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Myriad joins Partition
LA-based Myriad Pictures hasstruck a co-production deal with Canada's Sepia Films for the epic India-setromance Partition. Jim Mistry and Kristin Kreuk will star in the film. Partitionis being executive produced by imX Communications, which previously worked withMyriad on The River King.Myriad is handling allinternational sales on the film excluding Canada, ...
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Intermedia, Pacifica bare flotation teeth
Despite the recent stockmarket storms, International Media, the newly-renamed German company formed from the merger of the UK's Intermedia Film Equities and Los Angeles-based Pacifica, is pressing ahead with flotation plans. The aggressive sales process could see the company triple its share capital. Some 5.6 million shares in the new ...
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Euro films struggle to attract non-local audiences
Some of Europe's leadinggatekeepers to the $257m-plus (Euros 200m) of public money being handed outannually across the continent to support film production are now wonderingwhether too many European films are being made. Is all this state-supported aidis being spread too thinly'Some 750 theatrical featureswere produced in Europe in 2003. While ...
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Missing Tati title makes world bow
Exactly 47 years after itwas made, the English-language version of Jacques Tati's 1958 film, MonOncle, is receiving its world premiere in the Berlinale's retrospectivetoday.This is not a dubbed versionof the French original, but a film that was shot separately in English, withthe same actors. It contains sequences which are not ...
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X-Filme, Promedia toon up with Robbers
Berlin-based X-Filmecreative pool and private media fund manager Promedia have launched a newanimation company, Animation-X, with a full-length traditional animation calledThe Three Robbers (Die Drei Rauber), to go into production in July ofthis year.Animation-X plans to makebetween two and three projects a year, both traditional and CG animation.Animation-X has brought ...
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Pollack wraps Sketches Of Frank Gehry documentary
Sydney Pollack has completedshooting on his first documentary Sketches Of Frank Gehry, about thefamed architect whose creations include the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LosAngeles and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Cinetic Media is handling sales ofthe film in Berlin.Pollack, a close friend ofGehry's for more than 25 years, spent ...
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New Spanish distributor Notro launches sales arm
NewSpanish distributor Notro Films is launching an international sales armstarting with three films from local producer Filmanova, including Berlincompetition title One Day In Europe.The films, which Notro will distribute in Spain, alsoinclude Jorge Gaggero's Sundance screener Live-In Maid (Beba Y Dora) andJuan Taratuto's comedy It 's Not You, It's Me ...
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Moviehouse picks up international rights to Shut Up
Moviehouse Entertainment,one of the UK's leading cross-over art-house sellers, has picked up rights toShut Up & Shoot Me (Sklapni A zastre l Me), an over-the-top comedyfrom Czech commercials director Steen Agro.Currently inpost-production, the film features a man who works six jobs, so his ungratefulfiancee can buy high-end designer shoes and ...
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Fortissimo dines out on Nina's Heavenly Delights
Fortissimo Film Sales hasadded an extra course to its Berlin spread by picking up Nina's HeavenlyDelights, a family-foodie comedy scripted by Dear Frankie writerAndrea Gibb.The film, set in Glasgow, isdirected by Pratibha Parmar, an award-winning British documentary directormaking her feature debut. Rising star Shelly Cohn (Possession)plays a young Indo-Scottish woman ...
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Berry, Forster back together for Nefertiti
Three years ago, actressHalle Berry and director Marc Forster were both in Berlin to promote Monster'sBall. Since then, she has won an Oscar and become one of Hollywood'sbiggest stars and he directed the seven-times Oscar nominated FindingNeverland. Now the two are planning tore-team on the story of Egyptian queen Nefertiti, ...
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Arclight takes on rights to Spacey's First Time
Arclight has picked upinternational rights to dark comedy Mini's First Time, which is producedby Ed Bass' Bold Films and Berlin festival entrant Kevin Spacey's TriggerStreet.The picture, now in postproduction, stars Nikki Reed as a 17-year-old who likes to experiment. Thingsturn sour, when, trying her hand as a call-girl, she discovers ...
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StudioCanal snaps up gangster tale Bittersweet Life
StudioCanal has snapped upKorean major CJ Entertainment's A Bittersweet Life, a gangster dramafrom the director Kim Jee-woon (A Tale Of Two Sisters, The Foul King). StudioCanal has guaranteed aminimum commitment on the scale of the French theatrical release and agreed tobe the agent to present the film for selection at ...
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German hit Napola scores US sale
Doug Witkins' Picture This!Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Dennis Gansel's German hit Napolafrom Bavaria Film International. The film, which has so far grossed $2.2m onthree weeks of release in Germany through Constantin Film, is being scheduledfor an autumn 2005 theatrical release in the US.Based on a screenplay byGansel ...
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Kimmel, VIP team for Holland's Beethoven pic
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment,the prolific new LA-based production and financing outfit backed byphilanthropist and business titan Kimmel, has teamed up with VIP Medienfonds toproduce Copying Beethoven, to be directed by Agnieszka Holland and starEd Harris and Diane Kruger.Myriad Pictures is handlingworldwide sales on the film in Berlin and deals have already ...
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British feature wins at Miami
The Miami International FilmFestival ended yesterday with Amma Assante's British feature A Way Of Lifewinning the grand jury prize and the FIPRESCI prize for best dramatic featurein world cinema competition.In the documentary featurecategory, the grand jury prize went to Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez's LaSierra from Colombia which shows a ...
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One Day In Europe
Dir/scr: Hannes Stohr.Ger-Sp. 2005. 101mins.The idea, at least, is promising: four mini-stories set in four Europeancities, all playing out against the background of a major internationalfootball match. But in the end there's something frustratingly inconclusiveabout One Day In Europe, Hannes Stohr's follow-up to Berlin Is InGermany, which won the Panorama ...
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Beyond boosts Berlin slate
Beyond Films has added twoUK films to its slate at Berlin. Richard Kwietniowsky is to direct black comedyNo One Gets Off In This Town, which is expected to star Brenda Blethyn,Jane Horrocks, John Hurt Amira Casar and Rupert Evans. "We are pre-selling thefilm as part of the financing," said Beyond, ...
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Idiot Love (Amor Idiota)
Dir: Ventura Pons.Sp-And. 2005. 95mins.Catalan director Ventura Pons is something of a Berlin fixture: IdiotLove sets a festival record by being the sixth consecutive feature by thedirector to premiere here. It's an original love story, self-deprecatinglyironic but also fizzing with eroticism.If Italian director NanniMoretti ever decided to take on the ...
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Roundabout wins UK animation chart battle
The UK saw two animations - Pathe's The MagicRoundabout and UIP's TheSpongeBob SquarePants Movie - go headto head over the crucial first half-term weekend.On the official UK chart, The Magic Roundabout was the winner with the film coming in third overall with $2.9m (£1.57m) from425 sites. However, this figure includes ...
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Errol Morris to be feted at 2005 Hot Docs
Acclaimed US documentary filmmakerErrol Morris will be the guest of honour at the 2005 Hot Docs CanadianInternational Documentary Festival. Along with a retrospective of his work, thedirector of such films as Gates Of Heaven,The Thin Blue Line and the AcademyAward-winning Fog Of War will bepresented with the event's ...