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Warner Independent makes first acquisition at Sundance
Two more deals were closedat the Sundance Film Festival yesterday and more are set to close before thefestival finishes this weekend, as the domestic buying frenzy continued.Warner Independent Pictures,which had made multi-million dollar bids on at least two pictures this week,finally closed on its first acquisition, taking North American and ...
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Depardieu, Auteuil team for French cop drama
French stars Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu are pairing up for a new film by Oliver Marchal entitled 36.The Euros 13.75m film, produced through French major Gaumont, is set at 36 Quai des Orfevres, a mythic spot in French cinema and the site of police headquarters in Paris.The two titans ...
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Media Luna takes on Spanish Bearcub sales
Media Luna Entertainment has picked up world rights on new Spanish film Bearcub (Cachorro), premiering in the Panorama section of the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.The new drama - the sixth feature by director Miguel Albaladejo (Rancour, Manolito Four Eyes) - turns on a gay dentist forced to tone down his ...
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Business stirs at Paris Screenings
Kiyonaga Nakagawa from Comstock was the only Japanese buyer present at the Rendez-Vous De Paris, the Unifrance organised screenings that are otherwise targeted at European distributors.He made a splash taking Japanese rights to TF1 International's Spy Bound (Agents Secrets), directed by Frederic Schoendoerffer, starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel.Other deals ...
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Top Spanish film exec drafted into key Sogecable role
Sogecable has announced that Fernando Bovaira will take over as the company's managing director of contents following the unexpected departure earlier this month of Jose Manuel Lorenzo.Bovaira has topped Sogecable's production activities through powerhouse Sogecine since 1996, where he shepherded the country's two biggest-grossing local films ever, English-language The Others ...
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Minghella to open Screen European Film Summit
Cold Mountain director and British Film Institute chair Anthony Minghella is to open Screen International's European Film Summit with an on-stage interview.The Summit - titled Modernising European Cinema - is being held on Feb 4 on the eve of the Berlin International Film Festival at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in ...
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Sinatra feature scores Miracle sale to US
UK/Australian co-production The Night They Called It a Day has been picked up for the US by Miracle Entertainment.Emile Sherman of Sherman Pictures, co-producer of the feature with the UK's Nik Powell of Scala Productions, made the announcement in Sydney. "Miracle have been incredibly enthusiastic about the film and its ...
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SPC climbs Merchant Ivory's Heights
Sony PicturesClassics has extended its distribution ties with Merchant Ivory Productions byacquiring North American rights to Heights, a low budget comedy of manners set in contemporaryManhattan.SPC is alsonegotiating to acquire international territories on the film, a $2-3m MerchantIvory production that stars Elizabeth Banks, Glenn Close, James Marsden, JesseBradford and John ...
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HUNGARY
Only three of last week's eight new releases made it into the weekend box office top ten, the most popular of them being a French comedy Tais Toi, directed by Francis Veber and starring Jean Reno and Gérard Depardieu.Last week's surprise disappointment was Gary Ross' Seabiscuit which failed to ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
The trio at the top of the Serbian-Montenegrin chart has not changed since the last weekend in spite of two new openers.The Return Of The King still reigns with 10,292 admissions for the weekend and now has grossed a total of $589,531 and Mona Lisa Smile is holding strong after ...
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32 projects head for Berlinale co-production market
New projects by Daniel Burman (Raquel Liberman), Alexander Sokurov (The Sun), Robert Glinski (Unkenrufe), Goran Paskaljevic (Lost In The Stars), Susanne Bier (Simon) and Pang Ho Cheung (Waiting For Nike) are among 32 projects chosen from 230 entries to be presented in the Berlinale's first Co-Production Market.The first edition Market ...
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Berlinale unveils Forum of New Cinema
More than half of the programme of this year's International Forum of New Cinema are world premieres, and particular attention is being paid to little-known filmmaking countries like South Africa and Thailand.As the Berlinale is casting a spotlight on South Africa this year, the Forum will be featuring a series ...
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Spirit of Bruce Lee conquers Korean box office
A 1970s-set film about high school violence has taken hold of the South Korean box-office, drawing 800,000 admissions ($4.5m) on 270 screens in its first three days.Spirits Of Jeet Kune Do: Once Upon A Time In High School, the film by poet-director Yu Ha (Marriage Is A Crazy Thing) portrays ...
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Chomet, Resnais share Golden Star
The French awards season got underway on Monday with the Etoiles d'Or conferred by local film journalists. In a tie, best picture went to Sylvain Chomet's Les Triplettes De Belleville and Alain Resnais' Pas Sur La Bouche.Chomet's film, which has picked up critics' awards in the States from such diverse ...
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Mexico, Ireland to get Passion-ate
20th Century Fox Films is set to release Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ on an estimated 300 prints in Mexico, according to Jose Juan Hernandez, general manager of Fox Mexico.Fox has yet to announce release dates for the region. "We are still mulling target opening dates of either ...
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Russian renaissance prompts increase in state support
The Russian film industry underwent a renaissance in 2003 according the Russian Ministry of Culture. After years of crisis the ministry announced that 60 state supported features, 400 documentaries and 30 animated films were produced last year. An additional 25 to 30 features were produced with wholly private ...
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Nemo takes another $7.3m for BVI, poised to cross $500m
Finding Nemo is closing in on $500m at the international boxoffice following a $7.3m weekend haul in all its territories that raised thefilm's running total to $496.4m.Executives at Buena VistaInternational expect the smash hit to pass the half-billion mark by Saturday(24).Elsewhere for BVI, BrotherBear continued its impressive runwith a record-breaking ...
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Skyy Vodka names finalists in contest to shoot short in 72 hours
Ian Harrington, Chris Lopataand Abdallah Omeish have been named as finalists in the inaugural Skyy Short FilmProject: One Script, Three Different Film-makers, Three Very Different Films toshoot in New York City this spring.The trio beat off pitchesfrom hundreds of aspiring film-makers following the event's launch at Sundancelast year and must ...
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2004 Sundance/NHK winners unveiled
Gyorgy Palfi's Taxidermia, Miranda July's Me And You And Everyone We Know and Andrucha Waddington's House Of Sand have won the 2004 Sundance/NHK InternationalFilm-makers Awards.Each winner will receive$10,000 and a guarantee from Japanese public broadcaster NHK to buy theJapanese television rights upon completion of the project, as well asyear-round financing ...
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Fox's Dozen lifts international haul to $8.4m
Fox International's comedy Cheaper By The Dozen grossed $2m at the weekend from 610 screens in five markets, raising its international running total to $8.4m.Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World added $1m from 877 in 25 markets to elevate its total in Fox markets to $67.2m. Including ...