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Balsan takes over from Powell as EFA chairman
After eight years in the post, the UK's Nik Powell is handing over the reins of the chairmanship of the European Film Academy (EFA) to French producer Humbert Balsan.Speaking at the European Film Awards ceremony, Powell quipped that he expected Balsan - who has been one of the EFA deputy ...
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BVI promotes four to vice president in marketing/publicity dept
Buena VistaInternational (BVI) has promoted four marketing and publicity executives to therank of vice president.Executivedirector of international publicity Maggie Todd (left) has been promoted to vicepresident of international publicity while executive director of promotionsDonald Evans (right) becomes vice president of marketing and promotions.Executivedirector of creative services - marketing Mari Gastineau ...
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Peckos, Myerson unveil new distribution venture Dada Films
Former FirstLook executives MJ Peckos and Bob Myerson have launched Dada Films, a domestictheatrical distribution and worldwide marketing company that will be based inLos Angeles."We canstrategically position a film for sale at a film festival, oversee domestic andinternational sales, or - if appropriate - can release the film itselfdomestically and ...
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Gregersen Family epic gets Danish greenlight
Denmark's most prolific independent producer Regner Grasten has got the green light for his long cherished four-hour feature, The Gregersen Family, based on the bestselling books by Christian Kampmann (1939-88).The Danish Film Institute awarded the film a substantial $1.37m for its $4.2m budget. Additional funding comes from broadcaster TV2, Buena ...
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Koltai, Golan ready WWII dramas
Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lajos Koltai (Taking Sides, Malena) and veteran Israeli producer-director Menahem Golan have both announced feature projects about the devastating impact of the Nazis on Jews in Europe.Koltai will be making his directorial debut with adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz's novel Fateless which will begin an 11-week ...
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Tribeca Film Institute launches ethnic minority programme
The Tribeca FilmInstitute has launched Tribeca All Access, a programme to support ethnicminority film-makers that will make its debut at the 2004 Tribeca FilmFestival.The programmeaims to facilitate networking and funding opportunities through project meetingswith industry players including producers, sales agents and equity financiers.Directors ofapproximately 20 fiction projects in development and ...
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Manderlay wins lion's share of Eurimages funding
Lars von Trier's Manderlay, Philippe Haim's La Vraie Vie Des Dalton, Lajos Koltai's Fateless and Lieven Debrauwer's Confituur are among 11 European co-productions to share Euros 4.1m production support from Strasbourg-based Eurimages in its latest round of funding.Manderlay received the largest amount - Euros 725,000 - as one of four ...
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Ogilvie moves to vp Europe position at WBITD from MTV
Alex Ogilvie has been namedvice president of business development, Europe, at Warner Bros InternationalTelevision Distribution (WBITD).Ogilvie will focus on allnew business opportunities for WBITD, develop the division's pay televisiondeals and oversee development of video-on-demand and other television modelsacross Europe.In addition, he will workwith all of WBITD's European sales executives on ...
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Vangelisti joins First Look as senior vp, TV sales
Dina Vangelistihas joined First Look Media as senior vice president of television sales andwill oversee the company's activities in the US and Canada for its threedivisions, First Look Pictures, First Look Home Entertainment and OverseasFilmgroup.Vangelisti willreport directly to First Look Media president Bill Lischak and chief executiveofficer and co-chairman Chris ...
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Last call for 2004 festival calendar
Last call for 2004 festival calendar On January 9 Screen International publishes its 2004 festival calendar. This will include more film and TV events than any other film and TV industry calendar. If you have not already sent us details of your event, then you have less than a week ...
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Belgian exhibitor goes digital
Belgian exhibitor Kinepolis is planning to equip another ten of its cinema screens with the Barco DLP digital projector in addition to the existing four screens already converted to digital projection. According to Kinepolis, the decision was taken because of the exceptional demand for these screenings in Belgium: the children's ...
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The Return, Since Otar Left share top prize at Belgrade
Russian director Andrej Zvjagintsev's The Return and Julie Bertucelli's Since Otar Left have shared the top prize at the 10th Belgrade International Festival of Auteur Films (Nov 23-30).The Russian film also won the award for best cinematography for Michail Kritchman. Since Otar Left also took the YU-FIPRESCI award. The ...
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Johnny To signs to CAA for US representation
Hotshot Hong Kong director Johnny To, whose creditsinclude Heroic Trio and FulltimeKiller, has signed to Hollywood talentagency Creative Artists Agency for representation in the US.To began hisfilm career 25 years ago in Hong Kong and used the commercial success of titleslike Good-bye Ah Longand Heroic Trio tolaunch his Milkyway Image ...
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Redbus named fastest growing UK company
UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution was named the fastest growing company in the UK according to the Sunday Times newspaper Fast Track 100.The company founded by Simon Franks and Zygi Kamasa has in the last two years scored with titles including Bend It Like Beckham, Jeepers Creepers and Cabin Fever. ...
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GERMANY
Columbia TriStar's release of the Colin Farrell/Samuel L. Jackson police actioner S.W.A.T. stormed the German box office at No. 2 with an impressive $ 4,125 screen average from its 609 prints to take $2.5m on its first weekend (without previews), but was still eclipsed by Buena Vista's Finding Nemo ...
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ICELAND
The romance and Christmas spirit of Love Actually took Icelanders by storm this weekend, and the new release steered clear of both Finding Nemo and Master And Commander and landed on the top spot with a 887 admission screen average, twice that of Pixar's animated hit.The rest of the top ...
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Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam's Grimm may have proved slightly too dark a comedy for local audiences this weekend but its 16 print release was enough to see it lay a trail of breadcrumbs to tenth place on the Netherlands' chart.Distributed by A-Film Distribution the film, a nightmarish fairytale full ...
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S.W.A.T. opens in 17 territories, takes weekend total of $13.5m
The police action thriller S.W.A.T. opened in 17 territories on 3,575 screensat the weekend and grossed $13.5m to raise its international running total to$53.4m.It ranked number two in most markets behind Finding Nemo and Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI) executives say it is well placed to consolidate itsposition during the ...
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Universal scores $13.8m weekend with Love Actually
Universal's Love Actually added an estimated $13.8m from 2,725 venues in 26 countriesat the weekend, raising its international cumulative score to $69.5m with 14markets still to open.The romantic comedy stayed on top in the UK for the third week ina row, adding $5.6m and dropping 29% for a superb $35.6m ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! sweeps European Film Awards
Christmas came early this year for the Good Bye, Lenin! team when they picked up six of 16 awards at the European Film Awards (EFA) held in Berlin's Arena on Saturday evening (6 Dec).The tragicomedy, which already won nine Lolas at the German Film Awards last June and is Germany's ...