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VFX experts converge on FMX conference
Visual effects experts from Europe, Japan and the USA including Olcun Tan (Black Hawk Down), Karen E. Goulekas (Spider-Man), Thomas Duval (Amelie), and Tim McGovern (Total Recall) will speak about past and present projects and artistic visions in the conference section of this year's Film and Media Exchange (FMX) in ...
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Menemsha, SPC commit to Hitler's Secretary
Neil Friedman's LA-based Menemsha Entertainment has acquired international rights to the critically acclaimed documentary Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary and will introduce the film to buyers at Cannes. Sony Pictures Classics had earlier acquired rights in the English-speaking world and Mexico to the film, which debuted in Panorama at the Berlin ...
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Columbia sets Spider-Man 2 for May 7,2004
One day after it scored a breathtaking $114.8m opening weekend with Spider-Man in North America, Columbia Pictures has announced that Spider-Man 2 is already dated for release on May 7, 2004. The film will go into production early next year. While the storyline will remain a closely guarded secret, the ...
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Seattle Fest sets Audiard, Medem, Takashi, Park as emerging masters
The Seattle International Film Festival, which takes place this year from May 23 to June 16, has named this year's four emerging masters - directors from around the world who have established themselves as potential cinematic masters - whose work will be spotlighted during the festival. They are Jacques Audiard ...
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Lakeshore acquires international on Just A Kiss
Lakeshore International, the sales arm of Tom Rosenberg's Lakeshore Entertainment, has picked up international rights to Fisher Stevens' romantic comedy Just A Kiss which will be released in North America by Paramount Classics in September 2002. Starring Taye Diggs, Ron Eldard, Kyra Sedgwick, Marley Shelton and Marisa Tomei, Just A ...
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Revamped Los Angeles Film Festival unveils programme
The Los Angeles Film Festival, which this year has moved its event to June (June 20-29), introduced competition sections, an international section, a guest director and a film-maker prize worth $50,000, has unveiled its lineup consisting of 57 features from 22 countries.The festival, formerly known as the Los Angeles Independent ...
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Indian megastar Khan signs with Endeavor in the US
Indian movie megastar Aamir Khan, who starred in and produced Oscar nominated Bollywood epic Lagaan, has signed with LA talent agency Endeavor for all areas of representation in the US.Khan, who has starred in more than 25 films, made his film debut in 1988 in Qayamat Se Qayamet Tak. His ...
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Sundance Institute names 12 projects for 2002 labs
The Sundance Institute has announced the 12 projects which have been selected for this year's annual Filmmakers and Screenwriters Labs which take place May 29 to June 25 at the Sundance Village in Utah. The labs offer emerging directors and screenwriters an opportunity to develop new work under the guidance ...
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Lum, Cox team for Australian Hopscotch
The reason behind Troy Lum's sudden departure from Dendy Films last week has become clear: he is starting his own Australian distribution and marketing company in partnership with veteran distributor Frank Cox. Cox will wind down his existing entity, NewVision, and transfer management of its library of 150 films to ...
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Signpost partners with Hoyts to form Signpost Films Australia
Stewart Till's Signpost Films has established its first international distribution arm, partnering with Hoyts Distribution to form Signpost Films Australia.Signpost Films Australia will control the marketing and distribution of Signpost films in Australia and New Zealand, managing and funding all marketing and P&A costs. Hoyts will provide a theatrical ...
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Australian Rules
Dir: Paul Goldman. Australia. 2002. 98mins.The Australian success of Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence has opened distribution doors previously locked to depictions of Aboriginal issues and racial conflict. In its wake comes Australian Rules, a biting reminder of the distance that still exists between white and indigenous communities in modern Australia. ...
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Boy doesn't give in to Panic at UK box office
UIP continued to reign at the UK box office over the weekend with About A Boy dropping off just 28% from its opening weekend. With three-day figures of $3.3m (£2.2m) from 448 sites, the Hugh Grant title also scored the highest site average of any film on release this week, ...
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Market share imbalances revealed across pan-Asian cinema industry
A new report focusing on exhibition and distribution over the last five years has revealed some surprising contradictions in the make-up of the 18 cinema markets analysed across Asia, the Pacific Rim, Middle East and Africa.The research, by media publication, Screen Digest, reports that while total cinema admissions for the ...
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Japan's Kadokawa Shoten, Toshiba team to provide digital content
Kadokawa Shoten Publishing, whose media empire includes film producer and distributor Asmik Ace, has linked with electronics maker Toshiba to provide film and other contents for digital broadcasts. As part of the tie-up, Toshiba bought a 1% stake (270,000 shares) in Kadokawa in March, with the intention of increasing ...
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Jack Matthews named CEO at Premium Movie Partnership
Jack Matthews has been named new chief executive at the Premium Movie Partnership (PMP), owner and operator of movie channel Showtime, Australia's most popular pay-TV channel and the biggest supporter of Australian features in the sector. The role means Matthews represents joint owners 20th Century Fox, Columbia TriStar, Paramount Pictures, ...
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Ian McShane joins in with Paper, Scissors, Stone
Ian McShane, last seen in Sexy Beast, has taken a lead role in the psychological thriller Paper, Scissors, Stone, which went into production today (May 6) in Canada. Carly Pope, Brendan Fehr, Adrian Paul, and Rena Owen had already been cast in the film about a girl whose fascination with ...
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Fortissimo takes world rights for Bollywood Hollywood
Fortissimo Film Sales, the Amsterdam and Hong Kong-based sales house, has picked up worldwide rights to Indian director Deepa Mehta's new picture Bollywood Hollywood. The film is described as a "musical romantic comedy, which crosses between the vibrant melodrama of Bollywood and the schematic mainstream cinema of Hollywood." The Toronto-set ...
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New UK media laws presented to parliament
Foreign media groups like News Corp and AOL Time Warner could soon own UK terrestrial television stations, thanks to new legislative proposals tabled by the British government on Tuesday.The radical proposals would lift a ban on non-European ownership of terrestrial TV, clearing the way for foreign media groups to buy ...
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Via Digital, Canal Satelite Digital merger rumoured in Spain
In the face of the pending closure of local digital terrestrial pay TV platform Quiero TV, rumors have flared once again in Spain that rival digital satellite platform owners Telefonica and Grupo Prisa are courting a fusion between Via Digital and Canal Satelite Digital (CSD).Insiders say that Spain's conservative government, ...
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Spain's Aurum picks up Lazaro's Girlfriend
Spain's Aurum Producciones has picked up international rights to Malaga Film Festival best actress prize winner Lazaro's Girlfriend (La Novia De Lazaro) from director Fernando Merinero.Under head of international sales Mocha Aguilar, Aurum will screen Lazaro and other recent pick-ups, Miguel Albaladejo's Resentment (Rencor) and Miguel Angel Sanchez's thriller Liable ...