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Tartan Films signs five picture deal
Tartan Films,which is carving out a new theatrical market for Asian films in the UK, has bought a five picture package from Korea's CineclickAsia. Managing director, Laura De Casto yesterday committed to a deal headed by Park Chan-Wook's Mifed favourite Old Boy. It also included H, A Tale Of TwoSisters, ...
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Nordisk strikes multiple deals on Reconstruction
Nordisk Film International struck a bundle of deals on its Cannes Camera d'Or winning picture Reconstruction. The Christoffer Boe-directed romantic thriller was licensed to Korean Arts Centre for Korea, A-Film for Benelux. Two companies split Spanish-speaking Latin American rights on the title. Cineplex took Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and ...
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Nordisk Film goes to Hollywood
Nordic major Nordisk Film is to open a US office in Los Angeles on January 1, where international head of acquisitions Kim Beich will handle the company's many US relationships. "It is a part of the strategy we have been following for some years now," Nordisk Film MD, Kenneth D ...
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Osborne prepares Magic Fingers in NZ
Producer Barrie M Osborne, who relocated from the US to New Zealand to work with director Peter Jackson on The Lord Of The Rings, is set to continue his relationship with the country - and to keep putting myth and fantasy up on the big screen. He is now in ...
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Fortissimo picks up Girl
Fortissimo Film Sales unveiled the pick-up of yet another title and the conclusion of a raft of sales on its diverse and expanding slate.Company co-chief Wouther Barendrecht said that Fortissimo will be handling Fanchin (pictured) (literally "My Girl"), a feel-good film that has become one of the biggest grossing ...
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Mifed unveils subsidy package
Mifed organisers confirmed yesterday (ed Wed 12) that they will offer a package of subsidies and incentives to buyers and sellers in an effort to retain business (see ScreenDaily.com, Nov 12)."We will be providing some Euros 5m in the form of incentives to market participants next year," said Carlo Bassi, ...
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Warner Bros confirms Revolutions record
Warner Bros confirmed yesterday (Nov 12) that The Matrix Revolutions had indeed scored the biggest five-day worldwide opening of all time with a final estimate of $202.8m.The estimated international running total for the same period - spanning the global day-and-date release on Nov 5 through to Nov 9 - was ...
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DENMARK
While Matrix Revolutions took the box-office crown with a solid if not amazing 775 admissions screen average on its 79 prints, the film that was most influenced by it was Kill Bill, which dropped from number one to six, down some 60%. Last week's new local release from newcomer Oliver ...
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House Of Sand And Fog
Dir: Vadim Perelman. US. 2003. 126minsHouse Of Sand And Fog is a film that takes itself very seriously, and it should. Adapted from the novel by Andre Dubus III, which was featured on Oprah Winfrey's Book Club, it's drenched in poetic atmospherics that many will find haunting and others pretentious. ...
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House Of Sand And Fog
Dir: Vadim Perelman. US. 2003. 126minsHouse Of Sand And Fog is a film that takes itself very seriously, and it should. Adapted from the novel by Andre Dubus III, which was featured on Oprah Winfrey's Book Club, it's drenched in poetic atmospherics that many will find haunting and others pretentious. ...
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HUNGARY
Although taking over the top spot at the Hungarian box office without a doubt, the third Matrix episode didn't quite match the success of Matrix: Reloaded. Its gross of HUF 132 million in its opening weekend, gives Matrix: Revolutions the fourth best opening ever in Hungary and the third best ...
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MIFED dangles inducements for 2004
Fiera Milano International (FMI) general division director Carlo Bassi is expected to introduce major incentives to lure buyers and exhibitors to MIFED next year. The incentives could include subsidising flights and hotel accommodation in Milan, and are being offered at a time when opinion is divided among buyers and sellers ...
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MIFED dangles inducements for 2004
Fiera Milano International (FMI) general division director Carlo Bassi is expected to introduce major incentives to lure buyers and exhibitors to MIFED next year. The incentives could include subsidising flights and hotel accommodation in Milan, and are being offered at a time when opinion is divided among buyers and sellers ...
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Warner marches abroad with Alexander
Warner Bros Pictures has acquired the key English-language territories of UK, Australia and New Zealand to Oliver Stone's untitled Alexander The Great project from Intermedia and Summit Entertainment. Warner already has rights in North America and plans to release it on Nov 5, 2004."Warner Bros. continues to be a great ...
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Warner marches abroad with Alexander
Warner Bros Pictures has acquired the key English-language territories of UK, Australia and New Zealand to Oliver Stone's untitled Alexander The Great project from Intermedia and Summit Entertainment. Warner already has rights in North America and plans to release it on Nov 5, 2004."Warner Bros. continues to be a great ...
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Medusa adopts Polanski's Oliver
Italy's Medusa is the first major territorial buyer to parent Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist from Summit Entertainment. The distributor is in final negotiations to take Italian rights to the $60m film which is being produced by Polanski, Alain Sarde and Robert Benmussa.Polanski is currently scouting locations in eastern Europe for ...
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Medusa adopts Polanski's Oliver
Italy's Medusa is the first major territorial buyer to parent Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist from Summit Entertainment. The distributor is in final negotiations to take Italian rights to the $60m film which is being produced by Polanski, Alain Sarde and Robert Benmussa.Polanski is currently scouting locations in eastern Europe for ...
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Arclight clinches sales on The Merchant Of Venice
Arclight Films has completed a string of deals on Michael Radford's The Merchant Of Venice, starring Al Pacino.MGM has taken the film for the UK, Art Port for Japan, Manga for Spain, Paradise for Russia and New Films for Eastern Europe and Latin America.The $30m film of Shakespeare's play will ...
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Arclight clinches sales on The Merchant Of Venice
Arclight Films has completed a string of deals on Michael Radford's The Merchant Of Venice, starring Al Pacino.MGM has taken the film for the UK, Art Port for Japan, Manga for Spain, Paradise for Russia and New Films for Eastern Europe and Latin America.The $30m film of Shakespeare's play will ...
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Movieweb casts Shadow with English-lang slate
Movieweb's Massimo Pacilio has teamed up with the UK's Studio Eight and Canada's GFT Entertainment to produce a line-up of big-budget English language pictures.Among the first projects to be made through the new partnership is Shadow Dancer, a $10m movie starring Harvey Keitel, Giancarlo Giannini and Gerard Depardieu. Produced by ...