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Spyglass hires Sortito to tap corporate sponsors
Marketing veteran Karen Sortito has joined Spyglass Entertainmentin the new position of executive vice president of worldwide marketing,Most recently she served as an entertainment consultant forHollywood studios and production companies, where her clients included SonyPictures Entertainment, Revolution Studios and IMAX.Prior to that her previous appointments have included, amongothers, executive vice ...
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Cannes to screen restored classics
The Cannes Film Festival has announced a line up of restored classics which will be screened during the fortnight in the Salle Bunuel. The program, which began last year, is a way to help audiences discover rare films and to provide them with the opportunity to see cinematic treasures in ...
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BSkyB reports $99m loss; ups digital subscriptions
Investment in joint ventures and heavy subscriber acquisition costs have had a negative impact on UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB's bottom line, resulting in a pre-tax loss of £61.5m ($99.2m) for the six months to the end of 1999 compared to a profit of £53.2m ($85.8m) for the same period the ...
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Fortnight champions 'less equal' films
Directors' Fortnight, under the new stewardship of Francois Da Silva, has unveiled a greatly expanded line-up for this year's Cannes Film Festival. Usually featuring some 15 films, this year's Directors' Fortnight showcases 25 films from 19 countries, while a further 9 countries are represented in the concurrent shorts competition. (See ...
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Sandrew Metronome reveals new team for Cannes
Scandinavian distributor Sandrew Metronome will this year be attending Cannes with an all-new acquisitions team. Assembled after veteran CEO Bertil Sandgren's retirement last month, Sandrew Metronome International's new acquisitions team now comprises Eivor Zimmerman and Stine Helgeland, with Frida Ohrvik as CEO in charge of strategic development and finance.Sandrew Metronome ...
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Festival to screen restored classics in Salle Bunuel
The Cannes Film Festival has announced a line up of restored classics which will be screened during the fortnight in the Salle Bunuel. The program, which began last year, is a way to help audiences discover rare films and to provide them with the opportunity to see cinematic treasures in ...
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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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Calendar Girls head for Cannes market
Buena Vista International's highly-anticipated UK comedy Calendar Girls will screen at Cannes outside the festival.The story of members of the traditionally stuffy Women's Institute who pose for a charity nude calendar will screen Thursday May 15. Stars Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, along with the real women on which the ...
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Dendy snaps up festival favourite Dogville for Australia
Dendy Films has acquired Australian rights to Lars von Trier's highly anticipated Cannes contender just weeks before it is scheduled to hit the Croisette. The deal was signed last week with sales outfit Trust Film Sales, which now reports that only three key territories remain to be closed on the ...
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Cast set for Nine Queens remake
Recent Oscar nominee John C.Reilly (Chicago) and Mexican actor Diego Luna (Y Tu Mama Tambien) are pairing up for the English-language remake of Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas), the Argentinian heist film that marked the directorial debut of Fabian Bielinsky. To be re-titled Criminal, the remake will also star Maggie ...
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New UK sales company Element X teams with Visionview
Former FilmFour executives Janine Gold and Natalie Brenner have launched their own sales outfit, Element X, with a non-exclusive relationship with leading UK tax financier Visionview.Gold and Brenner expect to handle up to eight titles in their first year, with budgets up to $25m. Both Element X and Visionview will ...
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Sarajevo festival to launch CineMart-inspired CineLink
This year's Sarajevo Festival (August 15-23) will be launching its CineLink project which has been inspired by Rotterdam's CineMart.CineLink is being organised in cooperation with the Rotterdam festival to bring key producers, sales agents and public funders to meet regional filmmakers.Screenplays from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia and Montenegro ...
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Studio Hamburg launches English-language division
Studio Hamburg Produktion (SHP) has launched an English-language division Studio Hamburg International Production (SHIP) to focus on internationally marketable productions as part of the reorganisation of SHP's production activities by CEO Sytze van der Laan. Operating from Hamburg and Los Angeles, SHIP's head of production will be former independent ...
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Harris, Madigan sign up for Elton John project
Elton John's London-based film production company Rocket Pictures has partnered with Ed Harris and Amy Madigan for an adaptation of A L Kennedy's novel So I Am Glad.The husband and wife acting team will star in and, with Rocket co-founder David Furnish, produce the project through their US production ...
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Killing Words (Palabras Encadenadas)
Dir: Laura Mana. Spain. 2003. 87mins.This stylish thriller from second-time director Laura Mana is among the most polished that production and sales backer Filmax, specialists in the genre via label Fantastic Factory, has yet to offer. Its recent best photography and music wins at the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga ...
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Fantasporto gears up for 2004 edition
Portugal's leading film festival, Fantasporto, is already revving engines for its 24th edition in 2004 (Feb 20-28), to be followed immediately by a year-long celebration of the event's 25th anniversary.The fantasy-focused event has announced retrospectives of three classic British actors of the genre: Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and Chistopher Lee. ...
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Terence Davies' Sunset Song to shoot this summer
Terence Davies' adaptation of the classic Scottish novel Sunset Song is on track to start shooting on location in Scotland from August or September, according to producer Bob Last.A global casting search is under way for a lead actress and Last will announce funding partners at Cannes. Scottish Screen has ...
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Hating Alison Ashley gets greenlight
Australia's Film Finance Corporation board yesterday agreed to finance the feature Hating Alison Ashley to be directed by Rod Hardy from a script by Christine Madafferi. The teen comedy is an adaptation of Robin Klein's award-winning coming-of-age novel of the same name.Film Victoria is also contributing funding and a significant ...
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Local comedy to open 50th Sydney Film Festival
The Honourable Wally Norman, a film that continues Australia's long comedy tradition of the underdog succeeding against all odds, is the opening night film of the 50th Sydney Film Festival. Kevin Harrington (The Dish) is in the lead role of Wally, who is accidentally nominated to run for Federal Parliament.The ...
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Odyssey to bring high-profile slate to Cannes
Ralph Kamp and Louise Goodsill's UK-based sales company Odyssey Entertainment is heading to Cannes with a bustling slate including two new additions - The Libertine, starring Johnny Depp, John Malkovich and Samantha Morton, and The Blue Afternoon, directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Olivier Martinez and Sam Neill.The Libertine stars ...