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Askin promoted to VP, worldwide sales at Pandora
Shebnem Askin has been promoted to executive vice-president, worldwide sales, at Pandora; she was previously senior vice president at the company. Askin joined Pandora three years ago in Paris, working with Ernst Goldschmidt, before relocating to Los Angeles when Pandora was taken over by Gaylord Entertainment. Since then, she ...
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Avrio handles Rave MacBeth sales for North America
Canadian entertainment outfit Avrio Filmworks has closed a deal to become the exclusive North American sales agent for Rave MacBeth, a modernisation of Shakespeare's Macbeth set entirely at a race and starring Michael Rosenbaum, star of TV's Smallville. The film was previously represented by the now defunct 310 Entertainment.
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Sales vet Davis goes it alone for Lipsticking It, Sea Devils
Sales and marketing veteran Chris Davis has struck out on his own to represent two new projects - adventure comedy Lipsticking It and WWII thriller Sea Devils. In the former, two unrelated women who have been duped by their lovers hook up to take their revenge, while the latter, written ...
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Highlight to buy 23% of Constantin from Kirch
Swiss rights trader Highlight Communications has revealed that it is close to finalising a deal to buy 23% of German distributor-producer Constantin Film from KirchGroup's KirchBeteiligung unit.In a statement, Highlight said that the cash and shares deal, which was worth some $30m, would be completed in the next few days. ...
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Tequila Gang takes Lost In La Mancha to Cannes
The Tequila Gang, the London/Mexico City-based production and distribution entity founded by founded by Mexico's Guillermo del Toro, Bertha Navarro, Laura Esquivel, Alejandra Moreno Toscano and London-based Rosa Bosch will be presenting Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's documentary Lost In La Mancha to buyers at the Cannes film market. ...
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Tequila Gang takes Lost In La Mancha to Cannes
The Tequila Gang, the London/Mexico City-based production and distribution entity founded by founded by Mexico's Guillermo del Toro, Bertha Navarro, Laura Esquivel, Alejandra Moreno Toscano and London-based Rosa Bosch will be presenting Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's documentary Lost In La Mancha to buyers at the Cannes film market. ...
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Berlinale names Eastern European delegate
The Berlin International Film Festival has named Nikolaj Nikitin, editor-in-chief and publisher of the film magazine Schnitt as its new foreign delegate for Eastern Europe, covering: Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. Nikitin will advise the Film Festival in the selection of films ...
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Harry Potter video release becomes fastest-selling title in the UK
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone has become the UK's fastest-selling release on video and DVD, with 1.25 million copies being snapped up within 24 hours of going on release on May 11.The previous record was held by Titanic, with first-day sales of 1.1 million. Warner Bros home video has ...
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International buyers are hot for Son Of The Bride
Oscar nominated Argentine film Son Of The Bride (El Hijo De La Novia), currently on limited release in the US via Sony Pictures Classics (SPC), has already been sold to a slew of territories prior to its world market premiere at Cannes. Neil Friedman's LA-based Menemsha Entertainment which acquired international ...
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Justice to head Invicta co-production division
Independent producer Matthew Justice is to become full-time head of Invicta Filmworks, the co-production offshoot of UK finance firm Invicta Capital. Justice, whose producing credits include The Last Minute, Blade and Death Machine, has been consulting for Invicta since October last year. "Aside from my work on co-productions through Invicta ...
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Market share imbalances revealed across pan-Asian cinema industry
A new report focusing on exhibition and distribution over the last five years has revealed some surprising contradictions in the make-up of the 18 cinema markets analysed across Asia, the Pacific Rim, Middle East and Africa.The research, by media publication, Screen Digest, reports that while total cinema admissions for the ...
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Polish director adapts Vinterberg's Festen for the stage
Thomas Vinterberg's powerful Dogme95 feature Festen/The Celebration has been adapted for the stage by hot young Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna.Having achieved widespread acclaim in Europe, the production heads for London's Sadler's Wells in October.
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Vampires to travel most of the world with Columbia TriStar
The Era Of Vampires, Fortissimo Films Sales' (FFS) first venture into Hong Kong film production has been sold to Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group for worldwide distribution, excluding Italy, Singapore, Malaysia and some smaller territories.The $3m actioner, (pictured) which was shot on locations throughout China, was produced by Hong Kong ...
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Sex-scandal priest drama acquired by Columbia TriStar Mexico
A topical and controversial story of a priest involved in a sex scandal has been acquired by Columbia TriStar Mexico. Carlos Carrera's El Crimen Del Padre Amaro, starring Mexico's fast-rising star Gael Garcia Bernal (Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Motorcycle Diaries) sold all Mexican rights, with a first option ...
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Brazil softens foreign pay-TV tax regulations
Brazil's Senate approved yesterday a more palatable version of new rules imposing taxes on foreign pay TV programmers, following a congressional nod last week. However, the original proposed regulations on new taxes and fees on film studios remain unchanged.Studios face an 11 percent tax on remittances and ...
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Cannes Critics Week selection announced
"More accessible," "less cerebral," are the watchwords used by chief selector Claire Clouzot to describe the line-up for the Critics' Week section at Cannes.The section will open with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Spanish thriller Intacto, in which every character is the pawn of another. It premiered at Sundance and has already ...
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NuVision launches distribution division in Argentina
Latin American regional distributor NuVision has launched its own distribution arm in Argentina. It will continue its sub-distribution deal with local partners In the rest of the region. According to NuVision director Pedro Rodriguez, NuVision parent company, giant live entertainment conglomerate CIE, owns radio stations in Argentina which will provide ...
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Cannes 2002: all the films in Official Selection
2002 CANNES COMPETITION, UN CERTAIN REGARD, SHORTS AND SPECIAL SCREENINGSCannes official selection listOpening film - out of competitionHollywood Ending Dir: Woody Allen (US)Closing film - out of competitionAnd Now Ladies And Gentlemen' Dir: Claude Lelouch (Fr)CompetitionPunch Drunk Love Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson (US)The Hour ...
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First titles in Cannes Directors' Fortnight announced
The selection committee of the 34th Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Realisateurs ) section of the Cannes film festival has announced a partial line-up of titles.Abouna - Mahamat-Saleh Haroum - Chad / France (world premiere)Angela - Roberta Torre - ItalyBibo Breviarium (Istvan Bibo, fragments) - Peter Forgacs - Hungary (international premiere)Blue ...
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French cinema admissions fall 4% in 1st quarter
For the first time in ages, the buoyant French theatrical market has slowed down. In March cinema admissions amounted to 15.1 million, some 16% down on the same month last year. That held the first quarter total to 54 million, a drop of 4% compared to the January-March period ...