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TWC makes promotions, hires Noble in international unit
Glen Basner has bolstered the international ranks at The WeinsteinCompany (TWC), announcing three promotions and a new hire.Michael Rothstein has been promoted to senior vice president of internationalsales and distribution; Paula Woods has been promoted to senior vice presidentof international publicity; and Jonathan Kier moves up to vice president ofinternational ...
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EC greenlights Telefonica's Endemol buy-out
The European Commission has waved through Spanish telco Telefonica's proposed takeover of Dutch production company Endemol Entertainment which made headlines across Europe when it was first unveiled in March (Screendaily, March 20)."Although this operation will integrate Telefonica into the upstream market of production of TV programmes, it will not result ...
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Global Film Initiative gives completion funding to eight new films
The Global Film Initiative (GFI) has granted completion funding todramas from eight international film-makers in its autumn granting cycle.The recipients are: Artan Minarolli for the Albanian project Alive; Nedzad Begovic's tale The Day WhenThe Winter Began fromBosnia & Herzegovina; Ravi L Bharwani's Indonesian project Jermal; and Leo's Room from Uruguayan ...
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CJ to distribute Paramount titles in South Korea
Paramount PicturesInternational (PPI) has announced that CJ Entertainment (CJE) will become theexclusive distributor of Paramount titles in South Korea from February 1, 2007. The announcement, which was widelyanticipated, follows yesterday's news that UIP's South Korean branch officewill transition to a Universal Pictures International operation as of Jan 1,2007.CJE was a ...
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Hong Kong revs up for first ever drive-in
Hong Kong may be losing its only dedicated arthouse theatre,but is about to gain its first ever drive-in cinema.Located on the Kowloon side of Victoria Harbour, the drive-in will officially open with the premiere of TakashiShimizu's horror film The Grudge 2 onDec 7. It will have one screen at opening, ...
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Fortune Star to co-produce Tong's Rule Number One
Fortune Star Entertainmenthas entered into an agreement with Singapore-based InnoForm Media, KelvinTong's Boku Films and the Media Development Authority (MDA) to co-produce Tong'supcoming Rule Number One.Tong, whose previous creditsinclude The Maid and Love Story, will write and direct the Mandarin-languagehorror cop thriller.Based on the urban myth of supernaturalcalls received by ...
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Singapore, Indonesian producers launch digital film fund
In a joint effort to developtheir local film industries, two production companies from Singapore and Indonesia have created a $3m digital film fund which will beused for the production of 10 digital features over the next two years. Jonathan Foo, managingdirector of Singapore's Mega Media, today signed an MOU with ...
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Greenaway plans doc and game after Nightwatching
Peter Greenaway is preparingJ'Accuse, an 80-minute featuredocumentary and a computer game to complement his new film Nightwatching, which recently finished shooting in Poland and Wales (and is being sold internationally by ContentFilm.)Both the doc and thecomputer game are being produced by Amsterdam-based Submarine, run by FemkeWolting and Bruno Felix. The ...
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Nordisk buys 50% stake in DVD company Substanz
Nordisk Film recently bought 50% of production companySubstanz. The Copenhagen-based production company has specialized in transferringold documentary bits of Danish people's everyday lives to the DVD format. The concept hastaken off with the public, with Substanz selling 330,000 DVDs in Denmark and Norway in two years. The company isin the ...
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Baltic Event to host 12 pitches in Estonia
Filmmakers from the Baltic states, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Russia are to pitch 12 new film projects to potentialpartners at the Baltic Event's second co-production market which will be heldin Tallinn, Estonia, next week (Dec 4-5) during the Black Nights Film Festival.This year's lineup includesLithuanian director Sarunas Bartas' $7.6m (Euros ...
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This Is England wins BIFA Best Film
Newcomers caused a fewsurprises at the ninth British Independent Film Awards(BIFAs) in London Wednesday night, with Red Road's Tony Curran and Kate Dickie taking the best actingprizes over more established names including Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren.No single film swept the tophonours -- Shane Meadows' This Is Englandwon Best British ...
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S.O.S. leads nods for Norway's Amanda Awards
Thomas Robsahm's S.O.S. leads the field in the nominations for the Norwegian Amanda Awards - Norway's equivalent of the Oscars - picking up nods for best picture, best actress and the pan-Nordic Amanda Award. S.O.S., an Italian-language comedy produced by Norway's Seperanza Film, was nominated twice in the best actress ...
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UK shoot starts for BBC and HBO sci-fi comedy
The shoot for Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel has started in the UK and will run through mid-January at Pinewood Studiosand on location.Anna Faris stars alongsideBritish comedians Chris O'Dowd, Marc Wooton and Dean Lennox Kelly.Gareth Carrivick isdirecting from a script by Jamie Mathieson.Neil Peplow and Justin Smithare producing with ...
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Bonkers, Azur & Asmar win prizes at London Children's Festival
The London Children's FilmFestival wrapped Nov 26 with the UK premiere of the digitallyrestored The Wizard Of Oz. The two First Light YoungJuries awarded their top prizes to Martin Koolhoven's Bonkers (Holland) for theage 7-11 jury; and Michel Ocelot's Azur& Asmar (France) for the age 12-14 jury. The audience choice ...
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Sundance unveils competition section lineups for 2007
Hailing a wider global perspective in American film-making and a compelling array of international work, Sundance festival director Geoff Gilmore unveiled the 64 Independent Film and World Cinema documentaries and dramatic films that will play in competition in the 2007 event, which runs from Jan 18 to 28."American film-makers are ...
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Half Nelson dominates New York's Gotham Awards
Ryan Fleck's inner citydrama Half Nelson dominated IFP's16th Annual Gotham Awards last night [Nov 29].The picture won bestfeature, breakthrough director for Fleck and breakthrough actor for ShareekaEpps, who tied with Babel's RinkoKikuchi. Half Nelson was releasedearlier this year in North American through THINKFilm.Alejandro GonzalezInarritu's Babel also won bestensemble acting honours ...
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Breen named senior vp of marketing at Fox International
Kieran Breen has beenpromoted to senior vice president of marketing at Twentieth Century FoxInternational.Reporting to co-presidentsTomas Jegeus and Paul Hanneman, Breen will develop and supervise strategicmarketing plans of all Fox releases overseas and will oversee the Los Angeles,regional and field marketing operations.He recently moved to LosAngeles and previously served as ...
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IFC, Red Envelope team to acquire An Unreasonable Man
IFC Entertainment and RedEnvelope Entertainment have jointly acquired North American rights fromSubmarine Entertainment and William Morris Independent to the documentary AnUnreasonable Man.The film, which was recentlyshortlisted for the 2007 documentary feature Oscar, will open on Jan 31 2007through IFC's multi-platform division IFC First Take, which to date hasreleased 16 films.Henriette ...
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Bangkok festival ends contract with FFM
The Tourism Authority ofThailand (TAT) has terminated its contract with Film Festival Management (FFM),the US consulting firm that TAT hired for managing theBangkok International Film Festival (BKKIFF), as a result of a considerablebudget cut.The budget for the nextedition (January 26 - February 5, 2007) has been cut back to $3.6m ...
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Microwave backs first two micro-budget features
Film London's new low-budget feature film scheme, Microwave, hasannounced its first two projects to go into production. They are Steven Sheil'sMum And Dad, a horror project about amurderous family living near a London airport (to be produced by Lisa Trnovski),and Eran Creevy's Shady (workingtitle), about a charismatic Muslim crack dealer ...