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First Look restructures legal department
First Look Media isrestructuring its legal department following the promotion of Doug McClure togeneral counsel, business and legal affairs.Kian Ghaffari will continueto report to McClure as director of business and legal affairs under anexpanded brief that will feature a more active role in video acquisitions.James Fagen is joining thecompany as ...
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AFMA is now IFTA to reflect global concerns
Following extensivereorganisation that has seen the American Film Market (AFM) move to a Novemberslot and link up with the AFI Fest, AFMA has switched its name to theIndependent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA).It is understood the changeresponded to a need for a name that more clearly identified independentproducer and distributor ...
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Edinburgh announces festival programme
Boasting six world premieres and 40 UK premieres, theEdinburgh International Film Festival has launched a 2004 programme aiming todefend its position as the premiere UK Festival for British cinema.Facingcompetition from a revitalised London Film Festival and the recent Londonscreenings, Edinburgh will host premieres of Shane Meadows gritty ganglandthriller Dead Man's ...
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Locarno goes on 'journey of exploration'
Locarno's festival directorIrene Bignardi promises 'a journey of exploration' for this year'sInternational Competition line-up with films from France to Vietnam, fromKazakhstan to Belgium and from South Africa to India.'We chose the titleswhich had most to say about the tumultuous upheaval of the world today - andthe most pertinent, impertinent and ...
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Locarno goes on 'journey of exploration'
Locarno's festival directorIrene Bignardi promises "a journey of exploration" for this year'sInternational Competition (Aug 4-14)line-up with films from France to Vietnam, fromKazakhstan to Belgium and from South Africa to India."We chose the titleswhich had most to say about the tumultuous upheaval of the world today - andthe most pertinent, impertinent ...
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UK/IRELAND 14 July
With the major studioskeeping their big releases away from Shrek 2 in the UK this week it wasleft to the independents to make the headlines in the chart.Headlines were certainly madeby Optimum Releasing. The distributor released Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit9/11 on 132 screens setting records for best documentary opening ever ...
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NORTH AMERICA 14 July
Canada'sembrace of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 offers more ammunition to USRepublicans who fear that their northern neighbour may one day join the US.Thefilm has earned $8.6m (C$11.5m) in 17 days at the Canadian box office, a sumequivalent to 14% of the North American gross in that period according to JimSherry, ...
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HUNGARY 14 July
Shrek 2 led the box office at Hungarian cinemas over the weekend.Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights came closest to challenging ogre-mania, but fell wayshort with just over 10,000 admissions on 15 prints to Shrek's 85,000.Hidalgo was clearly the disappointment of the week with a mere 8,500 admissions ontwenty prints while ...
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SWEDEN 14 July
Columbia TriStar's successful July 7 release of Spider-Man 2finally toppled Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban from the topspot of the Swedish chart.The second film in the Spiderman series improved the first films' fiveday results with 6%, and had a massive $9,618 screen average on its high 118prints.The Day ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO 14 July
As Spider-Man 2 opened with $23,268 for theweekend to add to a total of $60,062 from 16,254 admissions including previews,distributor Tuck is now behind the top four films in the Serbian-Montenegrinchart.Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban follows with 3,296 tickets in its thirdweekend and total of $140,456; while the ...
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Vivendi Universal sells Babelberg studios
VivendiUniversal (VU) has sold the historic Babelsberg Studios to a group of Germaninvestors led by Carl Woebcken, managing director of Berlin Animation Film, andChristoph Fisser, managing director of the Munich studio facility StudioAtelierbetriebe Schwabing (SAS).VU sold the studios for the symbolic price of Euros 1. TheWoebcken-Fisser group will assume Euros ...
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Dench, Sutherland round out Pride cast
Judi Dench, DonaldSutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Tom Hollander and Penelope Wilton have joined thecast of Working Title Films' Pride And PrejudicePrincipal photography startson July 19 on the adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. The film, which starsKeira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Rosamund Pike and Jena Malone, will shootentirely on location around England until ...
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ContentFilm blames Winchester for loss
UK-US producer, distributorand sales company ContentFilm has posted a pre-tax group loss of £15.2m for theyear ending March 31.The loss includes an £8mwrite down against the film library Content acquired when it took overpublicly-listed UK media group Winchester Entertainment. It marks a £4m rise onthe loss recorded for the year ...
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Works sells Italian pair to Oz's Palace
UK-based sales agency TheWorks has sold two Italian titles to Palace Pictures for Australia and NewZealand.The distributorpicked up Paolo Sorrentino's Cannes Competition film The Consequences OfLove and Matteo Garrone's psychological thriller Primo Amore, whichpremiered in Competition at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.Both films wereproduced by Fandango's Domenico Procacci, who ...
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Arte drawn to five starry French features
Arte Cinema, thefilm division of the Strasburg-based Franco-German television channel Arte, isto co-produce five new films, starring among others Emmanuelle Devos, LambertWilson, Ludivine Sagnier, and Charlotte Gainsbourg.The movies weredecided upon by a selection committee on July 6, and are some of theapproximately 20 films chosen annually for funding by the ...
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Bradley promoted at MGM International TV Distribution
Angela Bradleyhas been promoted to vice president of international pay-per-view and video ondemand at MGM International Television Distribution.Bradley willcontinue to oversee distribution for international pay-per-view andvideo-on-demand programming for stations and hotels.She joined MGM'stelevision operations in 1999 as director of international sales planning andlater served as director of international pay per ...
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Atmosphere, Wild Bunch team for Romero zombie pic
Eighteen yearsafter Day Of The Dead,George A Romero is preparing a fourth instalment in his legendary zombie seriesthat will be co-financed by US production company Atmosphere Entertainment andWild Bunch.Land Of TheDead is due to startfilming this autumn and will be produced by Atmosphere chairman and chiefexecutive officer Mark Canton, president ...
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Anchor Bay engineers domestic theatrical release of Malevolence
Anchor BayEntertainment in association with Painted Zebra Releasing is to release StevanMena's award-winning horror title Malevolence in the US, beginning with a Long Islandbow in August.The picture,which won best feature at the New York City Horror Film Festival and best 35mmfeature at the Long Island International Film Festival, is the ...
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Les Choristes selected to close Montreal Film Festival
French smash LesChoristes has beenselected to close the 28th Montreal World Film Festival, August 26 to September6. The post-war period film, which has drawn 6.7 million admissions over its16-week run at the French box office, will screen as part of the closing nightgala celebration.Directed byChristophe Barratier and written by Barratier ...
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Surging Korean industry powers into int'l chart
The strength of the South Korean market is well reflected in this week'sinternational box office chart.Representing five of the top 30 positions this week, South Koreanreleases playing well enough at home to make the international chart were ledby comedy sequel Hi, Dharma 2 at number ten.So far this year, the ...