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Bavaria takes on Midwinter sales
Bavaria FilmInternational (BFI) is to handle world sales on Serbian director GoranPaskaljevic's latest feature MidwinterNight's Dream which will be in competition at the forthcoming San SebastianFilm Festival.The disturbingand moving film about a man returninghome after ten years of absence to start a new life in today's Serbia starsLazar Ristovski who ...
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Fox embarks on Dodgeball roll-out
SurpriseUS hit Dodgeball opens in its first major international territories thisweekend and distributor 20th Century Fox will be hoping that star Ben Stiller -whose Starsky And Hutch is now coming to the end of its better thanexpected international run - can drive the film to a strong internationaltotal.Dodgeball'sbroad comedy resulted ...
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Resfest readies global film tour
Resfest, the global touring festival dedicated to profilinginnovative film, music, art, design and technology launches in New York on Sept9, before travelling to over 30 cities worldwide.Now in its 8th year, the Resfest Digital Film Festival was establishedto provide a forum to showcase the changing language and style of storytellingin ...
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The Hamburg Cell
Dir: Antonia Bird. UK.2004.100minsIs the world ready for a dispassionate account of theterrorist cell behind the 9/11 atrocities' Is it possible to understand thehuman impulses behind such unconscionable actions'Those are just two of thequestions prompted by The Hamburg Cell, a fastidious, open-mindeddrama-documentary recreating the events that led to the attack ...
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Working Title snaps up prize winning Population
Working Title has acquired Nick Ostler and MarkHuckerby's draft sci-fi script Population, one of the winners of the UKFilm Council's 25 Words Or Less development competition.The $30m-plus conspiracy thriller titled Populationenvisages, according to Ostler, "a Britain where the problem of over populationhasn't been solved. It's quite dark."The pair's pitch for ...
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Exhibition deal to boost arthouse films in South Korea
Koreanfilm import company Sponge and venture capital firm KTB Network are teaming upin a new venture known as 'Cinehue' to give quality non-Hollywoodproduct an enhanced presence on South Korean screens.Thenew distribution line matches the experience of Sponge - which has purchasedKorean rights to over 50 foreign titles including Dogville, Zatoichi,and ...
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Content boards Love's Business
ContentFilm has boarded hot "Costa delCrime" picture The Business, the company announced on Thursday.Directed by Nick Love, the picture is setduring the 80s amongst British ex-pats and criminals in the south of Spain andis being billed as similar in style to Pulp Fiction.Love, who recently shot football hooliganfilm The Football ...
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Kontroll named as Hungarian Oscar contender
NimrodAntal's debut feature Kontroll has been named as the official Hungarianentry for the 77th Academy Awards in the best foreign language film category.Antal's featurefilm was premiered in Un Certain Regard in Cannes where it won the Prix de la Jeunesse.Since Cannes, Kontroll has been invited to numerous film festivals including ...
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The Wog Boy sails past A$10m mark
The Wog Boy, a broad Australian comedy with a strong Greek influence, has passed the A$10m mark at the local box office, and now has only four titles to overtake to make it into the all-time top 10 of locally-produced films.A mainstream film that reaches A$10m is regarded as a ...
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Final bids tabled for Odeon cinema chain
The three final bidders for Odeon couldlearn as early as today who has succeeded in buying the UK cinema chain formore than £380m ($683m), according to wire and newspaper reports.U.S. buyout giant Blackstone, Britishfinancier Guy Hand's Terra Firma Capital Partners and Iranian property investorRobert Tchenguiz were all set to submit ...
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Fox International embarks on Dodgeball roll-out
Surprise US hit Dodgeball launches in its first majorinternational territories this weekend and Fox International will be hopingthat star Ben Stiller - whose Starsky & Hutch is now coming to theend of its better-than-expected international run - can drive the film to astrong international total.Dodgeball's broad comedy resulted in a ...
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Chiocchi earns creative advertising stripes at Universal
Veteran Hollywood marketing executive Frank Chiocchi has beenpromoted to executive vice president of creative advertising at UniversalPictures.Chiocchi will report to Universal's marketing president AdamFogelson and will oversee all aspects of creative advertising for upcomingUniversal releases including Friday Night Lights, Cinderella Manand American Gangster.Previously serving as senior vice president of creativeadvertising, ...
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The Machinist, Brother To Brother bookend IFP market
Brad Anderson's The Machinist and Rodney Evans' BrotherTo Brother will bookend the 26th annual IFP Market & Conference, whichruns from Sept 19-24 in New York.The Machinist, which stars Batman-to-beChristian Bale and is set to be released in the US through Paramount Classicson Oct 22, will get the Sept 20 opening ...
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DreamWorks COO Hahn's exit fuels succession rumours
Veteran Hollywood executive Helene Hahn is to retire from her jobas DreamWorks' chief operating officer, fuelling speculation that Miramax chiefoperating officer Rick Sands will step in to replace her.While no replacement announcement seems to be imminent, DreamWorksis believed to be negotiating with Sands.Hahn's decision to leave the company she has ...
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Evans to receive Leadership Award at Toronto
Legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans is to be presented withthe Leadership Award at a gala evening for charity Best Buddies during thisyear's Toronto International Film Festival.The Sept 13 event will see Evans, producer of The Godfatherand Chinatown among other classics, join a list of previous awardwinners that includes Muhammad Ali, ...
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Balaguero cranks up Flockhart thriller for Filmax
Spain's Filmax begins shooting today (Monday) on itslatest English-language outing, Jaume Balaguero's Fragile starring Calista Flockhart and rising Spanishactress Elena Anaya.The thriller, Balaguero's follow-up to 2002's Darkness and co-scripted with Jordi Galceran, will shoot fornine weeks between Barcelona and England's Isle of Wight. The budget wasnot disclosed. Filmax's Julio Fernandez ...
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Pusan project market shortlists 23 Asian features
New projects byThai director Nonzee Nimibutr (Jan Dara), Taiwanese actor-turned-director Lee Kang-Sheng (TheMissing) and Korean BongJoon-ho (Memories Of Murder) are among the 23 Asian features that will compete for financing atthe 2004 Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP).Asia's biggestproject market has cast its net particularly wide in its latest edition,encompassing projects from ...
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Soda snaps up Untold Scandal for UK
UK distributor Soda Pictureshas closed a deal with CJ Entertainment to pick up UK and Ireland rights tosumptuous Korean drama Untold Scandal. The film had previously been selected for the ongoing Edinburghfestival, but was recently upgraded to become the closing film. It will closethe festival on Sunday (29 Aug).Directed by ...
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San Sebastian names Floor as closing film
Tod Williams' The Door In The Floor has been selected as the closing film for theupcoming San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 17-25).Jeff Bridges and Tod Williams are expected to be on-hand forthe festival's closing gala. The film co-stars Kim Basinger, Jon Fosterand Mimi Rogers in the tragic tale of ...
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Human Resources (Ressources Humaines)
Dir: Laurent Cantet. France. 1999. 100 mins.Prod Co: A La Sept Arte/Haut et Court production with the participation of Centre National de la Cinematographie, Procirep, BBC Films. Int'l Sales: Celluloid Dreams. US sales: Menemsha Entertainment. Prods: Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta. Exec Prod: Barbara Letellier. Scr: Laurent Cantet, Gilles Marchand. DoPs: ...