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Intandem mulls distribution move with Woolley's Stoned
A new entrant looks set to join UK's already crowdeddistribution sector. Gary Smith's Intandem Films is strongly considering handlingthe British release of Stephen Woolley's directorial debut, Stoned,about the life and death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones. Intandemfinanced and is selling the film, formerly known as The Wild And WyckedWorld ...
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Samaha files for new trial against Baeres, Intertainment
Elie Samaha, the filmproducer who lost a $106m jury verdict last June in Los Angeles federal courtin a fraud and breach-of-contract suit filed by Germany's IntertainmentLicensing, has filed for a rematch.On Monday this week,attorneys for Samaha filed a motion for a new trial, claiming thatIntertainment's former chairman Rudiger "Barry" Baeres ...
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Interpreter and Amityville battle it out in UK, Australia
One week afterUIP opened Paramount's Clive Cussler romp Sahara at number one in the UK and Australia,the distributor is attempting to usurp its champion with wide releases in bothmarkets for The Interpreter.Universal'sUN-set thriller opens on 200 prints in Australia on Apr 14 and goes out on 350in the UK, and ...
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Interpreter and Amityville battle it out in UK, Australia
One week afterUIP opened Paramount's Clive Cussler romp Sahara at number one in the UK and Australia,the distributor is attempting to usurp its champion with wide releases in bothmarkets for The Interpreter.Universal'sUN-set thriller opens on 200 prints in Australia on Apr 14 and goes out on 350in the UK, and ...
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First Look, DEJ swoop on Craven's The Breed
Los Angles-baseddistribution partners FirstLook Media and DEJ Productions have picked up worldwide rights to Wes Cravenproject The Breed, which stars Michelle Rodriguez and will be directedby Craven's longtime collaborator Nick Mastandrea.First Look Media's sales arm First Look International will begin licensingterritories at Cannes next month. Principal photography is scheduled to ...
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Paramount shakeup: Shearmur is new production head
Brad Grey's Paramountrevolution continues apace with news that Alli Shearmur has been promoted toco-president of production at the studio.Shearmur, formerly executivevice president of production, will oversee day-to-day development andproduction of the slate as well as literary acquisitions, and will report toincoming Paramount president Gail Berman, who officially starts in May.As ...
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Fiennes, Mortimer sign for Who Killed Norma Barnes'
RalphFiennes and Emily Mortimer are to star in Who Killed Norma Barnes', acontemporary tale of sexual obsession based on Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. MalcolmMcKay, whose credits include big-budget BBC TV adaptation Gormenghast,is directing from his own script, with Eliza Mellor producing for the UK'sCompany Pictures. Shootingis scheduled for the autumn in ...
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Lions Gate spins off Canadian distribution, production
Lions Gate Entertainment hasspun off its Canadian distribution operation into a new venture called MaplePictures, headed up by former Lions Gate executives Brad Pelman and Laurie May.The move sees the once-all-Canadian Lions Gate strip away its Canadian assetsand now focus firmly on its US operation.Lions Gate will neverthelesshold a minority ...
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Nice opening for French hit comedy
Director James Huth's BriceDe Nice has proved a breakout hit in French cinemas in its first week. Released on Wednesday April6, the film had already wracked up 1.1m admissions by the end of the weekend,breaking records as the biggest opening day and openingweekend in France in 2005. Brice knocked French ...
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Von Trier, Scherfig team for Erik Nietzsche
LoneScherfig is set to direct Erik Nietzsche - the Early Years, based on asemi-autobiographical script written by Lars von Trier.Scherfig(Italian For Beginners) is expected to start filming the project inDenmark in 2006. She is currently preparing to shoot internationalco-production Good, which stars Hugh Jackman and Romola Garai, in Berlinthis summer.Billed ...
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Borman steps down as Intermedia chief
Moritz Borman is to resignfrom his post as chief executive officer of Intermedia on April 30 and exitfrom the management board of parent company IM Internationalmedia.He will be replaced by MartinSchuermann who will become the new chief executive officer of Intermedia andchairman of the board of IM Internationalmedia on May ...
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Atlantic Film Festival reacts with fury to Montreal move
Canada's Atlantic FilmFestival (AFF) has reacted with fury to news that the newly-minted FestivalInternational de Films de Montreal (FIFM) has shifted its launch dates to Sept18-25, overlapping the Halifax, Nova Scotia-based event's run of Sept 15-24. The change in FIFM dates isa black eye for Telefilm Canada, the federal film ...
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De Laurentiis's Decameron begins Italian shoot
Shooting starts today (April 13) on the Dino De Laurentiisproduced $38m period comedy, Decameron.Writtenand directed by David Leland (Band of Brothers), theItalian-British-French movie stars Hayden Christensen, Mischa Barton (TheO.C) and Tim Roth. Decameron is inspired by Italian author Boccaccio's 14thcentury collection of stories about a group of unmarried nobles who ...
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Gorris smelling of Rosa for Bold Films
Marleen Gorris has signed to direct the sexually-charged drama Rosa for Bold Films as part of the fledgling Los Angeles-based production company's growing slate.Principal photography is scheduled to begin on Rosa on June 7 in Florence, Italy. Bold Films principal Edward Bass and debut screenwriter Athena Stensland are producing, and ...
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Russian, Polish directors take top Wiesbaden prizes
Women filmmakers were the main winners at this year'sgoEast Festival of Central and East European Film in Wiesbaden when the awardswere presented on Tuesday evening (April 12).The International Jury, headed by Polish director Robert Glinski,its best film prize to veteran Russian director Kira Muratova's modern farce TheTuner (Nastrojscik), while the ...
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El Dorado takes on sales for Malaga pair
Newly-formed El Dorado International has picked upinternational rights on two films competing in next week's Spanish FilmFestival of Malaga (April 22-30), Jose Antonio Vitoria's Vorvik andXavier Berraondo's Working Class.TheMadrid-based sales outfit, newly created by former Aurum international salesdirector Mocha Aguilar, will screen both films to international buyers atMalaga's three-day Market ...
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Parent, Stuber move into producing roles at Universal
Universal Pictures vicechairmen of worldwide productionMary Parent and Scott Stuber will segue into producer roles at the end of 2005as part of their seven-year deal with the studio.Under the terms of their contracts Parent and Stuber agreed to serve the firsttwo years as vice chairmen of worldwide production and the ...
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Parent, Stuber move into producing roles at Universal
Universal Pictures vicechairmen of worldwide productionMary Parent and Scott Stuber will segue into producer roles at the end of 2005as part of their seven-year deal with the studio.Under the terms of their contracts Parent and Stuber agreed to serve the firsttwo years as vice chairmen of worldwide production and the ...
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Parent, Stuber move into producing roles at Universal
Universal Pictures vicechairmen of worldwide productionMary Parent and Scott Stuber will segue into producer roles at the end of 2005as part of their seven-year deal with the studio.Under the terms of their contracts Parent and Stuber agreed to serve the firsttwo years as vice chairmen of worldwide production and the ...
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Veteran Hollywood talent agent Dontanville leaves William Morris
Steve Dontanville, one ofHollywood's leading talent agents whose clients include Reese Witherspoon andAnne Hathaway, is leaving William Morris Agency (WMA) to take six months offand then change direction after 27 years as an agent. Dontanville came to WMA in2000 from ICM where he worked for 17 years. His current client ...