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Ball named chairman of Ingenious Media Active Capital
TonyBall, the former CEO of British Sky Broadcasting, has been named the chairmanof Ingenious Media Active Capital (IMAC). IMAC namedNeil Blackley as its non-executive director. He was formerly the head of UK and European Media Research at Merrill Lynch. IMAC isthe media investment company that is intending to raiseup to ...
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Constantin grabs Hyde Park slate
German distributor Constantin Film has struck an output deal that gives it theatrical and video/DVD rights to a slate of films flowing from US producer Hyde Park Entertainment.The five-year deal, which gives Constantin rights in Germany and Austria, was concluded with KirchMedia, which as part of the Epsilon pact with ...
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London's Chocolate Chilli Films takes on The Angel of Mons
London-based production company Chocolate Chilli Films hasoptioned the script The Angel of Mons as the second feature on its slate. The project is a supernatural historical drama about a youngwoman serving as an ambulance driver during WWI who is trying to find out ifthe Angel of Monsreally exists. Alice D ...
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Human Rights Watch Festival to open with Land of the Blind
The Human Rights WatchInternational Film Festival will host its 10th annual London event this year from March 15-24 at six venues. This year's programmeincludes 22 features, starting with opening night film Land of the Blind, a political satire starring Ralph Fiennes andDonald Sutherland and directed by Robert Edwards. The festival ...
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Crime Novel (Romanzo Criminale)
Dir: Michele Placido.It-UK-Fr. 2005. 146mins.The middle floor betweenItaly's auteur attic and its commercial bargain basement is curiously empty.Screenwriting duo Stefano Rulli and Sandro Petraglia are among the few to havemade their home here, scripting films like The Best Of Youth, which for all its symphonic, multi-linearstructure and often prickly political ...
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NZ distributor Arkles steps up Australian presence
NewZealand distributor Arkles Entertainment is increasing its activity in theAustralian market where it is planning sizeable releases for both Junebug and Danish film Brothers in the next few months.TheAuckland-based company acquired theatrical rights for Junebugjust days before Amy Adams got her best supportingactress Oscar nomination. Both this film and Brotherscame ...
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Ecosse teams with Walden, Beacon and Revolution for feature
UK-based Ecosse Films is teaming with US heavyweights Walden Media,Beacon Pictures, and Revolution Studios for the fantasy film The Water Horse. Ecosse's Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae will produce with Barrie Osborne (The Lord of the Rings) andCharlie Lyons. Alex Schwartz, Jackie Levine and David Kaufmann areoverseeing The Water Horse ...
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Tarr to resume work on The Man From London
Hungarian director Bela Tarr spoke to journalists at the 37th Hungarian Film Weekin Budapest about the revival ofhis project, The Man FromLondon, which was stalled last winter after the death of French producer Humbert Balsan. The film, which is to begin shooting in March, is now aFrench-German-Hungarian co-production featuring an ...
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Michele Placido's Crime Novel wins five Nastri d'Argento awards
MichelePlacido's CrimeNovel (Romanzo Criminale)has walked away with five Nastri d'Argento, Italy's nationalcriticsprizes, from the 60th awards ceremony in Vatican City.Thefilm won awards for best director, best actor (jointly won by Kim Rossi Stuart,Pierfrancesco Favino andClaudio Santamaria), editor, and sound. A bestproduction award went to the picture's producers, Cattleya,for Crime Novel ...
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Trueba's Bienvenido A Casa to open Malaga Film Festival
David Trueba's romanticdrama Bienvenido A Casa will have its world premiere asthe inaugural film atthe upcoming 9th annual Spanish Film Festival ofMalaga (March 17-25).A co-production of Fernando Trueba and Antena 3 Television's Ensueno Films stars up-and-coming actors Pilar Lopez de Ayala and Alejo Sauras as a young couple undergoing a ...
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Palfi's Taxidermia wins best film at the Hungarian Film Week
The mainprize at the 37th Hungarian Film Week for Best Feature Film went to Taxidermia fromdirector Gyorgy Palfi. Szabolcs Hajdu won Best Directorwith his film White Palms. Sandor Csanyi won Best Actor forhis performance in Krisztina Goda'sJust Sex and Nothing Else. Taxidermia and White Palms shared the Gene Moskowitz Prize, ...
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Miramax, ESPN team for domestic rights to Lifetime
Miramax Films and ESPN havejointly acquired North American rights to GreeneStreet Films, Passion Picturesand Cactus Three's football documentary Once In A Lifetime, which will receive its world premiere in theBerlinale Special programme.Paul Crowder and JohnDower's film chronicles the heady rise and fall of the New York Cosmos, ascratch team that ...
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DreamWorks to release Shrek in Imax 3D
DreamWorks' animated film Shrek is set to be released in Imax 3D, the first full-length animated feature to be released in the format as Walt Disney's Fantasia 2000, which opened in January, was shown on 2D. The Shrek 3D release is set for December 2001 to coincide with DreamWorks' home ...
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Zorich, Paolillo join Kimmel International
Former Miramax andPicturehouse executive Stefan Zorich has joined Kimmel International as vicepresident of marketing and servicing and Italian market specialist MarcelloPaolillo has come aboard as director of acquisitions and distribution.Both will report to KimmelInternational chief Mark Lindsay. Zorich arrives from Picturehouse andpreviously served as manager of domestic marketing and post-production ...
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Constantin announces five pick-ups on eve of Berlin
Mel Gibson's new historical epic Apocalypto and the thirdpart in the Asterix franchise, Asterix At The Olympic Games, are among fivepotential blockbusters acquired by German distributor Constantin Film on theeve of this year's Berlinale.Constantin, which previously handled Gibson's The Passion Of TheChrist in Germany two years ago, plans to release ...
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National Geographic and Paramount Classics pick up sales to The White Planet
In what could be the nexttrue indicator in confirming Bac FilmsInternational's The White Planet (La Planete Blanche) as this year's documentary to watchthe French company has announced its North American sale to National Geographicand Paramount Classics. The film, a $12m (Euros 10m)documentary about life in the North Pole, was culled ...
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Odeon to open Braehead cinema in March
Cinema chain Odeon is planning to open anew 12-screen, $8.7m (£5m) cinema in Braehead, near Glasgow.The facility will open March 27 with 2406seats, all in stadium-style theatres. The cinema will be part of the Xscape leisure and sports complex near Braeheadshopping center.Odeon Braeheadwill employ up to 80 staffers. Manager Paul ...
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Young Hannibal wraps Czech shoot
Director PeterWebber has wrapped principal photography on YoungHannibal: Behind the Mask, after a 14-week shootin the Czech Republic. The Dino De Laurentiis production is made with partners Quinta Communications and Ingenious Film Partners. The UK'sZephyr Films is also on board.Internationalsales are being handled by producers' consultant Pamela Pickering in Los ...
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Korean filmmakers stage screen quota protest
SouthKorean filmmakers across the nation put a stop to production for the day, andstaged a large-scale protest rally against the government's recent announcement- bending to US tradepressure - that it would half the 146-day screen quota. A turn-out of approximately 3,000protestors including filmmakers, actors, students, and citizens' group members,rallied this ...
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Sam Riley cast as lead singer in Anton Corbijn's Control
Sam Riley has been cast as leadsinger Ian Curtis and Alexandra Maria Lara as his lover Annikon music video director Anton Corbijn's Control, his fact-based debut feature onUK post-punk band Joy Division.It is a first big role for newcomerRiley - the troubled Curtis was in his early 20s when he ...