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Producers launch European lobby group
120 producers from all over Europe have launched the European Motion Picture Producers Association (EMPPA) to act as a networking platform and a lobbying group to represent producer interests vis-a-vis Eurimages and MEDIA Plus as well as push for changes in Germany's Media Decree regulations on international ...
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Waiting For The Clouds gets ready to shoot
Behrooz Hashemian, co-producer of Michael Winterbottom's Berlin competition film In This World, is preparing a new film that looks tailor-made for Berlin director Dieter Kosslick's favoured themes of tolerance, diversity and multi-cultural understanding.Waiting For The Clouds, by Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu (director of Journey To The Sun) centres ...
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Films Distribution beefs up slate
French sales outfit Films Distribution, which is handling the Lucas Belvaux trilogy, one of the hottest properties at the EFM, has added four films to its Berlin-AFM slate. These are headed by Central Station-writer Marcos Bernstein's directorial debut The Other Side Of The Street. The film, which stars ...
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Neue Kinowelt strikes first deal
Neue Kinowelt's German language sales arm, Futura/Filmverlag der Autoren has made its first pickup - Christoph Schaub's melodrama Secret Love (Stille Liebe) - following the reorganisation of Kinowelt's acquisition and distribution division From now on, Futura will be in charge of the international sales for the Filmverlag der Autoren ...
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Metacinema snaps up Berlinale titles
Metacinema, the Italian production, distribution and communications outfit launched last year at Venice, has bought a three-picture package of Berlin festival films from Fortissimo Film Sales.The company, formed by industry veteran Giovanni Tamberi, formerly with Key Films and most recently with Istituto Luce, bought Yes Nurse, No Nurse, the ...
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ContentFilm teams with DMX for Dickerson-directed thriller
Ed Pressman and JohnSchmidt's New York-based production and distribution outfit ContentFilmhas teamed up with rapper-actor DMX's Bloodline Films for the thriller NeverDie Alone. Based on a novel by thecult 1970s writer Donald Goines, the story centres on an aspiring journalistwho witnesses the murder of a rapper and learns why he ...
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Regent's here! takes international rights to The Trip
Regent Entertainment's gayand lesbian sales label here! Films has acquired foreign rights to the multiaward-winning gay romantic comedy The Trip. The story centres on a pair of seemingly ill-matched lovers who have abitter falling-out, only to meet years later on a road trip in Mexico. The picture is set in ...
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Palm gets Rotterdam hit Noi Albinoi, Housekeeper
ChrisBlackwell's Palm Pictures has acquired all North American rights to DagurKari's festival hit Noi The Albino (Noi Albinoi) at the European Film Market in Berlin and, in a separate deal, allNorth American rights (excluding French-speaking Canada) to ClaudeBerriis bittersweet comedy The Housekeeper (Une Femme De Menage). Palm plans atheatrical release ...
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Sandler named ShoWest male star of the year
Adam Sandler has been namedShoWest 2003's Male Star of the Year. The actor-comedian will collect thehonour at the annual Gala Awards Banquet to be held at Bally's and ParisHotel in Las Vegas on Mar 6. Sandler, who recently appeared in Punch-DrunkLove and Adam Sander's 8Crazy Nights, will next be seenopposite ...
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Davis/Mondrian slate led by actioner Mule
Veteran salesagent Chris Davis' new sales and financing outfit Chris Davis International(CDI) has unveiled the first titles to emerge from its financing and productionpartnership with Lars Sylvest's Mondrian, a Europe-based financing groupwith access to a network of European banks and equity funds.Leading the packis Mule, a $17mactioner based in the ...
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Red Dragon passes $100m international gross
The third instalment in the Anthony Hopkins/Hannibal Lecter franchise, Red Dragon, has passed the $100m international box office mark after a strong debut last weekend in Japan.The film, which is a prequel to the 1991 Best Picture Oscar winner The Silence Of The Lambs, grossed $3.6m (Y435.7m) in two days ...
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Schumacher to direct Phantom
Joel Schumacher is to direct The Phantom Of The Opera, a feature version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit stage musical which UK-based sales outfit Odyssey Entertainment will launch at next week's AFM market.Warner Bros. Pictures, which owned the film rights until Lloyd Webber recently bought them back, retains the option ...
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Canal Plus Nordic reports subscriptions increase
Canal Plus' Nordic pay-TV subsidiary has reported a 37% increase in subscriptions during 1999.The French pay-TV giant's Scandinavian service had 472,000 subscribers in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland at the end of 1999, about 100,000 more than at the end of the previous year. About 30% of the new subscribers ...
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Infernal Affairs
Dir. Andrew Lau, Alan Mak. Hong Kong. 2002. 98mins.A smart Hong Kong action thriller, Infernal Affairs stands to prove as much of a hit on the international market as it has done at the box office at home. With both a prequel and sequel already in the works, Warner Bros, ...
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Splendid lines up 2003 production slate
Germany's Splendid Medien, which co-produced Martin Scorsese's Gangs Of New York through its then subsidiary IEG by stumping up $65m for the worldwide rights except for domestic, is lining up a number of new productions for shoot later this year.Splendid's CEO Andreas Klein told Screen International that the outfit's production ...
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VIP aims to raise Euros 500m for 20 projects
German private media fund VIP is aiming to raise up to Euros 500m this year to fully finance or co-produce up to 20 features.Initially, the Munich-based outfit set a target volume of between Euros 105m-150m to finance or co-produce up to ten projects, but VIP managing director Andreas Schmid told ...
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South Korean comedy attracts record admissions
Romantic comedy My Tutor Friend has opened to blockbuster business in South Korea, having drawn over a million admissions in its first five days. This matches the record five-day openings of local smashes Friend and My Wife Is A Gangster, which went on to earn $44m and $31m respectively ...
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Guadalajara to launch Iberoamerican market strand
A new Iberoamerican market is set to debut during Mexico's Guadalajara film festival in March.Managed by independent producer/distributor Laura Ruiz of Canela Films, the market has already attracted up to 100 buyers and distributors from Latin America, Europe and the US.While the festival runs from March 21st - 27th, the ...
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Berlin market climate offers guarded encouragement
If Berlin's European Film Market was anything to go by, one thing is clear: the overall climate for buying and selling films is probably getting no worse.Indeed, the two recurring adjectives used to describe the state of the film sales business were "firmer" and "livelier" - particularly in comparison ...
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Head of FilmFour Lab steps down
Robin Gutch is stepping down as head of FilmFour Lab, FilmFour's low-budget and experimental division.Gutch's position and the Lab were though to be safe despite FilmFour being folded back into parent broadcaster Channel 4 last year, but Gutch was one of the candidates to head Channel 4's entire film operation, ...