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Japan's Movie-Eye kicks off with Arclight's Crash
Movie-Eye Entertainment, the new Japanese production, distribution and management company, has acquired its first international film here, Crash starring Heath Ledger and Brendan Fraser, from Arclight Films.The company, run by former Gaga Communications executives Kaz Tadashiki and Taku Ushiyama, was formed this summer with shareholders including the two principals and ...
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UGC steers Camel, Return to UK
UGC Films UK has picked up UK rights to two recent festival hits and foreign Oscar submissions - surprise Toronto hit The Story Of The Weeping Camel from Menemsha Films.and Venice Golden Lion-winner The Return from Intercinema Art Agency.Andrei Zvygatinsev's The Return is the story of two teenagers on a ...
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Gaga picks up Spanish Whore
Gaga Communications has just snapped up all Japanese distribution rights to hot Spanish picture The Whore (Yo Puta).The Euros 5m English-language picture is the second film to be directed by Luna, and stars Darryl Hannah and Denise Richards as two working prostitutes.The movie is based on a best-selling book by ...
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Italian government speaks up for MIFED
Italian cultural minister Giuliano Urbani has said that Italy is prepared to take action at government level to support Mifed against the onslaught of AFM."AFM has made an unfair attack on MIFED by blatantly moving its dates into MIFED's slot next year," Urbani said at a press conference at the ...
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First Look takes Perfect Strangers to US
New Zealand's box office sensation Perfect Strangers has been picked up by First Look Pictures for North America. The chilling romance, which was directed by Gaylene Preston and stars Sam Neill and Rachael Blake, will be released early in 2004. Sales were handled by the New Zealand Film Commission's Kathleen ...
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ET creator dials up Dark animation
Legendary ET creator Carlo Rambaldi is lining up an animation feature about a human being who ends up on another planet.The picture, entitled Jo Dark, will be directed by Rambaldi's son, Victor, whose credits as director include 1995's Decoy and 1988 movie Primal Rage.Jo Dark, which is planned as an ...
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ACE deals Card Player to Japan, UK
Japan's Gaga Communications and the UK's Arrow Film Distributors have both acquired local distribution rights to The Card Player, the new film from cult Italian suspense master Dario Argento.Sold by Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE), The Card Player is about an unstoppable serial killer who kidnaps young women, holds them hostage ...
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Memories sparks sales for CJ
CJ Entertainment, the powerful conglomerate which bestrides the domestic Korean scene, has struck a series of key deals with its true-life murder mystery Memories Of Murder. The film, which broke box office records and won major prizes at the San Sebastian film festival, has been sold to Cinequanon for Japan, ...
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Intolerable Cruelty boosts its int'l running total
Universal's black comedy Intolerable Cruelty grossed $6.4m from 2,382 sites in 24 countries through UIP at the weekend to raise its international running total to $46.4m.The film finished its third week at number one in Italy, where it dropped 18% and has grossed $8m to date, and added $1.2m in ...
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ITALY
Italian film Prima Dammi Un Bacio (literally, First Give Me A Kiss) became the top-grossing local film of the weekend, after it earned Euros 221,083 for UIP from 93 screens.Produced by Rome's Sunflower Productions with backing from the Italian government's Fondo di Garanzia, Prima Dammi Un Bacio tells the story ...
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Constantin to launch home entertainment label
As part of a closer working collaboration with Highlight Communications, Constantin Film is to launch its own home entertainment label "Constantin Film" from January 1, 2004, taking over responsibility for Highlight's activities in rights acquisition and theatrical distribution in the future.While the agreement for the new video label will see ...
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Recorded to Franchise: Hands off Scheherezade
London's Recorded Picture Co (RPC) and its sales arm Hanway Films have become engaged in a bizarre tussle with LA-based Franchise Pictures over hot MIFED title Scheherezade directed by Michael Apted - which both companies appear to be selling.But according to Jeremy Thomas, the film's producer, and head of Recorded/Hanway, ...
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Fortissimo learns to speak more English
Fortissimo Film Sales haspicked up world rights to More Than Scarlet, an Australian drama from the stable of Jan Chapman,producer of Lantana and ThePiano. The company is also poised topick up two other Aussie pictures in moves that underline its growing influencein the English-languagesector. The Hong Kong andNetherlands-based company has ...
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Nuan scoops Tokyo Grand Prix
Huo Jianqui's romantic drama Nuan was awarded the Grand Prix at the 16th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival. Jury President Gong Li announced the winner, follow-up to Huo's acclaimed Postmen In The Mountains, at the closing ceremony in Tokyo on November 9, together with fellow jurors Irwin Kershner, ...
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Government 'death sentence' for Mexican cinema
Mexico's film industry is in an uproar over the federal government's plans to sell or shut down the country's key film institutions. The surprise proposal comes as part of a $150bn austerity package that includes getting rid of state-owned production house Imcine, the decades-old Churubusco Azteca film studio and national ...
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Israeli commission calls for reform of IBA
The Rafael Vardi commission, appointed by Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, has called for an urgent overhaul of the country's public broadcasting sector.The Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA), which operates Israel's First Television Channel and the Kol Israel radio network, has been suffering for some time. Its troubles include poor ratings, ...
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NETHERLANDS
With the onslaught of Warner Bros The Matrix Revolutions helping Dutch box office to a 52% rise week-on-week it was local drama Cloaca that held up best.Dropping just 7% in its third week and boasting the second highest screen average of the week, after Revolutions, with $4,175 Cloaca gained one ...
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GERMANY
As to be expected, the final part of the Matrix trilogy, The Matrix Revolutions (Warner) wrestled the top spot away from Soenke Wortmann's The Miracle Of Bern which had reigned on high for the last three weeks. The latest Matrix instalment's 1.1m admissions (including 230,000 from the additional Wednesday screenings) ...
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Warner marches abroad with Alexander
Warner Bros Pictures has acquired the key English-language territories of UK, Australia and New Zealand to Oliver Stone's untitled Alexander The Great project from Intermedia and Summit Entertainment. Warner already has rights in North America and plans to release it on Nov 5, 2004."Warner Bros. continues to be a great ...
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Medusa adopts Polanski's Oliver
Italy's Medusa is the first major territorial buyer to parent Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist from Summit Entertainment. The distributor is in final negotiations to take Italian rights to the $60m film which is being produced by Polanski, Alain Sarde and Robert Benmussa.Polanski is currently scouting locations in eastern Europe for ...