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Tomorrow picks up Shadow Magic
Tomorrow Film Corp has taken international rights to Shadow Magic, Ann Hu's China-set period drama which had its world premiere in the World Cinema section at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. Sony Pictures Classics has domestic rights to the film in which Jared Harris plays an English entrepreneur who travels ...
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RAI Trade picks up Taviani duo, Mikado trio
RAI Trade, the film sales division of the Italy's state-owned RAI broadcast giant, has picked up a trio of new features from producer-distributor Mikado and added the next two pictures from the Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio.The three from Mikado - Domenica, The Dervish (Il Dervisco) and The Third Act ...
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Franchise adds Plan B, Stallone duo to slate
Franchise Pictures is debuting a range of new pictures at London including two new actioners starring Sylvester Stallone and the mob comedy Plan B starring Diane Keaton. And for the first time in several markets, all major territories are available on the titles since Franchise's German partner, Intertainment, has not ...
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Media Asia sells packages to Miramax, Medusa
Hong Kong's Media Asia has struck two key deals - one a 20-picture North American deal with Miramax, the other a five-year European DVD distribution deal with the UK's Medusa Communications - that together ensure an explosive presence in international markets.Miramax is acquiring theatrical and video rights to a mix ...
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Unified Film Organization creates theatrical arm
Unified Film Organization (UFO), the LA-based production and sales operation in which publicly traded German distributor Advanced Medien took a 51% stake earlier this year, has launched a theatrical level division called Consolidated Motion Pictures.First film to come out of the division is $6m New York-set romantic comedy Snatched with ...
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Fireworks buys Innocence for the US
Fireworks Pictures - the domestic distribution subsidiary of Jay Firestone's Toronto-based CanWest Entertainment - has closed its latest acquisition at MIFED, taking US rights to Paul Cox's award-winning crowd-pleaser Innocence from sales agent Cinemavault Releasing.The deal was sealed by Fireworks vice president of acquisitions and co-productions Bob Aaronson and Cinemavault ...
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RAI Cinema says no deal yet with StudioCanal
RAI Cinema has firmly denied trade reports that it has closed a deal with StudioCanal to become its Italian distribution partner. President & CEO Giancarlo Leone said negotiations with the French company are continuing but insisted that he is also talking to other potential European supplier partners for its upcoming ...
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Coppola clan keeps growing at Capitol
Jeremy Davies, Gerard Depardieu, Billy Zane, Elodie Bouchez and Giancarlo Giannini have all been lined up to star in CQ, to be directed for Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope by his son Roman Coppola. It is one of several Zoetrope productions being financed by Germany's VCL and sold through Capitol Film ...
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Demme joins on-line outfit Article 27
Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme has joined the board of advisors of article27, the on-line entertainment syndicator that is rapidly expanding international activities.Demme's appointment comes as article27 is partnering with UK indie distributor Optimum Releasing for a theatrical release of German title Aimee & Jaguar. Article27 picked up all rights ...
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Fox Studios Australia slashes entry prices
Fox Studios Australia has reduced admission prices to its Backlot entertainment area in an effort to increase visitor numbers. The move represents a partial merger of the Backlot with the adjacent Bent Street cinema and restaurant precinct.From mid-November adult prices to various attractions, which include the Titanic experience and the ...
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Filmax develops English-language trio
Fresh from the sales success of forthcoming English-language feature Darkness, Barcelona-based mini-studio The Filmax Group is prepping three new English-language co-productions as part of its international push.Luis Sepulveda's political drama Nowhere, a co-production with Surf Films of Italy and Buena Vista/Telefonica Media-backed Patagonik of Argentina, is being prepped for a ...
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Canada's Itemus acquires The Shooting Gallery
US media company The Shooting Gallery has been sold to Toronto-based dotcom Itemus in a $56m share swap deal. However The Shooting Gallery familiar to the international film industry, namely the film development and distribution business, will be spun off, along with allied television and music arms, to existing shareholders ...
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New German buyer turns up the heat at MIFED
A new all-rights buyer from Germany, E-M-S New Media, has emerged at MIFED and is set to get more aggressive once it goes public on the Neuer Markt later this month. With an initial public offering set for Nov 21, E-M-S (short for European Multimedia Services) has snapped up all ...
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Permut signs Swank, sets DreamWorks remake
Hollywood producer David Permut has signed Oscar winner Hilary Swank to star opposite Richard Gere in Julia Pastrana, a romantic epic to which director Taylor Hackford has finally committed as his next film after Proof Of Life.Both this film and another, Thief Of Light, are being financed by a foreign ...
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Summit's Femme Fatale seduces buyers
Summit Entertainment has sealed a score of high-profile sales deals on its new titles including Brian DePalma-directed thriller Femme Fatale which will shoot in Paris no later than Feb 15.Nippon Herald, which has been noticeably aggressive in its acquisitions strategy at London and MIFED, perhaps in anticipation of its planned ...
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Kinowelt still in the hunt for films; targets RCV
Rainer Koelmel, co-chief of Kinowelt, has insisted that his expansion-minded German outfit is in good financial health and still on the acquisitions trail, for both product and companies - contradicting persistent talk around the MIFED halls that his company is facing a liquidity crunch. Koelmel said that despite the plunging ...
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Zentropa adds Italians to financing web
Denmark's Zentropa has signed a deal with Italy's Istituto Luce and Rome-based producer Leo Pescarolo of Imago Film to co-develop, finance and distribute a package of five titles including Lars Von Trier's next two films and three English-language films by other Danish directors.Zentropa is also in talks with Fine Line ...
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EXECUTIVE SUITE - Kirk D'Amico
The founder of Myriad Pictures tells Patrick Frater why bigger is better in the changing film sales sector.Your company prides itself on selling films from a myriad of genres. What are you looking for when you pick up a title'Although I hate to make comparisons with other companies, we are ...
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Dinosaur takes top spot in second week
Dinosaur stomped into the number one spot in the UK's box office chart as it increased its second weekend gross by 8% to take $3.1m (£2.2m) from 495 sites. Coinciding with the schools' half-term break, the Disney picture has grossed an impressive $14.8m (£10.2m) after ten days.Supernatural thriller What Lies ...
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Film Export to shoot Aranda historical comedy
Italy's Film Export Group has announced that it is about to start shooting a new Spanish co-production entitled Locura De Amor and directed by Vicente Aranda.Based on a true story, the $5m historical comedy recounts the trials and tribulations of a young Spanish royal couple in the 15th century. Maria ...