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Leading Japanese independent film distributor Asmik Ace Entertainment, publisher Kadokawa Shoten Publishing and Kadokawa Holdings and have jointly launched a video DVD di
stanley uk stribution unit.With capital of $83,000 Yen 10m funded entirely by Kadokawa Holdings, Kadokawa
stanley cup Entertainment will distribute video and DVDs of all the films and TV programmes produced by the Kadokawa group, which have been handled by the other distributors until now.Kadokawa-Daiei currently owns over 1600 film
stanley cup titles produced under the Daiei label. Among them are the Zatoichi series, starting with the 1962 hit period drama about the adventure of a blind masseur turned master swordsman that Takeshi Kitano remade last year, the 1960s Daimajin series about a giant stone samurai, and Takashi Miike s new shocker You ve Got A Call.Kadokawa Shoten Publishing also owns over 100 film titles, including Yoshimitsu Morita s Paradise Lost, a 1997 hit about an adulterous affair. The new company is also releasing foreign titles to which Asmik Ace owns the distribution and video DVD rights, including The Hours and Adaptation.Kadokawa Entertainment plans to release about 40 video DVD titles per year. Under the president Yasushi Shiina, the current Asmik Ace president, the new company will start operations in April and aims to achieve $41.6m sales in its first fiscal year and $166.6m in three years.Kadokawa Shoten took over Daiei, once a major studio, from game maker Namco in 2002 and merged it with its own Sfds ITV renews NBC Universal film deal
The Kodak NPP Development Prize of 5,000 euros was presented on Saturday night to the project Milo written and to be directed by Berend and Roel Boorsma and produced by San Fu Maltha of Fu Works. The award was announced at a dinner to conclude the Netherlands Production Platform
stanley uk NPP which presented 22 projects in development, both Dutch scripts to the international film industry and viable non-Dutch projects to Dutch producers.The jury for the prize consisted of Louis Machado, Netherlands manager for Kodak Cinema Television, Marten Rabarts, art
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stanley cup , Sonja Hienen, head of the Berlinale Co-Production Market and Frans Afman, chairman of the board of the Netherlands Film Festival.The Boorsma brothers are both established music video and commercials directors and graduates of the script development and director coaching programmes of Binger Filmlab. They began developing Milo at Binger in 2006Milo, which they wrote with Heather Imani, is the story of a boy who suffers from hypertrichosis, a rare disease causing excessive hair growth on his face and body. His parents submit him to regular shavings and waxings, but when he is kidnapped by two elderly robbers, he is forced to confront his appearance.The jury also commended another project Without Limits being produced by Michael John Fedun and Ivo Noorlander and directed by Hanro Smitsman. It is the story of a motiveless murder within a group of schoolfriends.NPP and the Benelux Screenings are part
