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Italy's Rai & Spain's KWA add to their Cannes' market slates
Melanie Rodier in Rome and Jennifer Green in MadridItaly's Rai Trade and Spain's Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) have each picked up two hot titles to add to their respective Cannes' market slates.Rai Trade, the sales arm of Italian public broadcaster RAI, has acquired controversial documentary Bella Ciao, about last ...
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Blue Butterfly wings its way to Alliance Atlantis
Alliance Atlantis has made its first feature film acquisition since the reorganization of the company, taking all international rights including the US, but excluding Canada, to The Blue Butterfly starring William Hurt and directed by Lea Pool.The film, currently shooting in the rain forests of Costa Rica, was acquired by ...
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Blue Butterfly wings its way to Alliance Atlantis
Alliance Atlantis has made its first feature film acquisition since the reorganization of the company, taking all international rights including the US, but excluding Canada, to The Blue Butterfly starring William Hurt and directed by Lea Pool.The film, currently shooting in the rain forests of Costa Rica, was acquired by ...
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UK celebrates another home-grown success
UIP celebrated another successful campaign at the weekend as About A Boy, starring Hugh Grant, opened to strong figures of $5.4m (£3.7m), including $938,688 of previews. Opening at a massive 446 sites, second only this year to Monsters, Inc.'s 503, the film recorded the third-highest opening of the year so ...
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Delphi Film picks up The Russian Ark for Germany
Delphi Film will handle the German theatrical distribution of Alexander Sokurov's The Russian Ark, which will have its world premiere in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival.The Euros 2.4m German-Russian co-production between Egoli Tossell Film, Heritage Bridge Studio, Cappa Productions and Koppmedia had received backing from MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, ...
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Richard Eyre to direct Compleat Female Stage Beauty for Artisan & Tribeca
Artisan Pictures and Tribeca Productions have hired British director Richard Eyre to direct the film of Jeffrey Hatcher's stage play Compleat Female Stage Beauty which the two companies are teaming to co-produce. Eyre, who last directed Iris for BBC Films and Intermedia, is currently directing the Broadway revival of The ...
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Controversy boosts results for Baise-Moi down under
The controversy, and subsequent awareness, surrounding French film Baise-Moi has led to its limited release performing about three times the business expected by its Australian distributor, Potential. The film's gross of $49,419 (A$91,426) from just three screens over its first four days to April 28, gave a screen average of ...
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Vampires to travel most of the world with Columbia TriStar
The Era Of Vampires, Fortissimo Films Sales' (FFS) first venture into Hong Kong film production has been sold to Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group for worldwide distribution, excluding Italy, Singapore, Malaysia and some smaller territories.The $3m actioner, (pictured) which was shot on locations throughout China, was produced by Hong Kong ...
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Sogecine's South Of Granada signals greater co-production push
British actors Matthew Goode, James Fleet and Laurence Fox have signed on to star alongside Spaniards Veronica Sanchez and Guillermo Toledo in director Fernando Colomo's forthcoming Gerald Brenan biopic, South Of Granada (Al Sur De Granada).The story of writer Brenan's first encounter with Spain and his love affair with a ...
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'The lights are on green' for EM.TV after Euros 240m write-offs
Germany's EM.TV & Merchandising has reacted to 'the weak advertising market and current changes in the media landscape' by undertaking Euros 240m of extraordinary write-offs.As a result of these write-offs, the consolidated earnings before tax amounted to minus Euros 331m (compared to minus Euros 1.34bn the previous year) and the ...
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About A Boy a smash in the UK with $5.4m opening
Universal's comedy-drama About A Boy went straight to the top of the UK charts with a muscular $5.4m opening this weekend, the third biggest of the year in the UK after Monsters Inc and Ocean's Eleven. The Nick Hornby adaptation, which was co-produced by StudioCanal, Working Title and Robert De ...
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American World gets foreign to Night At The Golden Eagle
Mark L Lester's American World Pictures has acquired international distribution rights to Night At The Golden Eagle, a US independent feature which opened on a limited release in New York and Los Angeles last weekend.Produced by Steve Bing and Adam Rifkin through Shangri-La Entertainment, the film was written and directed ...
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Signpost appoints Bloye as vice president, sales
Signpost Films has appointed Charlie Bloye as vice president, sales, the company announced on Monday.Bloye, previously at Renaissance Films, will reporting to president of sales Nicole Mackey and be based in London. He takes up the position with immediate effect, having been providing a consultancy service to the company."I am ...
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Naomi Watts joins Ned Kelly's Australian cast
Naomi Watts will be returning to Australia in June to star alongside Geoffrey Rush, Rachel Griffith and Heath Ledger in director Gregor Jordan's Ned Kelly, which went into production today (April 29).The news highlights the benefits now flowing to Australian films as a result of the recent international attention focussed ...
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Troy Lum resigns as head of Australia's Dendy Films
Troy Lum has resigned as head of Australia's Dendy Films, a move that may give Richard Payten and Andrew Mackie ultimate responsibility for acquiring films for all three of the distribution entities within the Becker Group. A final decision, however, is unlikely until after Cannes.Manager director Richard Becker said he ...
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Winning films narrowly avoid ban at Istanbul Film Festival
Most talked about at the Istanbul Film Festival (April 13-28) was the one film that didn't show up - at least not in its official format, having been banned by the Ministry of Culture. Two other films, which both came away with awards, narrowly escaped similar bans.Hejar a melodrama about ...
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Vivendi Universal calls extraordinary general meeting for June
Troubled media giant, Vivendi Universal has set a slot in June as the date for an extraordinary shareholder meeting after the results of last week's annual general meeting were thrown into doubt by suspicious electronic voting. The company has not hesitated to allege interference and to describe it as fraudulent. ...
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Canada rules on reception of US satellite TV signals
The reception of US satellite TV signals in Canada has been declared illegal by the Supreme Court of Canada, reversing previous lower court decisions and heralding a victory for the two licensed Canadian operators, Bell Expressvu and Star Choice Communications.The two local operators had complained that grey and black market ...
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Sundance Film Festival changes HQ to Prospector Square
The Sundance Film Festival has moved its official Park City headquarters for next year from the Shadow Ridge Hotel to the Park City Marriott in the Prospector Square area of the town.The recently renovated Marriott, formerly the Olympia Park Hotel, housed a screening room for the 2002 festival and is ...
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Industry vets start new US indie distributor MAC
A new independent US distributor has been founded by industry veterans Mike Marcus, Andy Gruenberg and Craig Baumgarten. Named MAC Releasing, the company intends to capitalize on untapped commercial opportunities in the distribution of independent films and kicks off with the release of A Shot At Glory starring and produced ...