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Works sells Italian pair to Oz's Palace
UK-based sales agency TheWorks has sold two Italian titles to Palace Pictures for Australia and NewZealand.The distributorpicked up Paolo Sorrentino's Cannes Competition film The Consequences OfLove and Matteo Garrone's psychological thriller Primo Amore, whichpremiered in Competition at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.Both films wereproduced by Fandango's Domenico Procacci, who ...
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Arte drawn to five starry French features
Arte Cinema, thefilm division of the Strasburg-based Franco-German television channel Arte, isto co-produce five new films, starring among others Emmanuelle Devos, LambertWilson, Ludivine Sagnier, and Charlotte Gainsbourg.The movies weredecided upon by a selection committee on July 6, and are some of theapproximately 20 films chosen annually for funding by the ...
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Bradley promoted at MGM International TV Distribution
Angela Bradleyhas been promoted to vice president of international pay-per-view and video ondemand at MGM International Television Distribution.Bradley willcontinue to oversee distribution for international pay-per-view andvideo-on-demand programming for stations and hotels.She joined MGM'stelevision operations in 1999 as director of international sales planning andlater served as director of international pay per ...
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Atmosphere, Wild Bunch team for Romero zombie pic
Eighteen yearsafter Day Of The Dead,George A Romero is preparing a fourth instalment in his legendary zombie seriesthat will be co-financed by US production company Atmosphere Entertainment andWild Bunch.Land Of TheDead is due to startfilming this autumn and will be produced by Atmosphere chairman and chiefexecutive officer Mark Canton, president ...
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Anchor Bay engineers domestic theatrical release of Malevolence
Anchor BayEntertainment in association with Painted Zebra Releasing is to release StevanMena's award-winning horror title Malevolence in the US, beginning with a Long Islandbow in August.The picture,which won best feature at the New York City Horror Film Festival and best 35mmfeature at the Long Island International Film Festival, is the ...
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Les Choristes selected to close Montreal Film Festival
French smash LesChoristes has beenselected to close the 28th Montreal World Film Festival, August 26 to September6. The post-war period film, which has drawn 6.7 million admissions over its16-week run at the French box office, will screen as part of the closing nightgala celebration.Directed byChristophe Barratier and written by Barratier ...
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Surging Korean industry powers into int'l chart
The strength of the South Korean market is well reflected in this week'sinternational box office chart.Representing five of the top 30 positions this week, South Koreanreleases playing well enough at home to make the international chart were ledby comedy sequel Hi, Dharma 2 at number ten.So far this year, the ...
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Sony restructures to speed up Internet plans
Japan's Sony Corp is setting up a US-based holding company, Sony Broadband Entertainment (SBE), to house its movie and music businesses, as part of a plan to speed up exploitation of its entertainment assets on the Internet.Headed by current Sony Corporation of America president Howard Stringer, SBE's core companies will ...
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Italy 15July
WhileItaly has to wait until September 16 to see international blockbuster SpiderMan 2 soar into the local box office, it was Eagle Pictures' time travelmovie Timeline that opened on top last weekend, grossing $778,022 from258 screens for an average of $2,638 per screen.UIP's TheStepford Wives also opened well, with the ...
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Strong showing for UK box office in first half of 2004
The first six months of theatricalbusiness in the UK saw a 5% rise year-on-year thanks largely to a stellarperformance in June. Box office revenues compiled by Nielsen EDI showUK/Ireland figures stood at $728.5m (£393.02m) as of July 1, up from $691.8m (£373.2m)for the same period last year.The launch of Harry ...
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Berlin Music Fair to target film licensing
Film licensing is one of thetarget areas for a new music trade fair to be held in Berlin in SeptemberThe event, held under the banner GlobalMusic Buyers Fair, will bring together some 40 independent labels with the aimof exploring fresh opportunities for themusic business. The agenda includes such areas as ...
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Dungeons & Dragons II rolls into Lithuania
Principal photography on thethird production from the Studio Hamburg WorldWide Pictures (WWP) fund, Dungeons& Dragons II: The Elemental Might, is scheduled to begin in Vilnius,Lithuania, on July 26.Zink Entertainment, adivision of Joel Silver's Silver Pictures, which produced the first film basedon the internationally popular role-playing game, is acting as the ...
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Bodrov readies Genghis Kahn epic
Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov is set to begin shooting hisnew film Mongol (The Early Years of Genghis Khan) this autumn. Thedirector of the Oscar nominated Prisoner Of The Caucuses is also actingas co-producer alongside Sergei Selyanov, head of the St Petersburg based STVFilm.Bodrov has teamed up again with scriptwriter Arif ...
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Giffoni unveils youthful line-up
David Carradine, Ben Kingsley, Ken Loach and actress MariaGrazia Cucinotta are among the guests who will attend the 34th edition of theGiffoni Film Festival (July 17-24), one of the leading festivals in the worlddedicated to youth-themed films.The festival's competition line-up includes Maria Full ofGrace, Les Choristes, The Wooden Camera, Chilean ...
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Babelsberg workforce protest at takeover
Studio Babelsberg's workforce has appealed toFederal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to intervene following this week'sdecision by Vivendi Universal to sell the production centre to a German groupof investors.In an Open Letter delivered to Schroeder on Thursdayafternoon, works committee chairman Jans-Peter Schmarje described the choice ofthe group led by Carl Woebcken and ...
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...and has a blockbusting first day on release in France
Spider-Man 2 attracted 112,902 visitors on its firstday (Wed, July 14) of projection in Paris and its suburbs, according to itsdistributor, Columbia.The film beat thehalf-million mark in France with 502,494 tickets sold, without sneak previews.880 copies of the Sam Raimi film were distributed, 52 of them in Paris. Reviewshave been ...
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Spider-Man 2 goes all-out in western Europe...
Riding high on $126m ininternational ticket sales, Spider-Man 2 is expected to continue its storming early run with huge bows in threemajor European markets this weekend.The comic book sequel openedthrough Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) in France on915 screens on Jul 14 and goes out in Spain the same ...
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Montreal gives a new look to film market
The MontrealInternational Film Market is putting a new spin on trade shows.The nine-daymarket, which coincides with the Montreal World Film Festival, is abandoningthe trade-booth format of traditional markets to focus on an increased numberof meet-and-greet cocktails and enhanced meeting areas.In a statement,market director Gilles Beriault said the changes would give ...
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Dir: Sabu. Japan. 100 mins.Prod cos: CineQuaNon, Cinerocket, Media Factory. Int'l sales: Fortissimo Film Sales (+31 20 627 3215). Prods: Nobuaki Muro'oka, Yoshimi Ishihara, Reiko Arakawa, Takahito Kashino. Scr: Sabu. DoP: Kazuhito Sato. Music: Kei'ichiro Shibuya. Cast: Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Ren Osugi, Masanobu Ando.The first three films of Japanese ...
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Ferretti hired to revamp Venice's Palazzo del Cinema
The Venice Biennale is revamping the front of its historicPalazzo del Cinema to give it a glitzy new look for the upcoming 61st VeniceFilm Festival (Sept 1-11, 2004).Biennale president Davide Croff has hired world-renown setdesigner Dante Ferretti (Gangs of New York, Cold Mountain, The Aviator) to work on the Palazzo's ...