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Raintree, Eyeworks to co-produce Tattooist
Following the signing of theNew Zealand-Singapore co-production treaty in 2004, Singapore's MediaCorp Raintree Pictures is set to co-producethe first NZ-Singapore feature, TheTattooist, with Eyeworks Touchdown.The two companies,represented by MediaCorp Raintree CEO Daniel Yun and Eyeworks Touchdown CEOJulie Christie, are scheduled to sign a letter of intent this Sunday in Auckland, ...
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Turkish distributor embarks on Winter Journey
Turkish producer-distributor Limon Program Yapim Tanitim has picked up Hans Steinbichler's second feature film (Winter Journey (Winterreise) which will have its world premiere in the International Competition of the forthcoming Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.Beta Cinema's Andreas Rothbauer told ScreenDaily the film had been sold on the strength of the ...
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EFP adds four more European films to New York screenings
Another four new European films will be shown to select US buyers, festival scouts and important cinema programmers in European Film Promotion's (EFP) third Industry Screenings in New York.The four titles chosen for the screenings from June 27-28 at the Tribeca Grand Hotel's screening room are David Lammers' Northern ...
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Arcand's Dark Age gets Telefilm Canada funding
New productions fromQuebecois auteurs Denys Arcand and Bernard Emond are among seven new featurefilms greenlit by Telefilm Canada's Quebec office - five in French, two in English.Arcand's project, L'AgeDes Tenebres (Dark Age), is a majority Canada/France co-production betweenDenise Robert's Cinemaginaire and Paris-based Monvoisin Productions. In thevein of Arcand's Barbarian Invasiontheme, ...
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MDA reports strong Cannes sales tally for Singapore
Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA) has announced astring of sales on the Singapore films presented at Cannes, including multiple deals on MediaCorp RaintreePictures' noir thriller One Last Dance.US sales outfit BleibergEntertainment sold the film to Germany (EMS), Poland (Carisma), Hungary (IMA),Israel (PTV), CIS (Soyuz-Video), Spain (Silco Telecinema), Yugoslavia (MG Film),Brazil ...
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Shanghai film festival gets off to glittering start
Judging by the openingweekend, the Shanghai International Film Festival (June 17-25) is finallystarting to take advantage of its position as mainland China's leading film festival and industry platform.Past editions have struggledto attract stars or premieres - mostly because of restrictions and otherproblems in the Chinese movie market - but the ...
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$1.2m Gaelic language feature shoots on Scottish island
BAFTA-nominated producer Chris Young is currently shooting the Gaelic language feature Seachd-The Inaccessible Pinnacle on the Scottish island of Skye. The $1.2m (£655,000) production is being financed by BBC Alba, Serbheis Nam Meadhannan Gaidlhlig(GMS), Scottish Screen and the Glasgow Film Office.Directed by Simon Miller is tells of a young boy ...
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CSA to probe Vivendi Seagram merger
French broadcast regulator, the Conseil Superieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA), announced today that it plans to investigate the proposed merger of Vivendi, Canal Plus and Seagram.The CSA said it "plans to examine all the consequences of this operation on the audiovisual and programme-making industries." It will take into account shareholding structures ...
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India's Adlabs makes move into Hollywood production
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and Anil Ambani's Mumbai-based Adlabs have signed a deal in Dubai to co-produce feature films in Hollywood. Adlabs will invest $30m of the $50m budget of the first co production, the David Ellis-directed Asylum, which is expected to begin shooting in the next two months. ...
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Cars finishes first on $31.2m in US, despite stiff competition
Buena Vista/Pixar's Cars remained in pole position in its second weekend onan estimated $31.2m, despite respectable debuts for Paramount's comedy NachoLibre on $27.5m in second place andUniversal's The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift in third on $24.1m.Overall business climbed forthe fifth consecutive weekend as the top 12 titles grossed ...
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Cars, Tokyo Drift post powerful international debuts
The Da Vinci Code ruled the roost and became the 13th biggestinternational release in history at the weekend as it reached $480m andovertook Shrek 2 and Star WarsEpisode III.Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational chiefs reported an estimated $15.2m weekend haul from 7,800screens in 83 territories. The adventure is by far Sony's biggest ...
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Superman Returns
Dir: Bryan Singer. US.2006. 150 mins. Like Sam Raimi did with Spider-man and Christopher Nolan with Batman Begins, Bryan Singer invests his new Superman movie withemotional intensity and high passions, creating a love triangle scenario whichis even more gripping than Lex Luthor's latest plot to destablise the world.Made with the ...
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Previd launches entertainment marketing firm in New York
Nevette Previd has launchedthe entertainment marketing firm Nevette Previd Inc, which will focus onstrategic partner development and integrated grassroots marketing and socialaction campaigns tied to film campaigns. The client roster currentlyincludes clients Participant Productions, Elevation FilmWorks, ProcessProductions, Plum Pictures, The San Francisco Film Festival, and the NY AidsFilm Festival. Previd ...
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GI Jesus takes grand jury prize at CineVegas
Carl Colapert's Iraq Wardrama GI Jesus was awarded the2006 Cinevegas Film Festival's Grand Jury prize as the event wound down at theweekend.Joe Arquette, Patricia Mota,Maurizio Farhad, Mark Cameron and Telana Lynum star in the tale of a returningMexican national who fought in the conflict in exchange for US citizenship andsuffers ...
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Lionsgate International reports monster sales business at Cannes
Lionsgate International hasjoined the list of US sales agencies reporting an unprecedented volume ofbusiness at Cannes last month, led by monster sales on Saw III and the recently announced vampire project Daybreakers. Saw III inspired a flurry ofdeals on the Croisette as rights went to: Japan (Asmik Ace), Germany(Kinowelt), Australia ...
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Hong Kong's EMP teams with Shanghai Film Studio
Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Pictures and Shanghai Film Studiohave formed a joint venture encompassing film production and talent management.The joint venture, SFSEmperor Cultural Development Co, aims to produce five features and at least oneTV series by the end of 2007, with the first films to be announced next month.It will ...
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Cedric The Entertainer joins cast of Talk To Me for Focus, Kimmel
US comedian Cedric The Entertainer, Mike Epps and Taraji P Hensonhave joined the cast of Focus Features' Talk To Me, which began shooting last week.As previously announced Kasi Lemmons is directing and DonCheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in the story based on the life of Ralph Waldo'Petey' Green, an outspoken ...
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Palm picks up domestic rights to New York post-punk doc KIll Your Idols
Palm Pictures has acquired North American and Caribbean rights toSA Crary's documentary Kill Your Idols and plans a summer theatrical release followed by DVD inthe autumn.Kill Your Idols chartsa course through New York's downtown underground post-punk scene, kicking offin the late 1970s with the birth of the short-lived but influential ...
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Factor 8 secures $167m through tax vehicle
UK financing outfit Factor 8 Films raised $167m (£111m) for investing in features through its tax vehicle, the Voyager Film Partners, over the 12 months to April 5.The funding, raised through a combination of equity (22%) and debt (78%), returned $19.5m (£13m) in net cash benefit to producers. Factor 8 ...
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USC student King wins BAFTA/LA student film award for animated short
Adam Parrish King has won BAFTA/LA's third annual Student FilmAwards for his animated short The Wraith Of Cobble Hill.The Brooklyn-set coming-of-age fable beat out sixfinalists from a pool of 30 submissions from Los Angeles County colleges.All finalists will receive diplomas from BAFTA/LA. The finalistswere: King, from USC; Jesse Eisenhardt, from ...