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Canal Plus snaps up Tobis
Canal Plus is taking a controlling stake in Germany's Tobis in order to create the German portion of its proposed pan-European studio; Le Studio Canal Plus Deutschland.The French pay-TV giant is already a 20% shareholder in German distributor Tobis but will increase its holding to around 66%. Tobis's existing shareholders ...
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Noe shocker gets US distribution through Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films closed a deal yesterday in Toronto to buy US rights to Gaspar Noe's super-controversial Irreversible, the scandale of this year's Cannes Film Festival which is also screening at this week's Toronto International Film Festival. Kicked off by a harrowing rape scene, Irreversible tells its story in reverse ...
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Miramax buys domestic rights to Mullan's Venice winner
In its second acquisition of the Toronto International Film Festival, Miramax Films has clinched domestic rights to Venice Golden Lion winner The Magdalene Sisters directed by Peter Mullan. Miramax beat out other buyers including Fine Line Features and Sony Pictures Classics. Over the weekend, Miramax also bought rights in the ...
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Alliance Atlantis gets international rights to Sundance victor
Alliance Atlantis has picked up international rights (excluding the English-speaking world, Latin America and Italy) to Personal Velocity, the highly acclaimed triptych directed by Rebecca Miller which won the grand jury prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. United Artists bought North American and the remaining territorial rights during Sundance.The ...
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Miramax buys domestic rights to Mullan's Venice winner
In its second acquisition of the Toronto International Film Festival, Miramax Films has clinched domestic rights to Venice Golden Lion winner The Magdalene Sisters directed by Peter Mullan. Miramax beat out other buyers including Fine Line Features and Sony Pictures Classics. Over the weekend, Miramax also bought rights in the ...
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Noe shocker gets US distribution through Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films closed a deal yesterday in Toronto to buy US rights to Gaspar Noe's super-controversial Irreversible, the scandale of this year's Cannes Film Festival which is also screening at this week's Toronto International Film Festival. Kicked off by a harrowing rape scene, Irreversible tells its story in reverse ...
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Alliance Atlantis gets international rights to Sundance victor
Alliance Atlantis has picked up international rights (excluding the English-speaking world, Latin America and Italy) to Personal Velocity, the highly acclaimed triptych directed by Rebecca Miller which won the grand jury prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. United Artists bought North American and the remaining territorial rights during Sundance.The ...
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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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Toronto mourns death of actress Katrin Cartlidge
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival was in a state of shock yesterday after learning of the suddendeath of Katrin Cartlidge, the talented British actress whose film rolesincluded such well-regarded European films as Topsy-Turvy, Before The Rain, Naked, Breaking The Waves and last year's Oscar-winning No Man'sLand. She was 41.Born in London, ...
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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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The Good Thief
Director: Neil Jordan. UK-Fr-Ire. 2002. 108minsA loose-limbed, shaggy dog reworking of 1955 French crime classic Bob Le Flambeur, The Good Thief (previously known as Double Down) is writer-director Neil Jordan's most enjoyable and commercial feature for several years. Subverting the conventions of the heist caper with sly humour and a ...
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Soft Fruit
Dir: Christina Andreef. Australia. 1999. 100 mins.Prod cos: Soft Fruit Pty Ltd. Domestic dis (Australia) Fox Searchlight. Int'l Sales: United Artists Films, tel (44) 171 333 8877. Exec prod: Jane Campion. Prod: Helen Bowden. Scr: Andreef. Dop: Laszlo Baranyai. Prod des: Sarah Stollman. Ed: Jane Moran. Music: Antony Partos. ...
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The Quiet American
Director: Phillip Noyce. US-UK. 2002. 101minsThe fatal global consequences of blundering American naivety are brought into sharp focus by Phillip Noyce's elegantly understated adaptation of the Graham Greene novel. First published in 1955, Greene's spare, prophetic fiction told of America's misguided adventures in the politics of Indo-China through a love ...
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AOL Time Warner boss stresses importance of UK and Europe
AOL Time Warner boss Dick Parsons said he wants to expand the company's international presence, with the UK and Europe seen as priorities for growth ahead of the rest of the world. However, he stressed that expansion in the UK and Europe would be cautious, largely because AOL Time ...
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The Four Feathers
Director: Shekhar Kapur. US-UK. 2002 125minsThe question of whether the world really needs another version of The Four Feathers is convincingly answered by Shekhar Kapur's stirring approach to the venerable tale of Empire and honour. Boasting a strong cast of rising young stars and handsomely captured locations, the classic adventure ...
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Dirty Pretty Things
Dir: Stephen Frears. UK. 2002. 98mins.Stephen Frears' latest film doesn't just expose the rotten underbelly of London: it slices it wide open. By turns macabre (often stomach-churningly so), funny and tender, this elaborate tale of moonlighting and illegal organ transplants set among the city's invisible underclass of immigrant service workers ...
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The Other Side Of The Bed (El Otro Lado De La Cama)
Dir: Emilio Martinez Lazaro. 120mins. Spain. 2002.The makers of The Other Side Of The Bed (El Otro Lado De La Cama) took a gamble with this modern musical comedy set to popular Spanish and Latin American rock n roll tunes. It paid off mightily in Spain, where the genre's originality, ...
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Bourne identified as UK chart leader
The UK's new 12A certificate came into full effect this week as UIP released The Bourne Identity and Columbia TriStar re-released Spider-Man.The Bourne Identity, the first film released in the UK with the new certificate, which allows audience members under the age of 12 access to the film if accompanied ...
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Warner Bros. to supply films to CinemaNow internet service
Warner Bros. has signed up to supply films to internet movie service CinemaNow. This is CinemaNow's first deal with a major studio and Warner's entry into web-based video-on-demand (VoD). Warner Bros. says that it will provide some new hits such as Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone and older, library ...
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UK rides risky business boom
Anyone looking for the next Germany should consider the UK. A $2.5bn (£1.6 bn) avalanche of financing is pouring into the film sector as changes in last April's budget start to kick in. But tax financing is in such flux that, like Germany, the boom could suddenly turn sour.With TV ...