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UK/IRELAND 18 January
It proved a close runchallenge at the top of the UK chart this week as two openers fought for thelead. Sony Pictures Releasing International's Closer just pipped UIP's TeamAmerica: World Police thanks to its Thursday previews.With previews of $239,961 (£128,432)from 242 sites factored in Closer's weekend finished on $2.9m (£1.57m)ahead ...
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Sea Inside wins audience award at Palm Springs
AlejandroAmenabar's true life drama The Sea Inside won the audience award for best narrative feature at the16th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, while Yaron Zilberman'schronicle of the Jewish Sports Club in Watermarks took corresponding documentary honours.Danielle Arbid'scoming-of-age story In the Battlefields won the New Voices/New Visions Award and first-timedirector ...
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Huntsberry temporarily steps into Finkelstein's shoes at Universal
FrederickHuntsberry has been named interim president and chief operating officer atUniversal Pictures while Rick Finkelstein takes an undetermined leave ofabsence after sustaining injuries in a recent skiing accident.Huntsberry willreport to Universal chairman Stacey Snider and continues to oversee NBCUniversal Television Distribution in his role as executive vice president,reporting jointly to ...
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Bailey named international programmer at TIFF
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival (TIFF) has appointed Cameron Bailey as one of its internationalprogrammers. He returns to the festival after an absence of eight years.A programmer, film criticand screenwriter, Bailey will focus on films from Africa and South Asia andfilmmakers from the US and Europe. Bailey has a had a ...
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Bread And Tulips (Pane E Tulipani)
Dir: Silvio Soldini. Italy-Switzerland. 2000. 115 mins.Prod cos: Monogatari, Istituto Luce, RAI. Co-prods: Amka Films, TSI. Int'l sales: Adriana Chiesa (+39 06 807 0400). Prods: Daniele Maggioni, Tiziana Soudani. Scr: Doriana Leondeff, Silvio Soldini. DoP: Luca Bigazzi. Prod des: Paola Bizzarri. Ed: Carlotta Cristiani. Music: Giovanni Venosta. Main cast: Licia ...
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Keith named senior vp at Yari's Bull's Eye
Yari Film Group'sBull's Eye Entertainment has hired former DreamWorks executive Leah Keith tothe new position of senior vice president of development and production.Keith will focusprimarily on broadening Bull's Eye reach into studio films and will oversee asmall number of independent projects. The company has a first-look deal atParamount.She arrives atBull's ...
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Bocco gets new independent role at Gersh
US talent agencyGersh Agency has hired former Miramax Films senior vice president ofacquisitions Arianna Bocco (pictured) to head up its new Independent Feature Packagingdivision.Based in NewYork, the division will seek to assemble financing for independent features andsell them in the global marketplace, while broadening Gersh's existing rosterof directing and producing ...
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Rosenberg leaves Serendipity Point to produce on her own
Julia Rosenberg (pictured), head ofproduction and development at Serendipity Point Films, is setting up her ownproduction outfit, January Films. A protege of Serendipitychief Robert Lantos, Rosenberg has amassed a number of co-producer andassociate producer credits on Serendipity projects such as Istvan Szabo'stitles Sunshine and the recent BeingJulia, Atom Egoyan's Ararat ...
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Cecchi Gori wins Euros 160m lawsuit against Merrill Lynch
One-time Italian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori has won a legal battle against Merrill Lynch, which now must return Euros 160m it had seized from the producer's coffers to cover alleged debts.Merrill Lynch had seized the money from Cecchi Gori's holding company, Fin.Ma.Vi, to pay back creditors, in a case ...
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Danish Film Academy fetes King's Game
The following honours were presented at the Danish Film Academy awards ceremony on Sunday 16 January 2005:Best Danish Feature Film King's Game, producer Meta Louise Foldager for Nimbus Film. Directed by Nicolai Arcel.Best Children and Family Film Terkel In Trouble, produced by Thomas Heinesen and Trine Heidegaard for Nordisk Film. ...
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Buerling gets senior job at LA's Filmmates Co
Veteran producerJeanette Buerling has been appointed executive vice-president of production anddistribution at Los Angeles-based Filmmates Corporation.Buerling hasworked with Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros, Germany's Leo Kirch Network DSFand the Bertelsman Group, among others.Prior to herappointment with Filmmates she served as executive director of HollywoodInternational Finance, a film investment fund that ...
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Hostage
Dir/scr. ConstantineGiannaris. Gre-Tur. 2004. 102minsThe two Albanians whorecently hijacked a bus in Athens probably did not know that they werere-enacting the screenplay of Constantine Giannaris' Hostage, itselfbased on a similar real-life incident that took place in 1999.As told through the eyes ofan disoriented and angry young Albanian immigrant, this is ...
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Thai action flick scores trio of sales at Bangkok market
Thailand's biggest film of the year, Tom Yum Goong,has struck a trio of deals at the Bangkok Film Market (BFM), part of theBangkok International Film Festival (13-23 Jan).The$8m action flick was pre-sold to Korean major Showbox, Hong Kong's Edko and India'sIndo by Hong Kong-based sales agent Golden Network. Thecompany has ...
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Adelaide festival sets Watt's Ways as opener
The Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) is to open with the worldpremiere of new Australian film Look Both Ways by director Sarah Watt.Festival director Katrina Sedgwick had previously scheduledthe film for the middle Saturday night of the two-week event starting onFebruary 18. But after seeing a final cut of the film, ...
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28 projects set for Hong Kong financing market
The organisers ofHong Kong's first ever Entertainment Expo (March 22 - April 6) have unveiledthe 28 projects that will participate in the Hong Kong-Asia Film FinancingForum (HAF), one of eight events to take place during the 16-day film andentertainment mega event.Among thefilmmakers that will be presenting projects at the three-day ...
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Diagonale names Dummies as festival opener
Joerg Kalt's Crash TestDummies will be the opening film at the first Diagonale - Festival ofAustrian Cinema (March 14-20) under new director Birgit Flos.Kalt's second feature, whichinterweaves the story of a Romanian couple who have come to Vienna to collect astolen car with a second story centring on a store ...
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Scalpel sells prize-winning trio to US buyers
On the eve of Sundance, new Paris sales companyScalpel Films has sold a trio of pictures to the US. Launched in 2004 byformer Celluloid Dreams executive Pierre Menahem, Scalpel had success with Private,the hard-hitting Palestine-set drama by Saverio Costanzo, selling it to AvatarFilms. The film, which premiered in Locarno and ...
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International campaign pays off for Alexander
Alexander is on course to take four times its North Americangross from international markets, according to Moritz Borman, head of thefilm's sales and production house Intermedia.Another strong week in Europe led by Italy's opening tally of $3.7m(Euros 2.8m) saw Oliver Stone's epic retain the international box office lead.Adding 16 new ...
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UK production spend plummets in 2004
Spending by US productionsshooting in the UK plunged by more than 30% last year, according to annualfigures from support body the UK Film Council.The news follows this week'sfigures from Screen International showing that the number of local filmsshooting also slipped by around 40%. Counting all productions,the Council calculated that spending ...