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Sutherland promoted to executive vice president at MGM
Ian Sutherland has beenpromoted to executive vice president, international theatrical distribution andmarketing, at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) just months before the studio is set tomerge into Sony Pictures Entertainment.The announcement was madeyesterday by MGM Home Entertainment president David Bishop. Sutherland joinedMGM in 2000 as senior vice president, international marketing and distribution,overseeing the ...
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Hamori pours H2O on Cronenberg's Pain
AndrasHamori, the international producer here with the epic Hungarian picture Fatelessin competition, has reactivated his H20 Motion Pictures production outfit andset four pictures to shoot in the next two years including two with his oldAlliance Atlantis partner Robert Lantos. Hamori'sH20 has boarded two pictures which are in development with Lantos ...
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Stolhanske joins Management 360
Lainie Stolhanske has joinedLos Angeles-based management company Management 360, bringing with her a clientlist that includes Orlando Jones and Justin Chatwin, who stars opposite TomCruise in the upcoming release War Of The Worlds."Lainie has built an impressive group of clients in a very short period of timeand is one of ...
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Football fever spreads across int'l film industry
Withthe "Kaiser" Franz Beckenbauer in town yesterday and the World Cup tobe held in Germany next year, football fever is breaking out in the filmindustry. From Europe to South America, new football-themed films are beingplanned.InBrazil, Walter Salles (in Germany this week for the Berlinale Talent Campus) isbusy polishing the script ...
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Major upheaval ahead for UK cinema advertising sector
A dramatic shift of power inthe UK cinema advertising market is on the horizon.UK cinema chain UGC's screenadvertising contract, currently held by Pearl and Dean, is to pass to CarltonScreen Advertising (CSA) in early 2006, according to a spokesperson at CSA. Themove follows the acquisition of UGC by Cineworld, which ...
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Barquet joins Universal as svp production finance
Veteran finance executive Arturo Barquethas joined Universal Pictures as senior vice president of production finance.Barquet will oversee projects through pre-production, production andpost-production and coordinate all financing vehicles for specified projects onUniversal's theatrical slate and all theatrical stage productions.Reporting to Universal chief financial officer Patti Hutton, Barquet will alsobe responsible for ...
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Short Bear drinks up Milk
Britishshort Milk, directed by Peter Mackie Burns, has taken the Golden Bearfor Best Competition Short Film at the Berlinale.America'sThe Intervention, by Jay Duplass, and German director IzabelaPlucinska's Jam Session tied for the short Silver Bear. Don QuixoteIn Jerusalem (Israel) by Dani Rosenberg received a Special Mention. PrixUIP for Best European ...
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Wild Bunch goes crazy in Berlin
WildBunch has hosted the hot stand at this year's EFM market, with the Frenchseller signing over 50 deal memos at Berlin so far. Despitewell-publicised problems on Go Go Tales, Abel Ferrara has not scared offbuyers for his upcoming all-star Mary. Starring Juliette Binoche, ForestWhitaker, Heather Graham, and Mathew Modine, Mary ...
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Mirovision sends My Boyfriend to Nippon
Koreanmini-conglomerate Mirovision has tied up a clutch of high profile sales on itsSundance/EFM slate and extended its relationship with controversial directorPark Chul-soo.My Boyfriend Type B, a romantic comedy about the Asianphenomenon of dating according to blood groups - B-type men have a reputationas being selfish and arrogant - was sold ...
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Taiwan Springs for Brothels
SpringInternational in Taiwan and Barbarian Turk in Turkey are the latest companiesto buy Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski's award-winning Born Into Brothels,which has an Oscar nomination this year for best documentary feature.AndrewHerwitz of The Film Sales Company, which is selling the film here, is reportingintense buyer interest in the documentary ...
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The freeze is on at Cannes
Abreeze of good news from the Croisette should warm Berlinale hearts: Cannes'four-star hoteliers have come together to freeze hotel rates this year to 2004levels. Billed as a defence against the fluctuating dollar - atyesterday's exchange rates anyway - the declaration effectively means that people staying at theCarlton, the Majestic, the ...
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Savage sales for Celluloid
CelluloidDreams has closed some key pre-sales on Tom Kalin's Savage Grace inBerlin, having flown the Swoon director in from New York for meetingswith buyers to share his vision of the film.Vertigopre-bought rights in Spain, BIM in Italy and Scanbox in Scandinavia;negotiations are underway between Celluloid and buyers in Greece, Japan,France, ...
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Williams-Jones stepping down as Miramax Intl chief
Michael Williams-Jones will step down from his role as president ofMiramax International on Mar 1 after less than a year in the role.His departure comes as the rumour mill about the future of Miramax hits overdrive. Company co-chiefs Harvey and Bob Weinstein are expected to wrap their lengthy contract talks ...
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Trust clinches int'l on Vinterberg's Wendy
ThomasVinterberg's controversial drama, Dear Wendy has been hitting the targetat the European Film Market. Followingpacked screenings in Berlin earlier this week, the film, scripted by Lars VonTrier, has been sold to Germany (Legend), the UK (Metrodome) Canada (TVA)films, Argentina (Distribution Company) and Peru (Gateno Films) Peru.USbuyers are also circling Dear ...
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Red feeling Lucky on Plateaux
Italiandistributor Lucky Red has pre-bought multi-territory rights to A Thousand Plateaux (Chungae Eui Gowon),the Mongolian-set epic to be directed by controversial Korean director JangSun-woo. Thefilm is sold internationally by independent Korean sales house, Cineclick Asiaand was presented last month at Rotterdam's CineMart project market. There ithad $1m of finance in ...
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Locarno to honour Jeremy Thomas
Britishproducer Jeremy Thomas will be presented with the Raimondo Rezzonico Prize forindependent producers at this year's Locarno International Film Festival (August 3-13).Commentingon the selection of the producer of such films as The Last Emperor, The Hitand The Sheltering Sky, Locarno's festival director Irene Bignardi said:"Jeremy is one of those producers ...
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ITALY 16 February
UIP comedy Meet TheFockers stormed into the number one slot at the Italian box office with anastounding $5,724,641. While other releases, new and old, paled in comparison,the Dustin Hoffman-Robert De Niro sequel earned a massive average of $11,518from 497 screens.Meanwhile, Johnny Deppvehicle Finding Neverland dropped into second place with a ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO 16 February
After Serbianpolice arrested some 100 dealers with pirated DiVX's and DVD's of We Are NotAngels 2 last week, the reason for the 39% fall-off of greatest local box-office champ of all times became obvious. Nevertheless, theblockbuster continues to break records, and after this weekend's 53,890admissions (total of 440,856) it has ...
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Constantine converts Asian cinema-goers
A weekahead of its domestic launch, Keanu Reeves title Constantine opened invarious Asian territories including Hong Kong and South Korea for the Lunar NewYear holiday. The highest new entry on the international chart, theaction fantasy film, based on the comic-book Hellblazer, claimed fourthplace and $6.7m over the weekend for Warner ...
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Bruehl set to become Spanish political martyr
Good Bye, Lenin! star Daniel Bruehl has signed onto take the lead in new Spanish feature Salvador from Barcelona-basedMEDIApro.Theaction film turns on the last two years in the life of 1970's Catalan politicalmartyr Salvador Puig Antich, who was imprisoned at the tail end of the Francoera. MEDIApro chief Jaume Roures ...