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Skarsgard joins von Trier's Dogville
Sweden's Stellan Skarsgard has joined the cast of Lars von Trier's new feature film Dogville which will be shot in English with mostly US and UK actors.Von Trier recently completed a $313,000 (DKr2.5m) test for the project in Zentropa's studios in Filmbyen outside Copenhagen, which according to producer Vibeke Windeloev ...
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Butler moves to Pathe marketing post
UK distributor Pathe Distribution has appointed Anna Butler as director of marketing, deputy managing director Ian George announced on Friday.Butler formerly spent five years as head of press and marketing at UK film and TV cultural body the British Film Institute. She will report directly to George, who was promoted ...
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Dancer In The Dark to kick off Belgrade FEST
Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark will open the 29th International Belgrade Film Festival, FEST (February 1-10), optimistically dubbed "Life Again, Fest Again" after the October changes in Serbia.Altogether the festival will feature 99 films including Jafar Panahi's The Circle, Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, the Coen Brothers' O ...
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Village Roadshow to cut debt via Austereo float
Australian entertainment conglomerate Village Roadshow Ltd (VRL) is expected to raise more than $222.5m (A$400m) from the partial float of its Austereo radio division, part of which will be used to reduce its $406m (A$730m) on and off balance sheet debt. VRL will retain a controlling interest of at least ...
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Das Weisse Rauschen wins Max Ophuels Prize
Austrian-born director Hans Weingartner walked away with this year's $28,700 (DM60,000) Max Ophuels Prize for his psychological drama Das Weisse Rauschen while the Prize of the Saarland Prime Minister went to Austria's Florian Flicker for Der Ueberfall.The awards were handed out during the Max Ophuels Prize Film Festival in Saarbruecken, ...
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Norwegian Film Workers bid for Norsk library
In a surprise move, The Norwegian Film Workers' Association has expressed interest in acquiring Norsk Film's back catalogue of around 170 films, that are to be sold together with the government's 77.5% stake in the state-owned company.Earlier this week, the Norwegian culture ministry decided to consider the sale of Norsk ...
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Epsilon launches theatrical sales outfit
Epsilon, the programming and acquisition joint venture between European broadcasters Kirch and Mediaset, has launched an international sales company, Beta Cinema, to focus on distribution of theatrical features.The new operation is in addition to the group's Beta Film sales subsidiary which has traditionally concentrated on TV. It will be headed ...
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Berlin unveils further Panorama, Forum titles
Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmoniak and Renny Bartlett's Eisenstein are among another batch of titles confirmed for the International Forum of Young Cinema sidebar at this year's Berlin Film Festival. Meanwhile titles from Jean-Jacques Beineix, Lea Pool and Gerardo Herrero have been added to the Panorama line-up.Hungarian feature Werckmeister Harmoniak has ...
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SearchParty embarks on global film rights hunt
SearchParty Films, the new "distribution services" outfit looking to hoover up films that have been ignored by conventional buyers, has picked up its first eight US-made indie acquisitions and is now training its ambitious sights on international features of all languages.SearchParty, jointly spearheaded by co-chairman Larry Estes and Scott Rosenfelt, ...
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Save The Last Dance leads, Snatch opens strongly
Paramount and MTV Films' teen drama Save The Last Dance continued to lead the North American box office over the weekend, taking an estimated $16m for a ten day total of $46.9m. It is the first hit of the year and looks set to head for the $80m mark.Meanwhile 20th ...
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Lions Gate acquires InDigEnt's debut slate
Lions Gate Entertainment has acquired all domestic rights to the five-film initial slate of InDigEnt, the digital video film initiative headed by Gary Winich, John Sloss and IFC Entertainment. The deal includes Campbell Scott's Final, Ethan Hawke's Chelsea Walls, Bruce Wagner's Women In Film, Richard Linklater's Tape and Rodrigo Garcia's ...
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America, Krokodile score at Bavarian Film Awards
Vanessa Jopp's Forget America, produced by Herbert Rimbach's Avista Film, and Jobst Oetzmann's Die Einsamkeit Der Krokodile, from Constantin subsidiary Olga Film, shared the top $242,000 (DM500,000) Producers Prize at this year's Bavarian Film Awards.However, Oliver Hirschbiegel's psychological thriller Das Experiment, which is being released by Senator Film on March ...
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Davis, Connolly join cast of Man Who Sued God
Judy Davis and Billy Connolly will star alongside Colin Friels, Wendy Hughes, John Howard and Billie Brown in Australian romantic comedy The Man Who Sued God, which begins its nine-week shoot on January 29.The Sydney-based Davis is more often seen in Hollywood films than Australian ones, her last being Children ...
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Splendid forms joint venture with Warner Music
Germany's Splendid Medien has extended its existing collaboration with Warner Music by launching a joint venture company, based in Hamburg, to sell and distribute DVDs and videos in the German-speaking region. Warner Music will hold 51% of the new company, Warner Vision Vertriebs, with Splendid holding the remaining 49%. Alexander ...
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Belgian film to receive tax shelter boost
Belgium's federal government will unveil plans next week for a tax shelter aimed at attracting private investors to participate in the production of feature films, documentaries and TV series. A press conference, during which Belgium's minister of finance Didier Reynders will outline the tax scheme, is scheduled for January 23. ...
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European parliament to examine film policy
Belgian MEP Luckas Vander Taelen has been assigned to draw up a parliamentary report looking at the European Union's policy towards film, as part of a broader debate on Europe's future audiovisual policy. "Europe's policy towards film has so far been far from ambitious," said Vander Taelen. "Media Plus receives ...
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Record start for Finnish Rose
Finnish production Rose Of The Rascal (Rentun Ruusu) has become the highest grossing indigenous opener in Finland. The drama, which opened on January 12, grossed $382,496 (FIM2,256,725) on 38 screens on the first weekend and achieved admissions of 50,738.Rose tells the story of Irwin Goodman, Finland's most famous pop and ...
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Strand to re-release Kiss Of The Spiderwoman in US
US independent distributor Strand Releasing is to re-release Hector Babenco's classic 1985 independent film Kiss Of The Spiderwoman in the domestic market together with Independent Cinema Restoration Archive.The film, for which William Hurt won an Academy Award for Best Actor, was produced by David Weisman and written by Leonard Schrader ...
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Adam Schlesinger leaves Doumanian to join ErgoArts
Adam Schlesinger, formerly director of development at Jean Doumanian Productions, has joined ErgoArts Inc as vice president of business affairs and production, a newly created post at the New York-based production outfit.Formed in 1999 to conduct the feature film activities of Rigas Entertainment, ErgoArts is headed by Ellen Rigas Venetis ...
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Matt Brodlie promoted to senior vp at Miramax
Matt Brodlie has been promoted to senior vice president of acquisitions at Miramax Films, with continuing responsibility for covering the US independent scene as well as Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Brodlie, who was formerly vice president of acquisitions, attends the major film festivals around the world scouting films and ...