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Pinewood, Ealing lead London Plus production drive
Pinewood Shepperton andEaling Studios head a group of UK studio facilities and post productioncompanies that have teamed to launch London Plus, a consortium that aims toboost production activity in London and south east England.The affiliated companies aim for producers to use London Plus asa single entry point for arranging to ...
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Strand gets US to Tribeca favourite Simon from Fortissimo
Strand Releasinghas picked up North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Eddy Terstall's Simon, the story of a gay man and a straightman whose lifelong friendship is challenged when one of them faces a terminalillness.The picture,which received its North American premiere at Tribeca last week, was theofficial Dutch entry for ...
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Fortissimo tunes into The Night Listener
FortissimoFilms is to handle worldwide sales outside of North America forTheNight Listener, the recently wrapped film adaptation of Armistead Maupin'sbestselling drama, directed by Patrick Stettner and starring Robin Williams andToni Collette.FortissimoFilm's co-chairmen, Michael J. Werner and Wouter Barendrecht who receiveco-producercredits,completed the deal with UTA, which represent theproducers Hart Sharp Entertainment, ...
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Weisbein's Green Room takes on two for Mr Mudd
PierreWeisbein's nascent sales and production company Green Room Pictures will cometo Cannes with two films it will represent for Mr Mudd, the LA-based productioncompany run by Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich and Russell Smith.Weisbein will beselling worldwide rights on Historya, a powerful drama based on Gary Soto's novel BuriedOnions which followsLatin ...
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Malaga savours Spanish Tapas
Ensemble comedy-drama Tapas was the surprise winner of the best film, best actress and thepublic's prizes at the eighth annual Spanish Film Festival of Malaga(April 22-30), with other top awards split among higher-profile contenders 20Centimeters, Heroine and Ants InThe Mouth.Tapas was also the biggest hit at Malaga's three-dayMarket Screenings, attended ...
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New Line International boasts 10 new films to presell
New Line International has unveiled a powerful new slate for itsdistribution partners and Cannes buyers which boasts directors as varied as JanDe Bont, Todd Field and Shekhar Kapur and stars ranging from Bruce Willis, JackBlack and Samuel L Jackson to Kate Winslet and John Cusack.The studio's president of worldwide distribution ...
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Linklater to serve up Fast Food Nation for HanWay
It must be one of thehardest books to adapt into a feature film: a sprawling, non-fiction expose ofthe fast food industry, encompassing exploited immigrants, teenagers skippingschool to work in restaurants and the impact on agriculture and the global environment.But Eric Schlosser'sbestselling Fast Food Nation iscoming together as a Traffic-stylefilm to ...
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Hitchhiker's Guide a bestseller in US movie theatres
Spyglass Entertainment's adaptation of The Hitchhiker's GuideTo The Galaxy opened topof the North American charts through Disney over the weekend on a estimated $21.7m, whileSony/Revolution's XXX: State Of The Union was a crashing disappointment in third place on $13.7m.Of more significance, however, was the fact that box office fellfor the ...
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Nordisk to embark on Johnny pre-sales at Cannes
Copenhagen based Nordisk Film International Sales isto open pre-sales at Cannes for UK-Irish-Danish co-production Johnny Was. The violent thriller, set in the underworld of London,stars Vinnie Jones and will shoot in London and Ireland. The $4.4m film is produced by Affinity, Borderline,Revolver and Nordisk Film. It is directed by Mark ...
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Chinese Peacock struts off with Udine prize
Chinese director Gu Changwei's Peacock was voted the top prizewinner by audiencesat the 7th Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Udine, Italy.The FEFF, which ranks as a leading European showcaseof popular Asian cinema, also presented runner-up prizes to the stylish teenagedrama Kamikaze Girls byJapanese director Tetsuya Nakashima and comedy Someone ...
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Love rules at Italy's Donatellos
Second-time director PaoloSorrentino's mafia tale The Consequences of Love has won five David di Donatellos, Italy's Oscars,including best film, best director, best screenplay and best actor, beating outmulti-nominated contenders Sacred Heart and Manuale D'Amore.The Consequences of Love tells the story of a 50-year-old Italianbusiness man who lives on his own ...
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XXX leads in international, but Hitchhiker's soars
The first day-and-date launch of the year propelled XXX: TheNext Level (theinternational title of the film, as opposed to XXX: State Of The Union in North America) to the top of theinternational charts over the weekend, but the estimated $15m gross on 4,800prints in 64 territories was a disappointing result ...
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...while Hitchhiker's trounces XXX in US
Spyglass Entertainment's adaptation of The Hitchhiker's GuideTo The Galaxy opened topof the North American charts through Disney over the weekend on a estimated $21.7m, whileSony/Revolution's XXX: State Of The Union was a crashing disappointment in third place on $13.7m.Of more significance, however, was the fact that box office fellfor the ...
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Blackstone Group cleared to take over UGC circuit in UK
US buyout firm TheBlackstone Group has been cleared to take over UGC Cinemas provided that itsells six of its cinemas.The Office of Fair Trading(OFT) said today that it will not refer the deal to the Competition Commissionif Blackstone sells certain cinemas where there are particular competitionconcerns. Blackstone acquired UGC's UKand ...
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One man's Madness set to screen at Cannes
Madness In The FirstDegree is one of the many films thatwill premiere at Cannes this year.However, promises to stand out in a unique way - it has been madeentirely by one man - Geoff Searle. Everything from acting, toediting, to special effects, to production has been completed entirely bySearle.It is ...
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Celluloid picks up Euro sales on Three Times
CelluloidDreams will handle European sales for Hou Hsiao-hsien's Cannes competition entryThree Times (pictured), the Paris company said yesterday, after striking a deal with the film's French producers Paradis Films andOrly Films.Making his sixth trip to Cannes, the Taiwanese director returns with a lyricalexploration of love and memory. In this tryptych ...
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... as rival Montreal Festival of New Cinema loses chief
Claude Chamberlain, thefounder and director of Montreal's Festival of New Cinema (FNC), has resignedabruptly. The festival today issued abrief statement, announcing with "regret" the departure, effective immediately."For more than three decades, Claude Chamberlain hascontributed with success to the recognition of a high quality and uniquecinema. He leaves a distinguished track ...
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Iraqi cinema steals Singapore festival limelight
Iraqi cinema stole thelimelight at the Silver Screen Awards Gala of this year's SingaporeInternational Film Festival (SIFF) when Oday Rasheed's Underexposure wasdeclared best film. Billed as the first featureshot in Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Underexposure lets theaudience witness 'the powerful voice of cinema trying to understand post-warBaghdad', ...
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Losique defends Montreal turf with powerhouse jury...
Chinese auteur Chen Kaigeand Russian director Pavel Lounguine have agreed to participate on the jury ofthe 2005 Montreal World Film Festival, the festival announced yesterday. Kaige's credits include thePalme d'Or-winning Farewell My Concubine, while Lounguine is the director of such films as Taxi Blues and Luna Park.Both will unite with ...
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UK's Labour Party outlines film policy
One week before the UK election, theruling Labour Party has published a business manifesto outlining how it willsupport the creative industries if it wins a third term.Two of the key pledges concerning thefilm industry centre on tackling piracy and securing tax incentives for filmproduction.In a statement published yesterday(April 28), the ...