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Hickel joins Valhalla as president of production
Bryan Hickel has been namedpresident of production at Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures, effectiveimmediately.Hickel will overseeacquisitions and development of all company projects including Valhalla'scurrent project, MarvelComic's The Punisher,set to be released in the US through Lions Gate on April 16 and internationallyby Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International.He will work ...
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Frigo earns svp sales/marketing stripes at BVI - Europe
Daniel Frigo has been promoted from vice president ofBuena Vista International, Europe to senior vice president of sales/marketingand deputy general manager for Buena Vista International, Europe.He will report to Stuart Salter, executive vicepresident and general manager of Buena Vista International, Europe, and willtake on a more comprehensive management role within ...
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Koch Lorber picks up rights to The Five Obstructions
KochLorber Films has acquired theatrical and DVD rights to Lars von Trier andJorgen Leth's acclaimed 2003 documentary The Five Obstructions.Thefilm is the result of a challenge by Von Trier to Leth in which the latter hadto remake his 1967 short The Perfect Human in five different ways, eachtime within the ...
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The Last Samurai set to cross $250m for Warner Bros
The Last Samurai is poised to pass $250m at the international boxoffice this upcoming weekend when Warner Bros Pictures International unleashesit in Russia.The epic adventure goes outon 170 screens and has amassed $249.2m from all its markets to date.The romantic comedy Something'sGotta Give begins its European release following an out ...
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FRANCE
Local boy makes good! Alain Chabat's unpronounceable caveman comedy RRRrrrr!!! opens in first position beating Disney's heavily hyped Brother Bear with nearly 1 million admissions in its first week.Directed by Chabat who also helmed 2002 hit Asterix And Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, the film is loaded with local comedians and even ...
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Walk On Water
Dir. Eytan Fox. Israel 2004. 93 mins.Back in the opening slot of the Berlin Panorama for a repeat performance after last year's Yossi And Jagger, Israeli director Eytan Fox is no longer content with modest, intimate challenges. His new effort is part spy thriller, part psychological drama, and covers much ...
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Funny Balloons takes Belgian comedy
Newly created Paris-based sales agent Funny Balloons has acquired Aaltra from directors Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern. The Belgian road comedy, which was also written by the director/stars was a contender for a Tiger Award at the recent Rotterdam Festival.Peter Danner, a former sales director at 20th Century Fox in ...
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BULGARIA
Little seen thriller No Good Deed (aka The House On Turk Street) has found a surprise audience in Bulgaria.The film, which despite being completed in 2002 by legendary director Bob Rafelson and featuring Samuel L Jackson and Milla Jovovich, has been released in only a handful of territories. It launched ...
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HONG KONG
As the peak Chinese New Year holiday period continues in Hong Kong, Media Asia's Magic Kitchen and China Star's Fantasia switched places at the top of the chart but continue to dominate the box office leaving most other holiday releases in the dust.Magic Kitchen, starring box office queen Sammi Cheng ...
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Political turmoil returns to Italy
Italy is once again in the throes of the political turmoil which has gripped its film and TV institutions for decades.Two events this week have yet again shone the spotlight on Italian prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi.Firstly, the Italian parliament has surprisingly failed to pass his government's controversial ...
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France gets first production Observatory
France's culture minister Jean-Jacaques Aillagon officially opened the first Observatory for Cinematic Production in the French capital on Tuesday.The newly created think tank, described as a 'place of regular debates on the economy of the production of films in France,' was one of the initiatives put forth by Aillagon last ...
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France reverses Ken Park rating
This week, France's state council reversed the rating originally given to Larry Clark's controversial Ken Park released in theatres last October. While the film was initially stamped with a 'no children under 16 rating' the board said the cut off age should be upped to 18.The council has partially cancelled ...
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Canada's CTV accepts BCE takeover
Canada''s largest broadcaster CTV has accepted a takeover offer from telco giant BCE in a deal worth approximately $1.57bn (C$2.3bn) having held out for an extra $20m. The factor clinching the deal was BCE''s offer to buy outright CTV shareholder Electrohome Broadcasting, which owns a 12% stake, for $185m. Electrohome ...
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One Perfect Day
Dir: Paul Currie. Australia. 2003. 105minsTelling their tale of a young 'genius' who rejects composing at London's fusty old Royal Academy of Music in favour of spinning the decks at Melbourne clubs and Outback raves, it was essential that the makers of One Perfect Day got the soundtrack right. This ...
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African cinema gets Dogme injection
The low-budget adrenaline injection which awoke the Danish film industry in the mid 90s is set to be applied to the African film industry.That, at least, is the hope of Zentropa staffers Pia Severin and Pia Nielsen as well as filmmaker Vibeke Muasya (Birds Of Passage), who have thrown themselves ...
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Berlin rekindles the spirit of Che Guevara
Last month, Che Guevara's old Cuban friend and travelling companion Alberto Granado was denied entry to the US for the Sundance World Premiere of Motorcycle Diaries, Walter Salles' film based on his 1952 journey round South America on the back of a Norton 500 with Guevara.Thankfully, the 81-year-old did make ...
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Paramount Classics gets Intimate
Paramount Classics is in final negotiations to pick up rights in North America and select other territories on Patrice Leconte's latest drama Intimate Strangers (Confidences Trop Intimes) which screened in competition in Berlin.The deal which should close this weekend marks the third Leconte movie for Paramount Classics which has scored ...
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UK Film Showcase unveiled
Further details have emerged of The UK Film Showcase, the new screenings initiative for British films being launched in London this summer.London mayor Ken Livingstone is investing roughly £50,000 into the event, due to be held in late June at the three-screen National Film Theatre in London. The Showcase is ...
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Japanese fall for My Girl
Thai drama My Girl (Fan Chan), which screens in both Berlinale's Forum and the EFM, was scooped up by Japanese buyers Cinema Parisien and Artist Film.'We are thrilled to have sold it to these distributors which are also releasing Party Monster and have recognised the film's cross-over potential between youth ...
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Wondrous director readies Dali, Lorca project
Director Paul Morrison, whose film Wondrous Oblivion opened the Berlinale Kinderfest, is set to direct Little Ashes, a drama based on the relationship between Spanish artists Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali in 1920's Madrid.The screenplay is by Philippa Goslett, and was developed by Moira Campbell through UK production company ...