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Celluloid Dreams on The Take at Toronto
Paris-based Celluloid Dreamshas picked up international sales rights on the feature documentary The Take, written and narrated by Canadian journalist NaomiKlein, author of the best-selling corporate critique "No Logo", and directed bypartner Avi Lewis.The film, which screens inVenice's new Digital Section and premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs DocumentaryFilm Festival in ...
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Spooked scores NZ distribution
Arkles Entertainment has acquired New Zealand distributionrights for director Geoff Murphy's local conspiracy thriller Spooked.Cliff Curtis (Whale Rider) plays the lead role of ajournalist who becomes obsessive about investigating a mysterious fatal carcrash on the Auckland Harbour Bridge. The starting point for Murphy's scriptwas the true events depicted in Ian ...
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Godard goes to US with Wellspring
Wellspring haspicked up all US rights to Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique (Our Music) and plans to release the picture on Dec22 in New York followed by a nationwide roll-out.TheToronto-bound title premiered at Cannes earlier this year and is styled as ano-holds barred meditation on 20th century Europe, war, Middle Eastern ...
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Tartan adds five films to release slate
Prolific UK distributorTartan Films has picked up a string of films in advance of the early autumnfestival season.Titles Claire Denis's newfilm The Intruder (due to screen in Venice); Three...Extremes,the portmanteau horror picture featuring segments by Miike Takashi, Fruit Chanand Park Chan-Wook; horror pictureThe Eye 2 - the sequel/prequel to thePang ...
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Swiss films target international audiences
At the beginning of thisyear, Andrea Willson, the head of former Deutsche Columbia PicturesFilmproduktion, was recruited by the Swiss rights trader/distributor FalcomMedia Group to manage the company's expansion into German language production.The plan was for Willson toconcentrate on the development and production of feature films for the Germanspeaking area and ...
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The Village opens its doors in Australia, Brazil
Buena VistaInternational's (BVI) The Village has been quietly gathering momentum in recent weeks and shouldboost its $30.8m running total with launches this weekend in Australia on Sept2 and Brazil on Sept 3.Strong debutsare expected bearing in mind that M Night Shyamalan's previous mystery Signs opened top in both markets, grossing$2.7m ...
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MGM hits back at imminent takeover talk
MGM hit backover press reports concerning a possible take-over deal yesterday (sept 1),issuing a statement saying it was continuing to consider strategicalternatives.The statement,which also dismissed as inaccurate speculation that the studio was worth $5bn,follows a Reuters report last week that implied an announcement was about tobreak after employees were temporarily ...
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Passion DVD breaks records on first day of US release
The DVD and VHSversions of The Passion Of The Christ sold 4.1million units on first day of release (Aug 31) inthe US, setting a string of records for Fox Home Entertainment.The distributorclaimed first-day sales have made Passion the number one selling independent release of all time, thenumber one selling drama, ...
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Village cheer for Buena Vista
Over a weekend whenonly one film, The Village, couldmanage to gross over $10m at the international box office, it was still alandmark period for Buena Vista International.BVI achieved $1bnin international ticket sales for the 10th year in a row. It also saw King Arthur cross the $100m mark, while The ...
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Revamp for Export-Union of German Cinema
The international representation of German filmsreceived a boost this week with the Export-Union of German Cinema opening itsdoors to six new shareholders in a revamped agency called German Films Service+ Marketing.The existing shareholders of the Association ofGerman Feature Film Producers, the Association of New German Feature FilmProducers, the Association of ...
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Cruise stirs up French industry with finance minister talks
Tom Cruise was the talk of Paris on Monday. Not just becausehe was in town for the gala premiere of Michael Mann's Collateral, butbecause of a meeting he took earlier in the day.To the slight bemusement of many in the industry, Cruisedrew up on a riverboat and spent an hour ...
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Jayanti to direct Ellroy's Killer On The Road
Award-winning filmmaker Vikram Jayanti (Deep Blue, WhenWe Were Kings) is to direct a movie version of one of James Ellroy's mostgruesome novels, the gay serial killer/buddy novel, Killer On The Road.The film, scripted by former critic Chris Peachment, is dueto shoot next spring. It is being co-produced by Tartan Films ...
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McInnis named festival director at Slamdance
Kathleen McInnishas been named as the new festival director at Slamdance and will also overseeand initiate new year-round programmes.The appointmentends a four-month global trawl by the festival's co-founders."Kathleen'sreputation in general and her filmmaking experience specifically makes her anatural choice for Slamdance," Peter Baxter, president and one of the fouroriginal co-founders ...
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Hall named programming head at Sarasota Film Fest
Tom Hall has been nameddirector of programming for the 7th Annual Sarasota Film Festival (SFF), whichruns from Jan 28-Feb 6 2005.Hall, who remains programmedirector at the Nantucket Film Festival held annually in June, will travel toToronto to scout for material for the SFF."We were determined to bringin a new programmer ...
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NORWAY 2 September
Therelease of three big American films was more than the Norwegian musical This Is The Song You Need (Alt For Egil)could withstand, dropping 44% to fourth behind The Village, Garfield and Fahrenheit9/11.The newlocal release of Torun Lian's The Color OfMilk, based on her own book about a 12 year-old girl ...
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SERBIA/MONTENEGRO 2 September
Two newcomersentered the Serbian-Montenegrin market this weekend, pushing down Garfield and Shrek 2. I, Robot openedwith 4,135 tickets and $20,118, including previews for Tuck, while Pro Vision'sJersey Girl took second place with2,046 admissions and total gross of $6,830.Tuck's Garfield did sell more tickets (2,098)than Girl, but due to a significantlylower ...
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INTERNATIONAL 2 September
Over a weekend when only one film, The Village, could manage to gross over $10m at the internationalbox office, it was still a landmark period for Buena Vista International.In the week when itwas announced that BVI had achieved $1bn in international ticket sales for the10th year in a row, it ...
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FRANCE 2 September
The Village heldits ground to remain in first place this week and added an additional 592,805admissions. Yvan Attal's Ils Se Marierent Et Eurent Beaucoup d'Enfants openedin second place with 415,961 admissions. The film, which stars Attal and hiswife Charlotte Gainsbourg, had the strongest per screen average of the weekwith $7,517 ...
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Spain, Morocco strike film accord
The governments of Spain and Morocco have signed a culturalcollaboration agreement covering sectors of the arts including cinema.The accord spans 2005-2006. Specifically for the cinemasector, the accord talks of furthering the diffusion of films from each countryand promoting professional meetings to discuss potential co-productionmechanisms.The agreement was signed in Rabat on ...
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Gilliam completes key Tideland casting
Terry Gilliam has cast nineyear-old Jodelle Ferland as the star in his upcoming Tideland, alongside a cast that includes US actress JenniferTilly and Janet McTeer and Brendan Fletcher.Ferland is already somethingof veteran, having racked up a string of TV credits including KingdomHospital, Carrie and Wolf Lake since she started acting ...