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Moonstone wraps Chen Kaige's Promise
EtchieStroh's Moonstone Entertainment has completed principal photography on ThePromise (Wu-Ji), a top-levelpan-Asian production in the hands of legendary Chinese director Chen Kaige.Filmingof the epic fantasy romance took six months on location in Beijing, InnerMongolia, Yunnan, Hengdian and Shangri-La with a glittering technical crew andan impressive cast.Inaddition to Farewell My Concubinedirector ...
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Leon named consumer marketing czar for Columbia
George Leon has been promoted to executive vice presidentof worldwide consumer marketing for Columbia Tristar Motion Picture Group in amove that consolidates theatrical licensing, merchandising, product placement,consumer products and worldwide promotions under one division.In his new capacity Leon will take on the additionalresponsibility of supervising licensing, merchandising, and consumer products,a ...
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Content partners with US distributor Image
US-UK operation ContentFilmand US DVD company Image Entertainment have struck a long-term co-productionand distribution deal.Under the agreement, Contentwill source and produce a series of films that Image will distribute in theNorth American video market under a new ContentFilm label.Content's sales arm, ContentInternational, will handle worldwide sales on the films, which ...
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Sogepaq sells on de la Iglesia's Crime
Spain's Sogepaq hasannounced the first sales on cult director Alex de la Iglesia's new blackcomedy Ferpect Crime.The film, which willscreen twice for buyers at this weekC;s American Film Market, has sold broadlyin Europe and Latin America.Distributors in Europeinclude La Fabrique de Films in France, Eco Filmes in Portugal, Audiovisual inGreece, ...
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Darwin evolving at Icon
Icon EntertainmentInternational is understood to be taking sales duties on The Darwin Awards, a romantic comedy starring Winona Ryder and JosephFiennes.Written and to bedirected by Finn Taylor, the film tells the story of a detective (Fiennes) andan insurance claims investigator (Ryder) looking into a potential winner of theDarwin Award, an ...
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US' Millennium strikes deal with producer Haft
Avi Lerner's MillenniumFilms has signed a five-picture production deal with veteran producer StevenHaft, whose credits include Dead Poets' Society, Tigerland and Emma.The non-exclusive agreementprovides his Haft Entertainment with funds to attach talent and producepictures with foreign distribution through Millennium's Nu Image. Titles areexpected to be in the $15m-$45m range."We are ...
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Fortissimo strikes first major sale on Seven Swords
Fortissimo Film Salesclocked up its first sale on new Tsui Hark film Seven Swords that it picked up on the eve of the American FilmMarket.Although many Italiancompanies are boycotting this autumn's AFM, whose move did so much to dent lastmonth's Mifed, Italian buyer Medusa was first to step up for ...
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Night People, GAMERz win Scottish funding
Ensemble drama Night People and comic fantasy GAMERzare the latest features to be funded under the New Found Films scheme runby Scottish Screen, Scottish Television and Grampian Television.Each feature will have a budget of £300,000 and both areexpected to go into production in the first months of 2005.Written by Adrian ...
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Samuel Goldwyn picks up Saint Ralph for US
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquiredUS distribution rights to Michael McGowan's comedy Saint Ralph, produced by Alliance Atlantis and Amaze Film +Television Production. The US release is scheduled for spring 2005.Campbell Scott, AdamButcher, Jennifer Tilley and Gordon Pinsent star in the bittersweet comedyabout a Catholic schoolboy who attempts to save his ...
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Momentum hits Raw Nerve with GreeneStreet
New York's GreeneStreetFilms International has closed its first key European territory on its debuttitle from genre label Raw Nerve, selling all UK rights to 2001 Maniacs to Momentum Pictures.GreeneStreet partner andsales head Cedric Jeanson aims to set up a network of one or two regular buyersin each major market to ...
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Six suitors seek sales on sexy Shanghai Lady
At least half a dozen of the world's top sales companies havejoined the frenzied chase for the next Wong Kar-wai film The LadyFromShanghai, which stars Nicole Kidman and Gong Li.The sellers range from Studiocanal, TF1, Wild Bunch, Pathe andWong's regular sales and finance house Fortissimo Film Sales to US powerhouseSummit ...
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2046 leads Golden Horse nominations
Wong Kar-wai's 2046 came outas the favourite after nominations yesterday for Taiwan's 41stGolden Horse film awards.The romantic fantasy was nominated in eightcategories including best film, best actor (Tony Leung Kar-fai), best actress (ZhangZiyi), best cinematography, best art direction, best costume, bestmusicand best sound.But surprisingly,there was no nomination for Wong himself.Three ...
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Plague to start with Barker, Armada
CliveBarker's Midnight Picture Show label (MPS) and Armada Pictures are teaming upto produce the horror picture Plague, which is set to begin shooting inFebruary 2005.Barker,Jorge Saralegui and Tim O'Hair will produce and Armada's Chris Sievernich andMatt Milich will serve as executive producers with MPS's Joe Daley and AnthonyDiblasi and D ...
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US' Millennium strikes deal with producer Haft
Avi LernerC;s MillenniumFilms has signed a five-picture production deal with veteran producer StevenHaft, whose credits include Dead PoetsC; Society, Tigerland and Emma.The non-exclusive agreementprovides his Haft Entertainment with funds to attach talent and producepictures with foreign distribution through MillenniumC;s Nu Image. Titles areexpected to be in the $15m-$45m range."We are ...
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Media Asia shares begin trading in Singapore
Hong Kong's Media Asia,producer of the Infernal Affairs trilogy, began trading on the SESDAQ ofthe Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday (Nov 3). The IPO attracted strong interest from both institutions and small private investors. The retail tranche was eventually 23 times subscribed.After the first day of trading the shares were ...
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TF1 extends relations with Cattleya
France's TF1 is to extendits relationship with Italian producer Cattleya by handling the next twoprojects from the thrusting talent shop.It will handle the next filmby The Best Of Youth director Marco Tullio Giordano and the next film byveteran actor-director Michele Placido. Already on TF1's bulging autumn AFMslate is Cattleya's Eyes ...
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CPH:DOX unveils ambitious 2nd edition
The second editionof Copenhagen's international documentary film festival CPH:DOX, runs in theDanish capital from Nov 5-14, with higher expectations and a greater number offilms after last year's success which recorded 11,700 admissions.The Danish Producers'Association has instigated a documentary award, GoldDoc, which will be awardedto the best local films at the ...
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fox21 to sponsor Slamdance Teleplay Competition
Slamdance Film Festival hasannounced the year-round sponsorship of fox21, 20th Century Fox'sboutique production, kicking off at the upcoming festival in January with theBlind Script Deal award for the winner of the Teleplay Competition Grand Prize.Slamdance set up theoriginal Teleplay Competition to discover new voices in television writing. Therecipient of the ...
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Russian distributor, exhibitor team to market talent abroad
Russiandistributor Michael Schlicht and Moscow based exhibitor Paul Heth have teamedup to market Russian film talent to Hollywood following their successfulbrokering of Russian blockbuster NightWatch to 20th Century Fox.The newcompany PGM (Patten Media Group) will market not only Russian productinternationally but also Russian scripts, re-make rights and talent."We thinkit's the ...
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HanWay adds Morgen, Pepe, Fulton titles to slate
HanWay Films has acquired Addiction,Inc, a nicotine docu-drama from TheKid Stays In The Picture's BrettMorgen, and Brothers Of The Head, by Lost In La Mancha's Louis Pepe and Keith Fulton.Addiction, Inc usesreal-life footage and re-constructions to tell the story of Victor DeNoble, whodeveloped a cigarette with far less health risks ...