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AFM: Cineart, A-Film acquire Magnolia
The freshly-formed Benelux distribution alliance between Cineart and A-Film is understood to have secured Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, its first title from New Line Cinema.Cineart targeted the ensemble drama even before it scooped three Oscar nominations this month (including one for Tom Cruise as Best Supporting Actor) and then walked ...
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Mudge wins $1m deal at Toronto in Chrysler Million Dollar Film Fest
Film-maker Andrew Mudge haswon a $1m production deal to develop his feature project The P T JohansenField Guide To North American Monstersas first prize in the 2003 Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival.Mudge beat off more than 700contestants in the competition, which began in January and progressed to amentored short film ...
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Plum teams up with Madstone to find new talent
Plum Pictures, the fledglingproduction company founded by Galt Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray and DanielaSoto-Taplin, has teamed up with New York-based integrated entertainment outfitMadstone to uncover talent and projects for the latter's Directors Programme.Plum will relocate toMadstone's corporate offices in Manhattan as part of the move and will work onthe Directors Programme ...
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Hebrew Hammer strikes US theatrical, TV deals
New York-based CowboyPictures has acquired Jonathan Kesselman's "Jewxploitation" comedy TheHebrew Hammer for theatrical releasein select cities in mid-December to coincide with the Hannukkah holiday.The acquisition is relatedto a larger deal in which ContentFilm also sold North American broadcast rightsto Comedy Central, which will air The Hebrew Hammer for two weeks ...
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Jon Fitzgerald creates consulting and services operation for indie film-makers
Festival veteran JonFitzgerald has launched Right Angle Studios, an integrated and technologicallysavvy one-stop shop offering consulting, production and distribution servicesfor independent film-makers.The venture will be linkedto a website offering online resources and links with the aim of providing aguide through the choppy and often overcrowded festival circuit waters."In the first ...
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Herwitz signs on as consultant to Stern's Endgame
Andrew Herwitz, president ofNew York-based The Film Sales Company, has signed on as independent consultantfor Jim Stern's production and financing outfit Endgame Entertainment.Herwitz will immediatelybegin scouting material for Endgame's development, co-production financing andacquisitions fund, structuring deals and advising on sales strategies."It is refreshing to workwith someone like Jim who has ...
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EFA unveils 2003 film awards shortlist
Forty-three European films have made it onto the selection list for the European Film Awards 2003.Choosing from this list, the 1,600 members of the European Film Academy will, in the coming weeks, select the nominations in the different award categories. More than 360 films were submitted for the selection. The ...
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Kosse to depart Momentum for Universal
Momentum Pictures managing director David Kosse is set to join Universal to head up its international marketing and distribution.Based in London, Kosse will help manage Universal's relationship with its international distributor, UIP. It is understood that Kosse will take a seat on the UIP board. Kosse has spent more that ...
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FINLAND
The top of the Finnish chart saw little change this weekend with Buena Vista's Pirates Of The Caribbean staying ahead of stablemate Piglet's Big Movie and local comedy Pearls And Pigs (Helmia ja sikoja).While Perttu Leppaa's local film boasts a better screen average of 471 admissions than Piglet, and went ...
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Five Euro distribs form Indie Circle buying pool
Five European distribution companies have pooled ther resources to create a jointly-owned film acquisition service. The pool, dubbed Indie Circle, will have its offices in Paris and be headed by Christophe Mercier (see Screen International Sept 05 edition for profile).The five distributors are A-Film from the Netherlands, Cineart (Belgium), Frenetic ...
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Cinar shares slide following review admissions
Montreal-based Cinar Corp, a producer of family films and children's television, watched its shares plummet this week after the company admitted that an internal review, prompted by tax fraud charges, could adversely affect its financial results."The financial and accounting impacts of the outcome of those reviews, although not yet determined, ...
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Saddest Music, Rosenstrasse find US homes
US distributors picked uptwo more international titles at the Toronto International Film Festival. IFCFilms has picked up all US rights on Canadian Guy Maddin's raucous comedy TheSaddest Music In The World,following the film's North American premiere at the event. Samuel Goldwyn Filmshas taken US rights on Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse, ...
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Underworld
Dir: Len Wiseman. US-UK-Germany-Hungary. 2003. 121 mins.A laughable exercise in Gothic gloom and pulpy horror movie cliches, Underworld is strictly for genre fans. The potential novelty of an age old blood feud between vampires and werewolves quickly fades in a film that sticks rigidly to the tried and trusted elements ...
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SPAIN
Fox's Sean Connery-starrer The League Of Extraodinary Gentlemen did extraodinarily well in its opening weekend in Spain, its first major European territory. The success could bode well for future openings on the continent, which continue with a 95 print launch in The Netherlands this weekend.Pirates Of The Caribbean held steady ...
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Egyptian Oscar nominee courts controversy
Egypt has chosen a controversial relationship film as its first ever contender for the foreign-language Oscar nomination.Sahar El Layaly which has alternative English titles of Sleepless Nights and Night Out, was selected by a specially formed committee of Egyptian film industry elders. Directed by Hani Khalifa, the film, a drama ...
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UK Film Council boards New Zealand's Father's Den
Writer/director Brad McGann's debut film In My Father's Den has become the first New Zealand film to receive funding from the UK Film Council, which is financing the mystery alongside the New Zealand Film Commission and the UK's Visionview.New Zealand producer Trevor Haysom (Crush), from T.H.E. Film, teamed with UK ...
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France set to unveil fresh incentives for film-makers
Moves to introduce a sale and leaseback scheme in France have been scrapped, with the government planning to introduce a tax credit system specifically to benefit the French production sector. The tax credit measure should go into effect in January 2004, but is currently being worked on to clarify certain ...
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Boomer explodes at Russian box office
While Renfilm's The Return has been racking up awards at Venice for its director Andrei Zvyagintsev, another Russian film has been making news at home. Boomer, directed by 27 year old Peter Buslov and produced by Moscow's Pygmalion Productions has taken more than $600,000 at the Russian box office since ...
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Pirates eyes $200m weekend haul
A wide Australian opening and strong holdovers elsewhere should propel Pirates Of The Caribbean past the $200m international mark for Buena Vista International (BVI) this upcoming weekend.The number one international title has exploded on to the scene as a late summer juggernaut and distinguished itself with a superb $38.5m haul ...
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ICELAND
Despite dropping 40% from its premiere weekend, the third installment of the American Pie-series, American Pie: The Wedding, managed to stay on top of the Icelandic chart in front of new releases The Italian Job and Daddy Day Care. Other than that there was little change at the top, where ...