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Wild Bunch picks up Cannes title Chihwaseon
Wild Bunch has picked up world sales rights outside Asia to Im Kwon-Taek's Chihwaseon - the Cannes competition title that jointly won the festival's best direction prize.Wild Bunch picked up the film after seeing it at its early screening on Saturday 25 May and closed the deal on Sunday morning.Wild ...
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Japan's Toho gears up for new fiscal year with new president
Toho, Japan's largest film distributor and exhibitor, has named its new president, Hideyuki Takai. He replaces Toshihiko Ishida, who will take the post of advisor. Takai joined Toho in 1964 and has been involved in film production since 1977. Credits include Kon Ichikawa's 48 Ronin (1994), Hideyuki Hirayama's School Ghost ...
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Eureka Screenings to select 300 love stories
Love has been chosen as the theme for Audiovisual Eureka's 5th Eureka Screenings which are being hosted in Skopje by the Minister of Culture of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia from October 30 - November 3.During three days, buyers from all over Europe will have the opportunity of viewing ...
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Every Stewardess goes to France
Spain's Wanda Vision has sold all French rights on Berlin Panorama entry Every Stewardess Goes To Heaven (Todas Las Azafatas Van Al Cielo) to Pretty Pictures.Wanda's Jose Maria Morales and Miguel Morales said the deal was closed in Cannes. The film from up-and-coming Argentine director Daniel Burman (Waiting For The ...
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Spain's Grupo Pi announces string of deals
Spanish sales consortium Grupo Pi announced a string of deals on various titles from its growing slate of feature films.At Cannes, Pi closed all rights for Colombia to Cineplex on women-driven comedy My Mother Likes Women (A Mi Madre Le Gustan Las Mujeres) starring Leonor Watling (Talk To Her). The ...
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Australia's Seven takes everything from Icon
Australia's Seven Network has signed for television and pay television rights to all the films that are released theatrically by the Australian arm of Icon Film Distribution, which opened for business early this year. The first package of films in the multi-year deal includes We Were Soldiers, Gosford Park, the ...
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Niche acquires Cannes titles over the phone
Niche Pictures principal Lyn McCarthy has closed deals for Australian and New Zealand rights on two high-profile Cannes film - on the phone from the northern New South Wales coast resort Byron Bay, where she lives. They are director Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen, which was in Competition at Cannes, ...
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Sedgwick named director of new Adelaide film festival
Katrina Sedgwick has been appointed director of the inaugural 2003 and the 2005 Adelaide International Film Festival. The first edition will be held in late February or early March 2003 and will celebrate the 30th year of the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC). Chair of the festival board is Sydney ...
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Kinepolis Group's Albert Bert dies, aged 74
Albert Bert, co-chairman of the board of directors of the Kinepolis Group died on 21 May 2002 aged 74. Bert was widely acknowledged as one of the innovators of how movie theatres are operated in Belgium. In the sixties, he took over the Cinema Majestiek in Harelbeke from his father. ...
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Hollywood SFX pioneer launches Japanese digital film studio
Richard Edlund, a special effects master who is president and CEO of Boss Film Studios, has launched a start-up for the production of digital films in Yokohama, Japan. The winner of four Academy Awards for his work on Stars Wars, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back and ...
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New releases open well as the blockbusters re-write Memorial Day records
Memorial Day weekend saw more box-office records tumble, with Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones holding on to top spot with a $62.1m four-day haul, according to studio estimates. George Lucas's fifth Star Wars instalment has now grossed $202.5m in 12 days becoming the second fastest movie ...
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Focus acquires The Pianist from VU stablemate StudioCanal
Focus, Vivendi Universal's new speciality label has acquired US and select international distribution rights to Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Pianist from stablemate StudioCanal. Focus has scheduled a December release for the film in the US, according to a statement from Focus co-presidents David Linde and James Schamus.The English-language feature, ...
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Bollywood release triumphs in the shadow of Star Wars' attack
Five new openers launched into the UK chart this week but were unable to make much impact on the box office of chart leader Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones.The most impressive of this week's debutantes was Eros International's latest Bollywood release, Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam. The ...
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The Man Without A Past has a promising future
Aki Kaurismaki's Cannes Grand Jury prize winner, The Man Without A Past, has been snapped up by Sony Pictures Classics for the US, while in its home territory, the film has seen an 80% leap at the local box office.According to news wire sources, Sony Pictures Classics picked up both ...
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Record-breaking Spider-Man sets new precedent in India
Columbia Tristar India's release of Spider-Man has set at least three new records in the territory having grossed nearly $1.4m from 250 screens on its first weekend - just three weeks after its US debut.The film was released simultaneously in English and three local languages - Hindi, Tamil and Telugu ...
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Korean Film Commission appoints president and new staff
Lee Choong-jik (pictured) has been appointed chairman of the Korean Film Commission (KOFIC), the nation's foremost promotional body. Chang Mi-hee, a film professor and former actress, was named vice chairman. A total of nine new commissioners were appointed to the organisation, seven of whom currently hold positions as film ...
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Oz exhibitors and distributors forge amicable relationship
Just four years ago it would have been absolutely unimaginable but the first day of the Cinema Owners Association of Australia's (COAA) annual conference closed in Sydney yesterday with something resembling a love-in between independent exhibitors and the major distributors. The final session had been reserved to discuss progress on ...
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IFC Films closes in on Sex Is Comedy for US
IFC Films is in advanced negotiations to acquire Catherine Breillat's Sex Is Comedy, which opened this year's Directors' Fortnight sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival, for US theatrical release."This would be a very good sale," said Flach Pyramide International's Eric Lagesse, who is handling worldwide sales on Sex Is ...
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Fast Runner strolls past C$1m in Canada
Zacharias Kunuk's Anatarujuat: The Fast Runner has grossed more than C$1m ($650,000) at the Canadian box office. The film has been on release since April 12 through Alliance Atlantis' art house distribution arm Odeon Films. The film won the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 2001 and went on to win ...
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New Yorker takes US rights on Etre Et Avoir
Dan Talbot's New Yorker has acquired US rights to Cannes title Etre Et Avoir, a documentary by Nicolas Philibert which was screened out of competition in the main selection.Mercure Distribution, which is handling worldwide sales duties, has also sold Japanese rights to the title, which follows a group of children ...