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York Entertainment picks up Lexie, Evicted
Los Angeles-based production and distribution outfit York Entertainment has picked up two titles for home video distribution in the second quarter.Lexie is scheduled for release on Apr 20 and centres on the intrigue that surrounds a music producer's efforts to get back in the game. It stars Cindy Herron Braggs, ...
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Oliver Stone to receive top Bangkok career prize
Oliver Stone will receive a special Golden Kinnaree award for career achievement at the 2004 Bangkok International Film Festival.Stone will collect the honour at the event's Jan 31 awards gala, towards the end of the 14-day festival which runs from Jan 22-Feb 2."We are thrilled that we may honour Oliver ...
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Goldman's Hombre set to conquer US
Former New Line marketing and distribution president, Mitch Goldman, and his partner Lou O'Neil have launched a US Latino distribution company - Hombre de Oro - to distribute Mexican box office hit The Other Conquest (La Otra Conquista) in the US. Although the company has been set up to handle ...
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The Silence Between Two Thoughts (Sokoote Beine Do Fekr )
Dir: Babak Payami. Iran. 2003. 88mins.There were three Iranian films at Venice last year; and all three were newsworthy. One (Hana Makhmalbaf's Joy Of Madness) because the director was only 14. Another (Abolfazl Jalili's The First Letter) because the director had been detained in Teheran by the authorities. And the ...
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Sinatra feature scores Miracle sale to US
UK/Australian co-production The Night They Called It a Day has been picked up for the US by Miracle Entertainment.Emile Sherman of Sherman Pictures, co-producer of the feature with the UK's Nik Powell of Scala Productions, made the announcement in Sydney. "Miracle have been incredibly enthusiastic about the film and its ...
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Minghella to open Screen European Film Summit
Cold Mountain director and British Film Institute chair Anthony Minghella is to open Screen International's European Film Summit with an on-stage interview.The Summit - titled Modernising European Cinema - is being held on Feb 4 on the eve of the Berlin International Film Festival at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in ...
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Depardieu, Auteuil team for French cop drama
French stars Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu are pairing up for a new film by Oliver Marchal entitled 36.The Euros 13.75m film, produced through French major Gaumont, is set at 36 Quai des Orfevres, a mythic spot in French cinema and the site of police headquarters in Paris.The two titans ...
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Media Luna takes on Spanish Bearcub sales
Media Luna Entertainment has picked up world rights on new Spanish film Bearcub (Cachorro), premiering in the Panorama section of the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.The new drama - the sixth feature by director Miguel Albaladejo (Rancour, Manolito Four Eyes) - turns on a gay dentist forced to tone down his ...
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Top Spanish film exec drafted into key Sogecable role
Sogecable has announced that Fernando Bovaira will take over as the company's managing director of contents following the unexpected departure earlier this month of Jose Manuel Lorenzo.Bovaira has topped Sogecable's production activities through powerhouse Sogecine since 1996, where he shepherded the country's two biggest-grossing local films ever, English-language The Others ...
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Berlin unveils full Competition line-up
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15) has rounded out its Competition section, confirming new titles from Korea, Hong Kong, Argentina, Colombia and the US.In total 26 films have been selected for Competition. 23 of these will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears, while three will be shown out ...
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Kosslick mixes it up with wide ranging selection
The 26 films in Berlinale chief Dieter Kosslick's Competition line-up are, he acknowledges, "quite a different mix".But, he says, political issues run like a central theme through many of the Competition line-up films - but love, relationships, passion and unrequited love are also topics.Kosslick also argues that the Competition "has ...
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Business stirs at Paris Screenings
Kiyonaga Nakagawa from Comstock was the only Japanese buyer present at the Rendez-Vous De Paris, the Unifrance organised screenings that are otherwise targeted at European distributors.He made a splash taking Japanese rights to TF1 International's Spy Bound (Agents Secrets), directed by Frederic Schoendoerffer, starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel.Other deals ...
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SPC climbs Merchant Ivory's Heights
Sony PicturesClassics has extended its distribution ties with Merchant Ivory Productions byacquiring North American rights to Heights, a low budget comedy of manners set in contemporaryManhattan.SPC is alsonegotiating to acquire international territories on the film, a $2-3m MerchantIvory production that stars Elizabeth Banks, Glenn Close, James Marsden, JesseBradford and John ...
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Swedish directing duo deliver third hit
Swedish directing duo Maans Herngren and Hannes Holm flexed their box office muscle once again with their third film, Shit Happens (Det Blir Aldrig Som Man Taenkt Sig). After two weeks, the comedy, about a TV soap actress trying to juggle her family and professional life, has taken $1.2m and ...
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Warner Independent makes first acquisition at Sundance
Two more deals were closedat the Sundance Film Festival yesterday and more are set to close before thefestival finishes this weekend, as the domestic buying frenzy continued.Warner Independent Pictures,which had made multi-million dollar bids on at least two pictures this week,finally closed on its first acquisition, taking North American and ...
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HUNGARY
Only three of last week's eight new releases made it into the weekend box office top ten, the most popular of them being a French comedy Tais Toi, directed by Francis Veber and starring Jean Reno and Gérard Depardieu.Last week's surprise disappointment was Gary Ross' Seabiscuit which failed to ...
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Employee Of The Month
Dir: Mitch Rouse. US. 2004. 97 mins.Few films deserved a slot in the Sundance Film Festival less than the repellent Employee Of The Month, a bungled attempt to blend gross-out comedy with double-cross heist thriller which had buyers walking out and audiences shaking their heads in dismay in Park City.Despite ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
The trio at the top of the Serbian-Montenegrin chart has not changed since the last weekend in spite of two new openers.The Return Of The King still reigns with 10,292 admissions for the weekend and now has grossed a total of $589,531 and Mona Lisa Smile is holding strong after ...
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France Television slashes film sales arm
France Television Distribution Cinema, the film sales and acquisitions arm of public broadcaster France Television, is to cease its international sales activities in the coming weeks according to sources close to the situation.France Television Distribution currently has two sales teams, one for TV and one for film. The film team ...
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Gothenburg emerges into Cold Light with record sales
When Sweden's leading film event, the Gothenburg Film Festival, opened its box office earlier this month, business was brisk. It sold a record 30,000 tickets on its first day - including all the tickets to opening film Cold Light by Hilmar Oddsson as well as several other screenings.Not a bad ...