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Focus knows how to deal
Focus Features co-president David Linde has unveiled major territory deals on How To Deal, the latest production from Ted Field and Scott Kroopf's Radar, a coming-of-age romance starring Mandy Moore. Roadshow Film Distributors has taken the film for Australia and Paradiso for Benelux alongside Radar partners Lauren Film in Spain, ...
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Serial killer on the loose for Dream
Dream Entertainment has concluded a slew of deals on David Jacobson's crime drama Dahmer, the true story of the controversial serial killer which has grossed more than $6m in the US.Dream co-founder Ehud Bleiberg sold the film to Les Films de L'Elysee for France and all French-speaking territories including Belgium, ...
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Herwitz reps Romania's Oscar entry
Andrew Herwitz, the former Miramax executive who has set up his own New York-based producer's rep The Film Sales Company, has signed on to represent North and Latin America on Philanthropy, the Romanian submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award this year.Written and directed by Nae Caranfil and ...
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Miramax shakes up its Euro gang
Ending months of speculation, Miramax Films has confirmed a major shake-up of the London-based team responsible for implementing its production and acquisitions activities across Europe.New York-based development chief Colin Vaines will head the London-based operation as executive vice-president of European production and development. Former UK-based chief Allon Reich is joining ...
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Odeon Film switches from Neuer Markt
Odeon Film, co-producer of Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers, has received the greenlight from the German Stock Exchange to switch his company listing from the Neuer Markt and start trading on the Regulated Market (Geregelter Markt) from December 2.An official statement explained the move 'as a reaction to the present situation ...
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Partnerships are Keys to Italian films
Charlotte Rampling is set to heighten the buzz surrounding Oscar nominated director Gianni Amelio's already widely-anticipated new picture, The Keys To The House (Le Chiavi di Casa), after agreeing to star in the picture alongside local actor Kim Rossi Stuart. But, just as important as the cast, is the fact ...
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Marketing campaign raises awareness of 28 Days Later
A savvy marketing campaign came up trumps in the UK this week as 20th Century Fox launched British director Danny Boyle's latest film 28 Days Later. The horror title defeated all comers in the country including Hollywood heavyweights XXX and Lilo & Stitch and fellow wide openers Changing Lanes and ...
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BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE UK FILM INDUSTRY
The full keynote speech by the Chairman of the Film CouncilToday I want to set out some new thinking from the Film Council about the kind of film industry we'd like to see in this country. I want to set out a vision of an industry that is a strong ...
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Parker delivers UK cinema 'reality check'
Alan Parker, the UK director who chairs British film support body the Film Council, has called for a radical overhaul of public support to finally cure British cinema of its "little England" disease.In his most far reaching speech since taking up the council reigns, Parker said the UK's influential tax ...
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Schoendorffer shoots Spybound for TF1
Irreversible pair and real life couple Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel are to star in Spy Bound (Agents Secrets), a big-budget thriller to be directed by Frederic Schoendorffer.The Euros15m French-language film is produced by Doberman-producer Eric Neve through his company La Chauve Souris and makes its market splash as the ...
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Spider-Man VHS & DVD sales spin $190m record revenues
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is celebrating today after scoring the biggest ever video and DVD release of all time over the weekend with Spider-Man. The release broke first day sales records on Friday with seven million units (combined VHS and DVD) sold and more than 11 million units are estimated ...
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XXX thrills Italy, battles 28 Days Later in UK
XXX is expected to pass the international $100m mark by the end of the week after a $12.4m weekend haul that gives the Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) action thriller a $96m running total. The picture opened in Italy with $2m from 330 screens, comparing favourably to previous openings ...
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Hard Word finds its new Alibi in Beyond
Sydney-based Beyond Films will begin selling the Australian crime thrillerThe Hard Word at MIFED, replacing London-based Alibi Films as its international sales agent.Alibi originally signed on to represent the film internationally in mid-2000, over a year before shooting began, largely because of the interest of its then sales chief Hilary ...
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European distributors form six way buying alliance
Six European distributors have teamed up to form a buying alliance, that is the re-working of a similar deal announced this time last year. The companies involved include pure distributors Switzerland's Frenetic, Spain's Alta Films and Cinelibre-Cineart and producer-distributors Haut Et Court from France, Fu Works-A-Films from The Netherlands and ...
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European distributors form six way buying alliance
Six European distributors have teamed up to form a buying alliance, that is the re-working of a similar deal announced this time last year. The companies involved include pure distributors Switzerland's Frenetic, Spain's Alta Films and Cinelibre-Cineart and producer-distributors Haut Et Court from France, Fu Works-A-Films from The Netherlands and ...
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Blue Star widens Anglo-Italian financing net
As the Italian film industry continues to struggle to make commercially viable pictures that can travel outside its own borders, local producers have started to recognise the benefits of joining forces with European - and, in particular, UK allies.A pioneering model has been set by a reciprocal financing arrangement that ...
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Blue Star widens Anglo-Italian financing net
As the Italian film industry continues to struggle to make commercially viable pictures that can travel outside its own borders, local producers have started to recognise the benefits of joining forces with European - and, in particular, UK allies.A pioneering model has been set by a reciprocal financing arrangement that ...
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Blue Star widens Anglo-Italian financing net
As the Italian film industry continues to struggle to make commercially viable pictures that can travel outside its own borders, local producers have started to recognise the benefits of joining forces with European - and, in particular, UK allies.A pioneering model has been set by a reciprocal financing arrangement that ...
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Stone, Everett defect to Arclight
Gary Hamilton and Victor Syrmis' newly-launched Arclight Films has boarded A Different Loyalty, starring Sharon Stone and Rupert Everett.Everett plays British super spy Kim Philby, who defected to Moscow in 1963, and Stone plays his wife. Directed by Marek Kanievska, who also directed Everett in Another Country, another film set ...