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Fortissimo returns to roots with Hong Kong trio
Leading art-house seller Fortissimo is returning to itsroots with the pick-up of three pictures from Hong Kong.Top of the list is Jiang Hu, a gangland epic which isalready benefiting from renewed interest in the genre following InfernalAffairs and has gone on to become one of the big hits of 2004. ...
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Summit takes over Myriad's Being Julia
Summit Entertainment is taking over sales duties fromMyriad Pictures on Istvan Szabo's Being Julia starring Annette Bening.The deal is being done between Summit and the film's production companySerendipity Point run by Robert Lantos. Summit previously handled SerendipityPoint's The Statement.Myriad chief executive Kirk D'Amico had no comment yesterday, butSummit's CEO Patrick ...
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Intermedia bags Baghdad Blog
Intermedia has bought film rights to Baghdad Blog, the bookof a weblog written by a 29 year-old Iraqi calling himself Salam Pax aboutdaily life in Baghdad before and after the invasion.Salam Pax has written his own column in The Guardian newspaper inthe UK and has become popular there with his ...
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Gatineau climbs Miramax acquisitions ladder
Miramax veteranMaeva Gatineau has been promoted to senior vice president of acquisitions.Gatineau willcontinue to oversee European acquisitions from the company's UK offices, whereshe has been based for the past seven years, reporting to executive vicepresident of acquisitions and co-productions Agnes Mentre.UK-based directorof European acquisitions Emil Elmer and director of acquisitions ...
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Kodak, Atlab restore Australian cinema classics
Miramax Films, Miramax Television, HBO and Good Will Hunting writers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are teaming up to launch a US contest in which a total unknown writer will have his or her screenplay greenlit.Starting in the summer, anyone in the US can submit a screenplay electronically to www.projectgreenlight.com. ...
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Peace Arch and Showtime partner up through 2007
Canadian entertainment outfit Peace Arch Entertainment Group andUS-based Showtime Networks have signed a co-financing and distribution dealthrough 2007 for up to 15 projects averaging $10m each.Peace Arch will provide production support and assume allinternational rights including Canada, while Showtime will premiere titles onits Showtime Network.Peach Arch's London-based subsidiary Peace Arch ...
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Rosett named president of United Artists
Danny Rosett hasbeen named president of United Artists in a move that had been widely expectedfollowing the departure in January of Bingham Ray.Rosett most recently served as executive vice president ofmarketing and distribution for MGM Studios, which included overseeing worldwidebusiness operations for the specialty unit UA, and will report to ...
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GERMANY 12 May
The season of blockbustersopened in fine style with UIP's Van Helsing charging into the Germanbox-office chart at No. 1 with a whopping $ 9,813 screen average from its 742screens, while last week's top film, Columbia TriStar's 50 First Dates,was the only release to muster any competition with takings of around ...
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Politics colours Cannes
Even if everything passes off peacefully this year's festival, as a result of a rapprochement with striking arts workers, Cannes will still be shaped by the invasive effects of politics - global politics, politics of the workplace and political films.Indeed, industry politics was already charged at a high-powered colloquium on ...
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Italy still struggling to secure summer releases
Despite the Italian industry's sustained efforts, the localbox office summer season has once again failed to properly take-off, withupcoming 2004 summer releases few and far between.The Italian box office will benefit from the day and daterelease of three Hollywood juggernauts before the summer officially kicks in,all of which will be ...
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First Look selling Kevin
US-based First Look Mediawill finance and serve as executive producer on Toni Kotite˙s dark comedy KevinApproaches, which stars Guy Pearce, Laura Linney and Robert Carlyle.The company's sales armFirst Look International will begin pre-sales at Cannes while First Look andICM International˙s Shaun Redick will handle domestic rights.Kevin Approaches stars Pearce in ...
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Little steps into Attenborough's Ring
Veteran sales agent RobbieLittle has stepped in as executive producer on Closing The Ring, RichardAttenborough's epic love story.Little is expected to tie upselected pre-sales at Cannes on the project, which now has an unconfirmed castincluding Dennis Hopper, Pete Postlethwaite, Mena Suvari, Shirley MacLaine andColin Hanks.Shooting is scheduled forthis summer with ...
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Carlyle, Anderson come of age with The Mighty Celt
Robert Carlyle and GillianAnderson are being lined up to star in The Mighty Celt, a coming of age talebased at Robert Walpole and Paddy Breathnach's Irish company TreasureEntertainment.BBC Films, The Irish Film Board and the NorthernIreland Film & Television Commission are to bankroll the production, whichis set to shoot in ...
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Korean distributor unveils debut production slate
South Korean distributor Chungeorahm Film makes its first trip toCannes this year with a wide slate of upcoming titles from its newly-launchedproduction and investment arm. These include a new film by Old Boy and Chihwaseonstar Choi Min-shik and a big-budget disaster movie by Bong Joon-ho, director ofthe award-winning Memories Of ...
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Oracle, 2M throw weight behind Zentropa channel
Danish production outfit Zentropa has revealed that US database software firm Oracle and Danish venture capital outfit 2M Invest are backing its proposed English-language Internet channel, TVropa.com (Screendaily March 23). Oracle is understood to be investing $650,000 (DKr5m) in the digital platform supporting Zentropa's on-line activities, while 2M Invest has ...
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Assayas producer drums up starry slate
Producer Edouard Weil isbusy preparing new projects following his latest collaboration with OlivierAssayas on Cannes competition film Clean.Xavier Giannoli's lovetriangle drama La Belle Image stars hot French up and comer LudivineSagnier, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Bruno Todeschini and is set to start shootingon June 7 in Paris and Brussels. The French-Belgian ...
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Senator sells Long Weekend
Senator International hasclosed multiple deals on Gold Circle Films' comedy The Long Weekendstarring Chris Klein and Brendan Fehr. Universal Pictures, which has a domesticdistribution deal with Gold Circle, took the film for Germany, Aurum for Spain,Pasatiempo for Latin America, Cathay for Singapore, CP International for CISand the Baltics, DFW for ...
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Europe given warning on internet piracy
Internet piracy was firmly identified as the bogeymanthreatening the future of the creative process and the livelihood of the filmindustry, at a high-powered conference organised by the Cannes film festival onTuesday.Numerous speakers railed against the growing electronictrade that bypasses traditional distributors and funds organised crime."The expansion of broadband is synonymous ...
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Enjoy Cinemas dives into diva material
EnjoyCinema, the UK distribution outfit set up by former HanWay executive SimonGosling earlier this year, has caught the diva bug.Enjoyhas taken UK rights to Callas Forever, Franco Zeffirelli's biopic ofopera star Maria Callas, starring Fanny Ardant and Jeremy Irons, from Capitol.In collaboration with EMI who've licensed all of Maria Callas's ...
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Cannes set for Surreal premiere
Having operated in abelow-the-radar fashion until now, new French distributor Surreal Films isusing Cannes as its public premiere.Headed by Dario Bergesio andPaul Blain, Surreal has already bought two films. First was the distinctly odd ReturnOf The Cagliostro, by Italian experimentalists Daniele Cipri and FrancoMaresco, which was snapped up from Cinico ...