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Celluloid Dreams strengthens sales slate for Berlin
French sales agentCelluloid Dreams is flexing its muscles pre-Berlin, boarding yet moreEnglish-language productions in advance of the European Film Market.New toCelluloid's roster is Bille August's Goodbye Bafana, based on the diaries of Nelson Mandela's formerprison guard. Co-produced by Banana Films with France's ARSAM, Goodbye Bafana traces Mandela's prison guard, James ...
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Sundance: Revolver buys UK rights to explicit portmanteau film Destricted
London-based Revolver Entertainment has bought UK rights to theexplicit shorts compilation Destricted, featuring contributions from Matthew Barney, Larry Clark,Gaspar Noe, and Sam Taylor-Wood, among others.Neville Wakefield, MelAgace and Andrew Hale produced the compilation, which first screened here overthe weekend.Revolver's Nick Taussig and Justin Marciano negotiated the dealwith Katapult Film Sales ...
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C.R.A.Z.Y. leads pack with 12 Genie Award nominations
Jean-Marc Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y. picked up 12 nominations and Deepa Mehta's Water earned nine Canada's Genie Awards. Both films werenominated for Best Motion Picture and Best Achievement in Direction. Michael Dowse's It's AllGone Pete Tong had eight nominationswhile Luc Picard's debut feature L'Audition and Andre Turpin's Familia had seven. Five films ...
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UIP signs exclusive licensing agreement in Pakistan
UIP has become the first major theatrical distributor to sign anexclusive license agreement in Pakistan following the December launch of KingKong.UIP's new agent, BoxOffice Limited, is the distribution affiliate of Cinepax, the country's firstcineplex company that plans to develop 120 screens in Pakistan's larger cities.King Kongopened through Box Office Limited ...
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Lionsgate enters Sundance fray with global deal on Door
As Sundance started to wind down, Lionsgate took worldwide rightsto Chris Gorak's dirty bomb thriller Right At Your Door, which gathered rapid momentum this weekfollowing its Monday world premiere.In another deal - the first for a documentary at this Sundance -IFC acquired North American rights to Patrick Creadon's crossword documentary ...
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WBITD signs output deal with Orbit for Middle East, North Africa
Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) andOrbit Communications have signed a multi-year output deal giving Orbit the exclusivepay television rights for Warner product in the Middle East and North Africa.The deal includes such titles as Batman Begins, Harry PotterAnd The Goblet Of Fireand Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, as well ...
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Korea set to cut screen quota in half
South Korea's government is to cut its 146-day screen quota forlocal productions in half starting July 1. Deputy Prime Minister andFinance Minister Han Duck-soo announced in a weekly briefing today (Jan 26)that the government is planning to legislate the enforcement ordinance on Jan27. As Korea's second-largest trade partner, the US ...
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Roth lines up $3bn for Revolution Studios launch
Joe Roth's eagerly-awaited film and internet production outfit, to be henceforth known as Revolution Studios, has finally hit the ground with an initial $3bn in financing and distribution commitments from three key investment partners who will collectively control own around a quarter of the company.Roth's Revolution - not to be ...
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Shelton, Clarke join London's Capital FX
London post-production company Capital FX has expanded its team, with Rod Shelton joining as head of digital intermediate and Liz Clarke joining as head of sales and marketing. Both formerly worked at the VTR Group. Shelton leads Capital's new digital intermediate division, which was created due to an increase in ...
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Deal finalised for Usen-Daiwa content fund
Gaga Communicationsannounced at its first board meeting of the year (Jan 25) that the $259m (Y30bn)content fund partnership between its parent company Usen Corp and DaiwaSecurities SMBC, tabled last December, is now a done deal. The two partners and their respectivegroup companies will each contribute 50% of the 10-year fund, ...
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Lumet and Panahi complete Berlin Competition line-up
World premieres from Sidney Lumet and Iranian director Jafar Panahi are the final Competition selections for this year's Berlinale.Lumet's Find Me Guilty, starring Vin Diesel, is based on the true story of the 1980s trial of Mafia boss Jack DiNorscio. The veteran director won the Golden Bear back in 1957 ...
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MPA settles Singapore piracy case
The Motion PictureAssociation (MPA) and Singapore home video licensee Alliance Entertainment havereached an out-of-court settlement with the TS Group which was sued forcopyright infringement. As part of the settlementterms, TS, a group of home video companies with over 20 retail outlets in Singapore, has admitted illegally infringing four copyrightedtitles (Die ...
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China's Huayi Brothers brings Banquet to Berlin
Beijing-based productioncompany Huayi Brothers Film Investment will be making its debut as a seller atthe upcoming European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin.The company will be offeringits two latest productions - The Banquetand One Foot Off The Ground - whichrecently wrapped and are both in post-production. Period drama The Banquet, which ...
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The Hawk Is Dying
Dir: Julian Goldberger. US. 2006. 112mins.The second featurefrom Julian Goldberger after his 1999 work Trans,The Hawk Is Dying is an admirable thoughfailed effort to graft the film-maker's poetic aesthetic to the demands of narrativefilm-making.A meditation on the thin veneer between obsession and madness, it has somesharp visual interludes and neat ...
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A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints
Dir/scr: Dito Montiel. US.2006.103mins.Adapting his 2003 memoir of the same title, debut writer-directorDito Montiel reveals himselfas a promising new voice in American cinema with A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, a featurethat summons the sting of memory, evoked in moments simultaneously fond, joyous,bitter, sad and tragic.Despite a problematic start -a ...
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Unfolding Florence
Dir: Gillian Armstrong. 82mins.Aus. 2006.Feature director Gillian Armstrong (Charlotte Grey, Oscar And Lucinda) makes a successfulswitch to factual film-making with Unfolding Florence, her packed and perceptivedocumentary about the "many lives" of feisty high society proto-feminist,opportunist and self-reinventor Florence Broadhust.The project - originallyplanned as a one-hour TV documentary until Armstrong signed ...
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Film and TV shooting up 18% in London
UK film production may have had a down year in 2005 - with overall film production spending down 31% -- but filming in London was up 18%, according to agency Film London. That figure, however, is not just based on film shoots but also includes TV and commercial shoots as ...
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Spain claims 20-year production record
Spainproduced more feature films in 2005 than in any year in the past two decades,according to new figures released by the Ministry of Culture.Some142 features were made in Spain last year, nine more than the previous year,with another 30 currently in post-production.Ofthose 142, 53 were international co-productions. The mostfrequent co-producing ...
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Ex-Searchlight publicist Robertson opens PR shop
Michele Robertson, former executive director of national publicity at Fox Searchlight Pictures, has launched her own boutique PR agency in Los Angeles called MRC. Kicking off with two film accounts - Fine Line Features' Saving Grace and Trimark Pictures' Skipped Parts - Robertson plans to work with both studios and ...
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Rome festival promises to serve both industry and public
The new Rome Film Festival (13-21 Oct, 2006) is planning to become a major event for both the public and international industryprofessionals.At a packed press conference in Rome's town hall, city mayorWalter Veltroni said buyers, producers and executives will be able to meet fromOct 13-16 in a business area along ...