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German veterans launch Living Pictures fund
Veteran fund initiator Rudolf Wiesmeier and Gerhard Schmidt's Cologne-based production house Gemini Film have joined forces to launch a Euros 150m fund to back a portfolio of internationally marketable English-language feature films.According to Schmidt the fund, called Living Pictures, is in negotiations with Danny de Vito's Jersey Films and Jan ...
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Limelight picks up rights to Gun, Professional
Limelight Films, theLA-based fledgling production, financing and distribution company headed up byCharlie Chaplin's granddaughter Keira Chaplin, has picked up worldwide rightsto Vladimir Alenikov's The Gunand Dusan Kovacevic's Serbian comedy-drama The Professional.Both films will screen atthe Montreal Film Festival in the World Competition programme.The Gun was directed and written by Limelight's ...
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Sky Italia unsettles local players
Pier Luigi Celli, the polemical former CEO of RAI, has warned that the arrival on the Italian market of Sky Italia is "certain" to cause more economic damage to the state broadcaster than to Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset network.In an interview published by Italian news weekly L'Espresso, Celli said: "Between Rai ...
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GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZ Prod lists - July 4
Copyright: Screen InternationalAUSTRIA/GERMANY & SWITZERLAND - July 4AUSTRIAPRE-PRODUCTIONIM JAHR DES PFERDES (Wildart Film) Backers: Filmfonds Wien, BKA, Land Upper Austria. Documentary. Story of the Asian community in Vienna and the Khmer in Helsinki and Cambodia. Prod: Vincent Lucassen. Dir/scr: Ebba Sinzinger. DoP: Wolfgang Thaler. Ed: Karina Ressler. Shooting from summer ...
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Domestic box office slides, marking the end of summer
New Line's Freddy VsJason stayed atop the charts at theweekend as the top four remained intact, as sure a sign as any that the fadingsummer season has little left to offer.The horror film dropped 63%and added an estimated $13.5m for a $61.5m running total in its second week. Itwas the ...
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Domestic box office slides as summer ends
New Line's Freddy VsJason stayed atop the charts at theweekend as the top four remained intact, as sure a sign as any that the fadingsummer season has little left to offer.The horror film dropped 63%and added an estimated $13.5m for a $61.5m running total in its second week. Itwas the ...
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Perfect Creature takes shape for Arclight
Arclight Films has picked up international rights on a vampire horror film being produced by Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring and Whale Rider producer Tim Sanders and directed by Glenn Standring (The Irrefutable Truth About Demons).Called Perfect Creature, the film will be sold by Arclight's genre ...
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UGC beefs up key Dublin multiplex
The Euros 13m redevelopment by UGC of its nine-screen Parnell Centre site in Dublin city centre will conclude at the end of November, making it Ireland's biggest cinema according to the company.The Dublin site recorded more than one million paid admissions last year and, according to UGC, "is already set ...
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Raggy Boy comes out top at Copenhagen
Aisling Walsh's Song For A Raggy Boy won the Golden Swan prize for best film at the inaugral Copenhagen International Film Festival (Aug 13-20).Walsh's story about one man's struggle against a violent and fascistic regime in a boys' Irish Reformatory School has won widespread acclaim since it world premiered earlier ...
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Cantona travels to Montreal for Overeater fixture
French footballer-turned-actor Eric Cantona will accompany the international premiere of his first starring role, The Overeater (L'Outremangeur) at the Montreal World Film Festival (Aug 27-Sept 7). Directed by Thierry Binisti, the film is a spin on the Beauty And The Beast fairytale in which the former Manchester United star plays ...
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Telepool to conduct sales for musical pair
Telepool has picked up international sales on two theatrical music documentaries: Thomas Riedelsheimer's Heartbeat and Gandulf Hennig's Fallen Angel - Gram Parsons.Riedelsheimer, who received a Golden Lola at the German Film Awards this year for his internationally successful documentary Rivers And Tides, has been working since autumn 2002 on ...
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Studio slates gear up for key Euro weekend
An eclectic slate this upcoming weekend sees key European bows for Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life and American Pie: The Wedding, both of which should do well based on previous form.Elsewhere two of the summer's more successful performers - 2 Fast 2 Furious and 28 Days Later ...
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ITALY Production Listings - August 22 2003
Copyright: Screen InternationalItaly - August 22PRE-PRODUCTIONALL'OMBRA DEL PADRE(Tea Nova) Prod/dir: Rean Mazzone. Scr: Denis Jacobs. Main cast: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Volter, Stefania Sandrelli.Contact: Tea Nova, (39) 06 625 9260ANNI RAPACI(Poetiche Cinematografiche) Budget: $3m. Backer: Telepiu. Dist: Sharada (It). Traces 20 years in the life of a major southern Italian organised ...
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San Sebastian unveils competition line-up
The Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled its official competition line-up for next month's 51st annual edition (Sept 18-27).The festival says the predominant theme of the selection is "living in a world replete with contradictions," and highlights the raft of "high-profile emerging directors" on display. More titles are expected ...
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Apollo wraps Russian-US feature
Russian-American production company Apollo Films has just wrapped on its new feature Passenger From San Francisco after nearly a year of shooting in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cyprus, the Crimea, the Greek islands, Moscow and St Petersburg.Producer and director Anatoli Balchev hopes to break into the American market with the ...
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Arthouse films benefit from Edinburgh exposure
Speaking at last year's Edinburgh premiere of All Or Nothing, Mike Leigh declared that he could think of no better event in Britain to launch a new film. His words might yet come to be seen as the guiding ethos of this year's Festival where Jim Sheridan's warm-hearted family drama ...
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Little Fiesta makes big noise in Spain
A new Spanish release about a hard-partying group of college-aged kids, appropriately called La Fiesta, has taken the Spanish box office by surprise and could convert its directors into poster children for struggling filmmakers in Spain.Shot on a budget of less than Euros 6,000 with a crew of unpaid actors ...
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Senator still in red despite Good Bye, Lenin!
German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment has posted an operating loss of Euros 6.9m for the first six months of 2003.Earlier this year, Senator posted a massive net loss of Euros 178.2m for the 2002 financial year Turnover in the first six months of 2003 stood at Euros 25.8m - down Euros ...
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Hammer, TriggerStreet contribute to New Orleans festival
Hammer FilmProductions and Kevin Spacey's online film-makers' collectiveTriggerStreet.com are lending their support to The New Orleans MediaExperience, an inaugural arts festival set to run from Oct 26-Nov 1.Hammer willprovide prints for the Breakfast With Hammer Films series, a daily screening ofclassic horror from the company's vaults such as Dracula Prince ...
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Deauville rounds out festival line-up
Along with the list of competition films announced on August 19, France's Deauville Festival of American Film (Sept 5-14) has unveiled its premieres and special sections.American films which will have their French premieres out of competition include American Wedding with stars Alyson Hannigan and Jason Biggs set to attend; Woody ...