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Gurassa named chairman of LoveFilm
Charles Gurassahas been named non-executive chairman of LoveFilmInternational. Gurassa is the non-executive chairmanof Virgin Mobile and also chairman of car hire business Worldwide Excellerated Leasing. In addition, he is non-executivedirector of Whitbread PLC and non-executive chairman of human resourcesconsultancy 7Days. He is a Trustee of the National Trust and Chairman ...
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Universal offers download-to-own films in Scandinavia
Buildingon a similar deal in the UK, Universal Pictures Nordicis working with film2home to offer a download-to-own service in Scandinavia. The service will offer athree-copy model, to be launched starting in Sweden from May 22. Other Nordicterritories will follow. Aswith the UK download-to-own deal with LoveFilm, the service will launch ...
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Germany's Beta and Telepool add to Cannes lineups
Germansales companies are busy adding new titles to their sales lineupsa week before the beginning of this year's Cannes Market.Inaddition to the previously announced HeartOf Fire, Beta Cinema has taken on another sevennew titles for its Cannes slate.Thislineup is headed by the international market premieres of FlorianHenckel von Donnersmarck'sthriller The ...
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Cannes announces final film schedule
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the final screening schedule for its 2006 edition. The schedule for all sections of the festival is now available as a .pdf file here.Cannes Market screenings, with schedules being updated, are available at the Marche du Film website.
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Filmax adds flamenco biopic to Cannes slate
Spanish mini-studio Filmax has picked up international rights to local flamencobiopic Camaronto add to its Cannes slate.Camaron: When Flamenco Became Legend, from veteran director Jaime Chavarri,earned lead actor Oscar Jaenada rave reviews and a bestnew actor Goya for his performance as the troubled flamenco innovator Jose Monge Cruz, known as ...
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Spain's Latido takes on sales for Nobody's Perfect
Salesconsortium Latido has picked up international rightsto Joaquin Oristrell's new comedy Nobody's Perfect, the follow-up to his2005 Unconscious, which screened atSundance and sold to 25 countries.Also thisweek Latido closed a deal to K-Films Amerique for French-speaking Canada on Tristan Bauer's Falklands Wardrama Blessed By Fire (IluminadosPor El Fuego) on theheels ...
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EU film production rose while admissions plummeted in 2005
Europeancinema produced record numbers of films last year even as admissions nosedived.Theannual European Audiovisual Observatory report shows 798 films were produced inthe 25 nations of the European Union (EU) - up 37 from 2004.Franceled the way with 240 films in 2004, up by 28 even on the record year of ...
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Miami International Film Festival sets 2007 dates
The24th annual Miami International FilmFestival (MIFF) will take place from Mar 2-11 2007.More than 67,000 people attended this year's eventand organisers said the 2007 edition will include the usual heady brew of gala premieres, world and Ibero-American dramatic and documentary films, shorts, Miami Encuentros, and the REEL Education Seminar Series, ...
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Lightning Entertainment gobbles up rights to Grimm Love
Santa Monica-based international sales anddistribution house Lightning Entertainment hasacquired international rights to Atlantic Streamline's controversial German/US thriller Grimm Love.Lightning partner RichardGuardian will begin sales at Cannes on thestory inspired by the true-life cannibal case that rocked Germany and caused a worldwide mediasensation.German distributor Senatorwas blocked by a court injunction on ...
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Bleiberg goes on Rampage with pre-Cannes acquisition
Los Angeles-based production and internationalsales company Bleiberg Entertainment has addedthe horror thriller Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders to its Cannes slate.The picture stars CliftonCollins Jr, who garnered rave reviews for his portrayal of Perry Smith in Capote, andwill be distributed in North America through Sony. Bleiberg holds all international rights.Chris ...
