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Henderson, Indian bookend High Falls Film Festival
The fifth annual High FallsFilm Festival in Rochester, New York, opens on Nov 9 with Stephen Frears' MrsHenderson Presents and closes on Nov13 with Roger Donaldson's The World's Fastest Indian. All in all more than 50narrative, documentary and short films will screen, among them Scott McGeheeand David Siegel's US drama ...
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Weinstein Co creates multi-year marketing alliance with L'Oreal
The Weinstein Company hasentered into a multi-year marketing alliance with L'Oreal Paris that paves theway for a raft of product placement and promotional opportunities. L'Oreal's makeup and hairteams will support all promotion of titles on The Weinstein Company slate, andthe cosmetic brand will be the official exclusive beauty sponsor of ...
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Film Council increases UK sales support at AFM
The UKFilm Council US is doubling its support for start-up and smaller independentsales companies at this year's AFM.The movewill allow many companies to exhibit there for the first time and others tocontinue their push to international buyers.Underthe single banner of the UKFCUS export office: Carnaby International, CentreFilm Sales, Cross Day ...
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Avant-garde focus for Rotterdam programme
A retrospective of the workof two of the world's most challenging film-makers, Stephen Dwoskinand Nagasaki Shunichi, will be among the highlights of the 35th edition of theInternational Film Festival Rotterdam.The focus on London-based Dwoskin coincides with the launch of a 14-film DVD boxset of his work, while Shunichi is hoping ...
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Home-grown hits give UK box office a holiday hike
The once unthinkable prospectof the UK matching last year's record box office is now farmore likely after an astonishing half-term holiday run.At the end of the thirdquarter, the territory was 4% down with little likelihood of finding the $460m(£261.5m) in the final three months to equal 2004.Early disappointments like Kinky ...
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Mexican star hits out at Hollywood stereotyping
Leading Mexicanactor Gael Garcia Bernal has attacked what he says is Hollywood stereotyping of Latin America.Speaking atThe Times London Film Festival in London, the star of The Motorcycle Diaries, said there seemed to be two roles forHispanic people: "the bad guy" and "the good Latino from the slums."The26-year-old, who came ...
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Foreign sales begin to dominate thinking for Korean producers
A seriesof hits have helped home-grown titles to a 58% share of the South Korea this year but Screendaily's latest production listings shows the growing importance of the international market.Squeezedprofits are forcing producers to rely on foreign sales in a way that is beginning to have a clear effect.The most ...
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Goalpost hopes to score on debut with Clubland
Fledgling UK sales agent Goalpost Filmis backing Australian drama Clublandas its first project.The film, starring BrendaBlethyn, and directed by Cherie Nowlan starts shooting in Sydney at the beginning of nextyear.Clubland producer Rosemary Blight of RB Films said the coming of agecomedy about a shy and inexperienced young man and his ...
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Kiwi festival favourite finally makes it to the States
Sales agentNZ Film has sold US rights to the psychological drama In My Father's Den to Tartan Films, which is looking to release thefilm theatrically in May 2006.It's beenslow progress for the UK/New Zealand co-production that was one of the darlingsof the international festival circuit in 2004, but it was ...
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Italian film industry pledges support for second Oscar choice
Italian film organisation Anica says Italy fully supports theselection of Cristina Comencini's Don't Tell as the country's candidatefor the best foreign language film Oscar, despite reports of fiery argumentswithin the local movie industry.Italy had initially selected Saverio Costanzo's Middle East drama Private, but the picture was ruled ineligible by the ...
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Branagh ready to shoot Mozart magic
Kenneth Branaghbegins principal photography on his $27m version of Mozart's The Magic Flute on23 January at Shepperton Studios.For the first time for a British film, theproduction will occupy six of the major soundstages at the studio. The film features a newly-adapted libretto byStephen Fry with musical director James Conlon conducting ...
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Kissed By Winter (Vinterkyss)
Dir: Sara Johnsen. Nor. 2005. 84mins.A bereaved mother tries to come to terms with heranguish by seeking refuge in a snowbound northern village. There, she discoversunsuspected affinities with the local population, as well as finding romanceand becoming embroiled in a troubling mystery.As the above synopsissuggests, this year's official Norwegian submission ...
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Bam Bam And Celeste
Dir. Lorene Machado. US. 2005. 85mins.Film-maker Lorene Machado and screenwriter Margaret Cho misfire with Bam Bam And Celeste, a featurefound wanting in too many departments, and potentially too offensive to many,to succeed.US theatrical prospects mightsee it pick up play at midnight theatres, especially on gay circuits, but fewaudiences are likely ...
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Italian home entertainment company buys into theatre distribution
Italy's Mondo Home Entertainment has acquired a 51% stake in ambitious local theatrical distributor Moviemax.MondoHE is Italy's leading company in the home entertainment and video-on-demand sector. Itsparent company, Mondo TV, is Italy's premier animation outfit was only thesecond entertainment company after Mediaset to be listed on the Milan StockExchange.The$3m (Euros ...
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Toronto says $44m in sales achieved at 2005 film festival
The Toronto International Film Festival says an estimated $44m(C$52m) changed hands as a result of buying and selling at this year's event,including $24.5m in North American deals and $19.5m in international deals fromterritories such as the UK, Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, and Spain. The record sum, based on estimates from ...
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ContentFilm chairman talks up restructured company at AGM
ContentFilm chairman Alton Irbysaid that the company has seen at "encouraging results" after its acquisitionof the Fireworks International library and restructuring. Since the Fireworksdeal closed in July, that TV and film library has generated $10 million in cashflow and $4.5 in new contractual sales. Speaking at the company's annualgeneral meeting, ...
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Under Suspicion
Dir: Stephen Hopkins. US. 2000. 111mins.Prod Co: Revelations Entertainment. Int'l Sales: TF1 International. Prod: Lori McCreary, Anne Marie Gillen, Stephen Hopkins. Exec prod: Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman. Scr: Tom Provost, W. Peter Iliff based on the film Garde A Vue by Claude Miller, Jean Herman, Michel Audiard. Garde A Vue ...
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BV, Shoreline meet at The Halfway House
Morris Ruskin's ShorelineEntertainment has picked up BV Entertainment's horror comedy The HalfwayHouse for representation at AFM.The picture is the first to beproduced under BV's Fright Film Factory label and was released on DVD in NorthAmerica earlier this year."Taking this film to the AFMand other worldwide markets is the beginning of ...
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Casablanca picks up Brazilian rights to Shadow Of The Sword
In the run up to the AFM, German sales outfit Sola Media/AtrixFilms has sold Simon Aeby's historical epic Shadow Of The Sword to Brazilian distributor Casablanca Films. Benelux rights have been taken by F.E.G. and AQS acquired allrights for Czech Republic and Slovakia. Shadow Of The Swordcomes billed as "a ...
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Fortissimo adds The Bridge to AFM slate
Fortissimo Films has pickedup worldwide rights outside North America to documentary The Bridge, which marks the directing debut of former studioproduction executive Eric Steel. Filmed at the Golden GateBridge in San Francisco, the documentary examines the stories of the people whochose to commit suicide by jumping from the bridge in ...