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Rai Trade's Caravaggio heads to Japan with Tokyo Theatres
On the eve of the European Film Market in Berlin, Rai Trade has announced an eyecatching Japanese deal on its new title, Angelo Longoni's Caravaggio. On the basis of the rushes, Tokyo Theatres have picked up all rights to the biopic, which tells the story of the troubled but brilliant ...
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Richard Branson to star in global warming awareness expedition
Arctic and Antarctic explorer and environmental campaigner Will Steger has begun production on the documentary Baffin Island Expedition '07: The Explorers featuring famed Mount Everest mountaineer Ed Viesturs, Richard Branson and his son Sam. The project marks the launch of the newly established Will Steger Foundation's Global Warming 101 education ...
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Avanzit buys out Notro Films
Spanish distributor and producer Notro Films has been acquired by media company Avanzit. Notro founding partner Jose Maria Irisarri, former CEO and current advisor of TV powerhouses Globo Media and Grupo Arbol, has been named executive president of Avanzit's media filial. Notro - which was launched in September 2004 by ...
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Nordisk invests in Maipo with view to European expansion
Danish major Nordisk Film has purchased a major stake in Oslo-based production house Maipo Film & TV-Produksjon. Set up in 2000 by Norwegian producer Dag Alveberg, who has produced 15 features, Maipo has backed 10 films and a television series - including the Oscar-nominated Elling, by Petter Næss - to ...
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Pursuit of Happyness set to blitz international box office
The Pursuit Of Happyness is well on its way toward $100m following last weekend's dominant performance, and Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) executives will hope to sustain momentum with launches in 22 new markets this weekend. The Will Smith drama had amassed $71.1m as of Feb 5 and, while the ...
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Wild Bunch declares war on Dieter Kosslick
After a slow burn of increasing upset with Berlin festival director Dieter Kosslick, French sales, financing and distribution outfit Wild Bunch has declared that it is boycotting the EFM and declaring a 'period of sanction' on its films in future Berlin competitions.The company has cancelled its market stand and, in ...
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Nitschke returns to Senator Film
Anatol Nitschke, head of distribution at Berlin's X Verleih since 2000, is returning to Senator Film on April 1 to serve as co-managing director of Senator Film Verleih and Senator Home Entertainment along with Peter Heinzemann.Nitschke, who headed Senator Film Verleih between 1999 and 2000, will be responsible for marketing, ...
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Dresdner Kleinwort explores European 'fund of funds'
Having pumped more than $4.6bn into a variety of Hollywood slate deals in the past two years, German bank Dresdner Kleinwort is now looking at Europe to see whether a similar co-financing structure could enable a portfolio of European films from different production sources. The bank's New York-based media and ...
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Constantin extends pay TV rights deal with Premiere
Constantin Film has extended its output deal with German pay TV channel Premiere for rights to its in-house and co-productions by another two years from January 1, 2007 to the end of 2008.In addition to highlights of the existing contract which was signed in February 2004, such as Perfume - ...
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Ealing strikes European deals for Carmen Electra project
Ealing Studios International, the new sales arm of Ealing Studios, has licensed UK comedy I Want Candy in three key territories prior to the film's market premiere at the EFM. Square One Entertainment took German theatrical rights, while Revolutionary Releasing has taken rights for Eastern Europe excluding the CIS. Buena ...
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Shoreline bags worldwide rights to Man In The Chair
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights from Elbow Grease Pictures to Michael Schroeder's drama Man In The Chair, set to play on Saturday [10] in the Generation 14plus programme at the Berlinale.The film stars Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano, and M Emmet Walsh and tells of an aspiring teenage film-maker who ...
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Mdc int adds Iszka's Journey, La Antena to Berlinale line-up
Berlin-based sales company Mdc int has made two last-minute additions to its line-up for this year's market in Berlin.International distribution will be handled on Argentine Esteban Sapir's La Antena which was the opening film of the Tiger Competition in Rotterdam last week and is described as an 'enchanting fairytale about ...
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Nanni Moretti and long-time producer part ways
Film making duo Nanni Moretti and producer Angelo Barbagallo have separated after 20 years of film making together, Italian media reported Wednesday. The pair's prolific collaboration has produced Moretti's best-known work such as Dear Diary (Caro Diario, 1993), April (Aprile, 1998), 2001 Palme d'Or winner The Son's Room (La Stanza ...
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New German incentive backs first four projects for $3.5m
Four feature projects have been awarded over $3.5m (Euros 2.7m) by the new German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) incentive scheme, which came into effect on January 1 with an annual budget of $78m (Euros 60m) for the next three years. The largest production rebate - over $1.4m (Euros 1.1m) - ...
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Iska's Journey, Konyec, Opium win top prizes at Hungarian Film Week
Opium - Diary Of A Madwoman, from director Janos Szasz, dominated the awards of the 38th Hungarian Film Week. In total the film, which stars Ulrich Thomsen as an opium-addicted psychiatrist in love with mad patient, collected four awards at the festival's closing ceremonies Feb 6. Szasz was named Best ...
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Wild Bunch takes on sales for new Morgan Spurlock documentary
While continuing brisk sales on Laurent Tirard's Moliere, which has been acquired by Spain 's Golem, Pathe in the UK, Bim in Italy and Australia 's Hopscotch; Wild Bunch has unveiled its line up for the upcoming Berlin festival with several new projects in the pipeline. First is the new ...
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Locarno to honour Hou Hsiao-hsien
Taiwanese film-maker Hou Hsiao-hsien is to receive the Leopard of Honour at the 60th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival (August 1-11, 2007) in recognition of his work as a director and producer.Previous illustrious recipients include Jean-Luc Godard, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Abbas Kiarostami, Wim Wenders and, last year, ...
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NonStop Sales picks up rights for Darling
Just prior to the European Film Market in Berlin, Stockholm-based international distributor, NonStop Sales, has picked up all rights for Darling, Swedish director Johan Kling's feature debut, which won the Nordic competition at Sweden's Göteborg International Film Festival. 'The film will open domestically on Friday (Feb 9) through Svensk Filmindustri,' ...
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Louhimies' Man Exposed pulled from cinemas after script debate
A High Court in Helsinki has ordered Finnish production house Lasihelmi Filmi to withdraw Finnish director Aku Louhimies' feature, Man Exposed, from public distribution, supporting scriptwriter Veli-Pekka Hanninen's claim that producer Harri Rati violated his rights. Cinemas or others infringing the verdict will be subject to a $129,000 (Euros 100,000) ...
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Warner Bros to release The Red Baron in Germany
The German arm of US major Warner Bros has picked up Niki Muellerschoen's $23.3m (Euros 18m) English-language production The Red Baron for release in Germany this autumn. Billed as Germany's most expensive new production in 2006 and one of the most lavish in German history, The Red Baron stars up-and-coming ...