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All Features articles – Page 518
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Germany - Majestic bow for a former Senator
When former Senator executive Benjamin Herrmann decided to join forces with film financing expert David Groenewold to launch a new producer-distributor Majestic Film into the German marketplace, he was not worried about an overcrowded landscape."I think if you filter out the completely undercapitalised companies which only release two to three ...
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Market focus - Boom time in Bollywoodland
Indian box office revenues increased by 40% last year but it is widely expected to be just the start of a period of radical change and rapid growth.The quality of local content in a region where Hollywood has barely made a dent remains a vital factor. But an increasingly important ...
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Market watch: Berlin - Hunting ground
Speak to a range of British independent distributors and it quickly becomes apparent that they have very different feelings about the Berlinale. For some, it is the place, as Swipe's Frank Mannion puts it, for "brave, innovative movies that can be marketed uniquely". Revolver's Justin Marciano agrees that "the European ...
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Shorts and documentaries - Awards countdown - Hard-hitting docs take centre stage
My Country, My CountryNew York-based director-producer Laura Poitras (Flag Wars) spent eight months working alone in Iraq on her film, produced with Jocelyn Glatzer, about the months leading up to Iraq's first post-Saddam election in 2005. Poitras focuses on a Sunni doctor running for office as difficulties mount in an ...
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IFTA Awards - Celebrating Irish cream
Pierce Brosnan (The Matador), Colin Farrell (Miami Vice), Cillian Murphy (Breakfast On Pluto, and The Wind That Shakes The Barley), and Neil Jordan (Breakfast On Pluto) are a few of the internationally recognised members of the Irish film-making community among the nominees for this year's Irish Film and Television Awards ...
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Adirondack slate
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens (American Masters/Thirteen/Wnet New York/Adirondack Pictures/Ranoah Productions). A documentary on photographer Annie Leibovitz. Directed by Barbara Leibovitz and featuring interviews with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mick Jagger and Yoko Ono. Int'l sales: Fortissimo.The Night Of The White Pants (Harrison Prods/Adirondack Pictures). Written and directed by Amy ...
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Analysis: International box-office Weekend February 2-4
(Last3-dayweek)Film (origin)gross $ScrsCume $Terr1(2)The Pursuit Of Happyness (US)$16,472,2873,177$72,496,684232(1)Night at the Museum (US)$14,534,7374,291$213,777,377393(3)Blood Diamond (US)$13,467,3063,127$45,237,141434NewVoice Of A Murderer (S Kor)$6,735,543530$8,903,32315(4)Rocky Balboa (US)$5,501,6382,392$48,825,020266(8)Babel (Mex-US)$5,157,5811,467$61,312,572357(23)Dreamgirls (US)$4,988,4681,136$9,353,219108(6)Apocalypto (US)$4,947,7681,924$55,230,580339NewDie Wilden Kerle 4 (Ger)$4,941,767844$4,941,767310(11)Casino Royale (Czech-Ger-UK-US)$4,743,4901,761$415,704,5873711(14)Arthur And The Invisibles (Fr)$4,492,8702,159$67,254,5512112(5)Salaam E Ishq: A Tribute To Love (Ind)$4,011,445723$14,504,6912113(49)Saw III (US)$3,883,797817$72,901,8192214(10)Dororo (Jap)$3,176,959296$10,475,434115(7)Manuale D'Amore 2 (It)$2,987,712494$23,132,938116NewNotes On A Scandal ...
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Promotional Feature - EFP AT 10 - European Union
The Berlinale has always been a rallying post for European cinema - but this year's event has more reason to celebrate than usual - 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of European Film Promotion (EFP).The Hamburg-based organisation was set up in 1997 to promote and market European cinema ...
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United states/Europe - Water works
For Mark Horowitz and Andras Hamori, the recently launched international sales and co-production arm of H2O Motion Pictures is part new venture, part professional reunion.The two executives previously worked together in the late 1990s, when Hamori was president of the Alliance Pictures production operation and Horowitz served as president of ...
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Mister Lonely - Set report - Only the lonely
It has been a decade since Gummo and a good eight years since Julien Donkey-Boy, and Harmony Korine is finally back behind the camera with Mister Lonely. He co-scripted the story about celebrity impersonators - the key characters being "Michael Jackson" and "Marilyn Monroe" - with his younger brother Avi, ...
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Kasell leaves Hamptons
Hamptons International Film Festival executive director Denise Kasell is leaving her post after nine years. Artistic director Rajendra Roy remains in place.
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United States/Denmark - Lit Fuse
In the 10 years since he moved from his native Denmark to Los Angeles, Mikkel Bondesen has established himself in the competitive world of management and expanded into film and TV production.Fuse Entertainment, the literary management company he launched in 2004, has a list of writer clients including Josh Schwartz ...
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Furst and Kessel move to Starz's Overture
Sean Furst and Robert Kessel have been appointed executive vice-presidents of productions and acquisitions at Starz's new theatrical division Overture Films. Furst's brother Bryan arrives as senior vice-president of productions and acquisitions.
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Fukuda tapped by NBC Universal in Tokyo
NBC Universal International has named Taichi Fukuda as managing director, Japan Representative, to be based in Tokyo. He will work with divisions including the home-entertainment arm Universal Pictures Japan, TV and New Media Distribution, Mobile Entertainment and Cnbc.Fox promotes Echeverria Eduardo Echeverria has been promoted to executive vice-president of Latin ...
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Foreign Language Films - And then there were five
In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for the first time unveiled a shortlist of nine films for the foreign-language film category, a week before the nominations were announced. Some 61 films were submitted in October 2006, nine were shortlisted and the final five were announced on ...
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Film Movement promotes Gartenstein
Adley Gartenstein has been promoted to president at distributor Film Movement. Stuart Litman, who previously held the role, will continue as CEO of the business.
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Sony fills key posts
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has named Adrian Alperovich as senior executive vice-president and general manager, and hired former Momentum VP of acquisitions Lara Thompson as senior vice-president of acquisitions. Scott Shooman has been promoted to executive director of acquisitions, and Lia Buman has joined as director of acquisitions.
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Editorial - Screen says Looping the loop
ScreenDaily.com this week reported that Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media is teaming up with Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking to co-finance approximately 45 films from an as-yet-unnamed Hollywood studio over the next five years. Following the parameters of recent co-financing equity structures with Hollywood, as much as $1.1bn could be invested ...
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Film finance - A question of duty
Pierre Drouot is a worried and angry man. The director of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund fears that the work of 20 years' hard lobbying for a Belgian tax shelter to support film finance may soon be killed off. And he believes he has identified the culprits responsible."The analysis is very ...
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United Kingdom - Who's the daddy'
Eight months ago, Anand Tucker had every reason to be disillusioned with the movie business. He had been preparing New Line's fantasy epic The Golden Compass for 18 months and then left the project abruptly due to "creative differences".Producer Stephen Woolley immediately called to entice him on board And When ...