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Metro Tartan takes UK rights on Black And White
Metro Tartan, the UK distributor, has picked up Black And White, an Australian period drama by director Craig Lahiff. The film focuses on a real life 1958 trial of an Aboriginal man, framed by the police for the rape of a young girl. Made by Duo Art and Nik Powell's ...
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Local film rocks Spanish box office
Effects-laden, cartoon-inspired Spanish feature film Mortadelo & Filemon - The Big Adventure achieved the top grossing opening weekend ever for a local title this weekend in Spain, earning Euros 5.1m from 325 prints through distributor Warner Sogefilms.Sogecine-Sogepaq, co-producer and sales agent on the Euros 8m film, also closed a ...
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Giannini, Roth to star in Taviani brothers' Dumas project
Italian heartthrob Adriano Giannini (Swept Away) and Argentina's Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother) are set to star for the Taviani brothers in Luisa Sanfelice, an ambitious Italian feature film and miniseries, Rome-based producer Cattleya announced in Berlin.Originally planned only as a miniseries, Cattleya, which is producing for Germany's Victory ...
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Likely buyer named for Odeon Cinemas
A likely buyer appears to have emerged for Odeon Cinemas, after reports earlier this month that the UK's largest cinema chain was being put on the auction block by owner Cinven.According to a report in the UK's Sunday Telegraph, investment bank WestLB is in advanced negotiations to acquire the circuit ...
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Momentum joins in Fortissimo's Camp
Camp, the musical romp set in a summer camp star school, has been snapped up for the UK by Momentum Films. Momentum scored after beating off competition from numerous rival bidders and is believed to have paid a "near mid-six figure sum." Momentum, senior vice president of acquisitions Sally Caplan ...
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Trust takes on international sales for Details
Denmark's Trust Film Sales will be handling international sales of the Swedish film Details, the highly anticipated new film from writer-director Kristian Petri. The film has been tipped for a slot in Cannes - if it is finished in time - and is based on a play by Sweden's provocative ...
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Pelzer named studio manager at Ealing
Ealing Studios has appointed Jeremy Pelzer as studio manager.Pelzer, who previously acted a consultant to the historic studio, will be responsible for increasing the profile and awareness of Ealing within the film, television and media industries. He will oversee the studio's current $82m (£50m) revamp on a day-to-day basis.Pelzer managed ...
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Tele-Muenchen ups German feature production
Herbert Kloiber's Tele-Muenchen will step up its German-language feature production as a way of filling the gap left by the bursting of the Neuer Markt bubble."We are currently speaking with all independent producers and talents we didn`t have a chance of working with in the past because they ...
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Iceland's youngest film-maker readies gay football feature
Iceland's youngest, yet most prolific, filmmaker Robert Douglas is preparing his third feature film, Off Side, which has been put on the fast track after Ingvar Thordarson (101 Reykjavík) stepped in as co-producer along with director-producer Julius Kemp. The latter also produced Douglas' two previous low-budget digital features, The Icelandic ...
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Spain's Tesela readies three new films
Spanish production company Tesela is preparing three new feature films including the next project from Argentinean veteran Adolfo Aristarain (Common Places).The films are the first new projects following Achero Manas' Noviembre (now in post-production with an eye to a Cannes release) since Grupo Prisa-backed Plural Entertainment bought out 80% of ...
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Grosvenor Park launches new tax scheme
Aiming to create a rival to Inside Track, the groundbreaking fund bankrolling such titles as Girl With A Pearl Earring, Canadian-UK financier Grosvenor Park has launched First Choice, a similar tax write-off scheme offering 30% of budgets.Grosvenor Park chief Don Starr aims to raise $41m-$82m (£25m-£50m) from investors for the ...
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Two Weeks Notice takes $5.7m from nine territories
WarnerBros' romantic comedy Two Weeks Notice grossed an estimated $5.7m from 914screens in nine countries over the weekend, generating 837,000 admissions. Inthe highlight performance, the picture opened at number one in the UK on $4.3m(£2.64m) - including previews - from 414 venues. It was female leadSandra Bullock's best ever UK ...
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About Schmidt scores top screen averages in Italy, Australia
New LineInternational's About Schmidt opened in third place in Italy over the weekend, grossing $1.3mfrom 188 screens. Although it finished behind Catch Me If You Can and The Lord Of The Rings: The TwoTowers, the black comedyaveraged $6,860 - the best performance in the top 50. The picture opened seventhin ...
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Modern steps up to take on three new films at AFM
ModernEntertainment announced today (Feb 10) that it is expanding its distribution operationsto include international sales of new feature films, with the first threetitles named as The Pact, Liquid Bridge and Fear Of Speed. The company will be offering all three for worldwidetheatrical and television distribution at AFM next week. Until ...
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Ciment named guest programmer at San Francisco Film Fest
Michel Ciment, the long-running editor of French filmmagazine Positif, has been named as guest programmer at the 46th San FranciscoInternational Film Festival. Making the announcement today (Feb 10), SanFrancisco Film Society executive director Roxanne Messina Captor said Cimentknew the festival well after covering it for many years as a reporter. ...
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Iraq, Rouen go to US through Wellspring
Wellspring Mediahas acquired US rights to two new foreign-language pictures: BahmanGhobadi's award-wining Marooned In Iraq and Ma Vraie Vie A Rouen directed by Olivier Ducastel and JacquesMartineau. The company will release both films theatrically prior to a homevideo roll-out on the Wellspring label, with Marooned In Iraq set for release ...
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Summit/IS takes on Jewison's The Statement
Summit Entertainment hasacquired international distribution rights to Norman Jewison's nextpicture The Statement starringMichael Caine, Jeremy Northam and Tilda Swinton. Sony Pictures Classics (SPC)has domestic rights to the film.Set to start shooting in Europeon March 17, The Statement isbased on Brian Moore's novel and was scripted by Ronald Harwood, who hasbeen ...
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UIP's Rougier takes top job at TFM
Jean-PaulRougier has been named managing director of TFM, the stand-alone joint Frenchdistribution outfit launched by TF1 and Miramax Films in May 2002. Miramax COORick Sands and TF1 chairman and CEO Patrick Le Lay made the announcement today(Feb 10). Rougier most recently served as CEO at UIP, where he was also ...
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Berlinale promotes Freedom2Speak
Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick has given a group of young local filmmakers the greenlight to transform the festival into an ongoing discussion forum about the threat of war with Iraq.Under the banner 'Freedom2Speak', the filmmakers have already produced a 20-second spot which will be shown before each film at the ...
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The Academy Award nominations in full
Performance by an actor in a leading roleAdrien Brody in The Pianist (Focus Features)Nicolas Cage in Adaptation (Sony Pictures Releasing)Michael Caine in The Quiet American (Miramax and Intermedia)Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs Of New York (Miramax)Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt (New Line)Performance by an actor in a supporting roleChris Cooper in ...