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Germany's ProSieben signs US cable carrying deal with Comcast
The international German-language pay channel ProSiebenSat.1 Welt hassigned a deal with the Comcast Corporation's International Networks to bedistributed to subscribers via cable and DSL in the US.The channel, whose schedules include the programming highlights from thenetworks of the ProSiebenSat.1 Media group, was launched a year ago in the USon DISH ...
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Brisseau explores his own story in Exterminating Angels
Controversial Frenchfilmmaker Jean-Claude Brisseau is at work on what promises to be his mostcontentious feature yet. Late last year, Brisseau wasfound guilty of sexually harassing two young actresses auditioning for roles inhis feature, Choses Secretes(2002). Now, in The Exterminating Angels, being sold by Rezo, he deals indramatised form with events ...
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Pusan fest cements plans for AFM
The Pusan International FilmFestival (PIFF) has unveiled details of the full-scale film market it plans tolaunch this year - the Asian Film Market (AFM) - which takes place during the11th edition of the festival from Oct 15-18.The four-day market has anew venue at the Grand Hotel in the Haeundae beach ...
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Lightning strikes on Heaven And Hell
Los Angeles-based Lightning Entertainment has pickedup worldwide'sales, excluding India, to Rahul Dholakia's controversialdrama'Parzania: Heaven & Hell On Earth, andJonathan Stack and Jeff'Swimmer's documentary Secrets Of The Code.''Parzania is based on real events surroundinganti-Muslim violence in India that'eventually led to the overthrow of theruling party. The picture was initially banned in'India ...
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Cineart lines up Cowards adaptation
Prague-based production company Cineart is developing an adaptation of acclaimed novel The Cowards by Czech writer Josef Skvorecky.Vladimir Michalek, who was awarded 10 Czech Lions for his 1998 Sekal Has To Die, is writing and will direct the project which is scheduled to start shooting in May 2001. Czech Television ...
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Auteurs are New Crowned Hope for Vienna
Furtherdetails are emerging of the six new features being prepared as part of Vienna'sNew Crowned Hope Festival (November 14-December 13) to celebrate the 250thanniversary of Mozart's birth.Titlesare Bahman Ghobadi's The Last Symphony Of The Kurds, Garin Nugroho's RequiemFrom Java,Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Intimacy, Paz Encina's Hamaca Paraguaya, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun'sDarattand Tsai Ming-Liang's Dark ...
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Morena greenlights Latin American productions
Spain's Morena Films is preparing a new slate offilms, with the $3.6m (Euros 3m) Andalusian road movie Blinkerscurrently at the Berlin Co-Production market and three more set to shoot shortly.With Morena currently in post on Mexican veteranArturo Ripstein's El Carnaval De Sodoma, its forthcomingproductions tap into Latin American talent.Shooting from ...
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VCL and 3Rosen on a Promise with Warner Bros
ChenKaige's The Promise, which screened at the Berlinale last week, will be one of the firsttitles to be released theatrically in Germany as part of a new venture betweenDatty Ruth's VCL Film + Medien and the 3Rosen Filmverleih.WarnerBros Germanywill handle billing and booking on Kaige's fantasy epic, while 3Rosen will ...
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DOCker five pool EFM resources
Five of thebest-known sales outfits in the documentary arena are pooling resources in theEuropean Film Market in Berlin. SND Films,Doc & Co, Films Transit, Deckert Distribution and First Hand Films are thepartners involved in the venture, dubbed Meet The DOCkers! The fivecompanies, normally business rivals, are sharing space at Martin-Gropius-Bauand ...
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Lee and Shin to oversee Korea's Prime Entertainment
Lee Seung-jae, CEO of Korean production company LJFilm, has confirmed that he will oversee film production at rising Koreanstudio Prime Entertainment, formerly known as Innotz.Lee brings with him CJ Entertainment's former head offilm business Shin Sang-han who will head up distribution and exhibition.Prime will produce 15 films a year starting ...
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Capitol unleashes Pawlikowski's Beasts
Rhys Ifans, Eddie Marsan, and Ben Whishaw, who is setvault to fame in the lead role of Tom Tykwer's Perfume later this year, will star in Pawel Pawlikowski's next film The Restraint Of Beasts. Capitol Films has boarded as worldwide sales agent.Pawlikowskiand his My Summer of Love producer Tanya Seghatchian ...
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Lenny Kravitz gets Iced for Daniels
LennyKravitz will make his feature film acting debut as a musician who falls intothe abyss of crack addiction in Iced, thesecond film to be directed by Lee Daniels and available at Berlin from his LeeDaniels Entertainment.Basedon the debut novel by Ray Shell, the film will follow Kravitz's character froma promising ...
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Ambitious Rome festival to launch co-production event
Theinaugural Rome Film Festival (Oct 13-21) is looking to set up aco-production event along the lines of Rotterdam's CineMart which will includea cash prize for the best project presented."TheCineMart structure is so far the best one," explained Rome's internationalprogramme manager Teresa Cavina on the decision to emulate Rotterdam's popularpitching bazaar.Rome'sindustry ...
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Gaga reveals ambitious domestic and international plans
Japan's new-look Gaga plans to produce up to 10Japanese films a year, in addition to international co-productions, as part ofa drive to expand its production activities.Since launching production banner Gaga Films lastyear, the company has already shot two Japanese features - Ryo Nishimura's Waters,which opens in Japan next month, and ...
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Revolution plans multi-platform release for Guantanamo
Revolution Films is planning a simultaneous UK theatrical, DVD, andInternet release for Michael Winterbottom's The Road To Guantanamo, which will haveits world premiere Tuesday in Berlin's competition.The move goes one stepfurther than 2929 Entertainment's US release of Steven Soderbergh's Bubble on Jan 27, which didn't include a simultaneousInternet offering.Guantanamo was ...
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TF1 forms holding company for digital operations
French free TV broadcaster TF1 is to create a holding company, TF1 Digital, which will group all of its digital TV operations.The move is seen as evidence of the broadcaster's intention to step up its involvement in the pay-TV sector and prepare for the future launch of digital terrestrial broadcasting ...
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Wong Kar-wai prepares Nights with Norah Jones
Wong Kar-wai is gearing upto work this year with multi-platinum singer Norah Jones who will make heracting debut in his first English-language film which has the working title My Blueberry Nights.Based on a short film thatWong shot in Hong Kong several years ago, the film will be co-produced byStudioCanal and ...
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Woody flirts with France
IsWoody Allen going Gallic' In the Martin-Gropius-Bau, there have been strongrumours that the much-travelled US filmmaker is looking to shoot a new featurein France as early as this spring.Allen isexpected in Paris for the Cesars later this month. The word at the EFM is thathe has been discreetly sounding out ...
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New Pink Panther purrs at US box office
MGM/Columbia's The Pink Panther won a tightrace at the North American box office this weekend, as four new wide releasesfound their respective audiences and took the top four spots on the box officechart. With an estimated gross of $21.7m, The Pink Pantheredged out New Line's Final Destination 3, while Universal's ...
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New Pink Panther purrs at US box office
MGM/Columbia's The Pink Panther won a tightrace at the North American box office this weekend, as four new wide releasesfound their respective audiences and took the top four spots on the box officechart. With an estimated gross of $21.7m, The PinkPanther edged out New Line's Final Destination 3, while Universal's ...