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Veteran BVI Japan executive Nakajima dies aged 71
Veteran Japanesemovie executive Isamu Nakajima died last week (Aug 7) in Tokyo at the age of71. He was vice president of sales for Buena Vista International Japan (BVIJ)at the time of his death.Nakajima-san wasconsidered one of Japan's top distribution executives, respected byexhibitors and admired by competitors. He began his career ...
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MGM launches two branded channels in Africa with Multichoice
MGM Networks,the TV networks arm of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), is to launch two channelsinto Africa after striking an agreement with Multichoice Africa. The 24-hour aday, seven-days-a-week channels, which are dubbed MGM Movie Channel, will becarried on Multichoice Africa's DStv platform. One will be supplied inEnglish to subscribers throughout sub-Saharan Africa, while ...
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Breillat, Chaio join Venice's Upstream jury
French director Catherine Breillat and Taiwanese producer Peggy Chiao will light up the jury for Venice's Upstream competition (Controcorrente). Lebanese film critic Ghassan Abdoul-Khalek will head the jury, which also includes FIPRESCI chief Klaus Eder and Italian director-critic Enrico Ghezzi. The winner of the cutting-edge section's San Marco prize ...
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Breillat, Chaio join Upstream jury; Zaoralova, Hauff to pick De Laurentiis winners
French director Catherine Breillat and Taiwanese producer Peggy Chiao will light up the jury for Venice's Upstream competition (Controcorrente). Lebanese film critic Ghassan Abdoul-Khalek will head the jury, which also includes FIPRESCI chief Klaus Eder and Italian director-critic Enrico Ghezzi. The winner of the cutting-edge section's San Marco prize ...
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Kaufman, Magiday & Resnick form Focus buying troika
Universal Pictures'specialized arm Focus Features has finalized the structure of its acquisitionsdepartment, ending months of speculation which has seen the exit of senioracquisitions executives Graeme Mason from Universal Pictures International(UPI) and Steven Raphael and Amanda Klein from USA Films. Focus was formed byUniversal from the merger of USA Films and ...
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Korean festival delayed by success
The third edition of Korea's indieKINO International Film Festival, due to have taken place later this month, has been postponed until December. Rather than spelling trouble, the reason appears to be the event's growing success.Originally to have taken place Aug 19-Sept 15, the online event will now take place Dec ...
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TV-Loonland to acquire majority stake in Metrodome
European media group TV-Loonland (TVL) is to acquire a majority stake in UK DVD and video distributor in a bid to boost the fortunes of its nascent home entertainment business.In a complex deal Metrodome will acquire TVL subsidiary rights-holding company Loonland Home Entertainment Ventures Ltd for£1.25m which will be paid ...
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The Deserted Valley takes Melbourne first
Vietnamese director Pham Nhue Giang's The Deserted Valley (Thung Lung Hoang Vang) from Vietnam has won the 51st Melbourne International Film Festival's first FIPRESCI (Federation Internationale de la Presse Cinematographique) and FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Prize. The film was included in the International Forum of this year's Berlin ...
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Tomorrow La Scala withdrawn from Edinburgh
Francesa Joseph's debut feature Tomorrow, La Scala! has been withdrawn from its UK premiere slot at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival (Aug 14-25).Well received at Cannes, the film centres on small operetta company's staging of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd in a maximum-security prison. It is understood an unresolved copyright ...
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KirchMedia to merge sports and film rights
KirchMedia's managing director sports rights, Dr Alexander Liegl has quit the insolvent German media group ahead of plans to merge its film and sports rights businesses under the management of one director.Kirch said Liegl will leave the company "with immediate effect," adding that his departure was "at his own request ...
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Flach Pyramide picks up Suddenly
Flach Pyramide International (FPI) has picked up international distribution rights on Argentinian director Diego Lerman's feature debut Suddenly (Tan De Repente) which had its world premiere in competition in LocarnoShot in black-and-white, Suddenly follows a solitary and straight-laced young shop girl travelling to the countryside to Buenos Aires where she ...
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Deauville announces line-up
The Deauville Festival of American Film (Aug 30-Sept 8) unveiled a strong competition section of US independents and a starry line-up for its (French) premieres section.The indies section contains the stars of this year's Sundance such as The Good Girl and Secretary, one of the discoveries of Cannes Peter Sollet's ...
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Screen's Fainaru joins Venice Critics jury
Screen International's correspondent and film reviewer, Dan Fainaru will be one of three jurors at the Critics' Week sidebar of the forthcoming Venice Film Festival.Fainaru, who is FIPRESCI luminary, will join veteran Italian writer-director Carlo Lizzani, whose directing credits include The Last Days Of Mussolini (1974) and actress and ...
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Fainaru, Lizzani, Delpy to rule on Critics Week Winners
Screen International's correspondent and film reviewer, Dan Fainaru will be one of three jurors at the Critics' Week sidebar of the forthcoming Venice Film Festival.Fainaru, who is FIPRESCI luminary, will join veteran Italian writer-director Carlo Lizzani, whose directing credits include The Last Days Of Mussolini (1974) and actress and ...
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Eight Legged Freaks
Warner Bros scored a surprise hit in the UK this week as its tongue-in-cheek mutant-spider romp Eight Legged Freaks grossed a mighty $1.6m (£1.03m).Released at 400 sites over the three-day weekend the film, which stars David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra and Scarlett Johansson, scored a good average of $3,931 ...
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Koelmel brothers back in control at Kinowelt with E32m bid
Brothers Michael and Rainer Koelmel are back in the driving seat at Kinowelt after their bid to take over the running of the group's core interests was accepted by a committee of creditor banks. At a meeting in Munich on Friday (August 9) insolvency administrator Dr Wolfgang Ott, acting for ...
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Haynes' Heaven replaces Daldry's Hours; three more titles added
Miramax has withdrawn Stephen Daldry's period drama, The Hours, from the Venice film festival, explaining that the film is unfortunately "not yet ready." Venice artistic director Moritz De Hadeln said its place in the Venice 59 competition, where it was due to have its world premiere, will now be filled ...
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San Sebastian announces line-up for Zabaltegi sidebar
San Sebastian announces line-up for Zabaltegi sidebarCannes' Palme D'Or winner The Pianist and Berlin's Golden Bear success Bloody Sunday among 16 featured films for Festivals Top strandThe Donostia-San Sebastian Film festival has announced the line-up for this year's Festival's Top strand, part of its Zabaltegi sidebar.According to San Sebastian organisers, ...
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Sithengi film festival first targets world cinema
Sithengi, Southern Africa's Film and TV Market, is to hold a legitimate film festival for the first time in its seven-year history in an attempt to establish a greater role for world cinema.Sithengi, which will be held in Cape Town 9-16 November, said it expected to announce the appointment of ...