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Downtown Pictures, the UK distributor of Spike Lee s Summer Of Sam and Bill Condon s Gods And Monsters, has signed an exclusive output deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM for DVD and video sell-through titles in the UK.The deal also requires Downtown to identify and acquire product for MGM in the UK. The first three theatrical pictures to be go through the pact are Gods And Monsters, Final Cu stanley cup t and Orphans.Downtown last year struck a video rental pact with Pathe. The partners have released Orphans, Loved, Left Luggage and Gods And Monsters through the deal.Gods stanley cup And Monsters, for which Condon won an Academy Award for best screenplay based on material from another medium, stars Ian McKellen as Hollywood director James Whale. Final Cut stars Britpack actors Ray stanley cup Winstone, Sadie Frost and Jude Law, while Orphans marks the directing debut of UK actor Peter Mullan. No comments No comments yet You re not signed in. Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this article. Sign in Register Mzty Giovanna s Father (Il Papa di Giovanna)
Roskino and Russian Cinema Fund to make presentations.Russian cinema will be represented by not one, but two stands at the March茅 du Film much to the bewilderment of some in the industry.While Roskino, the successor to the former state film organisation Sovexportfilm, is the official organiser of the Russian Pavilion with support from the Ministries of Culture and Foreign Affairs, the Russian Cinema Fund is backing the Russian Cinema stand in the Festival Palais.Both initiatives will be having presentations of extracts from completed films or works in progress to sales agents, distributors and festival programmers.Roskinos line-up on May 17 will include Natalia Meshaninovas The Hope Factory [pictured], Igor Voloshins Moscow-Russia Express, the documentary Rudolf Nureyev. A Rebel Demon, and Sergei Dvortsevoys My Little One, co-produced by the late Karl Baumgartner.The Russian Cinema Fund will follow three days later 鈥?on May 20 - with its ownshowcase of 19 projects at various stages of production, from shooting through post-production to completed titles.They include the melodrama Two Women, starring Ralph Fiennes and Sylvie Testud and sold internationally by Rezo Films, as well as Bazelevs comedy sequel Yolki 1914, Enjoy Movies horror thriller Bathory, Russian World Visions sci-fi adventure Fort Ross and Sovteleexports biopic The Iron Ivan.In addition to a series of s stanley cup pecial events and roundtables, Roskino is also giving Russian producers to pitch new projects stanley canada to potent stanley romania ial co- |
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