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Nicotina
Dir: Hugo Rodriguez. Mex-Arg-Sp. 2003. 90minsNicotina, the latest candidate for admission into the School of Tarantino, is an always perfectly watchable caper-movie-cum-romantic-comedy that is spasmodically entertaining. Filled with the fast wipes and purposely nonsensical discussions about ersatz philosophical issues like smoking and coincidence that mark the Tarantinesque genre, this film ...
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US distributor First Run launches political website
First RunFeatures, the US independent distributor of political titles such as The WarAt Home and S21: TheKhmer Rouge Death Machine,is launching a discussion website about the politics of war and America'sinvolvement in the fight against terrorism. A new section onthe company's website www.firstrunfeatures.com entitled FRF Community features directorinterviews, chatrooms, forums, ...
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Duffy's Man wins London's TCM Classic Shorts prize
The MostBeautiful Man in the World, directed by British film director Alicia Duffy and funded by theUK Film Council's New Cinema Fund, has won the TCM Classic Shorts best shortfilm of 2003 as part of the Times bfi 47th London Film Festival. Winning£10,000 in prize money, the best short film ...
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Germany's Primacom plans digital launch
Germany's third-largest cable operator Primacom is launching a digital pay-TV platform in May. The yet-to-be-named service will offer more than 80 channels, pay-per-view, internet and other services. Primacom currently serves almost 1.4 million households, mainly in the former East Germany, and claims just under 1 million active subscribers. The digital ...
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Revolutions trails predecessor in domestic opening
As expected, The Matrix Revolutions opened number one at the weekend on a $50.2m three-day estimated gross that was certainly nothing to be sniffed at but trailed its May predecessor by some 45%.Since opening on Wednesday to fairly dire reviews, the final episode in the Wachowski Brothers' sci-fi trilogy has ...
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Animated Odyssey begins Happily
Shrek producer John Williams and sales company Odyssey Entertainment have teamed on Happily N'Ever After, their second animation production following $40m hot seller Valiant.Odyssey has also boarded Renaissance, a sci-fi animation thriller being associate produced by Jake Eberts and involving such talent as dance outfit Daft Punk which Disney will ...
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Weitz brothers comedy comes into Focus
Focus Features has picked up international rights to the new, as yet untitled, comedy from Chris and Paul Weitz, the film-making duo behind About A Boy and American Pie. Focus picked up the rights from parent company Universal Pictures which is distributing in North America.Dennis Quaid stars in the film ...
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Helen Loveridge named executive director at Seattle Film Festival
Fortissimo Filmsco-founder Helen Loveridge has been named executive director at the SeattleInternational Film Festival (SIFF) and will begin her tenure at theevent's 30th anniversary, which runs from May 20-Jun 13 2004. The position wasleft open when the festival's founding director Darryl Macdonald moved toPalm Springs Film Festival to become executive ...
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Toho-Towa, Strike get Dawn together
Marc Abraham and Tom Bliss' new production outfit Strike Entertainment has struck a multi-year distribution deal with Toho-Towa in Japan kicking off with Strike's first production Dawn Of The Dead. Strike sealed a four-year, first-look deal with Universal Pictures in May 2002 for distribution in the US and numerous other ...
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O'Shea moves to Media 8 as sales chief
BrianO'Shea has joined Media 8 Entertainment, formerly MDP Worldwide, assenior vice president of worldwide distribution. In his new postO'Shea will be responsible for all licensing and sales activities for thecompany, which is in the process of expanding its production and financingoperations. He previouslyserved as senior vice president of worldwide sales ...
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Lau, Wong quartet to rise at Fortune Star
Hong Kong-based Fortune Star Entertainment makes its Mifed debut this year with a slate headed by two new pictures by Infernal Affairs co-director Andrew Lau.The micro-studio, which is attached to News Corp's Star TV division, has also sealed a two-picture production and sales deal with US-based director Kirk Wong and ...
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Fortissimo to sell Love worldwide
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up world rights outside North America to PS I Love You, the second film by Dylan Kidd, director of the award winning Roger Dodger.The film is a romantic comedy with an all-star cast headed by Laura Linney, Marcia Gay Harden, Gabriel Byrne, Topher Grace, Paul ...
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Arclight chief relocates to London
Australia's top sales agent Gary Hamilton is to leave Sydney and relocate to London where he will set up a UK arm of his successful sales and production outfit Arclight Films. Hamilton said that he will be installed in London before Christmas this year.Arclight will retain its Sydney office for ...
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Italy's Bim bites at arthouse trio
Already proving to be one of the most active buyers at MIFED, Italian arthouse distributor Bim has snapped up Italian distribution rights to three new pictures: Michael Moore's widely anticipated Fahrenheit 9:11, Jonathan Demme's The Agronomist and John Curran's We Don't Live Here Anymore.Sold by Wild Bunch, Fahrenheit 9:11 is ...
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KMI sells Instant Karma
Kathy Morgan International (KMI) is handling international sales on the $70m live-action-CGI black comedy Instant Karma, which stars Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Pierce Brosnan.New Line is in talks to take domestic rights on the film by first-time writer-director Paul Hernandez , which is due to go into production in ...
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Renaissance has Big Plans
The UK's Renaissance Films has added its first ever foreign-language picture to its slate and from this week is pitching an Australian romantic drama starring Heath Ledger and Geoffrey Rush.The company's first non-English picture is Big Plans, a Danish comedy by Jesper Nielsen, director of hit Okay. It is the ...
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Becker blooms with Marigold, Osama
Newly formed Becker Films International has picked up sales duties on Osama, the award-winning Afghan film, and has unveiled hot Bollywood fusion film Marigold.The Sydney-based company, operated by former MDP sales executive Reiko Bradley, was formed earlier this autumn as a joint venture between Bradley and Richard Becker's Australian distributor ...
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De Palma signs on for Signature's Dahlia
Brian De Palma has signed on to direct The Black Dahlia, the film of the James Ellroy classic noir novel which is being sold here by new sales company Signature Pictures International. Josh Hartnett is in negotiations to star in the film which is being produced by Art Linson, who ...
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Lux sales outfit launches with Mother Teresa
Italian production outfit Lux Vide, which is now part-owned by international producer and financier Tarak Ben Ammar, has established a new international sales label to handle world-wide distribution on its first major feature film, Mother Teresa.The $11m English-language film, which is due to be released theatrically next spring, is directed ...
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Mikado swoops on high-profile pair
Italian arthouse distributor-producer Mikado has acquired local distribution rights to two critically acclaimed films: Kim Ki-duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter'And Spring and Peter Webber's acclaimed Girl With A Pearl Earring.Spring, Summer was sold by Cineclick Asia and Bavaria Films, while Girl was sold by Pathe International UK.Meanwhile, Mikado is currently ...