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HUNGARY
Even though both UIP-Duna Film's new release, Paycheck and InterCom's Farrelly offering, Stuck on You had decent openings at the Hungarian box office with over 14,000 and 12,000 admissions respectively, the momentum still belongs to Gabor Herendi's Hungarian Vagabond (Magyar vandor) which in just under three weeks has passed the ...
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Metrodome secures $15m buying fund
In a deal the signals the emergence of a potent UK buying force, Metrodome Distribution and newly-launched UK financier Future Film Group have agreed to form a joint venture providing the distributor with a $15m acquisition fund.Metrodome has already picked up Behaviour Worldwide's $24m The Body, starring Antonio Banderas, through ...
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NETHERLANDS
Until recently, family-films and especially those based on children's books, seemed a sure-fire success for Dutch cinemas.However, the disappointing opening results of the Belgian-Dutch coproduction Suske And Wiske: The Dark Diamond, with a meagre screen-average of Euros 465 came as a nasty surprise for distributor Independent Films.The company expected the ...
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Love's Brother
Dir: Jan Sardi. Australia/UK. 2004. 90 minsJan Sardi's screenplay for the gritty biopic Shine was nominated for all the major international awards in 1997. Now he makes his directorial debut with this lightweight romantic fable from a self-penned screenplay which could have done with a tougher editor. Sardi's stretched story ...
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Stars line-up for Oscar Moore script reading
A Fine Line, the winning script from last year's Oscar Moore screenwriting prize, is to have a performed reading at London's Curzon Soho cinema next week.Writing duo Ben Gooder and Philip Greenacre's script is the gripping true story of the rise and fall of Eric Hebborn and his career as ...
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AFM: Myriad strikes sales Deal with Front Street
Myriad Pictures has pacted with Front Street Films, the producer of Sundance hit We Don't Live Here Anymore, to handle international sales on The Deal, a Wall Street thriller which is set to star Christian Slater and Selma Blair.Slater will play a financial hot shot and Blair his eager new ...
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AFM: Moviehouse strikes trio of US sales
UK sales outfit Moviehouse Entertainment has secured US sales for three of its crossover art-house titles The Rage In Placid Lake, Live Forever and Dead Dog Blues.Larry Meistrich's Film Movement, a first-run DVD subscription service set up last year, bought rights to The Rage In Placid Lake, a dark comedy ...
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AFM: deals in brief
*Myriad Pictures has closed a seven figure-deal with Rai Cinema in Italy for its psychological thriller Trauma starring Colin Firth. The deal was negotiated by Myriad's senior vice president, international distribution, Samantha Horley with Rai's head of film rights Paola Malanga. The film, which was produced by the UK's Little ...
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Redbus takes on Sundance title from Warner Independent
The UK's Redbus Film Distribution has picked up UK rights to Sundance title We Don't Live Here Anymore from Warner Independent Pictures.Redbus aims for the acquisition to be the first in an ongoing relationship with the classics division, whose stablemate Warner Home Video handles Redbus' video distribution.The UK distributor will ...
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Code 46 set for UK premiere at Birmingham fest
Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 will receive its UK premiere as the closing night film of this year's Birmingham Screen Festival.The event opens on March 4 with the UK Premiere screening of Woody Allen's Anything Else.The festival's line-up includes films from directors such as Julio Medem (Basque Ball); Martin Scorsese (The ...
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Filmax unveils Bloodline at AFM
Filmax is prepping new English-language horror film Bloodline from award-winning short film director Nacho Cerda to be presented for the first time at the AFM.Bloodline tells the story of an American film producer who returns to her native Russia following her mother's death and is forced to face her own ...
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Mar del Plata unveils competition jury
Latin America's only 'A' category festival, Mar del Plata, has named its competition jury for its 19th edition, which runs from March 11-20.The jury is composed of veteran Argentine-French cinematographer Ricardo Aronovich, Portuguese actress Maria de Medeiros, Argentine actress Ana Maria Picchio, Brazilian director-writer-actor Domingos de Oliveira, whose film Breaking ...
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Rostain appointed as Gaumont sales chief
OFFICIAL SELECTIONOpening night film (out of competition):VATEL Dir: Roland JoffeClosing night film (out of competition):STARDOM (aka 15 MOMENTS)Dir: Denys ArcandCOMPETITION:SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR (SANGER FRAN ANDRA VANINGEN)Dir: Roy AnderssonEUREKADir: Aoyama Shinji O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU'Dir: Joel CoenKIPPURDir: Amos GitaiTHE YARDS Dir: James GRAYESTORVODir: Ruy GUERRACHUNHYANG Dir: Im Kwon ...
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Head-On release impacts German distributors
Fledgling distributor Timebandits Films has been lambasted by fellow German arthouse distributors for bringing forward the release date of Fatih Akin's Golden Bear-winner Head-On (Gegen Die Wand) from April 22 to March 11.In an open letter from 12 distributors including Arsenal Film, Kinowelt, Kool Film, Senator Film, Solo Film and ...
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Fox makes Passion play
20th Century Fox, which has a first-look production deal with Mel Gibson and Bruce Davey’s Icon Productions, has quietly become far more involved in The Passion Of The Christ than originally thought.Fox is understood to have sealed the lucrative domestic home entertainment rights tithe film as well as theatrical rights ...
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AFM: Back Alley & Buffalo Gal team on erotic thriller Arousal
Arousal,a new project from wward-winning producers Janis Lundman and Adrienne Mitchellof Montreal/Toronto-based Back Alley Films, and Phyllis Laing of Winnipeg-basedBuffalo Gal Pictures, offers an eye-opening twist on the erotic thriller.To be directed by Mitchell, the film centres on a female eyesurgeon and closet exhibitionist who develops a relationship with an ...
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Hopper to serve as chairman of advisory board for CineVegas
Dennis Hopper will serve as chairman of the creative advisoryboard for the 2004 CineVegas Film Festival."We are so pleased to have Dennis serve as chairman for ournewly formed creative advisory board," CineVegas president Robin Greenspunsaid in a statement."He is passionately committed to independent cinema andcontinues to leverage his position in ...
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AFM: Echo Bridge, Showtime sign reciprocal pact
Fledgling worldwide salesand distribution outfit Echo Bridge Entertainment has signed a reciprocal film dealwith US pay-network Showtime Networks.The agreement sees EchoBridge distributing select Showtime Independent Films titles internationallyand Showtime licensing titles from Echo Bridge's library.EchoBridge will acquire seven films for worldwide distribution, excluding NorthAmerica, all of which were produced under ...
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Ripley returns with Lions Gate Int'l
Lions Gate International will handle foreign rights on Cinerenta'sthriller Mr Ripley's Return, the latest addition to the Ripley canon that features anall-star cast including Barry Pepper, Alan Cumming, Claire Forlani, WillemDafoe and Tom Wilkinson.Based on Patricia Highsmith's novel Ripley Underground, Roger Spottiswoode's picture is inpost-production and will be available for ...
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New Line sees upside from Anger
New Line Cinema has acquired North American distribution rights tothe ensemble comedy The Upside Of Anger, which was co-financed and sold by Media 8 Entertainment.Written and directed by Mike Binder, the film stars Joan Allen asa single mother of four teenage daughters who starts to have a relationshipwith her neighbour ...