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United states - Taste of Freestyle
With deep roots in the not-so-glamorous world of independent theatrical distribution - and headquarters in laid-back Malibu rather than swanky Beverly Hills - Freestyle Releasing has always had a relatively low profile.But over time, says president and co-founder Mark Borde, "we've put together a studio-style distribution company," whose team of ...
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United states - Financial Fusion
The name Cold Fusion Media Group suggests that in the tricky business of film finance the seemingly impossible may sometimes be possible. The company's business plan, meanwhile, focuses on the practicalities of financing and facilitating lower-budget independent production.Launched last autumn by CEO Michael Roban, the two-man Los Angeles-based operation reflects ...
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Feeling Bullish
Nigel Thomas has a disarmingly straightforward explanation of Matador Pictures' guiding philosophy. "The core of the business is making quality feature films that we want to see ourselves," he claims. "If we wouldn't go see that film, we won't make it."It is a philosophy that has proved highly effective so ...
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United Kingdom - Shot In The Dark
Mark Tonderai says the biggest thing he learned when shooting his directorial feature debut Hush was to "never, ever shoot at night unless you absolutely have to".The psychological thriller, written and directed by the former BBC Radio 1 DJ, was shot entirely at night along the M1 motorway in northern ...
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Chinese distribution- Unplugging the Pirates
Five years ago, Guo Yuezhou, the CEO of Zoke Culture, China's leading video/DVD distributor, was inundated with requests from his friends for free DVDs of new films.But in the past few years, the requests have dried up. These days his friends are using the internet to watch movies, both illegally ...
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Distribution - Mobile distribution - Opening the cell door
While ringtones, text, picture messages and music are the most widely used entertainment services among China's 500 million mobile-telephone users, visual and filmed content is catching up fast. By the end of 2007, 50.4 million mobile-phone owners had access to the internet via their mobile phones.China's two telecoms carriers, China ...
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Imax pacts with E-Citi to build theatres in India
Imax Corporation has signed an agreement with India's E-Citi Entertainment, a subsidiary of the ESSEL Group of Industries, to open a minimum of six IMAX theatres in India over the next four years. The deal includes an option to build up to 20 theatres in family entertainment centres which E-Citi ...
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Distribution - Japan - Content on the move
In Japan, cable TV and satellite are still small markets. Japanese audiences watch the big five networks en masse, rented more than 25 million DVDs last year (the preferred way to watch US TV shows such as 24) and go to the cinema - in that order. The VoD market, ...
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Exhibition - Putting the multi into multiplex
Last month, in the Welsh town of Holyhead, the only cinema closed its doors after 80 years. People were still going to the movies but - thanks to the recent introduction of a UK smoking ban - not enough people were going to the cinema's bingo nights to keep the ...
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Exhibition - Cinema advertising in the digital age - Point of sale
The cinema advertising business is getting ready for prime time. A television term in reference to cinema' It may not seem apt but the market is heading in that direction. The roll-out of digital projection worldwide could create a single global living room, and with it opportunities for brands to ...
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International - Turkey struts in
Turkish film Recep Ivedik was the surprise big hitter in the international arena this weekend, generating $5.1m from just 230 screens in its home territory and catapulting it into the top 10.It boasted easily the highest screen average, at $23,170 per screen, and marks the biggest opening for a Turkish ...
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The critical view - Riding microtrends
Mark J Penn is the polling analyst famous for helping Bill Clinton to re-election in 1996 by identifying 'soccer moms' - busy, smart suburban women - as a crucial, overlooked sector of the electorate.Dubbed 'the guru of small things' by The New York Times, Penn has built a career on ...
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Alison Lohman takes lead role in Raimi's Drag Me To Hell
Alison Lohman has replaced Ellen Page in Ghost House Pictures and Mandate Pictures' upcoming supernatural thriller Drag Me To Hell.Page exited the project at the weekend due to scheduling conflicts. Lohman will now star as an ambitious career woman who gets cursed by a witch.Sam Raimi will begin directing on ...
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Away From Her sweeps the board at Canada's Genie Awards
Debut filmmaker Sarah Polley wore out her boots at the 2008 Genie Awards Monday night. The director and screenwriter of Away From Her and her collaborators made their way to the podium seven times in the evening, picking up every major award including Best Picture for producers Daniel Iron, Simone ...
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TWC pacts with Bob Marley's widow for reggae biopic
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has teamed up with Rita Marley and producer Rudy Langlais on the adaptation of Marley's autobiography No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley.Production will most likely begin in the first quarter of 2009 in Jamaica and other locations in time for a late 2009 ...
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Film Source acquires Urban's Preaching To The Perverted
Alex Massis' Florida-based Film Source has acquired Stuart Urban's cult 1998 film Preaching To The Perverted.Preaching To The Perverted is an erotic romp though the underground world of British fetish clubs and tells of a computer geek who is dispatched by moral crusaders to infiltrate and gather evidence against London's ...
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New Films International extends Latin American deal with MGM
New Films International (NFI) and MGM Television Group have extended their Latin American output deal by five years.Under the deal MGM will have the right to distribute 70 films from NFI's library as well as any titles produced or acquired during the life of the agreement.The two most recent NFI ...
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Sogepaq nabs Quixote, inks pact with El Deseo
Spanish rights and distribution house Sogepaq has picked up theatrical, pay-TV and video rights in Spain on Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which began shooting Tuesday in Spain. Public broadcaster Television Espanola has free TV rights.Pathe International is handling international sales on the film which is backed ...
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Burn After Reading set for Sept 12 opening in the US
Focus Features will release Joel and Ethan Coen's upcoming comedy Burn After Reading on Sept 12.The dating gives the film prime positioning for premieres at the Venice and Toronto film festivals.George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton star in the story of an ousted CIA agent ...
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IFC picks up domestic rights to Fear(s) Of The Dark
IFC has picked up all North American rights to Fear(s) Of The Dark, a collection of nightmarish visions by six graphic artists and cartoonists.Blutch, Marie Caillou, Pierre DiSciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire and Charles Burns directed and Valerie Schermann and Christophe Jankovic produced the French-language animated film.IFC Entertainment's vice president ...