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Echo Bridge picks up domestic rights to Beer League
Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquired all North American rightsfrom Ckrush Entertainment to Frank Sebastiano's comedy Beer League.The company plans a spring 2006 release for the story of adown-and-out softball team that rallies to avoid permanent expulsion from thelocal league.Artie Lange stars in the Identity Films project, which he co-wrotewith Sebastiano. ...
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International revenues to overtake domestic this year, says report
Combined international motion picture revenue streams will overtake their domestic equivalent this year and are forecast to boom over the next eight years with a notable surge in the home entertainment sector, a new report is predicting.The report by California-based Kagan Research predictsinternational motion picture sales through all media will ...
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Warner Bros taps Virtual Studios to co-finance six titles
Warner Bros Pictures willco-finance six upcoming projects with Los Angeles-based Virtual Studiosincluding Steven Soderbergh's The Good German, Wolfgang Petersen's Poseidon and Ed Zwick's Blood Diamond.The deal was originally announced back in October. Relativity Media's chief executive officer Ryan Kavanaugh and his partner Lynwood Spinks were instrumental in facilitating the unique ...
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National Board Of Review delays naming winners
The National Board of Review (NBR) has postponed announcing itswinners until next Monday [Dec 12] after it emerged last night [Dec 6] thatincomplete reminder lists had been mailed out to voters.The group was due to name its winners today [Dec 7] but moved todelay the announcement after a number of ...
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Von Trier's producer call it quits
Vibeke Windeløv, Lars von Trier's producer for manyyears, has decided to bow out of producing his upcoming feature My Man the President. After working on severalof Von Trier's international film projects Windeløvat the age of 54 wants new challenges. She will remain a co-owner of Zentropa and may return to ...
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FFC backs production on two Australian films
Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) today agreed to fund the thriller Storm Warning and the coming-of-age teencomedy Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger.Estherwill be the debut for Cathy Randall but StormWarning is from Jamie Blanks, who jumped from a graduation film to Hollywood horror films UrbanLegends (1998) and Valentine (2001).The Storm ...
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Roberto Faenza to make historical drama The Viceroys
Italian auteur Roberto Faenza, whose last picture I Giorni Dell'Abbandono screened incompetition at the Venice Film Festival, is currently lining up an ambitioushistorical adaptation which Luchino Visconti had originally planned to bring tothe big screen.The $9.8m (Euros 8m) film, entitled The Viceroys, is an adaptation of Federico De Roberto's 1894 ...
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More multiplex cinemas planned for Argentina
Village Cinemas opened anine-screen, 1.800 stadium-seating complex this weekin one of the fast-growing districts of Buenos Aires. This $ 14m investment -incooperation with the development group Galerias Pacifico- is the seventh multiplex Village to have been builtin Argentina since 1996. The company now operates 78 screens in the country."We expect ...
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Purely Belter
Dir: Mark Herman. UK. 2000. 97 mins.Prod cos: Elizabeth Karlsen, Mumbo Jumbo, London. Int'l Sales: FilmFour International. Scr: Mark Herman from The Season Ticket by Joanthan Tulloch. DoP: Andy Collins. Prod design: Don Taylor. Ed: Michael Ellis. Music: Ian Broudie, Michael Gibbs. Main cast: Chris Beattie, Greg McLane, Charlie Hardwick, ...
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Eureka gets UK rights to Junebug
UK DVDdistributor Eureka plans to move into theatrical releasing after licensingall UK rights for Phil Morrison's Junebug. Eureka, which previously distributed DVDs, is planning a theatricalrelease for spring 2006 with sales and distribution handled by MiracleCommunications. Eureka licensed the film from Los Angeles-based sales companyLightning Entertainment. "I have already dipped ...
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London's Everyman Expands Into Production
Everyman Media, the holding company behind theEveryman Cinema Club in London, is targeting investors toco-finance short and feature-length films by emerging directors. Everyman said it would seek to produce a slate of"original stories in commercial genres that are both set and shot in the UK." The group said that it ...
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First feature film to come out of Yemen shows at Cairo
London-basedFelix Films Entertainment has kicked off a festival tour for A New Day in Old Sana'a, the firstfeature film ever to come from Yemen. Intended to showWestern eyes a softer side of a country usually associated with terrorism, thefilm had its international premiere on Monday when it screened in competition ...
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Moment To Remember breaks Japanese record
A Moment to Remember has broken the recordfor highest grossing Korean film in Japan. Surpassing rival 'KoreanWave' film April Snow, the film grossed$22m (2.7 billion yen) as of December 4, according to international sales agentCJ Entertainment. Basedon a Japanese television series, John H. Lee's melodrama about a woman withprogressive memory ...
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SFC grants seed money to six projects
The Singapore FilmCommission (SFC) has announced the winners of its inaugural project developmentfunding scheme which offers total seed money of up to $118,624 (S$200,000) tosix new Singapore projects.The new scheme aims toencourage filmmakers to turn their creative ideas into viable projects bygiving earlier financial assistance during the project development phase. ...
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Pact names members of 2006 council
Pact, the UK producers group, has confirmed that the 2006 PactCouncil elections have confirmed the following council leaders. Alex Graham ofWall to Wall will serve as chair; Malcolm Brinkworthof Touch Productions will serve as vice chair, TV; Andrea Calderwoodof Slate Films will serve as vice chair, film; Jonathan Peel of ...
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THINKFilm buys into The Best Restaurant
THINKFilm has picked upNorth American rights on The Best Restaurant In The World. Ever to be produced by Vancouver-based Irreverent Media. Monika Mitchell (Break ALeg) will direct the screenplayadapted by Rick Obran from his stage play. Irreverent's Tom O'Brien and HarrySutherland will produce. Casting is pending on several roles in ...
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Slamdance unveils 12th annual festival lineup
The 12th Annual Slamdance Film festival will screen 21 premieresfrom a line-up of 20 narrative and documentary competition features and sixspecial screenings.Organisers culled the selection from more than 3,000 submissions.Fifty-seven shorts will play in competition.Competition entries include Andrew Leman's HP Lovecraft adaptationThe Call of Cthulhu,Todd Rohal's mystery The Guatemalan Handshake, ...
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Gruenberg joins First Look to run theatrical distribution
Former Miramax distribution president executive Andy Gruenberg hasjoined First Look Studios as executive vice president of theatricaldistribution.Reporting to chief executive officer Henry Winterstern, Gruenbergwill be tasked with building up the independent studio's domestic distributionoperation.Titles awaiting release include John Hillcoat's Australia-set epicThe Proposition thatwill play in the Spectrum strand at Sundance ...
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Future Films Australia opens for business
A productruling from the Australian Tax Office (ATO) was made public yesterday,signalling that the new financing outfit Future Films Australia is officiallyopen for business in a market not previously renowned for attracting privateinvestment into film.The rulinggives more momentum to Future Films' search for both high net worth individualswho are potential ...
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IMAX Oz franchise enters administration
Cinema Plus, the public company which holds the IMAX franchise for Australia and New Zealand, has been put in the hands of Sydney administrators Ferrier Hodgson, three-and-a-half years after listing on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Steve Sherman, who is in charge as a result ...