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Canana picks up five films for distribution in Mexico
Canana, the production company founded by actors Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and producer Pablo Cruz, has lined up five films for release in Mexico through its new distribution arm. Most of the titles are first films by local film-makers. The first to be released is Aaron Fernandez's directorial debut ...
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James Hewison tipped as new head of Madman theatrical
James Hewison, former long-term executive director of the Melbourne International Film Festival, is understood to be the new head of the theatrical division of the prominent independent distributor Madman Entertainment.Hewison announced in late January that he was stepping down from his role as chief executive of the Australian Film Institute ...
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Contender, Seville buy Franklyn and Eddie from HanWay
Growing UK distributor Contender Films, now owned by Canada's Entertainment One, has acquired all UK rights for features Franklyn and Eddie The Eagle, both sold by HanWay Films.Also, Entertainment One's Seville Pictures took Canadian rights to both titles.Gerald McMorrow's feature debut Franklyn is a story of four lost souls in ...
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AAM, DigiScreen, Pillar, Royal Opera House strike digital deal
Arts Alliance Media is working with Montreal-based DigiScreen Corporation, The Pillar Group and the Royal Opera House-owned TV and DVD production company Opus Arte to bring ballets, operas and dance from the Royal Opera House and other performing arts companies to cinemas across Europe.The HD content, both pre-recorded and live, ...
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Madsen's $10m epic Flame & Citron opens as a hit in Denmark
More than 100,000 Danes invaded the cinemas this weekend to watch Ole Christian Madsen's war epic Flame & Citron. In its first three days of release, the two-hour-plus project welcomed more than 101,101 cinemagoers.The figures makes the film a contender to be the most popular Danish film at the 2008 ...
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Horwits poised to boost Contantin's American dream
Bernd Eichinger's Constantin Film has hired high-profile US producer Mitch Horwits as president of its stateside development and production division, Constantin Development.Horwits, whose producer credits include The Usual Suspects, Short Cuts, Bound, Shadowlands and Breakdown, was most recently president of Spelling Pictures.According to a statement, Horwits will be responsible not ...
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Constantinextends Eichinger's contract until 2014
Constantin Film and producer Bernd Eichinger have agreed a year in advance to extend their exclusive production contract by another five years until March 31, 2014. The arrangement guarantees that Eichinger, who wrote and produced Uli Edel's Der Baader Meinhof Komplex for Constantin last year, will produce exclusively for Germany's ...
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Italian box-office down from banner 2007 but local films fare well
Italy's first-quarter box office results show that while over all box office is lagging in respect to the same period last year, local product has remained strong.The data is important to the local industry, since 2007 saw local films boom, and aid significantly in bringing box office numbers to levels ...
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Footprint makes bridge loan to The Laundry Warrior
The UK-based Footprint Investment Fund, previously known as the Footprint Film Fund, is making its first investment as a bridging loan to $45m action adventure The Laundry Warrior.Barrie Osborne, Michael Peyser and Jooick Lee are producing.The film is shooting now in New Zealand for August 2008 delivery. Jang Dong-Kun, Kate ...
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Senator picks up Splice, Superhero Movie, Young@Heart
German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment has added the science fiction thriller Splice, blockbuster parody Superhero Movie and the documentary Young@Heart to its 2008-2009 distribution lineup.Senator acquired the German, US and Spanish rights to genre specialist Vincenzo Natali's Splice which will star Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley and be produced by Steve ...
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IMAX signs three separate deals in Russia
IMAX Corp. has signed three separate deals with Russian firms to install large-format digital projection systems in three cities: Sochi, Nizinhy Novogorod and in Siberia's Novosibirsk. All three cinemas, the first of their kind in the nation, are expected to be installed between 2009 and 2011.The Sochi facility will be ...
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More cancellations for Yasukuni documentary in Japan
Following ScreenDaily.com's March 18 story of controversial documentary Yasukuni's cancellation at Tokyo's Wald 9 multiplex, the remaining cinemas in Tokyo and Osaka set to screen the film have followed suit.Ginza's Cine Pathos, Cinemart in Roppongi, Q-AX Cinema in the Shibuya district, and Cinemart Shinsaibashi in Osaka have all decided to ...
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Celluloid Dreams takes world rights to Kuras doc The Betrayal
Celluloid Dreams has acquired worldwide rights excluding North America to award-winning film-maker Ellen Kuras' The Betrayal. The film, which ran in the documentary competition at Sundance, recently took the top prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.The epic odyssey follows a family from war-torn Laos to New York over the ...
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Dutch FilmWorks starts international distribution division
Benelux-based Dutch FilmWorks has launched a new division, House Of Knowledge International, which will handle international cross-platform distribution, licensing, and production.Dutch FilmWorks CEO Willem Pruijssers made the announcement. The non-international House Of Knowledge was started in 2002 and worked on a number of DVD projects in mind, body and spirit ...
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Fuji TV plans third Bayside Shakedown feature
Japan's Fuji TV is planning a third feature film in its megahit Bayside Shakedown police drama franchise, with Yuji Oda reprising the lead role.The announcement was made yesterday by Fuji TV's Head of the Motion Picture Department and Bayside producer Chihiro Kameyama at the inaugural opening of the Wangan Police ...
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Glowinsky promoted to deputy MD at Pathe Production
Pathe Production France has announced the appointment of Leonard Glowinski to the post of deputy managing director, business affairs.Glowinski joined Pathe's financial management team in 1999. Following that he was named director of business affairs for Pathe France in charge of international productions.Whilst holding that post, he was involved in ...
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Leak bags four Golden Calves at Netherlands fest
Jean van de Velde's Leak (Lek) grabbed four top awards, including the Golden Calves for best feature and best director, at this year's 20th Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht (September 20-29). The film, hotly tipped as the Netherlands' official entry for next year's foreign-language Oscar, also picked up Golden Calves ...
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Minister Trond Giske kicks off new Norwegian Film Institute
The new Norwegian Film Institute - formed from the merger of the former institute, the Norwegian Film Fund, and Norwegian Film Development, and the brainchild of culture minister Trond Giske - was set rolling Monday (March 31), after a few last-minute decisions.News reports Friday suggested that the new institution, which ...
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Borshell succeeds Greenwald as president of Image Entertainment
Image Entertainment's chief operating officer David Borshell has succeeded Martin W Greenwald as president of the home entertainment producer and distributor.The board of directors has made the title of president the top executive position of the company and does not plan to seek a CEO. Borshell will report directly to ...
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Jeff Sakson joins Participant as vice president of publicity
Jeffrey Sakson has joined Participant Media as vice president of publicity and will report to executive vice presidents of marketing Buffy Shutt and Kathy Jones.Sakson will oversee publicity on all Participant releases and social action campaigns related to its films and will also take charge of corporate communications.Sakson is a ...