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Kuyper joins Warner Premiere as vp, physical production
Warner Bros Entertainment's recently formed direct-to-platform unit Warner Premiere has hired Jon Kuyper as vice president of physical production.Kuyper will oversee all aspects of physical production, including locations, construction, transportation, property and crew staffing.He reports directly to division president Diane Nelson and will work closely with other Warner Premiere executives ...
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UK pirate DVD sellers given deportation notices
Six Chinese nationals who were arrested on February 1 in Hackney, East London, on charges of film piracy and breach of copyright have since been identified as being in the UK illegally and served deportation notices.The two men and four women, who all pleaded guilty to charges related to selling ...
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Finishing the Game
Dir: Justin Lin. US. 2007. 93mins. Following his foray directing the studio assignments Annapolis and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Justin Lin exhibits a warmer, more personal touch with Finishing the Game, a clever though very thin divertissement about filmmaking, Asian cultural stereotypes and the iconic representation of ...
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Police raid pirate film factory, seize over 6000 DVDs
A 42-year-old man has been arrested following a raid of a private house in Heywood, Greater Manchester. Police seized 40 DVD burners, three computers, printers, over 6000 counterfeit DVDs and £5000 in cash that were found on the premises. The operation was conducted by Greater Manchester Police in conjunction with ...
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Memorial service to be held for Andi Engel
Renoir Cinema in London 's Brunswick Square will host a memorial service at 12 noon on Wednesday March 7, 2007, to celebrate the life and achievements of Andi Engel, who died aged 68 in Lubeck, Germany on December 26 last year. With his wife Pam, Engel founded Artificial Eye, the ...
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Schoukroun leaves Capitol for sister company THINKFilm
Eve Schoukroun will leave her post as head of sales at Capitol Films to become head of international for sister company THINKFilm International. Los Angeles-based entrepreneur David Bergstein acquired London-based Capitol in January 2006 and New York-based THINKFilm in October 2006, but the two companies have announced that they will ...
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Ealing strikes European deals for Carmen Electra project
Ealing Studios International, the new sales arm of Ealing Studios, has licensed UK comedy I Want Candy in three key territories prior to the film's market premiere at the EFM. Square One Entertainment took German theatrical rights, while Revolutionary Releasing has taken rights for Eastern Europe excluding the CIS. Buena ...
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Optimum picks up Rocket Science
Optimum has taken UK rights to Jeffrey Blitz's Rocket Science, which won the Directing Award - Dramatic at Sundance 2007.Charles Schreger, president of programming sales for HBO Enterprises, struck the deal for the HBO Films project with Optimum's managing director Will Clarke.Spellbound director Blitz makes his fictional debut with the ...
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Iska's Journey, Konyec, Opium win top prizes at Hungarian Film Week
Opium - Diary Of A Madwoman, from director Janos Szasz, dominated the awards of the 38th Hungarian Film Week. In total the film, which stars Ulrich Thomsen as an opium-addicted psychiatrist in love with mad patient, collected four awards at the festival's closing ceremonies Feb 6. Szasz was named Best ...
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RTL shuffles execs to sister channel Vox
RTL executives Ladya van Eeden and Marko Langer will replace Joerg Schuette as programming chief at RTL sister channel Vox. Van Eeden will be responsible for the fiction division and Schuette will supervise news. Van Eeden, who is currently programming co-ordinator at RTL, will make the transition on August 1 ...
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Occupant starts production on Peep World
Los Angeles-based Occupant Films, whose horror film All The Boys Love Mandy Lane was picked up by Dimension Films at Toronto, is ramping up production on the comedy Peep World. Peter Himmelstein will direct the film and recently wrapped production for Occupant on thriller The Key Man starring Jack Davenport, ...
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Dresdner Kleinwort explores European 'fund of funds'
Having pumped more than $4.6bn into a variety of Hollywood slate deals in the past two years, German bank Dresdner Kleinwort is now looking at Europe to see whether a similar co-financing structure could enable a portfolio of European films from different production sources. The bank's New York-based media and ...
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Easternlight opens in Singapore, schedules Dance Of The Dragon
Easternlight Films has opened a production and distribution arm in Singapore. Easternlight Film Productions' pictures will be sold internationally through partner company Easternlight/Arclight Films. The new outfit states it will be 'a first for Singapore, a one-stop shop for feature films from script development to post-production,' specialising in Asian content ...
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Fortissimo to sell LIVE! worldwide
Fortissimo Films is handling worldwide sales rights excluding North America for Academy Award-winning director Bill Guttentag's LIVE! which is produced by Mosaic Media Group. A satire on the modern obsession with reality TV, the film follows an ambitious TV network executive played by Eva Mendes (Training Day, Hitch), who wants ...
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First Look pushing Untitled Larry Charles Project at EFM
First Look International (FLI) chief Stuart Ford is lining up meetings with buyers at the European Film Market to discuss Larry Charles' anticipated follow-up to the global smash Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakstan.Charles is currently roaming the world shooting Untitled Larry Charles Project, ...
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Weinstein sells key territories on 1408 ahead of EFM
The Weinstein Company (TWC) international president Glen Basner has closed a raft of deals on Mikael Hafstrom's horror film 1408 ahead of the European Film Market.Rights have gone to Senator (Germany), Paramount (UK), TFM (France), West Film (Russia), EEAP (Eastern Europe), Imagem (Latin America), Taewon (South Korea), and Village Roadshow ...
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Nitschke returns to Senator Film
Anatol Nitschke, head of distribution at Berlin's X Verleih since 2000, is returning to Senator Film on April 1 to serve as co-managing director of Senator Film Verleih and Senator Home Entertainment along with Peter Heinzemann.Nitschke, who headed Senator Film Verleih between 1999 and 2000, will be responsible for marketing, ...
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Mdc int adds Iszka's Journey, La Antena to Berlinale line-up
Berlin-based sales company Mdc int has made two last-minute additions to its line-up for this year's market in Berlin.International distribution will be handled on Argentine Esteban Sapir's La Antena which was the opening film of the Tiger Competition in Rotterdam last week and is described as an 'enchanting fairytale about ...
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Constantin extends pay TV rights deal with Premiere
Constantin Film has extended its output deal with German pay TV channel Premiere for rights to its in-house and co-productions by another two years from January 1, 2007 to the end of 2008.In addition to highlights of the existing contract which was signed in February 2004, such as Perfume - ...
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What Lies Beneath
Dir: Robert Zemeckis. US. 1999. 126 mins.Prod co: 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks Pictures, Imagemovers. Dist: DreamWorks (US, Canada)/Fox (International). Prods: Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke. Exec prods: Joan Bradshaw, Mark Johnson. Scr: Clark Gregg. DoP: Don Burgess. Ed: Arthur Schmidt. Music: Alan Silvestri. Prod des: Rick Carter, Jim Teegarden. ...