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Fortissimo promotes Driessen and Mackey
Sales company Fortissimo Films has announced that Nelleke Driessen has been promoted to managing director, based at its head office in Amsterdam. She had been the co-managing director since 2004. Also, Nicole Mackey is promoted to executive vice-president international sales, and managing director of Fortissimo UK. She had been senior ...
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Until Doomsday: the Intrepid Pictures slate
Balls Of Fury: Action comedy set in the world of clandestine ping-pong tournaments. Directed by Robert Ben Garant, starring Dan Fogler, George Lopez, Maggie Q and Christopher Walken. Completed. US release April 27.Strangers: Horror thriller about a young couple terrorised by unknown assailants. Directed by Bryan Bertino, starring Liv Tyler ...
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Iran - International development
Iranian auteurs have been collaborating with French producers since the 1990s: Abbas Kiarostami with CiBy 2000 on 1994's Through The Olive Trees, for example, and Mohsen Makhmalbaf with MK2 on Gabbeh in 1996.Amir Esfandiari, head of international affairs for Farabi, notes that there has been a rise in co-productions over ...
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Cervantes Vs Shakespeare
Miguel & William, a period romantic comedy that pits literary giants Cervantes and Shakespeare against each other, represents many firsts for writer-director Ines Paris.After more than a decade writing and directing television sitcoms and two successful Spanish-language romantic comedies, co-directed with Daniela Fejerman, Miguel & William is Paris' first solo ...
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Capturing the moment
As a London-based photographer, Sean Ellis worked with some of the biggest names in showbusiness, including Elton John, Kylie Minogue and Takeshi Kitano. But his future became clearer when he collaborated with David Lynch on a series of fashion photos. "I was a fashion photographer who was a frustrated film ...
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Bateman heads Rushes Soho Shorts festival
Joe Bateman has joined Rushes Soho Shorts Festival as festival director, effective February 19.
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BackUp bonanza
French financing specialist BackUp Films is celebrating its fifth anniversary in style at Sundance, where its first English-language film, Zoe Cassavetes' Broken English, is playing in dramatic competition.A uniquely European outfit, BackUp structures projects and puts together financing packages for creative producers. While this approach to business is well known ...
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In Focus - Reach out to audiences
We produce more movies to play to audiences than ever before. The way we reach this audience may be changing, but we still need to have consumers for our films or the equation doesn't work."Richard Fox, vice-president, international, at Warner Bros, was articulating the obvious but all too often forgotten ...
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Selling Spanish main attraction
The 2.2% year-on-year drop in Spanish box office for 2006 has split opinion about cinema's health. Admissions were down to 124 million, from 126 million, while ticket sales rose slightly to $839m (EUR648m) thanks to higher prices.According to Nielsen EDI, which compiled the figures, it was a reasonably strong year. ...
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Free agent
US president George W Bush may not seem to be furthering the cause of independent political cinema, but according to Philippe Diaz, the French producer and director who heads US production, post-production, distribution and international sales operation Cinema Libre Studio, his election in 2000 gave political film-making a shot in ...
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In Focus - Academy awards and the nominees are..
The nominations for the 79th Academy Awards see Dreamgirls leading the race. But the hit musical has been shut out of the best picture and director categories. It also received three nominations for best song, meaning that it can only win five Oscars at most.Best picture nominees were Alejandro Gonzalez ...
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Stephens heads K5 sales
Bill Stephens will handle sales and marketing for new sales company K5 International, formed with K5 Film of Munich. Stephens will remain in the UK. In Munich, Oliver Simon will oversee production and Daniel Baur will head business affairs. Karin Binnberg will assist in sales and marketing.
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Iran - Fajr film festival at 25
Iran supports a plethora of film festivals, culminating in the Fajr International Film Festival, which is now in its 25th year and described by Farabi managing director Alireza Rezadad as "the most important cultural event in Iran". Local audiences pack screenings of international and local films included in a range ...
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Analysis: International box-office - Weekend January 19-21 - Crowds still flocking to Museum
Night At The Museum continues to dominate the international box office raking in $14.8m at the weekend across 4,391 screens, bringing its total to $173.8m. The family film could not be uprooted from the top spot despite a 26% decline after opening in an additional six territories. Sony's The Pursuit ...
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Market focus - Numbers back up 007's story
China this week becomes the last major territory to screen Casino Royale, closing a run that has already left all 007 predecessors in its wake. What has been forgotten in a record-breaking run is the inauspicious initial response to the plans for the 21st Bond film.Few were predicting a major ...
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Passion shoots for the stars
In an otherwise ordinary office in Central London, Passion Pictures has a shelf with quite a collection of awards, including MTV moonmen for Gorillaz videos and an Oscar for 1999 documentary One Day In September. The fact there are no spotlights or fancy display cases for the statuettes reflects the ...
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Myriad veteran Leonard joins Initial
Former Myriad Pictures marketing and publicity executive Maxine Leonard has joined Initial Entertainment Group as senior vice-president of marketing and publicity. Leonard will oversee Initial's corporate communication strategy and reports directly to company president Graham King.
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Worldwide - Fight for share
There is something innately arcane about market share statistics and yet they are a ferocious obsession for players in the film industry. Pies and graphs breaking down revenues in North America and in key international territories are not uncommon. But judging market share for the entire international market with a ...
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Market focus: home entertainment - On-demand services set to soar
Some 435 million homes will have video on demand (VoD) or Near VoD (NVoD) services by 2011, according to a report from technology analysts Informa. The forecast predicts that VoD and NVoD's reach (to an equivalent of 38% of the world's TV households) will create revenues of $11.4bn.The report argues ...
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An enemy at the gates'
YouTube, friend or foe'" asked The New York Times this week. It is a question the film industry has been asking ever since YouTube and other user-content aggregators started taking off - and with good reason.Firstly, much of the content of this new wave is less user-generated than user-procured - ...