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Echo Lake ties up three international directors
Echo Lake Productions, the Los Angeles-based production and finance company behind Things Behind The Sun and 13 Conversations About One Thing, has closed writing and directing deals with Singaporean film-maker CheeK (Chicken Rice War) and India's Santosh Sivan (Asoka, The Terrorist) to direct two films in English in the $2m ...
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Taiwan's Dreamland favoured by Venice critics
Some24 hours ahead of the festival's main prizes, Taiwanese drama Somewhere OverThe Dreamland (Mon Huan Buo Luo), was named the winner of a particularlystrong Venice Critics' Week section. The film, directed by Cheng Wen-Tang, was cited by the Criticsweek jury- comprising Julie Delpy, Screen International critic DanFainaru and Italian ...
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Taiwan's Dreamland wins Critics Week prize
Some24 hours ahead of the festival's main prizes, Taiwanese drama Somewhere OverThe Dreamland (Mon Huan Buo Luo), was named the winner of a particularlystrong Venice Critics' Week section. The film, directed by Cheng Wen-Tang, was cited by the Criticsweek jury- comprising Julie Delpy, Screen International critic DanFainaru and Italian ...
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UGC UK dives into Ozon's Swimming Pool
UGC Films has picked up Francois Ozon's forthcoming Swimming Pool, marking its third buy since being formed earlier this year as the UK theatrical distribution arm of French exhibition giant UGC. International sales on the film are handled by Celluloid Dreams.The film, a drama starring Charlotte Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier, ...
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Johan Padan launches Green Movie Group's animation aspirations
Italian producer Giorgio Prandoni is hoping that Johan Padan, the closing night film at the Venice festival, will mark the start of a new force in European animation.His company Green Movie Group fully financed the $7.5m film which tells the story of the discovery of America by a real-life 16th ...
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Italy's Lucky Red acquires Open My Heart
Italian independent distributor Lucky Red has picked up Italian rights to Venice title Open My Heart, a drama directed by first-time director Giada Colagrande about a prostitute who lives with her sister.Screening in Venice's New Territories sidebar, Open My Heart was co-produced by Colagrande and Massimo Cortesi, the producer behind ...
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Berlusconi moves to protect control of broadcast networks
Silvio Berlusconi's government has presented a controversial new media law to the Italian Parliament, which clears the path for the privatisation of state broadcaster RAI in 2004 and will allow the media mogul-premier to retain all three of his free-to-air Mediaset channels. Shares of RAI will be offered to the ...
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Mullan's Magdalene Sisters wins Venice Golden Lion
The Magdalene Sisters, by Scottish director Peter Mullan, scooped the top prize, the Golden Lion, at the closing ceremony of the Venice film festival. The film about a group of apparently promiscuous girls and their cruel treatment at the hands of Irish nuns, screened near the beginning of the festival ...
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Telefonica snares ticket to Argentina
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica sealed a strategic alliance with US-based Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Incorporated this week to jointly divide up a handful of media interests in Argentina.Through an as yet unnamed new firm headed by Tom Hicks and Cesar Baez, CEI Citicorp Holdings - controlled by Hicks, Muse ...
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Gong Li takes on Blake & Mortimer's M
Chinese superstar Gong Li took time out from her duties as Venice jury chief, to announce her role in big-budget, English-language thriller M, being put together by French producer Charles Gassot for TF1.The film is a 1950s action adventure adapted from The Yellow M, one of 12 books in the ...
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Swimfan dives head-first into domestic theatres
Ushering in whatis traditionally a quiet month while the studios fine-tune their end-of-yearslates, the teen thriller Swimfan opened top of the charts over the weekend with a $12.4m estimatedhaul. The film is being distributed by 20th Century Fox and wasproduced by New York's GreeneStreet Films, best known until now for ...
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Long Way Home wins top jury prize at Deauville
Peter Sollet's Long Way Home, which has been renamed Raising Victor Vargas for its North American release via Samuel Goldwyn Films and Fireworks Pictures' joint distribution venture IDP, has won the grand jury prize in the competition section of the Deauville Festival Of American Film which finished yesterday (Sunday).The film, ...
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Miramax gets Jet Lag as French comedy kicks off Toronto deals
Miramax Films has paid $1m for rights in the US, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to Daniele Thompson's French romantic comedy Jet Lag which teams Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno and which world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend. As of yesterday (Sunday), it was ...
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Carmichael to head London-based Content International
ContentFilm, the aggressive one year-old production company launched by Edward R Pressman and John Schmidt, has launched an international sales arm Content International to be based in London and headed by sales veteran Jamie Carmichael.Carmichael, who will be managing director, will oversee the sale of ContentFilm's titles overseas as well ...
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HFF buys French rights to The Good Girl from Myriad
Hachette Filipacchi Films (HFF), the company formerly known as Film Office, has acquired French rights to Miguel Arteta's US hit The Good Girl from Myriad Pictures. The deal was sealed at the Deauville Festival Of American Film where the film received its international premiere.Mars Film will release the film theatrically ...
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Cowboy Pictures takes Morvern Callar to the US
New York-based Cowboy Pictures has acquired US rights to Samantha Morton's critically acclaimed Morvern Callar which premiered in Directors Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Cowboy president John Vanco negotiated the deal with Charlotte Mickie, managing director of international motion picture sales for Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group ...
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US rights to Denmark's Open Hearts go to Newmarket
Susanne Bier's Danish drama Open Hearts has been picked up for US distribution by Bob Berney's Newmarket Films, marking the first straight acquisition for the company which is a division of Newmarket Capital Group. The film, sold by Trust Film Sales, was given a private screening at Cannes this year ...
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Alliance Atlantis takes international rights on Toronto twosome
Alliance Atlantis is to handle international sales rights on Benoit Jacquot's Benjamin Constant's Adolphe starring Isabelle Adjani and to Dylan Kidd's Roger Dodger starring Campbell Scott and Isabella Rossellini. Charlotte Mickie, managing director, international motion picture sales at Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group is handling the two films which are both ...
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Starz Encore to shut down Starz! Pictures division
US pay TV channel operator Starz Encore Group is to shut down its Starz! Pictures cable movie development and production unit, laying off Los Angeles-based vice president of original movies Paige Orloff and her three-person development team. A Starz Encore spokesman confirmed that the unit, which most recently produced boxing ...
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1999: big hits, big misses
While 1999 will be remembered as yet another record-shattering year in terms of theatrical box office grosses, it will also bear witness to a growing worldwide disparity in fortunes between the handful of huge hits and the mass of movie misses.The seventeen blockbusters that crossed the magic $100m gross point ...