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Odyssey to embark on world sales for Piccadilly Jim
Odyssey Entertainment is to handle worldwide sales on PG Wodehouse adaptation Piccadilly Jim for the UK's Mission Pictures, the companies announced on Wednesday.The period comedy of manners and mistaken identity sees Crush director John McKay directing a cast including Sam Rockwell from a script by Oscar winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes. ...
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Blockbuster adds overseas rights to shopping list
Blockbuster Entertainment, which has just added The Opportunists to its haul of Sundance festival pick-ups, now wants to extend its aggressive acquisition policy to include all English-language rights to independent films that can be branded internationally as video store exclusives.The world's most extensive home entertainment rental chain, with approximately 6,900 ...
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South Korea, France re-open co-production treaty talks
South Korea and France have re-entered negotiations to draw up a co-production treaty, following the signing of an informal co-operation agreement at last year's Pusan International Film Festival between the Korean Film Commission (KOFIC) and the Centre National de la Cinematographie (CNC).A full co-production agreement signed on the governmental level ...
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Colour Me Kubrick is Studio Hamburg's first project
Brian Cook's Euros 8.5m satirical comedy Colour Me Kubrick will be the first project for Studio Hamburg Produktion's English-language division Studio Hamburg International Production (SHIP) which was launched shortly before this year's Cannes Film Festival.The screenplay by Kubrick's long-time personal assistant Anthony Frewin centres on the true story of a ...
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Peter Sellers on hold as Rush returns to Australia
HBO Films has reportedly put The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers on hold after star Geoffrey Rush was forced to return to Australia for personal reasons.The biopic was shooting at Shepperton Studios in the UK, but, according to UK reports, Rush took an emergency flight to Australia to be ...
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Croatia gets its first multiplex
Blitz-Cinestar, a new joint venture between Croatian distributor, Blitz Film & Video Distribution and German exhibitor, Cinestar/Kieft & Kieft, is to open Croatia's first multiplex this autumn. The multiplex, Cinestar Zagreb will have 13 state-of-the art screens over two floors with a total seating capacity of 2,954. All theatres will ...
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Kidron close to Bridget Jones sequel
After months of speculation, UK director Beeban Kidron is close to a deal to direct Renee Zellweger in Working Title Films' Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason.Kidron has long been linked to the sequel to the 2001 hit but negotiations have stepped up in the last week. Zellweger, who starred ...
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Cambridge film fest boasts wealth of UK premieres
The 23rd Cambridge Film Festival, which runs July 10-20, has secured a range of UK premieres including Peter Greenaway's Cannes competition entry The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1, The Moab Story, Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers, Wolfgang Becker's German hit Good-Bye, Lenin! and Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning Spirited Away.Other UK premieres at ...
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New Zealand still examining tax incentives
Despite New Zealand's Economic Development Minister, Jim Anderton, stating that tax incentives are being seriously considered for the film industry, mixed messages are coming from the Government.According to today's issue of the NZ Herald, Anderton said the country was looking at a number of options including a model based on ...
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Antena 3 announces executive appointments
Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 has announced several new executive appointments following the anti-trust authorities' greenlight to Grupo Planeta's buy-out of a 25.1% stake in the network.Planeta executives Jose Manuel Lara Bosch and Maurizio Carlotti will control Antena 3 as president and CEO, respectively. An Italian Mediaset veteran, Carlotti formerly held ...
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Raindance to host Live! Ammunition! pitching event
Independent UK film organisation Raindance is to host Live! Ammunition!, a pitching event featuring an all-women panel, in London on July 8. The panel includes Leslee Udwin, producer of East Is East; Tracey Scoffield, head of development and executive producer at BBC Films; director Antonia Bird; and writer and actress ...
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Nine films compete for Melbourne's FIPRESCI award
Three films from South Korea, three from Australia, two from Japan and one from China, all by debut directors, are competing for the 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival's FIPRESCI Award, director James Hewison announced today. From South Korea comes Byun Young-Joo's Ardor, Park Chanok's Jealousy Is My Middle Name, and ...
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EAVE plans more production forums
MEDIA Plus producer training programme EAVE has announced plans for further Production Forums in Venice, Ghent and Vendome following its first one on 'Responding To New Developments in European Distribution' in Paris from July 4-6.The Venice Forum - 'Getting To Know Asian Markets' - from August 23-26 will bring experts ...
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NonStop signs up with SF Anytime VOD service
Stockholm-based distributor NonStop Entertainment AB has signed a deal with Video on Demand (VOD) service SF Anytime. The long-term agreement will see a number of NonStop-titles become available by streaming over broadband. SF Anytime earlier this year launched a VOD service allowing for the viewing of films at home through ...
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Overnight
Dir: Mark Brian Smith. US. 2003. 120mins.This candid documentary about Troy Duffy, a blue collar Boston twenty-something who struck a dream movie deal with Miramax in 1997, has the same compelling allure as watching a train wreck. It could comfortably be renamed How To Lose Friends And Alienate People In ...
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Vitagraph, American Cinematheque take on US rights to Bubba
American CinemathequePresents and Vitagraph Films have acquired US distribution rights to DonCoscarelli's comedy-horror film Bubba Ho-Tep which they will release in New York on Sept 26 andLos Angeles on Oct 2.Bruce Campbell, who starredin Sam Raimi's seminal horror film The Evil Dead, stars as an elderly Elvis who drives out ...
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2 Fast 2 Furious revs up in international second week
Going into itssecond week Universal's 2 Fast 2 Furious added $5.2m from 840 theatres in sixterritories over the weekend to raise its international running total to $9.9m.In a slew ofstrong bows the street-racing sequel opened number one in Mexico on $1.8m from363 sites, registering 39% market share for Universal's seventh ...
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Picture This takes US rights on Girod's Gender Bias
Picture This!Entertainment has acquired all US rights and Canadian video/DVD rights toFrancis Girod's transsexual thriller Gender Bias, with theatrical release set for summer2004.Based onBrigitte Aubert's novel Transfixions, the film was released through Pyramide SA in France as MauvaisGenre and this weekreceived its US premiere at San Francisco's (Frameline) InternationalLesbian and ...
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Yari teams with Ovation for Duchovny's directorial debut
Ovation Entertainment and Bob Yari Productions haveteamed up to finance and produce David Duchovny's writing and directorialdebut House of D, a magical fable set ina New York that no longer exists.The storycentres on a man's attempts to make peace with his past and present andstars Duchovny, Robin Williams, Tyler Hoechlin ...