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UK movie software hits Hollywood, first stop ICM
US talent and literary agency ICM became the first licensed user on Monday of a new financial software application designed to facilitate contract negotiations. The application is called movie dealflow and was designed by clearcounsel, a digital solutions subsidiary set up and wholly owned by UK entertainment law firm Olswang. ...
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Romance not welcome in Australia
Australian distributor Potential Films has lodged an appealagainst a decision by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC)to ban French film Romance. Inaddition the film's director Catherine Breillat has written to the to theOFLC's Review Board to protest the decision.The film was banned because of the explicitness of its ...
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Bloody Sunday
Dir: Paul Greengrass. 2002. UK/Ireland. 107 mins The end of this month marks the precise thirtieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the name given to that sickening, catalytic chapter in Anglo-Irish history in which 14 unarmed civilians were slaughtered by trigger-happy British paratroopers who had been ostensibly brought in to control ...
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Multiplex building spree in Malaysia, Singapore
Singapore's leadingexhibitor Golden Village is set to build the country's largest entertainmentmultiplex occupying 90,000 sq feet with 15 screens and about 2,500 seats.GV Harbourfront, which costs$590,000 (S$1m) per screen, is located in VivoCity shopping mall, previouslyknown as HarbourFront Mall, and due to open in late 2006. It will be GoldenVillage's ...
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Bavaria takes on (T)Raumschiff Surprise sales
Bavaria Film International will handle theinternational sales for Michael "Bully" Herbig's local blockbuster (T)RaumschiffSurprise - Period 1 which has been seen by over nine million cinema-goersin Germany this year. It is currently the territory's most successful releasewith a box-office gross of over Euros 50m.The sci-fi spoof will have its market ...
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NonStop takes on Sayles' Silver City
Scandinavian-based filmsales agent NonStop Sales has taken over international sales to John Sayles' SilverCity. "We are so pleased thatNonStop is handling Silver City," the film's producer Maggie Renzi ofAnarchists' Convention told ScreenDaily.com. "Somehow it makes sense tolet a European company handle the sales of a film like this," she added,referring ...
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Pons' Idiot benefits from Spanish Euros 40m fund
Ventura Pons' Idiot Loveand Eduard Cortes' Other Days Will Come are two of the feature films setto receive backing from a Euros 40m fund created by Sogecable and CatalanTelevision (TVC).The projects form part ofthe first Euros 4m earmarked from the fund, 50% of the anticipated investmentthis year. Four TV movies ...
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Spanish film-makers win major funding boost
Spain'snew Socialist government has increased funding for Spanish cinema by 89%,fulfilling its election promises to support cultural industries.The national film institute's (ICAA) Cinema Protection Fund,the key funding body for Spanish cinema, now totals Euros 63.13m.ICAA's own budget rose by 62%, part of an overall 6.5%increase to culture funding under the ...
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Eagle swoops on Buena Vista's Sidewalks
Aggressively acquisitive Italian distributor Eagle Pictures has added four pictures to its line-up, including Buena Vista Film Sales' Sidewalks Of New York, directed by Ed Burns, and is discussing multi-picture deals with US sales companies Alchemy Entertainment and Joe Singer Entertainment.The newly capitalised distributor has also added Tomorrow Film Corp's ...
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Portman Film sold to UK radio magnate
Chris Wright, chairman ofradio group Chrysalis, has acquired a majority stake in UK sales agent andco-producer Portman Film and TV.The acquisition is apersonal investment by Wright, who remains chairman of Chrysalis, and alsobecomes executive chairman of Portman with immediate effect.The major property ofPortman is the current ITV television show Doc ...
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Nolan Pielak joins Dream from Mobius
Nolan Pielak hasjoined Los Angeles-based production and international sales company DreamEntertainment as senior vice president of international distribution.Pielak willoversee Dream's burgeoning international distribution department and willhandle sales in all territories worldwide.He most recentlyserved as director of international distribution for Mobius International,where he also consulted on worldwide sales projections and spearheaded ...
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Hawaii, Oslo named as Oscar candidate by Norway
The Norwegian Oscarcommittee has chosen Erik Poppe's Hawaii, Oslo as the country's official candidate for the Oscars'best foreign language film category.The film grossed a solidNOK1.2m upon release this weekend after rave reviews from the Norwegian InternationalFilm Festival in Haugesund, where it also picked up the critics' and ecumenicalprize.Written by Harald ...
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Hawaii, Oslo named as Oscar candidate by Norway
The Norwegian Oscarcommittee has chosen Erik Poppe's Hawaii, Oslo as the country's official candidate for the Oscars'best foreign language film category.The film grossed a solidNOK1.2m upon release this weekend after rave reviews from the Norwegian InternationalFilm Festival in Haugesund, where it also picked up the critics' and ecumenicalprize.Written by Harald ...
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Echo Bridge buys Green Communications library
LosAngeles-based Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquired Green Communications'library and associated distribution rights and will begin representing the newtitles at Mipcom next month.This is thethird library acquisition since the company's launch a year ago and raises itscatalogue to more than 250 titles.The 12-titleGreen Communications catalogue comprises mostly thrillers, sci-fi and horrorfilms ...
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Askin leaves Pandora to head 2929 International
Shebnem Askinhas been appointed head of 2929 International, the fledgling internationalsales arm of Los Angeles-based 2929 Entertainment owned by the billionaire duoTodd Wagner and Mark Cuban.Askin, who arrivesfrom Pandora/Gaylord Films, will handle worldwide sales on the theatrical outputof 2929 Productions and HDNet Films, the sister companies owned by 2929Entertainment.The appointmentmarks ...
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Wellspring takes Desplechin's Rois Et Reine to US
Wellspring haspicked up all US rights to Arnaud Desplechin's drama Kings & Queen (Rois Et Reine), which received its world premiere atVenice earlier this month and is scheduled to play at the New York FilmFestival next week.The company plans2005 theatrical and DVD releases for the picture, which centres on the ...
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Cinemark to open seven-screen multiplex in Ecuador
Cinemark International continues to redraw the LatinAmerican exhibition map with the announcement that it will open theseven-screen Mall del Sur complex in Ecuador, on Oct 20.Cinemark's thirdmultiplex in the country is equipped with more than 1,400 stadium-style seatsand will be part of a larger shopping centre in the southern part ...
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Taiwan selects 20:30:40 as foreign-language Oscar entry
Taiwan has selected Sylvia Chang's 20:30:40 as its entry for the foreign-language category of nextyear's Academy Awards.The romantic drama, which follows three women aged 20, 30and 40 as they grapple with modern-day relationships, screened in competitionat this year's Berlin International Film Festival. It opened in Taiwan inFebruary and was a ...
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ROMANIA 30 September
Veteran Romanian director Sergiu Nicolaescu's latestproduction, Orient Express was thetalk of the town last week opening with a total of nearly 9,000 admissions. Thehistorical drama released by MediaPro Film Distribution opened on seven printsjust like Hollywood production TheChronicles Of Riddick and was only defeated by less than one thousandadmissions to ...
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TPS film channels outrank CanalSatellite
Television Par Satellite (TPS) movie channels, Cinestar 1 and Cinestar 2, are outperforming rival CanalSatellite's three CineCinema channels, according to Mediametrie's viewership survey Audicabsat.The TPS channels were France's top-rating film channels with a 5.8% share of the country's 11 million cable and satellite subscribers according to Mediametrie figures for November ...