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Rosenberg named head of drama at Norway's Rubicon TV
Norwegian producer Jorgen Storm Rosenberg has been named head of drama at Norway's Rubicon TV, Norwegian major Schibsted's local production unit.Rosenberg, who recently picked up the $100,000 Best Film prize at the Hamptons for Norwegian director Jens Lien's The Bothersome Man, will be in charge of finishing Norwegian director Nils ...
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Adkins named Head of Content at BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide has appointed Jemma Adkins as Head of Content at its Digital Media division as Head of Content. She will be responsible for sourcing the best programming and digital content for the global digital media business, including BBC Worldwide's VOD and mobile offering and its proposed commercial iPlayer.Her ...
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Starz launches Overture under McGurk, Rosett
Starzhas launched its long-awaited theatrical division Overture Films, which willproduce, acquire and distribute eight to 12 full-length films a year.ChrisMcGurk is named chief executive officer and McGurk's former colleague at MGMDanny Rosett becomes chief operating officer.LosAngeles-based Overture Films, a wholly owned subsidiary of Starz, which itselfis a part of John ...
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here! boards C Jay Cox's latest film Kiss The Bride
here!Films will executive produce and oversee worldwide distribution on upcomingromantic comedy Kiss The Bride from newproduction company Shadow Factory.ToriSpelling, Joanna Cassidy, Tess Harper and Phillip Karner will star in C JayCox's tale of a man whose impending wedding is complicated by the arrival of anold male flame. The film will ...
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Disney teams with Kudos on wildlife doc Dreamscape
KudosPictures and Natural Light Films, in association with Walt Disney Pictures,have started production on the wildlife project Dreamscape (working title).Thefilm showcases the epic life and death cycle of flamingos in one of the world'slast and most hostile wilderness areas, Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania."Wewant to target a younger, hipper audience ...
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Record Asian pre-sales for My Wife Is A Gangster sequel
Korea's Showbox has closed a raft of Asian pre-sales deals for My Wife Is A Gangster 3, claiming a record high for any Korean film sold at AFM to Asian territories excluding Japan.Starring Taiwanese actress Shu Qi as the gangster wife descending upon Korea, the film is directed by Cho ...
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Stockholm honours Hallstrom with career award
Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the 17th Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 16-26.) The festival will show two of his films he selcted himself - What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Chocolat.Hallstrom, whose international break was My Life as a Dog - ...
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The Return
Dir: Asif Kapadia. US. 2006. 85mins.UK film-maker Asif Kapadia confirms the sharp directorial authority hedisplayed in The Warrior with The Return,a disarming and visually arresting work about a woman imperilled by herunsolved link to a murder 15 years earlier. Unfortunately, his craftsmanship isultimately stranded by a story that lacks the ...
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Buenos Aires boasts record production levels
Buenos Aires film industry is enjoying record growth and increasing profits. According to official figures recently released by the city's Production Ministry, Buenos Aires receives more than $65m from shootings in the area every year and the film industry employs 19,000 people in the city. A total of 3,498 films ...
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BVI takes UK rights to comedy I Want Candy
Fragile Film Distribution - the sales arm of Ealing Studios - has licensed the UK theatrical and DVD rights for comedy I Want Candy to BVI. BVI (UK) is planning to release the comedy, which stars Carmen Electra alongside Tom Riley, Tom Burke and Michelle Ryan, next year. ...
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Ealing Studios gets permission for redevelopment
Ealing Studios has received planning permission for the second phase of a $95m (£50m) redevelopment that it believes will support ambitious plans to expand production. Work will begin this month on multimedia office and production space blocks to be finished at the end of next year. Around 25,000 square feet ...
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Japan cracks down on film piracy
Japan's Strategic Council on Intellectual Property has announced measures to crack down on movie piracy. The council, led by recently-elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will hold a special investigative session on November 17th to discuss issues to be reflected in next summer's Intellectual Property Rights Initiative 2007.With input from the ...
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Media Most film arm feels political heat
The continuing financial and political troubles of Vladimir Gusinsky's Media Most Group has spilled over into its film production outfit NTV Profit. Speaking at a press conference in Karlovy Vary this week Igor Tolstunov, general director of NTV Profit, revealed that police had visited his office in Moscow ...
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Majestic Filmverleih adds two new films to release slate
Benjamin Herrmann and David Groenewold's new distribution company Majestic Filmverleih has added Doris Doerrie's Hanami and Alexander Adolph's documentary debut Con Man Confidential (Die Hochstapler) to its release line-up.Hanami, which will star Monica Bleibtreu, Elmar Wepper, Nadja Uhl, Birgit Minichmayr and Felix Eitner, will begin shooting at locations in ...
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Croatian film-makers funding set for big boost
Financial support for the film industry in Croatia could almost treble from the current amount with the planned creation of a Croatian Centre for Audiovisual Services next year.Speaking to Screendaily at the European Cinema and Audiovisual Days in Turin, Antonia D. Carnerud, Head of the Drama Department at Croatia's Ministry ...
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Leading Bollywood stars join UK BAFTA event
BAFTA and film body Screen WM are bringing major Bollywood talent to the UK second city of Birmingham this week. (November 17-19)The Mela '06 event at the National Exhibition Centre will feature film screenings and live interviews with Indian superstar husband and wife Ajay Devgan and Kajol and Saif ...
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Connery to present Cage with award at Bahamas Film Festival
The Bahamas International Film Festival has announced that SeanConnery will present the career achievement award to his co-star in The Rock Nicolas Cage.The festival, which runs from Dec 7 to 10, has also unveiled itscompetition sections. Spirit Of Freedom: Narrative Competition includes IsraelAdrian Caetano's Cronica De Una Fuga from Argentina, ...
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Dana to head up production at Andrew Lauren Productions
P Jennifer Dana (pictured) has joined Los Angeles and NewYork-based Andrew Lauren Productions as president of production and willimmediately get working on a horror story about the legend of infamous gunheiress Sarah Winchester.The untitled project is being written by Peter J Tomasi and thescript is expected by early 2007.Dana has ...
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Ferrell & McKay bring in King Dork to Paramount
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Gary Sanchez Productions have boughtthe film rights to Frank Portman's debut novel King Dork as part of their first-look deal withParamount.King Dorkwas published in April 2006 and charts the exploits of a 14-year-old boy whogets involved in a series of mysteries after he reads J ...
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Cinema Libre plans five films a year with individuals and non-profits
Cinema Libre Studio is partnering up with individuals, non-profitfoundations and non-governmental organisations to make two to five featureseach year dedicated to humanitarian, environmental or social issues.The studio will bring its staff, production equipment,post-production facility and financing to select projects in 2007 and willguarantee a US theatrical release to the projects.The ...