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Merged Copenhagen festival to launch in April 2009
CPH:PIX, the new festival combining the NatFilm Festival and the Copenhagen International Film Festival, will run for the first time in Copenhagen from April 16-26, 2009.The new festival will also have a competition.Screen International veteran Jacob Neiiendam, who had been head of programming at the Copenhagen International Film Festival since ...
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Works closes more Somers Town, Man On Wire sales post-Cannes
As its filmsswept the prizes at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, London-based sales company The Works International has announced a number of new deals closed since Cannes.Shane Meadows' Somers Town sold to Taiwan (Filmware International).James Marsh's documentary Man On Wire sold to Taiwan (Filmware International), Japan (Shin Nippon), and Hungary ...
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Delanic takes UK rights to Spread starring Ashton Kutcher
UK distributor Delanic Films continues to build its release slate by adding Spread starring Ashton Kutcher.David McKenzie's erotic comedy has been acquired for the UK and Ireland from Voltage Pictures. The story is about a womanising conman in LA who meets a female hustler.Spread is still in post and is ...
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High Point flies with Larkin's Satellites & Meteorites
London-based High Point Films has picked up worldwide sales rights to Rick Larkin's debut feature Satellites & Meteorites.Larkin's company i-Wire Films executive produced the project and it was produced by Eimear O'Kane for Emu Productions and Dave Leahy for Warrior Films.The romantic fantasy is a love story between two people ...
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Scoggins promoted in digital asset management at Universal
Stan Scoggins has been promoted to senior vice president of worldwide digital asset management at Universal, continuing a run that has seen him oversee the group since 1998.During his tenure Scoggins developed and implemented a comprehensive online repository of all Universal publicity and advertising materials. He continues to report to ...
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Alston issues warning to Oz post sector
Australian communications, IT and arts minister, Richard Alston, has warned the local post sector that it has only about 18 months left to exploit its current competitive advantages, because bandwidth, which connects it to the rest of the world, is "virtually unaffordable".Australian post-production companies enjoy the dual advantages of being ...
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Sundance Institute selects five for Creative Producing Initiative
The Sundance Institute has selected the five Fellows for its inaugural Creative Producing Initiative, a year-long Fellowship programme for emerging producers.The initiative includes attendance at the Creative Producing Lab, the Independent Producers Conference and the Sundance Film Festival, as well as year-round mentorship, a living stipend and pre-production grant, and ...
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National Board Of Review awards $75,000 in student grants
The National Board Of Review Of Motion Pictures (NBR) will award $75,000 in student grants in 2008 with this year's allocation including ten schools near or around the tri-state New York area.Each participating school will receive between $3,000 and $11,500 to be distributed to its top film-makers based on their ...
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Trina Wyatt joins Intrepid Pictures as COO and CFO
Trina Wyatt has joined Trevor Macy and Marc D Evans' production and finance outfit Intrepid Pictures as COO/CFO and Anil Kurian has been promoted to vice president of development, effective immediately.Wyatt will run day-to-day operations and financial activities of the company as well as strategic planning, business development, production finance, ...
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Beijing New Film Association expands into production
Beijing-based cinema management company, New Film Association, is stepping into film production and investment via a new outfit Shengshi Huarui Film Investment and Management Ltd. The company's first project is a $500,000 (RMB3m) satirical comedy The Debt Of 105,000 by first-time feature filmmaker Ji Yu, about a farmer coming to ...
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Buyers chasing Tartan Film' back catalogue
Buyers are clamouring to acquire the back catalogue of Tartan Films, theindependent UK distributor that went into administration last week.David Oprey, a partner in Chantrey Vellacott DFK (which is handling theadministration) confirmed to ScreenDaily, that a number of firm bidshave already been received for the entire catalogue and a deal ...
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Koelmel unveils expanded production slate for renamed company
Following StudioCanal's takeover of Germany's Kinowelt Group earlier this year, Rainer Koelmel has now renamed his Munich-based production company Kinowelt Filmproduktion as Starhaus Filmproduktion as part of an expanded production slate.Kinowelt Filmproduktion had not been part of the StudioCanal deal and remains in the hands of Koelmel who will have ...
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Sheffield Doc/Fest unveils early selections for Nov line-up
Sheffield Doc/Fest, now planning its 15th edition, has announced several early selections for its 100+ film programme running Nov 5-9.Sheffield will unveil a new strand of docs about a specific cultural issue, this yer's being Regime Change (tied to the US election). Films set for this initiative are: Mohamed Al-Daradji's ...
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Tartan Films' Biggest Grossing Films
Tartan's best performing films 1990-2008 Click to see trailers Click film title to see Screen International review (where available)1 Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock, 2004)UK Box Office revenue: $1.6m (83 screens)2 Secretary (Steven Shainberg, 2003)UK box-office revenue: $1.5m (60 screens)3 Last Seduction (John Dahl, 1994)UK box office revenue $1.03m (33 ...
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Robert Carlyle comes on board as Edinburgh Festival Patron
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has signed up Scottish-born actor Robert Carlyle as the festival's latest patron.He joins Tilda Swinton and Sean Connery, the festival's other patrons.Carlyle had a particularly good run in Edinburgh this year, appearing in The Stone Of Destiny and also taking the best actor prize for ...
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Sci-fi Kenny Begins among 8 features backed in Sweden
Kenny Starfighter - the hero of a 1997 sci-fi television series in Sweden - will return in a $5.4m (Euros 3.4m) feature, Kenny Begins, produced by Swedish production house, S/S Fladen (which is controlled by Scandinavian major, Nordisk Film), in collaboration with Nordisk and Swedish public broadcaster, SVT, and supported ...
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LONDON PRODUCT GUIDE
AB INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTIONAlso buying:Executives attending:Deputy managing director Frederik RangeInternational sales manager Valerie VleeschhouwerMarketing manager Nathalie Aymard132 ave du President Wilson, La Plaine, Saint Denis, 93213, France, tel: (33) 1 49 22 20 01 fax: (33) 1 49 22 22 16 e-mail: ventes@groupe-ab.frAKA MOVIESMarket address: Le Meridien Hotel, 21 PiccadillyExecutives attending:President ...
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New law firm Aslan Charles Kousetta launches in London
A new specialised media law firm, Aslan Charles Kousetta, has launched in London.The firm's founders are Susan Aslan, Sue Charles and Hakan Kousetta.The boutique firm, which will handle contentious and non-contentious matters for clients,will work across film, TV, advertising, publishing and new media. They will also advise on other areas ...
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Screenwriter Hazeldine to make directorial debut with Exam
Stuart Hazeldine, a UK-based screenwriter who has worked on studio films including Knowing and The Day The Earth Stood Still, is making his feature directorial debut on a project titled Exam.The low-budget UK feature, also written by Hazeldine, is a psychological thriller set in one room. Hazeldine describes it as ...
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Unifrance in controversy over active producing difficulties
Trouble is brewing once again at Unifrance. Following a report last March that said that the organisation needed to improve its strategy and governance, the export body is now faced with a mutiny of sorts coming from its internal commissions.The brouhaha follows a general assembly meeting where the results of ...