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24 Feb 2011
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Bankside's hot deals on You Instead include Icon taking UK
David Mackenzie’s romantic comedy, set at a music festival, has its world premiere tonight in Glasgow before heading to SXSW next month. -
Black and Blue re-teams with Press On for thriller Airborne
Dominic Burns’ thriller stars Gemma Atkinson in the story of an evil force on an airliner. -
Dublin's audience award goes to documentary Benda Bilili!
Career achievement prizes given to Martin Sheen, Kevin Brownlow, and Francois Ozon. -
Festival Scope adds dozens of Berlinale titles
Selections available at online viewing platform include award-winners Absent, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Heaven’s Story, Invisible, and Barzakh. -
Finnish hit Niko getting a $10m sequel
Niko - the Finnish, CGI-animated young reindeer – will ride again, trying to repeat Finland’s biggest iinternational success.The Finnish Film Foundation has chipped in $1.1m (€800,000) for the production of Niko 2, which Finnish director Kari Juusonen will shoot on a record $10.2 million (€ 7.4 million) budget from a script by Hannu Tuomainen and Marteinn Thorisson.Produced by Petteri Pasanen and Tuomainen, for Finland’s Animaker, backed by Finnish state broadcaster YLE -
French film star Annie Girardot dies at 79
Beloved French actress Annie Girardot, aged 79, died Monday after years of living with Alzheimer’s disease. -
Gary Winick: Ahead of his time
Colin Brown pays tribute to director and digital filmmaking pioneer Gary Winick, who pioneered ‘open-source filmmaking’ at InDigEnt. -
Glasgow fest closes with The Eagle; attendance up 10%
The Eagle, directed by Glasgow-born Kevin Macdonald, was the closing night gala Sunday night for the growing Glasgow Film Festival. -
Glasgow Film Festival 2011
The Glasgow Film Festival ran Feb 17-27 with more than 250 screenings and events. See separate gallery for the world premiere of David Mackenzie’s You Instead at GFF. -
Huayi Brothers unveils 9-film slate including Jet Li project Tai Chi
Jackie Chan to direct action adventure Chinese Zodiac and Tsui Hark plans Detective Dee sequel. -
Italian government approves continuation of film tax incentives
Second passage of incentive for cinema will remain active through 2013. -
King's Speech: BFI gets king’s ransom?
The UK Film Council invested £1 million ($1.6 million) in The King’s Speech through its now defunct Premiere Fund (then run by Sally Caplan) and is believed to have a net profit position as high as 34% in the film. -
LA celebrates British Oscar nominees
The King’s Speech Academy Award winning director Tom Hooper, Oscar winning producer Iain Canning and nominee Helena Bonham Carter attended an event in Los Angeles to celebrate British Oscar nominees last week. -
LFF opens tender for press/PR pitches
The BFI London Film Festival has opened its press and PR tender for PR agencies to pitch for the contract(s) for the 2011 festival. -
Oscar winner Susanne Bier heads to Italy for All You Need Is Love
Fresh off her awards season success, Oscar winning Danish director Susanne Bier is heading to Italy to shoot her next film, which the director says will take a lighter, more comic tone than her intense drama In A Better World. -
Studios could ramp up Russian production as economy recovers
The Hollywood studios are considering ramping up their activities in Russia amid the recovery of the local film industry from the effects of the recession and the ever-growing local box office. -
Swedish Film Institute backs new feature about Politskovskaya's assassination
Marina Goldovskaya’s fictional feature debut, A Bitter Taste of Freedom, will be made with Swedish director Malcolm Dixelius. -
Telepool handling sales for first film from Cinema Jenin
Munich-based Telepool is handling international sales on the documentary After The Silence, which is the first film project to be supported by the German-Palestinian initiative Cinema Jenin.Produced by Marcus Vetter, the director of the award-winning The Heart of Jenin, After The Silence has been direct -
You Instead premiere and Sigma Films anniversary party
Glasgow-based production company Sigma Films celebrated its 15th anniversary and the world premiere of David Mackenzie’s You Instead on February 25.
