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Motion Picture Association opens Mumbai office
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has opened an office in Mumbai to represent the US film, video and TV industries at a time when the US studios are stepping up their investment in Indian film and TV. The newly-established Motion Picture Distribution Association (India) Pvt Ltd will work with local ...
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UK Film Council takes delegation to FICCI Frames in Mumbai
On the back of the success of Slumdog Millionaire and with the UK India co-production treaty in place, UK film companies will travel to Mumbai to meet their Indian counterparts and to attend the 10th edition of India's FICCI Frames Entertainment Conference. UK film sales, production, facilities and service companies ...
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Film producers to access Saxony-Anhalt $64m loan programme
Film producers will have access to a $64m (Euros 50m) loan programme in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt which has been launched to support the media industry in the state. The 'Sachsen -Anhalt IMPULS Medien' programme offers locally based production companies loans of up to $3.8m (Euros 3m) per project. The loans are ...
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Alta Films picks up Spanish rights to Stephen Frears' Cheri
Spanish distribution outfit Alta Films has picked up theatrical rights for Spain to Stephen Frears' Berlin competition title Cheri, starring Michelle Pfeiffer. The deal was done at Berlin between Alta and Pathe International who hold sales rights to the film. A release date is yet to be confirmed. Frears' drama ...
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IAC set to strike with Hammer Force
The UK's IAC Film & Television has acquired TV and film rights to Hammer Force, a series of best-selling thriller novels about a covert team of crack United Nations agents.The UK and US-based sales and financing house is kicking off the books' exploitation by arranging the finance for a $25m, ...
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Dod Mantle takes ASC feature film prize for Slumdog Millionaire
Anthony Dod Mantle won top feature film honours for his work on Slumdog Millionaire at the 23rd Annual American Society Of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards on Sunday [February 15].Mantle's victory served as the latest reminder - not that any were needed - that the Mumbai-set rags-to-riches tale approaches Oscar weekend ...
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Robert Towne to receive AFI Dallas Star Award at late March festival
Robert Towne will receive the AFI Dallas Star Award in recognition of his career as a film-maker and screenwriter on the 35th anniversary of Chinatown.The festival also announced ten new additions to the line-up, among them Scott Hamilton's documentary Oscar nominee The Garden, Kazuya Tsurumaki's Japanese anime adaptation Evangelion 1.0 ...
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India's FICCI Frames conference opens in reflective mood
The tenth FICCI Frames entertainment convention got underway in Mumbai today (Feb 17) with industry leaders chewing over the impact that the global financial crisis is having on the local film and television industries. Although domestic box office picked up in the fourth quarter of 2008, India's film industry is ...
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Content Republic teams up with Telepool on digital releases
Content Republic has entered a partnership with Telepool GmbH, the German film and television distribution outfit which will see Content Republic handle the digital release of some of Telepool's best selling titles. The digital distribution outfit will release Germany's box office hit comedies 7 Dwarves and 7 Dwarves: The Wood ...
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Indian film industry revenues to remain flat in 2009
Following years of rapid growth, the combined revenues of the Indian film industry, including box office and ancillary revenues, are expected to remain flatin 2009at around $2.2bn (Rs109.2bn), according to a joint FICCI-KPMG report. Long-term prospects remain strong - the report also stated that the industry would grow at a ...
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NewsGeoff Gilmore to be chief creative officer at Tribeca
Tribeca Enterprises has announced that Geoff Gilmore will take up the role of chief creative officer, Gilmore will leave his current role as director of the Sundance Film Festivalafter a career spanning 19 years in total at Sundance.
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Jaman partners with Cinetic to expand catalogue
Jaman, the company behind the eponymous UK and US website featuring independent and world cinema, has increased its collection of titles to 7000 following a deal with Cinetic Rights Management. Cinetic, which maximises revenue opportunities for filmmakers, has licensed a collection which includes the documentary We Are Wizards - a ...
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Pyramide goes strong on Corsini's Leaving
Pyramide International has announced strong pre-sales on Catherine Corsini's Leaving at the European Film Market in Berlin. Metrodome acquired the film for the UK with Lumiere taking it in Benelux, Gussi in Mexico and Alfa in Argentina. A deal for Australia and New Zealand is imminent, according to the French ...
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Fabian's Skin takes audience, jury prizes at Pan African Festival in LA
Sean Baker's drama Prince Of Broadway won the 17th Annual Pan African Film And Arts Festival's narrative feature competition but the audience award went to Anthony Fabian's drama Skin starring Sophie Okonedo and Skin was also named Jury Favourite.Jihan El-Tahri's French production Cuba, An African Odyssey was named best documentary ...
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Kampe and Tron's Visit Films closes key territories on EFM titles
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's New York-based sales company Visit Films has closed key territories on its EFM slate, led by the noir mystery The Missing Person starring Michael Shannon and David Russo's comedy The Immaculate Conception Of Little Dizzle.Rights to The Missing Person sold to Australia (Palace Films), Turkey ...
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Kirch discusses buying stake in Russia's TV6
Germany's Kirch Group is in negotiations to acquire a stake in Russian broadcaster TV6, which is majority-owned by Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky. According to the station's director general, Alexander Ponomarev, a stake of up 25% is up for grabs.Representatives from the German company recently spent several days in Moscow, visiting ...
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Mexico and Canada are film piracy hotspots, says IIPA
The copyright industries that make up the International Intellectual Property Alliance have recommended that Mexico and Canada be among a list of 13 countries that be placed on a priority watch list.In a submission to the Office of the US Trade Representative filed today [February 17] in the annual Special ...
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Berlin Bear winners sell well for Match Factory, Bavaria
Sales have been strong for Berlin Bear winners handled by German-based sales agents The Match Factory and Bavaria Film International.
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Germany's TMG picks up new films by Redford, Gilliam, Carpenter
Herbert Kloiber’s Tele München Group (TMG) acquired the German rights to new films by Robert Redford, Terry Gilliam and John Carpenter at this year’s European Film Marketduring the Berlinale.
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IFC Films takes US rights to Canadian zombie movie Pontypool
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Bruce McDonald's Canadian zombie horror Pontypool starring Stephen McHattie.Meanwhile the picture's international sales agents Forward Motion Entertainment have sold rights to the UK (Kaleidoscope), South Korea (Mirovision), the Middle East (Eagle/Phonenicia Pictures), Hungary (Cinetel) and Malaysia (VSG).Tony Burgess adapted the screenplay from his ...