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Chilean hotshot aims for international exposure
Chile's hottest film-maker, Jorge Olguin, has signed with Los Angeles-based D-No Entertainment and Genesis Literary Agency for worldwide management and representation respectively.The move comes after Ogluin's second feature, horror film Sangre Eterna, opened in Chile to critical acclaim last October and went on to become the become the biggest box ...
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Cottbus focuses on new Russian cinema
New Russian cinema will be in the spotlight at this year's Filmfest Cottbus (November 4-8) and the Connecting Cottbus market forum (November 4-5).The festival focus will feature programmes of contemporary young Russian cinema and leading productions of the past decade. There will also be showcases of video art and co-productions ...
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No Borders market selects projects from Quays, Buscemi, Holland
Narrative projects from Steve Buscemi, Sexy Beast screenwriters Louis Mellis and David Scinto, and animation gurus the Brothers Quay are among 21 works in progress that will be presented at the 25th annual IFP market's No Borders International Co-Production Market this autumn.The IFP Market, which runs in New York City ...
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Valentin to open LA Latino fest
The seventh Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) will kick off on July 18 with a Miramax pick-up, Alejandro Agresti's award-winning Valentin, the tender story of a young boy and his attempts to find surrogate parents. Competing titles at the festival include Radio Favela by Helvecio Ratton (Brazil), Carlos ...
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Cannes pays tribute to Alexander Walker
Cannes president Gilles Jacob has paid tribute to film critic Alexander Walker, who died suddenly yesterday."It is with great sadness that I heard about Alex's passing. Alex was a close friend, a great critic and historian," Jacob told Screen. "I believe that he didn't miss a single Cannes Film Festival ...
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How To Deal
Dir: Clare Kilner. US. 2003. 101mins.The first of three films due this year from 19-year-old US singer-actress Mandy Moore, How To Deal touches on some of the thornier issues of adolescence and family life but eventually resolves itself into a disappointingly insipid teen romance. To match the $41m grossed in ...
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Red And Blue (Rot Und Blau)
Dir. Rudolf Thome. Germany. 2003. 112mins.Veteran German director Rudolf Thome is back with another one of his meticulously over-scripted, exceedingly polite and talkative dramas. Like much of his previous work, such as Venus Talking and Paradiso: Seven Days With Seven Women (which won the Silver Bear at Berlin in 2000), ...
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Britney Baby, One More Time to open Tokyo Gay fest
Britney Baby, One More Time is to open the 12th Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, which starts today.Running until July 21, the festival will also feature titles including Nine Dead Gay Guys from the UK, Mango Souffle from India and Girl King from Canada. The closing film will ...
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Tarantino's Bill makes multiple killing
Fans of Quentin Tarantino - and the many international distributors who pre-bought the rights to his long-awaited fourth film, Kill Bill - are about to get rather more than they originally bargained for. But all will have dig into their pockets twice for the unexpected treat. Instead of the three-hour ...
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Lithuania looks to exploit EU accession
Lithuania, which has lagged behind its Baltic neighbours in terms of film production, is poised to see major changes in advance of EU accession next year. Increased state funding, a new film law and the impending privatization of its state owned film studios all signal better times ahead for Lithuanian ...
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Ghost House scares up New Zealand business
Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi, producers of the New Zealand shot Xena: Warrior Princess, have returned to the country to shoot the horror pic Boogeyman. Tapert and Raimi say they have produced over 300 hours of action drama in New Zealand from 1993-2001 under the Pacific Renaissance Pictures banner and ...
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Giffoni jury turned over to 1000 children
Juliette Lewis, Jon Voight and Ian Mckellen are among the guests who will attend next week's Giffoni Film Festival (July 19-26), one of the premier competitive events in the world dedicated to kids and youth-oriented cinema.The festival will also welcome Italian directors Pupi Avati (The Heart Elsewhere), Paolo Virzi (My ...
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Metrodome takes UK rights to Northfork
Buoyed by Donnie Darko, which last week helped slash its annual losses by two thirds, UK media concern the Metrodome Group has acquired another surreal US Sundance film, Northfork, from Paramount Classics. Metrodome picked up UK theatrical and home video rights to the film, which stars Nick Nolte, Daryl Hannah, ...
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Sony strikes 'three digit million' German TV deal
Sony Pictures Entertainment's (SPE) latest blockbusters Terminator 3, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Spider-Man are among 80 feature film titles acquired by Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 Group in an exclusive free-TV deal for all of SPE's output from 2001-2003.The package, which was concluded with Sony Pictures Television International for a reported three ...
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Artisan renews with Alliance Atlantis in Canada till 2007
Alliance Atlantis andArtisan Entertainment have agreed to renew their all-rights Canadiansub-distribution agreement through March 31, 2007. Upcoming on the Artisanslate are Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, a re-imagination of the 1987 hit and The Punisher, based on the Marvel comic, starring John Travoltaand Thomas Jane.The deal, first signed in1998, has covered ...
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Samy Boy signs A Different Loyalty producer Peristent to first look
Samy Boy Pictures, adivision of Los Angeles-based financing and production company Samy BoyEntertainment, has finalised a first-look deal with Matthew Rhodes and JuddPayne's production outfit Persistent Entertainment.Samy Boy will provide equityfinancing for selected projects of varying budgets from Persistent, which isrelocating to share office space with Samy Boy.Linda Lichter of ...
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MGM Home Entertainment takes control of Australian operation
MGM Home Entertainment hastaken another step in its worldwide expansion plans by assuming control ofoperations in Australia.MGM executive Don Huntonwill head up a full-scale sales, marketing and distribution apparatus that isbeing planned for the territory, one of the fastest growing DVD markets in theworld.As managing director,Australia, Hunter will oversee new ...
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Tokuma to enter exhibition with Warner Mycal stake
Japan's Tokuma Group plans to invest in the country's largest multiplex operator Warner Mycal, as well as make films exclusively for the chain, according to group president Yasuyoshi Tokuma. The moves form part of Tokuma's strategy to create a vertically integrated film company. The group already includes the Tokuma Shoten ...
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Warner picks up Coninx's latest for Belgium and Netherlands
Warner Bros PicturesInternational has acquired Belgian director Stijn Coninx's family drama VerderDan De Maan (Sea Of Silence) for distribution in the Netherlands and Belgium.Set against the backdrop ofthe 1960s Space Race, Verder Dan De Maan follows the spiritual and emotionaljourney of a nine-year-old girl and her father.Coninx, whose creditsinclude Hector, ...
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German indies win distribution funding
Theatrical distributors X Verleih, Salzgeber & Co Medien and Alamode Film have been awarded prizes worth Euros 100,000 each to invest in distribution campaigns for German and other European films.Each of the companies was awarded the special distributor prize by German culture minister Christina Weiss in recognition of "their special ...