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Dogwoof's Whitaker sets up new indie distribution co-operative
Andy Whittaker, head of forward-thinking UK distributor Dogwoof Pictures, is heading a new film distribution co-operative. Essentially, ordinary film fans will be part of a group acquiring rights to independent films.TheMoviesClub.com launches officially today at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.The co-op has been set up to raise capitol to invest ...
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Film4 extends sponsorship of FrightFest until 2009
Film4 has extended its headline sponsor deal with the UK's FrightFest for the third year running.The 2009 event will be the 10th anniversary of the genre festival. The partnership will expand further with Film4 for more on-air and off-air initiatives.Meanwhile, the 2008 FrightFest will be held at London's Odeon West ...
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Hulk casts green shadow over weekend box office
Marvel Studios' The Incredible Hulk has amassed more than $36.1mmostly through UPI and is expected to dominate this weekend as itlaunches in 12 territories including Italy on June 18 and India onJune 20.The comic-book adaptation has amassed more than $36.1m and wasreleased in Australia and New Zealand through PPI.Comedy Forgetting ...
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AMPAS changes foreign-language Oscar rules
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has tweaked itsforeign-language picture rules and made changes to its original songcategory.The first stage in the two-step process to determine the foreignlanguage entries for the 81st Annual Academy Awards has been amended so the Phase I Committee, open to any voting member ...
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Grover Crisp takes seniorSony library role
Grover Crisp has been named senior vice president of asset management, restoration and digital mastering for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE).Crisp previously served as vice president and will oversee all facetsof the restoration, preservation and mastering programme for theColumbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures feature film and televisionlibraries.Under Crisp the feature and ...
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Kaplan takes anti-piracy role at Warner Bros
David P Kaplan has been named senior vice-president and intellectualproperty counsel on worldwide anti-piracy operations at Warner BrosEntertainment.Kaplan will be responsible for the coordination and execution of thestudio's anti-piracy strategy and reports to president of Warner BrosTechnical Operations Darcy Antonellis.He joined the studio in 1996 and previously served as vice ...
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Lightning takes international rights to Shortcut
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has picked up internationalrights from Leomax Entertainment to the recently announced thrillerShortcut.Ingo Vollkammer's Leomax Entertainment is financing the film andco-producing with Adam Sandler's newly launched production label ScaryMadison.Nicholaus Goosen will direct from a script by Scott Sandler and DanHannon about two brothers who discover a strange ...
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Spain's Ono postpones flotation
Following an international trend, Spanish cable supplier Ono (Cableuropa) has announced that it will postpone its IPO, planned for Thursday, due to the "poor conditions" of stock markets globally.Ono planned to float at least 20% of its shares on the recently launched "New Market" index of the Spanish stock exchange, ...
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Gigantic picks up Dews documentary
Gigantic Releasing, the new distribution arm of New York-based Gigantic NYC, has acquired all North American and English-speaking rights to Morgan Dews' documentary, Must Read After My Death.The film will receive its US premiere on June 20 at the Los Angeles Film Festival and Gigantic Releasing plans to open it ...
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Palme d'Orwinner The Class opens Munich Filmfest
Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or winner The Class (Entre Les Murs) will open this year's Munich Filmfest on Friday evening (June 20), which will show 237 films from 41 countries, including a retrospective dedicated to the Bavarian film-maker and artist Herbert Achternbusch and an homage to the UK actress Julie Christie ...
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Leung joins Distribution Workshop as head of sales
Hong Kong distribution executive Virginia Leung has joined start-up international sales outfit Distribution Workshop as head of sales. Leung was formerly senior manager, distribution, at Hong Kong-based Mandarin Films where she oversaw international sales of films such as action hits Dragon Tiger Gate and Flash Point and Tsui Hark's recent ...
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Screen Australia announces seven board appointments
Chief executive of IBM Australia and New Zealand, Glen Boreham, is the first chair of the new super agency Screen Australia,while entertainment lawyer Ian Robertson is his deputy. Arts Minister Peter Garrett set the Australian film industry abuzz today by announcing the first board; the make-up should please everyone given ...
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Universal Pictures ties up Family Bond
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Marc Platt Productions and Millar/Gough Ink's action comedy Family Bond.Jeff Lowell, who wrote John Tucker Must Die, will write the screenplayabout a spy and his relationship with his daughter.Marc Platt and Adam Siegel are producing for Marc Platt Productionsalong with Alfred Gough and ...
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Universal Pictures ties up Family Bond
Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to Marc Platt Productions and Millar/Gough Ink's action comedy Family Bond.Jeff Lowell, who wrote John Tucker Must Die, will write the screenplayabout a spy and his relationship with his daughter.Marc Platt and Adam Siegel are producing for Marc Platt Productionsalong with Alfred Gough and ...
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Tajudin takes international home entertainment role at Sony
Norman Z Tajudin has been named vice president of international for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE).Tajudin will oversee SPHE's portfolio of emerging global markets andwill oversee distribution partnerships and other strategic initiativesin the company's international territories.He reports to SPHE senior vice president of international Paul Miller.Tajudin previously served as vice ...
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Anders Banke's Newsmakers moves from Moscow to Trollywood
Swedish-born Anders Banke's Newsmakers (Goryachie Novosti), a Russian remake of the Johnnie To 2004 film Breaking News (Daai Si Gin), is now moving to the Trollywood studios in Western Sweden's Trollhattan after shooting on location in Moscow since April 29. The $4m co-production between Moscow-based Tandem Pictures and Gothenburg's Illusion ...
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Via Digital, ICO ink co-financing pact
Spain's national credit institute (ICO) has signed an agreement with digital satellite platform Via Digital and the Spanish producers federation (FAPAE) whereby ICO will make available up to $18m worth of credits for film and TV product to which the Telefonica-backed Via acquires rights.According to the terms of the agreement, ...
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Pathe, Amuse lured by Killing
Myriad Pictures has sold Chen Kaige's $30m Killing Me Softly to Pathe Distribution for the UK and Amuse Video for Japan. Gaga Communications will handle the film's Japanese theatrical release.Starting principal photography on October 30th in London, the erotic thriller stars Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes, with Natascha McElhone and ...
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City Screen goes beyond DSN to back five new digital installations
In an important step in the evolution of digital cinema in the UK, independent exhibitor City Screen Picturehouse Cinemas is planning to commercially back the installation of five new digital screens.The 18-cinema small chain (which has 50+ screens) has already seen the UK Film Council's Digital Screen Network install 18 ...
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Eagle Pictures reveals first slate since Ben Ammar takeover
Eagle Pictures has announced the first titles to make up the 2008-2009 slate of the company since its take over last year by Franco-Tunisian financier Tarak Ben Ammar.Eagle Pictures head of acquisitions Maria Grazia Vairo told Screen the titles announced will be released in Italy, and in some cases will ...