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Civilian Content celebrates Summer sales
Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer Of Love has racked up$2.3m worth of international sales, according to financing and sales outfitCivilian Content.Ina statement to the London Stock Exchange it said the sales significantlyexceeded management's expectations. The sales were handled by Civilian's salessubsidiary The Works.At last month's Toronto Film Festival, the Works sold ...
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Danish Film Institute names Ramskov as production chief
The board of the Danish Film Institute has appointed JoergenRamskov as its new manager for production and development. He will beresponsible for the DFI department charged with spending Euros 16.5m on backingDanish film.Ramskov replaces Lars Feilberg who resigned earlier thisyear.Atrained journalist, the 47 year-old Ramskov has worked for the DanishBroadcasting ...
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Germany's Downfall proves a hit with buyers
Germany's EOS Distribution saidthat Germany's Oscar hopeful The Downfall by Oliver Hirschbiegel has nowbeen sold in more than 25 territories and demand from buyers is still strong.Thefilm, which puts a human face on tyrant Adolf Hitler, was last week sold toSandrew Metronome for Scandinavia and to Best Hollywood for Hungary. ...
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League Of Gentlemen starts Dublin, London shoot
Principal photography has begun on the feature film The League of Gentlemen - Royston Vasey (working title).Directed by Steve Bendelack, The League of Gentlemen - Royston Vasey is from the team behind the award winning UK comedy TV series TheLeague of Gentlemen, created by and starring Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton,Reece ...
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London Film Festival to launch 'mini-market'
The Times bfi London Film Festival (Oct 20-Nov 4) is set tostage its own, unofficial mini-market.Fortissimo,Celluloid Dreams, Wild Bunch, Bavaria Film and Trust are among theinternational sales agents already confirmed to attend the festival, which willbe organising industry screenings at London's Curzon Soho from Oct 25- 27. Thesales agents, all ...
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BVI unveils South African and Chinese TV deals
Buena Vista InternationalTelevision (BVITV) has announced a new accord with the South AfricanBroadcasting Corporation (SABC) for various series and features, as well asrenewing its features deal with China's CCTV. The deals were both announced atthe MIPCOM television market which is currently underway in Cannes.Films in the SABC package include 10Things ...
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21 Grams producer strikes Swedish output deal
Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri (SF) has concluded athree-year co-operation agreement with New York based film outfit This is That.Accordingto the agreement, SF gets the rights to distribute all This is That'sproductions on cinema, video and television throughout the Nordic region.This is That was founded in 2002 by Good Machine founder ...
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Doroniuk exits post as Lions Gate chief
Roman Doroniuk has resigned from his post as president and chief operating officer of Lions Gate Entertainment.Doroniuk's departure is the latest to hit Lions Gate following the March 21 appointment of former Sony Pictures chief Jon Feltheimer to the position of vice chairman and CEO.Lions Gate founder Frank Giustra stepped ...
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DENMARK 4 October
The highly anticipated feature debut from Nikolaj Arcel, Kings' Game (Kongekabale), dealt awinning hand at the top of the Danish box-office chart this weekend with astrong DKK2,3m gross and DKK39,692 screen average on its 60 prints.The critically praised film has been a hot item in the mediafor the last month, ...
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UGC denies international circuit sale
UGC has officiallydenied a report in The Times newspaper that its entire European circuitis up for sale with a price tag of £400m ($715.8m).According to TheTimes, US buyout firm the Blackstone Group, as well as VUE Entertainment,the group formed last year by the merger of Warner Village and SBCInternational, will ...
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Dinard Festival of British Film unveils jury
The Dinard Festival Of British Film has unveiled its juryfor this year's event (Oct 7-10).Actors Hugo Speer, Phil Davis and Kieran O'Brien make up theBritish contingent on this year's jury.Veteran French TV personality Jacques Chancel is this year'sJury President, presiding over an eight strong jury. His fellow FrenchJury includes actresses ...
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Bride And Prejudice
Dir: Gurinder Chadha.UK-India-US. 2004 111mins.Bollywood spectacle andBritish comedy of manners collide head on in Gurinder Chadha's Bride AndPrejudice, an entertaining if wildly uneven updating of Jane Austen'snovel.Chadha throws Indian,English and American characters into the mix, cheerfully trading in allavailable national stereotypes as she goes. Much grates. The direction is oftensurprisingly ...
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MIFED exhibitor bookings fall as AFMA boycott hits hard
Exhibitor bookings for thisyear's MIFED are significantly down as a result of the AFM decision to launch aNovember market, according to new figures released by the Milan marketorganisers.Fiera di Milano generaldirector Carlo Bassi said that the majority of worldexhibitors who traditionally attend MIFED will be there again this year - ...
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Alien Vs Predator tops Australian box office for Fox
Fuelled by a $2.2m numberone opening in Australia on 224 screens at the weekend, Fox International'shorror-thriller Alien Vs Predatorraised its international running total by $3.2m from 902 screens to $21.6m.A $1.7m second place openingin Germany on 501 screens was the prime mover in Dodgeball's weekend as it added $6.1m on ...
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Spider-man 2 continues to play in Italy, passes $400m
A strong third weekend inItaly was the key driver for Columbia's Spider-Man 2 at the weekend as it added $2.5m from allterritories for a $403.2m international running total.The action sequel remainedtop in Italy for its third weekend in a row with a $2.3m haul through ColumbiaTriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI) ...
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Motorcycle Diaries falls through foreign-language Oscar cracks
Walter Salles'pan-Latin American co-production The Motorcycle Diaries - one of the year's most popularforeign-language films - has been ruled ineligible for the foreign-languagefilm Oscar category this year. It joins A Very Long Engagement, 2046 and Bad Education in the list of acclaimed internationalfilms which have been excluded from that race.TheMotorcycle ...
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Basil-Jones gets top international job at DreamWorks
DreamWorks hasconfirmed that Stephen Basil-Jones has been named head of internationalmarketing and distribution, filling the interregnum created by JonathanChissick's departure earlier this year.Basil-Jones, whois currently based in Los Angeles as senior vice president of marketing atColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International (CTFDI), will relocate toLondon where he is expected to start ...
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WBITD renews free-TV deal with SAR-AN in Turkey
Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD) has renewed its multi-year freetelevision deal with Turkish television distributor SAR-AN International.Under the termsof the deal SAR-AN has acquired broadcast rights to a number of films includingthe first two Harry Potter instalments, the final two Matrix episodes, Ocean's Eleven and The Last Samurai.The package includes ...
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Microsoft to buy controlling stake in Titus
Microsoft Corp is buying a 60% stake in Japan's second largest cable operator Titus Communications from US cable company MediaOne Group which is merging with telco AT&T.Microsoft claimed the deal would speed up the roll-out of broadband networks in Japan. Titus already offers cable telephony and high-speed Internet access to ...
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SWEDEN 5 October
Though As In Heaven, which is now Sweden'sofficial Oscar candidate, stayed securely at the top of the local chart havinggrossed $4.3m and retaining the best screen average of $5,347 from its 103prints, this week's most impressive performance was by another local film.Afteropening in the shadow of Home On TheRange and ...