All articles by Patrick Frater – Page 20
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Becker blooms with Marigold, Osama
Newly formed Becker Films International has picked up sales duties on Osama, the award-winning Afghan film, and has unveiled hot Bollywood fusion film Marigold.The Sydney-based company, operated by former MDP sales executive Reiko Bradley, was formed earlier this autumn as a joint venture between Bradley and Richard Becker's Australian distributor ...
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Becker blooms with Marigold, Osama
Newly formed Becker Films International has picked up sales duties on Osama, the award-winning Afghan film, and has unveiled hot Bollywood fusion film Marigold.The Sydney-based company, operated by former MDP sales executive Reiko Bradley, was formed earlier this autumn as a joint venture between Bradley and Richard Becker's Australian distributor ...
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Miracle heralds Bavaria sales deals
Germany's Bavaria Film International has struck a six picture deal with Israel's Orlando Film and has concluded further sales on its Berlin 2003 slate.Orlando bought rights to Soenke Wortmann's hit drama The Miracle Of Bern (Das Wunder Von Bern), Santiago Loza's Extrano, Martin Rejtman's The Magic Gloves (Los Guantes Magicos), ...
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Diot's Onoma unveils debut slate
Onoma International, the new sales company launched in September by Pascal Diot, former head of Pathe International (France), has unveiled a four film slate headed by new Chinese picture Day And Night (Riri Yeye).Day And Night is directed by Wang Chao, who attracted strong critical acclaim for his first film ...
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Moviehouse gets to Work on beefed up slate
London-based sales outfit Moviehouse Entertainment has picked up Adam Goldberg's debut feature I Love Your Work which was one of the last films to be backed by Fireworks Pictures.Moviehouse, which was founded two years ago by Mark Vennis and Gary Phillips, will now also handle 13 titles from the back ...
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Russian director cranks up The American
Production got underway this week on acclaimed Russian director Alexei Balabanov's new film The American (Amerikanets).A week of filming in New York started on Monday (3 Nov, 2003) before the production uproots and moves to Siberia for a further month. The thriller is a co-production between Russia's CTB Film Company ...
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Raggy Boy to find new home in Winchester
The UK's Winchester Entertainment will be handling sales at Mifed on Aisling Walsh's Irish-set period drama, Song For A Raggy Boy, having taken over the sales mandate from Spain's Lolafilms.At press time, Winchester was poised to sign the deal that sees it take over the sales role from Lolafilms, which ...
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Song For A Raggy Boy to find new home in Winchester
The UK's Winchester Entertainment will be handling sales at Mifed on Aisling Walsh's Irish-set period drama, Song For A Raggy Boy, having taken over the sales mandate from Spain's Lolafilms.At press time, Winchester was poised to sign the deal that sees it take over the sales role from Lolafilms, which ...
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Fortune Star takes on Leaving Me sales
Hong Kong-based Fortune Star has picked up the first third-party feature on which it will handle international sales.The micro-studio, which is attached to News Corp's Star TV division, is to kick off sales at Mifed on China-set romantic drama Leaving Me Loving You (formerly Big City Trivia). The film, which ...
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Fortune Star opens doors with Leaving Me pickup
Hong Kong-based Fortune Star has picked up the first third-party feature on which it will handle international sales.The micro-studio, which is attached to News Corp's Star TV division, is to kick off sales at Mifed on China-set romantic drama Leaving Me Loving You (formerly Big City Trivia). The film, which ...
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Dirty Pretty Things dominates BIFA prizes
Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things was the big winner at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) this evening (Nov 4, 2003).The unconventional drama about illegal immigrants working in the UK hotel trade was named as best film, earned Frears the best director prize and gave leading man Chiwetel Ejiofor another ...
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Hands off our subsidies, say Euro film agencies
Europe's national film funding agencies have called on the European Commission to call off a major re-examination of the cobweb of national film support schemes that is scheduled to take place next year.In a letter addressed to culture and education commissioner Viviane Reding, the 16 state funding bodies called for ...
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US films dominate French video market
The French video market is more heavily dominated by US films than France's theatrical market. A new study published by the Centre National de la Cinematographie (CNC) shows that Hollywood films accounted for 74% of gross receipts between 1996-2001 in the video sector, compared with a 57% market share of ...
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Euro film industry savages screener compromise
Brussels-based lobby group, the European Film Companies Alliance (EFCA) has torn into the Oscars' screening tapes ban, describing it as a "blow to cultural diversity", "evidence of arrogance" and a threat to the Oscars themselves.EFCA, which represents many of the most muscular European film companies, including Svensk Filmindustri, CLT-Ufa, Intermedia, ...
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Europe's film sector to grow at 7%
Growth of the market forfilmed entertainment in Europe is set to more than double the average for thewider entertainment and media sectors over the next five years. According to management consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers in its annual Entertainment and Media Outlook:Europe report, compound annual growth for the entertainment sector willaverage 3.4% to ...
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Sweden's TV3 strikes BVITV deal
Entertainment channel TV3, part of Sweden's Modern Times Group, has struck a licensing deal with Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) for series, animated programming and a package of feature films. The deal, which covers Sweden, Norway and Denmark, includes Armageddon and Pretty Woman, Die Hard With A Vengeance and While ...
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Infernal Affairs II
Dirs: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak. Hong Kong. 2003. 114 mins.With this kind of film, comparisons are inevitable. Infernal Affairs II (IA2) is both a companion piece to surprise hit thriller Infernal Affairs and, in style and substance, close to The Godfather series. Fortunately, it has the right looks and a ...
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Infernal Affairs II review
Dirs: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak. Hong Kong. 2003. 114 mins.With this kind of film, comparisons are inevitable. Infernal Affairs II (IA2) is both a companion piece to surprise hit thriller Infernal Affairs and, in style and substance, close to The Godfather series. Fortunately, it has the right looks and a ...
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Video-on-demand gathers speed
The way forward for video-on-demand (VoD) seems suddenly to be gaining momentum around the world - although pure VoD in which all content is always available at the click of a button still looks a very remote possibility.The technology to deliver VoD has existed for several years, but until recently ...
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MIPCOM closes with host of deals
The studios were particularly active in using MIPCOM to announce film and made-for-TV film deals:Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) struck a multi-year agreement with Lusomundo for the pay-TV broadcast of its entire Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures slates in Portugal. The first-time deal covers features and TV movies which ...