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Arclight sells Moonlight
Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to Moonlight, the next film by Paula van der Oest whose last film Zus & Zo is one of the five best foreign language film nominees this year.Moonlight, which Hamilton says will screen at the Cannes market this year, is van ...
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Dentists, Dopamine bookend San Francisco fest
Alan Rudolph's The Secret Lives Of Dentists has been selected as the opening night film for the 46th San Francisco International Film Festival on April 17. The film, which stars Campbell Scott and Hope Davis, has been well-received at its previous screenings at the Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals, and ...
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Whale Rider becomes 2nd highest grossing local NZ film
Whale Rider has become the second highest grossing New Zealand film in its home market.The film has grossed over $3.3m after four and half weeks, overtaking the previous number two picture What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted', also produced by South Pacific Pictures. With a local take of more than ...
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The Third Wave heralds Sonet's international ambitions
Swedish production and distribution company Sonet Film has started shooting its first English-language feature film, The Third Wave, directed by Anders Nilsson, who made local box-office hit Executive Protection in 2001.Following Sonet Film's local success both Executive Protection and last year's Everyone Loves Alice, the company has announced that ...
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Latin American films dominate Fribourg competition
More than half of the feature films showing in the competition of Germany's 17th Fribourg International Film Festival (March 16-23) come from Latin America.Brazil is represented by two films - Jorge Furtado's Two Summers and Eliane Caffe's The Story Tellers - while Argentina has four pictures: Luis Ortega's Black ...
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New UK tax fund targets transatlantic film distribution
Warner Bros. is set to tap into a transatlantic distribution fund being raised through UK tax financing.The scheme is the brainchild of UK tax specialist Scotts Atlantic, which is currently raising the fund from private investors. While Scotts Atlantic was not available for comment, rival tax funds said that the ...
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BBC sells Sylvia Plath project to Icon for UK
BBC Films has sold UK rights excluding free TV to the as yet untitled Sylvia Plath Project to Icon Film Distribution, the film of arm of the UK broadcaster announced on Wednesday.Icon previously acquired Australian rights from sales agent Capitol Films. Currently in post-production, the film was directed by New ...
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Sweden's NonStop acquires host of titles for Scandinavian release
Swedish acquisitions and distribution company NonStop Entertainment has acquired Scandinavian rights to Berlin Golden Bear winner In This World by Michael Winterbottom. Other new acquisitions include audience favourite Whale Rider by acclaimed director Niki Caro, the new Spanish thriller Killing Words, Australian box office hit Crackerjack and Edward Furlong's in ...
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Cartoon Movie tribute nominees announced
France's MK2, Sweden's Folkets Bio and Spain's Grupo Filmax are among seven companies or individuals who have been nominated for Cartoon Movie Tributes in recognition of their contribution to the success of feature animation in Europe.The full line-up of nominees are:Didier Brunner (France), 'for producing the greatest number of auteur ...
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Arclight commits to two new thrillers
Arclight Films has committed to handling international sales on writer/director Glenn Standring's second film, the vampire thriller Perfect Creature, and director Anne Turner's Australian/UK co-production Irresistible. Standring's debut film The Irrefutable Truth About Demons sold around the world and an August shoot is planned for this next one in Dunedin ...
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Bulgarian Lovers goes to the US
Spanish sales company Grupo PI announced it has closed an all rights deal in the US to TLA Releasing on Berlin Panorama entry Bulgarian Lovers (Los Novios Bulgaros) (pictured).Veteran director Eloy de la Iglesia's first feature film since the 1980's, Bulgarian Lovers tells the story of an affluent Madrid lawyer ...
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Columbia TriStar starts shooting first South Korean production
Silmi Island (working title), Columbia TriStar's first foray into the South Korean production sector, started principal photography on March 1. Fully financed by Columbia for $10m, an unusually high budget by local standards, the Korean-language feature is directed by Cinema Service founder Kang Woo-suk. Kang, a producer and ...
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Hong Kong film fest introduces three new international competition sections
The Hong Kong International Film Festival (HIFF) is introducing three international competition sections to its 27th edition (April 8-23), marking the first time the event has handed out awards.A section entitled Firebird Awards for Young Cinema will screen 11 first or second productions from new directors, including Blind Shaft, directed ...
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Portugal's LNK Filmes strengthens its slate
Portugal's LNK Filmes has announced a host of acquisitions, further strengthening its market position as well as that of its expanding umbrella holding company JRP.Pick-ups concluded at the AFM, according to commercial manager Luis Froes, who co-handles international acquisitions, include Joel Schumacher's The Phantom Of The Opera, Michael Winterbottom's Code ...
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Bertolucci tangos with ShoWest
Exactly three decades after Last Tango In Paris scandalized audiences and censors, Italian maestro Bernardo Bertolucci is still considered too risque for middle America, at least from the evidence of yesterday's sneak preview of his latest film to US theatre owners.After peppering up a ShoWest luncheon audience with excited talk ...
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Hoffman gets top honour at San Francisco Film Festival
Dustin Hoffman is to receive the Peter J Owens Award at the 46th San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from Apr 17 - May 1. The Owens Award, named after the local cultural benefactor and longtime festival board member, will be presented to Hoffman at the Film Society Awards ...
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IFM has Grim Weekend at MIP-TV
IFM World Releasing, the distribution associate of US/Australian international film and TV sales company IFM Film Associates, has picked up worldwide distribution rights on the horror title Grim Weekend. The picture will premiere at the upcoming MIP-TV in Cannes.Grim Weekend centres on a real estate agent who invites friends and ...
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Sumner Redstone eyes selected VU entertainment assets
Paramount-owner, Viacom may have emerged as the new front-runner in the race to buy Vivendi Universal's US entertainment assets. Viacom is understood to have focused its interest on Universal Studios and the TV operations, but not Universal Music.Viacom chief Sumner Redstone and Vivendi Universal boss Jean-Rene Fourtou met recently in ...
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Italian parliament seeks 'impartial' president for state broadcaster
In an apparent effort to contain ongoing criticism over Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's sway on state broadcaster RAI, the speakers of the two houses of the Italian Parliament have decided that the network's next president should be appointed from the opposition party.The unprecedented decision (Rai's president and three of its ...