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Stockholm promising 160 films in vintage year
The 16th StockholmFilm Festival (November 17-27) is boasting 160 films from 40 countries.The festival is the only one in the Nordic region with membership of theFIAPF, and an international jury of film critics from the FIPRESCI.Eighteen films will compete inthe international competition section of the festival. The festival also includessections ...
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James Murdoch to become chief of Star TV
James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's youngest son, has been named chairman and chief executive of News Corp's Asian television platform Star TV.Star, which is valued at $8-15bn is set to become part of News Corp's global television platform Platco, which will also encompass the company's interests in BSkyB, Sky Latin America, ...
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Optimum takes UK rights to Tommy Lee Jones debut
Optimum Releasing has acquired all UK rights toTommy Lee Jones' directorial debut The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estradafrom EuropaCorp. The western was a critical hit at Cannes whereit won best actor for Tommy Lee Jones and best screenplay for GuillermoArriaga.Screen's review says the drama recalls SamPeckinpah, taking a bittersweet view ...
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European Film Awards announced in Seville
The European Film Academy (EFA) announced the nominations for theEuropean Film Awards 2005 at the Seville Film Festival last night.The 1,600 EFA Members will now vote for the winnerswhich will be presented during the Awards Ceremony in Berlin on December 3.The nominations are:EUROPEAN FILM 2005Brothers directed bySusanne Bier (Denmark/UK/Sweden/Norway)For ...
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Chicken Little opens mighty with $40.1m weekend
Buena Vista's CG-animated romp Chicken Little soared to an estimated $40.1m number onedebut over the three-day weekend, ahead of Universal's Gulf War drama Jarheadon $28.8m.Meanwhile, Lions Gate and Twisted Pictures' horror sequel SawII dropped two places tothird on $17.2m for a superb $60.5m domestic running total that has alreadyovertaken the ...
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Canada's Atopia sells A Silent Love to Desert Mountain in US
Pascal Maeder's Canadianproduction and sales company Atopia is finalising a US DVD deal with DesertMountain Media for Federico Hidalgo's comedy drama A Silent Love. Vanessa Bauche and NoelBurton star in the story of a Montreal professor and a Mexican woman who meetthrough an online dating service and learn that the ...
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Celluloid to sell Eltringham's east Berlin 60s comedy
Celluloid Dreams' everexpanding English-language slate continues to swell. Yesterday at the AFM,Celluloid confirmed it is to handle international sales on Mrs Ratcliffe'sRevolution, the bittersweet newBritish comedy from Leslee Udwin's Assassin Films.Bille Eltringham (This IsNot A Love Song, The Long Firm) willdirect from a screenplay by Peter Straughan and Bridget O'Connor. ...
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Wild Bunch continues roaring trade on Arctic doc
Paramount Pictures has addedFrance to its collection of territories acquired on National Geographic'sArctic documentary Call Of The North, while Shochiku has won a ferocious bidding war for Japanese rights,according to sales company Wild Bunch."I don't know if it'sbecause of the penguins," Wild Bunch's Vincent Maraval says of the hugeinterest the ...
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Vindelow, Muasya team on Sunshine And A Funeral
Lars Von Trier's regularproducer Vibeke Vindelow has revealed details of an intriguing new project sheis hatching with Danish director Vibeke Muasya. Together, the two Vibekes areputting together A Bit Of Sunshine And A Funeral. Trust will be handling saleson the low-budget drama. It's inspired by the true story of an ...
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Zorro continues lead of international market
The Legend Of Zorro maintained its number one international status as an estimated$17.5m weekend haul on 6,150 screens in 60 markets raised the running total to$60.1m after two weekends.Handled in most territoriesthrough Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI), which licensed rightsfrom the picture's co-financier Spyglass Entertainment, the picture openednumber one in ...
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Berger Dagan gets senior vp publicity job at The Weinstein Co
Former Miramax publicist Liz Berger Dagan has reunited with theWeinsteins and joined The Weinstein Company (TWC) as senior vice president ofpublicity.Based in New York and reporting to executive vice president ofpublicity Liza Burnett, Dagan will work on the company's Academy Awardscampaigns as well as day-to-day publicity duties on the theatrical ...
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Concorde, Notro, Gussi among buyers for Myriad's Beethoven
Myriad Pictures has closed a raft of sales at the AFM on AgnieszkaHolland's romance Copying Beethoven starring Ed Harris and Diane Kruger.Rights have gone to Concordefor Germany, Notro for Spain, Gussi for Mexico and Lumiere for Benelux, as wellas Star TV for Asia and Jaguar for airlines.As previously announced, deals ...
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Sony Classics takes US rights to Verticale
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) is close to acquiring North American rights to A La Verticale De L'Ete, directed by Vietnamese director Anh Hung Tran, which screened at Cannes in Un Certain Regard. Le Studio Canal Plus is handling international sales on the film, one of several Asian titles to secure ...
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Hong Kong man jailed for film piracy
AHong Kong man has become the first person to be jailed for passing on film contentover the controversial BitTorrent (BT) online file-sharingservice.Chan Nai-ming, 38, who used thealias "Big Crook", was sentenced to three months in jail by a Hong Kong magistrate after conviction on three charges of attempting todistribute Hollywood ...
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Ogden on top for Irish Film And Television Awards
Perry Ogden and Terry George took two awards each at the annual Irish Film and Television Awards ceremony held in Dublin. Perry Ogden took the best film award and the breakthrough award for Pavee Lackeen, while Terry George picked up both best director and best script for Hotel Rwanda.The awards ...
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Wolf Creek proves weekend winner in Australia
Wolf Creek hasbecome the first Australian film to open at number one in its first weekendsince Ned Kelly in 2003. And it hasbecome only the second Australian film with an R+18 rating to go to the top ofthe charts. Writer/directorGreg McLean's horror debut grossed $0.9m (A$1.224m) from 151 screens for ...
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Shooting begins on The Front Line
Principal photography has startedin Dublin on The Front Line. Directed and written byDavid Gleeson (Cowboys and Angels)and produced by Nathalie Lichtenthaeler, The Front Line has a mixed Irish and internationalcast including Eriq Ebouaney(Kingdom of Heaven), Gerard McSorley (Omagh, Veronica Guerin) and James Frain(Into the Blue, The Count of Monte Cristo).The ...
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Lucky thirteen pitch to producers at Cottbus
Thirteenprojects will be pitched to potential production partners during this year'stwo-day Connecting Cottbus co-development forum between November 10-11.Theyinclude new films from:Bulgaria's Art Fest, co-producer of the omnibus film Lost And Found; Germany's Noirfilm, producer of Didi Danquart's Offset; ...
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MPAA jubilant at Grokster closure
Peer-to-peerwebsite Grokster, long a thorn in the side of Hollywood's anti-piracy chiefs,has announced it is closing down.The move followsJune's Supreme Court ruling that individuals or companies that activelyencourage copyright infringement by users of their service can be heldresponsible for their users' conduct.Grokster hasagreed that the court enter a judgment for ...
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European Film Awards to be announced at Seville
The nominations for thisyear's European Film Awards will be announced at the Seville Film Festival onSunday.The event (November 4-12)will also host the presentation of the European actors selected for ShootingStars 2005.Seville's festival is decicatedtedentirely to European cinema, with 160 films and $290,000in prizes for the Spanish distributors of winning titles. ...
