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Asia, Latin America boost involvement in Cannes Market
Despite the lack of Asian films in official selection this year, producers,distributors and sales agents from the region are upping their participation atthe Cannes Market.Market president Jerome Paillard told ScreenDaily.comthat the current overall inscription rate is up 8% over last year with morethan 10,000 participants.Most notably, Asian involvement is up ...
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Spain's Dygra Films to launch sales division
Spanish animation producer Dygra Films will launch an international sales departmentat the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.Dygra executive producer Tania Pinto DaCunha, formerly of London's HanWay and Spain's Lolafilms, will head thenew Madrid-based department, working with sales executive Lucas Mackey.Lumina Films' Marina Fuenteswill act as temporary sales consultant and continue to ...
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CineLink selects 11 projects for 2006 market
CineLink, the Sarajevo Film Festival'sco-production market for South Eastern Europe created in 2002 in co-operation with Rotterdam's CineMart, hasselected 11 projects for this year. The 2006 CineLink selection is:Alive, written and directed by Artan Minarolli, AlbaniaCircus Fantastikus, written and directed by Janez Burger, SloveniaFrom Belgrade With Love, written and directed ...
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Warner Bros ends home entertainment distribution in Czech Republic
Warner Bros' European homeoffice has decided to cease home video distribution in the Czech market, WarnerBros Czech Republic managing director Ladislav Stastny told ScreenDaily.com.Stastny cited an increase in piracy which, combined with adecrease in pricing, resulted in dramatic decline in revenues from 2004 to2005. According to a report broadcast on ...
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Fortissimo boards Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want To Sleep Alone
FortissimoFilms has acquired worldwide sales rights to Tsai Ming-liang'sI Don't Want To Sleep Alone, set in Malaysia.Thefilm is one of the seven New Crowned Hope (NCH) projects, which willbe shown at Vienna's NCH festival inNovembercelebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.IDon't Want To Sleep Alone stars LeeKang Sheng and Chen ...
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Japan's Talk takes best film at Singapore fest awards
Japanese director RyuichiHiroki's It's Only Talk won best filmat last night's [April 28] Silver Screen Awards, held as part of the SingaporeInternational Film Festival which closes today with Royston Tan's 4:30.The tragicomedy, whichfocuses on the life of a single woman, was chosen as it "reveals the lonelinessof daily life in ...
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Tirante El Blanco: The Maidens' Conspiracy
Dir. Vicente Aranda. Sp-UK-It. 2005. 122mins.One of Spain's most revered classics - it is sometimescompared to Don Quixote in importance - Tirante El Blanco(or Tirant lo Blanc in its original Valencian), has been transferred to the screen by Vicente Aranda for a big, handsome period production.Unfortunately,the 15th-century Byzantine sets and ...
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Media Luna adds six new films to Cannes sales slate
TheCritics' Week title pingpong,director Matthias Luthardt's feature film debut, isone of six new titles acquired by Cologne-based Media Luna Entertainment forits Cannes sales line-up this year.Dutch-bornLuthardt's family drama was produced by Berlin production house Junifilm with the broadcaster MDR, the Academy for Film& Television (Konrad Wolf) in Babelsbergand KOPP Film. ...
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Two segments dropped from Cannes film Paris Je T'aime
ProducerClaudie Ossard from Victoires International has restructured the portmanteau Un Certain Regard opening title Paris Je t'Aime, with the contributionsfromDanish director Christoffer Boe and French-Israeli director RafaelNadjari left on the cutting-room floor.The decision has gone down badly with Boe, who hasreleased an angry statement.Thedecision has also sparked a disagreement with ...
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Sony's RV tops domestic box office with $16.4m
Sony's comedy RVpulled up to the number one spot on an estimated $16.4m as the top 12 picturesgrossed $90.7m to surpass the same weekend of 2005 by 12%.Universal's9/11 docudrama United 93 openedto a wave of exceptional reviews in provisional second place on $11.6m, justahead of Buena Vista's gymnastics comedy Stick ...
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Fabrication holds Hoole's Court for Cannes
Los Angeles-based distributor Fabrication Films has picked upworldwide rights to Rohan Michael Hoole's Australian thriller Court Of LonelyRoyals.Fabrication has arranged private screenings for distributors inMelbourne and Sydney prior to its market screenings at the Cannes Film Market.Hoole also wrote and produced the story of four intertwined livesin a dystopian future ...
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De Bont to direct Intermedia/QED actioner Stopping Power
Jan De Bont will direct the action thriller Stopping Power for Intermedia, fledgling LA-basedproduction, finance and sales house QED International, and German production andphysical effects house action concept.Intermedia, QED International and action concept are producing andco-financing and expect to begin production in September in Germany. QEDInternational will begin worldwide pre-sales ...
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Stahman gets top domestic marketing job at re-energised MGM
Perry Stahman has been appointed to the new position of presidentof domestic theatrical marketing at MGM, reporting directly to chief operatingofficer Rick Sands.Stahman (pictured) arrives from 20th Century Fox where he served assenior vice president of creative advertising since 2004. "Having overseen the marketing for a number of high profilefilms, ...
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Ice Age 2 still leads international with $25.3m weekend
Fox International's Ice Age 2: The Meltdown is bearing down on $400m followinganother dominant weekend that generated an estimated $25.3m.Playing on 8,396 screens, the smash animated sequel has nowamassed $373.6m in international ticket sales.The highlight was a superb $4.7m second weekend haul in Italy on647 screens for number one and ...
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Germans dominate at Austrian and Swiss festivals
Germanfilms were the major winners at the Crossing Europe Film Festival, and the Visionsdu Reel Documentary Film Festival at the weekend.IsabelleStever's love triangle drama Gisela won theCrossing Europe Award in the European competition for first or second featurefilms, while Macedonian-born, German-based filmmaker Sergei Stanojkovskireceived the RAY Audience Award for his ...
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Italy's Buskin opens co-production outfit in China
BuskinFilm, the Rome-based sales outfit, has opened an office in Beijing with the aimof co-producing projects and getting involved in product placement andservicing for international productions shooting in China. Buskinis already co-producing a project for China's CCTV with Beijing Xin Ying ShiCulture. The 20-part drama is the third instalment of ...
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UK plans multiple co-production treaties
The UK is to strike co-production treaties with SouthAfrica, China, India, Jamaica and Morocco, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowellannounced on Monday.The treaties will be developed with each country overthe next 18 months. Jowell recently signed a statement of intent with the SouthAfrican Minister for Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan."More than 27 ...
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Japan's MPT asks government to carry digital costs
Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) has proposed that the Japanese government should shoulder the cost of the country's transition to digital terrestrial broadcasting, which is scheduled to begin in 2003. Representatives from the MPT, public broadcaster NHK and the commercial networks presented estimates of the cost to a ...
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Copenhagen kids festival gets new director
Dionysos ReitsKerasiotis is to take over as director of the Copenhagen InternationalChildrens Film Festival, 'Buster', from the sixth edition in September.Kerasiotis will replace outgoing director Ane Skak. After five years,the festival is showing impressive attendance figures. In 2004, 18.000 admissions were sold for a total of139 screenings over just a ...
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German media funds still tilt heavily to Hollywood
German media funds raised Euros 1.5bn from private investorslast year, 15% less than 2003's total of Euros 1.76bn, according to a marketanalysis by fund specialist Stefan Loipfinger's Fondstelegramm.For the first time this year, the analysis showed where theGerman private equity was being invested and fuelled the criticism that themedia funds ...