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Howard to receive Musuem of Moving Image salute
Ron Howard will be honoured by New York's Museum of the Moving Image atits 21st annual black tie salute on Dec 4, when friends andcolleagues will present highlight footage from the filmmaker's career."Ron Howard has played an essential role in the world of the moving image since he was a ...
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Sales execs board Chartier and Devlin's Voltage Pictures
Nadine de Barros and EricChristenson have joined Nicolas Chartier and Dean Devlin's fledgling sales andfinancing outfit Voltage Pictures as sales executives.The former Crystal Sky and Tentpole Pictures executives come aboard as Voltageheads into its first Cannes market with a strong slate of titles boasting suchtalent as Julie Delpy, Elisha Cuthbert, ...
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Cheung steps up in Celestial hierarchy
Hong Kong's CelestialPictures has promoted international sales chief Gordon Cheung to the newposition of executive vice president, acquisitions & distribution. In his new role, Cheung willoversee Celestial's new movie productions, content acquisition and thedistribution of new film content. The company, which owns and distributes the760-title Shaw Brothers library, is currently ...
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Senator first up for Roth slate
Germany's Senator Film has become the first international distributor to sign up to the highly anticipated package of studio-level films being put together by former Disney chief Joe Roth. The five-year deal initially gives Senator all media rights in all German-speaking territories. It is promised a minimum of six films ...
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Tax financier Scope widens Euro goals
Aggressive new Belgiantax-based financier Scope Invest has boarded a new slate of French-languageBelgian films led by Benoit Mariage's new untitled comedy starring BenoitPoolevoorde, set for an October shoot, and Philppe Le Guay's Du Jours AuLendemain, also featuringPoolevoorde.Meanwhile, Scope is readyto board Jan Verheyen's Gilles, a remake of Dutch family film ...
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Tequila Gang, Media ready first-time trio
Mexican production companyTequila Gang has joined with Spain's Media Films, the new production divisionof distributor Manga Films, to co-produce three feature films from first-timewomen directors.First up is CosasInsignificantes (Insignificant Things)by director Andrea Martinez, set to shoot next January in Mexico with probableleads Federico Luppi, Daniel Gimenez Cacho and Dolores Heredia. ...
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Positive response for Korea's Antarctic Journal at Jeonju
Antarctic Journal, a large-scale Korean mystery thriller set in theAntarctic Circle, provided a high profile close to the sixth JeonjuInternational Film Festival on May 6. The film receives its market premiere viaMirovision in the upcoming Cannes market.Shot in New Zealand, Journal focuses on an expedition to the South Pole thatveers ...
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Shoreline bulks up Cannes slate with seven new titles
Morris Ruskin's LosAngeles-based sales company Shoreline Entertainment has bulked up its Cannesslate with seven new titles.Heading up the roster isJacob Gentry's adventure-romance Last Goodbye starring Faye Dunaway, anadaptation of Patrick Kaye's novel that also stars David Carradine and will bereleased through Warner Brothers Home Video in North America.Other titles include ...
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Fortissimo Mob-ilises triad drama
Fortissimo Films has pickedup international rights (excluding Southeast Asia) to triad thriller MobSister, directed by one of HongKong's hottest new directors, Wong Ching Po. Produced by Hong Kong'sFilmko Entertainment, the film tells the story of an innocent 16-year-old girlwho gets sucked into the world of gang wars and power struggles. ...
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High Point Gay in Amsterdam with Van Gogh
UK sales agent High Pointhas taken over international sales duties on Tom Six's Gay In Amsterdam, billed as the first ever drama to investigate indepth the thriving gay scene in the Netherlands' most vibrant city. HighPoint has also taken rights to the last two films by controversial filmmakerTheo Van Gogh, ...
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Latido bangs Cuba drum
Sales consortium Latido haspicked up worldwide rights to Viva Cuba the second film from director Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, whose debutfeature Nada+ premiered in theQuinzaine in 2002.A fable-like story of twochildren who run away from home, Viva Cuba is the first production from Nicolas Duval and Eric Brach's Quad, the ...
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The Longest Penalty In The World (El Penalti Mas Largo Del Mundo)
Dir. Roberto Santiago.Sp. 2005. 101mins.A very local comedy withstrong remake potential, The Longest Penalty In The World has provedthis year's Spanish box office hit to date taking more than $6.5m.Although perhaps tooanchored in Madrid to travel past Spanish-language territories, that'sconversely Penalty's greatest strength - this could be remade more thanonce ...
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Kusturica spells out judging criteria for Cannes festival
The Cannes competition titles will be judged on purelyaesthetic grounds rather than box-office potential, said jury president EmirKusturica. It's astatement that sets the tone for this year's genre-focussed and auteur-richfestival. Kusturica promised the festival would "hit the heights" by going backto the value judgements that he says have marked out ...
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Gladiator marches into Australia, Mexico
Ridley Scott's highly anticipated film Gladiator thrashed Australian competition when it reported its opening four-day gross May 4-7. The Roman epic became the fourth highest opening film ever in the territory marginally beating The Lost World: Jurassic Park distributed in May 1997. Playing on 287 screens, the UIP release scooped ...
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...as Weinsteins ride with Capitol Films' Stormbreaker
Bob and Harvey Weinstein are back in the spy kids business, with TheWeinstein Company taking North American rights to Stormbreaker, based on Anthony Horowitz's popular novels about reluctant14-year-old superspy Alex Rider.Capitol Films is sellinginternational rights to the $40m film, which has received hefty (£2.3 million)backing from the UK Film Council's ...
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Darin flies in for Fairy role with Tornasol
Hot Argentinean actor RicardoDarin is to star in Spanish director Jose Luis Cuerda's The Education Of AFairy for producer Tornasol Films.Darin, who has achievedinternational recognition in films such as Nine Queens, Son Of TheBride, Kamchatka and Avelleneda's Moon, will play a man whose lifeis turned upside down when the woman ...
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Japan's Toshiba snaps up Lady Chatterley
French sales company FilmsDistribution has sold its Lady Chatterley to Japan's Toshiba on day one of the Cannes Market.The Pascal Ferran-directedfilm is an adaptation of DH Lawrence's classic, racy novel. Marina Hands stars in the eponymousrole with Jean-Louis Coulloc'h and Hippolyte Girardot.Films Distribution ishandling a pedigree slate which includes ...
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UGC confirms closure of UK distribution arm
Following the sell-off of its UK exhibition circuit in Dec 2004, Frenchmajor UGC has confirmed that it is closing its UK distribution outfit UGC FilmsUK. UGC chief executive Alain Sussfeld has confirmed that plans are underwayto "progressively stop" the company's operations.The three-and-a-half-year-old company run by Louisa Dent and Emma Daviehad ...
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O'Toole, Morton run with Sturridge's Lassie
Peter O'Toole and SamanthaMorton have signed up to head the all-star cast for Charles Sturridge's new Lassie movie, due to shoot later this month in Ireland andthe Isle of Man.Also helping revive thelegendary franchise are Peter Dinklage (The Station Agent), John Lynch, Jemma Redgrave, Steve Pembridge andGregor Fisher.Entertainment FilmDistributors will ...
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Rezo sales arm makes Croisette debut with Countdown
Rezo Films International, the sales arm of French producer-distributorRezo Films, is hitting its first Cannes market with Russian action title Countdown.Budgeted at $12 million and tipped as an action blockbuster, Countdownisdirected by Evgeny Lavrentiev and has already taken $6 million at the Russianbox office. Starring Alexey Makarov, Louise Lombard and ...