All Europe articles – Page 680
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      NewsFour selected for Franco-American screenwriters scheme
Île de France Film Commission and the Franco-American Cultural Foundation have announced the participants for this year’s Autumn Stories, a scheme dedicated to American screenwriters.
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      NewsWild Bunch pulls Chanel from Zurich after Polanski arrest
French sales company Wild Bunch has pulled Jan Kounen’s Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky out of the Zurich Film Festival in protest against Roman Polanski’s arrest en route to the festival last Saturday (September 26).
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      NewsMoon scoops Golden Athena as 15th Athens Film Festival wraps
Moon, by UK director Duncan Jones, won the Golden Athena for best film at the 15th Athens International Film Festival on Sunday (September 27).
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      NewsJiri Chlumsky's Broken Promise selected as Slovakia's Oscar entry
Slovakia has selected Jiri Chlumsky’s Broken Promise as its selection for the foreign language category of the 2009 Academy Awards.
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      NewsTallinn Black Nights festival launches regional film market
The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is launching a regional film market – the Black Market Industry Screenings – from November 30 to December 3 this year, with up to 48 screenings of new films from central and eastern Europe, Nordic territories and Russia.
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      NewsHigh Point takes international rights to A Passionate Woman
High Point Films, the theatrical sales arm of High Point Media Group, has taken international rights to the feature version of Kay Mellor’s A Passionate Woman.
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      NewsLabadie's Le Pacte opens library sales division
Jean Labadie’s Paris-based sales and distribution outfit Le Pacte is launching a library sales division.
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      NewsBaaria to represent Italy at the Oscars
Giuseppe Tornatore’s Baaria, a complex family saga that spans the lives of three generations of a Sicilian family, will represent Italy in its bid for the Foreign Oscar.
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      NewsEuropean Film Academy announced nominess for Discovery award
The European Film Academy has announced the nominations for this year’s European Discovery award, which recognises a director’s first full length feature film.
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      NewsSpain picks The Dancer And The Thief for Oscars
Fernando Trueba’s heist drama The Dancer And The Thief has beaten off competition from Daniel Sanchez Arevalo’s Gordos and Isabel Coixet’s Map Of The Sounds Of Tokyo to be selected as Spain’s entry for the foreign-language Acadmey Awards.
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      NewsPolanski asks to be freed from Swiss custody
Lawyers acting for imprisoned director Roman Polanski have filed a motion today (September 29) to the Swiss Federal Criminal Court requesting his release.
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      NewsLeading film-makers join calls for Polanski's release
Pedro Almodovar, Walter Salles, Bertrand Tavernier and Fatih Akin are among the film-makers that have joined Harvey Weinstein in signing the petition calling for the release of Roman Polanski.
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      NewsSony reports record global advance ticket sales on This Is It
Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment executives claim the Michael Jackson tribute film This Is It has set a string of advance ticket sale records around the world.
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      NewsMK2 picks up Gondry's Thorn and Siddon's Turn It Loose
MK2 has announced a deal with Michel Gondry’s Partizan Films to acquire international sales rights to Alastair Siddons’ breakdance documentary Turn It Loose and Gondry’s documentary The Thorn in the Heart.
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      NewsShakhnazarov’s Ward No.6 to represent Russia at the Oscars
Karen Shakhnazarov’s Ward No.6 has been selected as the Russian foreign-language Oscar contender for next year’s Academy Awards.
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      NewsNordisk Film quits family films as it shuts Norwegian arm
Danish production company Nordisk Film is closing its Norwegian division due to changes in the country’s film financing structure.
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      NewsZurich Film Festival stunned by Polanski arrest
The Polish director was the subject of a special tribute at this year’s festival and was en route to Zurich to take part in a masterclass with young filmmakers when he was taken into custody.
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      NewsDisney/Pixar's Up stays aloft overseas with $12.3m haul
Disney/Pixar’s Up led Hollywood’s international pack at the weekend with a $12.3m estimated gross that raised the tally to $215.4m with the UK to come on October 9.
 








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