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Catherine Le Clef to run Fortissimo's TV arm
Fortissimo Films has appointed Catherine Le Clef as seniorvice president - TV and ancillary sales.She will join Fortissimo from Paris starting Jan 1. In addition to running Fortissimo's existing TV activities,Le Clef will be charged with expanding the company's TV business to includedocumentaries for TV and made-for-TV movies.Le Clef had ...
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Humphreys joins Dublin International Film Festival
The Dublin InternationalFilm Festival has appointed Grainne Humphreys as its new programme director.Humphreys will join the festival as director designate in January, a monthbefore the 2007 edition kicks off on February 16. This will be the final eventto be programmed by the festival's founder and film journalist, Michael Dwyer,who was ...
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Infinity buys Hula Girls from Fortissimo
Fortissimo Films hasclosed a three-picture deal with Taiwanese distributor Infinity Media. The deal covers LeeSang-Il's Hula Girls, Alex vanWarmerdam's Waiter and Pierre-PaulRenders' Mr Average. Infinity's RitaCheung negotiated the deal with Fortissimo's Michael J Werner. Werner said: 'Weare thrilled that Hula Girls and ourother two titles were so well received by ...
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WFTV to honour producer Norma Heyman
The UK's Women in Film and Television will present its 2006lifetime achievement award to veteran producer Norma Heyman. She will receive the honourat the WFTV annual awards luncheon on Dec 8 at London's Hilton Park Lane. Previous winners includeMaggie Smith, Judi Dench, Cilla Black, Barbara Windsor and Esther Rantzen. "Norma ...
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BT Vision launches with VOD service
From Broadcast BT has launched its new TVservice, BT Vision, which is providing more than 40channels and anextensive IPTV video-on-demand library at no subscription charge. As well as the free content,customers can pay for premium content such as music videos and movies viasubscription or pay-per-view. BT claims that its prices, ...
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Casino Royale sets UK record for Bond
After just three weekends onrelease in the UK and Ireland, the 21st official James Bond film CasinoRoyale has already become the highest-grossing film of the franchise in theterritory. Grossing $73.45m (£37.1m) asof Sunday Dec 3, Casino Royalesurpassed 2002's Die AnotherDay, which grossed $69.6m (£36m), over the weekend. The new film ...
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Lions Gate seals US deal on Cannes closer Stardom
Lions Gate Films has acquired US rights to Denys Arcand's Stardom, the closing night film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, from Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Group and production company Serendipity Point Films. Stardom has also been selected to open the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept 7 this year.The ...
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Spanish producers partner in Argentinian production outfits
Two new production companies have been launched inArgentina with the backing of Spanish partners.Pampa Films is owned by Pablo Bossi --former president ofleading production house Patagonik Film Group-- in association with directorJuan Pablo Buscarini and renowned Spanish producers Julio and Carlos Fernandezfrom Filmax.Haddock Films is a partnership between Vanessa Ragone, ...
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Cinemavault picks up sales rights to HD 3-D horror movie Scar
CinemavaultReleasing International has picked up international rights to the highdefinition 3-D psychological horror film Scar, which completed principal photography in Calgary on Nov12.Scarwas shot by Japanese manufacturer NHK Enterprises and is the first live-actionfilm to be shot using this process following the animated releases MonsterHouse and Chicken Little.AngelaBettis stars as ...
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Demme to direct Jimmy Carter doc for Participant
JonathanDemme will direct a documentary about former President Jimmy Carter forParticipant Productions entitled He Comes In Peace.Productionbegan in Plains, Georgia, on Nov 11 at the Carters' home on the eve of hispublicity tour for his book 'Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid'.Demmeand his crew will follow Carter on the tour across America.Demmecollaborator ...
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Cars, Over The Hedge lead Annie Award nominations
Cars,Over The Hedge, Happy Feet, Monster Houseand Open Season will contest bestanimated feature in the upcoming 34th Annual Annie Awards.Pixar'sCars leads the pack with ninenominations, while DreamWorks's Over The Hedge has seven. DreamWorks is the most recognised studio with17 nods.TheAnnie Awards are regarded as a key indicator in the Oscar ...
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Telefilm Canada to help export of Quebecois productions
Telefilm Canada hasannounced plans to support international sales efforts of the French-languageproductions in which it invests. Those films, overwhelmingproduced within Quebec, typically do not sell well abroad; despite the sharedlanguage, France and other French-speaking regions are generally hard marketsto crack, unless the films are international co-productions. The InternationalSales Promotion Pilot ...
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eBay film pirate receives $108,700 fine
A renowned seller of pirate DVDs on eBay has been ordered to pay $108,700 (£55,000) under Proceeds of Crime legislation, having already served six months in jail earlier this year for the same offence.The amount was adjudged to be the criminal profit made by Peter Spencer from his DVD sales ...
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Almodovar hopes to get Cruz on board for next film
Spanish director PedroAlmodovar may reteam with Volver starPenelope Cruz in a new project titled LaPiel Que Habito.In an interview over theweekend with local newspaper El Paisat the European Film Awards in Warsaw, Almodovar said: "My next film will be totallydifferent from my 16 earlier films. It is called La Piel ...
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Denmark's Father sells well abroad
Usually family filmsfrom Denmark don't sell very well abroad, but the case of Father Never Gives Up is proving more successful. The film sold511,000 tickets last winter in Danish cinemas, beating competition from SusanneBier and Anders Thomas Jensen to become the best performing Danish film thatopened in 2005.The film has ...
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Emma Scott joins Irish Film Board production team
Emma Scott has been named asthe new production executive the Irish Film Board (IFB). Scott has worked for morethan 15 years in the film industry, in her own company, Liquid Films, as afreelancer, as head of production with Irish Screen, and more recently with MRFilms where she commissioned feature film ...
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Cinesite's Brown named British Film Commissioner
Colin Brown has been appointed British Film Commissioner, afterrecently stepping down as chairman of Cinesite (Europe) Ltd. Brown replaces Steve Norris,who recently departed the commissioner post to become managing director of filmat Framestore. Both Cinesite and Framestore are leading UK production and effects houses.Brown had been a member ofthe UK ...
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Jiang banned for seven years by China
Chinese actor-director Jiang Wen has been banned from making films for seven years by the Chinese Film Bureau. His film Devils At The Doorstep (Guizi Lai Le), about China during the time of Japanese occupation, was judged as insufficiently patriotic. Jiang, who starred in several films by Zhang Yimou and ...
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Fleur Knopperts joins Sheffield team
The Sheffield InternationalDocumentary Film Festival has appointed Fleur Knopperts as industry andmarketplace director.Knopperts, who will move to Sheffield in February 2007, was formerly managing director of The Forum at theInternational Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). She will follow inthe footsteps of former IDFA employee David Teigeler, who joined the Docfestteam ...
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Dogwoof buys Fissures and Stolen Holidays
UK distributor Dogwoof Pictures has acquired two new French titles: Fissures (Ecoute Le Temps) by Alante Kavaiteand Stolen Holidays (Les Petites Vacances)by Olivier Peyon. Both deals were struck with Wide Management in Paris. Thriller Fissures stars Emilie Dequenne, LudmilaMikael, Mathieu Demy, Jacques Spiesser and Etienne Chicot in the story of ...