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Star Wars beats the record
Sony Pictures Parent co: Sony CorpHoward Stringer,chairman-CEO SPE:Sony Pictures Entertainment Michael Lynton,chairman-CEO, Sony Pictures EntertainmentAmy Pascal, chairman, SPEMotion Picture GroupJeff Blake, vice chairman,SPE & president, worldwide marketing and distributionYair Landau, vice chairman,SPE & president, Sony Pictures DigitalGeoffrey Ammer, president ofworldwide marketing, SPE Motion Picture GroupBob Osher, COO, ColumbiaPictures Motion Picture ...
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60% increase in films at Cannes Short Film Corner
In its second year, theShort Film Corner of the Cannes Film Festival has thus far registered a 60%increase in participating films over 2004.Created lastyear to support young creative talent, the market helps in the promotion ofshort films from around the globe.As of April 26,2005, 617 films were signed up from ...
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Saw 2 starts shooting in Toronto for Twisted, LGE
Production began in Torontothis week on Saw 2, the follow-upto Twisted Pictures/Lions Gate's 2004 smash that grossed more than $100m at theworldwide box office.Lions Gate FilmsInternational will begin selling international rights at Cannes on the picture,which is being produced by Evolution Entertainment's genre arm Twisted Picturesand Lions Gate Films.Lions Gate ...
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Wolfe picks up US rights to Show Me, Unveiled
Wolfe Releasinghas acquired North American theatrical and home video rights to CassandraNicolaou's psychological thriller Show Me and Angelina Maccarone's Middle East political drama Unveiled (previously In Orbit).Both titles are scheduled to screen at the summerfestivals Frameline29 in San Francisco and Outfest in Los Angeles, before anautumn theatrical release, followed by ...
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Me, You..., Last Days bookend Seattle
Miranda July'squirky drama Me And You And Everyone We Know and Gus Van Sant's tale of a rock starin despair Last Daysbookend the 31st Annual Seattle International Film Festival, which runs fromMay 19-Jun 12.The 347-strongline-up includes pictures from more than 59 countries and boasts 10 world, 18North American and 10 ...
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IFP/New York rebrands itself IFP, adds two chapters
Not to beoutdone by this week's decision by IFP/Los Angeles to rename itself FilmIndependent [FIND], IFP/New York announced yesterday [4] that it wasimmediately returning to its original name of IFP (Independent FeatureProject).IFP board chairman Ira Deutchman also announced that twonew IFP chapters will launch in Santa Fe and Austin, headed ...
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Lightning takes on Mexican hit Matando Cabos
Santa Monica-based saleshouse Lightning Entertainment has added Alejandro Lozano's hit Mexican comedy MatandoCabos to its slate and will beginselling international rights excluding North America and Mexico at Cannes.In a related development,Televisa Cine USA, the US distribution arm of Mexico's Televisa Cine, willrelease the picture in June following a storming Mexican ...
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Constantin adds Propaganda to production stable
Bernd Eichinger's Constantin Film has unveiled its third US venture inside a week, setting up a production joint venture with Propaganda Films.The move is designed to deliver three or four films per year using Propaganda's unusual stable of directors and actors. Propaganda said under the deal it "will be taking ...
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Mandeville to produce, Armada to sell Heaven
David Hobermanand Todd Lieberman's Mandeville Films and Television will produce John Glenn'sthriller The Heaven Project for Wall Street-based film equity fund D H Blair Film CapitalFund.Beverly Hills-based ArmadaPictures International is handling international rights and head of sales YarekDanielak will introduce the project to buyers in Cannes.Written anddirected by Glenn, The ...
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Lakeshore teams with DreamWorks for Byrnes comedy
LakeshoreInternational has added Andy Fickman's She's The Man starring Amanda Byrnes to its Cannesslate, alongside Tony Goldwyn's The Last Kiss and Katja von Garnier's Blood AndChocolate.She's The Man is a DreamWorks production and, like TheLast Kiss, will bereleased in the US through DreamWorks with Lakeshore handling international inwhat is the ...
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IFC Films boards Hart Sharp's Listener
IFC Films hasteamed up with Hart Sharp Entertainment and come aboard as executive producerand domestic distributor on Patrick Stettner's The Night Listener, which has just wrapped production. Itstars Robin Williams and Toni Colette. Fortissimo Films is handling sales at Cannes. A late 2005 festivalpremiere is anticipated on the Armistead Maupin ...
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IMAX signs deal for five systems with US exhibitor AMC
US-based exhibitor AMC andIMAX Corp. have signed an agreement to install five large-format theatresystems in major markets before the end of 2005. The joint venture, the firstbetween the two companies, will see the first two cinemas open in June 15, intime to accommodate the cross-platform day-and-date release of two Warner ...
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Europa starts new pictures from Keshishian, Perez
Adding to theiralready highly-charged slate - which includes Tommy Lee Jones' competitiontitle The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada and market film Revolver from Guy Ritchie - EuropaCorp. willbegin sales at Cannes next week on the next film from Madonna: Truth Or Dare director Alek Keshishian as well as theEnglish-language directing ...
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The Wolf (El Lobo)
Dir. Miguel Courtois. Sp. 2004. 122minsA cracking period political thriller, The Wolf (ElLobo) is the type of intelligent drama rarely seen these days - a throwbackto Costa Gavras's Z or Missing, in which director Courtoisevidently holds his audience in high esteem and rewards those willing to take achance with complex ...
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The Ax (Le Couperet)
Dir. Costa-Gavras.Fr-Bel-Sp. 2005. 122mins.A wickedly black comedytailored in a slick thriller style, The Ax marks a welcome return tocomedy for Greek auteur Costa-Gavras after his 1986 feature Family Business.Powered by an outstanding lead performance from Jose Garcia, the film hasalready proven itself at home in France.Prospects in other Europeanterritories are ...
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Negotiator (Koshonin Mashita Masayoshi)
Dir: Katsuyuki Motohiro. Jap. 2005. 127minsKatsuyuki Motohiro's Negotiatoris an action spin-off from his major hits Bayside Shakedown (1998) and BaysideShakedown 2 (2003), the latter of which set a record $162m at home for aJapanese live-action film. But this time, the bumptious detective of before(who faced off against the entire Tokyo ...
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Renaissance takes Macbeth onto world stage
UK-based sales agencyRenaissance Films has acquired world sales rights to Macbeth, anadaptation of the William Shakespeare play starring Jennifer Connelly as LadyMacbeth and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Macbeth.Director Todd Louiso is tostart shooting late this year. Louiso, who adapted the play with his writingpartner Jacob Koskoff, previously directed Hoffman in ...
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New Australian Film Institute chief confirms awards focus
Thefocus of the Australian Film Institute (AFI) will remain its annual awards,says new general manager Geoffrey Williams, but he envisages taking on more ofan advocacy role for industry in future.The importance of the 48-year-old awards was unassailable,he told ScreenDaily.com, and their integrity had to be protected.Getting the professional members more ...
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Sogepaq picks up Fugitivas, eyes del Toro's Devil
Sogepaq, the rights and acquisitions arm of Spanish media group Sogecable, has picked up world rights on Fugitivas, a feature film currently in production at Seville-based Maestranza Films.Sogepaq is also understood to be negotiating international rights on Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo Del Diablo), a Tequila Gang ...