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Sony Pictures Classics converts to Tao Of Steve
Sealing yet another Sundance acquisition, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the North American distribution rights to Jenniphr Goodman's The Tao Of Steve from New York's Good Machine.The crowd-pleasing romantic comedy, about a group of friends living in Santa Fe, New Mexico who use the philosophies of Lao-Tzu, Kierkegaard and Marx ...
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Artisan bets big on black entertainment
Shrewd US distributor Artisan Entertainment is boosting its product supply once again, this time sealing an agreement this week to distribute 6-8 black-themed films across North America.The films will be made by BET Pictures II, a subsidiary of BET Holdings II, the first and only black-owned and operated entertainment company ...
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Horror scores in German market
As Scream 3 breaks records in the US, the horror genre is making its mark in Germany - and this time for a locally produced film. Anatomie, written and directed by hot young Austrian Stefan Ruzowitzky, attracted 320,000 cinema-goers over its opening four-day weekend. Making almost $2m (DM4m) from 386 ...
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Le Studio set to fully finance Mike Leigh trio
Le Studio Canal Plus has signed a three-picture deal with UK film-maker Mike Leigh and his producing partner Simon Channing-Williams. The acclaimed director had also been in financing discussions recently with United Artists Films.Le Studio is now expected to fully finance the Leigh trio with Les Films Alain Sarde, in ...
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Fox to release Prokino slate in Germany
German independent distributor Prokino and 20th Century Fox have entered into an exclusive strategic cooperative alliance which will see all of Prokino's future releases being distributed by the US major, starting with Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labours Lost. Branagh's Shakespeare adaptation, which is showing at this year's Berlin Film Festival in ...
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Granada ties TV production knot with Seven Network
The UK's Granada Media Group has become one of the top five shareholders in Australia's Seven Network, as part of a deal which sees the two entities form an as-yet-unnamed Australian-based production company.Granada will combine its Australian production company Artist Services, which has several feature credits, with Seven's in-house production.The ...
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Beyond to sing with Other Voices
Beyond Films has acquired worldwide rights, excluding North America, to Dan McCormack's debut feature Other Voices, which featured in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Beyond quietly signed for the film after getting a sneak preview prior to Sundance. Other Voices stars Campbell Scott, Peter Gallagher and Stockard Channing and ...
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Kinowelt picks up two from Checkpoint Berlin
Kinowelt International, the foreign sales arm of German media concern Kinowelt Medien, has acquired international rights to Hansjoerg Thurn's Love Never Fails (Marmor,) and Peter Keglevic's Falling Rocks (Stein Und Eisen).The films are the first two projects from young Berlin-based production outfit TTD Checkpoint Berlin. The company was founded a ...
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European Commission seeks tax on internet movies
The European Commission (EC) is specifically targeting media products as it seeks to extend its tax net to goods sold on the Internet. The proposals, which will be detailed in the next two months, focus on virtual goods such as music, software and, by implication, streamed or downloadable film content. ...
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Fantasporto fetes Bowie, Bunuel at 40th bash
Retrospectives dedicated to David Bowie and Luis Bunuel are among the highlights of the Oporto International Film Festival - better known as 'Fantasporto' - which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year (Feb 25-March 4). Although the festival is best known for fantasy and sci-fi, it boasts a wide-ranging international Official ...
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Eyes Wide Shut is French critics' best foreign pic
Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut has been singled out by the French critics as best foreign film of 1999 for their prize, the Prix Leon Moussinac, which was awarded yesterday (Feb 7).The runner-ups for the prize, created in 1967, included Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother, Jean-Louis and Luc ...
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Muratova to receive Wajda Freedom Prize in Berlin
Russian director Kira Muratova, whose credits include the 1990 Berlin Special Jury prize winner The Asthenic Syndrome, will receive the first Andrzej Wajda/Philip Morris Freedom Prize at the Berlin Film Festival on February 13.Wajda, whose film Pan Tadeusz will receive a special screening at Berlin, will present the prize to ...
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Parallax, Road Movies' Princesa cranks up in Milan
Production has started in Milan on Henrique Goldman's Princesa, a three-way co-production between the UK's Parallax Pictures, Germany's Road Movies Filmproduktion and Italian distributor BIM.The film, which is Road Movies' fifth collaboration with London-based Parallax after films such as Ken Loach's Land And Freedom and Carla's Song, centres on the ...
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Brussels loses FIAPF status
The recently-wrapped Brussels International Film Festival has been stripped of its approved status, by the Paris-based International Federation of Film Producers' Associations (FIAPF). FIAPF said that the Brussels IFF, which specialises in films from the European Union, had lost its accredited status as a result of its use of cassette ...
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Apollo Media lines up Beresford, Cookson projects
German film fund Apollo Media, launched last November (Screen International, Nov 19, 1999), has unveiled its debut slate which includes new projects from Bruce Beresford, Stephen Cookson, Christine Lahti and Tomy Wigand. An April start is being slated for Bruce Beresford's long-gestating project, the $12m melodrama Alma - Bride Of ...
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Hi-Def crime mockumentary plans Berlin heist
Robbers, one of the first feature films to be shot completely on high-definition video, will be unveiled at Berlin this week by its producers Dan Lupovitz, Timm Oberwelland and Leon Melas.A mock documentary about a film crew following a gang of robbers at work and play, Robbers is the first ...
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Videotron, Rogers confirm $4.1bn merger
North America's seventh largest cable TV operator was forged on Monday when Canada's biggest cable company, Rogers Communications, announced a merger with Groupe Videotron, the country's third largest.The C$6bn ($4.1bn) friendly takeover creates a company that boasts not only 3.7m subscribers, representing nearly half of Canadian households, but also the ...
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Toy Story 2 receives top honours at Imagina
Toy Story 2 has won the grand prize at this year's Imagina (Jan 31-Feb 4), the Monte Carlo and Paris-based festival dedicated to 3D animation and special effects. The first Toy Story film - also directed by John Lasseter and produced by Disney-Pixar - picked up the same prize in ...
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Sweden's Mother, Knockout share Goteborg prize
Lars Lennart Forsberg's My Mother Had 14 Children and Agneta Fagerstrom-Olsson's Knockout shared the Goteborg-Posten Nordic Competition Award at this year's Goteborg Film Festival (Jan 28-Feb 6).The directors of the two Swedish films were awarded SEK50,000 each. Knockout also won the Kodak NordicVision award - also worth SEK50,000 - for ...
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iCraveTV close to settlement with studios
Canada's iCraveTV, the web-site that has raised the ire of the US and local entertainment industries, is understood to be close to reaching a settlement with its powerhouse adversaries. The site had been web-casting feeds from US and Canadian channels without permission; but was forced to cease web-casts last Friday ...