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Rembrandt steals early US buyer buzz
Danish newcomer Jannik Johansen's highly anticipated feature debut Stealing Rembrand may be months away from its scheduled domestic release, but it is already picking up considerable buzz following an early screening in London for US buyers, according to the film's producer Thomas Gammeltoft.The Danish-UK film, a co-production between Gammeltoft's Fine ...
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Echelon buys rights to wartime drama Double Destiny
Los Angeles-based productionand distribution company Echelon Entertainment has bought all worldwide rightsto Double Destiny, a true wartimesaga about identical twins raised separately, one as a Nazi and one as a Jew.The story starts withefforts to reunite the brothers in 1980, 35 years after they were forced tolive apart during the ...
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SAG declares Global Rule One a success in year one
Exactly one yearafter the launch of its Global Rule One initiative to protect member'scontractual rights on worldwide productions, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG)today (May 1) hailed the plan a success.The guild saidthat since the launch there have been more than 100 foreign theatricalproductions shot under SAG terms that may not ...
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French frank on film support
France's culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon has called for a series of measures to further support French cinema and to encourage films to shoot within the country.During a ministerial meeting on Wednesday, Aillagon stated it is imperative to "diversify and perpetuate" film financing in France in order to boost the local ...
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Icon grabs worldwide rights to Jindabyne
Icon Entertainment International has jumped aboard Jindabyne, the next film by director Ray Lawrence, who gave Australia its biggest commercial and critical hit of 2001 with Lantana. It is the first time the company has grabbed all worldwide sales rights to an Australian film since its local distribution arm opened ...
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3D Ghosts to get special screening
Ghosts Of The Abyss, James Cameron's 3D documentary in which he returns to the wreck of the Titanic, is to screen in Official Selection, out of competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival.The screening will take place on Saturday May 17, three days into the festival, at the Grand Amphitheatre ...
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Cameron's 3D Ghosts to obtain special screening
Ghosts Of The Abyss, James Cameron's 3D documentary in which he returns to the wreck of the Titanic, is to screen in Official Selection, out of competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival.The screening will take place on Saturday May 17, three days into the festival, at the Grand Amphitheatre ...
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Myriad takes foreign on A Foreign Affair
Los Angeles and London-basedproduction and distribution company Myriad Pictures is in final negotiations toacquire all foreign rights outside the US and English-speaking Canada to thecomedy-drama A Foreign Affair, companypresident Kirk D'Amico announced today (May 1).The Black & White Filmsproduction played in the American Spectrum strand at Sundance earlier this yearand ...
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Clooney's Confessions welcomed in Italy
After a series of generally low-key limited releases George Clooney's directorial debut, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, received a boost to its international box office last weekend with a number one bow in Italy.The territory is the first to provide the comic-drama, which is based on the 'unofficial autobiography' of ...
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Sundance Channel acquires Dopamine for film series
The SundanceChannel has acquired all North American rights to Mark Decena's debut featurefilm Dopamine, thecompany's senior vice president of film programming Paola Frecceroannounced today (Apr 29).A romanticcomedy about a computer programmer who falls for a nursery school teacher, Dopamine stars John Livingston (The Net) and Sabrina Lloyd (TV's SportsNight).The acquisition ...
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Toronto breathes again after WHO warning rescinded
The World HealthOrganisation yesterday lifted its travel advice against non-essential travel toToronto, effective today. It is a welcome relief for Canada'slargest production centre, which was bracing for a collapse of US productions.The city suffered an instantaneous downturn in tourism and convention businesswhen WHO posted the advice April 23. As of ...
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Mauritania's Waiting For Happiness wins at Buenos Aires
Films from as far afield as Mauritania, Thailand and Belgium took home the top prizes at the Buenos Aires Fifth International Film Festival of Independent Cinema.Mauritania's Waiting For Happiness by director Abderrahmane Sissako won best picture while director Apichatpong Weerasethakul of Thailand's Blissfully Yours was named best director. In a ...
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UK tax breaks could disappear altogether warns PACT
UK producers body PACT has warned that the UK's influential film tax breaks could disappear completely in July 2005.While the tax relief mechanism under Section 48 is due to expire in 2005, the film industry is hoping for another extension after lobbying led by support super body the Film Council ...
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Vivendi buries Hollywood ambition
Media giant Vivendi Universal ended months of speculation yesterday by confirming that it was bowing out of the US entertainment industry and selling-off subsidiary Universal Entertainment Networks.Indicating that a post-restructure Vivendi would focus on telecoms and French television, Vivendi Universal chief executive Jean-Marie Fourtou told shareholders the company was talking ...
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Wellspring's Russian Ark joins US digital series
US distributor Wellspring isto exhibit Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark, which was famously shot in a single unedited91-minute take, as part of the BMW Films Digital Cinema Series in MicrosoftWindows Media 9 Series in select cities nationwide.The film was released intheatres in December 2002 on 35mm through Wellspring and grossed $1.6m.Cinematographer ...
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Istituto Luce boards Garcia-vehicle and Haneke-Binoche drama
Two months after new management was put into place at Istituto Luce, the venerable state-owned Italian film distributor is returning to local and international film production. Its slate includes a new picture by Cannes regular Michael Haneke and vehicles for Andy Garcia and Al Pacino. New chief executive Luciano Sovena ...
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Oscar winning Czech director returns with Bottles
Oscar-winning director of Kolya,and Dark Blue World and Czech Republic box office record holder, Jan Sverak has announced his return to directing after an absence of nearly two years. Dispelling rumours that his next project would be a horror film, Sverak said his latest project would be Returnable Bottles, a ...
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IMAX cuts deal to launch three new theatres in India
IMAX Corporation announcedtoday (Apr 29) that it has signed an agreement to install three theatres inIndia, marking the company's largest international multiple dealcommitment to date.The deal with commericalreal estate developer Aerens Developers & Engineers was closed in lateMarch and brings to six the number of IMAX theatres that will be ...
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Paramount's Prince heads for Prague
Paramount is joining the Prague production influx with romantic comedy The Prince and the Freshman starring Julia Stiles and directed by Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl, Rambling Rose). The film has received the green light and will begin production in the Czech capital in June, Prague sources told Screendaily.Paramount joins a ...
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Warner promotes Reid, Rich, Volland to vice presidents
Warner Bros.Pictures International (WBPI) has announced three promotions in its marketingdepartment, with Samantha Reid becoming vice president of marketing, creativeadvertising and production, Blair Rich becoming vice president of marketing andcreative advertising and Lance Volland becoming vice president of publicity.The promotionswere announced today (Apr 29) by Sue Kroll, WBPI's president ofmarketing.Reid ...