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Spain's 42nd Street boards Kill, God Will Forgive
Spain's 42nd Street Productions has boarded new Cuban-Spanish co-production Kill, God Will Forgive (Mata, Que Dios Perdona). The film, produced by Paco Millan and Eduardo Benitez of Seville-based Omnibus Pictures, is a dark tale of impossible love between cousins from director Ismael Perdomo. Shooting starts in September with co-production from ...
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Odeon closes animation production division
Odeon Film has closed its animation production arm in the wake of a decision to concentrate in future on live action production for film and television.In a statement, the Munich-based company stated that "animation rights already acquired are to be exploited by way of licensing or through the passive participation ...
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Summit scores foreign sales on Chuck & Buck
Summit Entertainment has lost little time concluding the first international sales on Miguel Arteta's Chuck & Buck, striking deals with theatrical distributors from Germany, France and South Africa within days of securing the international sales rights to the digital video feature at last week's Sundance Film Festival.Highlight Communications will now ...
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AFI, AFMA team for internships at AFM
The American Film Institute(AFI) and AFMA are teaming up to establish an internship programme focusing onpackaging and selling feature films; the programme, which is exclusivelyavailable to AFI Conservatory Producing fellows, will run during the AmericanFilm Market which starts this week.The interns will be placedwith production and distribution companies with offices ...
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Nancy Silverstone promoted to acquisitions vp at Starz Encore
NancySilverstone has been promoted to vice president, program acquisitions, at StarzEncore Group where she will be responsible for negotiating licensing deals withindependents and studios for first-run and library titles, library buyouts,documentary co-productions, STARZ! Pictures premieres, restoration deals andoverseeing the acquisitions budget and managing the multi-cultural acquisitionsand film evaluation departments. She ...
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Zenpix launches international arm with Promark at AFM
Zenpix, the domesticdistribution joint venture between Susan Jackson and Jon Kramer's PromarkEntertainment Group, has launched an international sales arm which will seek toacquire, invest finishing funds in and distribute films in both the domesticand international markets.Jackson will work withPromark's vice presidents of international sales Eric Bernstein andAnnouchka Lesoeur to sell ...
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Bahman Naraghi joins Intermedia as COO
Bahman Naraghihas been named chief operating officer (COO) of Intermedia Film Equities USAand in his new role will oversee all Intermedia's business operations andfinance activities. He will report directly to Moritz Borman, chairman and CEOof the company.Naraghi joinsIntermedia after a stint as executive vice president of Miramax Films where hewas ...
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Winterbottom's World wins Berlinale
Michael Winterbottom's In This World was the surprise winner of the Berlinale Golden Bear, beating off competition from favourites The Hours and The 25th Hour.Winterbottom's digitally-shot semi-documentary tale of an asylum seeker's journey from Afghanisatan to London also received the Peace Film Prize and the Prize of the Churches of ...
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Daredevil is the year's first blockbuster
Ben Affleck in a tight oxblood suit completely outclassed thecompetition as Fox's Daredevil opened top of the charts on an estimated $43.5m. Based on the1960s Marvel comic book, Affleck stars as blind lawyer Matt Murdock who slipsinto the costume at night to become a feared vigilante. Jennifer Garner playsthe love ...
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Amen shines at France's Lumieres
Costa Gavras' heavily Cesar-nominated Amen picked up France's Lumiere award this weekend for best film of 2002. The Lumieres, which are the French equivalent to the Golden Globes in the US, are voted on by foreign journalists working in France.Jean Rochefort won the best actor prize for his role ...
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Aurora provides a ray of hope in Australia
Every cinema-producing country is always abuzz about which up-and-coming writers and filmmakers are worth watching. Cate Shortland is one of Australia's. Her script, More Than Scarlet, was one of four chosen from a field of 40 for last year's inaugural Aurora intensive scriptwriting workshop."I suddenly found myself in a room ...
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South Korean cinema risks becoming a victim of its own success
If the signals emerging from the South Korean film world these days seem a bit contradictory, it may be because the industry is on the brink of a transformation. Despite producing numerous award-winning films and an amazing 47% local market share in 2002, Korean cinema finds itself facing a host ...
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New Latin American combo goes on shopping spree
A pan-Latin American buying consortium of independent distributors is gearing up for the American Film Market, having quietly launched late last year in reaction to the increasing appetite amongst Hollywood studios to buy all rights in the region.The consortium - named Entertainment Consortium Ltd - is composed of Gussi in ...
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New kind of tax-based German production fund proposed
German feature film producers could receive an injection of Euros 70m-80m worth of fresh cash from an unexpected source - the pay-TV platform Premiere.The offer came after Premiere CEO Georg Kofler criticised the different VAT rates which apply in Germany for those subscribing to pay television (16%) and taking out ...
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UK animation grows up
A clutch of major UK animation features are cranking up, most with US Studio backing. Aardman aims to start shooting a new spoof-horror Wallace And Gromit movie with backing from DreamWorks SKG by September. Pathe is already in production on The Magic Roundabout, while Walt Disney Co has North America ...
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Cyprus becomes MEDIA Programme's 25th member
Cyprus has become the 25th member of the European Union's MEDIA Programme following the Slovak Republic which signed its association agreement on January 10. Both agreements have been back-dated to January 1, 2003.While the Slovak Republic has committed to pay Euross 160,000 annually as its financial contribution towards the MEDIA ...
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Sandy Lieberson named head of Film London
Veteran film producer Sandy Lieberson has been appointed chair of Film London, the new body charged with representing and developing the film industry in the UK capital.From April this year, Film London takes on the responsibilities of the London Film and Video Development Agency and the London Film Commission. As ...
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Conrad Hall wins ASC honours for Road To Perdition
Conrad Hall, who died on Jan4 this year, took top honours at the American Society Of Cinematographers (ASC)annual Outsanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles over the weekend for hiswork on Road To Perdition. Theaward was accepted by his son Conrad W Hall.Hall beat out MichaelBallhaus for Gangs Of New York,Pawel ...
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Gordon Green teams with ContentFilm for Undertow
Hot on the heels of hiscritically acclaimed Sundance Film Festival prize-winner All The Real Girls, hot US director David Gordon Green has set his nextfilm Undertow at Edward Pressman and John Schmidt's ContentFilm with DermotMulroney, Josh Lucas and Jamie Bell in the lead roles.The project has been indevelopment for over ...
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Two Weeks Notice an international smash for Warner
Warner Bros enjoyed hugesuccess over the weekend with Castle Rock comedy Two Weeks Notice, grossing $15m in 23 territories. The film whichstars Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant remained at number one in the UK in itssecond weekend with $3.6m (£2.19m) at 417 sites beating Fox's opener Daredevil and bringing its ...