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NewsCreative England responds to concerns over cuts
EXCLUSIVE: Creative industries agency taps into reserve to ensure effective delivery of services.
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Cinema Epoch closes multi-film deal with 8 Star
Cinema Epoch has signed a multi-picture distribution deal with 8 Star Entertainment.LA-based 8 Star has North American DVD rights to Tolga Ornek's threedocumentaries Gallipoli, The Hitites and Mount Nemrud. Gallipoli isnarrated by Sam Neill and Jeremy Irons.The other films in the deal are Ochir Mashbat's My Beautiful Jinjimaa;Amauri Tangara's The ...
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Anonyma, Effi lead Beta's AFM sales push
Following on from its success with Downfall and The Lives Of Others, German sales outfit Beta Cinema is scoring global heat on two new German epics.Max Faerberboeck's $17.5m Anonyma - A Woman In Berlin is a Second World War drama produced by Constantin Film and starring Nina Hoss and August ...
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Japan's Madhouse sells Ninja Scroll remake rights
Japanese animation studio Madhouse has sold live-action remake rights to cult anime title Ninja Scroll to Warner Bros Pictures. Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, the film sold more than 1 million DVD copies in the US and had a successful theatrical run in its home market. The remake deal with Warner ...
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Da Silva launches boutique consultancy Novo Films
EuropaCorp artistic advisor Francois Da Silva has left the company to establish his own boutique consultancy, Novo Films. The Paris-based outfit will advise on international co-production projects and acquisitions, with a focus on emerging territories, for a range of clients including EuropaCorp. Among the projects that Da Silva is advising ...
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iDream sells Shelley to South Africa, Australia
India's iDream Independent Pictures has sold Lorraine Senna's Americanizing Shelly, starring Beau Bridges and Namrata Singh Gujral, to several territories including South Africa 's Ster Kinekor and Rialto for Australia and New Zealand. The film has also gone to RRS Entertainment (Germany), Falcon Films (Middle East) and DD Dream International ...
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Strike nerves unsettle AFM business
Business at the AFM has painted a picture of a divided market. Tangible top tier product was in demand, as always, but most buyers and sellers were bemoaning one of the slowest markets in years.Pre-strike jitters left their mark as buyers anxious to fill pipelines for 2009 and early 2010 ...
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Film Library picks up Chinese dramaBefore The Sunrise
Hong Kong-based sales outfit The Film Library has picked up international rights to Derek Chiu's historical drama Before The Sunrise (previously known as Road To Dawn). The film follows the story of the 'founder of modern China' Sun Yat-sen - whose Republican revolution overthrew the Qing Dynasty - during his ...
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Import/Export wins best film at Bangkok World fest
Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's Import/Export was named best film at the 5th World Film Festival of Bangkok on Saturday night. Best director was awarded to Semih Kaplanoglu for Egg, which recently swept the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in Turkey. Nina Menkes' Phantom Love bagged best artistic achievement with US ...
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Korea's Megabox snaps up Penelope, Ramen Girl
Continuing the Korean buying spree at the AFM, Seoul-based exhibitor Megabox has snapped up two titles - romantic comedy Penelope, starring Reese Witherspoon, from Hyde Park International, and The Ramen Girl, starring Brittany Murphy, from Media 8 Entertainment. Megabox entered acquisitionsat this year's European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin andwas ...
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Korea's Mirovision startscreating Tomorrow News
Korea's Mirovision has unveiled two new productions - disaster thriller Tomorrow News and epic romantic comedy Once Upon A Time. Tomorrow News is based on the cult manga of the same name for which Mirovision has acquired rights for both big screen and TV formats. The project is currently in ...
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Goldcrest Independent seals AFM deals on Schneider's The Chosen One
Goldcrest Independent has announced deals on the two titles it has been selling at AFM - The Chosen One, a comedy starring Rob Schneider and Steve Buscemi and Cass, the UK hooligan drama starring Nonso Anozie and Nathalie Press.Sales chief Pierre Weisbein said that Seville Pictures bought The Chosen One ...
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Sony expected to take District 9 rights from QED
Sony was poised last night [Sunday] to strike the biggest deal of AFM and take North America and other territories to Peter Jackson's upcoming sci-fi action film District 9.QED Intl is fully financing District 9 and handles worldwide sales on the project, which Jackson will produce through his Wingnut Films.Neill ...
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Hollywood writers' strike begins
Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA)are now on strike after the failure of last-minute negotiations.The union met for 10 hours with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP)on Sunday but there were still major sticking points, particularly onpayments forDVD releases.The current contract between the WGA's 12,000 ...
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The Red Awn (Hongse Kangbaiyin)
Dir.Cai Shangjun. China. 2007. 108minsAlready established as a highly successful screenwriter whose work with Zhang Yang on Shower and Sunflower won international kudos, Cai Shangjun steps behind the camera for the first time with a film whose theme - a father-son relationship - has informed his previous work. A simple, ...
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Singapore's digital TV service signs studio deals
SingTel's new digital pay-TV service, mio TV, has formed strategic partnerships with four major movie studios.The agreements with NBC Universal,Twentieth Century Fox, Disney-ABC International Television and Eros International will 'bring almost 80% of all major Hollywood output into Singapore homes', said Low Ka Hoe, director of mio TV and Content. ...
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Spare
Dir: Lee Seong Han. S Korea. 2007. 105min.Intermittently funny but always energetic, this spoof action film displays the kind of flair and attitude that will win fans at home and attract the interest of many film festivals especially for midnight screenings. Lee Seong Han, a fan of the Hong Kong ...
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Tigerlily starts shooting Jeanie Finlay's Goth Cruise
UK-based Tigerlily Films has started production on Goth Cruise, its feature length documentary backed by the Independent Film Channel and EM Media (via European Regional Development Funds).Jeanie Finlay, a Screen International 2007 Star of Tomorrow, is directing. Natasha Dack and Nikki Parrott of Tigerlily are producing, with New York-based Cactus ...
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Screen East contributes $1.58m to three new features
UK regional screen agency Screen East has announced more than $1.58m in investment in three new feature films to shoot in the East of England. Screen East's new Content Investment Fund is backed by the European Regional Development Fund.The three films backed are Toa Fraser's Dean Spanley starring Peter O'Toole, ...
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Paramount on board for local distribution of Fraser's Dean Spanley
Paramount Pictures will distribute Toa Fraser's Dean Spanley in Australia and New Zealand.As previously reported, Toa Fraser will direct the whimsical father and son tale to star Peter O'Toole and Jeremy Northam.The film will start shooting Nov 12 on location in the east of England. Delivery is set for mid-2008.The ...