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Maja Dyekaer Giese joins Trust Film Sales as CEO
Maja Dyekaer Giese has been appointed CEO ofDenmark-based Trust Film Sales.Giese had been head of distribution andmarketing at the Danish Film Institute and previously worked as head of theatricaldistribution at Scanbox Entertainment. She will attend the Toronto InternationalFilm Festival with the Trust team, working on films including Susanne Bier's After ...
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UK's Metropolitan Film School taps producer Jonny Persey as school director
The Metropolitan Film School, basedat London's EalingStudios, has appointed Jonny Persey as its new school director. Persey is an active film producer through APT Films,which is finishing Jerry Rothwell's documentary Deep Water. Perseypreviously produced films including WondrousOblivion and Everyone's Child. Healso has a background in education and training in London, ...
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Parasol ends pact with Peccadillo, completes work on documentary Thief Of Hearts
TheUK indie distributor formerly known as ParasolPeccadillo Releasing has now split into Parasol Pictures Releasing andPeccadillo Pictures, ending a five-year strategic alliance. Peccadillocontinues to be run by Tom Abell and Kahloon Loke. Parasol is run byChristian Martin. Meanwhile,Parasol said it has invested in a new HD edit suite ...
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The Works adopts Bragason's Children
The Works International has taken on international sales forRagnar Bragason's Icelandic feature Children. The sales company will startnegotiating for the film at the Toronto International Film Festival. Children will screen in the Zabaltegi-New Directors sectionat San Sebastian and has also beenselected for Pusan. Children is the first of two parent-and-child ...
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Mueller says Venice needs bigger theatres and more buyers
Venice Festival directorMarco Mueller has again repeated his calls for the festival to "solve itsinfrastructural problems" and ramp up its industry facilities. "We need biggertheatres," Mueller told ScreenDaily.com as this year's festival heads into itsclosing weekend. "We need the capacity of those theatres to be bigger. We needthe autonomous sidebar ...
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Nu Image wraps Bulgarian shoot for Day Of The Dead
Director Steve Miner haswrapped production on zombie thriller DayOf The Dead, a new interpretation of George Romero's1985 horror classic, after six weeks of shooting in and around Sofia. The production usedfacilities of Nu Image's BoyanaStudios in the Bulgarian capital and other sets and locations around thecountry, including Ilientzi, where Brian ...
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Things You Can Tell goes straight to Showtime
Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her, the all-female tableau film which world premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival and which opened Un Certain Regard at Cannes, will go straight to Showtime in North America, bypassing a theatrical release by rights-holder United Artists (UA).UA, the specialised arm ...
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PPS opens London post facility ilab
UK-based post-production company PPS hasmoved into its new ilab space on Poland Street in London.The company offers post-production services forfeature films, commercial and TV projects. In-house services at ilabinclude 16mm/35mm nefative processing with Photomec, (with an alliance with VTR)Telecine Rushes transfers via Spring DataCine.The ilab team consists of Nigel ...
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Beta takes on sales for German hit Hui Buh
BetaCinema has taken on the international sales for Sebastian Niemann'sfamily entertainment film Hui Buh, which has been seen by 1.8m cinema-goers since Constantin Film released it in Germany in earlyJuly.The story about the lovable, bumbling castle ghost HuiBuh, played by Michael 'Bully' Herbig of Manitou'sShoe and Dreamship Surprise fame, also ...
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Artificial Eye gets UK rights to latest from Alain Resnais
UK distributor Artificial Eye has picked up UK rights to Alain Resnais' Private Fears In Public Places, which premiered in competition in Venice and will also play in Toronto.The French-Italian co-production stars Lambert Wilson, Sabine Azema, Andre Dussollier, Laura Morante, Pierre Arditi and Isabelle Carre. Bruno Pesery produced the production ...
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Dry Season (Daratt)
Dir/scr: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. Fr-Bel-Chad-Aust. 2006. 95mins.The third feature from Mahamat-SalehHaroun, the director of Bye Bye Africa (at Venice in 1999) and Abouna (which wasat Cannes in 2002), is a pared-back revenge tale with a twist, set against thebackground of the long trail of civil and ethnic strife in Haroun'snative Chad.One ...
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Exiled (Fangzhu)
Dir: Johnnie To. HK. 2006.100mins.Less concerned than ever to tell an actual story, and more interested in exploring the possibilities ofcinematic language, Johnnie To's latest gang war epicis probably his most eccentric foray yet into the genre. Paying tribute toWesterns of every kind, particularly the spaghetti variety, Exiled sees To ...
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THE INLAND EMPIRE
Dir/scr: David Lynch. US-Fr-Pol. 2006. 189mins.Around 10 minutes into INLAND EMPIRE, David Lynch's baffling new cinematic mindgame,a guy with the head of a rabbit drones: "I do not think it will be much longernow". Wrong, bunny: it will be another two hours and 50 minutes of improvisedplotting, rumbling sound effects ...
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Inland Empire
Dir/scr: David Lynch. US-Fr-Pol. 2006. 189mins.Around 10 minutes into INLAND EMPIRE, David Lynch's baffling new cinematic mindgame,a guy with the head of a rabbit drones: "I do not think it will be much longernow". Wrong, bunny: it will be another two hours and 50 minutes of improvisedplotting, rumbling sound effects ...
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Still Life (Sanxia Haoren)
Dir: Jia Zhankg-Ke. Chi. 2006. 107mins.The decision of the Mostradel Cinema to screen Jia Zhankg-Ke'sStill Life in the prestigioussurprise competition film slot at Venice - and then slap its two press andindustry screenings on at 11pm and midnight respectively - is not going to dothe director nor his film many ...
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Marcoly promoted to president, sales & distribution, at BVI
Followingthe promotion of Mark Zoradi to president of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group,Anthony Marcoly has been named president, sales and distribution, at BuenaVista International.Marcoly,who will continue to report to Zoradi, will take on a more comprehensivemanagement role overseeing all aspects of sales and distribution of Disney andTouchstone films internationally as ...
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Still Life (Sanxia Haoren)
Dir: Jia Zhankg-Ke. Chi. 2006. 107mins.The decision of the Mostradel Cinema to screen Jia Zhankg-Ke'sStill Life in the prestigioussurprise competition film slot at Venice - and then slap its two press andindustry screenings on at 11pm and midnight respectively - is not going to dothe director nor his film many ...
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Baise-moi opens well but faces lawsuit
Controversial French title Baise-moi (Fuck Me) racked up 5,634 admissions from only 64 screens on its opening day in its home territory (June 28), despite the fact that France was playing Portugal that night in the semi-finals of the Euro 2000 soccer tournament.French exhibitor UGC - whose CEO, Guy Verrechia, ...
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Metropolitan Opera to transmit live performances to US, Europe theatres
New York's MetropolitanOpera has announced plans to transmit high-defintion live performances of itsproductions to cinemas in North America and Europe. The multi-media initiative,which also encompasses webcasts, HD television and radio, will tap the growingnetwork of HD projection cinemas in circuits including National CineMedia (aventure of AMC Entertainment, Cinemark USA and ...
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MGM revamps TV distribution unit, announces five new sequels
MGM is revamping its worldwide television distribution operation,naming Jim Packer as president. Packer, who has been at MGM fo six years, willreport to MGM chief operating officer Rick Sands and will be in charge of TVdistribution including US barter sales and syndication as well as emergingforms of programming distribution worldwide.Thenew ...