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Blue Star widens Anglo-Italian financing net
As the Italian film industry continues to struggle to make commercially viable pictures that can travel outside its own borders, local producers have started to recognise the benefits of joining forces with European - and, in particular, UK allies.A pioneering model has been set by a reciprocal financing arrangement that ...
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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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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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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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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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Boorman taps Jackson, Binoche for Country Of The Skulls
John Boorman is to direct Samuel L Jackson and Juliette Binoche in South African-set drama Country Of My Skull. UK-based sales company The Works is representing the production worldwide, with shooting scheduled for February.Jackson plays an angry American journalist and Binoche is a troubled young Afrikaaner who encounter a sinister ...
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Blue Star widens Anglo-Italian financing net
As the Italian film industry continues to struggle to make commercially viable pictures that can travel outside its own borders, local producers have started to recognise the benefits of joining forces with European - and, in particular, UK allies.A pioneering model has been set by a reciprocal financing arrangement that ...
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Norway, Austria, Colombia, Chile submit Oscar contenders
Four more countries have unveiled their candidates for the foreign language film category at next year's Academy Awards.Norway has selected Trygve Allister Diesen's Hold My Heart (Tyven, Tyven); Colombia has put forward Lisandro Duque's Los Ninos Invisible (The Invisible Children); Chile is sending animated film Ogu Y Mampato En Rapa ...
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Wild Bees, Hukkle win Cottbus prizes
Wild Bees and Hukkle - the Czech Republic and Hungary's candidates for the Foreign Language Film Oscar - were among the prize-winners at this year's FilmFestival Cottbus which closed on Sunday evening with an overall 15% increase in attendances over 2001.Bohdan Slama's Wild Bees (Divoke Vcely) received the Euros12,000 main ...
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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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Buskin starts production on Carpi's Intermittenze Del Cuore
Buskin Film starts production this week on veteran Italian arthouse director Fabio Carpi's Le Intermittenze Del Cuore ; marking the young Rome sales outfit's second foray into high-profile Italian feature film production.Carpi's Euros 4m semi-autobiographical picture revolves around the memories of a man who is preparing a film about Marcel ...
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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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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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Constantin latest to dive into Celluloid's Swimming Pool
Constantin Film of Germany has become the latest high profile buyer to sign on for Celluloid Dreams' Swimming Pool.The film by 8 Femmes director Francois Ozon, which is currently in post production, is a Chabrolian thriller starring Charlotte Rampling as a disillusioned British publisher who travels to France and is ...
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Eagle and Elysee first buyers for Summit's Blackout
Eagle Pictures in Italy and Les Films de L'Elysee in Benelux are the first major independents to buy territories on Summit Entertainment's thriller Blackout starring Ashley Judd, Samuel L Jackson and Andy Garcia.Directed by Phil Kaufman (The Right Stuff, Rising Sun), the film is produced by Kopelson Entertainment and Intertainment ...
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Veggie empire goes on global Odyssey
Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato are talking vegetables that have spawned a $500m kids entertainment franchise that has been nipping at Walt Disney's heels in the market for direct-to-video children's series. Now the Christian-themed US animation phenomenon VeggieTales is recruiting distributors to expand into the international market for ...
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AtomFilms trusts in Sundance short
In the first internet licensing deal announced at a web-crazed Sundance Film Festival this year, AtomFilms has paid a modest upfront fee to acquire both on- and off-line rights to Jason Reitman's 16 minute short feature, In God We Trust. AtomFilms, a Seattle-based web operation that specialises in distributing short ...
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Odeon Film switches from Neuer Markt
Odeon Film, co-producer of Gregor Jordan's Buffalo Soldiers, has received the greenlight from the German Stock Exchange to switch his company listing from the Neuer Markt and start trading on the Regulated Market (Geregelter Markt) from December 2.An official statement explained the move 'as a reaction to the present situation ...
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Dragonflies takes off with Nordic Film Days award
Marius Holst has walked off with the main award - the NDR Promotion Prize - for Norwegian drama Dragonflies, at the 44th edition of the Nordic Film Days in the German city of Lübeck.The NDR Promotion Prize of 12,500 Euro has been awarded annually since 1990 for a feature film ...
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Vivendi faces two new US investigations
One week after becoming the subject of a criminal probe in France, Vivendi Universal has now officially fallen under US scrutiny. The company will be examined by the US Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York and the Security and Exchange Commission's Miami office. The ailing media giant ...