All articles by Patrick Frater – Page 18
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European Film Promotion launches sales support scheme
European Film Promotion has launched a new scheme to help exports of European films. It will underwrite travel and print costs for sales companies attending Latin American, Asian and East European festivals.The pilot scheme, Film Sales Support (FSS) will provide up to 50% of promotional and marketing costs for films ...
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SPI Int'l aquires Alexander rights
Multi-national East European distributor SPI International has picked up all rights to Oliver Stone's forthcoming opus Alexander for the Czech Republic and for Slovakia. The film, which is budgeted at over $150m, is financed and sold by Intermedia. The company previously licensed it to Warner Bros for North and South ...
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Sellers sells well for HBO London
IconEntertainment and Warner have teamed up to jointly buy The Life And Death Of PeterSellers, the big-budget drama about the quirky British entertainer. Theybought rights in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The two companies haveworked in tandem before with Warner handling the video rights to Iconacquisitions. But the deal ...
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Trust ratchets up sales on Manderlay and Dear Wendy
Denmark's Trust Film Saleshas filled out its list of recent licensing deals with strings of sales on LarsVon Trier's Manderlay and the Von Trier-scripted Dear Wendy,which is to be directed by Thomas Vinterberg.Manderlay, the second element of Von Trier's U,S and A trilogywhich kicked off with Dogville, has been sold ...
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CineMart unveils 'beautiful' 2004 line-up
Projects by Catherine Breillat, Kim Ki-Duk and Dagur Kari are among the highlights of larger-than-ever CineMart co-production market (Jan 25-29, 2004).The market, which is organised in association with the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) (Jan 21-31, 2004), will showcase some 47 projects in various stages of development that are seeking ...
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Cinema Service extends Evil Lake deals
Korean major, Cinema Service has completed a slew of post-Mifed deals toplined by its big-budget martial arts-fantasy romance Legend Of The Evil Lake.Legend, a period tale of royalty and revenge directed by Lee Gwang-Hoon, was licensed to EMS for Germany, Soyuz Films for Russia and the former CIS, Three Line ...
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Celluloid seals deals for Bellocchio's Buongiorno
French sales house Celluloid Dreams has notched up a raft of sales on Italian kidnap drama Buongiorno Notte by Marco Bellocchio.Celluloid only picked up the film after its premiere at the Venice festival but took it to Mifed where deals were completed with Les Films de l'Elysee (Belgium), Contact ...
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Blockbuster goes on the block
Blockbuster Inc, the world's number one video rentals chain, may be sold in a leveraged buyout or through a share swap as early as next week.On Monday this week (Dec 1, 2003) Sumner Redstone, chairman of Viacom, the media conglomerate that owns Paramount, CBS and Blockbuster, told a New York ...
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Cine International sells Belgian Children to the US
German sales house Cine International has licensed Belgian first film Children Of Love (Les Enfants De L'Amour) to specialist exhibitor-distributor Film Forum for a US release.The film by Geoffrey Enthoven is a documentary-style drama about a family torn apart by disputes, disappointments and separation. It was produced by Flemish producer ...
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D-Cinema set to drive doc theatrical boom
A group of European distributors is banding together to give documentaries wider theatrical play through use of digital exhibition technology. The initiative, European DocuZone (EDZ), will link distributors, institutions and some 175 screens in eight countries to create a digital network capable of giving documentary films simultaneous releases across the ...
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Mifed was good news for documentary sales
Last week's Mifed film market will have brought financial cheer to a number of documentary producers who saw their works licensed for theatrical release. The annual market in Milan is normally focused of feature films and forthcoming projects, but this year also saw a growing emphasis on documentaries.Although the market ...
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Former IDFA winner takes brutal look at war
Today (Saturday)'s industry discussion 'Shooting In Warzones' will no doubt draw heavily on the recent war in Iraq. So too does Reporters At War, a new documentary mini-series by film-maker Jon Blair, who won an Oscar and IDFA's Wisselzak Prize for Anne Frank Remembered in 1995.The series paints an un-sanitised ...
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Binger to announce Dutch doc training course
The Maurits Binger Film Institute will next Friday (Nov 28) unveil details of its new training course for documentary film-makers.The charitable foundation, which finances film development and partners with leading festivals in The Netherlands, is adding to its script development and director coaching courses by launching a 'long-running international training ...
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Constantin sees theatrical revenues dive
Theatrical revenues at Germany's Constantin Film were halved in the third quarter of 2003, from Euros 14.2m to Euros 7.99m, a drop far in excess of the 5.8% decline at the overall German box office. For the nine months to end of September Constantin recorded a drop in theatrical receipts ...
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NonStop, Bright Angel pick up Mifed package deals
NonStop Entertainment, partof Sweden's Millennium Media Group, swooped on packages of rights at Mifedincluding Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs and Oliver Stone's Looking ForFidel.NonStop bought Scandinavianand Baltic rights to Infernal Affairs II and III, the second andthird instalments of a police thriller trilogy directed by Andrew Lau and AlanMak. The rights ...
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Zatoichi to open Rotterdam
Cult Japanese film-maker Takeshi Kitano will make his third trip to Europe in four months when he returns to Rotterdam with his swordplay action vehicle Zatoichi, which has won major prizes ever since it premiered in competition at Venice. The film has now been set as the opening film at ...
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Mifed unveils subsidy package
Mifed organisers confirmed yesterday (ed Wed 12) that they will offer a package of subsidies and incentives to buyers and sellers in an effort to retain business (see ScreenDaily.com, Nov 12)."We will be providing some Euros 5m in the form of incentives to market participants next year," said Carlo Bassi, ...
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Fortissimo picks up Girl
Fortissimo Film Sales unveiled the pick-up of yet another title and the conclusion of a raft of sales on its diverse and expanding slate.Company co-chief Wouther Barendrecht said that Fortissimo will be handling Fanchin (pictured) (literally "My Girl"), a feel-good film that has become one of the biggest grossing ...
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Nordisk strikes multiple deals on Reconstruction
Nordisk Film International struck a bundle of deals on its Cannes Camera d'Or winning picture Reconstruction. The Christoffer Boe-directed romantic thriller was licensed to Korean Arts Centre for Korea, A-Film for Benelux. Two companies split Spanish-speaking Latin American rights on the title. Cineplex took Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and ...
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Tartan Films signs five picture deal
Tartan Films,which is carving out a new theatrical market for Asian films in the UK, has bought a five picture package from Korea's CineclickAsia. Managing director, Laura De Casto yesterday committed to a deal headed by Park Chan-Wook's Mifed favourite Old Boy. It also included H, A Tale Of TwoSisters, ...