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Black Tiger wins First Light prize
UK Film Council chair Alan Parker and actors Dougray Scott and Olivia Williams were amongst the attendees at the First Light awards, the Film Council's National Lottery-funded programme for seven to 18 year olds.Jury members including Pierce Brosnan, Kenneth Branagh, Ray Winstone, Christopher Eccleston and Samantha Morton awarded the prize ...
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Heavens Above - It's Cash Wednesday!
Newmarket Films and Icon Entertainment announced their astonishingfinal numbers yesterday for the first day Wednesday gross of The Passion OfThe Christ - a divine$26,556,573.The figure, which is the third biggest Wednesday gross of all timeafter The Return Of The King ($34m) and Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace ...
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Bay's Platinum Dunes signs international agreement with Focus
Platinum Dunes, MichaelBay's production outfit designed to make modestly budgeted films fromfirst-time directors, has signed an exclusive sales arrangement with FocusFeatures. Focus had previously handled Platinum Dunes' debut project TheTexas Chainsaw Massacre, whichgrossed more than $100m worldwide.The new deal will encompassall upcoming Platinum Dunes projects for which Focus will sell ...
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New Line makes Mexican pact with brand new distributor
New Line International hasallied with Districine in Mexico for the distribution of all New Line's filmsin Mexico. New Line's films were previously handled by sister company WarnerBros Pictures International in all Latin America, but the studio is currentlyreassessing its distribution plans in the subcontinent.Districine is a newlyfounded company run by ...
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Showtime greenlights Catholic Church scandal drama Our Fathers
Showtime has greenlit the highly topical drama Our Fathers, based on Newsweek editor David France'sinvestigation into the paedophilia scandal that gripped the Roman Catholicchurch.Casting is underway on the project, which is due to begin shootingin April and will be directed by Dan Curtis (The Winds Of War) based on a ...
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Edinburgh festival to host Ophuels retrospective
Director Max Ophuels is the recipient of this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival retrospective, an extensive showcase of a film-maker's oeuvre that was dedicated to France's Robert Bresson last year.The German film-maker began his career as a stage actor and director in the roaring 20s before fleeing the country when ...
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AFM: Irvin sharpens Knife for Vine International Pictures
Dogs Of War and Hamburger Hill director John Irvin is to direct Knife Edge, a psychological drama about control of a familyfortune.The $15m picture is writtenby Robin Squire and Fiona Combe and executive produced by Combe and TharsiVanhuysse. Marie Vine of Vine International Pictures produces and handles worldsales.Vine also comes ...
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AFM: Renaissance sells Asmik Ace, Dendy, Bim and others on Curran drama
Renaissance Films has sealeda handful of deals on its acclaimed ensemble drama We Don't Live HereAnymore following the sale of thefilm for North America and the UK to Warner Independent Pictures at Sundance inJan.Asmik Ace has bought it forJapan, Dendy for Australia and New Zealand, Bim for Italy, Scanbox forScandinavia, ...
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AFM: RS takes US theatrical rights to Hopper-starrer Unspeakable
RS Entertainment, RandySlaughter's Los Angeles-based distributor that released Luther in the US, has taken domestic theatrical rights toPav Films' debut feature Unspeakable, a psycho-thriller starring Dennis Hopper.MGM has domestic televisionand DVD/home video rights while 20th Century Fox International Television willhandle foreign/worldwide pay TV rights and Artist View Entertainment ishandling all ...
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AFM: E Pictures executive to run Korea Pictures' brand new sales outfit
Korea Pictures, the indieproduction and distribution house behind many of Korea's most commerciallysuccessful pictures, is to strike out alone with its own sales venture.The new sales company, whichwill officially launch at Cannes, is to be headed by Cho Eun-jung, who mostrecently was a sales executive with E Pictures.The diversification intosales ...
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AFM: TLA buys Bear Cub for North America from Media Luna
TLA Releasing has acquiredUS and Canadian theatrical and home entertainment rights to Miguel Albaladejo'sSpanish gay parenting comedy-drama Bear Cub (Cachorro).TLA picked up the picturefrom Media Luna Entertainment on behalf of Star Line Productions and willrelease the film theatrically in late 2004.Bear Cub centres on a gay man who forms a ...
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AFM: Shochiku unveils FX film Hinokio and three samurai flicks
Shochiku, the fast movingJapanese major, has unveiled a forthcoming slate that includes a trio ofsamurai action flicks and a high-powered special effects film Hinokio."These films are all verydifferent in nature, but posses a common edginess that will continue to defineShochiku's slate," said Takeo Hisamatsu, managing director of production andtheatrical distribution.Takahiko ...
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Tai Seng sets Red Trousers as first US theatrical release
Video giant Tai SengEntertainment, one of the leading US distributors of Hong Kong film andtelevision, is to theatrically distribute its first production in the US, theaction documentary Red Trousers - The Life Of The Hong Kong Stuntmen.Tai Seng will partner withLandmark Theaters and Regal Entertainment and will release the picture ...
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AFM: Gaga buys Japan on PS I Love You from Fortissimo
Fortissimo has reachedagreement with Gaga Communications for the sale to Japan of its Cannes-hopeful PSI Love You."We are thrilled that thisis a genuine AFM day one deal and shows that Japanese buyers are again feelingconfident enough to bid aggressively and close deals," said Fortissimo co-chiefWouter Barendrecht.The film, by Roger Dodger-director ...
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Diane Lane signs on as one of Lions Gate's Fierce People
Lions Gate has greenlit thedrama Fierce People, which starsDiane Lane and is set to begin principal photography in March.Based on a screenplay byDirk Wittenborn and directed by Griffin Dunne (Practical Magic, Addicted ToLove), the story centres on aManhattan-based massage therapist who becomes entangled in the murky life of awealthy client.Lions ...
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Stonelock secures credit line, retains AFMA chairman Ryan
Beni Atoori's LosAngeles-based Stonelock Pictures has secured a $200m credit line through Dutchbank ABN AMRO to produce films and set up international sales companyStonelock Pictures International.AFMA chairman and IACpartner Michael Ryan will handle sales on the company's first two pictures: thebiopic Mata Hari and the epic Gilgamesh, which stars Omar ...
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Marlene disappoints in Germany
After a glitzy premiere on March 9, the highly-anticipated German biopic Marlene failed to ignite either the critics or the box office in its home territory. Released on 420 prints, Joseph Vilsmaier's Marlene grossed $0.7m in its opening four days falling into fifth place below the release of Oliver Stone's ...
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AFM: Monster Man sold to Tartan in UK, Sharada in Italy for Dream
Dream Entertainment has soldall rights on the tongue-in-cheek horror picture Monster Man to Tartan Films in the UK and Sharada in Italy.Both companies plan a summertheatrical release for Michael Davis' picture, which centres on a road tripthat goes horribly awry when two friends are pursued by a gigantic truck. EricJungmann, ...
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Miramax's Weinstein wins humanitarian award from amfAR
Miramax co-chairman HarveyWeinstein will be recognized with the Arthur B Krim Award by amfAR, theAmerican Foundation for AIDS Research, at a special tribute event later thisyear.Weinstein becomes only thesecond recipient of the award following the late great MCA chairman LewWasserman. The award recognizes Weinstein's contributions to advancing AIDSresearch and his ...
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Arthouse legends set for Cannes contention
A look down thelist of festival-friendly films likely to be ready for Cannes (12-23 May)suggests that Thierry Fremaux and his selection team have an embarrassment ofriches to pick from - and that Quentin Tarantino's jury will be weighingup the reputations of numerous art-house legends (see below for full list).At least ...