All Europe articles – Page 668
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      NewsQuanan Wang's Apart Together to open 60th Berlinale
The world premiere of Quanan Wang’s Apart Together (Tuan Yuan) will open the Berlinale’s 60th edition on February 11, while Yoji Yamada’s About Her Brother (Otouto) (pictured) will close the festival on February 20.
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Brussels Film Festival appoints Ivan Corbisier as director
Ivan Corbisier has been appointed as the new director of the Brussels Film Festival.
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      NewsEmir Kusturica set to start work on Pancho Villa biopic in 2011
Double Palme d’Or winner Emir Kusturica will start shooting his biopic of Mexican revolutionary figure Pancho Villa on February 15 2011.
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      NewsBerlinale's Co-Production Market reveals line-up
New projects by Italy’s Marco Bechis, the UK’s Benjamin Ross and Russia’s Andrey Zvyagintsev as well as directorial debuts by actors Hiam Abbass and Ulrich Thomsen are among the 37 projects selected for the seventh edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 14-16).
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      NewsProducers share top prize at 31st Bavarian Film Awards
Desert Flower producer Peter Herrmann and Dietmar Güntsche and Wolfgang Behr, producers of Wolfgang Panzer’s Der Grosse Kater, shared the best producer prize at the 31st Bavarian Film Awards held over the weekend.
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      NewsLocal and 3D films drive Spanish box office growth
James Cameron’s Avatar and a string of successful local films, led by Alejandro Amenabar’s Agora, boosted Spain’s box office takings from $856.6m (€595.9) in 2008 to $910.6m (€633.3m) last year
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      NewsUK braces 44 Inch Chest, Germany embraces Friendship!
ScreenDaily’s weekly round-up of the local and independent openings in key markets this week.
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      NewsJean Perret to leave Visions Du Reel
Jean Perret, director of Visions du Reel - Nyon International Film Festival since its inception in 1995, is leaving in August.
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      FeaturesLocal hit freezes out Avatar
Avatar may have cast a blue glow over the global box office, but in Iceland an independent local hit has held it at bay. Jack Warner reports
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      NewsBerlinale reveals line-up for Perspektive local film section
Dietrich Bruggemann’s Run If You Can and RP Kahl’s Bedways will bookend the Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar at the Berlin Film Festival.
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      NewsNonStop picks up international sales for David’s Birthday
Swedish company NonStop Sales has picked up international sales rights for David’s Birthday, the second feature by Italian director and actor Marco Filiberti.
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      NewsGermany's DFFF awards $11.5m to Emmerich, Collet-Serra
The German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) has paid out $11.5m (€8m) to major international projects by Roland Emmerich and Jaume Collet-Serra.
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      CommentGlobes prompt annual sniping
The domestic media has long used Golden Globes week as an excuse to mock The Hollywood Foreign Press Association; but the tide is turning and US studios are increasingly coming round to the huge potential of the international market.
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      NewsFilmax takes sales rights to Oskar Santos’ El Mal Ajeno
Spanish studio Filmax has picked up international sales rights to Oskar Santos’ hotly anticipated debut feature, El Mal Ajeno.
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      NewsBerlinale unveils Generation sidebar line-up
Bran Nue Dae and Yuki & Nina (pictured) are among the films selected for the Generation sidebar for the 60th edition of the Berlin Film Festival.
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      NewsIcelandic cinema admissions rise by 7%
Cinema admissions in Iceland rose by 7% to 1.7m during 2009, with total box office receipts up 12% to $12m (ISK1.5bn).
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      NewsJose Gonzalez, Brotherhood among Nordic Film Prize nominees
Fredrik Egerstand and Mikel Cee Karlsson’s The Extraordinary Life of Jose Gonzalez, Nicolo Donator’s Brotherhood (pictured) and Sara Johnsen’s Upperdog are among the eight contender for this year’s Nordic Film Prize.
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      NewsWild Bunch seals raft of deals for Medem’s Room In Rome
Wild Bunch has sold Julio Medem’s $4.5m romantic drama Room In Rome to several territories across Europe, Asia and Latin America.
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      NewsProbst aims to be flexible in run up to EFM
Flexibility has been the key to preparing the 2010 edition of the European Film Market (EFM), according to market director Beki Probst.
 








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