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Meistrich's Film Movement makes first three acquisitions
Larry Meistrich's fledgling US distribution outfit Film Movement has acquired three award-winning films for select theatrical and limited DVD release. Yamina Benguigui's Inch'Allah Dimanche, Eric Eason's Manito and Giuseppe Piccioni's Light Of My Eye will be shown in select markets, with free admission for Film Movement members who will also ...
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AWP picks up Chopin, Anarchist Cookbook
Mark L Lester's American World Pictures (AWP) has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Polish biopic Chopin: Desire For Love and international rights to US ensemble The Anarchist Cookbook. The films will be screened for buyers at MIFED for the first time. Chopin: Desire For Love stars Danuta Stenka and Piotr ...
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Cinecitta backs Ferretti exhibition, screening series in Los Angeles
Italy's Cinecitta Holding, the parent company of the famed Rome-based Cinecitta Studios, announced yesterday that it will be involved in an exhibition of the work of renowned production designer Dante Ferretti at the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences in Los Angeles as well as a film series featuring ...
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Magical cast lines up for Pathe's Roundabout
A host of star names, including Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue are to provide the voices for Pathe Pictures' CGI animated feature The Magic Roundabout.The $20m movie, to be directed by Dave Borthwick of Bristol-based animation studio bolexbrothers, will also feature the voices of Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Joanna Lumley, ...
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UK movie software hits Hollywood, first stop ICM
US talent and literary agency ICM became the first licensed user on Monday of a new financial software application designed to facilitate contract negotiations. The application is called movie dealflow and was designed by clearcounsel, a digital solutions subsidiary set up and wholly owned by UK entertainment law firm Olswang. ...
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Carlton America readies Giuliani biopic
Carlton America, the Los Angeles-based TV arm of Carlton International, is to produce a feature-length TV biopic about former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani for US cable channel USA Networks.Rudy's Wars stars James Woods and will tell the story of the rise, fall and resurrection of Giuliani, ...
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Koelmel investor group announces Kinowelt contract
Responding to speculation in the German press, the investor group led by Michael and Rainer Koelmel has announced that contracts were signed on October 2 for the brothers to take over the core assets of the Kinowelt Medien Group.According to a statement, Leipzig-based Neue Spielfilm Vertriebs- und Marketing GmbH - ...
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Rare Birds soars at first annual Directors Guild of Canada awards
Sturla Gunnarrsson's Rare Birds took four prizes as the Directors Guild of Canada launched its first annual awards in Toronto. The film, a Newfoundland-set comedy starring William Hurt, received the prizes for Outstanding Achievement in a Feature Film and Outstanding Achievement in Direction as well as picture editing and production ...
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New state minister for culture appointed in Germany
Hamburg's former culture senator Christina Weiss has been appointed by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as the new State Minister for Culture to succeed Julian Nida-Ruemelin who announced last week that he is to return to his professorship in philosophy at the University of Goettingen.Speaking at a press conference with Foreign Minister ...
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Danish award-winner lands first lead role
Danish actress Susanne Juhasz who won the prestigious Bodil Award as best supporting actress for her film debut One Hand Clapping, has landed her first leading role in newcomer Oliver Kanafani's feature directing debut Sten, Saks, Papir (working title). It is a comedy-drama about the relationship between two very different ...
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Bangkok film festival postponed, second event launched
The organisers of the Bangkok International Film Festival (BIFF) - English-language newspaper, The Nation, and the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) - have decided to postpone the event from November until January next year.Meanwhile, a second event is being organised by the festival's former director, Brian Bennett, and is set ...
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GMM Pictures boosts profile in burgeoning Thai film industry
GMM Pictures, the new film arm of Thai multimedia giant GMM Grammy, is emerging as a major player in the rapidly-expanding Thai film industry with its first feature set to open on 100 screens this weekend and another four pictures in various stages of production.The outfit's debut film, Mekong Full ...
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Super RTL takes three from Buena Vista Int'l Television
Buena Vista International Television has licensed three animated features to Super RTL - Movietoons, in a deal which shows that business is still being done in the troubled German TV sector.The features - The Tigger Movie, Recess and Doug's First Movie - fit into Super RTL's Disney Playhouse pre-school strategy, ...
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Wellspring buys US rights to Claire Denis' Friday Night
US independent distributorWellspring Media has acquired domestic rights to Friday Night (Vendredi Soir), the latest film from Claire Denis, with plans to release ittheatrically in spring 2003. The movie, which had its world premiere screeningat Venice last month, also played at Toronto and screens Friday night this weekat the New ...
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Take Care Of My Cat scoops Feminale prize
Korean director Jeong Jae-Eun's Take Care Of My Cat has won this year's Euros2,500 Feature Debut Prize at the Feminale international women's film festival in Cologne.Take Care Of My Cat, a huge hit in its home country, follows five young girls as they make their first steps from school into ...
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New faces of Swedish cinema head for New York
A week-long programme of Swedish films has been organised by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York to run between November 1 - 7. The programme, called The New Faces of Swedish Cinema, includes seven feature films and a number of short films. The aim of the event, ...
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Three Japanese titles to compete at Tokyo film festival
The full lineup of the 15th edition of the Tokyo international film festival, (Oct 26 to Nov 4) includes three Japanese titles out of a total 15 competition films. The three Japanese films, which will compete for the $83,000 (Y10m) Grand Prix and the $16,000 (Y2m) Jury Prize, are ...
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Germany's Constantin Film signs deal with Freestyle Pictures
Germany's Constantin Film has signed a multi-year production, finance and distribution deal with US producer Adam Platnick's Freestyle Pictures Freestyle will produce films for Constantin as well as participate with Constantin in financing and distributing films to the international marketplace.Commenting on the deal concluded with Constantin Film's subsidiary Constantin Film ...
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Corporate development vp Isaac Palmer promoted at Viacom
Isaac Palmer has beenpromoted to senior vice president, corporate development, at ViacomEntertainment Group from vice president, corporate development. Palmer is a keyfigure at Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures in finding financing partners onmovies, and structuring, negotiating and administering the transactions.He also serves on the boardof director of international theatrical exhibitor UCI, Canadian ...
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Jeunet to direct Very Long Engagement for Warner
Warner Bros is extending its commitment to producing films in France with the agreement to make Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's next picture, A Very Long Engagement.The French-language period picture is based on a best-selling novel by Sebastien Japrisot about a woman's search for the truth behind her fiancee's mysterious disappearance.The ...