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AFM deals in brief
Media Asia unveiled the first sales on Korea Raiders, Jingle Ma's big-budget comedy action sequelto Tokyo Raider. The film wassold to GSC for Malaysia and Shaw Renters for Singapore. Meanwhile, Media Asiaalso sold A World Without Thieves,a gangster film by popular Chinese director Feng Xiaogang, to ComstockOrganisation for Japan, GSC ...
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UK Film Focus sets 2005 dates
The UK's mini-market London UK Film Focus will returnnext year between June 27 and 30 June at the National Film Theatre after a 2004edition which attracted 180 buyers.The event is backed by Film London, UK Film Council, FilmExport UK (FEUK), the London Development Agency through Creative London, UKTrade and Investment, ...
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Zinc, GRB expand alliance
Zinc Entertainment, adivision of Silver Pictures, and GRB Entertainment have expanded their existingalliance by agreeing to co-produce and distribute five television movies overthe next two years.The first two projects, TheForerunner and Body Armor, will be available this year's AFM, where GRB istaking a suite for the first time.All TV movies ...
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Clarification: Shark Tale box office figures
Due to the All Saints Day holiday in many internationalterritories on Monday November 1, certain territories did not report figuresfor the weekend Oct 29-31 on UIP's Shark Tale.At time of posting the international chart and commentary ScreenInternational/ScreenDaily.com had not beenmade aware that figures were omitted for the weekend on Shark ...
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Sutherland prize shortlists three films for Trophy
Threefilms have been shortlisted for the British Film Institute (bfi)'s SutherlandTrophy.Selectedby a jury from ten nominated titles, the shortlist comprises Innocence,a haunting story of a girls' school from French director Lucile Hadsihalilovic;Tarnation, a psychedelic memoir from American director JonathanCaouette; and Thirst, an account of isolation and struggle byPalestinian director Tawfik ...
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Jeunet linked to Harry Potter 5
AVery Long Engagement director Jean-Pierre Jeunet says he has beenapproached as a possible director for the fifth Harry Potter movie.Askedin an interview with Empire magazine whether he had been approached,Jeunet said: "They proposed me something like this, yes."Potter producer David Heyman told ScreenDaily.com that "nodecision had yet been made" about ...
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Dead Man's Shoes leads BIFA contenders
The British Independent Film Award (BIFA) nominations wereannounced today, with Shane Meadows' DeadMan's Shoes leading the field with eight nominations, closely followed byMike Leigh's Vera Drake with seven nods including Best Actress for ImeldaStaunton.Other strong contenders include Pawel Pawlikoski's My Summer Of Love; Kevin Macdonald's Touching The Void and Shaun ...
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Allen's Melinda to open Stockholm
Woody Allen's Melinda & Melinda has replaced Oliver Stone's Alexander as the opening film of the Stockholm InternationalFilm Festival on Nov 18.The move follows the decision to move the US opening of Alexander from the beginning of November to November 24.Stone will now arrive in Stockholm on November 25, where ...
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Warsaw fetes Iranian City
20th Warsaw International Film Festival closed on Monday,October 18, with the premiere of the French film Comme Une Image by Agnes Jaoui.Featuring 110 films from 38 countries, the 2004 editionrecorded an audience total of more than 73,000.Fourteen films screened in competition, evaluated by a Jurycomprising Fridrik Thor Fridriksson (chair), Mirjam ...
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Benelux exhibitors set standard for industry growth
Led by the Netherlands, one of the few European cinemamarkets to show growth in 2003, leading exhibitors in the Benelux regionreported improved financial results in the most recent period according to anew report from industry analysts, Dodona Research.Pan-Europeanexhibitor, Kinepolis Group, with 124 screens in Belgium, recorded a profit forthe first ...
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Bugs! wins Large Format prize at Wildscreen
UKIMAX picture Bugs! has won the Panda Award for Best Large Format Film at theUK's Wildscreen Festival, the Oscars of the wildlife film world.Theaward comes as Bugs! heads towards the $20m worldwide box office grossmark, having completed its run in only 34 of the 104 IMAX theatres that have sofar ...
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Nobody wins Grand Prize at Ghent
During the 31st edition of the Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent, the film Nobody Knows (Daremo Shiranai) by Japanese filmmaker Kore-EdaHirozaku, who has already achieved international recognition with After Life, was awarded the Grand Prizefor Best Film, which carries an award of Euros 25,000 towards distribution.The international jury announced ...
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Curtis, Morgernstern set for Holocaust tale
Hollywood legendTony Curtis and Maia Morgenstern are to star in Atlantic Alliance Pictures andHeritage Pictures' Holocaust story Love Is A Survivor.Directed by byPhilip Saville, production is set to begin February 15, 2005 in Budapest,Hungary.Love Is ASurvivor is billed as amajor holocaust film with a love story as its central theme. ...
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Archbishop wins Eurimages funding
Zoltan Kamondi's TheArchbishop's Visit has received Euros 430,000 in funding from support bodyEurimages.The film is a Hungarian, Italian andRomanian co-production between Honeymood Films/Focus Film, Gam Film and MediaPro Pictures. Its full budget runs to $4.4m.Set construction is already underway inRomania with principal photography scheduled to start in November and tocontinue ...
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Soda Pictures buys UK for Head-On, Brothers
Soda Pictures has acquired the UK/Eire distribution rightsto Fatih Akin's Berlin winner Head-On and Susanne Bier's San Sebastianprize winner Brothers. Both films will premiere in the UK at the LondonFilm Festival later this month.Soda Pictures plans to release Head-On in the UK on 18 February 2005 andBrothers in early spring.Soda ...
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Eldridge named as UK's First Light chief executive
Pip Eldridge has beenappointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of First Light, the UK's youngfilmmaking programme.Using £1 million a year ofthe UK Film Council's share of National Lottery proceeds, First Light enablesyoung people between the ages of 5 to 18 to make short films under the guidanceof professional filmmakers, ...
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Warner strikes package deal with TV Channel Russia
Warner Bros. International Television Distribution hassigned an exclusive, multi-year free television deal with Russia's statebroadcaster TV Channel Russia (formerly called RTR).The deal sees TV Channel Russia get the terrestrialtelevision rights to a slate of current and upcoming feature films, including HarryPotter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Matrix Revolutions, Troy, ...
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Horley named head of sales at Lumina Films
Samantha Horley has beenappointed head of sales at international sales outfit Lumina Films, which willnow base its operations in LondonHorley takes over fromMarina Fuentes who will remain as a consultant, focusing on production, basedin Madrid.Horley was formerly seniorVP distribution at Myriad Pictures, VP sales at Summit Entertainment and priorto that, ...
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NY tax credit lures Producers to Brooklyn mega-studio
Mel Brooks' $45-$50m musicalrevival of his 1968 classic The Producers will become the first major film production to shoot at New York'sgigantic new Steiner Studios, the purpose-built studio backlot about to openacross 15 acres of former shipbuilding yards on the Brooklyn waterfront.Steiner owes its success inenticing the movie version of ...
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ACE to debate building production businesses in UK
"Why is the UK such a difficult place to builda production business'" is the question at the heart of a one day seminar "ShowBusiness or No Business'" being organised by the Ateliers du Cinema Europeen(ACE) next month (Oct 15) in London.ACE argues that UK producers find it uniquelydifficult to retain ...