All Europe articles – Page 486
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      NewsThe Dark Knight Rises Paris premiere and press junket cancelled after US shooting
French promotional activities for new Batman film stopped following massacre at midnight screening near Denver, Colorado.
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      NewsSam Riley to play title role in Softley's Ivanhoe
UK actor Sam Riley is to play the title role in Iain Softley’s epic adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe which is being developed by Berlin-based Egoli Tossell Film New GmbH (ETF) with Spain’s Morena Films as a European co-production with partners from Belgium and the UK.
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      NewsBen Rivers and Ben Russell complete shoot for documentary A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness
The director of Two Years At Sea finishes latest film co-directed with filmmaker Ben Russell.
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      NewsUPI Russia inks distribution deal with Premium Film
UPI will handle physical distribution of eight Premium films including Jackie Chan’s Chinese Zodiac and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Stand.
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Play Poland Film Festival set for second edition in the UK, Canada and Norway
Starting in September of this year, the second Play Poland Film Festival will be held over a four-month period in a bid to promote Polish cinema abroad.
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      NewsBavaria boosts film fund for international productions
The increasing competition between the German Länder to attract film productions to their respective regions has taken on a new dimension this week with Bavaria’s introduction of a € 6m dedicated programme for international productions over the next two years .
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      NewsCineplexx acquires Planet TUS cinemas in Slovenia
Austrian exhibitor also announces new screens in Macedonia and Serbia.
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      NewsAppetite for local fare in Norway down in 2012
Norwegian films have lost 59.3% of their audience in the first half of 2012 in their home territory.
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      FeaturesExpanding Horizons
As the T-Mobile New Horizons film festival (July 19-29) kickstarts the Polish Days initiative, Marcin J Sobczak explains how government support and an emphasis on co-productions is giving the Polish film industry a stronger international standing.
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      NewsSpanish exhibitors respond to VAT increase on cinema tickets
13% increase in VAT on cinema tickets labelled a “disaster” for sector with one prediction being the closure of 70% of cinemas in Spain.
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      NewsCreative Europe, Eurimages on Ukraine's agenda
The European Union’s planned Creative Europe framework programme should be made accessible for the EU Neighbourhood countries, according to professionals from Ukraine and Moldova.
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      NewsVenice announces Orizzonti and Opera Prima juries
Orizzonti jury includes Sandra den Hamer, Jason Kliot, Nadine Labaki, Milcho Manchevski. Pierfrancesco Favino to preside.
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Emma Pemberton joins UPIE as VP international new release marketing
She joins from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
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      NewsJerry Weintraub to be honoured at Zurich Film Festival
The producer will pick up a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival, which will screen several of his films including Ocean’s 11 and The Karate Kid.
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      NewsStudioCanal acquires Hoyts, plans local productions
StudioCanal has bought successful Australia and New Zealand distributor Hoyts Distribution of the Hoyts Group; the outfit will release last Twilight instalment in November.
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      News22 titles selected for New Horizons' Polish Days
New films by Wajda, Folman, Zulawski are among the films to be presented at new industry initiative Polish Days in Wroclaw.
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      NewsHollywood A-list directors return to indie roots with Glasshouse Pictures
EXCLUSIVE: Mikael Håfström, the director currently in post on The Tomb starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger for Summit, plans to direct low-budget comedy thriller Snitch Jacket next.
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BECTU, PACT negotiating employment reform amid rising tide of crew unrest
EXCLUSIVE: 100 UK hair and makeup artists join union BECTU after turbulent Les Miserables shoot, described by one as “the final straw”; 52 location managers band together.
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      NewsOverall admissions down, Spanish market share up in 2011
The Spanish department of culture unveiled the results on the same day the Spanish government announced a rise in VAT on cinema tickets.
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