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Head of FilmFour Lab steps down
Robin Gutch is stepping down as head of FilmFour Lab, FilmFour's low-budget and experimental division.Gutch's position and the Lab were though to be safe despite FilmFour being folded back into parent broadcaster Channel 4 last year, but Gutch was one of the candidates to head Channel 4's entire film operation, ...
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Bavaria embraces A Torn Hug
Recent Rotterdam CineMart project, A Torn Hug, (Un Abrazo Partido) by Argentinian director Daniel Burmann has been picked up for world sales by Bavaria Film International. The deal completes the financing of the $650,000 tale about piecing together one's identity in multicultural Argentina. Other backers include Burman's own Burman ...
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New box office high for New Zealand
New Zealand exhibitors had their best ever year at the box office in 2002 with 17.8 million ticket sales generating $142.7mAccording to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of New Zealand revenues were up 14% on 2001, in part attributable to the number of wet weekends during last year. A $1 ...
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Cast takes shape for Joffe's epic Invaders
Bollywood star Vivek Oberoi is to play the lead Indian role in Roland Joffe's upcoming The Invaders, which is due to shoot in India later this year. Oberoi is one of India's fastest-rising stars, having been catapulted to stardom by his debut film, Company, which was released in India last ...
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Yugoslavia, Slovenia co-produce Red Coloured Grey Truck
Hot Slovenian production house E-motion Films, producer of Damjan Kozole's Spare Parts which premieres in Official Competition in Berlin, is to co-produce feature debutant Srdan Koljevic's Red Coloured Grey Truck as the first collaboration between Yugoslavia and Slovenia since the Balkan War. Koljevic's Euros 1.2m roadmovie - "in the tradition ...
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Miami launches co-production market
The 20th Miami International Film Festival is to introduce its own co-production market, called Encuentros.The event, which runs Feb 27 - March 1, is to follow a growing and successful new trend in festivals called whereby film projects in their early stages are presented to potential co-producers, financiers and distributors. ...
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Steve Coogan to play Phileas Fogg in Walden's 80 Days
UK TV comedian Steve Cooganhas landed the plum role of Phileas Fogg opposite Jackie Chan as Passepartoutin Walden Media's mega- budget movie adaptation of Jules Verne's AroundThe World In Eighty Days.The move, which wasconfirmed by Coogan's UK agent ICM yesterday, marks Coogan's first lead role ina Hollywood movie, although the ...
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ECG Worldwide brings new thriller The Invitation to AFM
ECG Worldwide has acquired writer-director Pat Bermel's thrillerThe Invitation and will offer it for worldwide licensing at next week's AFM,company president Barbara Mudge announced today (Feb 11). The picture will makeits premiere sales marketing screening at AFM. Lance Henriksen, whose creditsinclude Aliens, The Right Stuff and Dog Day Afternoon, stars ...
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Village Roadshow ups funding capacity in Warner co-financing deal
Bidding to play a part in more "tentpole" pictures and increaseits range of options, Village Roadshow Pictures (VRP), the five-year-oldproduction arm of Australian-based Village Roadshow Limited (VRL), announcedtoday (Feb 11) that it had boosted its co-financing deal with Warner Bros bycommitting a revolving $1bn. The investment applies to the studio's ...
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Promark signs two-picture co-production deal with Sci-Fi Channel
Jonathan Kramer's US and UK-based production and sales companyPromark Entertainment announced today (Feb 11) it has signed a co-productiondeal with US cable network The Sci-Fi Channel to make the action pictures Graveland and Ghost Monkey. Promark will be offering allinternational rights to pre-sale buyers at the AFM next week. Graveland, ...
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Magnolia buys Amazing trilogy
PatrickFraterBelgiandirector Lucas Belvaux's trilogy An Amazing Couple, On The Run and After Life has clinched a US dealwith boutique distributor Magnolia Pictures, taking rights to North America,excluding French-speaking Canada. In a separate deal, Telepool bought Germanrights.French sales outfit Films Distributionsaid that the Magnolia deal was completed after a dinner with ...
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Celluloid strikes Belleville deals
PatrickFraterFrenchsales agent Celluloid Dreams has struck a host of deals on Cannes hopeful BellevilleRendez-vous (aka Les Triplettes De Belleville) and has also agreed a five-picture package deal with UKdistributor Metro Tartan.Belleville, an animated thriller for adultsdirected by Sylvain Chomet, is part of the Metro-Tartan package, which alsoincludes Jean-Pierre Limousin's recent ...
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Industry mourns Daniel Toscan Du Plantier
Daniel Toscan Du Plantier Daniel Toscan Du Plantier, president of Unifrance Film International, died suddenly yesterday in Berlin. Toscan Du Plantier was an always colourful, sometimes controversial, character who was ideally suited to the role of promoter in chief of French cinema. The festival immediately moved into a phase of ...
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IMAX to add three new sites in China
Toronto-based large format operator IMAX is to open three new theatres in China, expanding the country's number of IMAX theatres to eight by 2005.The new developments - in Beijing and South Chinese city Dongguan - come just six months after IMAX officially launched in the territory with a Chinese and ...
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Danish duo create five-for-one animation plan
Danish producer-distributor Angel Films has joined with Anders Morgenthaler's TV-Animation in a new production outfit Five For One, which plans to produce five digital animated children's features. Using a new specially designed computer software and Dogme-like production principals they intend to make the five films for the price of one. ...
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Jack Valenti brings anti-piracy campaign to Berlin
MPAA president Jack Valenti reiterated his anti-piracy campaign in Berlin, when he addressed the opening of the European Film Finance Forum and also met German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to discuss the issue."There is a menace in this world that threatens not only the Americans but every creative community ...and that's ...
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France's Rezo expands into international sales arena
Celebrating its tenth year in existence, French producer and distributor Rezo films will now move into international sales. The process will begin with the 23rd film from Eric Rohmer, Triple Agent. The film, which begins shooting in March in Paris is budgeted at Euros 4m and will be sold and ...
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Arte reassures film-makers of continued investment
Jerome Clement, (pictured) head of Arte, the Franco-German cultural channel, has plenty to crow about as he makes an annual good-will mission to the Berlinale. Arte was an investor in no less than twenty festival films, including four in main competition. These are Wolfgang Becker's already hot Good Bye Lenin!, ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! heads Bavaria's sales
German sales outfit Bavaria Film International has done strong business on Berlin competition film Good Bye, Lenin!. Deals were closed on the spot with France's Ocean Films and Japan's Gaga Communications. It is in negotiations with distributors from the US, UK, Spain and Italy. Ahead of today's Oscar ...
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Bergman's TV drama heads for the big screen
Svensk Filmindustri (SF) has notched up a raft of sales for Saraband, a TV drama from legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman that has now become a hot theatrical property.The film was sold to Metro-Tartan for the UK, where the distributor recently re-released and has done good business with the previously ...