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Hannibal knocks on Dylan's door
Richard Rionda Del Castro's Los Angeles-based Hannibal Pictures has acquired all rights to Masked And Anonymous in Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Turkey from Nigel Sinclair and Guy East's Spitfire Pictures. Larry Charles' picture, which stars Bob Dylan as a singer on the comeback trail, premiered at Sundance and was ...
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Korean horror scares up French sale
Cineclick Asia secured a "low six figures" pre-sale of Korean horror flick A Tale Of Two Sisters to France's Wild Side Films. The film, based on a traditional Korean folk tale is a chamber piece involving an interfering ghost, a cruel stepmother and two sisters with very different characters. The ...
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TVB sells majority stake in Galaxy to Intelsat
Hong Kong broadcaster TVB has announced a deal to sell a 51% stake in its long-delayed pay-TV platform, Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting, to US satellite services provider, Intelsat. The deal clears the way for Galaxy to be launched in the third quarter of this year, presenting Hong Kong's dominant pay-TV operator, ...
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Lions Gate hip hops with urban sales push
Lions Gate International has launched a sales initiative of the urban movies that its parent company produces in an effort to capitalise on the worldwide popularity of hip-hop and US black culture. The company scored sales success with Dr Dre/Snoop Dogg vehicle The Wash, which grossed over $10m in the ...
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Movies phone home in Germany
Having been one of the most depressed places around, German TV is set for a rebound thanks to last week's takeover of Premiere and the arrival of Deutsche Telekom as a video-on-demand (VoD) broadcaster. Represented by former Kirch executive, Daniel Otto, Telekom's on-line subsidiary T-Online is at the AFM as ...
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Lightning gets rights on The Job
Lightning Entertainment has picked up international sales rights on The Job, a recently wrapped crime thriller produced by Dan Levin and Marc Levin's Platform Entertainment. Directed by Kenny Golde, the film stars Daryl Hannah as a cold-blooded contract killer who becomes pregnant and struggles with the choice of whether to ...
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Henderson named vp production at Senator int'l
Senator International has appointed Aubrey Henderson as vice president of production. Reporting directly to Nathan Kahane, the company's executive vice president motion pictures, Henderson will be responsible for identifying, developing and packaging new production projects. Prior to working at Senator, Henderson held positions at CAA and ICM where she worked ...
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BVI opens Jungle Book 2 in Benelux, Chicago in Italy
Buena Vista International (BVI) opened The Jungle Book 2 in second place in Belgium over the weekendon $460,000 from 69 screens, roughly the same as previous bows for Atlantis and Ice Age. In Holland the animated sequel took$235,000 from 113 screens, about the same as the bow for Lilo and ...
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Warner acquires Small Voices for the Philippines
Warner Bros Pictures hasacquired theatrical and home video rights in the Philippines to the Philippinefilm Mga Munting Tinig (SmallVoices), the country's submission for the foreign language film Academy Award and winner of the AudienceFavorite Award at the recent Palm Springs International Film Festival. Theannouncement was made today by Francis Soliven, ...
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Kelley Nichols takes new Latin America distribution job at Warner Bros
KelleyNichols has been named vice president, distribution & marketing, LatinAmerica, at Warner Bros Pictures. The postion is newly created by the studio"due to the increasing complexities and importance of the Latin Americantheatrical marketplace."Basedin Burbank, Nichols will be responsible for distribution strategies, cash flowforecasts, box office tracking, print delivery and working ...
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Wellspring boards Dumont's latest as co-producer
Wellspring Media has boarded Bruno Dumont's upcoming drama 29Palms as co-producer,with production due to wrap in time for a screening in Cannes this year. Thestory centres on a young pair of photographers who are scouting for locationsin the Joshua Tree National Park when their lives are changed forever by ashocking ...
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Goodbye Lenin soars in Germany for Warner Bros
Warner Bros Pictures International's local language picture Goodbye,Lenin rose by aremarkable 47% in its second week in Germany to claim top spot with anestimated $3.6m (Euros 3.4m) from 328 prints. Wolfgang Becker'sfall-of-the-wall comedy-drama has grossed an estimated $7.3m (Euros 6.8m). Two Weeks Notice continued its strong international run, taking $13.4m ...
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Franchise to finance Zeta-Jones-produced comedy
Elie Samaha's FranchisePictures has gone into business with Oscar-nominated superstar CatherineZeta-Jones, agreeing to fully finance her first film as a producer, the rugbycomedy Coming Out in which shewill play a Welsh hairdresser. Alan Cumming is negotiatingto star with Zeta-Jones in the film which was written by Sara Sugarman (VeryAnnie Mary, ...
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Kaye Cooper-Mead named president of IS FIlm Distribution
Kaye Cooper-Mead has been named president of IS Film Distribution,the international sales and marketing joint venture launched recently byIntermedia and Summit Entertainment. Cooper-Mead will supervise day-to-daymanagement of contracts as well as the delivery, marketing and theatricaladministration divisions of the joint venture. She will report to IS'soperating committee members, Bahman Naraghi, ...
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Palm teams with Jonze, Gondry and Cunningham for DVD specials
Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures is teaming up with acclaimeddirectors Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham on a series of DVDsfeaturing a collection of music videos, shorts and commercials hand-picked bythe film-makers, along with storyboards, alternate versions and unseen shortfilms. Releases from the three directors will be out in August, ...
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Daredevil scores in Philippines, Jamaica openings
Fox International opened its superhero adaptation Daredevil at number one in Jamaica over theweekend, grossing $29,000 from six screens. The picture also opened top of thecharts in the Philippines, taking $743,000 from 143 screens to register Fox'sfifth biggest bow of all time and the industry's second biggest February bow inthe ...
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IMAX signs with Regal for two more US IMAX systems
IMAX Corporation announced today (Feb 24) that it has signed adeal with Regal Entertainment Group to install two additional IMAX(R) theatresystems, increasing the number of IMAX theatres operated by Regal to 14 - morethan any other third party operator in the world. The two theatres will belocated in Boise, Idaho ...
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Japan pushes Lord Of The Rings to the brink of $500m outside the US
In its first three days on release in Japan, The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers grossed $9.66m (Y1.13bn) from 800,000 admissions. This represents a 25% improvement over the opening of The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring.The success brings the second installment of Peter Jackson's ...
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German Film Academy launches international exchange programme
German Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg, whose graduates Chris Stenner, Heidi Wittlinger, Georg Gruber and Arvid Uibel have been nominated for an Academy Award with their animated short Das Rad, has launched an international student exchange programme.The new venture is aimed primarily at students attending foreign film schools and universities and wishing ...
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The Ring packs them in across Europe
Horror remake The Ring enjoyed a host of powerful openings across Europe last weekend grossing over $14m from the 21 international territories currently playing it.Launching in seven new territories The Ring took top chart positions in the UK, Iceland and the Netherlands. It also scored the highest screen averages of ...