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Fortissimo to sell Love worldwide
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up world rights outside North America to PS I Love You, the second film by Dylan Kidd, director of the award winning Roger Dodger.The film is a romantic comedy with an all-star cast headed by Laura Linney, Marcia Gay Harden, Gabriel Byrne, Topher Grace, Paul ...
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Italy's Bim bites at arthouse trio
Already proving to be one of the most active buyers at MIFED, Italian arthouse distributor Bim has snapped up Italian distribution rights to three new pictures: Michael Moore's widely anticipated Fahrenheit 9:11, Jonathan Demme's The Agronomist and John Curran's We Don't Live Here Anymore.Sold by Wild Bunch, Fahrenheit 9:11 is ...
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Becker blooms with Marigold, Osama
Newly formed Becker Films International has picked up sales duties on Osama, the award-winning Afghan film, and has unveiled hot Bollywood fusion film Marigold.The Sydney-based company, operated by former MDP sales executive Reiko Bradley, was formed earlier this autumn as a joint venture between Bradley and Richard Becker's Australian distributor ...
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KMI sells Instant Karma
Kathy Morgan International (KMI) is handling international sales on the $70m live-action-CGI black comedy Instant Karma, which stars Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Pierce Brosnan.New Line is in talks to take domestic rights on the film by first-time writer-director Paul Hernandez , which is due to go into production in ...
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Gov't set to intervene in French producers' battle
The French government looks set to intervene in a stalemate between pay-TV outfit Television Par Satellite (TPS) and industry bodies BLIC, BLOC and ARP about the relationship between the pay-TV sector and French producers.TPS is under pressure to sign an agreement with the three organisations which would govern its investment ...
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Dream racks up Monster deals
LA-based production and international sales outfit Dream Entertainment has completed a raft of sales on Michael Davis' horror film Monster Man, which completed production last month.Gaga has picked up rights for Japan, Magna Pacific for Australia, Kinowelt for Germany, Gussi for Mexico, Scanbox for Scandinavia and Village Roadshow for Greece.In ...
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Italy sees October cinema visits plummet
Cinema admissions in Italy dropped a huge 22% compared to the same month in 2002, according to the latest figures from Cinetel, which surveys around 75% of screens in Italy.The admissions set-back follows a 4.4% rise in cinema-going in the first quarter of 2003 compared to 2002. It also comes ...
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Russian films clean up at Cottbus festival
Russian cinema is well and truly back on the international scene after becoming the big winner at this year's Festival of East European Cinema in Cottbus (November 4-8) by picking up nine of the festival's 12 awards presented at a gala ceremony on Saturday evening (Nov 8).Lidija Bobrowa's Granny (Babusja) ...
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HONG KONG
Two Category III films (for persons aged 18 or above only) top the Hong Kong box office this week. Chan Hing-kai and Dante Lam's comedy Naked Ambition took the top slot with $553,710 from 29 screens. Produced by Panorama Entertainment and China Star, the film is about two university graduates ...
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Trust to sell Mother's Elling
Trust Film Sales will handle world sales on Mother's Elling, the follow up to 2001's international box-office hit Elling, which has already been seen by more than 300,000 Norwegians and grossed some $2.5m in four weeks. UIP, which distributes the film in Scandinavia, had first look, but Trust Film Sales ...
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Major boost for NZ film industry
An additional $6.2m (NZ$10m) is going to the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) for 2004, all government agencies are to be reviewed, and NZ$900,000 over two years has been provided for the establishment of an independent Screen Council and NZ$960,000 over two years for marketing body Film NZ.The additional NZ$10m ...
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AUSTRALIA
The Matrix Revolutions did an extraordinary A$8,011,504 in its first four-day weekend from a whopping 454 screens, giving it an enviable A$17,646 screen average. That meant Roadshow must have swept away with at least two-thirds of Australia's total gross, taking into account its other films on release. Intolerable Cruelty, in ...
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NEW ZEALAND
The Matrix Revolutions blitzed the opposition in New Zealand as it did around the world, grossing a highly impressive NZ$1,266,716 from 77 screens for a screen average of NZ$16,451. Such was its power that it also pulled The Matrix Reloaded back into the chart in thirteenth spot, despite being on ...
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Euro producers club to hold co-production forum
The European Film Awards weekend will kick off this year with the European Producers Club's (EPC) Berlin Co-Production Forum on December 5 (Friday) which will open with a panel discussion open to the public, focusing on producing in or with Germany and the future Film Funding Law (FFG).Those wanting to ...
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Moviehouse gets to Work on beefed up slate
London-based sales outfit Moviehouse Entertainment has picked up Adam Goldberg's debut feature I Love Your Work which was one of the last films to be backed by Fireworks Pictures.Moviehouse, which was founded two years ago by Mark Vennis and Gary Phillips, will now also handle 13 titles from the back ...
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Intercom opens Romania's first multiplex
Multiplex Operation Romania, a subsidiary of Andy Vajna-controlled Intercom Corp, is planning to open Romania's first multiplex theatre on May 29. Intercom has invested $5.5m in the ten-screen, 2,340-seat theatre, built in the Bucharest Mall on Alea Vitar. Tickets are likely to cost about 45,000 Romanian lei ($2.50)."We have great ...
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Just Betzer dies, aged 59
Just Betzer, the celebrated Danish producer of Oscar-winner Babette's Feast (Babettes Gaestebud), died suddenly last week. Having not produced a film since 1992, Betzer had been planning a comeback and was scheduled to arrive in Mifed on Sunday 9 November. Aged only 59, Betzer started as a camera and ...
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Cecchi Gori lines up Andreotti biopic
Troubled Italian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori has announced that he will produce a picture about another notorious Italian personality, seven-time prime minister Giulio Andreotti.Directed by Pasquale Squitieri, the picture will be entitled The Trial Of The Century (Il Processo Del Secolo) and will focus on 84-year-old Andreotti's infamous decade-long ...
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Good Woman starts shooting
Mike Barker's A Good Woman, billed as a scandalous but comic tale set in New York and Italy's Amalfi Coast during the 1930s, has begun principal photography on location in Sorrento.Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Wilkinson star in the film, which is based on Oscar Wilde's classic play Lady ...
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Diot's Onoma unveils debut slate
Onoma International, the new sales company launched in September by Pascal Diot, former head of Pathe International (France), has unveiled a four film slate headed by new Chinese picture Day And Night (Riri Yeye).Day And Night is directed by Wang Chao, who attracted strong critical acclaim for his first film ...