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Piracy stunting growth of Italian video market
Italy''s sell-through video market was worth (lira708bn) in 1999 - more than the beer and ice-cream markets - according to a report from trade organisation Univideo. The rental market in 1999 was worth (lira300bn). However the report also found that market growth is being restricted by piracy and the reluctance ...
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Arclight drums up Lord Of War sales
Arclight Films has had a busy time handling demand for its forthcoming espionage action film Lord Of War, starring Nicolas Cage.The $48m thriller is to be directed by Andrew Niccol from mid-July on location in South Africa. It co-stars Monica Bellucci and Ethan Hawke.The picture was licensed to Gaga Communications ...
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AFM: deals in brief
Bavaria FilmsBerlin Golden Bear-winner, Head On was sold to Golem for Spain, Alpha for Argentina, With Cinema for Korea, Blitz for Croatia and Cinecolumbia for Columbia. Veit Helmer's Gate To Heaven was sold to Videovision for South Africa..ArclightBeautiful Boxer was sold to Tartan films for the UK and Silver Hawk ...
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Celluloid Dreams strikes US deals for Berlinale titles
Top French sales house Celluloid Dreams managed two North American deals on its burgeoning art-house slate.Cedric Kahn's Red Lights (Feux Rouges) was sold to Wellspring Media for the US. That complemented earlier business with Bim for Italy, Films De L'Elysee for Belgium, Artificial Eye for the UK, Maywin for Russia, ...
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AFM: Cineclick Asia strikes Old Boy, Samaritan Girl deals
Korean sales house Cineclick Asia has sold Park Chan-Wook's Cannes-tipped thriller Old Boy and Kim Ki-Duk's Berlin competition film Samaritan Girl to Film House for Mexico.Old Boy was also sold to Gutek for Poland, while Samaritan was also sold to Golden Scene for Hong Kong.Despite previous press reports, Cineclick is ...
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Entertainment laps up Lassie project for UK
New York-based Classic Media has sold all UK rights to BAFTA-winning Charles Sturridge's live-action Lassie project to Nigel and Trevor Green's Entertainment Film Distributors.Francesca Barra and Selwyn Roberts, who co-founded Firstsight Films with Sturridge in 2001, will serve as producers while Classic's Schwalbe and chairman and chief executive officer Eric ...
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AFM: Media Luna sells Russian comedy to US
Germany's Media Luna has wrapped a US deal for its Russian romantic comedy You I Love, which premiered in the Panorama section of last month's Berlin festival.Theatrical and video rights to the film, which was produced and directed by Olga Stolpovskaya and Dmitry Troitsky, were sold to Douglas Witkins' Picture ...
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Mifed date change sparks domino effect
The shift in the MIFED dates is having repercussions for many other events in the international film calendar.Spanish sellers, for example, fear that with Mifed and AFM now as separate and competing events they are expected to pitch their sales tents at no less than five locations in nine weeks: ...
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Renaissance strikes key Pobby And Dingan pre-sales
On the strength of its screenplay and director, but as yet no cast attachments, Renaissance Films has struck pivotal pre-sales deals on Pobby And Dingan, a rites-of-passage story set in the Australian outback that is due to start shooting on location in July.Gaga Communications of Japan and A-Film/Cinelibre of Benelux ...
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Madrid, Barcelona plan Spanish film studios
New plans are underway to build studio and production centres in both Madrid and Barcelona.Spain is already gearing up for the opening this summer of sections of the massive City of Light (Ciudad de la Luz) studio complex in Alicante. Whereas City of Light will target international productions, the smaller ...
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Eurimages bankrolls eleven features with Euros 3.3m
New features by Pan Nalin (Valley Of Flowers), Radu Mihaileanu (Va, Vis Et Deviens) , Diane Bertrand (Der Ringfinger) and Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) are among 11 European co-productions which received over Euros 3.3m support from the Strasbourg-based Eurimages in its latest round of funding.The largest amount - Euro 600,000 ...
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Fantasporto shares out top honours
Korean title A Tale Of Two Sisters and Spain's Killing Words shared the top prizes of the official Fantasy Film competition at the 24th annual edition of Portugal's leading film festival, the Oporto International Film Festival (Feb 20-Mar 1), better known as Fantasporto.Kim Jee-Woon's Sisters took the best film, director ...
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South Australia launches Screen Industry Council
A screen industry council is to be formed in South Australia to bring under one roof all production sectors - from film and television to games and education - with the aim of sharing experiences and market intelligence."Our philosophy is that the industry needs to be more involved in policy ...
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Treston promoted to director of marketing and distributor sales at York
Arik Ben Treston has been promoted to director of marketing anddistributor sales at Burbank-based production and distribution outfit YorkEntertainment.Treston's duties will include overseeing artwork and ad schedules,handling public relations for trades and consumer press, unit publicity onin-house titles and managing sales to US video distributors.He has worked at York for ...
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Duguay signs on to direct The Runelords
Christian Duguay, whosecredits include The Art Of Warand the mini-series Hitler: Rise Of Evil, has been signed to direct the $80m fantasy adventure The Runelords which is being co-produced by Franchise Pictures,Story Island Entertainment, Canyonlight Entertainment and EntertainmentBusiness Group (EBG).The Runelords is the first of three sword and sorcery tales ...
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Paltrow gets decade of achievement award at ShoWest
Gwyneth Paltrow is to behonoured with the ShoWest 2004 Distinguished Decade of Achievement in FilmAward at the 30th anniversary film expo in Las Vegas later this month."For the past decade,Gwyneth Paltrow has delivered one sensational performance after another," MitchNeuhauser, co-managing director of the event, said in a statement."With such varied ...
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Cinelibre takes worldwide rights on Greenwald's War In Iraq doc
Cinema Libre Studio willhandle worldwide rights on veteran director-producer Robert Greenwald's highlytopical documentary Uncovered: The War In Iraq.Greenwald, whose creditsinclude Unprecedented and StealThis Movie, partnered withMoveOn.Org and the Centre for American Progress to produce the picture, whichis due to get its world premiere at Cannes.Uncovered: The War InIraq is set ...
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Passion's domestic weekend tally tops out at heavenly $125.2m
Confirmed figures releasedtoday (March 1) reveal The Passion Of The Christ grossed an astonishing $125.2m in its first five days, making it thebiggest Wednesday-to-Sunday five-day US opening of all time.Released through NewmarketFilms, Mel Gibson's self-financed crucifixion epic took $26.6m on its openingWednesday (25) and added $22.9m on Friday (27), $33.1m ...
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See Grace Fly wins Oporto festival audience prize
Pete McCormack'sdrama See Grace Flyhas won the audience award at the Oporto International Film Festival(Fantasporto).The picture tells of a 38-year-old schizophrenic'sincreasingly erratic behaviour following her mother's death and stars GinaChiarelli, Paul McGillion and Benjamin Ratner.This is thethird prize for See Grace Fly following a Women in Film award for Chiarelli ...
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Polly is top in UK and Brazil, scores $4.3m weekend
Universal's AlongCame Polly opened top inthe UK through UIP at the weekend on an estimated $1.8m from 369 sites.The opening was15% bigger than that of Meet The Parents in 2000 and 21% bigger than American Pie in 1999.Polly held on to number one in its second weekin Brazil, adding $300,000 ...