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UK film execs feature high in Queen's Honours list
Stewart Till, deputy chair of UK film superbody the Film Council, Intermedia co-chairman Nigel Sinclair, and film finance specialist Premila Hoon are among the film industry executives to be honoured in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list.Till, formerly president of Universal Pictures International and president of international for PolyGram Filmed ...
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Lightning Entertainment takes global rights to football drama
SantaMonica sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has takenworldwide rights territories excluding Brazil and Germany to Brazilian footballcrime drama Showdebola. Commercialsdirector Alexander Pickl makes his feature directorial debut on the story of ayoungster whose dream of playing professional football may be his only way outof a tough Rio de Janerio ...
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Czech president rejects boost to state film fund
Czech President Vaclav Klaushas vetoed an amendment that would have tripled the size of his country's statefilm fund. The bill now returns to the lower house, which is likely to overridethe president's veto with a simple majority later this month. Klaus returned the amendmentto the lower house of parliament May ...
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Hassid named director of foreign film acquisitions for Canal Plus
The Canal Plus Group announced Friday the appointment of Laurent Hassidto the post of director of foreign film acquisitions.Hassid will report to head of film Evi Fullenbach. His responsibilitieswill include overseeing acquisitions of foreign films, excluding films from theUS majors, and pre-buys on French films shot in foreign languages for ...
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MPA appoints Thomas Dillon to anti-piracy post
The Motion PictureAssociation (MPA) has promoted Thomas Dillon to vice president, deputy generalcounsel and regional legal director anti-piracy in the MPA's Europe, MiddleEast and Africa office in Brussels.Dillon had been advising theMPA on legal issues arising from copyright and anti-piracy matters sinceJanuary 2001.Dillon will handle publicpolicy and litigation issues relating ...
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UK distributor Revolver plans Kidulthood TV show
Film distributor Revolver Entertainment has announced plans to turn itscontroversial UK feature Kidulthood into a TV serial drama. The film's screenwriter Noel Clarke will work closely with the teambeing recruited to develop the TV project. "Kidulthood is a film that defines a generation," said Revolverproduct director Natascia Phillips. "It is ...
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An Inconvenient Truth
Dir: Davis Guggenheim. US. 2006.98mins"I'm Al Gore. I used to be the next president of theUnited States... I don't find that particularly funny," former vice-presidentAl Gore declares early on in Davis Guggenheim's fascinating documentary,bounding on stage before one of his multi-media lectures about global warming.Gore is a contradictoryfigure, aloof and ...
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Germany's FFA awards $4m to new projects
Sequels of this year's local box-office hits Wild Soccer Bunch 3 and WildChicks are among eight projects backed with more than $3.97m (Euros 3.1m)production funding by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) at its latestsitting.The largest amount - $768,569 (Euros 600,000) - went to SamFilm's fourthinstalment in The Wild Soccer ...
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Magna Pacific snaps up Prairie Home Companion
Magna Pacific has acquiredAustralian and New Zealand rights to Oscar-winning director Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion from CapitolFilms.The company plans to releasethe film in September 2007, joining a theatrical line-up that includes Perfect Creature, August Rush, Lonely Hearts,Penelope, Renaissance, The AstronautFarmer and Because I Said So."Prairie will emulate Robert ...
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Weinstein Co takes US rights to Seven Swords
The Weinstein Company has acquiredUS theatrical and video rights to Tsui Hark's martial arts epic Seven Swords from Fortissimo Films. The deal follows a recentsale to Montreal-based distributor Seville Pictures which acquired Canadianrights. Fortissimo has also sold the film widely in Europe. Produced by Tsui's FilmWorkshop with Chinese and Korean ...
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van der Werff promoted to executive vp at SPRI
Longtime Sony Picturespublicity strategist Susan van der Werff has been promoted to executive vicepresident of international publicity for Sony Pictures Releasing International.The promotion, announced byPaul Smith, president of worldwide theatrical operations for the studio, comeson the eve of SPRI's launch of The Da Vinci Code as the opening night of ...
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Telefonica's Nieto likely to quit Antena 3 role
Juan Jose Nieto, CEO of Spanish broadcaster Antena 3, admitted last Thursday during a shareholders' meeting that he might resign from his post in order to focus on his dual position as CEO of Telefonica Media and new member of Telefonica's powerful Executive Committee.Sources at the broadcaster suggested that Nieto's ...
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CMG gets Tribeca favourite The Treatment for Cannes
Edward Noeltner'sCinema Management Group (CMG) has acquired all international rights to OrenRudavsky's romantic comedy The Treatment starring ChrisEigeman, Ian Holm and Famke Janssen.The story of anerdy schoolteacher who falls for a sensuous Manhattan socialite was one of themost talked about titles at the recent Tribeca Film Festival and won the ...
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Hooper named national publicity chief at Fox Searchlight
Michelle Hooper has joined Fox Searchlight as senior vice president ofnational publicity.The former vice president of entertainment publicity at Fox Broadcastingbegins her new post on May 31 and will report to Searchlight chief operatingofficer Nancy Utley.At Fox Broadcasting Hooper oversaw national publicity campaigns for suchpowerhouse shows as American Idol, Prison ...
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Momentum gets UK and Spanish rights to Cholera
Momentum has acquired the UKand Spanish rights to Cannes market title Love In The Time Of Cholera. Mike Newell, who previouslydirected Four Weddings and a Funeral and Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire, will direct the $40m project. Javier Bardem, GiovannaMezzogiorno and Benjamin Bratt will star. The Pianist screenwriter ...
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Capitol takes on sales for Beresford's Mansions
Capitol Films has taken oninternational sales for Bruce Beresford's A Dream Of Red Mansions, currently in pre-production. Kate Hudson and KenWatanabe are set to star in this epic love story set during the ChineseCultural Revolution. Capitol has already closed adeal on A Dream Of Red Mansionspre-Cannes with Toshiba Entertainment for ...
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Masterson to make feature directorial debut on Cake Eaters
Mary StuartMasterson will make her feature directorial debut on drama The Cake Eaters starringKristen Stewart and Aaron Stanford.The 57th &Irving Productions project is scheduled to begin filming this summer in the US;it centres on a prodigal son who returns to his smalltown homestead aftertrying to make his fortune in the ...
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Massis picks up worldwide rights to Upstaged
Alex Massis' FilmSource Company has picked up worldwide rights to Andrew Walkington's US teencomedy Upstaged.Walkington alsoproduced the story of a hapless group of youngsters who stage a production of Macbeth thatturns into a triumphant journey of self discovery.Newcomer WillForster stars alongside Hildegard Neil and British comedian Phil Cool.Upstaged ispart of ...
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Seven Arts to start sales for Henry Bean's Noise
Los Angeles-based Seven ArtsInternational will commence sales here on 'a slate of new work fromdirector Henry Bean, John Malkovich and Burt Reynolds.Seven Arts is in productionin New York on Bean's black comedy Noise about a frustrated New Yorker who declares war on the city's noise. WilliamHurt, Tim Robbins and Bridget ...
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Chiesa picks up rights to Fortnight's Libero Va Bene
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises(ACE) has picked up world-wide rights to Kim Rossi Stuart's DirectorsFortnight film Anche Libero Va Bene.The drama marks CrimeNovel actor Rossi Stuart'sdirectorial debut, and is about family strife seen through the eyes ofan 11-year-old boy. The picture is produced by Palomar and Rai Cinemaand stars Rossi Stuart and ...