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Shower takes top honours at Seattle
Continuing its award-nabbing festival tour, Chinese director Zhang Yang's Shower walked away with audience awards for Best Film and Best Director at the 26th Seattle International Film Festival, which wrapped on Sunday. The film has also yielded prizes at Toronto, San Sebastian, Thessaloniki and Rotterdam. Dan Futterman, star of Urbania, ...
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Skillset, Samuelson launch new scheme for emerging producers
UK training body Skillset and production companySamuelson Productions have launched a new producer training programme.Skillset and Samuelson will select eight up-and-coming producers and place themin a rotation at some major film companies for nine months. The producers in the programmewill also attend a regular series of workshops, master-classes, and sessionswith ...
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Chris Graham's horror film The Ferryman goes into production
Horror film, The Ferryman, a United Kingdom/New Zealand co-production to star the Emmy-nominated John Rhys Davies and Silver Bear winner Kerry Fox, goes into production March 31.The film shoots in Auckland and Waiheke Island and follows a group of twenty-something-year-olds as they charter a boat into the South Pacific, intending ...
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Plans for a new St Petersburg Film Festival move ahead
The first St.Petersburg International Film Festival is slated for 18 - 31 July. The festivalis the brainchild of businessman Mark Rudinstein,head of Kinomark, a Moscow-based company thatcurrently runs Russia's Golden Ram Awards and the specialised Faces of Love andKinotavrik film festivals. 'This is a veryambitious undertaking,' Rudinstein said, 'The idea ...
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Constantin Film sets itself a sales target of $302m for 2006
Germanproducer-distributor Constantin Film has set itself asales target of $302m (Euros 250m) for 2006, which would top the $298m (Euros 246.9m)posted in the record yearof 2004 when Constantin released Dreamship Surprise - Period 1 and Downfall.Thisforecast for 2006 is based on the anticipated theatrical performance of suchin-house and co-productions as ...
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Warner Bros signs Dutch download-to-own deal
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has struck a licensing deal with Dutch retailer Free Record Shop to offer 100 Warner Bros. films through Free Record Shop's new video-on-demand service. The deal will kick off by offering Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as a download-to-own in the Netherlands and ...
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UK's Metrodome acquires three films from Sundance and Berlin
UK distributor Metrodome has announced three new acquisitions on the heels of Sundance and Berlin. The company has struck deals for Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer's Quinceanera, Lukas Moodysson's Container, and Xavier Palud and David Moreau's Them.Kate Falconer, Metrodome's acquisitions and development manager, negotiated all three deals. Quinceanera is a ...
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Future Films invests up to $35m in seven new features
UK-based production and film financing company Future Films has announced its involvement in seven feature films now in production. All of the films are shooting now to take advantage of the UK tax laws set to expire with productions starting April 1 and afterwards. Future said its total investment in ...
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Scorsese to be honoured for documentary work at Silverdocs
The Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival willhonour Martin Scorsese at the third annual Charles Guggenheim Symposium on Jun15 in Maryland.The symposium will celebrate the filmmaker's status as adocumentary filmmaker and a chronicler of American art and culture with aseries of excerpts from his documentary work followed by an on-stage discussionof ...
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ACI to handle 120-film Amity library in key international markets
Nashville-based Amity Entertainment has hired American CinemaInternational (ACI) to distribute its library of more than 120 feature films inEurope, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.LA-based ACI will launch the library at this year's MIP-TV, whichruns from Apr 3 to 7 in Cannes.The catalogue comprises a wide range of genres including ...
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Soderbergh, Wagner, Glickman to discuss distribution platforms on Tribeca panel
Steven Soderbergh, MPAA chief Dan Glickman and 2929 co-head ToddWagner will take part in a panel discussion on evolving distribution platformsin the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival's Talks Panel Series from Apr 29 to May6.Other discussions include Rosie Perez and Mia Maestro on the riseof Latina women in entertainment, T-Bone Burnett ...
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THINKFilm swallows Candy for North America
THINKFilm has picked up North American rights from FortissimoFilms to Neil Armfield's drug drama Candy, which received its world premiere in competition at Berlinin Feb.Heath Ledger and fellow Australian and rising star Abbie Cornishplay young lovers torn apart by heroin addiction. Geoffrey Rush plays a morallydubious friend and dealer.Australian stage ...
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Kramer leaves Warner Independent for Dimension
Andrew J Kramer has been named executive vice president ofbusiness and legal affairs for Dimension Films.Kramer will oversee Dimension veterans Sarah Sobel and LumumbaMosquera, who are senior vice presidents of business and legal affairs.In his new role Kramer will oversee the division and negotiatedeals covering all aspects of the feature ...
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New Line takes on remake rights to Torrente
New Line has acquired English-language remake rights to SantiagoSegura's Spanish hit comedy film series Torrente.Mike Bender and Doug Chernack will adapt the screenplay to Torrente, fusing story elements from Segura's Torrente:The Dumb Arm Of The Law,Torrente 2: Mission Marbella and Torrente 3: The Protector.The franchise follows the exploits of a ...
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Superman to be converted to IMAX-3D
Warner Bros' upcoming Superman Returns will become the first live-actionpicture to be converted into IMAX 3D as the corporate partners plan asimultaneous release on Jun 30.Approximately 20 minutes of the film will be converted to 3D, anddirector Bryan Singer, who described the test scenes as "absolutelyamazing", will insert visual cues ...
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Doug Lee to run MGM's new media division
MGM has launched a new media division and named Douglas A Lee tooversee the unit as executive vice president.In the new role Lee will oversee MGM's digital distributionstrategy, spearhead the studio's broadband and wireless initiatives and overseenew digital media growth."MGM will be making significant moves in terms of newplatforms, ranging ...
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Moonstone to handle films from Allumination FilmWorks
Etchie Stroh's Moonstone Entertainment has signed a deal to act asinternational distributor on select features from LA-based AlluminationFilmWorks including Checking Out starring Peter Falk, and Push starring Chazz Palminteri and MichaelRapaport.The moves broadens the existing relationship between the partiesestablished in April 2005 under which Moonstone distributes Allumination's homeentertainment catalogue in ...
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Ice Age, Instinct sequels blanket the world
Fox International top brass are unleashing Ice Age 2: TheMeltdown in 27territories day-and-date with North America, and they expect the animatedsequel to be a worthy commercial successor to the original.Ice Age launched in2002 and ended up taking more than $206m internationally and more than $380mworldwide.Meanwhile another sequel C2 Pictures' Basic ...
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Sundance Institute teams up with BAM in New York for entertainment programme
Sundance Institute and BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) arelaunching the entertainment series Sundance Institute At BAM.The series comprises film, theatre, musical performances, paneldiscussions, and filmmaker Q&A sessions among other events and is set torun from May 11 to 21 in various New York venues.The series features artists that have been ...
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BBC Films developing Andy McNab's Boy Soldier
BBC Films has acquired the film rights to Andy McNab and Robert Rigby's thriller Boy Soldier and its sequel Payback.MacNab and Rigby are currently writing a screenplayadaptation of Boy Soldier, a thrillerthat is the first in a series of four books. The film is about Danny, an orphan who triesto ...