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Weinsteins take all rights to CG-animated Igor
TheWeinstein Company (TWC) has picked up all international rights to Exodus FilmGroup's CG-animatedcomedy Igor.TWC will release in North America and TWCInternational president Glen Basner will commence sales at Cannes next week.Chris McKenna wrote thescreenplay about a mad scientist's hunchbacked lab assistant who dreams ofbecoming a scientist in his own right ...
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Becker picks up world rights to Workman's Bronte
Becker International haspicked up worldwide rights to Angela Workman's Bronte, which is set to star Oscar-nominated actress MichelleWilliams (Brokeback Mountain).Williams will play the titlecharacter of Charlotte Bronte, who defied class and gender to write suchclassic novels as Jane Eyre. The castalso includes Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Imelda Staunton, Brian Cox and ...
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Wild Bunch takes on sales for The First Cry
Following the global success of March Of ThePenguins, French sales house Wild Bunch is re-teaming with France's Disney Naturefor The First Cry, a documentary from director Gilles De Maistre.The First Cry focuses on 12 women in different countries all overthe world who are about to give birth. De Maistre andhis ...
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Fresh Air (Friss Levego)
Dir: Agnes Kocsis. Hung. 2006. 109mins.Critics and arthouseaudiences should welcome Fresh Air, adeliberately slow and sombre study from first-time Hungarian director Agnes Kocsis. It will strike many as more than a littlereminiscent of Keren Yedaya'sOr, which won the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 2004 when it played in Un Certain ...
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Hopkins and Dunoyer launch Griot with Chevalier and Minion
Thomas Hopkins andproducing partner Tony Dunoyer haveformed New York and LosAngeles-based production anddevelopment company GriotPictures Entertainment (GPE) andhave announced their first two projects.Period drama Chevalier takesplace in pre-RevolutionaryFrance and charts the real-lifeexploits of fencing and musical maestro Chevalier de Saint George, who becamea hero during the Revolution. Paris Qualles Winnerwrote ...
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Hopkins and Dunoyer launch Griot with Chevalier and Minion
Thomas Hopkins andproducing partner Tony Dunoyer haveformed New York and LosAngeles-based production anddevelopment company GriotPictures Entertainment (GPE) andhave announced their first two projects.Period drama Chevalier takesplace in pre-RevolutionaryFrance and charts the real-lifeexploits of fencing and musical maestro Chevalier de Saint George, who becamea hero during the Revolution. Paris Qualles Winnerwrote ...
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Marozas named senior VP at Warner Bros
Andrea Marozashas been named senior vice president of theatrical corporate communication atWarner Bros.Marozas will be responsible for providing communicationssupport on a worldwide basis to the studio's theatrical activities, and willliaise with trade, consumer and business press.She will report to executivevice president of corporate communications Sue Fleishman, but will work on ...
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Hopkins and Dunoyer launch Griot with Chevalier and Minion
Thomas Hopkins and producingpartner Tony Dunoyer have formed New York and Los Angeles-based production and developmentcompany Griot Pictures Entertainment (GPE) and haveannounced their first two projects.Period drama Chevalier takes place inpre-Revolutionary France and charts the real-life exploits of fencing and musical maestroChevalier de Saint George, who became a hero during ...
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Tartan gets UK rights to Re-Cycle and Look Both Ways
TartanFilms has taken all UK and Ireland rights totwo selections at Cannes 2006, the Pang Brothers' Re-Cycle from Thailand andSarah Watt's Look Both Ways from Australia. TartanFilms acquired rights to Re-Cycle,written and directed by Oxide and Danny Pang, from Universe Films Distribution.Tartan Films owner Hamish McAlpine pre-bought thefilm at script ...
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Short film script prize to launch in Cannes
SeveralEuropean screenwriting magazines are working together to launch an award forthe best short film screenplay as part of Critics Week at Cannes 2006.The GrandCru Award of $2550 (Euros 2,000) will be presented to the writer of the bestscreenplay among the short films selected for Critics Week.The jury,headed by Mexican screenwriter ...