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The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
Dir: Michael Lembeck. US. 2006. 91mins.Straight-up, wholeheartedly earnest family films thatare not animated nor revolve around some form of animal are few and far between' and of this subset, many are driven only by primary colors and robust sounddesign. But The SantaClause 3: The Escape Clause, the third film in ...
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Media Park woos US, European majors
Spanish content producer and packager Media Park has initiated talks with "various American and European majors" to find a new international shareholder before the end of the year.Sources at Media Park say the talks form part of a two-fold strategy to collaborate with majors on TV channels for the ...
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Japan's Style Jam picks up sales, remake rights to Seven Days
Japan's Style Jam haspicked up international sales and remake rights to comedy drama, Seven DaysOf Assistant Manager Tsubakiyama,which is scheduled for a wide release in Japan on Nov 18.Produced by Be Wild,the film is about a fat, bald middle manager who passes away, but gets thechance to return to earth ...
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HanWay takes on Merchant Ivory library
HanWay Films has beenappointed to represent the worldwide rights to the Merchant Ivory library offilms.HanWay is now selling 21 ofJames Ivory and Ismail Merchant's features including Howards End, Heat AndDust, Maurice, Bombay Talkie, Shakespeare Wallah, The Europeans andThe Mystic Masseur. All titleshave been fully re-mastered by James Ivory and will ...
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UK film Focus sets 2007 dates for June 25-28
The London UK Film Focus hasset its 2007 dates for June 25-28 and will move to its new home at therenovated BFI Southbank. The fourth LUFF will invite150 buyers to screen about 40 British films. The event has yet toannounce further plans for its new Production Finance Market, a CineMart-styleevent ...
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UK film Focus sets 2007 dates for June 25-28
The London UK Film Focus hasset its 2007 dates for June 25-28 and will move to its new home at therenovated BFI Southbank. The fourth LUFF will invite150 buyers to screen about 40 British films. The event has yet toannounce further plans for its new Production Finance Market, a CineMart-styleevent ...
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Samantha Horley promoted as Lumina expands
Samantha Horleyhas been promoted to managing director of London-based Lumina Films and willnow take a stake in the company, parent company International Film Collectiveannounced. Horley had been head of sales since September 2004 after previoussales positions at Myriad Pictures, Summit Entertainment and Polygram Films. Also, the companyhas expanded by adding ...
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Equinoxe takes Canadian rights to I'm Reed Fish
Following on a US deal withNetflix's Red Envelope, I'm Reed Fish has now gone to Equinoxe Films for Canada.The deal was negotiated byCAA's Roeg Sutherland and Brian Kavanaugh Jones, as well as SubmarineEntertainment's Josh Braun, on behalf of Squared Foot producer Bader Alwazzan.Marie-Claude Poulin negotiated the deal on behalf of ...
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Shochiku buys Closing The Ring from Content
Shochiku hastaken Japanese rights to Richard Attenborough's Closing The Ring, in a deal here at the AFM withContentFilm International.ContentFilm also has closed deals on the film with Hopscotch in Australia, TeleMunchen in Germany, Alliance Atlantis/Odeon in Canada, A-Film in The Netherlands, Lusumundo in Portugal, Monolith in Poland, Gussi in Mexico, ...
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AMPAS names shortlist of 16 for animated feature Oscar
The Academy Of MotionPicture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) has announced a list of 16 films which areexpected to compete for the animated feature Oscar this year. Since thecategory allows five nominations if there are 16 eligible films or more, 2006could be the first year since 2002 to have a five-film ...
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Turin competition includes Serra's Honor de Cavalleria
The 24th edition of theTurin Film Festival, Italy's'cutting-edge film event, has unveiled itscomplete line-up. Clint Eastwood's Flags of our Fathers will kick off'thefestival, which runs Nov 10-18.This year's competition offirst and second features includes a mix of international titleshailing'from Algeria, Lebanon, Italy, the US, Spain, the Philippines,Japan,'China, Iran and Kazakhstan.Four ...
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Seville strikes flurry of deals for Bon Cop, Bad Cop
Seville International hasbooked the first eight foreign deals for Canadian hit Bon Cop, Bad Cop here at the AFM.The film has gone toAlphaville for Brazil, Future Films for Scandinavia, RTL Televizio for Hungary,J-Bics for Thailand, D Productions for Turkey, Tandem for Bulgaria, MG for theformer Yugoslavia and Lizard Trade for ...
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CASE STUDY - Faithless
Jacob Neiiendam follows the making of Swedish feature Faithless, in competition at this year's Cannes film festival, which Liv Ullmann directed from a script by her former lover Ingmar Bergman.May 1998Then 79-year-old Swedish master film-maker Ingmar Bergman meets the media for the first time in 16 years at a press ...
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Basinger-starrer sells to Optimum, Manga, Square One
Voltage Pictures has closed key territories at AFM on the upcomingKim Basinger thriller While She Was Out which has Guillermo del Toro serving as executive producer.Rights have gone to Optimum in the UK, Manga Films in Spain, andSquare One in Germany. Sales chief Nicolas Chartier also reported stronginterest from Japan ...
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Actress/director Adrienne Shelly found dead in New York
Actress, writer and directorAdrienne Shelly was found dead in her New York City apartment on Wednesday inan apparent suicide. The Medical Examiner has not ruled on the official causeof death.Shelly, 40, was known forher roles in Hal Hartley's 1989 The Unbelievable Truth and 1990 Trust and she recently appeared in ...
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Mischa Barton to star in Malice In Sunderland
The team behindMichael Radford's Flawless has reteamed with Future Films for Malice InSunderland, set to starMischa Barton.Simon Fellowswill direct the contemporary take on the Lewis Carroll classic, scripted byJayson Rothwell. The UK shoot will start in early 2007.Fellowspreviously directed 7 Seconds with Wesley Snipes and Second In Command and Til ...
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Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny
Dir: Liam Lynch. US. 2006.97mins.Jack Black's mock-rock duo Tenacious D may be atongue-in-cheek musical enterprise but it's had enough success to justify above-the-titlebilling on The Pick OfDestiny, a sweetly raunchy slacker comedy purporting to tell the story ofthe band's early struggle for rock 'n' roll legitimacy. While the comedy is ...
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Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
Dir: Stephen Kijak. UK. 2006. 90mins.A great enigma of modern music sheds a few layers ofopacity in Stephen Kijak's revealing documentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man. With a challenging new record recently issued, thereclusive, sporadically active American-born singer is seen at close quarters,while collaborators and assorted music notables, including executive ...
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AFM Internet problems continue to frustrate sellers
As Internet outagescontinued to frustrate AFM attendees, market organizers said that no decisionhad been made about compensating exhibitors for their headaches.After Internet outagethroughout the Loews for most of Thursday, there was spotty access on Fridayand another outage on Saturday from 8:30 am until after 3 pm. The Loewscontinued to blame ...
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Revolver signs AFM deals for Zoo and Tell No One
UK distributor RevolverEntertainment has announced several key acquisitions for its 2007 releaseslate, with two new titles acquired here at AFM: Guillaume Canet's Tell NoOne (Ne Le Dis A Personne) fromEuropaCorp and Robinson Devor's Zoofrom ThinkFilm.Tell No One, based on Harlan Coben's novel, is a French-languagethriller starring Canet with Kristin Scott ...