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AFM announces conference & seminar schedule
Conferences and seminars covering US productionincentives, digital filmmaking, and how to exploit ancillary markets are amongthe line-up of events scheduled for next month's AFM in Santa Monica.Other subjectsat the market, which runs from Nov 3-10, include the marketing of women'spictures, cinematography and budget constraints, and writer-producercollaborations.The conferencespresented by Akin Gump ...
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Australia, New Zealand generate star power
Films of all shapesand sizes are now underway in New Zealand and, after a considerable productiondrought, in Australia - and both countries are awash with internationallyrenowned acting talent.In Australia, HeathLedger and Geoffrey Rush are to star in Candy,and Cate Blanchett is the focus of LittleFish, which also stars Sam Neill ...
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Eaton named UK Film Council deputy chairman
Producer Andrew Eaton hasbeen appointed deputy chairman of the UK Film Council, the most senior positiona member of the independent film business has held at the Government-backedsupport body.Eaton, director MichaelWinterbottom's regular producer, last made headlines this Cannes, when hissexually-explicit film Nine Songs outraged the UK's rightwing press. Hereplaces former UK ...
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Gyllenhaal confirmed as Mendes' lead in Jarhead
Jake Gyllenhaal has beenconfirmed as the lead in Universal's Gulf War drama Jarhead, which Sam Mendes will direct based on US MarineAnthony Swofford's memoirs.William Broyles Jr adaptedthe screenplay and Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher will produce under their Red Wagonbanner. Ivan Fenyo, Laz Alonso, Evan Jones, Jacob Vargas, Brian Geraghty ...
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Harmony Gold signs three-year sales deal with Slamdance
Production and distributioncompany Harmony Gold has signed a three-year deal to become the exclusiveinternational distributor for Slamdance Media Group.Harmony Gold will hold alltheatrical, broadcast and DVD distribution rights and will have access to aminimum of 12 new titles each year. Slamdance retains North American rights.The first two pictures willbe offered ...
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New Zealand lobbies for second film sound stage
New Zealand film agency Film Auckland is bidding forUS$1.8m (NZ$1.7m) from the New Zealand Government to help construct a secondpurpose-built film sound stage in the country.New Zealand's only other purpose-built film stage is downsouth in Wellington and is now being used for Peter Jackson's King Kong.It was built earlier this ...
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Focus teams with Hadida on Silent Hill
Focus Features has acquiredinternational sales rights to Davis Film Productions' adaptation of Konami'ssmash videogame series Silent Hill,with Christophe Gans set to direct and Davis Film's Samuel Hadida producing fora March 2005 start.Sales will commence at nextmonth's AFM. Hadida's distribution company Metropolitan Filmexport will releasein France and a North American distributor ...
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Odyssey takes Lassie for a walk
London-basedOdyssey Entertainment has signed a deal with Classic Media and Firstsight Filmsto handle worldwide distribution on Charles Sturridge's live action Lassie project.Odyssey's RalphKamp and Louise Goodsill will represent the title at next month's AFM. UK andJapanese rights were recently sold to Entertainment and Shochiku respectively.Sturridge willdirect from his screenplay based ...
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INTERNATIONAL 21 October
The top two international titles eased passed $50m thisweekend as Shark Tale held the leadand Collateral climbed back to fourthfollowing a host of number one launches for both films.DreamWorks Animation's latest hit opened in multipleEuropean territories spearheaded by number one positions in the UK ($13.6mincluding previews, $9.1m without), France ($4.2m) ...
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FRANCE 21 October
US boxoffice leader Shark Tale opened atnumber one in France this week with 630,561 admissions. The film shouldcontinue to hold well given the arrival of school vacations next week althoughit will face fierce competition from the October 27 release of Jean-PierreJeunet's A Very Long Engagement.Last week'snumber one, L'Enquete Corse, droppedto ...
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NORWAY 21 October
While Shrek 2stayed at the top of the Norwegian chart for the fifth week running, itsNOK17,220 screen average was matched and even bested by a number of newreleases which had fewer prints.Among these the new local surfer-romantic-drama Monsterthursday, which made it intofourth with NOK20.755 average from its 37 prints. Though ...
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Capitol Films names Crowe as head of sales
SimonCrowe, formerly head of sales at Icon Entertainment, is joining Capitol Filmsas head of sales.Aspart of the move, Eve Schoukroun has been promoted to senior sales manager.Crowe replaces Nicole Mackey, who joined Fortissimo Film Sales to spearhead itsLondon arm.Crowesaid that UK-based Capitol has established itself "as one of, if not ...
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Hof Film Days unveils festival line-up
New features by Anno Saul (Kebab Connection),Cyril Tuschi (Sommer Hunde Soehne), Andrew Hood (Das Apfelbaumhaus)and Gil Mehmert (Aus der Tiefe Des Raumes) are among a raft of worldpremieres of German films at this year's Hof International Film Days (Oct27-31) which will be opening with Dennis Gansel's Karlovy Vary prize-winner Napola.Internationally ...
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10-strong delegation from Europe to attend AFI FEST under EFP auspices
Hungarian director NimrodAntal, Germany's Mennan Yappo and Denmark's Paprika Steen and are among adelegation of emerging European talent whose work will be showcased at theupcoming AFI FEST 2004 presented by Audi.Organised under the auspices of European Film Promotion, 10film-makers and actors will attend festival screenings of their pictures andQ&A session ...
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Africa added to German coproduction market
Feature film projects from South Africa looking forfinancing will be presented for the first time at this year's MannheimCoproduction Meetings during the Mannheim-Heidelberg International FilmFestival (November 18-27).Among the African projects selected for pitching topotential co-producers are Robyn Aronstam's TheJoyous, which will be executive produced by John Boorman; Akin Omotoso's The ...
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Von Trier turns to Antichrist
Danish maverick Lars von Trier might be in the middle of editing his Dogville follow-up, Manderlay, but he has promised producer and Zentropa co-founder Peter Aalbaek Jensen that he will make a more commercial film before turning to the final instalment in the USA trilogy, Wasington.While a finished script has ...
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BBC considers increasing film production investment
BBC director general MarkThompson has said the broadcaster needs to look at raising its investment inthe UK film industry.Thompson told an all-partyselect committee on Tuesday that the BBC would be willing to screen more UKfilms and less US fare. He added that the broadcaster should also look atboosting the $18m ...
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Echo Bridge buys worldwide rights to Zachary Beaver
LosAngeles-based independent Echo Bridge has acquired worldwide rights in allmedia from Revere Pictures to the family picture When Zachary Beaver Came ToTown.Adapted from Kimberly Willis Holt's National BookAward-winning young adult novel by John Schultz, who also directed, the picturecentres on the fateful arrival of a sideshow attraction in a sleepy ...
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Benelux exhibitors set standard for industry growth
Led by the Netherlands, one of the few European cinemamarkets to show growth in 2003, leading exhibitors in the Benelux regionreported improved financial results in the most recent period according to anew report from industry analysts, Dodona Research.Pan-Europeanexhibitor, Kinepolis Group, with 124 screens in Belgium, recorded a profit forthe first ...
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Cork celebrates sell-out festival
Launched with a packed house for the Irish premiere ofDamien O'Donnell's Inside I'm Dancing,the 49th Cork Film Festival closed its doors after a week marked by manysimilarly packed houses, with audiences frequently surpassing the organisers'expectations.No one would have forecast, for instance, that StacyPeralta's surfing documentary RidingGiants would have filled the ...