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Alibi picks up Sky's Most Fertile Man
UK-based sales company Alibi Films International has acquired worldwide rights outside the UK and Eire to Sky Pictures' comedy The Most Fertile Man In Ireland.The Samson Films and Hot Films production, currently in post, follows a young man who discovers he has the highest sperm count in Ireland. He becomes ...
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Mexican expansion talks for Films In Progress scheme
Jorge Sanchez, director of Mexico's Guadalajara International Film Festival is negotiating with San Sebastian and Toulouse to extend the successful Films In Progress completion financing initiative. The leading Mexican festival wants the scheme to be in place for next March, covering films from Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean.Films in ...
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San Sebastian chief warns of festival overcrowding
Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival director Mikel Olaciregui has warned that the festival calendar is overcrowded.Speaking during the opening weekend of the event, he told reporters that his $7.8m (Euros 6m) budget - reportedly half thatof the new Rome Film Fest - didn't stretch to private jet-type expensesincreasingly required by ...
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Second Jackass tops domestic box office for Paramount
Paramount's Jackass sequel smashed its way to the top of the charts onan estimated $28.1m, leaving the more choreographed mayhem of Rogue Pictures' JetLi's Fearless far behind in secondplace on $10.6m.The world war one aerialcombat tale Flyboys opened infourth place through MGM on a disappointing $6m, while Sony's poorly receivedpolitical ...
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11th week at the top for Pirates powered by Italy hold
Buena Vista International's (BVI) old warhorse Pirates Of TheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest registered its 11th weekend at the top of the international chartsfollowing an estimated $7.6m weekend haul.The result from 4,387 screens in 42 territories raises the tallyto $625.6m, consolidating the picture's status as the fourth biggestinternational release in history. ...
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Online resource Fylmz launches Nashville festival with $100,000 in prize money
Online filmmaker resource Fylmz.com is launching the inauguralFylmz Festival Competition and will offer $100,000 and a guaranteed distributiondeal for the best feature in competition.The event is open to film school students, independent filmmakers,or amateurs, and winners will be determined by the audience.'We at fylmz believe that the best way to ...
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Fernando Szew takes over CEO reins at MarVista Entertainment
Joseph Szew, founder of LA-based production and distributionoutfit MarVista Entertainment, has reshuffled his executive suite, handing overthe chief executive officer reins to his son Fernando Szew.Joseph Szew becomes chief operating officer and chief financialofficer, and production president Michael D Jacobs is promoted to the role ofpresident.In other appointments, company consultant ...
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THINKFilm buys French Oscar submission Orchestra Seats
THINKFilm has picked up all US rights to Daniele Thompson's OrchestraSeats (FauteuilsD'Orchestre), which willrepresent France in this season's foreign language Oscar race.The picture, which will open in the US in February 2007 under thenew title of Avenue Montaigne, registered more than one million admissions in France in itsfirst two weeks ...
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German film takes top prize at Pyongyang festival
North Korea's Pyongyang International Film Festival (Sep 13-22) awardedDennis Gansel's Napola as best film atthe closing ceremony in the People's Palace of Culture.The German film is about ayoung boxer at one of Hitler's elite schools for future heads of the Naziworld. More than 70 films from atleast 30 countries were ...
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Prime, CJ CGV to collaborate on multiplexes
Start-up Korean studio, PrimeEntertainment, has signed a memorandum of understanding with leading exhibitorCJ CGV for a strategic partnership to collaborate on multiplexes. At its launch at thebeginning of this year as an integrated producer-distributor-exhibitor, Primehad threatened to flex its real estate muscle by terminating CJ CGV leases onthe multiplex buildings ...
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Intermedia seals first-look deal with Winslet
In its first long-term deal outside the US since floating in May, Intermedia has struck an exclusive first-look pact with Kate Winslet and Jim Threapleton's UK-based production outfit Telltale Films.UK and US-based Intermedia will handle worldwide distribution on films from the Shepperton Studios-based company, formed last year by the husband-and-wife ...
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German film takes top prize at Pyongyang festival
North Korea's Pyongyang International Film Festival (Sep 13-22) awardedDennis Gansel's Napola as best film atthe closing ceremony in the People's Palace of Culture.The German film is about ayoung boxer at one of Hitler's elite schools for future heads of the Naziworld. More than 70 films from atleast 30 countries were ...
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Fortune Star producing Dead Air with Chen
Production started today onthriller Dead Air which acclaimedfilmmaker Teddy Chen is producing for Star Group's Fortune Star Entertainment.The high-definition featureis directed by newcomer Xavier Lee and stars hot up-and-coming actors DerekTsang, Tong Ling, Terence Yin, Jo Koo and Raymond Wong. The film will have anexclusive TV premiere on Star Chinese ...
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Thuesen starts shoot for Erik Nietzsche - The Early Years
Erik Nietzsche - The Early Years starts shooting today in Denmark with newdirector Jacob Thuesen at the helm after previously attached Lone Scherfigdropped out of the project several months ago. Zentropa isproducing the $5.2m (Euros 4.1m) feature with co-producers Memfis Film, DOR Film, Lucky Red and Tju-Bang Film. Lars von ...
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Hungary submits White Palms for Oscar race
Hungary has selected Szabolcs Hajdu's WhitePalms (Feher Tenyer) as its official entry for the foreign-languagecategory of the Academy Awards. The film stars GheorgheDinica, Zoltan Miklos Hajdu and Kyle Shewfelt in the story of a Hungariangymnast, sidelined by injury, who returns home to coach a young Canadian.Hajdu's third feature (whichhe also ...
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LoveFilm sets up German operation
LoveFilmis continuing its European expansion. The online DVD rental company,headquartered in London, haslaunched LoveFilm Deutschland in Germany. Inestablishing the German business, LoveFilm has struck a strategic partnershipwith postal and logistics company Deutsche Post WorldNet Group.For thisinitial launch, LoveFilm will provide the website, customer and marketing supportand project management to run ...
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Sheffield DocFest to open with Paul Weller film
The 13th SheffieldInternational Documentary Festival has announced some programme highlights forthis year's festival, which runs Oct 30-Nov 5. The programme of93 films (including nine world premieres) will open with a gala screening of Paul Weller: IntoTomorrow.Other highlightsincluded Kim Flitcroft's FuckingSheffield, about the lives of several people in the city's dark ...
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Reviews
School For Scoundrels
Dir: Todd Phillips. US.2006. 101mins.Todd Phillips' new comedy School For Scoundrels seems divided against itself, telling two interconnectedstories that rarely cohere. It treads on familiar territory recognisablethrough Phillips' previous work (Road Trip,Old School), enlivened here by thepeculiar love triangle ensnaring Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Hederand Jacinda Barrett.These talented actors givethe ...
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School For Scoundrels
Dir: Todd Phillips. US.2006. 101mins.Todd Phillips' new comedy School For Scoundrels seems divided against itself, telling two interconnectedstories that rarely cohere. It treads on familiar territory recognisablethrough Phillips' previous work (Road Trip,Old School), enlivened here by thepeculiar love triangle ensnaring Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Hederand Jacinda Barrett.These talented actors givethe ...
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Wenders joins Bardem's The Invisibles project
Director Wim Wenders has come on board for the new portmanteau film TheInvisibles (Los Invisibles), produced by Spanish actor Javier Bardem. In October, Wenders will travel to Congoto shoot a short film about the sexual abuse of women in that country. His isthe last of five 15-20 minute projects to ...