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International campaign pays off for Alexander
Alexander is on course to take four times its North Americangross from international markets, according to Moritz Borman, head of thefilm's sales and production house Intermedia.Another strong week in Europe led by Italy's opening tally of $3.7m(Euros 2.8m) saw Oliver Stone's epic retain the international box office lead.Adding 16 new ...
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Scalpel sells prize-winning trio to US buyers
On the eve of Sundance, new Paris sales companyScalpel Films has sold a trio of pictures to the US. Launched in 2004 byformer Celluloid Dreams executive Pierre Menahem, Scalpel had success with Private,the hard-hitting Palestine-set drama by Saverio Costanzo, selling it to AvatarFilms. The film, which premiered in Locarno and ...
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Diagonale names Dummies as festival opener
Joerg Kalt's Crash TestDummies will be the opening film at the first Diagonale - Festival ofAustrian Cinema (March 14-20) under new director Birgit Flos.Kalt's second feature, whichinterweaves the story of a Romanian couple who have come to Vienna to collect astolen car with a second story centring on a store ...
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De Laurentiis, Cinecitta acquire Moroccan studio
Legendary Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis and Rome's CinecittaStudios are teaming up as joint owners of a sprawling new studio facility inOuarzazate, in southern Morocco.Standing over 371 acres of land, the studio will be one of theworld's largest, with two shooting stages of 19,380 square feet each. The DinoDe Laurentiis-Cinecitta ...
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Berlinale unveils full competition programme
The Berlinale (Feb 10-20) has unveiled its completecompetition programme with 21 films set to compete for the festival's Goldenand Silver Bears. Five more films will play out of competition.Africa emerges as a key theme of the selection with RaoulPeck's Sometimes In April and Terry George's Hotel Rwanda bothaddressing the genocidal ...
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Kusturica to preside over Cannes jury
Emir Kusturica will presideover the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival organizers announcedWednesday.The director, who hails fromSarajevo, is no stranger to the festival. His first trip was in 1985 with WhenFather Was Away On Business which took the Palme d'Or that year. In 1989 he won best directorat the ...
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ITV renews NBC Universal film deal
UK broadcaster ITV and NBC Universal have extended theirexclusive licensing agreement for the terrestrial rights to NBC Universal'sfeature films and television series.ITV will have access to NBC Universal's 2004 - 2006theatrical titles, including product from Working Title Films. The agreement also includes titles from NBC Universal'sfilm and television libraries, as ...
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28 projects set for Hong Kong financing market
The organisers ofHong Kong's first ever Entertainment Expo (March 22 - April 6) have unveiledthe 28 projects that will participate in the Hong Kong-Asia Film FinancingForum (HAF), one of eight events to take place during the 16-day film andentertainment mega event.Among thefilmmakers that will be presenting projects at the three-day ...
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Cecchi Gori wins Euros 160m lawsuit against Merrill Lynch
One-time Italian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori has won a legal battle against Merrill Lynch, which now must return Euros 160m it had seized from the producer's coffers to cover alleged debts.Merrill Lynch had seized the money from Cecchi Gori's holding company, Fin.Ma.Vi, to pay back creditors, in a case ...
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UK film starts fall 40% in 2004
James Bond, Jude Law perioddrama Tulip Fever, and a big-screen adaptation of BridesheadRevisited all failed to get off the ground last year as UK productionlevels crashed.As the industry was hit bytougher tax laws and a scaling back at traditional sources of funding such asFilmFour, the number of indigenous UK films ...
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Danish Film Academy fetes King's Game
The following honours were presented at the Danish Film Academy awards ceremony on Sunday 16 January 2005:Best Danish Feature Film King's Game, producer Meta Louise Foldager for Nimbus Film. Directed by Nicolai Arcel.Best Children and Family Film Terkel In Trouble, produced by Thomas Heinesen and Trine Heidegaard for Nordisk Film. ...
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Irish Film Board appoints new members
Ireland's Minister for Arts,Sport and Tourism, John O'Donoghue has announced the appointment of the newmembers of the Irish Film Board, effective January 17, for a four-year term. Joining existing out-goingmembers, director Alan Gilsenan and academic Margaret McCarthy MacIntyre, areJames Morris (Chair), Lesley McKimm, Kevin Moriarty, Tristan Orpen Lynch, andKirsten Sheridan.Morris ...
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Sea Inside wins audience award at Palm Springs
AlejandroAmenabar's true life drama The Sea Inside won the audience award for best narrative feature at the16th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, while Yaron Zilberman'schronicle of the Jewish Sports Club in Watermarks took corresponding documentary honours.Danielle Arbid'scoming-of-age story In the Battlefields won the New Voices/New Visions Award and first-timedirector ...
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Bailey named international programmer at TIFF
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival (TIFF) has appointed Cameron Bailey as one of its internationalprogrammers. He returns to the festival after an absence of eight years.A programmer, film criticand screenwriter, Bailey will focus on films from Africa and South Asia andfilmmakers from the US and Europe. Bailey has a had a ...
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UK study reveals Ethnic filmmakers facing barriers
Minority ethnic led (MEL) UKindependent production companies face particular barriers to success in thefilm and television sector. This is the finding of new research conducted bythe Institute for Employment Studies (IES) for Pact and the UK Film Council. The study found the mostsignificant barriers for such companies included the initial ...
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Bocco gets new independent role at Gersh
US talent agencyGersh Agency has hired former Miramax Films senior vice president ofacquisitions Arianna Bocco (pictured) to head up its new Independent Feature Packagingdivision.Based in NewYork, the division will seek to assemble financing for independent features andsell them in the global marketplace, while broadening Gersh's existing rosterof directing and producing ...
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European Film Promotion boosts Sales Support budget
European Film Promotioninitiative Film Sales Support is entering its second year with increasedfunding and additional festivals.After a successful trialphase in 2004, the MEDIA Plus Programme increased the scheme's budget to Euros400,000 in 2005, giving the initiative extra clout to allow more salesrepresentatives to promote their films outside of Europe. Two ...
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Buerling gets senior job at LA's Filmmates Co
Veteran producerJeanette Buerling has been appointed executive vice-president of production anddistribution at Los Angeles-based Filmmates Corporation.Buerling hasworked with Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros, Germany's Leo Kirch Network DSFand the Bertelsman Group, among others.Prior to herappointment with Filmmates she served as executive director of HollywoodInternational Finance, a film investment fund that ...
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Keith named senior vp at Yari's Bull's Eye
Yari Film Group'sBull's Eye Entertainment has hired former DreamWorks executive Leah Keith tothe new position of senior vice president of development and production.Keith will focusprimarily on broadening Bull's Eye reach into studio films and will oversee asmall number of independent projects. The company has a first-look deal atParamount.She arrives atBull's ...
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Huntsberry temporarily steps into Finkelstein's shoes at Universal
FrederickHuntsberry has been named interim president and chief operating officer atUniversal Pictures while Rick Finkelstein takes an undetermined leave ofabsence after sustaining injuries in a recent skiing accident.Huntsberry willreport to Universal chairman Stacey Snider and continues to oversee NBCUniversal Television Distribution in his role as executive vice president,reporting jointly to ...