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Jon Fitzgerald named executive director at Santa Barbara Film Festival
Jon Fitzgerald has been named executive director of The Santa Barbara International Film Festival after stints as director of both the Slamdance and AFI Los Angeles International film festivals.Fitzgerald will be working closely with incoming board president Arnold Kossoy. His duties include artistic direction, programming, development, marketing and overall festival ...
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Shoreline acquires three for Cannes led by Moving August
LA-based producer/distributor Shoreline Entertainment has acquired three new films for this year's Cannes Film Market led by worldwide rights to Christopher Fink's Moving August and international rights to the thriller Deceived starring Judd Nelson and Louis Gossett Jr.Moving August, which marks Fink's directorial debut, stars Eddie McClintock, Sarah Wynter and ...
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Intermedia acquires Southpaw Media's Nailed Right In
Intermedia has is in the process of acquiring international distribution rights to Nailed Right In, a coming of age drama to be directed by Griffin Dunne (Addicted To Love, Practical Magic) and to star Hayden Christensen and Leelee Sobieski. The film is written by Sopranos writer Terence Winter and is ...
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Lions Gate buys North American rights to Alibi's The Hard Word
Lions Gate Films has bought all North American rights to The Hard Word, the Australian crime drama produced by Al Clark and executive produced and sold by UK-based Alibi Films. Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths star in the film which will be released in Australia by Roadshow Film Distributors on ...
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Paramount takes territories on Crusader's Sahara
Paramount Pictures has acquired rights in UK, Italy, Spain, Australia and New Zealand to Crusader Entertainment's action-adventure Sahara which is set to start shooting on Oct 28. Paramount already had North American rights to the film through a previous arrangement with Crusader. Patrick Wachsberger's Summit Entertainment is selling remaining territories ...
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Cinemavault acquires worldwide rights to hit Quebecois thriller Savage Messiah
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing has acquired worldwide rights outside Canada to Quebecois psychological thriller Savage Messiah which opened in Quebec on April 26 through Christal Films and looks set to gross over $1m in its first month.The film stars Polly Walker and Luc Picard and is the directorial debut of Mario ...
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Cannes develops digital film screenings
There is more to digital cinema than just Star Wars: Episode II at Cannes this year, with the festival planning a multitude of digital screenings. The operation will kick off with Attack Of The Clones, which will be the first film ever to be screened digitally in the Grande Theatre ...
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Cannes develops digital film screenings
There is more to digital cinema than just Star Wars: Episode II at Cannes this year, with the festival planning a multitude of digital screenings. The operation will kick off with Attack Of The Clones, which will be the first film ever to be screened digitally in the Grande Theatre ...
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European Commission challenges French advertising laws
France's film marketing and distribution sector could be in for a radical shake-up with a new aspect of the country's cultural exception coming under attack from the European Union (EU).The European Commission, the EU's executive wing, last week asked the French government to justify its laws on television advertising, which ...
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New-look Good Machine continues to focus on Almodovars' El Deseo
Good Machine International (GMI), newly renamed Focus International, will handle worldwide sales on the forthcoming My Life Without Me, produced by the Almodovar brothers' Madrid-based El Deseo.The Almodovars look set to continue their ongoing relationship with a redefined Good Machine following its acquisition last week by Universal Studios. GMI handled ...
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Government to close one of Portugal's national TV stations
Portugal's public broadcaster looks set to get cut in half if the government follows through on a promise to close down one of its two nationwide channels. The broadcaster has amassed a multimillion dollar debt which in recent months led to accusations in the local film and TV industry of ...
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Spider-Man swings past $200m in record time
Displaying the kind of gravity-defying antics one would expect from Spider-Man, Columbia's smash hit held on to top spot with a weekend gross of $72m, racing past $200m on Saturday in a record nine days. This weekend's $72m haul - the highest second-weekend gross ever - is the fourth highest ...
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Spider-Man takes Japanese box office opening record
In what is regarded as its most important international territory, Spider-Man smashed yet another opening record at the weekend when it was released in Japan on Saturday (May 11).With a massive estimated weekend gross of $9.6m (¥1.23bn) and 820,000 admissions from 412 screens, the blockbuster recorded the best figures ever ...
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Winning combination guarantees hot international summer
The continued jaw-dropping success of Spider-Man, combined with widespread and eager anticipation for Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones, has made irrelevant any speculations about whether Summer 2002's international box office will beat that of 2001.But even before the big hitters came into the equation, early indications ...
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Tequila Gang takes Lost In La Mancha to Cannes
The Tequila Gang, the London/Mexico City-based production and distribution entity founded by founded by Mexico's Guillermo del Toro, Bertha Navarro, Laura Esquivel, Alejandra Moreno Toscano and London-based Rosa Bosch will be presenting Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's documentary Lost In La Mancha to buyers at the Cannes film market. ...
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Tequila Gang takes Lost In La Mancha to Cannes
The Tequila Gang, the London/Mexico City-based production and distribution entity founded by founded by Mexico's Guillermo del Toro, Bertha Navarro, Laura Esquivel, Alejandra Moreno Toscano and London-based Rosa Bosch will be presenting Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's documentary Lost In La Mancha to buyers at the Cannes film market. ...
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones
Dir: George Lucas. US. 2002. 143mins.It must be thankless being George Lucas. He may be wading in money, but critics and fans have treated his new Star Wars prequels with such intense scrutiny and disappointment that he has to realise his reputation as a legendary film-maker of 1970s classics American ...
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The City Of No Limits (En La Ciudad Sin Limites)
Dir: Antonio Hernandez. Sp-Arg. 2001. 118minsAntonio Hernandez's ensemble feature is a dramatic gem, a beautifully scripted and acted film with a glossy look and universal tale that has the capacity to move audiences anywhere. It represents a marketing challenge to distributors due to its complex storyline and straddling of genres, ...
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Sean Connery closes his LA-based Fountainbridge Films
Sean Connery has shut down his Los Angeles-based production company Fountainbridge Films, throwing into doubt plans for a Scottish studio facility as well as threatening the future of period epic Mary, Queen Of Scots.Established in 1992, the company had produced such films as Just Cause and Entrapment with Catherine Zeta ...
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San Sebastian to honour Schlondorff, Powell for 50th edition
The San Sebastian International Film Festival will honour multifaceted filmmakers Volker Schlondorff and Michael Powell with retrospectives at this year's 50th anniversary edition, to be held September 19-28 in the northern Spanish coastal town.The festival, Spain's premiere competitive event, has also organised a thematic sidebar in honour of its anniversary, ...