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Miramax promotes Gatineau to VP acquisitions
Maeva Gatineau has been promoted to vice president of acquisitions at Miramax Films.Gatineau, who has been working in Miramax's UK office for four years, will continue to oversee European acquisitions alongside Elizabeth Dreyer, vice president of acquisitions. They will both report to Agnes Mentre, executive vice president of acquisitions and ...
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Venice chief downplays festival rivalry
Venice festival chief Alberto Barbera yesterday moved to play down suggestions of difficult relations between the three major festivals Cannes, Berlin and Venice.'I have great respect and excellent relations with [Cannes president] Gilles Jacob based on mutual respect,' said Barbera. 'I don't think that the natural competition between festivals should ...
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Storm, ChickFlicks team for Coyote horror movie
H Michael Heuser's Storm Entertainment has teamed with Sara Risher's LA-based ChickFlicks to finance and co-produce Coyote - a comic special effects-driven horror movie about a pack of coyotes taking revenge against some schlocky Hollywood film-makers in Los Angeles.Heuser will produce alongside Risher, Steven Wolfe and Leslie Tobin Bacon; Dorothy ...
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Spanish Dogme producers prepare new projects
Pilar Suero and Juan Pinzas, the producer-director team behind Spain's first official Dogme film, Once Upon Another Time (Erase Otra Vez), are preparing two new Dogme feature films.First up is Although The Bride Wears Silk (Aunque La Novia Se Vista De Seda), planned for a September shoot. Described as an ...
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Sales Co looks to convert Bend It Like Beckham
The UK's The Sales Co has added What's Cookin' and Bhaji On The Beach director Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham to its sales line-up.The inter-racial football comedy stars The Hole's Keira Khightley and Parminder Nagra of popular UK TV series Holby City and Casualty as two girls who dream ...
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Nu Vision, Paradiso leap at Pandora films
Pandora has concluded some major deals on the first four films in its new incarnation as the LA-based specialised production and sales arm of Gaylord Films.Nu Vision has taken all Latin American rights on A Walk To Remember, the love story adapted from the Nicholas Sparks novel starring Mandy Moore ...
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Bronson launches marketing and distrib consultancy
Nadia Bronson, the international marketing veteran who exited Universal Pictures after 24 years earlier this year, has formed Nadia Bronson Associates (NBA), her own international marketing and distribution consultancy. She has also entered into an affiliation with PR firm Dennis Davidson Associates (DDA) to work jointly on a number of ...
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Fragile Films, Herman graduate with New Cardiff
Mark Herman, the UK director of Purely Belter, Little Voice and Brassed Off, has been signed by Fragile Films for its upcoming film New Cardiff, an adaptation of The Graduate author Charles Webb's novel.The book follows an Englishman who goes to America after his girlfriend jilts him by sending him ...
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Hurt joins Deneuve on trip to Marshall's Heaven
William Hurt is to co-star with Catherine Deneuve in Au Plus Pres du Paradis (Nearest To Heaven), the next film by award-winning French director Tonie Marshall.French sales outfit Flach Pyramide International is launching pre-sales in Cannes on the $7m title - which will be shot in both French and English ...
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Harte Jungs duo bank on new success with Pornorama
Constantin Film's Bernd Eichinger and director Marc Rothemund are developing a new project entitled Pornorama after the box-office success of their teen comedy Ants In The Pants (Harte Jungs) which registered over 1.7m admissions and was the second most successful German film last year after Stefan Ruzowitzky's Anatomie.According to Eichinger, ...
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Advanced adopts cautious approach to rights buying
In recognition of the difficult climate of the German television market, troubled German rights trader Advanced Medien will in future only acquire film licenses so long as a broadcaster is already lined up to buy them.This new acquisition strategy was outlined by Advanced's newly bullish CFO Otto Dauer at the ...
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Summit wakes up to new Alcon picture trio
Summit Entertainment has struck a three-picture deal with Alcon Entertainment, producers of Christopher Nolan's Insomnia which is on Summit's Cannes sales slate. None of the three pictures has yet been specified but a deal has been struck for Summit to raise additional equity from a few select key territory sales. ...
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Miramax takes Germany's Scotia to arbitration
One of Germany's oldest distribution companies is in hot water as it came to light this week that Miramax International has taken Scotia Film to an arbitration board for non-payment. Scotia, which has enjoyed the fruits of Miramax's output in the past including Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, Life Is ...
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Miramax seals five picture pact with Japan's Gaga
Miramax International has sealed a five-picture output deal with Gaga Communications in Japan for a reported $15m, marking the biggest deal the company has ever scored in the territory and signalling a new aggression among Japanese buyers.The films are James Mangold's Kate & Leopold starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman, ...
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Crystal Sky unleashes Voight films with Apollo
Steven Paul's Crystal Sky Worldwide Sales has teamed with German film fund Apollo Media on two new films: kung fu fighting talking dog saga Unleashed co-starring Jon Voight, Simon Rex and Jaime Pressly and Façade, a $25m heist thriller which teams Voight with Julia Ormond under director Danny Cannon.These two ...
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Exotic locales abound in ambitious BBC film slate
BBC Films is developing a slew of large-scale international projects for its debut feature slate under director general Greg Dyke's new drama-entertainment structure. The UK public broadcaster's film arm wants to use the projects and an equally ambitious financing pact for bigger titles with Cobalt Media Group (formerly MM Media ...
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Ben Ammar to bankroll Samaha's Dante outfit
The irrepressible Elie Samaha has formed a new financing, production and distribution venture Dante Entertainment with Paris-based Tarak Ben Ammar and his Quinta Communications. The deal will see Quinta bankrolling Dante - which plans to produce four films a year - to the tune of between $200m and $300m.Although separate ...
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CANNES DAY ONE ROUND UP
IEG CONFIRMS ALI DEAL WITH COLUMBIAInitial Entertainment Group (IEG) has confirmed that the deal between Columbia Pictures and IEG for Michael Mann's big budget boxing biopic Ali has been finalised, with IEG providing funds to finance the film against worldwide distribution excluding the US and Canada. IEG has been involved ...
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Celluloid adds Quinzaine title Lan Yu to slate
Celluloid Dreams has picked up sales right on Directors' Fortnight title Lan Yu, by Hong Kong film-maker Stanley Kwan (The Island Tales). The pick-up takes Celluloid's haul of Cannes festival this year to an astonishing eleven.Lan Yu is a gay-themed melodrama based on the anonymous Internet novel Beijing Story. Set ...
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Artificial Eye takes UK for The Piano Teacher
UK specialist distributor Artificial Eye Film Distribution has picked up Austrian auteur Michael Haneke's Cannes Official Competition entry The Piano Teacher.The Austrian-French title, which is represented on the Croisette by international sales outfit MK2, stars Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot and Benoit Magimel.Artificial Eye this year teamed with Metro Tartan Films, ...