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Australia's Palace boards De Heer's Project
Palace Films has picked up all Australasian rights to Rolf de Heer's tenth feature Alexandra's Project and, in what is the largest ever financial commitment to an Australian film by the long-standing distributor, has also signed on as a major investor. Palace founder and manager director Antonio Zeccola will get ...
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Germany's TiMe distribution scales back staff, moves HQ
The difficulties facing the German independent distribution sector has forced Wolfram Tichy's TiMe Group to re-locate its theatrical distribution and licensing arm TiMe Medienvertriebs GmbH from Munich to the group's headquarters in Potsdam.Commenting on the decision, which saw the laying off of distribution head Rudy Tjio and five other staff, ...
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Germany's third largest exhibitor faces bankruptcy
Germany's third biggest cinema chain, Ufa Theater, with 240 screens at 42 sites, is threatened with insolvency after its bank declined to provide further financing following two years of restructuring.Ufa spokesman Uwe Kattwinkel confirmed a report in the German weekly Der Spiegel that the chain needed an additional Euros 3m ...
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The Water Giant re-locates from Canada to New Zealand
Eight weeks of principal photography has just begun at Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown in New Zealand on the $20m family adventure The Water Giant, formerly called Ogopogo. The original plan was to shoot on Canada's Lake Okanagan, but it was too developed to offer the wilderness backdrop required. A relocation ...
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Sweden's Strix unveils controversial Solidarity TV show
Formats, the formulae under which game, reality and quiz shows are sold for adaptation in different countries, have been big business for the last few years. But at concept stage it is sometimes difficult to tell one from another - hence a high degree of unlicensed copying. But there will ...
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Kragh-Jacobsen starts filming on English-language Skagerrak
Denmark's Iben Hjejle and New Zealand's Martin Henderson top the international casting line-up for veteran Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's Skagerrak, the highly anticipated English-language follow-up to his Berlin Silver Bear-winning Mifune Produced by Denmark's Nimbus Film by Lars Bredo Rahbek and Bo Ehrhardt, Skagerrak started shooting Monday April 22 on location in ...
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Australia to re-asses Baise-Moi classification
French film Baise-Moi, which is due to be released in Australia by distributor Potential this Thursday (April 25), is being re-examined by the Classification Review Board at the request of the Federal Attorney-General Daryl Williams. The original certification restricted the film to viewers over 18 years of age (R18). The ...
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Beckham shows strong legs in UK and kicks Scorpion
Local hit Bend It Like Beckham saw off fierce competition from UIP's The Scorpion King at the weekend to hold the top spot at the UK box office.With an impressive second weekend take of $2.5m (£1.7m) from 386 sites Beckham, which is distributed by Helkon SK, dropped off a miniscule ...
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Monopoly worries force sale of Canadian cinema stake
Anti-trust concerns by Canada's Competition Bureau has forced the sale of exhibitor Famous Players' minority stake in regional cinema circuit Galaxy Entertainment.Viacom's Canadian exhibition subsidiary Famous Players actually sold its stake in Galaxy Entertainment three weeks ago, appeasing monopoly concerns raised by the Competition Bureau. The public confirmation, however, was ...
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Scorpion King paralyses April opening record in US
Universal's TheScorpion King paralysedthe competition over the weekend and went straight to the top of the domesticbox office with a record-breaking April opening of $36.2m, according to studioestimates released today.The Mummy spin-off sees former wrestling star TheRock (a.k.a. Dwayne Johnson) headline as a mercenary nomad who battles an evilwarlord and ...
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SAG faces cross-border legal assault over Global Rule One
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) will face legal challengesin both the US and Canada if it tries to stamp its authority beyond USterritory through its controversial Global Rule One, according to producersassociations in those two countries.Last week, the US-basedAlliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) and the CanadianFilm and ...
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Selection field narrows for Cannes contenders
Salesagents, distributors and publicists are waiting anxiously for news of whichfilms have made it into which Cannes section. As the days count down to theofficial announcements for the various sections, Screen International sifts through the gossipand the guessing to bring you the low-down on the state of play around theworld.USWoodyAllen ...
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Nina Sadowsky named president of production at Signpost Films
Stewart Till's Signpost Films has appointed Nina Sadowsky as its Los Angeles-based president of production.Sadowsky was president of Meg Ryan's Prufrock Pictures for five years and executive produced The Wedding Planner. Prior to joining Prufrock, she produced Sundance title Jumpin' At The Boneyard."Nina has all the attributes we were ...
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Nirgendwo In Afrika leads German Film Award nominations
Caroline Link's Nirgendwo In Afrika has picked up four nominations for this year's German Film Awards (Lolas) which will be presented in Berlin's Tempodrom on June 14. At the announcement of this year's nominees during a gala event in Berlin on April 19, Link's adaptation of Stefanie Zweig's bestseller was ...
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First titles in Cannes Directors' Fortnight announced
The selection committee of the 34th Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Realisateurs ) section of the Cannes film festival has announced a partial line-up of titles.Abouna - Mahamat-Saleh Haroum - Chad / France (world premiere)Angela - Roberta Torre - ItalyBibo Breviarium (Istvan Bibo, fragments) - Peter Forgacs - Hungary (international premiere)Blue ...
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Thailand begins approving more filming requests
As competition heats up in the bid to be the 'shooting capital of Asia', and despite expected protests from environmentalists, Thai authorities have gone ahead and approved the filming of CBS' high profile reality TV program Survivor on Tarutao, a pristine southern island.According to the Thai Film Office (TFO), some ...
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Beyond, Chaos team for Australian home entertainment
A range of Australian cinema classics will be among at least 30 titles released on DVD and video in the next 12 months under a new deal between Beyond International and information technology group and home entertainment distributor Chaos. Upcoming titles licensed by Beyond will also be manufactured, marketed and ...
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Shaolin Soccer scores at Hong Kong Film Awards
Stephen Chow's Shaolin Soccer was the big winner at the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards on Sunday night (April 21), scoring seven of the 19 prizes, including best film and best director.Chow also scooped the best actor and best new director awards, while his co-star Wong Yat Fei won best ...
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Canada's Decode to shoot The Church Mice
Canadian Production company Decode Entertainment has announced plans to make its first children's feature. The film: The Church Mice is to be shot like the Hollywood feature film Babe, combining computer graphics and live-action. Funded by the Canadian government, the feature is expected to go into production in around 18 ...
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Finance chief of KirchGroup holding company steps down
Brian Cook, chief financial officer of KirchGroup holding company, TaurusHolding has left the company after just nine months.In a press communique, the holding stated that the resignation had "occurred now in light of the fact that the restructuring of the KirchGroup of companies is increasingly being managed by the insolvency ...