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ACI sells Locarno prize-winner Maria and actioner Der Clown at AFM
Independent producer and distributor ACI has announced two titles itwill be selling at AFM, the action adventure Der Clown and the Romania-set drama Maria.ACI chief executive officer George Shamieh has partnered withHermann Joha's German production company Action Concept on Der Clown, a tale of vengeance featuring aprotagonist who pursues his ...
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European Film Market buyers afraid of the dark
Talk to buyers at this year's market and you'll find that they like the films on offer - but find it difficult to rave about their commercial prospects.In fact, scarcely any film from either the Berlin festival or the European Film Market has been able to unite buyers in a ...
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UK, Canada companies team to make animated feature of Monster Club
Montreal-based production and distribution house H2VEntertainment's Manga Latina Productions, along with UK-based UKFS as afinancing co-producer, have teamed up with the UK's Treehouse Productions toturn AP Comics' first full-colour comic book Monster Club into an animated feature film.Additionally, Manga Latina will team up with Treehouse Productionsto turn its property Alien ...
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Tonic buys short story collection by Wagner for possible horror franchise
Producer Lauren Moews' Tonic Films has acquired Death Angel'sShadow, a collection ofthree short stories by fantasy author Karl Edward Wagner featuring the cultanti-hero character of Kane.The deal was brokered by Moews for Tonic Films and by theIntellectual Property Group on behalf of the Pimlico Agency of New York.Moews is planning ...
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Meistrich's Film Movement moves into Canada
Larry Meistrich's first-runDVD distribution outfit Film Movement is expanding into the Canadian market,offering its monthly subscription-based service to film buffs north of theborder. Launched in May 2002 by the former Shooting Gallery executive, the NewYork-based company has created a niche for art house and specialty titles thatmight otherwise be passed ...
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Zeta-Jones joins cast of Soderbergh's Ocean's Twelve
Catherine Zeta-Jones has joined the all-star cast of Ocean'sTwelve, StevenSoderbergh's follow-up to his hit crime caper Ocean's Eleven that begins shooting in April for WarnerBros and Village Roadshow Pictures.Zeta-Jones, who won the best supporting actress Academy Award lastyear for her role in Chicago, joins George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, ...
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Paramount Classics enters Mean Creek
Paramount Classics has acquired North American, UK and Australianrights to Jacob Estes' directorial debut Mean Creek, which premiered in American Spectrum atthe Sundance Film Festival last month to strong reviews.Based on Estes' original screenplay, the story centres on agroup of friends who are forced to confront the notions of friendship ...
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Kroopf confirms Intermedia move
Scott Kroopf hasbeen confirmed as president of the motion picture group for Intermedia and willreport to the company's chairman and chief executive officer Moritz Borman.Kroopf willoversee all Intermedia's film production, development and acquisitionactivities and will work with Borman, vice-chairman and head of motion pictureoperations Jon Gumpert and chief operating officer ...
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FINLAND
Scary Movie 3 literally terrified the Finnish box-office this weekend as it moved from seventh to first spot besting The Last Samurai and The Return Of The King with its strong 498 admissions screen average.The previews of Disney's Brother Bear easily put it into fifth from just 17 prints, while ...
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UK's Soda scores with German Miracle
Effervescent new UK outfit Soda Pictures, set up in 2002 by Eve Gabereau and Edward Fletcher, confirmed yesterday that it has taken UK rights to The Miracle Of Berne from Bavaria Film.Soda plans to release the football-themed drama, set at the time of West Germany's 1954 World Cup win, in ...
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SWEDEN
BVI's Brother Bear beat the thrills of the prolific Kjell Sundvall's latest action film The Threat, partly because of its massive 149 prints, although its screen average was only slightly better than last week's new local release The Ketchup Effect (Hip Hip Hora!), the feature debut from newcomer Terese Fabik.However, ...
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25 directors sign for Euro vision project
25 European film directors - from Germany's Fatih Akin through to Portugal's Teresa Villaverde and Latvia's Laila Pakalnina to Sweden's Jan Troell and Hungary's Bela Tarr - are to each contribute five-minute shorts giving their personal visions of Europe.The European Visions project was conceived by ZDF's Meinholf Zurhorst and ...
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Grudge remake sold to 27 territories
The Grudge, Ghost House Pictures' English-language remake of the Japanese hit horror Ju-On, has been sold to 27 territories including North America (Columbia Pictures), Czech/Slovakia (AQS), Greece (Audiovisual), Russia (Central Partner), Germany (Constantin), Benelux (Dutch Dreamwork), Scandinavia (Egmont), Portugal (LNK), France (Metropolitain), Spain (Planeta), Iceland (Sam Film), Poland (Vision), Bulgaria/Romania/Ex-Yugoslavia ...
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Fandango increases its international activities
Dynamic Italian producer Domenico Procacci, whose Fandango outfit produced Critics Week closing film B&B and The Cormoran, is continuing to ramp up his international production and distribution labels.Procacci has boarded upcoming Australian picture Missing Tom, through the Australian company he runs with directors Rolf de Heer and Richard Lowenstein.At the ...
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Digital chips away at festival screenings
Having already opened horizons for film-makers, digital technology's potential to transform film choices is now beginning to make itself felt at festivals and among theatrical exhibition circuits.The Berlin festival has equipped ten of its cinemas with digital projectors and is showing 47 films from the Panorama, Forum and Perspektive Deutsches ...
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Greenaway goes to battle in search of human soul
Speaking in Berlin following the screening of Tulse Luper's Suitcases, Part II, maverick British director Peter Greenaway revealed details of his next major project - a Russian language epic set in the aftermath of the 30 Years War.Augsbergenfeld, as the project is called, is a historical, baroque film about an ...
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Content fields Beautiful offers
Following the Berlinale competition screening of Hans Petter Molland's Beautiful Country earlier in the week, Content International's Jamie Carmichael has received firm offers from the three major territories left unsold, Japan, Germany and Italy, and is expected to close deals in the next imminently.'It's a wonderfully intelligent and moving film ...
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Cinema Vikings search for soft money booty
Moderating last week's panel on location hot zones at Screen International's European Film Summit in Berlin, Jonathan Olsberg had an apt analogy for the industry's worldwide pillaging and plundering in search of soft money booty. "We're the Vikings of modern cinema."Oldsberg, whose management consultancy helps structure international co-productions to take ...
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Skull in 'brutal' financing struggle
Producer Robert Chartoff emerged more battered and bruised from Berlin competition film The Country Of My Skull than he did from his breakout boxing picture Rocky.At a seminar organised by the European Co-production Market yesterday, he described the financing of John Boorman's Skull as "absolutely brutal," and said that the ...
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Wild scores Bunch of sales
French seller Wild Bunch's increasingly multinational line-up has scored a number of sales to distributors around the world.Year-old Italian distributor and marketing combine Metacinema bought Finnish comedy Young Gods.Brazilian distributor S2A bought Pierre Salvadori comedy Apres Vous, documentary The Yes Men and Pascal Plisson's African adventure Masai. Apres Vous was ...