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Wellspring gets worldwide rights to Margaret Cho concert film
Wellspring Media, the specialized US distribution outfit which is now independent of former owner Winstar Communications, has acquired worldwide rights to Margaret Cho's stand-up movie Notorious C.H.O. (pictured). The film is a 90-minute film of Cho's July 4, 2001, Seattle concert, part of her 37-city North American tour which went ...
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Tony Manne to leave Columbia TriStar, set up NY consultancy
Tony Manne, the international distribution veteran who has worked at Columbia Pictures for 30 years, is leaving his post as executive vice president of international marketing and distribution for Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) and setting up his own distribution and marketing consultancy. Manne will move from Los Angeles ...
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Woody Allen names new film Anything Else, Capitol Films to sell
Anything Else will likely be the title of the next Woody Allen film which the prolific director is planning to start shooting on June 3 in New York City. Starring Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Glenn Close and Danny De Vito, the film is a more serious comedy than his more ...
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Myriad's D'Amico resigns from IN-motion board
Kirk D'Amico has resigned from the executive board of directors of IN-motion AG, the German media outfit which bought out his Myriad Pictures in July 2000. D'Amico, who took up his post on the board in 2001, will continue to be president of Myriad which is an international sales company ...
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Casomai
Dir: Alessandro D'Alatri. Italy. 2002. 116mins.Alessandro D'Alatri is back with a stylish romantic comedy which draws more than any of his previous outings on his other job - directing TV commercials. Set in contemporary Milan, Casomai will appeal to the generation it depicts: urban professional thirtysomethings, caught between work, the ...
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Beckham shows strong legs in UK and kicks Scorpion
Local hit Bend It Like Beckham saw off fierce competition from UIP's The Scorpion King at the weekend to hold the top spot at the UK box office.With an impressive second weekend take of $2.5m (£1.7m) from 386 sites Beckham, which is distributed by Helkon SK, dropped off a miniscule ...
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Japan's Toho posts record profit of $78.5m
Toho, Japan's largest film distributor and exhibitor, has posted a record-breaking net profit of $78.5m (Y10.29 billion) for the fiscal year 2002, ended February 28, an increase of 16.2% over 2001. The impressive profit surge is largely thanks to the unprecedented local success of Spirited Away, Hayao Miuyazaki's animated feature ...
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Italian film industry wins credit bonanza from Euro bank
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has made its biggest investment into European film production by granting a Euros 100m credit line to the Italian film and theatre industry.The investment, which comes under the Audiovisual Innovation 2000 Initiative (i2i), will be managed by the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL)'s film and ...
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Australia to re-asses Baise-Moi classification
French film Baise-Moi, which is due to be released in Australia by distributor Potential this Thursday (April 25), is being re-examined by the Classification Review Board at the request of the Federal Attorney-General Daryl Williams. The original certification restricted the film to viewers over 18 years of age (R18). The ...
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Monopoly worries force sale of Canadian cinema stake
Anti-trust concerns by Canada's Competition Bureau has forced the sale of exhibitor Famous Players' minority stake in regional cinema circuit Galaxy Entertainment.Viacom's Canadian exhibition subsidiary Famous Players actually sold its stake in Galaxy Entertainment three weeks ago, appeasing monopoly concerns raised by the Competition Bureau. The public confirmation, however, was ...
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Kaurismaki sheds past, switches sales to Bavaria Film
Germany's Bavaria Film International has picked up international sales rights to Aki Kaurismaki's new film The Man Without A Past (Mies Vailla Menneisyytta), which will appear in a Cannes competition slot.The Man Without A Past (pictured) is produced by the director's company Sputnik and co-produced with Kaurismaki regulars, Germany's ...
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Lord Of The Rings sinks Titanic in Denmark
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring became the biggest grossing film of all time in Denmark over the weekend, dethroning four-year leader Titanic.Still playing well in the Scandinavian territory Rings took $17,639 (DKr 147,533) over the three-day weekend (April 19-21), bringing its total gross to $11.01m ...
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NuVision launches distribution division in Argentina
Latin American regional distributor NuVision has launched its own distribution arm in Argentina. It will continue its sub-distribution deal with local partners In the rest of the region. According to NuVision director Pedro Rodriguez, NuVision parent company, giant live entertainment conglomerate CIE, owns radio stations in Argentina which will provide ...
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Peter Hoffman launches new sales arm under David Lamping
Peter Hoffman, chairman of Seven Arts Pictures, has launched an international sales division Seven Arts International and hired veteran David Lamping as president. Lamping will head into Cannes with a broad slate of films including the next pictures from Bronwen Hughes (Forces Of Nature), Paul McGuigan (Gangster No 1, ...
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New York Lesbian & Gay Fest opens with CHO, closes with Lan Yu
The 14th annual New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival will open with Margaret Cho's latest performance film The Notorious C.H.O. from Wellspring Media and close with Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu from Strand Releasing.The event, which takes place June 6-16, also hands out annual film-maker awards decided by the audience ...
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Alfonso Cuaron is guest director for LA Film Fest
Alfonso Cuaron, currently enjoying a major US specialized hit with Y Tu Mama Tambien, will serve as guest director for the 2002 IFP Los Angeles Film Festival which this year has moved to June (dates are June 20-29), started an international section and scored a host of new sponsorship deals. ...
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Palm/Manga sign domestic video deal with WEA
The home entertainment division of Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures, which releases films from both Palm and Palm-owned Japanese animation label Manga Entertainment, has struck a domestic distribution deal with WEA Home Video to replace a previous arrangement with RYKO Distribution.The Palm/Manga catalogue consists of over 300 titles including live action ...
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Lightning strikes with first acquisition: American Gun
Lightning Entertainment, the new LA boutique sales outfit run by Richard Guardian, has made its first acquisition, buying worldwide rights to the completed feature American Gun starring James Coburn, Virginia Madsen and Barbara Bain.Written and directed by Alan Jacobs, who last directed Nina Takes A Lover, and produced by Brent ...
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Senator International takes international rights to Sundance film XX/XY
Senator International, the LA sales arm of Germany's Senator Entertainment, has acquired international rights to XX/XY, the romantic drama written and directed by Austin Chick which played in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. IFC Films has domestic distribution rights on the film which stars Mark Ruffalo, Maya Stange and ...
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Bernal turns revolutionary for Motorcycle Diaries
Rising Mexican star Gael Garcia Bernal is to play Che Guevara in Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries.The white hot star of Y Tu Mama Tambien and Amores Perros will spend two months in Argentina this summer preparing for the production, which is being co-financed by the UK's FilmFour and Germany's ...