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High Point picks up Van Gogh's Cool
London based sales outfit High Point Films has picked upinternational rights to Theo van Gogh's Cool.The film had its world premiere earlier this month at theToronto International Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema section.Targeted at a youth audience, Cool is an urban, music-driven thriller that uses amixture of professional ...
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Rotterdam to focus on South East Asian cinema
The forthcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)will feature a special section - SEA Eyes - dedicated to films from South EastAsia.Announcing the sidebar, IFFR chief Sandra Den Hamer said:'We don't often do geographic focuses, but this is a fascinatingregion with huge young talents who remain largely unknown, while the world ...
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Red Kite flies with animation film arm
Edinburgh based animation production company Red Kite haslaunched a film arm, Red Kite Films, and is working on a new feature-lengthfilm Nocturna.The film, a collaboration with Spain's Filmax Animation andFrance's Animakids, sees Red Kite making its first foray intotheatrical-release animation features.Nocturna tells thestory of Tim, an orphan who sees a ...
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Top UK theatre director signs for feature debut
Leading UK theatre directorLaurence Boswell, best known for the starry production of This Is Our Youth, has signed up for his feature debut, tentativelytitled D.The Gruber Films productionis a modern re-telling of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano De Bergerac, set in a south London comprehensive school. Thescreenplay by Royal Court playwright Amit ...
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US buyout firm in 'exclusive' Cine UK takeover talks
US buyout firm the Blackstone Group is in reportedly inexclusive talks to buy British cinema chain Cine UK for about £120m ($216million) after last month missing out on buying the rival Odeon chain,according to Reuters.Quoting 'people familiar with the situation'Reuters said an agreement to buy the business, owned by J.P. ...
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Bid by Goal! producer for Liverpool FC is 'no stunt'
Reports that film producer Mike Jefferies is bidding to takecontrol of Liverpool Football Club for £100m ($100m) are serious and nota stunt to promote his football trilogy Goal!, say sources close to Jefferies.Jefferies, chairman of Milkshake Films, has teamed up withformer Miramax executive Stuart Ford and has reportedly already held ...
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Celestial to launch movie channel into China
Hong Kong-based film studio Celestial Pictures has beengiven the go-ahead to launch its 24-hour Asian movie channel, Celestial Movies,into upscale hotels and residential compounds throughout the People's Republicof China.The channel, which features contentfrom the Shaw Brothers library, Golden Harvest, Korea's Cinema Service andother Asian film studios, has already been launched ...
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Turtles fly off with San Sebastian's Shell
Bahman Ghobadiás Iraqi-Kurdistan set drama Turtles Can Fly scooped the Golden Shell award for best film at the closing ceremonyof the San Sebastian International Film Festival on Saturday (Sept 25).The jury, headed by Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa gaveits Silver Shell best director prize to Xu Jinglei for Chinese love story ...
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Alliance, TV-Loonland strike $75m children's pact
Canada's Alliance Atlantis Communications (AAC) and Germany's TV-Loonland have sealed a $75m (C$110m) children's content deal covering production, distribution, home video, merchandising, ecommerce and webcasting. As part of the deal, the German children's specialist will sub-distribute or co-produce up to nine children's and animation series with AAC's kids division into ...
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Spider-man 2 will hit $400m on Tuesday, says CTFDI
Sony's Spider-Man 2 drummed up an estimated $4.8m on 1,230 screens in 35 territoriesthrough Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) at the weekendas it raised the international cumulative total to $399.1m. Executives expectthe picture to pass $400m by Tuesday.The key driver was Italy, whereSpidey tumbled 50% yet remained top on$4.5m ...
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Working Title's Wimbledon is an ace at UK box office for UIP
Revolution StudiosC; supernatural thriller The Forgotten went straight to the top of the chartson an estimated $22m at the weekend, a quiet weekend that saw FoxC;s FirstDaughter disappoint infourth place and a top 10 opening for Shaun Of The Dead, the first release from Focus FeaturesC;genre arm Rogue Pictures.The Forgotten ...
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Working Title's Wimbledon is an ace at UK box office
Serving up its first international matches Universal's Wimbledonaced the competition offthe court in the UK at the weekend as it opened top through UIP on an estimated$3.2m on 450 screens and 22% market share. It marks a triumph for the film'sproduction company Working Title which had seen the film flop ...
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The Forgotten has $22m opening for Revolution and Columbia
Revolution Studios' supernatural thriller The Forgotten went straight to the top of the chartson an estimated $22m at the weekend, a quiet weekend that saw Fox's FirstDaughter disappoint infourth place and a top 10 opening for Shaun Of The Dead, the first release from Focus Features'genre arm Rogue Pictures.The Forgotten ...
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Anchor Bay buys domestic on Dead And Breakfast
US independent Anchor Bay hasacquired domestic theatrical, TV and home video rights to Ambush Entertainmentand Goal Line Productions' horror picture Dead And Breakfast, which stars Jeremy Sisto, David Carradine and GinaPhilips.Arclight Films is handling international sales on the $500,000picture, which was written and directed by Ambush senior partner MatthewLeutwyler and ...
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Supernatural thriller The Forgotten tops US box office
Revolution Studios' supernatural thriller The Forgotten went straight to the top of the chartson an estimated $22m at the weekend, a quiet weekend that saw Fox's FirstDaughter disappoint infourth place and a top 10 opening for Shaun Of The Dead, the first release from Focus Features'genre arm Rogue Pictures.The Forgotten ...
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PS and Machinist to open Woodstock FIlm Festival
Dylan Kidd's PS and Brad Anderson's The Machinist are the two opening films at theupcoming fifth annual Woodstock Film Festival, which runs from Oct 13-17 andcloses with Nicole Kassell's The Woodsman.A total of 120 films willscreen at the five-day event, which is dedicated to the memory of composerElmer Bernstein, who ...
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India picks Shwaas for Oscar race
Shwaas, a film directed by 36-year-old debutant SandeepSawant will be the official Indian entry for the Oscars.The film is a drama about a villager, played by Arun Nalawade,who brings his ailing grandson to the town hospital, . There he learns that thechild must undergo a life-saving operation, which may leave ...
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Shark Tale creates a splash on worldwide debut
DreamWorks Animation's Shark Tale got off to a strong start at the weekend as it divedinto the international marketplace with openings in Australia and New Zealandthrough UIP.The first territories in the world to receive the film,which opens in North America on Friday at an estimated 3,500 sites, bothawarded the underwater ...
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Village Roadshow admits to Catwoman loss
The lacklustre performance of Catwoman at the worldwide box office has hit its co-producerVillage Roadshow (VRL) hard.In an extraordinary statement released on Friday, theAustralian company said that the release of films in the next 12 months inwhich it is a production partner will be insufficient to cover the lossesincurred by ...
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Telefonica delays media subsidiary float
Juan Villalonga, president of Spanish multimedia giant Telefonica, announced at a shareholders meeting on Friday (April 7) that the company has postponed its planned flotation of audiovisual unit, Telefoncia Media, due to concerns over falling prices for media and Internet stock."Content companies around the world are undervalued and if we ...