All articles by Patrick Frater – Page 28
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FAME strikes deal with Handprint
Film and Music Entertainment Ltd (FAME) has signed an exclusive US representation deal with management company Handprint Entertainment. In pacting with Handprint, FAME's Mike Downey and Sam Taylor believe that not only their access to US talent will be smoother and less time consuming, They also expect to benefit from ...
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FAME strikes deal with Handprint
Film and Music Entertainment Ltd (FAME) has signed an exclusive US representation deal with management company Handprint Entertainment. In pacting with Handprint, FAME's Mike Downey and Sam Taylor believe that not only their access to US talent will be smoother and less time consuming, They also expect to benefit from ...
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Wild Bunch cleans up with new Assayas
Separation from StudioCanal has not dented the ability of Wild Bunch to pack a punch on the Croisette: not only does Vincent Maraval's French sales house boast a trio of films in competition, it also part-financing Olivier Assayas' reunion with his ex-wife Maggie Chung. Assayas, who last year had Demonlover ...
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CJ shoots first fully financed film
After years as a co-investor or distributor, Korean major, CJ Entertainment has begun production on its first fully financed picture. Filming started this week on comedy The Greatest Expectation, by first time director Oh Sang-hoon. Production is handled through CJ's new production division, which is headed by Seok Dong-jun, senior ...
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Greenaway's Suitcases open for business
Peter Greenaway's opus The Tulse Luper Suitcases, has secured a clutch of key sales ahead of the world premiere on the last day of competition (Sat 24) of the first instalment: The Moab Story. Handled by Fortissimo Film Sales, the picture has been sold to Triangel Films for Scandinavia, Atalanta ...
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New Benelux buyer grabs Shara
Newly formed Dutch distributor Bright Angel Distribution has inked its first acquisition. It has bought all-Benelux rights to Cannes competition film Shara (Sharasoyju), which screens on the last Saturday of the festival. The deal was struck through French sales house Flach Pyramide International.The film, directed by Japanese director Kawase Naomi, ...
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Twenty films compete for Camera d'Or
Wim Wenders will head the jury that awards the Camera d'Or, the Cannes festival's prize for a best first film. Open to films from any section of the festival (including Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week) the prize is this time sought by a bumper crop of 20 first films. Other ...
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Twenty first films compete for Camera d'Or
Wim Wenders will head the jury that awards the Camera d'Or, the Cannes festival's prize for a best first film. Open to films from any section of the festival (including Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week) the prize is this time sought by a bumper crop of 20 first films. Other ...
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Two offers made for UGC Cinemas
Two venture capital firms have made takeover offers for UGC Cinemas according to French financial daily Les Echos. The two, LBO France and CDC Ixis, have made firm approaches to Vivendi Universal, which owns 55% of the exhibition giant. A third venture, headed by Banque Paribas offshoot PAI apparently examined ...
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HBO London trumpets first sale on Elephant
HBO Films London has struckits first sales deal on Gus van Sant's Cannes-competition bound film Elephant. All rights in France were sold to mini-major MK2,which can be expected to support its launch at the festival.The film is related to hisprevious film Gerry in style.Focusing on high-school violence, it was shot ...
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HBO London Films trumpets first sale on Elephant
HBO Films London has struckits first sales deal on Gus van Sant's Cannes-competition bound film Elephant. All rights in France were sold to mini-major MK2,which can be expected to support its launch at the festival.The film is related to hisprevious film Gerry in style.Focusing on high-school violence, it was shot ...
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Matrix computer game does record business
Infogrames Entertainment said that it has done record business on Enter The Matrix, the video game tie-in with forthcoming film The Matrix Reloaded.The game will be released on 15 May in parallel with the premiere of the film at the Cannes festival and its simultaneous world release. Infogrames said that ...
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EU says pay-TV broadcasters to blame for rise in piracy
The European Union (EU) this week criticised Europe's pay-TV companies for creating the conditions that encourage piracy of their services.In a new report on electronic services the European Commission said: "significant amounts of piracy result from the impossibility of obtaining pay satellite-TV channels originating from other member states. EU citizens ...
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Heijl joins expanding Moonlight Films
Dutch distribution veteran Jean Heijl has joined independent outfit Moonlight Films from Indies Entertainment Group. His move coincides with Moonlight opening a new distribution office near Amsterdam and a planned expansion of the number of titles it handles."With Jean Heijl on our team we believe we can be a serious ...
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Un Certain Regard takes on added lustre
The Cannes Festival's Un Certain Regard sidebar is taking on the allure and scale of a fully-fledged festival to rival discovery events like Locarno or Rotterdam.The Cannes selectors today completed their selection with the addition of Argentinian director Pablo Reyero's La Cruz Del Sur (sold by F For Film). Previously ...
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Vivendi begins US asset disposal process
Vivendi Universal looks increasingly like selling its US media assets which includes Universal Studios, various cable channels and the Universal theme parks. According to the Financial Times, the group which also owns the Canal Plus pay-TV operations and film production and distribution outlet StudioCanal, has asked its US executives to ...
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On-line swap tech ruling angers studios
Companies providing software that allows on-line swapping of film and music files were given permission to stay in business by a Los Angeles federal judge on Friday. The ruling is seen by studio groups as a greenlight to piracy.In a case brought by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) ...
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Algerian 1975 Palme d'Or winner to return to Cannes
Chronicle Of The Years Of Fire (Chronique Des Annes De Braise), an account of the period between 1939 and the Algerian War of Independence that won the Palme d'Or in 1975, will screen in Cannes again this year.Directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, the film will be high point of an Algerian ...
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1975 Palme d'Or winner Lakhdar-Hamina to return to Cannes
Chronicle Of The Years Of Fire (Chronique Des Annes De Braise), an account of the period between 1939 and the Algerian War of Independence that won the Palme d'Or in 1975, will screen in Cannes again this year.Directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, the film will be high point of an Algerian ...
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New distributor, Bright Angel to shine over Benelux
New Beneluxdistributor Bright Angel Distribution will launch from the end of this month.The company, which aims to handleall rights for eight-to-ten art-house films per year, is the creation of Chris Oosterom, currently programmer and head of acquisitions forFilmmuseum, and Patrizia Raeli, departing head of acquisitions at the UK's Metro Tartan. ...