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Former Sky Pictures exec Mellor joins WAVEpictures
Danish-UK production company WAVEpictures has appointed Nadine Mellor, formerly at Sky Pictures, as head of creative affairs.Mellor joins WAVE's European co-production and financing department, currently run by Luke G-Jones in the UK and Andrea Cecilia Sterll and Bo Christensen in Denmark. Also new to the company is finance director Erik ...
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No Man's Land set to open Sarajevo Film Festival
Bosnian director Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land, which won the best screenplay award in Cannes last month, will open the seventh Sarajevo Film Festival on August 17.Although municipal and higher level government ministries have been slow to respond to the festival organisers' applications for financial support, preparations are nevertheless in ...
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Partington steps into Preston's shoes at Metrodome
UK media concern the Metrodome group has promoted Alan Partington to the post of managing director of film distribution arm Metrodome Distribution, replacing Rupert Preston who resigned last week.Partington will take overall responsibility for both theatrical distribution and the video rental and sales operations. He joined Metrodome in April 1999 ...
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Kingsley joins Karlovy Vary festival guestlist
Actor Ben Kingsley is expected to join Nastassja Kinski and others at this year's Karlovy Vary International film festival in July, festival organisers have announced. A newly unveiled list of guests at the Czech festival also includes director Bille August, who will present his competition film Song For Martin (En ...
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DNA unveils First Draft script prize winners
UK National lottery franchise DNA Films has unveiled the five winners of its First Draft scheme for new writers, this year run with training body The Script Factory.Aimed at encouraging writing at grass roots level, the scheme has selected Elizabeth Clarke Melville's All Rise, a true story about a young ...
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Sales Co confirms Aline Perry appointment
UK media outfit Civilian Content has confirmed former PolyGram Film International chief Aline Perry as chief executive of its overseas sales operation, The Sales Co.BBC Films business development head Jane Wright, who became acting chief executive last year after the departure of Alison Thompson, is to return to BBC Films ...
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Chinese industry ready to take on the world
After a decade in which admissions have collapsed from 16 billion a year to some 2.1 billion, the Chinese film industry is now facing up to the challenges of globalisation.Worried by the perceived threats to the film industry brought on by the opening of its borders, the Chinese central government ...
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Swordfish tops US box office, Shrek still hot
Warner Bros' R-rated action thriller Swordfish was number one at the North American box office over a static weekend, taking an OK $18.4m over its first three days on release although the generally poor reviews for the film and heavyweight action competition next week from Tomb Raider don't bode well ...
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ROBERTO SUCCO
Dir: Cedric Kahn. France. 2001. 124 mins. An immensely detailed study of a notorious mass murderer and his hunters, Roberto Succo is an impressive but subdued piece of work which, despite an extraordinary central performance, never delivers on the director's promise to slip the audience inside the mind of a ...
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EM.TV gets animated with double pick-up
EM.TV & Merchandising has acquired international distribution rights for the animated versions of Michael Ende's Momo and Astrid Lindgren's Karlsson On The Roof.EM.TV will be marketing the TV, audio, video, publishing and merchandising rights as part of its Junior portfolio for the two properties which are both being developed as ...
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Optimum picks up classics for new video/DVD label
UK distributor Optimum Releasing has picked up UK rights on two classic arthouse titles from TF1 for release through start-up video and DVD distribution and sales operation World Cinema.Luchino Visconti's Rocco And His Brothers and Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages Of Fear will both be re-mastered by Optimum and released on ...
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FTD takes all French rights to 29 Palms
FTD Entreprises, a division of France Television Distribution (FTD), the film and television rights trading arm of French public broadcaster France Television, has acquired all French rights (theatrical, television and home video) to Alliance Atlantis' 29 Palms. This underscores FTD's commitment to aggressively strengthening its international film sales and French ...
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TF1 picks up Pearl, signs deal with local producer
TF1 has acquired free-TV rights to Disney's Pearl Harbor, which the French broadcaster will show from autumn 2004.The latest Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer title, released in France on June 6 by Gaumont Buena Vista International, attracted a strong 141,268 admissions on its first day. Although this does not come ...
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Edinburgh festival to salute Herzog documentaries
Maverick German director Werner Herzog will be the subject of this year's retrospective at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (August 12-26). The festival will focus exclusively on his documentary work, which includes such titles as Herdsmen Of The Sun (1992), Bells From The Deep (1993) and Little Dieter Needs To ...
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Belgian Film Archive wins funding reprieve
Belgium's federal government decided today to increase annual subsidies to the Royal Belgian Film Archives and Cinematheque by 70% to $1.7m (Euros2m). This comes into effect from 2002.The decision follows months of heavy lobbying by both local and international film personalities, including Cannes festival head Gilles Jacob, Belgian film-maker Andre ...
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No room for Russian films at Moscow festival
The Moscow International Film Festival, which runs June 21-30, has come under criticism in the local press with the announcement of a competition line-up this year without any Russian entry. Sergei Bodrov's US-produced English language entry The Quickie, starring Russian actor Vladimir Mashkov, should however go some way towards satisfying ...
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Universal downsizes LA international division
Universal Pictures, which distributes its films in international territories through the London-based United International Pictures (UIP), has downsized its Los Angeles international marketing and distribution department laying off six staff members. In addition, Thomas Castaneda, the much-liked veteran vice president of international publicity, has resigned.The move continues the studio's integration ...
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Flanders Film Fest to host World Soundtrack Awards
This year's Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent is to host the inaugural ceremony of the World Soundtrack Awards. The 18 October event, which will honour achievements in the field of film music composition, will precede a film concert presenting music from Oscar winning composers Gabriel Yared (The English Patient) ...
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Taormina promo launches Italy's summer renaissance
Continuing the drive to promote the Taormina Film Festival as a major summer launchpad for international blockbusters, Italy's multiplex association is screening a film depicting the history of the 47-year-old festival before the main feature on 200 multiplex screens across the country.In addition to this initiative, which will last throughout ...
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BSkyB axes film production arm
UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB is axing Sky Pictures, the prolific film production arm that was out to challenge Channel 4 and the BBC's established feature operations.A spokesperson said on Thursday that the broadcasting giant expected to close the division within months. Sky Pictures' 17 staff were told this week that ...