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UIP reorganises Indian distribution
ParamountFilms of India Ltd (PFI), distributor of UIP product on the sub-continent, hasoverhauled its set-up across Indiaand entered into agreements with four local distributors to release Paramount,Universal and DreamWorks films.PFI,which is one of the oldest motion picture distributors of American films inIndia, will now work with Shringar Films in Maharashtra, ...
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German media funds win reprieve
Germany'smedia funds areback in business - at least, for the time being.The German government's proposed taxreforms, which would have seen the old-style media funds axed, have beenabandoned. But the reprieve could prove to be temporary for the funds,which, according to analysts, raised $16bn ($13bn Euros) between1997 and 2004, 80% of ...
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Kadokawa ready for Hong Kong HQ launch
Japan's leading media group, Kadokawa Holdings, is to open its newheadquarters in China in August.Hong Kong-based Kadokawa Holdings China will sell the group's mediacontents and handle rights deals across the whole of China. The operation is backed by a $1.29m (Y140m) capital investment fromKadokawa Holdings.The group owns Japanese original Ring ...
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Moreau plans programme for budding filmmakers
Frenchacting legend Jeanne Moreau has outlined plans for the Ateliers d'Angers, aresidency programme for budding filmmakers.Thoughsmaller in scale, the project is similar to the Cannes Film Festival Residenceor the Sundance screenwriting workshop, bringing together 12 young Europeandirectors for 10 days beginning July 1. The workshopswill act as an intensive training ...
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Academy tightens rules on Oscar producers
The US Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)has further tightened the number of producers who can takehome an Oscar.In approving rules for the 78th Annual AcademyAwards this week, the AMPAS board decided that its Producers Branch ExecutiveCommittee will "designate the qualifying producer nominees for each of thenominated pictures."The decision means ...
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Magnolia, SPHE acquire domestic rights to Nine Lives
MagnoliaPictures and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) have teamed up to acquireNorth American rights to Rodrigo Garcia's Nine Lives, which played as a premiere at Sundance this yearand screened this week at the Los Angeles Film Festival.Magnoliaplans to release the film theatrically in Sept with subsequent DVD and videodistribution to ...
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First Look acquires worldwide rights to Emmanuel's Gift
Los Angeles-based First LookMedia has acquired worldwide rights to Emmanuel's Gift, a documentary produced and directed by Lisa Lax andNancy Stern about a young disabled man from Ghana, West Africa, who rode abicycle across Ghana on one leg to eradicate the country's negative perceptionof the disabled.FirstLook Pictures plans a domestic ...
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Almodovar preps collector's editions of his own work
The Almodovarbrothers' El Deseo has bought into Spanish DVDdistributor Cameo Media and will pump the bulk of its catalogue and newproductions through the company, including Pedro Almodovar'supcoming feature Volver.Funding a capital increase, El Deseo joins Alta Films, Wanda Vision, TornasolFilms, Continental Producciones, Golem and Cameomanaging director Juan Carlos Tous as ...
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Picture This takes Mirage for North America
Picture This! Entertainment has acquired North Americanrights to Svetozar Ristovski's Mirage (Ilujiza), a Macedonian -language coming of age tale that hasbeen an official selection at festivals including Toronto, Tokyo and Rotterdam.Picture This! plans a November 2005 theatrical release forthe film, which was acquired from Small Moves Ltd. Ristovski, who previously ...
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Herbie motors into Australia, Batman lands in Korea
Herbie: Fully Loaded is the sole US studio filmmaking its international debut this weekend - and that only in one territory -in the lull between the wide day-and-date global launches of last week's BatmanBegins and next week's War of the Worlds. With teen favourite Lindsay Lohan starring, Herbieopens in Australia ...
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Brad Pitt's Plan B moving from Warner to Paramount
Brad Pitt's production company Plan B has ended its dealwith Warner Bros and signed a first-look production agreement with ParamountPictures, whose chairman and CEO Brad Grey was one of Plan B's originalfounders. Pitt and Grey are pictured together here.The production company already has several projects indevelopment at Paramount. True Story ...
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Cuaron film promises to 'remove hex' on Pinewood
After a week of profitwarnings and falling share prices, Pinewood-Shepperton studios can finallyannounce some good news.Universal's adaptation ofthe PD James' novel Children Of Men, to be directed by Alfonso Cuaron,is setting up shop at Pinewood Studios - and looks certain to shoot there fromearly autumn."I've been able topersuade the powers ...
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Lions Gate pounces on The Descent
Lions Gate has snapped up NorthAmerican rights to Neil Marshall's British gorefest The Descent from PatheInternational.The film, which sold widely during Cannes,is to receive its world premiere at next week's London UK Film Focus.The Descent (Marshall'sfollow-up to 2002's Dog Soldiers) isa Celador Films production, executive produced byPaul Smith and produced ...
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Cayla to head up French film body
Cannes FilmFestival administrative director Veronique Cayla has been named to head Frenchfilm body the CNC it was announced today. Theappointment is effective immediately and she will leave her festival roleat once. Cayla, whohas also been named interim president of France'sfilm school FEMIS, takes up her functions at the CNC following ...
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Curzon offers school for shorts
London's Curzon Soho cinema is hosting a four-day short filmfestival, starting on July 6.The Short Film Summer School (SFSS) will screen some of thebest work from new and established directors.The Screen International-supported event also includes workshops,advice sessions and a chance to pitch ideas with the UK Film Council. One of ...
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New venture aims to break US digital cinema deadlock
Yet another new business venture has been formed with the promise of breaking the digital cinema fundingdeadlock in the US.Access Integrated Technologies and projection equipment supplier ChristieDigital Systems have created a subsidiary offering to help pay for installationcosts of 2K resolution projectors in exchange for long-term support and equipment ...
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Wenders and Kiarostami to be honoured at Locarno
Inan 'exceptional step' this year the Locarno Film Festival (August3-13) has decided to award two Leopards of Honour to filmmakers Wim Wenders andAbbas Kiarostami. Theyare hailed as 'illustrious representatives of diverse but nonethelesscomplementary ways of making films, both ambassadors of their cultures indifferent contexts around the globe.'WhileWenders - who ...
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Wenders and Kiarostami to be honoured at Locarno
Inan "exceptional step" this year the Locarno Film Festival (August3-13) has decided to award two Leopards of Honour to filmmakers Wim Wenders andAbbas Kiarostami.Theyare hailed as "illustrious representatives of diverse but nonethelesscomplementary ways of making films, both ambassadors of their cultures indifferent contexts around the globe."WhileWenders - who will turn ...
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Tan heads first Singapore-Japan co-production
Singapore writer/director Royston Tan's script 0430 has been chosen byJapanese broadcaster NHK as one of the four projects for its 6th AsianFilm Festival, making it the first Singapore-Japan co-production.NHK executive producer Makoto Ueda who is inSingapore for the filming of 0430says, 'I have been hoping to co-produce a film with ...
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Garner to star in Japanese drama remake
Jennifer Garner has committed tostar in a remake of the 2004 Japanese hit drama Be With You, with WarnerBros agreeing to distribute, according to Kei Haruna, one of the film'sproducers. He says Garner attended aprivate screening of a subtitled print in Los Angeles in January. Moved by the film's story ...