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Reviews
The Messengers
Dirs: Oxide and Danny Pang. US. 2007. 91mins. The studio debut of the gifted horror specialists Oxide and Danny Pang (The Eye , Bangkok Dangerous), The Messengers is a visually assured though dramatically flat ghost story about an endangered American family unaware their just purchased North Dakota farmhouse harbors a ...
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News
Brussels approves Vizzavi portal, with conditions
The European Commission's competition division has given its blessing to the establishment of Vizzavi, the multi-platform Internet portal launched last month by Vivendi and mobile phone group Vodafone Airtouch. However, approval came with conditions.The success of the portal is key to the proposed merger between Canal Plus, Vivendi and Seagram ...
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Features
Editorial - Screen says Looping the loop
ScreenDaily.com this week reported that Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media is teaming up with Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking to co-finance approximately 45 films from an as-yet-unnamed Hollywood studio over the next five years. Following the parameters of recent co-financing equity structures with Hollywood, as much as $1.1bn could be invested ...
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Features
Film finance - A question of duty
Pierre Drouot is a worried and angry man. The director of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund fears that the work of 20 years' hard lobbying for a Belgian tax shelter to support film finance may soon be killed off. And he believes he has identified the culprits responsible."The analysis is very ...
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Features
In focus - Screen conference - Sunshine states
Screen International is hosting a conference covering all aspects of film financing, from private equity to state tax breaks.Among the speakers will be Ryan Kavanaugh whose Relativity Media this week announced a monster deal, co-financing 45 films from an unnamed studio.There are also speakers on the tax breaks that have ...
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Features
United States/Denmark - Lit Fuse
In the 10 years since he moved from his native Denmark to Los Angeles, Mikkel Bondesen has established himself in the competitive world of management and expanded into film and TV production.Fuse Entertainment, the literary management company he launched in 2004, has a list of writer clients including Josh Schwartz ...
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United states/Europe - Water works
For Mark Horowitz and Andras Hamori, the recently launched international sales and co-production arm of H2O Motion Pictures is part new venture, part professional reunion.The two executives previously worked together in the late 1990s, when Hamori was president of the Alliance Pictures production operation and Horowitz served as president of ...
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Features
Spain - Saints above
Like The Da Vinci Code before it, Ray Loriga's Teresa (Teresa, El Cuerpo De Cristo) has drawn the ire of the Catholic Church from Madrid to London before the film - which stars Spanish siren Paz Vega as the 16th century saint - has even premiered.Controversy, says writer-director Loriga, "is ...
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Czech Republic/Poland - Ay Karamazov!
Numerous directors have filmed Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, most notably Richard Brooks in 1958 and Russians Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov in a 1969 joint effort. Now Czech director Petr Zelenka (Wrong Side Up, Year Of The Devil) thinks the novel's time has come again."It's quite a thrilling ...
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Features
Sony fills key posts
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has named Adrian Alperovich as senior executive vice-president and general manager, and hired former Momentum VP of acquisitions Lara Thompson as senior vice-president of acquisitions. Scott Shooman has been promoted to executive director of acquisitions, and Lia Buman has joined as director of acquisitions.
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Features
Participant social action role for Schreiber
Participant Productions has hired event producer John Schreiber in the newly created position of executive vice-president of social action and advocacy.
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Features
Furst and Kessel move to Starz's Overture
Sean Furst and Robert Kessel have been appointed executive vice-presidents of productions and acquisitions at Starz's new theatrical division Overture Films. Furst's brother Bryan arrives as senior vice-president of productions and acquisitions.
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News
Carlton names new boss as UK TV battle begins
Thanksgiving records collapsed over the five-day holiday weekend led by the phenomenal holdover success of Universal Pictures' Dr Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas. The family adventure took an estimated $73.8m from Wednesday to Sunday - about $52.4m over the Friday to Sunday period - bringing its ten day total ...
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Features
Fukuda tapped by NBC Universal in Tokyo
NBC Universal International has named Taichi Fukuda as managing director, Japan Representative, to be based in Tokyo. He will work with divisions including the home-entertainment arm Universal Pictures Japan, TV and New Media Distribution, Mobile Entertainment and Cnbc.Fox promotes Echeverria Eduardo Echeverria has been promoted to executive vice-president of Latin ...
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Features
Film Movement promotes Gartenstein
Adley Gartenstein has been promoted to president at distributor Film Movement. Stuart Litman, who previously held the role, will continue as CEO of the business.
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Kasell leaves Hamptons
Hamptons International Film Festival executive director Denise Kasell is leaving her post after nine years. Artistic director Rajendra Roy remains in place.
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Features
Burton joins Bradley's Indievest launch
Wade H Bradley, CEO and founder of film financing outfit IndieVest, has launched production and distribution house IndieVest Pictures and hired Mark Burton as head of production.
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United Kingdom - Banking on sales
Like many producers, Phil Hunt of Head Gear Films had ambitions to expand into other areas of the business. "I knew in-house sales was a good idea, it was just a question of finding the right people to partner with," Hunt says. "There aren't that many good sales agents out ...
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United Kingdom - Who's the daddy'
Eight months ago, Anand Tucker had every reason to be disillusioned with the movie business. He had been preparing New Line's fantasy epic The Golden Compass for 18 months and then left the project abruptly due to "creative differences".Producer Stephen Woolley immediately called to entice him on board And When ...
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Foreign Language Films - And then there were five
In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for the first time unveiled a shortlist of nine films for the foreign-language film category, a week before the nominations were announced. Some 61 films were submitted in October 2006, nine were shortlisted and the final five were announced on ...