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Five world premieres for Berlinale Special
The selection of films for Berlinale Special has beenfinalised. This film series has a varied programme with two football filmsfeaturing among the five world premieres which are, Luis Llosa'sThe Feast of the Goat (La Fiesta Del Chivo), based on the best-selling novel of the samename by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas ...
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New Screenwriters Festival to launch in London
The new international Screenwriters' Festivalwill hold a Londonlaunch on Monday (January 30) to announce details of its inaugural event, whichwill be held in Cheltenhamfrom June 27-30. Screen Internationalis one of the sponsors of the festival.Festival supporters who will appear at thelaunch include producer Gina Carter, BAFTA chairman Duncan Kenworthy,producer and ...
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Deal finalised for Usen-Daiwa content fund
Gaga Communicationsannounced at its first board meeting of the year (Jan 25) that the $259m (Y30bn)content fund partnership between its parent company Usen Corp and DaiwaSecurities SMBC, tabled last December, is now a done deal. The two partners and their respectivegroup companies will each contribute 50% of the 10-year fund, ...
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Korean film industry launches labour union
The South Korean filmindustry's first official labour union has been launched in Seoul in response to unstable working conditions. At launch, the Federation ofKorean Movie Workers' Union has around 400 members with the primary aim of improvingwork conditions through collective negotiation.Despite the phenomenalgrowth of the Korean industry since the late ...
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MK Pictures set to enter China partnership
Korea's MK Pictures has signed a memorandum of understanding with China's Eastern Dragon and Beijing Polybona Film Publishingto enter into a partnership encompassing several areas of the film business.The MOU, signed on Dec 14, coverscollaboration in the construction and management of multiplexes, filmproduction and distribution, talent management and advertising. Although ...
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DDA to stage 35th anniversary event in London on Dec 6
PR and marketing consultancyDennis Davidson Associates is celebrating its 35th anniversary byholding a champagne reception, dinner and concert in London on Dec 6 in aid ofthe Small Faces' All Children's Charity and the Cinema & TelevisionBenevolent Fund.To highlight DDA's earlyrelationships across film and music including some of its earlier work ...
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Screen presents Mrs Henderson with Hollywood prize
Stephen Frears' Mrs Henderson Presents won The Hollywood World Award, sponsored andpresented by Screen International, ata glitzy Hollywood Film Awards ceremony held at the Beverley Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles last night (Oct 24)Among the already announced winners was another UKdirector, Sam Mendes, who won the best director prize ...
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Celsius signs on for Flying Scotsman sales
UK based sales outfit Celsius has signed to handle world sales on DouglasMackinnon's The Flying Scotsman.The Flying Scotsman is the true story of Graeme Obree, a Scottishamateur cyclist who in 1994 went on to break the world Hour Record on a bike hebuilt at home, using parts from an old ...
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Skillset names successful applicants for Inside Pictures programme
Skillset's film business training programmeInside Pictures has announced the 14 successfulapplicants for its 2005/6 programme. The group was chosen from hundreds of applicationsthrough a committee selection process and a shortlist of interviews. The successful applicants are:- Alexei Boltho, Commercial Executive, BBCFilms -Tara Buckwell, Legal and Business Affairs Manager,Tiger Aspect Pictures ...
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Weinsteins raise $230m in backing for new venture
Harvey and Bob Weinsteinhave raised $230.5m in equity for their new venture the Weinstein Co, accordingto a report on financial wire service Bloomberg.Bloomberg reported that the Weinstein Co. sold shares to 18investors, according to a regulatory filing this week. The Weinsteins are innegotiations with other investors that may increase the ...
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SPE names Blake as Col TriStar worldwide marketing chairman
Jeff Blake has been named Chairman of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for theColumbia TriStar Motion Picture Group.His appointment wasannounced by Michael Lynton, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Amy Pascal,Chairman of SPE's Motion Picture Group.Blake directsand oversees the global marketing and distributionof all films from SPE'S production entities ...
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Foreign language Oscar race hots up
A slew of countries haveannounced their selections for the foreign language category of the AcademyAwards, just days before the final deadline on October 3.- Anders Thomas Jensen Adam's Apples has been selected as theDanish entry. The popular comedy has sofar sold more than 350,000 tickets in Denmark.Anders Thomas Jensen haspreviously ...
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Top speakers set for Screen's Embracing Digital Cinema conference
A number of top level newspeakers have joined the line up for ScreenInternational's Embracing Digital Cinema conference, which takes place on September28 at the Cafe Royal in London. Former ChiefExecutive Officer of the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) and 30-year veteran of the motion picture exhibitionindustry, Chuck Goldwater has joined the ...
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Lions Gate offers $90m for DVD specialist
Lions Gate Entertainmenthas launched a $90m bid to buy Image Entertainment, the North American producerand distributor of home entertainment programming whose operations include a UKsubsidiary.The unsolicited bid sentImage Entertainment's shares soaring by as much as 57% this Wednesday afternoon on NewYork's Nasdaq exchange upon speculation that Lions Gate would increase ...
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Academy takes over European Film Awards
The European FilmAcademy has taken over the production of its annual awards ceremony, theEuropean Film Awards, which will be held this year in Berlin on Dec 3.For the past eightyears, DDA Productions has financed and executive produced the ceremony. In a statement,both parties described the move as a "mutually agreed ...
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IFC accompanies Weinsteins on trans-sexual odyssey
IFCFilms will partner with The Weinstein Company to distribute Duncan Tucker's hot-buttonroad movie Transamerica. Thefilm's central character, a Christian transsexual played by Felicity Huffman, isseen as a potent Oscar vehicle for the Desperate Housewives actress.Thetwo companies, who already share a broadly defined strategic alliance, willjointly share the distribution of the ...
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Tarnation takes top prize at Era New Horizons
JonathanCaouette's Tarnation won the Grand Prix at the 5th Era NewHorizons Film Festival (July 21-31) in Cieszyn, southern Poland.Amongother competition entries which received high scores as voted by the audiencewere: 4 by Ilja Khrzhanovsky (Russia), 13 Lakes by James Benning(USA), 20 Fingers by Mania Akbari (Iran), and The Wayward Cloudby ...
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Thomson to leave UK Film Council for DDA Consulting
UKFilm Council press and PR executive Ian Thomson is leaving to become managingdirector of DDA Consulting, a division of leading film PR outfit DDA.DDA Consulting actsfor a number of non-entertainment related clients as well as those within DDA'straditional sector.Theappointment was announced by DDA's Chairman Dennis Davidson and Group COO PaulPhilpotts.Thomsonwill ...
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Dutch court jails van Gogh killer for life
A Dutch court has sentencedthe self-confessed killer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh to life in jail.Mohammed Bouyeri, anAmsterdam-born Muslim, was convicted of killing van Gogh as he cycled to workin Amsterdam on Nov. 2, 2004. He was found guilty of shooting and stabbing vanGogh, slashing his throat and pinning ...
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Edinburgh festival to confiscate mobiles in piracy move
Mobile phones are to be temporarily confiscated duringcertain screenings at this year's Edinburgh Film Festival as part of acrackdown on piracy. Festival-goers and industry executives attendingscreenings of films such as BVI's Kinky Boots - which world premieres atEdinburgh - will be asked to hand over their phones for the duration ...