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Fockers maintains international box office lead
MeetThe Fockers easily retained the international box officelead at the weekend, thanks to strong holdovers including the UK and six newterritory launches led by Spain's $4.7m (Euro 3.6m).Otherlaunches came in Sweden, Denmark and Taiwan (all $0.4m), Israel ($0.3m) andCroatia ($43,000). The UK has given the film a phenomenal $29.2m (£15.5m) ...
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Saidel's V!S takes on sales for Littin's La Ultima Luna
Paris-based sales agent MaxSaidel has picked up world rights on Chilean veteran Miguel Littin's latestfeature, La Ultima Luna.Sales will be handled out ofSaidel's newly-renamed V!S, formerly Vision International. Saidel is alsogeneral manager of Spanish sales consortium Latido, specialising in Latinofilms.Set between Palestine andChile and shot in Arabic and Hebrew, La ...
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London Critics honour Scorsese, Sideways
Martin Scorsese was nameddirector of the year for The Aviator at the 25th Awards ofthe London Film Critics' Circle last night.Scorsese was presented withthe award by Cate Blanchett, one of the stars of the film, at a ceremony in aidof the NSPCC at the Dorchester Hotel in London.However The Aviatormissed ...
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Lumina picks up international rights to Salles backed City
Lumina Films, the newLondon-based sales agent, has picked up international rights to the WalterSalles-produced Lower City (CidadeBaixa).The film is amusically-charged story about a group of friends who fall in love with the samewoman. It stars Lazaro Ramos of MadameSata, Wagner Moura and City Of Godstar Alice Braga.The film is the ...
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Mackenzie readies post-Asylum projects
Rising young Scottish director David Mackenzie,whose latest film Asylum screens in Berlin's main competition, ishatching two new Scottish-based projects. Through Glasgow-based Sigma Productions,Mackenzie is set to direct an adaptation of Peter Jinks' novel Hallam Foe.A dark tale of an adolescent whose pet hobby is voyeurism, the film promises tobe in ...
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Preferisco Il Rumore Del Mare
Dir: Mimmo Calopresti. Italy-France. 2000. 90 mins.Prod cos: Biancafilm, Mikado. Co-prod: RAI, Arcapix (Fr). Domestic dist: Mikado. Int'l sales: Celluloid Dreams (+33 1 49 70 03 70). Prods: Donatella Botti, Roberto Cicutto, Luigi Musini. Dir: Mimmo Calopresti. Scr: Calopresti, Francesco Bruni. DoP: Luca Bigazzi. Prod des: Alessandra Marrazzo. Ed: Massimo ...
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Wild Bunch enjoys Dirty Love with McCarthy
French sales and distribution outfit Wild Bunch has picked up Dirty Love,the screenwriting debut from model Jenny McCarthy. Wild Bunch has taken world rights outside the US and will distribute thefilm in France via its nascent distribution company Pan Europeenne.Wild Bunch chief Vincent Maraval bills the film as a 'sort ...
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Venice set to honour Miyazaki and streamline festival
Hayao Miyazaki will receive a career Golden Lion at thenext Venice Film Festival, which will take place from August 31-September 10.Itis the first time the award will be handed out to an animation filmmaker."HayaoMiyazaki is the giant who knocked down the walls which enclosed Japaneseanimation," said Venice artistic director Marco ...
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here! Films picks up US rights to Julie Johnson
here! Films has picked upall US rights to Bob Gosse's relationship drama Julie Johnson from Cinemavault Releasing and plans to premiere thetitle in June on its gay and lesbian premium television network here!Julie Johnson stars Lili Taylorand Courtney Love as best friends who move in together and eventually fall inlove. ...
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MPD tips Laberge for corporate development role
Alliance Atlantis' Motion Picture Distribution (MPD) hasappointed Paul Laberge to the newly created position of executive vicepresident of corporate development and general counsel for MPD as well asgeneral counsel and corporate secretary of Movie Distribution Income Fund.MPD and the Fund incorporate the income trust created when Alliance Atlantisspun off its ...
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NBC Universal signs distribution deal with Japan's Broadmedia
NBC Universal and Broadmedia Studios Corporation have signed anexclusive, multi-year distribution agreement for free and basic subscriptioncable television rights to a wide selection of Universal's features andtelevision product in Japan.Under the terms of the agreement, Broadmedia Studios Corporation becomes NBCUniversal's exclusive television distributor for these titles in Japan.The agreement includes ...
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Pollack wraps on Frank Gehry documentary
Sydney Pollack has completed shooting on his firstdocumentary Sketches Of Frank Gehry, about the famed architect whosecreations include the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and theGuggenheim Museum in Bilbao.Pollack, a close friend of Gehry's for more than 25 years, spent four yearsmaking the picture and shot on location ...
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Wild Bunch buys world rights to Sundance comedy Dirty Love
Wild Bunch has picked up international sales on Dirty Love,John Asher's Sundance comedy that played in the Park City at Midnight programme.Written by and starring Jenny McCarthy, Dirty Love is a send-up ofLos Angeles life and centres on a jilted women who embarks upon a bizarre questto "find the white ...
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Goal kicks off without Diego Luna
Kuno Becker has replaced Diego Luna as the lead actor infootball drama Goal!, which started shooting in London on January 29. Buena Vista International have picked up Internationalrights to the film, while Latino targeted film label Arenas Entertainment hasUS rights.Mexican actor Becker, whose credits include ImaginingArgentina, stars in the rags ...
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Bafta compensates for hot air of awards ceremony
If you've ever suspectedthat awards ceremonies are a load of hot air, now there is proof.This Saturday's Orange BAFTAceremony will produce almost 50 tonnes of carbon dioxide accordingto climate change company Future Forests. Its calculations are based on theamount of energy, travel and waste used to put on the event ...
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Women In Film, UIP launch third Directing Change scheme
Directing Change, a UK scheme to address theunder-representation of women directors in the industry, is to run for a thirdconsecutive year in 2005.Runby Women in Film and Television (WFTV) and backed by United InternationalPictures (UIP), it gives women directors the opportunity to work alongside anexperienced and internationally established director during ...
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Guadalajara to open with Waters' Shame
TheGuadalajara International Film Festival will open on March 11 with thescreening of John Waters' new film Dirty Shame.The filmis the story of an employee who suffers a brain concussion and becomes a sexaddict. It stars Tracey Ullman, Selma Blair and Johnny Knoxville.TheMexican festival will also play four of Waters' previous ...
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Ireland to appoint LA film ambassador
Ireland's Arts ministerJohn O'Donoghue has proposed the appointment of an Irish film ambassador.O'Donoghue made theproposal while on a trade mission to Los Angeles to meet with senior executivesat Warner Brothers, Sony, Universal, Paramount, Disney and 20th Century Fox.Speaking at a dinnerattended by Colin Farrell and other luminaries O'Donoghue said,"Attracting major ...
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UK set for Roundabout vs Spongebob battle
It will be Europe versus USin the children's market at the UK box office this weekend as French-UKco-production The Magic Roundabout takes on The SpongeBob SquarePantsMovie for the first weekend of the school half-term holiday.Both titles are based on hittelevision shows adored by legions of pre-teens and stoner students and ...
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Spanish outfit launches Euros 30m fund at Berlinale
Spanish company Markab Creativos is using theBerlinale as a platform to present its landmark new Euros 30m fund offeringmyriad facilities to film and television producers.Under the banner Markab Finances, the company has set up thefund with backing from an as-yet unannounced global group of investors relatedto the film industry and ...