in the series.On July 10 and11, the film - making its final debut in a major territory - earned $20m (Y2.22bn) on 1.57 million admissions. Distributor20th Century ...
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Swimming documentary makes waves at Paris event
Yaron Zilberman's documentary Watermarks was the publicchoice for the grand prize at the 11th edition of the RencontresInternationales de Cinema in Paris.The film's as yet unnamed distributor will receive $18,000from the Forum des Images which organises the Rencontres within the frameworkof the three-year-old Paris Cinema event. The money is earmarked ...
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French admissions plunge 15% in first half of 2005
French cinema admissions have dropped by 15% for the firstsix months of 2005 as compared to the same period in 2004.France's National Film Federation (FNCF), whichoversees exhibition, noted that 87,550,000 tickets have been sold since January1. The fall in French admissions echoes similar falls across Europe (see storylink below).While the ...
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SPC picks up UA's Capote, sets Sept 30 US release
Sony Pictures Classics hasconfirmed that it will assume domestic distribution duties on Capote, one of the remaining films produced by UnitedArtists before its parent company MGM was bought by a consortium led by SonyPictures Entertainment.SPC has set a release datefor the film of Sept 30, which is also the birthday ...
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Soda takes UK rights to Akin's Bridge
UK distributor Soda Pictures has acquired Crossing TheBridge; The Sound of Istanbul, the new filmfrom award winning director Fatih Akin. Akin, winner of the Berlin Golden Bear Award and EuropeanFilm of the Year for Head-On, returnswith a musical documentary homage to Istanbul. Literally crossing the bridge from traditional to modernTurkish ...
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Copenhagen festival launches industry Screenings
The Copenhagen International Film Festival has launchedindustry screenings for new Danish films for international buyers and festivalprogrammers.The Copenhagen Screenings will be held between August 23-24as a pilot project. Some ten - as yet unnamed - new Danish films,including two documentaries, will screen at the event. Festival programmer Jacob Neiiendam said ...
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Odd Lot to self-release Green Street Hooligans in US
Odd Lot Entertainment, theproduction and finance company run by Gigi Pritzker and Deborah Del Prete, hasformed a US distribution company to be called Odd Lot Releasing.The first film to be handledby the division will be Odd Lot's Green Street Hooligans, formerly known as Hooligans, which stars Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam ...
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Redbus climb aboard Wicker remake
Redbus Film Distribution is to co-produce Neil La Bute's remakeof The Wicker Man as part of athree-film deal with Nu-Image.The distributor has acquired UK rights to the film as wellas two other titles, Bruce Beresford's The Contract and Tobe Hooper's Zombies.The Wicker Man, directed by Robin Hardy in 1973,has a ...
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Perfume scents success as shooting begins
TomTykwer's Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer has begun shooting at theBavaria Film studios near Munich.The$60m co-production between Germany's Constantin Film Produktion, the privatemedia fund VIP Medienfonds 4b, France's Nouvelles Editions de Films and Spain'sCastelao Productions is being produced by Bernd Eichinger.Theproject is backed by the German Federal Film ...
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German opposition boosts hopes of tax breaks for film
Callsfor new tax incentives to benefit the German film industry received a welcomeboost from the CDU opposition party which is widely predicted to win powerfollowing September's general election.Speakingat the party's film reception ahead of this year's German film Awards, chairwomanAngela Merkel told producers "the German cinema has a firm place ...
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Redbus to co-produce Wicker Man remake
The UK's Redbus FilmDistribution is to co-produce the remake of British cult horror title, TheWicker Man starring Nicolas Cage. Redbus has also acquired UKrights to the picture as well as two other Nu-Image financed titles, BruceBeresford's The Contract starring John Cusack and Morgan Freeman andTobe Hooper's horror movie Zombies."We have ...