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AFM claims 11% rise in buyers
AFMA's three top executives sounded a confident noteyesterday ahead of the American Film Market's opening day of trading in Santa Monica,highlighting the trade body's 40% non-American contingent and high projectedattendance as key drivers in what they expect to be a vibrant AFM this week.Speaking at a press conference to launch ...
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Shochiku crosses swords again with Yamada
Shochiku is to produce andsell Kakushi Ken Oni No Tsume,the next picture by Yoji Yamada, director of this year's foreign language Oscarnominee Twilight Samurai.Production begins this month with the Japanese release scheduled for the autumn.The picture is anotherperiod Samurai drama that includes a love story that transcends class barriers.It is ...
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Focus closes key sales on Synergy, Seed Of Chucky
Focus Features has closed a score of deals on two key titles inthe run-up to the American Film Market, which starts today in Santa Monica.Synergy,the new comedy from Paul and Chris Weitz, which stars Dennis Quaid, ScarlettJohansson, Topher Grace and Selma Blair, will open domestically in the thirdquarter through FocusC; ...
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Focus closes key sales on Synergy, Seed Of Chucky.
Focus Features has closed a score of deals on two key titles inthe run-up to the American Film Market, which starts today in Santa Monica.Synergy,the new comedy from Paul and Chris Weitz, which stars Dennis Quaid, ScarlettJohansson, Topher Grace and Selma Blair, will open domestically in the thirdquarter through FocusC; ...
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Pogachefsky honoured at LA Indie Fest
LA-based independent PR specialist Mark Pogachefsky and the Film Division of his mPRm Public Relations will receive the fifth annual Indie Supporter Award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival which takes place April 13-18 in Los Angeles.The award, presented annually to individuals who have provided an extraordinary contribution to ...
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AFM: Focus clinches key sales on Synergy, Seed Of Chucky.
Focus Features has closed a score of deals on two key titles inthe run-up to the American Film Market, which starts today in Santa Monica.Synergy,the new comedy from Paul and Chris Weitz, which stars Dennis Quaid, ScarlettJohansson, Topher Grace and Selma Blair, will open domestically in the thirdquarter through Focus' ...
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Fortissimo handles third Eye
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to The Eye- Infinity, the thirdinstalment in the wildly popular Asian horror series.The third film, just like the first two, will be directed bybrothers Danny and Oxide Pang and is set to start shooting this spring fordelivery in early 2005.The Eye 2is set ...
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THINKFilm acquires Sundance winner
THINKFilm has picked up all North American rights to ShaneCarruth's micro-budget thriller Primer, which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's SundanceFilm Festival.Carruth wrote, directed, produced and starred in the picture,which centres on the discovery by two men of a device that enables them to doanything they want. Newcomer ...
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AFM:Maria full of sales for HBO
Maria Full Of Grace, the Spanish-language story about female drug 'mules', was one of Berlin chief Dieter Kosslick's first selection forcompetition and has proved a strong draw for buyers.Buoyed by Berlin andSundance successes, HBO Films London, its sales house, has now closed deals on Maria with ARP for France, Icon ...
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New Films Int'l acquires Holedigger duo
New Films International, the recently launched worldwideproduction and sales arm of the eight year-old distribution outfit, has signeda two-picture deal with Holedigger Films to handle international sales on Marie& Bruce and OffThe Map.Both films were produced by Holedigger. Marie And Bruce, which premiered at the Sundance FilmFestival last month, stars ...
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Manga sues Miramax over Kill Bill, Miramax countersues
Twoweeks before the scheduled March 5 opening of Kill Bill Vol I in Spain through BVI, Spanish distributor MangaFilms last week filed a suit against Miramax Films in a Barcelona courtclaiming non-completion of a distribution agreement for both Vol I and Vol II.Andyesterday Miramax Films filed a suit back in ...
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Film Bridge strikes three-picture deal with Philippe Mora
Santa Monica-based financingand sales outfit Film Bridge International has signed a three-picture deal withproducer-director Philippe Mora for When We Were Modern, Strange Matters and Hamlet Unzipped.When We Were Modern is due to shoot later this spring In Australia and Londonand tells the story of the Australian painter Sidney Nolan who ...
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CZECH REPUBLIC Production Lists - Febuary 25 2004
IN PRE-PRODUCTIONTHE BEST FILMS OF OUR LIVES (NEJLEPSI FILMY NASEHO ZIVOTA)(Negativ) Black comedy. A Tajik emigre comes to the US to show a stolen film at a film festival, an American crook is disowned by his daughter for acting in a porn movie when he was young, and two Japanese ...
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Czech producers battle against the odds
For full Czech listings click HEREFollowing 2003's banner year for local cinema, Czech producers are looking out for another winner. But with the usual local sources of film funds drying up and with a slate of upcoming releases that includes only a few of the most famous Czech directors, ...
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HUNGARY
Even though both UIP-Duna Film's new release, Paycheck and InterCom's Farrelly offering, Stuck on You had decent openings at the Hungarian box office with over 14,000 and 12,000 admissions respectively, the momentum still belongs to Gabor Herendi's Hungarian Vagabond (Magyar vandor) which in just under three weeks has passed the ...
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Metrodome secures $15m buying fund
In a deal the signals the emergence of a potent UK buying force, Metrodome Distribution and newly-launched UK financier Future Film Group have agreed to form a joint venture providing the distributor with a $15m acquisition fund.Metrodome has already picked up Behaviour Worldwide's $24m The Body, starring Antonio Banderas, through ...
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NETHERLANDS
Until recently, family-films and especially those based on children's books, seemed a sure-fire success for Dutch cinemas.However, the disappointing opening results of the Belgian-Dutch coproduction Suske And Wiske: The Dark Diamond, with a meagre screen-average of Euros 465 came as a nasty surprise for distributor Independent Films.The company expected the ...
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Love's Brother
Dir: Jan Sardi. Australia/UK. 2004. 90 minsJan Sardi's screenplay for the gritty biopic Shine was nominated for all the major international awards in 1997. Now he makes his directorial debut with this lightweight romantic fable from a self-penned screenplay which could have done with a tougher editor. Sardi's stretched story ...
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Stars line-up for Oscar Moore script reading
A Fine Line, the winning script from last year's Oscar Moore screenwriting prize, is to have a performed reading at London's Curzon Soho cinema next week.Writing duo Ben Gooder and Philip Greenacre's script is the gripping true story of the rise and fall of Eric Hebborn and his career as ...
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AFM: Myriad strikes sales Deal with Front Street
Myriad Pictures has pacted with Front Street Films, the producer of Sundance hit We Don't Live Here Anymore, to handle international sales on The Deal, a Wall Street thriller which is set to star Christian Slater and Selma Blair.Slater will play a financial hot shot and Blair his eager new ...