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Phillips, Vennis launch Moviehouse sales company
Former J&M Entertainment head of sales Gary Phillips has partnered with Mark Vennis, formerly a director of film financiers Mansfield Associates, to launch UK-based independent sales company Moviehouse Entertainment. The partners aim to handle five or six UK and US theatrical projects per year. The company is backed by private ...
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Fortissimo gets international rights on Springtime
Fortissimo Film Sales, the Dutch-Hong Kong-based world sales group, has picked up international rights to the high-profile remake of Chinese classic Springtime In A Small Town.The new film (pictured), a story of lust unleashed on a respectable bourgeois family following the arrival of a mysterious visitor, is now being filmed ...
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King, DiCaprio and Scorsese re-team for Alexander
Two years exactly since triggering a buying frenzy in London with Gangs Of New York, Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) is to team with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese again on the ultimate indie epic - the story of Alexander The Great.King has bought the script Alexander in a ...
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Spain's Huelva fest announces line-up
Spain's Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva (Nov 17-24) has announced the 12 titles which will compete for its top Golden and Silver Columbus awards in this year's 27th edition.Huelva has the difficult task of seeking films which haven't yet premiered in Spain just two months after the San Sebastian International ...
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ottfilm announces further distribution deal
Following the sealing of a distribution co-operation with the German office of UIP at the end of August, new theatrical distributor ottfilm has reached a further agreement with the Munich-based Filmwelt Verleih Agentur.Filmwelt, which also handles films on an agency basis for TiMe Medienvertrieb, Advanced Filmverleih and zoomfilm.de, will be ...
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Film Council to host UK's new MEDIA Desk
London is to be host to the UK's new MEDIA Desk, the system of national outposts run by the European Commission's Media Plus support programme.The MEDIA Desk is to be hosted by the Film Council, which will inject up to Euros150,000. It goes live immediately, headed by Agnieszka Moody. ...
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Warsaw fest attracts record audiences
Despite losing its backing from the Polish Ministry for Cinematography, this year's 17th annual Warsaw International Film Festival, (October 4-15) screened 126 films from 37 countries, drawing a record audience of 61,000 - making it the biggest edition so far. The international non-competitive festival awarded its audience poll prize to ...
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Justice joins Invicta Capital
Producer Matthew Justice has been appointed as consultant to Invicta Capital, the recently-launched film investor and tax advisor.Justice, whose credits include Stephen Norrington pictures Blade and The Last Minute, is expected to bring UK qualifying projects to Invicta's Invicta Filmworks offshoot. Partially-based in Los Angeles, Justice may also become involved ...
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The Phantom Menace takes latest DVD crown
Twentieth Century Fox has claimed a new record for first day sales of a DVD with the release of Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace. The picture racked up $17m on Tuesday Oct 16 Oct, through traditional retail outlets. Buena Vista Home Entertainment the previous week sold $20m-$25m of ...
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Sacker and Savay-Ross form CUE
Neil Sacker and Julie Savay-Ross have teamed up to form Creative Union Entertainment (CUE), a new LA-based international sales and financing outfit which kicks off with Wesley Snipes-starrer When The Ride Is Ruff.Sacker, a former executive vice president, business and legal affairs at Miramax Films and senior counsel at Warner ...
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Beatrix Wesle joins Menemsha Entertainment
Beatrix Wesle, well-known on the European market circuit from stints at Advanced Medien and Tobis Filmkunst, has joined Neil Friedman's Menemsha Entertainment as senior vice president of international sales.Based in Munich, Wesle will co-ordinate European financing and sales for Menemsha, which has built a reputation as a leading seller of ...
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Lions Gate takes int'l rights on Nine Queens
Lions Gate Films International has picked up international distribution rights to the Argentinian hit Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas) which was acquired for North American distribution earlier this year by Sony Pictures Classics. The pick-up echoes Lions Gate's acquisition of another Latin American movie, Amores Perros, which became a breakout hit ...
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Overseas takes Julie Walking Home worldwide
Overseas Filmgroup has acquired worldwide distribution on Agnieszka Holland's new film Julie Walking Home and has partnered with Pierce Brosnan's Irish Dreamtime to take on international sales on Bruce Beresford's Evelyn.Julie Walking Home, which is currently shooting in Holland's native Poland, stars Miranda Otto, Lothaire Bluteau and William Fichtner. It ...
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Tim Roth tapped for Natural Nylon's $23m Cromwell
Tim Roth is in final negotiations to play 17th century English revolutionary Oliver Cromwell in IAC Film's Crowmell And Fairfax.Roth will star opposite Dougray Scott, who plays general Fairfax. Mike Barker is directing the $23m Natural Nylon production, which is to shoot in January after cutting a deal with UK ...
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From Hell wins box office race
20th Century Fox scored another number one hit over the weekend as its R-rated Jack The Ripper thriller From Hell directed by Allen & Albert Hughes opened with an estimated $11.3m in North America.Starring Johnny Depp as a Scotland Yard inspector and Heather Graham as a Whitechapel prostitute and one ...
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Japanese opt not to travel to London or Mifed
London and Mifed were dealt a blow this week when Japanese buyers and sellers voted to stay at home en masse due to travel fearsCompanies cancelling their trips completely include Shochiku and Asmik Ace, while companies cancelling as buyers include Toho Towa. Nippon Herald will send two buyers to London ...
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LaPlante & Balhetchet launch UK Cougar Films
Established UK television drama producers Lynda La Plante and Sophie Balhetchet have launched Cougar Films, an outfit geared towards the development and production of commercial features.The company, which has started development on several projects, will also serve as an outlet for developing Balhetchet's future television projects. La Plante will continue ...
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Cobalt taps into German WorldWide Picture Fund
Cobalt, the London and Los Angeles-based sales and financing house, is tapping into German financing through a Euro 100m fund being launched by local studio facility Studio Hamburg and the German arm of ING Bank.The partners are to finance around seven international pictures budgeted up to $20m each through the ...
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Miramax burrows Down Under with Sydney offshoot
Miramax International says it has taken major steps toward more closely controlling its own distribution and marketing in Australia and New Zealand through the establishment of a new Sydney office to be headed by former Roadshow executive David Collins.Miramax says its Australasian operation will perform a similar function to its ...
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Baltic states embark on exhibition growth
Cinema admissions in Scandinavia and the Baltic region are set to top 60 million by 2005, as cinema development begins to take hold in the relatively under-established Baltic markets of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, according to a report by industry analysts Dodona Research. Lithuania, the largest of the Baltic States, ...