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Bavaria on board for restoration of Berlin Alexanderplatz
Bavaria Media has teamed upwith The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation torestore Fassbinder's classic 14-part TV opus Berlin Alexanderplatz,which first aired on ARD in 1980.The project's originaldirector of photography Xaver Schwarzenbergerand the production manager of the series Dieter Minx are supervising therestoration with Juliane Lorenz, Fassbinder'seditor and the president of the ...
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MTV Films Europe on board for Bunny Chow
MTVFilms Europe (MTVFE) has boarded John Barker's South African comedy Bunny Chow as a co-producer, will assistsales outfit Deviant Selling in world sales and will provide a global marketingplatform for the film in the territories it is released in.Thefilm has its world premiere here on Monday in Vanguard and its ...
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Marcoly promoted to president, sales & distribution, at BVI
Followingthe promotion of Mark Zoradi to president of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group,Anthony Marcoly has been named president, sales and distribution, at BuenaVista International.Marcoly,who will continue to report to Zoradi, will take on a more comprehensivemanagement role overseeing all aspects of sales and distribution of Disney andTouchstone films internationally as ...
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MGM revamps TV distribution unit, announces five new sequels
MGM is revamping its worldwide television distribution operation,naming Jim Packer as president. Packer, who has been at MGM fo six years, willreport to MGM chief operating officer Rick Sands and will be in charge of TVdistribution including US barter sales and syndication as well as emergingforms of programming distribution worldwide.Thenew ...
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Venus
Dir: Roger Michell. UK. 2006. 95mins. The team behind TheMother - director Roger Michell, writer Hanif Kureishi and producer KevinLoader - reunites for Venus, anotherportrait of an old character being revitalised by love for a younger. In thiscase, the relationship - between a septuagenarian and a teenager - is even ...
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The Last King Of Scotland
Dir: Kevin Macdonald. UK. 2006. 121mins.Kevin Macdonald has proved himself to be an expertdocumentary film-maker with films like OneDay In September and in his last feature Touching The Void he melded documentaryand drama into a heart-stopping narrative. Now, in his first dramatic feature,he tells a fictional story against the real-life ...
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Peter Jackson, Universal to remake Dambusters
Peter Jackson and hisWingNut Films have revealed plans to make a new film based on the book TheDam Busters by Paul Brickhill andthe classic 1954 British war film of the same name.Jackson will produce andChristian Rivers, who has worked with Jackson for over 17 years most recentlyas animation director on ...
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Lumina gets sales on Toronto Discovery Glue
London-based Lumina Filmshas picked up worldwide sales rights to Alexis Dos Santos' Glue, which plays as a Discovery in the forthcomingToronto International Film Festival.Set in Patagonia, the filmis a comedy drama about a 15 year-old and two friends who cope with the trialsof burgeoning adolescence by getting high and getting ...
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Foldes, Meyerink named heads of educational outreach at Breckenridge
The 26th annual Breckenridge Film Festival, whichtakes place Sept 7 to 10 in Breckenridge, Colorado, has appointed film-makersLawrence David Foldes and Victoria Paige Meyerink directors of the festival's new educational outreachprogramme.As part of the programme, Foldes and Meyerink will presenttwo full-day seminars during the festival entitled 'Independent Filmmaking InToday's ...
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HATCHfest names ten student film-makers on shortlist for 2006 festival
Ten student film-makerfinalists from around the world have been selected for the upcoming HatchAudiovisual Arts Festival, HATCHfest, which will run Oct 3 to 8 in Bozeman,Montana. The festival, whose mission is to provide mentorship, education,inspiration and recognition, honours the young film-makers who are dubbed"Groundbreakers" with various awards for best director, ...
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Romero to start Diary Of The Dead in October
Nicolas Chartier's LA-basedsales agency Voltage Pictures has acquired worldwide sales rights to George ARomero's Diary Of The Dead, thelatest film in Romero's Dead series,which is scheduled to begin shooting on Oct 11, 2006.The film has been written byRomero and is being produced by Romero-Grunwald Productions and Artfire Films,the latter of ...
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BVI set for eighth straight weekend lead with Pirates
Buena Vista Internationalshould rule the international box office seas for the eighth consecutiveweekend with Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. The adventure sequel has only two small openings- Greece and Lebanon, which both opened today (Thursday) - but itshould easily stay top bearing in mind its seventh weekend take ...
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TWC, IFC Films reteam to import Indigenes
The Weinstein Company andIFC Films are reteaming to co-distribute Rachid Bouchareb's Indigenes aka Days Of Glory in North America. The film played in competition atCannes this year and won the best actor award for male ensemble cast. It willhave its North American premiere at Toronto next month.The film takes place ...
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Fox's History Boys to have royal world premiere in London
Nicholas Hytner's upcomingfilm of Alan Bennett's stage phenomenon The History Boys will have its world premiere in London in thepresence of the Prince Of Wales and the Duchess Of Cornwall on Oct 2. Thepremiere will be held in aid of The Prince's Trust.The cast of the play, whichalso appears in ...
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Cholera cast beefs up with Leguizamo, Montenegro
John Leguizamo, HectorElizondo and Fernanda Montenegro have joined the cast of Mike Newell's film ofGabriel Garcia Marquez's novel Love In The Time Of Cholera which is set to start shooting on Sept 4 inCartegena, Colombia and London.They join Javier Bardem,Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Benjamin Bratt in the film which has been ...
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Beautiful Dreamer to open Temecula Valley Film festival
Terri Farley's romanticdrama Beautiful Dreamer will openthe 2006 Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival on Sept 13.The festival, which runs Sept 13 to 17, will also screen the short West BankStory on opening night, a musicalcomedy about an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian girl torn between their lovefor each ...
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Regent takes worldwide rights to Aurora Borealis
Regent Releasing hasacquired worldwide rights to James Burke's family drama Aurora Borealis and will release it domestically on Sept 15.The film, which stars JoshuaJackson, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis and Louise Fletcher, has played atnumerous film festivals throughout the US including Tribeca, Jackson Hole andFort Lauderdale.Jackson plays an aimlessyoung man who ...
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PHEI makes series of senior appointments and promotions
Paramount Home EntertainmentInternational (PHEI) has made a series of promotions and appointments in itsinternational management team to reflect the integration of DreamWorks into thecompany, among other factors.The appointments wereannounced by Kelley Avery, president of worldwide home entertainment atParamount Pictures.Don Hunton, currently seniorvice president of the Asia Pacific business adds the ...
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Sony breaks $1bn international gross mark in record time
Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI) has announced that it passed $1bn in grosses today(Aug 24)- a record time for the company. The previous record for the studio wasSept 8, 2002, when the company went on to take $1.3bn in international grosses.So far in 2006, the companyhas taken $2.1bn in worldwide grosses ...
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Wolfe picks up seven gay and lesbian titles for US distribution
Gay and lesbian-focused USindependent distributor Wolfe Releasing has picked up seven films on the summerLGBT film festival circuit. Wolfe president Maria Lynnand acquisitions director Orly Ravid attended Frameline in San Francisco,NewFest in New York City, the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and Outfestin Los Angeles in search of new ...