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Echo Bridge buys domestic DVD distributor Platinum Disc
LosAngeles-based independent Echo Bridge Entertainment is consolidating its NorthAmerican distribution enterprise with the announced merger of leading NorthAmerican home entertainment distributor Platinum Disc Corporation and its2,000-title library.TheWisconsin-based Platinum Disc Corporation will become Platinum Disc, asubsidiary of Echo Bridge Entertainment, and will continue to operate as beforewith its 225 staff intact."This ...
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Top Euro buyers swallow Throat rights
Ahead of moreanticipated business at Berlin later this week, Summit Entertainment hasannounced a slew of key European sales on Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato'sdocumentary Inside Deep Throat.The picture, which received its world premiere at Sundanceand plays in Berlin's Panorama programme, sold to Momentum in the UK.Constantin in Germany, Metropolitan FilmExport ...
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Sundance Channel buys de Lestrade's Staircase
The Sundance Channel haspicked up pay television rights to Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's true-crimedocumentary The Staircase.The eight-part miniseriesfollows the investigation into the cause of death of Nortel executive KathleenPeterson, and will premiere as a special Sundance Channel DOCday seriesbeginning on Apr 4.The Maha Films production isthe latest release from de Lestrade, ...
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Italy unveils Festa del Cinema cut-price tickets
The Italian film industry isto introduce its first ever three-day Festa del Cinema in April, when it willoffer cut-price tickets and is expected to heavily promote summer releases.The Festa del Cinema will take place between April 25 - anational holiday - and April 28. Spectators who buy one full price ...
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Studs cranks up for Dublin shoot with Gleeson
A five week shoot starts this week in county Dublin onBrother Films' Studs, the feature filmdebut of playwright and theatre director Paul Mercier who has adapted his ownplay of the same title for the screen.BrendanGleeson heads the cast as the mysterious, volatile and threatening soccertrainer who takes on a team ...
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Dream gets international on Tell Them Who You Are
LosAngeles-based production and international sales company Dream Entertainmenthas picked up international rights to Mark Wexler's documentary Tell ThemWho You Are and willbegin sales at the European Film Market in Berlin.The picturepremiered at Venice last year and offers a portrait of the filmmaker's fatherHaskell Wexler, the legendary cinematographer, outspoken left-wing activist ...
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French DVD market surges
The French Film Commission (CNC) has released video and DVDfigures for 2004 in conjunction with market research group GfK. The numberspoint to the continuing development of the DVD market while video salesdecline. Overall, the DVD/Video market saw a 32.1% rise in sales toEuros 1.96bn. Sales of DVDs rose 30.4% on ...
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Sweden's Sonet readies international shoots
Swedish distribution and productioncompany Sonet Film is readying a number of international film projects to addto its slate of local productions.The first project is English language title A PerfectFamily, a co-production with Sonet's newAmerican partner, independent production company Sound Pictures. Currently inpre-production, the absurd and romantic drama comedy centres on ...
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NETHERLANDS 8 February
Dutch actioner VetHard!, a remake of Danish 2002 hit film Old Men In New Cars,achieved an impressive second place in the local chart with Euros 233,000 on 79screens. 25-Year old debutdirector Tim Oliehoek has proven himself quite a media personality for the lastfew weeks, appearing extensively in all possible papers, ...
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Miramax Films acquires Pathe's Mrs Henderson Presents
Miramax Films has acquired the North American, Latin American, and German distribution rights to Stephen Frears's Mrs. Henderson Presents.Starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins, Mrs. Henderson Presents is a Pathe Pictures-BBC Films production written by Martin Sherman and produced through Heyman-Hoskins Productions by Norma Heyman, and executive produced by ...
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Momentum celebrates biggest UK opening
Jumping the gun on theupcoming schools half-term holiday, UK independent distributor MomentumPictures has bred a champion with family pick-up Racing Stripes.The film gave Momentum itsall-time biggest opening with $2.16m (£1.145m) from 394 sites, beating March2002 Britney Spears vehicle Crossroads which took $2.12m (£1.126m) from373 sites.Racing Stripes is the official film ...
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Elektra adds $2m for Fox as Sideways builds momentum
Elektra grossed an estimated $2m on 1,172international screens through Fox International at the weekend, raising itsinternational cumulative total to $18.9m.The comic bookadaptation opened in Italy on $626,088 on 215 for an unconfirmed ranking, andopened in fourth place in each of Peru and Ecuador.The Aviator, which the distributor handles only inSpain, ...
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Universal/UIP scores $2.7m weekend for Ray
Universal's Ray grossed an estimated $2.7m through UIPon 1,250 screens in 27 territories at the weekend, raising the internationalrunning total to $13.5m.Highlightsincluded a decent second weekend hold in Australia that raised the total by$550,000 on 205 to $1.6m. The picture added $390,000 on 198 in the UK for $2.7mafter three ...
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Closer passes $50m for Sony with $6.5m weekend
Continuing itssuccessful international run, Closer added an estimated $6.5m on its peak level of 2,405international prints through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) atthe weekend to raise its running total to $55.2m.The drama stayedtop in its second weekend in Australia on $830,000 for $2.9m, and added $1m on330 in its fourth ...
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The Incredibles passes ET in all-time international pantheon
The Incredibles became the 20th biggest international release of all time at theweekend as it pushed ET out of the top 20.The Buena Vista International(BVI) release added an estimated $3.2m for a $359m international running total,powered by a $700,000 number one debut in Hong Kong, its final market.National Treasure grossed ...
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Studio Babelsberg prepares for flotation
Studio Babelsberg is planning to go public in the first halfof this year, according to managing director and co-owner Carl Woebcken.In an interview with the business newspaper Euro AmSonntag at the weekend, he revealed thatthe German film studios were 'in intensive talks' about an IPO whichwould be undertaken within the ...
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TFI International takes on sales for Cattleya trio
TF1International has taken on international distribution rights to Italiandirector Cristina Comencini's La Bestia Nel Cuore, a new production fromRome outfit Cattleya.Backed by RaiCinema, La Bestia Nel Cuore is a family drama adapted from Comencini's ownnovel about a woman who was abused by her father as a child. The film iscurrently ...
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Narnia embarks on Czech shoot
Production on TheChronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe has moved to theCzech Republic and will shoot for two weeks beginning on February 7. Director Andrew Adamson (Shrek,Shrek 2) began principal photography in New Zealand in June. The film is shooting in anorthernpart of the country known ...
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Franka Potente readies directorial debut
Run Lola Run starFranka Potente, who is a member of the International Jury at this year'sBerlinale, is to make her directorial debut this spring with a 25-30-minuteshort film.Producer Stefan Arndt of X-Filme creative pool told ScreenDaily.com that Wer Die Tollkirsche Ausgraebt will be 'a really classical silent film likefrom the ...
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Eichinger voted 'most important player' in German film
Producer-distributor Bernd Eichinger has been voted as themost important player in the German film business in an industry surveypublished on Sunday.Industry veteran Eichinger saw his production of OliverHirschbiegel's Hitler bunker drama Downfallreceive a nomination in the Academy Awards' Foreign Language Filmcategory last month.A jury of leading film critics, TV executives, ...