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Icon seduced by Loach's Fond Kiss
Ken Loach may not be such a stranger in his own land after all. Having typically financed his films with little more than a TV deal out of the UK, the director's regular producer Rebecca O'Brien has secured an all-rights pre-sale on Ae Fond Kiss to Icon Film Distribution.The deal ...
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Solo takes German rights on Jester Till
Peter Heinzemann's Solo Film has picked up theatrical and video/DVD rights for producer-director Eberhard Junkersdorf's (pictured) latest animated feature Jester Till (Till Eulenspiegel).The Euros 15m co-production between Junkersdorf's Munich Animation, the UK's Scala Productions and Illuminated Film Company, Belgium's DFJ Motionworks and German media fund CP Medien will be ...
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Hollywood prays for summer salvation
When 20th Century Fox's X2: X-Men United opens in the US (and 92 other territories) this weekend, it will trigger the start of a nervously anticipated domestic summer season.Box office in the first quarter of this year has been sluggish, casting doubts over whether 2002's all-time record of $3.16bn in ...
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US puts Taiwan and Russia on its Priority anti-piracy list
In anendorsement of the Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA)inchoate anti-piracy strategy, the United States Trade Representative hasplaced Taiwan and Russia on its global Priority Watch List.AmbassadorRobert Zoellick's Special 301 annual review, named after the section ofthe 1988 Trade Act that empowers the US to act against countries that block ...
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Whale Rider and The Cuckoo tie for San Francisco Festival audience award
NikiCaro's drama Whale Rider and Alexander Roqozhkin's Russian anti-war comedy The Cuckoo tied for first place in lastnight's (May 1) Virginmega Audience Awards at the 46th San FranciscoInternational Film Festival.Runner-up wentto Chen Kaige's rites-of-passage Chinese drama Together. Best documentary feature went to HeartOf The Sea: Kapolioka'Ehukai, a profile of the ...
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GreeneStreet, Kimmel team for Slow Burn
GreeneStreet Films and Sidney Kimmel Entertainmentannounced today (May 1) that they will co-finance writer-director WayneBeach's thriller Slow Burn in aco-production deal with Bonnie Timmermann Productions.The actioncentres on an ambitious district attorney who has a 24-hour showdown with apowerful gang leader.Ray Liotta andLL Cool J will star in the project. Liotta ...
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Malaysian censors change their minds on Iraq
The MalaysianCensor Board, Censorship Film Malaysia, has overturned its previous ruling toban Bahman Ghobadi's Marooned In Iraq. The board originally informeddistributor Sureya Film at the end of March that the film promoted the image ofSaddam Hussein as "inhumane" and would be damaging to relationsbetween Malaysia and Iraq and Iran.The ruling ...
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HBO London trumpets first sale on Elephant
HBO Films London has struckits first sales deal on Gus van Sant's Cannes-competition bound film Elephant. All rights in France were sold to mini-major MK2,which can be expected to support its launch at the festival.The film is related to hisprevious film Gerry in style.Focusing on high-school violence, it was shot ...
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HBO London Films trumpets first sale on Elephant
HBO Films London has struckits first sales deal on Gus van Sant's Cannes-competition bound film Elephant. All rights in France were sold to mini-major MK2,which can be expected to support its launch at the festival.The film is related to hisprevious film Gerry in style.Focusing on high-school violence, it was shot ...
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Lot 47's Williams partners up with Vanco at Cowboy
Greg Williams, CEO of Lot 47Films, is to join John Vanco as a partner in Cowboy Pictures. He brings VickiLoughery and Rick Thiedig with him from Lot 47. Williams will retain thelabel of Lot 47 Films and continue to exploit its library's ancillary rights.Williams and his team are in the ...
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IN-motion boards Romero chiller
London-based sales house IN-motion Pictures has boarded horror -meister George A Romero's thriller The ILL.IN-motion will handle worldwide sales excluding the UK and US on the project, to be directed by Romero and produced by Thierry Cagianut and Matthew Myers of P-Kino Films. Principal photography starts in September on location ...
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Calendar Girls head for Cannes
Buena Vista International's highly-anticipated UK comedy Calendar Girls will screen at Cannes outside the festival.The story of members of the traditionally stuffy Women's Institute who pose for a charity nude calendar will screen Thursday May 15. Stars Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, along with the real women on which the ...
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Calendar Girls head for Cannes market
Buena Vista International's highly-anticipated UK comedy Calendar Girls will screen at Cannes outside the festival.The story of members of the traditionally stuffy Women's Institute who pose for a charity nude calendar will screen Thursday May 15. Stars Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, along with the real women on which the ...
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Spanish media giant grabs slice of Antena 3
Spanish publishing and media giant Grupo Planeta has bought 25.1% of Spanish free-to-air broadcaster Antena 3 from telecommunications company Telefonica, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal values Antena 3 at Euros 1.45bn ($1.6bn). Telefonica is required by law to sell off its 59% stake in the broadcaster before going through ...
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Germany's CMW Film boards Russendisko adaptation
A film version of Wladimir Kaminer's cult novel Russendisko has been announced as one of the projects in the slate of international co-productions by German producer Christoph Meyer-Wiel's new Berlin-based production outfit CMW Film Company.The adaptation of Kaminer's collection of short stories will go into production in Berlin next year ...
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Constantin continues to fend off Highlight's advances
The board of Germany's most successful producer/distributor Constantin Film has failed to reach a decision on a response to Swiss media group Highlight Communications' planned take-over of the company.Despite holding a specially convened meeting to discuss Highlight's intention of acquiring the 58.6% of Constantin it does not already own, the ...
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Julie Spielberg joins MGM theatrical business affairs
Julie Spielberghas been appointed senior vice president of legal affairs for MGM'stheatrical business affairs division, the studio's executive vicepresident of theatrical business affairs Jonathan Bader announced today (Apr30).In her new postSpielberg will be involved in all aspects of theatrical business and legalaffairs related to MGM's film production activities, talent andfilm-maker ...
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Co-production quartet hatched at Buenos Aires conference
European and Latin American participants at the second annual AL-Invest conference forged four co-productions during the event, organised by Brussels-based Jose Luis Escudero of Intercommunicacion, Belgium.The meeting between European and Latin American producers, that coincided with the 5th Buenos Aires International Film Festival of Independent Cinema, matched around 30 European ...
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Renaissance takes on We Don't Live Here Anymore
London-based RenaissanceFilms is to handle international sales on We Don't Live Here Anymore, an intense drama currently shooting in Vancouverstarring Naomi Watts, Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern and Peter Krause.The film, formerly known as Anymore, is based on short stories by Andre Dubus, whoseshort story Killings was filmedas hit independent In ...
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Brenner hired as New York-based marketing consultant for Cinecitta
Debbie Brenner,the New York-based marketing and competitive strategy consultant, has beenhired to boost the profile of Italy's legendary Cinecitta Studios amongUS film-makers.Brenner's job will be to attract the attention ofcommercial directors and photographers to the studio's film and TVfacilities, which include 22 stages and the largest sound stage in Europe.Making ...