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Contact 2000 co-production market unveils line-up
Contact Europe 2000, a co-production market aiming to connect North American and European projects with potential financiers from both regions, has announced a line-up of 22 projects for its second edition, set to roll November 24-26 in Berlin. Titles seeking funding include Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcase and Robert ...
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Senator extends deal with FilmFour
Germany's Senator Entertainment has extended its co-production and distribution pact with the UK's FilmFour.The restructured arrangement covers an additional seven titles. Senator originally came on board for 14 FilmFour projects including Lucky Break, which marks director Peter Cattaneo's follow-up to The Full Monty, and Charlotte Gray, starring Cate Blanchett.A statement ...
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Desperado leads race for Israeli film awards
Benny Torati's Desperado Square has garnered the most nominations for this year's Israeli Film and TV Academy Awards, with 13 nods, one in each category. The winner of Best Film is automatically selected as Israel's candidate for best foreign-language Oscar.Desperado Square, which marks the debut of both director Torati and ...
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Jupiter to float before Christmas
Japanese cable operator Jupiter Telecommunications, which is part-owned by both Microsoft and John Malone's Liberty Media, has announced plans for a $2.5bn-$4bn initial public offering.The company, which is Japan's leading cable operator, plans to float before Christmas on both the Nasdaq in New York and the fledgling Mothers high-tech stock ...
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Advanced, Petersen unveil Red Cliff slate
Red Cliff Productions, the joint venture production company between public German outfit Advanced Medien AG and Hollywood-based director Wolfgang Petersen, has named Gail Katz president and CEO and unveiled its first production psychological thriller Fear Itself, which is set to go into production in March 2001.Petersen formed Red Cliff with ...
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Italy's Lantia strikes alliance with Elle U
Rome-based producer-distributor Lantia has formed a financial and strategic alliance with Italian multimedia group Elle U Multimedia (EUM) that will enable it to beef up theatrical acquisitions and secure a domestic video outlet for its eclectic fare.The two companies will use their combined buying power to purchase films, which they ...
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Serbian distributors square up to TV pirates
Following the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's distributors plan to take legal action against local broadcasters for airing films such as The Matrix and American Beauty only weeks after their theatrical release.Companies such as Belgrade-based Tuck, which handles Warner and Columbia TriStar product in Serbia, and Vans, which handles films ...
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Italy picks Hundred Steps as Oscar contender
Italy has chosen Marco Tullio Giordana's The Hundred Steps (I Cento Passi) as its official entry for the foreign-language Oscar, over both Silvio Soldini's Bread And Tulips and Giuseppe Tornatore's Malena, which had both been widely tipped.The Hundred Steps is based on the true story of Peppino Impastato, a student ...
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Filmstudio launches Hungarian festival season
Hungary's Budapest Filmstudio, headed by Laszlo Kantor, is launching a series of film festivals in neighbouring countries with the aim of increasing exposure of Hungarian films.The festivals, which will be targeted at general audiences as well as local industry and critics, will showcase the 10-12 movies that proved most popular ...
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Mexico reports $839m production windfall
The Mexican Film Commission has reported that 2,586 productions have shot in Mexico since its inception in September 1995, boosting the local economy by an estimated $839m. In total, the Commission has received 5,438 requests for information, 2,959 from domestic productions, 2,440 from the US, Canada, Europe and Asia and ...
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Meyer's Spoils wins funding from NRW
German regional funding body Filmstiftung NRW has awarded $1.1m (DM2.5m) to Spoils, a co-production between Germany's Dazu Film and Belgium's Corsan, which is set to star Alec Baldwin and Linda Fiorentino.The film, to be directed by Nicholas Meyer, is about two US soldiers who make off with a haul of ...
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Pathe ups George to post of deputy MD
Ian George has been promoted from marketing and publicity director at UK distribution operation Pathe Distribution to deputy managing director.The move comes as Pathe's UK sales director Alastair Craig is leaving the company to join EVA Entertainment, Pearson Television's animated unit, as director of sales. Craig is being replaced by ...
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Winstar Cinema buys four French films for US
Independent US distributor Winstar Cinema has closed a raft of European film acquisitions since Toronto including a three picture deal with Paris-based Celluloid Dreams and Olivier Assayas' Cannes competition entry Les Destinees Sentimentales.From Celluloid Dreams, Winstar acquired Jafar Panahi's Venice Golden Lion award winner The Circle in addition to Francois ...
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IFC Films buys The King Is Alive for North America
IFC Films, the fast-growing theatrical distribution arm of US cable channel The Independent Film Channel (IFC), has acquired all North American rights to Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive from Newmarket Capital Group and Good Machine International.Premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes this year, the film is the fourth ...
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Lions Gate buys US rights to The Whole Shebang
Easily the most acquisitive of domestic distribuors at present, Lions Gate Releasing has bought US rights to romantic comedy The Whole Shebang from David Kirkpatrick's Original Voices Inc. The film, directed by George Zaloom and starring Stanley Tucci and Bridget Fonda, is the first from Kirkpatrick's new venture which is ...
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Basil Iwanyk set as Intermedia production chief
After months of speculation, Warner Bros executive Basil Iwanyk has joined Intermedia as president of production. He will oversee the company's producer alliances and focus on developing and producing big budget studio films.Iwanyk started his career as a trainee agent at UTA, moving to Warner Bros as a creative executive ...
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Houston's Angel takes flight with Noe
French production company Noe Productions is developing an adaptation of Canadian novelist Nancy Houston's The Mark Of The Angel, set to star French actress Elsa Zylberstein, who optioned the novel.Noe's president Frederique Dumas is currently in talks with US and UK partners to join the English-language project which the UK's ...
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Kidman resumes work on Amenabar's The Others
Nicole Kidman has returned to the Spanish shoot of Alejandro Amenabar's thriller The Others after nearly a month off to treat a recurring knee injury.Kidman left Spain on October 9 for treatment in the US. In her absence, Amenabar carried on filming scenes in which Kidman's character does not appear. ...
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Daldry renews pact with Working Title
Hot UK director Stephen Daldry, whose debut Billy Elliot has become both a critical and box office sensation on home turf, has signed a three-year deal with Working Title Films to direct a minimum of two films. The pact follows on from Working Title's previous first-look arrangement with Daldry which ...
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EFA nods reward box office heavy-hitters
Four of Europe's biggest homegrown hits of 2000 - the UK's Chicken Run and Billy Elliot, Italy's Bread And Tulips and France's Le Gout Des Autres - have been nominated for best European Film at the European Film Awards which take place December 2 in Paris.Also competing for the prize ...