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First Look acquires US rights to Chopper
Beyond Films has confirmed that US rights to writer-director Andrew Dominik's Chopper have been sold to First Look Pictures, which plans to stage a theatrical release in March 2001.Chopper screened at the Edinburgh, Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals and has now been in the Australian top 20 list for eight ...
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Everyman acquires seven-cinema chain Screen Cinemas
UK exhibitor Screen Cinemas has been sold to Everyman Media Group, the parent company of Everyman Cinema Club.Investment banking firm Livingston Partners advised the Screen Cinemas shareholders, including managind director Romaine Hart, during the deal negotiations. Terms were not disclosed.Screen Cinemas operates seven theatres across London and the Southeast of ...
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Cool Hand picks up film rights to vampire thriller The Vines
Cool Hand International, an LA- and London-based production outfit run by Matthew Wolf, Simon Kelton and Luke G-Jones, has acquired the option to Barbara Ankrum's novel The Vines, a vampire thriller set in the vineyards of northern California.Brian Austin Green, who is currently starring in US TV hit Terminator: The ...
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Film Movement picks up domestic on Barron's Choking Man
US independent distributor Film Movement has picked up domestic rights to Steve Barron's Choking Man, a drama blending fantasy and reality in its depiction of one man's inner demons. The film was recently named Best Film Not Playing at a Theatre Near You at the Gotham Awards.The film stars Octavio ...
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NTV seeks pre-sales on manga story
Nippon Television Network (NTV) is pre-selling Twentieth Century Boys, a three-part film based on Naoki Urasawa's popular manga, at Hong Kong's Filmart.The story concerns Kenji and his friends who have to combat the mysterious realisation of a 'world destruction plan' they had playfully made up as children.Buyers flew in to ...
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Croatia joins EU's MEDIA Programme
Croatia has become the first candidate country to join the European Union's (EU) MEDIA 2007 programme - the support programme for the region's audiovisual industry.European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding, on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding that allows Croatia to participate in the programme with Ambassador ...
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Drillbit Taylor
Dir. Steven Brill. US. 2008. 102 mins.The Judd Apatow laugh factory turns out one of its younger-skewing - and less funny - products in Drillbit Taylor, a revenge-of-the-nerds comedy that teams Owen Wilson's hapless title character with a trio of bullied high school outcasts. In some ways resembling a junior ...
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Mono leads Filmartsales with The Follower
Thailand 's Mono Films has pre-sold The Follower to Indonesia's Ram Indo for Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Brunei.The film is a horror thriller about a student being haunted by a mysterious man after his girlfriend died in a caraccident when he takes her out on a used car.With production set ...
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Korea 's Activers sells Dream and Diary
South Korean sales agent Activers has sold two Japanese films - You Are My Dream and 26 Years Diary to Ram Indo for Singapore and Malaysia.Directed by Hanado Junji, You Are My Dream stars Matsuyama Kenichi (Death Note, L: Change The World) as a delinquent boy whose life is changed ...
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Universe kicks up a storm of pre-sales for Pang Brothers
Hong Kong's Universe Films Distribution has scored a string of pre-sales on the Pang Brothers' The Stormriders II, starring Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng, which was unveiled a press conference at Filmart yesterday. The $12m martial arts project has been snapped up by Chengtian/Golden Harvest, which has acquired rights for ...
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Screen Australia appoints first CEO
Experienced public policy manager Lyn Maddock has been appointed interim chief executive of Australia's new film super-body, Screen Australia, for four months.Screen Australia replaces the Film Finance Corporation (FFC), Australian Film Commission (AFC) and Film Australia (FA), and will administer the 40% rebate now available for the production of Australian ...
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Hewison to head Melbourne Film Festival
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has appointed James Hewison as executive director. He was formerly marketing manager (Victoria) for public broadcaster the ABC. Since 1993, when he returned from living in Paris for five years, Hewison has worked for Palace Cinemas, played a key role in re-establishing the French ...
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Star picks up Painted Skin
The Star Group has picked up pay-TV rights to Donnie Yen-starrer Painted Skin for Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.The deal was concluded by sales startup Eastern Mordor Film.Headed by Ningxia Film Studio's vice president Pang Hung who is also the film's main producer, the new Hong Kong-based company was formed by ...
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Forbidden Kingdom to have world premiere in Beijing
US producer Casey Silver has confirmed that the world premiere of martial arts action adventure The Forbidden Kingdom will take place in Beijing on April 16. The film will open in the US two days later and in China on April 24. Silver was in Hong Kong to promote the ...
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Swift to co-produce Cinema Impierno
France 's Swift Distribution has boarded Brillante 'Dante' Mendoza 's Cinema Impierno (aka Service) as a co-producer - marking the sales company's first foray into production.The company will finance the $500,000 HAF project along with Mendoza's Center Stage Productions. Filming will begin this Friday (March 21)Swift founder Didier Costet said ...
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Japan off blocks with Run! Run! Run!
J-Pitch and UniJapan have represented five Japanese projectssupported by HAF, led by Run! Run! Run!, a Gaga Communications film to be directed by Hanawa Yukinari and produced by Hiromi Honoki.Based on Nozomi Katsura's novel of the same name, the $2m film deals with a top athlete and the question of ...
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M&FC sells Someone Behind You to US
South Korean sales agent M&FC has announced a slew of sales on its romantic comedy Hello, Schoolgirl and horror film Someone Behind You.The company sold US rights to Someone Behind You to 24 Frames, while Ta Lai bought Taiwanese rights.Meanwhile, TV rights to Hello, Schoolgirl, which stars Yoo Ji-tae (Oldboy), ...
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Kung fu monks lead China deals
China Film Promotion International announced eight dealsconcluded by Chinese companies on the second day of Filmart.Henan Film Studio is close to deals with with Five Star Productions from Thailand and Enter Mode Corp from Korea for the Shaolin Kungfu series which was just announced yesterday.Five Star is eyeing on DVD ...
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Film-maker Anthony Minghella dies at age 54
Film-maker Anthony Minghella has died at the age of 54.His spokespeople released this statement: ' Anthony Minghella died this morning at Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith, west London. He was operated on last week for a growth in his neck, and the operation seemed to have gone well. At 5am ...
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Screen conference keynote: industry has to rethink release windows
The film industry needs to embrace the challenges and opportunities offered by new distribution platforms or lose out as consumers go elsewhere for content.That is the view of Ian Lewis, Director of Sky Movies & Sky Box Office, at BSkyB.Lewis was the keynote speaker at today's Screen International-backed Maximising Digital ...