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European Film Market on target for record year
The Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) is looking forward to a vintage year, with record-breaking levels of registrations, screenings and exhibitors. According to market director Beki Probst, over 120 companies from more than 30 countries were already booked by last November, with three new exhibitors attending the EFM for the ...
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New entrant swells Korea's distribution sector
In what is rapidly becoming a crowded market, the South Korean distribution sector is to receive another player in Showbox, a subsidiary of local exhibition company Mediaplex.Showbox, still in initial stages of development, is reportedly in negotiation with investment company KM Culture in a deal that could push the number ...
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Spanish producers lobby for quota increase
The Spanish Producers' Federation FAPAE is lobbying for an increase in the country's controversial screen quota system, calling for one day of European cinema for every two of third-country films exhibited in Spain. Current law requires one for every three. The recently re-elected president of FAPAE Eduardo Campoy said the ...
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Palm Pictures takes Sex & Lucia for North America
Palm Pictures has picked up North American rights to Spanish director Julio Medem's drama Sex And Lucia (Lucia Y El Sexo), which recently screened in the World Cinema sidebar at Sundance. The film is produced by Spain's Sogecine and is represented internationally by Sogepaq. Medem's previous effort, 1999's The Lovers ...
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Rai Trade closes string of sales on Jurij
Italian sales agent Rai Trade has closed a string of sales ahead of next month's Berlin and AFM markets on Jurij, a drama directed by Stefano Gabrini starring Charles Dance and Sarah Miles.The movie, about a blind 10-year-old violin prodigy, has been sold to Japan's Gaga, Mexico's Quality Film, South ...
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Kinowelt to exit German Neue Markt
Germany's Kinowelt Medien has withdrawn its listing on the Neuer Markt as of Feb 22 and will transfer its stock to the Regulated Market from Feb 25.Brothers Michael and Rainer Koelmel and the provisional insolvency administrator Dr. Wolfgang Ott decided on the change to the "more suitable segment" of the ...
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IFC takes US rights on Lost In La Mancha
IFC Entertainment has bought North and South American rights to Berlin Panorama film Lost In La Mancha: The Un-Making of Don Quixote.Lost In La Mancha is a feature length documentary about the preparations for and dramatic halting of Terry Gilliam film Don Quixote. It is made by Keith Fulton ...
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Berlin's new Perspective sidebar & Vision Day
The 99 Euro-Films omnibus project will open the Berlinale's new sidebar "Perspective of German Cinema" which is described by the organisers as "a voyage of discovery and adventure through the entire spectrum of German cinema from fictional and experimental films to documentaries". 99 Euro-Films, which comprises 12 short ...
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Wootton upped at BFI, Hebron upped at LFF
Adrian Wootton is stepping down as director of the London Film Festival to take up the post of deputy director of the event's parent body, the British Film Institute (BFI). His deputy, Sandra Hebron will take up the newly-created post of acting artistic director of the LFF, and is ...
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Miramax acquires stake in Till's Signpost Films
Miramax Films has taken a minority share in Stewart Till's Signpost Films as part of a deal to handle US distribution for the would-be studio.Miramax will have the first option on US rights to Signpost titles and has agreed to release a minimum number of films. The Weinsteins' powerhouse is ...
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Revamped Taormina festival hires Steve Klain
In a bid to boost the US profile of the Taormina Film Festival, director Felice Laudadio has hired Steve Klain, Miramax's veteran New York-based international marketing director, as a deputy director. The festival, which is non-competitive and screens only English-language movies in the Sicilian town's ancient Greek amphitheatre, has also ...
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Roxie takes US rights to Richter's The Tunnel
US distributor Roxie Releasing picked up US rights for Roland Suso Richter's The Tunnel from Beta Cinema at this week's Rotterdam Film Festival.Having monitored the film's success at festivals in Montreal (where it won the audience award), Vancouver (placed second in audience choice after Amelie) and the Toronto Film Festival's ...
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Fiennes takes lead in $10m Luther biopic
UK actor Joseph Fiennes has signed up to play religious reformer Martin Luther in a $10m feature film biopic to be directed by Eric Till.Luther, the story of a simple monk challenging the political and religious leadership of his time will also feature Peter Ustinov, Bruno Ganz, Mathieu Carriere, ...
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Angelopoulos to start on Greece's biggest movie
Greek director Theo Angelopoulos will next week commence shooting on The Weeping Field, the first part of his long planned, seven-hour trilogy that tells the story of a couple during the twentieth century.Set for a 15-week shoot, the most expensive Greek production ever is financed by various national and international ...
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CCS wins Oz's Melbourne studio contract
Central City Studios (CCS) have been declared "preferred tenderer" for the job of building and operating a studio and post-production complex in Melbourne. The move is a big step forward towards establishing Australia's third substantial studio complex in its second biggest city.While CCS managing director Tim Barnett says the core ...
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German media companies reorganise funds
EM.TV & Merchandising has parted with its shares in Hamburg-based TFC Holding, Israel's Talit.TV & Communications and Stockholm-based Plus Licens AB as part of its strategic reorientation.EM.TV had acquired the holdings during the Neuer Markt's boom phase between September 1999 and February 2000, but the decision to sell was taken ...
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Hong Kong exhibitors get window extension
Hong Kong's exhibition body, the Hong Kong Theatres Association, has reached an agreement with local distributors to extend the territory's theatrical window to at least one month.Currently, VCDs and DVDs of local titles are often released at the same time as, or only weeks after, their theatrical release. However the ...
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Argentina's filmmakers condemn govt inaction
Argentinian film-makers have condemned the confusion that has reigned since their country's economic collapse and which has brought the local film industry to a standstill.At a meeting held yesterday (Jan 30) during the Rotterdam Film Festival, directors including Lucretia Martel, Ulises Rosell, Hernan Musaluppi and Alvaro Urtizberea protested against the ...
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Korean industry supports screen quota system
Leading figures from the Korean film industry have united in a show of support for the nation's screen quota system, after reports suggesting that the government is planning to weaken the quota's restrictions on movie theatres. The issue has gained added prominence as South Korea and the US are ...
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UK's Optimum picks up clutch of titles
Optimum Releasing, the UK indie distributor which last year made a mark with Mexican hit Amores Perros, has picked up a clutch of titles including two MGM comedies - What's The Worst That Could Happen' and Tortilla Soup.Optimum has also acquired Argentinian hit Nine Queens from Lions Gate Films ...