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Buyers out in force for Berlin market
Film buyers and sellers are pouring in to Berlin inunprecedented numbers in time for this year's festival and European Film Market(EFM), which starts today.Buyer numbers are understood to be up by about 30%. Salescompanies are shoe-horned into the EFM's Debis building and scores more areoperating out of hotels in and ...
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Director Eytan Fox floats The Bubble at Berlin
After the high-profile success of last year's Panoramaopening film Walk On Water, Israeli-American director Eytan Fox is using Berlin as the platform for his next film The Bubble.New French sales company Scalpel Films has picked upinternational rights to the story of three young people who share an apartmentin Tel Aviv's ...
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Celluloid takes on sales for Sundance winner Blue
Leading French sales agent Celluloid Dreams hasadded to its Berlin slate, picking up two films from this year's Panoramasection. FortyShades Of Blue won the dramatic competition at lastmonth's Sundance festival, while Hostage,by Constantine Giannaris, is based on a real-life bus hijack which took placein Greece.Celluloid president, Hengameh Panahi said:"We screened ...
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Wild Bunch enjoys Dirty Love with McCarthy
French sales and distribution outfit Wild Bunch has picked up Dirty Love,the screenwriting debut from model Jenny McCarthy. Wild Bunch has taken world rights outside the US and will distribute thefilm in France via its nascent distribution company Pan Europeenne.Wild Bunch chief Vincent Maraval bills the film as a 'sort ...
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London Critics honour Scorsese, Sideways
Martin Scorsese was nameddirector of the year for The Aviator at the 25th Awards ofthe London Film Critics' Circle last night.Scorsese was presented withthe award by Cate Blanchett, one of the stars of the film, at a ceremony in aidof the NSPCC at the Dorchester Hotel in London.However The Aviatormissed ...
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Pathe joins Marshall's Descent as shooting wraps
Celador Films has concluded principal photography on TheDescent, Neil Marshall's follow up to his 2002 hit, Dog Soldiers. Pathe Pictures International is to handle worldwide salesand Pathe UK will handle UK distribution.Shooting began on location in Scotland at the end of lastyear and moved to Pinewood Studios in January where ...
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Venice set to honour Miyazaki and streamline festival
Hayao Miyazaki will receive a career Golden Lion at thenext Venice Film Festival, which will take place from August 31-September 10.Itis the first time the award will be handed out to an animation filmmaker."HayaoMiyazaki is the giant who knocked down the walls which enclosed Japaneseanimation," said Venice artistic director Marco ...
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Saidel's V!S takes on sales for Littin's La Ultima Luna
Paris-based sales agent MaxSaidel has picked up world rights on Chilean veteran Miguel Littin's latestfeature, La Ultima Luna.Sales will be handled out ofSaidel's newly-renamed V!S, formerly Vision International. Saidel is alsogeneral manager of Spanish sales consortium Latido, specialising in Latinofilms.Set between Palestine andChile and shot in Arabic and Hebrew, La ...
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Mackenzie readies post-Asylum projects
Rising young Scottish director David Mackenzie,whose latest film Asylum screens in Berlin's main competition, ishatching two new Scottish-based projects. Through Glasgow-based Sigma Productions,Mackenzie is set to direct an adaptation of Peter Jinks' novel Hallam Foe.A dark tale of an adolescent whose pet hobby is voyeurism, the film promises tobe in ...
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Flightplan on cruise control after second weekend
Touchstone's thriller Flightplan stayed topof the charts as it added an estimated $15m haul to raise the domestic runningtotal to $46.2m after two weekends.Opening in second place on $10.1m was Serenity, Universal's sci-fi thriller starring Nathan Fillionand Gina Torres. Joss Whedon's picture drew very strong reviews and averaged$4,634 on 2,188 ...
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War of words erupts after De Hadeln's Montreal move
With the ink barely dry on his contract,Moritz De Hadeln, the new director of programming of the newly-launchedFestival Internationale du Films de Montreal (FIFM), has already come underfire from rival festival supremo Serge Losique's Montreal World Film Festival(MWFF).On Wednesday, the MWFF issued aterse one-page press release warning the new event ...
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NBC Universal signs distribution deal with Japan's Broadmedia
NBC Universal and Broadmedia Studios Corporation have signed anexclusive, multi-year distribution agreement for free and basic subscriptioncable television rights to a wide selection of Universal's features andtelevision product in Japan.Under the terms of the agreement, Broadmedia Studios Corporation becomes NBCUniversal's exclusive television distributor for these titles in Japan.The agreement includes ...
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Wild Bunch buys world rights to Sundance comedy Dirty Love
Wild Bunch has picked up international sales on Dirty Love,John Asher's Sundance comedy that played in the Park City at Midnight programme.Written by and starring Jenny McCarthy, Dirty Love is a send-up ofLos Angeles life and centres on a jilted women who embarks upon a bizarre questto "find the white ...
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Women In Film, UIP launch third Directing Change scheme
Directing Change, a UK scheme to address theunder-representation of women directors in the industry, is to run for a thirdconsecutive year in 2005.Runby Women in Film and Television (WFTV) and backed by United InternationalPictures (UIP), it gives women directors the opportunity to work alongside anexperienced and internationally established director during ...
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MPD tips Laberge for corporate development role
Alliance Atlantis' Motion Picture Distribution (MPD) hasappointed Paul Laberge to the newly created position of executive vicepresident of corporate development and general counsel for MPD as well asgeneral counsel and corporate secretary of Movie Distribution Income Fund.MPD and the Fund incorporate the income trust created when Alliance Atlantisspun off its ...
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Pollack wraps on Frank Gehry documentary
Sydney Pollack has completed shooting on his firstdocumentary Sketches Of Frank Gehry, about the famed architect whosecreations include the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and theGuggenheim Museum in Bilbao.Pollack, a close friend of Gehry's for more than 25 years, spent four yearsmaking the picture and shot on location ...
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here! Films picks up US rights to Julie Johnson
here! Films has picked upall US rights to Bob Gosse's relationship drama Julie Johnson from Cinemavault Releasing and plans to premiere thetitle in June on its gay and lesbian premium television network here!Julie Johnson stars Lili Taylorand Courtney Love as best friends who move in together and eventually fall inlove. ...
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Guadalajara to open with Waters' Shame
TheGuadalajara International Film Festival will open on March 11 with thescreening of John Waters' new film Dirty Shame.The filmis the story of an employee who suffers a brain concussion and becomes a sexaddict. It stars Tracey Ullman, Selma Blair and Johnny Knoxville.TheMexican festival will also play four of Waters' previous ...
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South Africa, Australia co-production treaty mooted
The governing council of theScreen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) is expected next week toendorse a report arguing the case for a co-production arrangement to be put inplace with South Africa.If it happens, the reportwill be presented to the Australian Film Commission (AFC), the governmentagency that administers such arrangements. The ...
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Koltai's Fateless steps up to Berlin competition
Fateless (Sorstalansag), the directorial debut of celebrated Hungariancinematographer Lajos Koltai, will make a splash in Berlin as a last minuteentrant to the official competition. It will play on Wednesday (Feb16) in a time slot vacated by Heights, Chris Terio's New York-set drama, which was previously announced as playing in official ...