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Inferno picks up international rights to Bella
Los Angeles-based Inferno Distribution has picked up internationalrights to the romance Bella, which won the Peoples Choice Award following its world premiereat Toronto last month.Inferno will commence sales at AFM next week on AlejandroMonteverde's tale of self-discovery. ICM is representing domestic rights.Eduardo Verastegui and Tammy Blanchard star as a football ...
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Lightning takes on psychological thriller Killing Floor
Los Angeles-based Lightning Entertainment has picked upinternational sales on recently completed psychological thriller The KillingFloor.Lightning will commence sales at AFM on the picture, which countsAvi Arad and Doug Liman as executive producers and was produced by EdenWurmfeld.Gideon Raff wrote and directed the story set in the Manhattanpublishing world where a ...
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Matt Williams launches film development fund Wind Dancer
Matt Williams, who produced What Women Want and created the hit TV show Roseanne, has launched the feature developmentcompany Wind Dancer Films.Backed by private equity investors through a deal brokered byMerrill Lynch, Wind Dancer Films will develop 12 to 15 features in the $15m to$30m range over the next three ...
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MarVista moves into theatrical with Sasquatch Dumpling Gang
Los Angeles-based TV programming production and distribution houseMarVista Entertainment is moving into the theatrical arena with the acquisitionof all international rights excluding the UK and Canada to The SasquatchDumpling Gang.MarVista will introduce the project to buyers at AFM inSanta Monica next month. Company president Michael Jacobs said the venture wasthe ...
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Canadian performers seek mediation in contract talks
Canadian film and TVperformers guild ACTRA today applied for labour mediation following two days ofnegotiation toward a new independent production agreement with Canadianproducers. According to ACTRA, veteranactor and lead bargaining team member Gordon Pinsent walked out on the talkswhen representatives from the Canadian Film and Television ProductionAssociation (CFTPA) and the ...
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Japan still on outer edge of pan-Asian market
Japan may be Asia's largest box office territory, and currently one ofthe region's most active producers, but it's still only a peripheral player inthe developing pan-Asian market, according to speakers at a TIFFCOM seminar onTuesday. Reliance on a huge domesticmarket, language barriers, cultural differences and historical antipathies haveall contributed to ...
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Vue plans charity preview for Casino Royale
UKexhibitor Vue Entertainment is organising a charity fundraiser tied to therelease of Casino Royale.Thenew James Bond film will play in previews at 36 Vue cinemas across the UK onNov 15, two days before its general release. More than 12,000 tickets will beavailable for the promotion, which will sell tickets at ...
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EFP's Shooting Stars head to Seville
European Film Promotion willbring its touring Shooting Stars programme to Spain's Sevilla Festival de Cine (Nov3-11) for the second year.A group of eight of the 21European Shooting Stars (first presented at the Berlinale) will come to Sevilleto present their film and meet local press and audiences. The participants are:Hungary's Gabriella ...
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Honor De Cavalleria takes Viennale Fipresci prize
Albert Serra's Honor DeCavalleria was named the winner ofthe FIPRESCI Prize at the Viennale 'for its imaginative and challengingcinematic reinvention of the classic novel Don Quixote.' The Vienna International Film Festival closedlast night with a gala screening of Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion.The Vienna Film Prize forthe best Austrian ...
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EFP plans new film showcase in three cities
Following such initiativesas Shooting Stars in Berlin and showcasing young European filmmakers in KarlovyVary, European Film Promotion is planning a new series of screenings under thebanner of Picture Europe! The Best of European Cinema to highlight nationalbox-office hits from across Europe.The new initiative willscreen European films in three European capitals ...
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Messier threatens to veto Sky Global deal
Vivendi chief Jean-Marie Messier is threatening not to contribute his 20% stake in UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB to Rupert Murdoch's planned digital distribution company Sky Global Networks, according to French reports.Messier is understood to have told analysts that he would not sell his BSkyB stake unless he secures an active ...
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Tartan takes UK rights to Broomfield's Ghosts
Tartan Films has taken UKdistribution rights to Nick Broomfield's Ghosts, which has its UK premiere tonight at the LondonFilm Festival after screening at San Sebastian. Ghosts is Broomfield's second fiction feature; he is alsoknown for his documentaries including Kurt And Courtney and Aileen: Life And Death Of A Serial Killer. ...
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The Queen leads BIFAs nominations
Stephen Frears' TheQueen leads thenominations for the ninth British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), nominated inseven categories including Best British Independent Film, Best Director andBest Actress for Helen Mirren. Kevin Macdonald'sThe Last King Of Scotland and Shane Meadows' This Is England each followed with six nominations.Other multiplenominees included Ken Loach's Cannes ...
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European film agencies call for speedy action on digital cinema
Many of Europe's filmagencies have released a joint statement to the European Commission inadvocating the growth of digital cinema in Europe. The national film agenciessaid: 'The directors of Europe's national film agencies (the EFADs) considerthat digital cinema represents a major challenge for the whole of the Europeanfilm industry, especially in ...
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EC says it will rule on UK film tax by end of year
The European Commission has offered further clarification asto what has caused its delay in EC approval for the new UK film taxlegislation. The EC now says it is aiming to make a decision "by the endof the year." In a statement to ScreenDaily.Com yesterday, EuropeanCommission Spokesman on Competition Jonathan Todd ...
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Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund backs 24 projects
The Hubert Bals Fund of theInternational Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has granted a total of $444,180(Euros 353,000) to 24 film projects and initiatives from developing countries. Grants for script andproject development went to established film-makers including Paraguay's PazEncina and Romania's Cristian Mungiu. Post-production funding went tofilm-makers including Brazil's Paulo Caldas ...
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Denmark's Flame And Citron gains momentum
Danish feature FlameAnd Citron has raised 75% of itsrelatively large $7.6m (45m Danish Kroner) and will head into production withdelivery set for 2008.Ole Christian Madsen willdirect the story of two colourful and important freedom fighters during WorldWar II. Lars K Andersen wrote the script.The director sees his newfilm as an ...
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Hirschfield to receive 2007 ASC Presidents Award
Gerald Hirschfeld will receive the 2007 American Society of Cinematographers(ASC) Presidents Award in recognition of his exceptional contributions to thecraft.The presentation will take place at the 21st Annual ASC OutstandingAchievement Awards celebration in Los Angeles on Feb 18, 2007.Hirschfeld's credits include Diary Of A Mad Housewife, Young Frankenstein,Fail-Safe, and CottonComes ...
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Dominican Republic Global Film Festival kicks off in Nov
The Last King Of Scotland, Babel and Volver are among the line-up at the inauguralDominican Republic Global Film Festival, which runs from Nov 8-12.The roster includes Water, Cronica De Una Fuga, An InconvenientTruth, Mad Hot Ballroom,and The Lost City.The festival whose focus is global issues and personal stories, isheld under ...
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Echo Bridge adds three new titles to AFM sales slate
Massachusetts-based Echo Bridge Entertainment has added threetitles to its AFM slate of seven pictures -- the thriller Memory, horror story Hatchet, and the action comedy Fifty Pills.Memorystars Billy Zane, Ann-Margaret, and Dennis Hopper and takes place in the worldof medical research.Robert Englund stars in Hatchet, which centres on a group ...