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All Features articles – Page 519
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In focus - Screen conference - Sunshine states
Screen International is hosting a conference covering all aspects of film financing, from private equity to state tax breaks.Among the speakers will be Ryan Kavanaugh whose Relativity Media this week announced a monster deal, co-financing 45 films from an unnamed studio.There are also speakers on the tax breaks that have ...
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Market focus - Is China really set to roar'
Chinese box-office revenues will almost double over the next three years, from $336m to $720m by 2010, according to analyst Screen Digest and Nielsen NRG.The rapid box-office growth has been driven by the opening up of the Chinese market, and the swift development of modern multiplexes looks set to continue.The ...
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Burton joins Bradley's Indievest launch
Wade H Bradley, CEO and founder of film financing outfit IndieVest, has launched production and distribution house IndieVest Pictures and hired Mark Burton as head of production.
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United Kingdom - Banking on sales
Like many producers, Phil Hunt of Head Gear Films had ambitions to expand into other areas of the business. "I knew in-house sales was a good idea, it was just a question of finding the right people to partner with," Hunt says. "There aren't that many good sales agents out ...
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Heaven scent or just a bad smell'
German producer Bernd Eichinger has been involved in some pretty sizeable hits, including The NeverEnding Story, The Name Of The Rose, Fantastic Four, Downfall and Oscar-winner Nowhere In Africa.He has made dumb German comedies (Werner) and smart German comedies (Der Bewegte Mann) and some outright stinkers (Prince Valiant, Body Of ...
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Czech Republic/Poland - Ay Karamazov!
Numerous directors have filmed Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, most notably Richard Brooks in 1958 and Russians Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov in a 1969 joint effort. Now Czech director Petr Zelenka (Wrong Side Up, Year Of The Devil) thinks the novel's time has come again."It's quite a thrilling ...
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Participant social action role for Schreiber
Participant Productions has hired event producer John Schreiber in the newly created position of executive vice-president of social action and advocacy.
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Spain - Saints above
Like The Da Vinci Code before it, Ray Loriga's Teresa (Teresa, El Cuerpo De Cristo) has drawn the ire of the Catholic Church from Madrid to London before the film - which stars Spanish siren Paz Vega as the 16th century saint - has even premiered.Controversy, says writer-director Loriga, "is ...
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Analysis: International box-office - Weekend January 26-28
International box office continues to favour Night At The Museum despite new entries from local films making significant dents in the chart.Fox's comedy adventure spends its sixth-week running at the top spot, grossing $15.2m at the weekend, taking it up 2% despite dropping from two territories. Bollywood romance Salaam E ...
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Love spreads
It has been a busy few months since LoveFilm merged with rival Video Island in April 2006. Simon Calver, CEO of the combined company who previously led Video Island (known for its consumer brand Screen Select), can point to an impressive set of statistics: the company is the number one ...
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Lebowitz to Liberation
Mark Lebowitz has joined sales and distribution company Liberation Entertainment as chief financial officer. He has held senior executive posts at the television groups of Sony and Paramount.
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Staying home
There has always been a realm of movies where there is a tacit understanding that its inhabitants will not cross borders. Last weekend, local productions topped box-office charts in Italy, South Korea, France, China, Thailand, Denmark and Poland. The likelihood of any of these crossing oceans and finding welcoming cineastes ...
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Iran - Growth market
Cease Fire, a Mr & Mrs Smith-style domestic drama by Tahmineh Milani, became the highest-grossing Iranian film of all time last year, taking around $2m at the local box office.The 2006 top 10 included a mix of melodramas, war films and romantic comedies, including Hassan Fathi's My Big Fat Greek ...
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Thykier to leave Freud's
Kris Thykier will leave Freud Communications at the end of February to join Matthew Vaughn as a partner in production company Marv. Thykier, who joined Freud's in 1992 and served as vice-chairman, will continue to serve as a non-executive director.
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Iran - Need to know - Names in the frame
Business playersAmir Esfandiari, market directorEsfandiari began his government career as head of Farabi's co-production department and by the mid-1990s was head of international affairs, setting up the Fajr International Film Festival market in 1997. The key government figure charged with taking Iranian cinema abroad.Contact: Farabi, fcf1@dpi.net.irMohammad Attebai, producer, distributorAttebai, who ...
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In Focus - The Oscar nominations in full
Best PictureBabelThe DepartedLetters From Iwo JimaLittle Miss SunshineThe QueenBest DirectorAlejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, BabelClint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima Paul Greengrass, United 93Stephen Frears, The QueenMartin Scorsese, The DepartedBest ActorLeonardo DiCaprio, Blood DiamondRyan Gosling, Half NelsonPeter O'Toole, VenusWill Smith, The Pursuit Of HappynessForest Whitaker, The Last King Of ScotlandBest ActressPenelope Cruz, ...
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Intrepid explorers
Intrepid Pictures makes "the kind of movies we grew up on and that we still go see," says co-founder Marc Evans. Examples include the company's thriller remake The Hitcher, which opened wide in the US last weekend, and Neil Marshall's sci-fi thriller Doomsday, currently shooting in the UK and South ...
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Screen Yorkshire staff expands by four
UK regional screen agency Screen Yorkshire has made four new appointments. Neil Preston has joined as finance director, Tony Parker as head of industry development, Andrew Craske as head of communications, and Joan Whale as project monitoring manager.
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Editorial - Screen says Trend of an era
By far the most enjoyable anomaly in the Oscars nominations is the one for adapted screenplay for the improvised Borat. Twentieth Century Fox's publicity for the film hailed "a new form of film-making for an age in which reality and entertainment have become increasingly intertwined".Perhaps here is the future of ...
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Dunn promotion at Tartan Video
Tartan Video label manager Sam Dunn has been promoted to deputy managing director.