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AFM: Myriad strikes sales Deal with Front Street
Myriad Pictures has pacted with Front Street Films, the producer of Sundance hit We Don't Live Here Anymore, to handle international sales on The Deal, a Wall Street thriller which is set to star Christian Slater and Selma Blair.Slater will play a financial hot shot and Blair his eager new ...
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AFM: Moviehouse strikes trio of US sales
UK sales outfit Moviehouse Entertainment has secured US sales for three of its crossover art-house titles The Rage In Placid Lake, Live Forever and Dead Dog Blues.Larry Meistrich's Film Movement, a first-run DVD subscription service set up last year, bought rights to The Rage In Placid Lake, a dark comedy ...
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AFM: deals in brief
*Myriad Pictures has closed a seven figure-deal with Rai Cinema in Italy for its psychological thriller Trauma starring Colin Firth. The deal was negotiated by Myriad's senior vice president, international distribution, Samantha Horley with Rai's head of film rights Paola Malanga. The film, which was produced by the UK's Little ...
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Czech producers battle against the odds
For full Czech listings click HEREFollowing 2003's banner year for local cinema, Czech producers are looking out for another winner. But with the usual local sources of film funds drying up and with a slate of upcoming releases that includes only a few of the most famous Czech directors, ...
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Manga sues Miramax over Kill Bill, Miramax countersues
Twoweeks before the scheduled March 5 opening of Kill Bill Vol I in Spain through BVI, Spanish distributor MangaFilms last week filed a suit against Miramax Films in a Barcelona courtclaiming non-completion of a distribution agreement for both Vol I and Vol II.Andyesterday Miramax Films filed a suit back in ...
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Film Bridge strikes three-picture deal with Philippe Mora
Santa Monica-based financingand sales outfit Film Bridge International has signed a three-picture deal withproducer-director Philippe Mora for When We Were Modern, Strange Matters and Hamlet Unzipped.When We Were Modern is due to shoot later this spring In Australia and Londonand tells the story of the Australian painter Sidney Nolan who ...
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HUNGARY
Even though both UIP-Duna Film's new release, Paycheck and InterCom's Farrelly offering, Stuck on You had decent openings at the Hungarian box office with over 14,000 and 12,000 admissions respectively, the momentum still belongs to Gabor Herendi's Hungarian Vagabond (Magyar vandor) which in just under three weeks has passed the ...
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NETHERLANDS
Until recently, family-films and especially those based on children's books, seemed a sure-fire success for Dutch cinemas.However, the disappointing opening results of the Belgian-Dutch coproduction Suske And Wiske: The Dark Diamond, with a meagre screen-average of Euros 465 came as a nasty surprise for distributor Independent Films.The company expected the ...
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The Return Of The King passes $1bn at the box office
Finally, after weeks of anticipation, The Lord Of The Rings:The Return Of The Kingofficially passed $1bn in worldwide ticket sales at the weekend.New Line International'spicture grossed $13.9m from 3,655 screens in 60 markets to raise its internationalrunning total to $644.3m. Added to the weekend's $2.8m US gross for a $361.1mdomestic ...
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Cheaper By The Dozen adds $4.3m from 11 markets for Fox
Fired by a second place $1.5m opening on 250 screens in Spain CheaperBy The Dozen added $4.3mfrom 994 screens in 11 markets at the weekend to raise its internationalrunning total to $27.1m.In its second week in the UK the comedy climbed 23% and grossed$2.4m on 369 screens for $8.9m.Stuck On ...
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AFM claims 11% rise in buyers
AFMA's three top executives sounded a confident noteyesterday ahead of the American Film Market's opening day of trading in Santa Monica,highlighting the trade body's 40% non-American contingent and high projectedattendance as key drivers in what they expect to be a vibrant AFM this week.Speaking at a press conference to launch ...
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UK government lambasts 'abusive' film financing schemes
Facing a PR backlash over its changes to tax rules this month, the UK government has sought to justify the move by saying that financiers were drawing up "abusive" schemes "at the expense of honest taxpayers."Although the threatened collapse of major productions such as The Libertine, Man To Man and ...
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Showcase adds Dorm Daze, Italian Husband to AFM slate
Showcase Entertainment has secured international distributionrights to the comedies National Lampoon's Dorm Daze and Our Italian Husband in addition to worldwide rights to thrillerPuerto Vallarta Squeeze,as previously announced.Directed and produced by David and Scott Hillenbrand based on ascreenplay by Patrick Casey and Worm Miller, National Lampoon's Doom Daze centres on ...
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John Malcolm enlisted to head MPAA's worldwide anti-piracy ops
John G Malcolm, a former Department of Justice deputy assistantAttorney-General, has been named senior vice president and director ofworldwide anti-piracy operations at the Motion Picture Association of America(MPAA).Malcom's tenure begins on Apr 5 and he succeeds Ken Jacobsen, whowill retire at the end of the month.Malcolm oversaw the Dept of ...
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Tartan Films gets UK rights to My Architect from Film Sales Co
Tartan Films has picked up all rights in the UK and Ireland toNathaniel Kahn's Oscar-nominated documentary My Architect from The Film Sales Company.Andrew Herwitz negotiated on behalf of Kahn and producer SusanRose Behr with Jane Giles, head of acquisitions, on behalf of Tartan, andwith Keith Calvert on behalf of the ...
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EasyCinema drafts in veteran exhibitor as CEO
Exhibition veteran Charles Wesoky has been appointed chief executive of no-frills UK exhibitor EasyCinema.Wesoky's appointment is part of a move by EasyCinema to win over film distributors, many of which have cold-shouldered the exhibitor by refusing to supply it with first run films.Wesoky was chairman and CEO of London-based EuroPlex ...
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Potato Men digs its way out of critical mauling
Despite some of the most negative reviews ever experienced by a film in the UK, Entertainment Film Distributor's comedy Sex Lives Of The Potato Men escaped a complete mauling at the box office over the weekend.The 18-certificate comedy managed an okay $663,785 (£355,125) from its 233 locations - placing it ...
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Richard Propper elected new president of IDA
Richard Propper, the founder and chief of documentary licensingfirm Solid Entertainment, has been elected president of the InternationalDocumentary Association (IDA).Propper will be formally introduced as the IDA's president at the22nd annual celebration of Academy Award documentary nominees in Los Angeles onWednesday."The IDA was visualised as a place where non-fiction film-makerscould ...
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New fantasy trilogy emerges from four-company indie partnership
Franchise Pictures is partnering with Story Island Entertainment,Origin Entertainment (which will operate under the new banner of CanyonlightEntertainment), and Entertainment Business Group (EBG) on production of the$80m fantasy franchise The Runelords.Based on David Farland's bestselling novels The Runelords,Brotherhood Of The Wolfand Wizardborn, thestory is set in a magical world where ...
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...as Isle Of Man Film steps in to rescue The Libertine
The Libertine, one of the high-profile productions caught up in the UK's tax financing crisis, has secured replacement funding through a deal with Isle of Man Film.The Isle of Man typically provides around 25% of the budget as a direct equity investment, which would plug most of the 35% gap ...