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Back To Normandy (Retour A Normandie)
Dir: Nicolas Philibert. Fr. 2006. 113 mins Any documentary is an act of remembrance. Back To Normandy has a special personal significance for director Nicolas Philibert because it allows him to return to the scene of his earliest filmmaking experiences and also to pay homage to his mentor Rene Allio. ...
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Erik Lomis takes senior international role at MGM
Erik Lomis has been appointed executive vice president ofinternational theatrical and home entertainment at MGM.Lomis, who has served in a consultant capacity to MGM, joins thestudio formally to oversee the marketing and distribution of theinternational theatrical and home entertainment releases, which arehandled by Fox.He will be the primary executive working ...
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Hyde Park make big hits with Streetfighter
Hyde Park International (HPI) has closed major territory sales on Streetfighter headed by a UK deal with Entertainment. Rights have gone to Brazil (Swen), CIS and Baltics (MGN), Spanish speaking Latin America (Gussi), Portugal (Lusomundo), South Africa (Nu Metro), Eastern Europe (Modus Vivendi), Middle East (Phars), Philippines (Pioneer), Thailand (M ...
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Vertigo plans to unleash Cage Rage
Vertigo (the UK outfit behind Football Factory and Outlaw) is to partner with Cage Rage Championships to co-produce the new movie, Cage Rage, likely to have a budget of around $9 million. It is envisaged that this may be the start of a Rocky-like franchise.Brock Norman Brock is writing the ...
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Chase marks first Indian movie shot entirely in Italy
India's Adlabs Films and production house ASP White are planning to shoot $5m action adventure Chase in Rome, marking the first time that an Indian feature has been entirely filmed in Italy. ASP White founder Anubhav Sinha will direct and is producing the film, which is scheduled to shoot in ...
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Rintaro's Japanese 3D penguins go Wild
Wild Bunch has acquired worldwide rights, excluding Asia and North America, to 3D CG-animated feature Yona Yona Penguin, which is being directed by Japanese anime master Rintaro. Japanese animation studio Madhouse Inc and Paris-based Denis Friedman Productions are co-producing the film which is scheduled for release in Japan in December ...
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Lightning strikes on Bonneville deal
Aimee Schoof and Isen Robbins have partnered with Los Angeles production and sales company New Films International (NFI) to build aslate of up to 10 films a year.The producing duo, formally of New York-based Intrinsic Value Films,teamed with NFI on the recent thriller The Alphabet Killer, which isin post-production and ...
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Korea's Sponge makes most expensive Cannes deal
Korean arthouse specialist Sponge Entertainment has made its most expensive pick-up to date, with the $20m Death Note spin-off L from NTV. The film, which saw heated bidding, is due for release this coming February across Asia. Sponge has picked up three more Competition titles - Sokourov's Alexandra from Rezo, ...
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Studio 2.0 takes two from Summit
Korean distributor Studio 2.0 has picked up City of Amber and Step Up 2 from Summit Entertainment. 'We previously picked up the original at last Cannes and saw good box office with it, so we decided to pick up the sequel as well,' says Choi Eun-Young, head of international. The ...
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Revolver pockets Loose Change for UK
Controversial documentary Loose Change (Final Cut) has been picked up for UK release by Revolver to be shown to coincide with the anniversary of 9/11. The feature doc was financed by Alex Jones' Prisonplanet.com. The original versions of Loose Change are among the most downloaded films in internet history. The ...
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Third Pirates gets global launch
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End invades the global marketplace this weekend, opening in North America and 101 international markets in what will be Buena Vista's biggest day-and-date launch ever. The third installment of Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer's swashbuckling franchise - with regulars Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira ...
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Under Hellgate Bridge wins at Narrowsburg Fest
Michael Sergio's Under Hellgate Bridge was named Best Feature Film at the second annual The Narrowsburg Independent Film Festival in Narrowsburg, upstate New York, last week. The film also won the Best Director prize for Sergio, the Best Actor prize for Michael Rodrick and the Rising Star Award for Brian ...
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Days of Darkness shines for Studio Canal
StudioCanal has sold Denys Arcand's closing night film Days Of Darkness to Bim in Italy, Golem in Spain and other territories including Greece, Portugal, Brazil, Israel, Iceland, Turkey, Belgium and Switzerland. Emir Kusturica's Promise Me This has gone to Badriti in Spain, Kinowelt in Germmany, Crystal in Canada, and about ...
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Co-Production Office closes deals on Anderson film
The Co-Production Office has closed multiple deals on new Roy Anderson You, The Living. Territories include Japan (Stylejam), France (Les Films Du Losange), Belgium (Lumiere), Germany (Neue Vision), Netherlands (Filmmuseum), Finland (Cinema Mondo), Poland (Gutek), Greece (Ama), and Korea (Sponge).Ulrich Seidl's Import/Export has gone to Belgium (Lumiere) Netherlands (Filmmuseum), Korea ...
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European MEDIA Programme plans investment in VOD and digital
MEDIA 2007 is setting aside $5.4m(Euros 4m) this year to invest in Video On Demand and Digital Cinema Distribution. The money will be invested in six projects, with applications open until July 9 and services expected to be running by June 2008.'We think it is important that Europe gets off ...
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Japanese master filmmaker Kei Kumai dies aged 76
Kei Kumai, one of Japan 's most respected directors, died of a brain hemorrhage in the morning of May 23 at the age of 76. Born on June 1, 1930, in Nagano Prefecture, Kumai attended Shinshu University. After graduation, he became an assistant director on independent films before joining Nikkatsu ...
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Britdoc lines-up international funders for Pitching Forum
July's Britdoc festival in Oxford has announced the line-up of documentary funders who have already committed to participate in Britdoc's Pitching Forum this year. They include Nancy Abraham from HBO, Christoph Jorg from ARTE, Cynthia Kane from ITVS, Orlando Bagwell from the Ford Foundation, Evan Shapiro from IFC, Andrea Meditch ...
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Three counterfeiters jailed after 2006 UK arrests
Following on 2006 arrests, three people have been jailed in a counterfeiting case in Liverpool and the North West of England.The three ringleaders in the scam, Barry Powell, Mark Quincey and Sarah Haynes, were sent to jail. At Crown Court, all eight defendents pled guilty.The six-month pirate DVD and CD ...
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Magicians
Dir: Andrew O'Connor. UK-US. 2007. 90mins.These are boom times for British TV comedy. There is a wealth of talent working on the small screen. The continuing paradox is that so few of the best British comedians (Sasha Baron Cohen notwithstanding) make a successful transition to cinema. Magicians, made by the ...
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Momentum takes UK and Spain for Zwick's Defiance
In Cannes, Momentum Pictures has taken UK and Spanish rights to Defiance, the WWII action drama being planned by Ed Zwick.Bedford Falls and Grosvenor Park are producing and financing. As previously reported, Daniel Craig will star in the film, based on the true story of four brothers who built an ...