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Signpost points to Germany for next Int'l distribution move
Stewart Till's ambitious Signpost Films aims to launch distribution operations in 80% of the international sector in the next three to five years, with Germany shaping up as one of the next markets.The would-be studio is holding talks with German distributor Concorde about a partnership, one of several options on ...
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Hartnett signs onto FilmEngine pair
Superstar-in-waiting Josh Hartnett has signed to two new films from FilmEngine, the production and finance outfit set up by AJ Dix, Anthony Rhulen and Bill Shively, which made previous Hartnett-starrer O. He will star and co-produce action/adventure Wish You Were Here and has joined Johnny Depp, Nick Nolte and Benicio ...
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Ealing Studios teams with Odyssey for $40m animation
The UK's Ealing Studios has teamed with Ralph Kamp's newly-launched sales outfit Odyssey Entertainment to produce $40m CG animation film Valiant.John Williams, the US producer of Shrek and Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo, is producing with Barnaby Thompson, co-head of Fragile Films, one of the owners of Ealing.The film, which ...
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Raimi teams with Senator for low-budget genre label
Sam Raimi, whose Spider-Man is set to become one of the biggest grossing films in history, has teamed with Joe Drake's Senator International to launch a genre label producing "intelligently budgeted" horror, sci-fi and fantasy movies - returning Raimi to his low-budget horror roots of The Evil Dead.Senator will fully ...
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20th Century Fox taps new Euros 246m German production fund
20th Century Fox is tapping a new Euros 246m German production fund for three of its projects; The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Down With Love and Just Married.Mediastream III, set up by financial services company Ideenkapital and regional savings banks in Cologne and Duesseldorf, will invite private German individuals ...
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Media Asia bolsters library, expands slate
Regional powerhouse Media Asia (MA) is moving to corner the market in Hong Kong catalogue films and has expanded its slate of current pictures.A long-term deal sees the company handle international rights to the 150-title Golden Princess library of martial arts films and dramas, including pictures by John Woo and ...
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Korenberg quits Fox to set up Traction Media
Rosanne Korenberg, the well-known acquisitions executive from 20th Century Fox, has left the studio to form repping, production and consulting company Traction Media with LA-based entertainment boutique law firm Stone, Meyer & Genow.The venture will represent finished films seeking North American distribution as well as packaging and producing projects. "We're ...
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Italy prepares for flood of summer movies
The Italian film industry is bracing itself for a breakthrough summer at cinemas nationwide, after local distributors officially agreed to reverse the pattern of previous years and release 60 films on 1,500 screens between May 15 and July 31.Among the summer releases to hit cinemas - one third of which ...
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France's Haut et Court readies Hitchcockian Bambi tale
French production company Haut et Court is readying Fuis Bambi Fuis, a first directing effort by Gilles Marchand, the co-scriptwriter for both Laurent Cantet's Human Resources and Dominik Moll's With A Friend Like Harry.The film, an Hitchcockian tale of a young nurse fascinated by a doctor who proves much ...
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Vortex takes international rights to Scala's Leopold
Vortex Pictures, the international sales and finance outfit, set up by Nicolas Chartier and Dean Shapiro, has acquired international rights to Leopold, the latest picture from Nik Powell's Scala Productions directed by Mehdi Norowzian and starring Joseph Fiennes, Elisabeth Shue, Sam Shepard, Dennis Hopper, Deborah Kara Unger, Mary Stuart Masterson ...
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Vivendi Universal hits out at bankruptcy claim
Vivendi Universal lashed out yesterday at press reports that suggested the media conglomerate was technically bankrupt.Le Monde, France's newspaper of record, reported that during December last year the group's liabilities came breathtakingly close to exceeding its assets. Le Monde said its Euros 2bn of reserves were all but absorbed by ...
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Spain's Mate Productions unveils new sales division
Spanish production outfit Mate Productions has launched an international sales division which will make its market debut at Cannes.Sales will be co-ordinated under executive Pablo Davila, formerly with Lolafilms. The first title on the company's sales slate is Argentine co-production Private Lives (Vidas Privadas) starring Cecilia Roth (All About My ...
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Tesela heads new slate with Manas project
Firming up its reputation as a wellspring for new talent in Spain, start-up Tesela Producciones is prepping four new films for its second-year slate headlined by writer-director Achero Manas' follow-up to his multiple award-winning debut feature Pellet (El Bola).Manas, who won four of Spain's top Goya awards and the EFA's ...
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KC Medien unwraps alliances with Pathe, Lions Gate
Film seasons from The Netherlands and Croatia have been scheduled in the US next month. Dutch Treats 2000: New Films From Holland presents ten recent films at the Quad Cinema in New York (Dec 1-7), while Wednesdays In Croatia (Nov 29-Dec 20) screens classic and new Croatian films kicking off ...
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Departures tops Japanese box office following Oscar win
In the first weekend since its Oscar win for best foreign-language film, Departures ascended to the number one position at the Japanese box office after re-entering the top ten last week in eighth place.Departures earned $3.3m (Y320.5m) from 299,495 admissions on 189 screens in its 25th week of release. The ...
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Juraj Herz to begin shooting Habermann in March
Slovak auteur Juraj Herz will begin filming March 17 on his new film, Habermann.The $10m production is a co-production between Art Oko Film of Germany, KN Filmcompany of the Czech Republic, and Wega Film of Austria.Atlas Film International is handling international sales. Art Oko producer Karel Dirka expects to have ...
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NewsAng Lee to head international jury at Venice's 66th edition
Two-time Venice Golden Lion winner Ang Lee will head the international jury of the Venice FilmFestival’s 66th edition.
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Eureka takes UK rights to Soul Power from Celluloid Dreams
London-based Eureka Entertainment has acquired the UK rights to Soul Power from Celluloid Dreams.Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's documentary about the famous 1974 R&B concert in Kinshasa, Zaire, had its world premiere at Toronto 2008. Sony Pictures Classics picked up North American and Latin American rights.Levy-Hinte produced with David Sonenberg and Leon Gast.The ...
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Nordisk hopes for pan-Scandinavian blockbuster with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Danish director Niels Arden Oplev’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Men Who Hate Women or Män som hatar kvinnor at home) - part one of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s Millennium thriller trilogy - could set box-office records with its hotly anticipated opening today in Sweden and Denmark.Danish major Nordisk ...
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NewsPeter Scarlet resigns as artistic director of Tribeca Film Festival
Peter Scarlet has resigned his post as Tribeca Film Festival’s artistic director, ten days after it was announced that former Sundance director Geoff Gilmore will arrive in Marchto take up an expansive new role at the New York event.