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BV Int'l has busy start with Minotaur and Thunderstruck
Norwegian sales outfit BV International has had a busy start to the market and even struck one deal while it was unpacking its boxes on Saturday.It sold Minotaur, its Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Derek Jacobi teen horror, to New World for Thailand. On the eve of the market it also sold ...
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Eros International reclaims sales on Devdas
First-time MIFED exhibitor Eros International will be offering distributors the chance to buy Devdas, the Indian foreign-language Oscar contender, that was previously represented by Focus Features."The transaction is done at last," said Eros chief executive Kishore Lulla, who produced the film and has been negotiating to retrieve the sales rights ...
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My Little Eye director returns to horror genre
Fresh from the success of his low-budget horror hit My Little Eye, director Marc Evans is returning to the psychological chiller genre with Trauma.The project marks the first from Ministry of Fear, the horror label set up by former Edinburgh International Film Festival chief Lizzie Francke at UK-Irish production outfit ...
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Cecchi Gori arrest fuels monopoly fears in Italy
The arrest of former Italian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori throws one big question into sharp relief: what will happen to his film interests if ' as is looking increasingly inevitable - his once-formidable empire disintegrates' To many, the answer could rock the landscape of the Italian film industry ' ...
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Grosvenor Park to open Paris, Dublin offshoots
Toronto- and London-based film financier Grosvenor Park will open offices in Paris and Dublin, cementing its expansion into European film financing - and reflecting its increasing involvement in projects that have no financial ties with Canada.The company, which has been involved in such films as David Cronenberg's Spider and Robert ...
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Ex-Helkon trio goes Solo
The management of Helkon International Pictures (HIP) - Christian Halsey Solomon, Lee Solomon and Clifford Werber - has formally bought itself out from Helkon Media and relaunched as Solo Entertainment Group (SEG). The company's name affirms its connection to Solo Film Verleiht, the nascent German distribution outfit co-founded by former ...
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CJ steps up production, sales drive
With no less than seven new pictures on its MIFED slate, Korean giant CJ Entertainment is dramatically stepping up production volume.The stock-market traded film subsidiary of the Cheil Jedang chaebol, or conglomerate, CJ Entertainment is planning to produce as many as 15-18 films a year.'Korean films have large and growing ...
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German funds in Polish development talks
The German regional funds Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung (MDM) and Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg are in talks with the Polish Culture Ministry to establish a development fund dedicated to joint projects by German and Polish producers.MDM chief executive Manfred Schmidt is confident that a decision could be reached before the end of this year, ...
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Sidecar Films shoots Winspeare's Miracle
Hot young Italian director Edoardo Winspeare has started shooting The Miracle, his next picture after Live Blood, the quirky southern Italian drama which screened at Sundance in 2001.Produced, like his first two pictures, by Maurizio Tini's Rome outfit, Sidecar Films and TV, Winspeare's new film revolves around an 11-year-old boy ...
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London screenings funk primes MIFED pump
Any international film acquisitions executive who by-passed what's left of the London Screenings last week missed one key world premiere: Hanway's To Kill A King. The large-scale period piece starring Dougray Scott and Tim Roth screened to cast, crew and a strong turn-out of buyers ' although no US deal ...
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Hard Word finds its new Alibi in Beyond
Sydney-based Beyond Films will begin selling the Australian crime thrillerThe Hard Word at MIFED, replacing London-based Alibi Films as its international sales agent.Alibi originally signed on to represent the film internationally in mid-2000, over a year before shooting began, largely because of the interest of its then sales chief Hilary ...
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Euro delegation heads for New Zealand
A nine-person delegation of European producers is heading for New Zealand this month with the aim of developing co-productions. More may join them.The delegation is being financed through Investment New Zealand and is one of several new government-funded initiatives aimed at strengthening the country's screen industries on the back of ...
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Mikado boards new Panahi, Sokurov projects
Italy's Mikado, fresh from a hefty cash boost by new multimedia shareholder De Agostini, continues to raise its international profile by boarding as a co-producer two new films from world-renown filmmakers: Aleksander Sokurov's Father And Son and Jafar Panahi's Gold, which was co-written with another festival favourite, Abbas Kiarostami. Both ...
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Kim Ki-duk title springs to Bavaria
Sales outfit Bavaria Film International has a growing number of reasons to be positive as it expands its slate of non-German titles.It kicked off MIFED with two strong sessions at Saturday's Milan Screenings, where it showed Peter Bay's Swedish comedy The Man Who Couldn't Say No and Boran, the debut ...
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Miramax goes BVI route in Germany
Miramax Films' newly-promoted chief operating officer Rick Sands (pictured) has confirmed that Miramax Films will no longer be selling its films to independents in Germany, but will instead set up its own marketing operation and partner with sister company Buena Vista International (BVI) to handle physical distribution. Miramax already has ...
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Stone, Everett defect to Arclight
Gary Hamilton and Victor Syrmis' newly-launched Arclight Films has boarded A Different Loyalty, starring Sharon Stone and Rupert Everett.Everett plays British super spy Kim Philby, who defected to Moscow in 1963, and Stone plays his wife. Directed by Marek Kanievska, who also directed Everett in Another Country, another film set ...
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Spider-Man VHS & DVD sales spin $190m record revenues
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is celebrating today after scoring the biggest ever video and DVD release of all time over the weekend with Spider-Man. The release broke first day sales records on Friday with seven million units (combined VHS and DVD) sold and more than 11 million units are estimated ...
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Argentinian entrepreneur launches Madrid film empire
Armed with seed capital of $20m-$25m, Madrid-based Argentine entrepreneur Pablo Larguia is launching a new vertically integrated entertainment empire, Innova Networks.The former founder and chief executive of Human Resources software technology company Bumeran.com has immediate ambitions to build multiplexes across Spain. To launch in January 2003, Innova Networks's intended scope ...
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Bim has snapped up Italian rights to Haneke's Wolfszeit
Rome arthouse distributor Bim has snapped up Italian distribution rights to Michael Haneke's Wolfszeit, which stars Isabelle Huppert, Patrice Chereau and Beatrice Dalle.Translated literally as Time Of The Wolf, Wolfszeit is now in post-production and involves Haneke's "regular" Austrian production company Wega-Film in co-production with France's Les Films du Losange ...
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Splendid lifts Veil on Stratus debut film
Splendid Pictures has signed on to represent international sales on The Painted Veil, the first film from Stratus Film Co, the independent production outfit unveiled recently by Hollywood super-producer Mark Gordon, former Miramax LA president Mark Gill and financier Bob Yari. Edward Norton and Naomi Watts are to star in ...