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Fortune Star opens doors with Leaving Me pickup
Hong Kong-based Fortune Star has picked up the first third-party feature on which it will handle international sales.The micro-studio, which is attached to News Corp's Star TV division, is to kick off sales at Mifed on China-set romantic drama Leaving Me Loving You (formerly Big City Trivia). The film, which ...
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Fortune Star takes on Leaving Me sales
Hong Kong-based Fortune Star has picked up the first third-party feature on which it will handle international sales.The micro-studio, which is attached to News Corp's Star TV division, is to kick off sales at Mifed on China-set romantic drama Leaving Me Loving You (formerly Big City Trivia). The film, which ...
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Dirty Pretty Things dominates BIFA prizes
Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things was the big winner at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) this evening (Nov 4, 2003).The unconventional drama about illegal immigrants working in the UK hotel trade was named as best film, earned Frears the best director prize and gave leading man Chiwetel Ejiofor another ...
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Summit boards Polanski's Oliver Twist
Summit Entertainment has picked up international rights to RomanPolanski's next film, Oliver Twist, a faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic which has a budgetin the $60m range.Meanwhile Summit has picked up selected key territories to sell onArtisan/Miramax co-production Havana Nights, the Dirty Dancing sequel, which was originally to behandled in ...
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Summit reteams with Polanski on Oliver Twist
Summit Entertainment has picked up international rights to RomanPolanski's next film, Oliver Twist, a faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic which has a budgetin the $60m range.Meanwhile Summit has picked up selected key territories to sell onArtisan/Miramax co-production Havana Nights, the Dirty Dancing sequel, which was originally to behandled in ...
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Cruelty is kind for Universal, takes another $10.8m
IntolerableCruelty grossed $10.8mthrough UIP from 2,457 sites in 24 countries at the weekend to raise itsinternational running total to $35.6m.Chief highlightswere a strong $550,000 opening in Korea in 75 venues and number one holds insecond weeks in Australia, Italy and Spain.The black comedyenjoyed 22% market share in Australia and added ...
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LXG passes $100m for Fox International
FoxInternational's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG) elevated its international runningtotal to $105.4m with a $4.6m weekend haul from 2,457 screens in 23 marketsthat saw decent holdovers in the UK, Germany and Japan.Thefantasy-adventure added $1.4m from 362 screens in its third week in the UK,dropping 31% for a $9.8m running ...
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Nemo crosses $50m mark in UK alone
Buena VistaInternational (BVI)'s Finding Nemo stayed top of the UK charts for the fourth consecutive week witha $5.8m haul that raised its territory total to an extraordinary $52m.Overall the animated hit has grossed around $150m at theinternational box office and BVI will be eying its upcoming continental Europerollout with glee.Elsewhere ...
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Hands off our subsidies, say Euro film agencies
Europe's national film funding agencies have called on the European Commission to call off a major re-examination of the cobweb of national film support schemes that is scheduled to take place next year.In a letter addressed to culture and education commissioner Viviane Reding, the 16 state funding bodies called for ...
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Austria's Diagonale fest agrees to producer demands
The fate of Graz's Diagonale Festival of Austrian Cinema took another turn last week, with the festival's new management agreeing to accept a series of demands made by the Association of Austrian Film Producers (AAFP).The Diagonale is at the centre of a major row within the Austrian industry about moves ...
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Exhibitors set for alternative content bonanza
Exhibitors are set to reap major financial benefits from alternative content screenings such as sports events, according to a new report.The report - Alternative Content: The New Cinema Profit Engine by Screen Digest - says exhibitors should take advantage of new opportunities created by digital technology and that there is ...
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Mel Stuart named recipient of IDA's Pioneer Award
Veteran directorand producer Mel Stuart will receive the International Documentary Association'sPioneer Award at the 19th Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary AchievementAward ceremony in Los Angeles on Dec 12."Mel Stuart richly deserves this recognition," IDApresident Michael Donaldson said in a statement. "His films have enlightenedpast and current audiences about some of the ...
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Willing to direct Burns in River King for Myriad
Edward Burnswill star in an adaptation of Alice Hoffman's supernatural thriller TheRiver King that is beingput together by Myriad Pictures' London arm, Canadian production company imXcommunications and UK-based Grosvenor Park's First Choice Films.Principalphotography in Canada is due to begin in spring 2004 with Nick Willing set todirect based on a ...
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Willing to direct Burns in River King for Myriad Pictures
Edward Burnswill star in an adaptation of Alice Hoffman's supernatural thriller TheRiver King that is beingput together by Myriad Pictures' London arm, Canadian production company imXcommunications and UK-based Grosvenor Park's First Choice Films.Principalphotography in Canada is due to begin in spring 2004 with Nick Willing set todirect based on a ...
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Palm packs Wolf, Butterfly domestic rights
ChrisBlackwell's Palm Pictures has acquired US and Caribbean rights to MichaelHaneke's Time Of The Wolf and North American rights to Lou Ye's Purple Butterfly. Both films played in official selectionat this year's Cannes Film Festival.The distributorplans limited theatrical releases followed by DVD/video roll-out for bothtitles in 2004, with Time Of ...
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Palm picks up US rights to Wolf, Butterfly
ChrisBlackwell's Palm Pictures has acquired US and Caribbean rights to MichaelHaneke's Time Of The Wolf and North American rights to Lou Ye's Purple Butterfly. Both films played in official selectionat this year's Cannes Film Festival.The distributorplans limited theatrical releases followed by DVD/video roll-out for bothtitles in 2004, with Time Of ...
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MGM, Cogeco Cable sign Canadian VOD deal
MGM Home Entertainment andCarleton, Ontario-based Cogeco Cable have signed a video-on-demand supplyagreement that will see MGM library titles carried by Canada's fourth-largestcable provider. The non-exclusive agreementwill include new product including Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, Agent Cody Banks and Jeepers Creepers 2 along with past hits such as ...
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Thunderbirds creator goes for extra UK tax funding
Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson is raising a second wave funding of UK tax-driven financing for a new series of his cult TV series Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons.Anderson previously raised £8m through the Enterprise Investment Scheme to start production on the £20m series, becoming the fastest and biggest ever example ...
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Paris looks to lure film shoots
A new film commission has been created in the north of Paris, with the aim of luring productions to the area. The Pole Nord-Parisien has brought together 8 municipalities which will participate in the new organisation in order to attract producers to shoot in what is a particularly urban zone. ...
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Shoreline sells Mexican Real Time to France
Shoreline Entertainment has sold Fabrizio Prada's Mexican drama Real Time to France's Pretty Pictures, which plansto release the film theatrically in early 2004.One of 25 titlesShoreline will be taking to MIFED, Real Time was shot in one continuous take andtells the story of five thieves whose greed drives them to ...