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Peter Naish joins Capitol Films as managing director
Former Icon Entertainment head of distribution Peter Naish has joined Capitol Films as managing director and will oversee both Capitol and THINKFilm under David Bergstein's growing entertainment empire.Naish will start work on Apr 30 and will join the team of Capitol head of sales James Norrie and sales manager Sophia ...
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Vollman gets expanded publicity duties at Paramount
Paramount's executive vice president of integrated marketing Mike Vollman has added theatrical publicity to his duties.In his expanded role, Vollman will oversee national publicity campaigns and lead the studio's field and integrated marketing activities. He will continue to report to president of worldwide marketing Gerry Rich.'Mike has played an integral ...
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HBO Films, FSLC stage US competition for film trailers
HBO Films and The Film Society of Lincoln Center are holding a nationwide competition offering students the chance to create a trailer to precede film screenings at the Lincoln Center.The Film Society of Lincoln Center will premiere the winning work in the Student Trailer Competition at its 45th New York ...
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Star to launch classic movies channel in India
Star TV plans to launch a classic Hindi film channel, Star Gold, in India on August 15.The News Corp-owned broadcaster has reportedly acquired a library of around 500 Hindi films for the launch which kicks off with Indian classic Mugul E Azam, described as a Hindi Gone With The Wind. ...
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Al Gore opens Tribeca with climate-change shorts programme
The sixth-annual Tribeca Film Festival opened Wednesday night in downtown Manhattan with a programme of short films and music to raise awareness for climate change.TFF's opening night presented the premieres of nine of the planned 60 short films that are part of the SOS campaign about the global climate crisis.There ...
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300 sweeps past $20m in worldwide grosses on IMAX screens
IMAX chiefs said this week that Warner Bros' smash action feature 300, which swept past $20m in worldwide receipts on the large screen format in record time, has opened the door to a new demographic for the company.Zack Snyder's adventure feature has grossed more than $422m worldwide through all formats ...
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China's J.A. Media taps Chan, Shi as consultants
Start-up Chinese producer-distributor J.A. Media has tapped former Media Asia sales chief Jeffrey Chan and leading Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi as consultants as it ramps up its film distribution activities. Based in Beijing, the company is a subsidiary of Jilin-based biotech and alternative energy producer, Jian Group, owned by ...
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Reviews
Next
Dir: Lee Tamahori. US. 2007. 96mins.A promising Philip K Dick premise gets spun out to middling effect in Next, a sort-of-sci-fi thriller with Nicolas Cage playing the reluctant hero and Lee Tamahori directing. The Initial Entertainment/Revolution Studios production may get lost in the summer crowd theatrically, but Cage's star power ...
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Cannes Film Festival: 60th may be a dignified affair
Emir Kusturica returns but Francis Ford Coppola's comeback is nowhere to be seen. The British have not received an invitation to the party but Stephen Frears will still sit at the top table. The French presence does not display an unseemly bias towards the home team but the Italians are ...
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Market forces and buzz titles
At first glance, this year's Cannes Competition has a lopsided look. It comprises a handful of US films from well-known film-makers (almost all of which are already pre-sold everywhere) and some vintage European arthouse fare, on most of which all territories are available.'The films that are interesting commercially are already ...
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Cannes: the price of a weak dollar
In April, the UK pound moved through the $2 mark for the first time since 1992. The euro has also grown in strength against the US dollar. On one level, Cannes-bound US companies are bound to suffer. Bringing staff to the Riviera is not cheap, even when the dollar is ...
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United states - Stripped Down And Rebuilt
Since arriving at Intermedia two years ago as CEO, Martin Schurmann has worked to reorganise the Los Angeles-based company and steer it out of troubled waters.Under previous leadership, including most recently Moritz Borman, Intermedia laboured under the weight of its ambitions, producing underperforming behemoths such as Terminator 3: Rise Of ...
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United states - A Lion Of A Job
"The challenge," says Clark Woods, president of domestic theatrical distribution at MGM, "is that each of the producers comes with fully financed films and, in most cases, fully financed p&a arrangements, so they have a vested interest in what we're doing. Trying to balance all those things is somewhat difficult."Woods, ...
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United Kingdom - Seaside heights
While some in the British film business sit in their Soho offices complaining about funding, Medb Films founders Jan Dunn and Elaine Wickham are quietly building an indie film-making mini-empire in Ramsgate, on the Kent Coast.The seaside town is not known for its film scene, but that is changing since ...
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Australia's Ten in talks for New Zealand buy
Australia's Ten Network is reportedly in talks with Canadian parent company CanWest Global Communications about buying CanWest's two New Zealand television stations TV3 and TV4, and its NZ radio assets.The deal looks increasingly likely because it would help CanWest reduce debt following its recent purchase of the publishing assets of ...
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United Kingdom - Guardian angels
In May 2006, UK screenwriter Matt Hanson soft-launched his A Swarm Of Angels project, the first step in creating a $2m (£1m) feature film that will be conceived, developed, funded, produced and ultimately distributed via the internet.The project is touted as the first truly "open-source" feature film - involving movie ...
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India - UFO prepped for lift-off
One of the more surprising revelations made by the Indian businessman and entrepreneur Raaja Kanwar, the man pioneering digital cinema and exhibition in the territory, is that he is not "a fan of Hindi movies".Kanwar's prefers English-language films and international arthouse movies and on meeting him one can see the ...
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France - Critical mass
Jean-Michel Frodon, director of France's venerable Cahiers Du Cinema since 2003 has spent the last couple of decades travelling the world to track the newest trends in world cinema. He is also the man behind the decision to launch an English edition of the Cahiers, the 50-year-old bastion of film ...
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Industry moves
KING IS A PARTICIPANTJonathan King has left Focus Features as executive vice-president of production and has joined Participant Productions as executive vice-president in charge of production. Prior to Focus, King served as president of production for Laurence Mark Productions, working on such titles as Dreamgirls and The Lookout.SULTAN MAKES PEACE ...
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Cannes 2007: the line-up
Screen International profiles this year's Cannes contenders - click on sales company name to be taken to relevant websiteIN COMPETITIONAlexandraDir: Alexander SokurovIn Competition for three consecutive years with Telets, Russian Ark and Father And Son, Sokurov returns to Cannes with Alexandra, about an elderly woman who visits Chechnya where her ...