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    Medienboard fund supports international productions

    2009-04-15T14:23:00Z

    New films by Roman Polanski, Christopher Smith, Danis Tanovic and Agnieszka Holland are among 36projects awarded more than $5.9m (Euro 4.5m) by Germany’s second largest regional film fund,Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

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    Stefan Faldbakken to direct new Varg Veum featurePro

    2009-04-14T12:23:00Z

    Norwegian director Stefan Faldbakken will direct the first feature in a new $14.2m (NOK 94m) film andtelevision package based on the best selling Varg Veum novels by Gunnar Staalesen.

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    Stephen Frears' Cheri faces tough competition at French box office

    2009-04-14T12:17:00Z

    Stephen Frears’ Cheri lost out to tough competition at the French box office this weekend despiteopening in France ahead of its US and UK release. The film scored 67,649 admissions from 133screens in its first five days to Sunday night, according to distributor Pathe.

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    Eichinger and Edel reunite for Bushido biopic

    2009-04-14T12:13:00Z

    The Baader Meinhof Complex’s writer-producer Bernd Eichinger and director Uli Edel are to bereunited this summer for a biopic of Germany’s No. 1 rapper Bushido.

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    Italy's Far East Film Festival announces line-up

    2009-04-14T11:54:00Z

    The 11th edition of Italy’s Far East Film Festival will kick off on April 24 with the European premieresof Thai martial action film, Ong Bak 2, and Chinese black comedy, Crazy Racer.

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    Spain sees first prosecution in piracy case

    2009-04-13T16:46:00Z

    Spain has finally taken a strong stand against piracy with the administrator of a P2P file sharing site being sentenced to six months in jail and fined $6,500 (Euros 4,900) in a court case in Logrono, Spain.

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    CMG adds civil rights drama American Violet to Cannes slate

    2009-04-12T22:09:00Z

    Ed Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has acquired international rights to Tim Disney’s civil rights drama American Violetand will commence sales in Cannes next month.

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    Fast & Furious leaves the competition in the dust and closes in on $100m overseas

    2009-04-12T20:46:00Z

    Universal/UPI’sFast & Furiousmaintained its devastating early pace as the action sequel delivered an estimated $46.5m weekend haul from 5,118 venues in 50 territories to race to an early $91m international running total.In North America the film tore past $115m in its second weekend and remained the top selling release worldwide ...

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    French Parliament rejects bill to unplug Internet pirates

    2009-04-12T16:39:00Z

    After a heated battle, a bill that would have unplugged French Internet pirates was rejected by the country’s Parliament on Thursday.

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    Guardans appointed as director of Spain's ICAA

    2009-04-12T16:30:00Z

    Following last week’s appointment of Angeles Gonzalez Sinde as Spain’s culture minister, Ignasi Guardans will become the new director of the ICAA (Institute ofCinematography and Audiovisual Arts), the country’s film and TV body.

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    Bayona, Fresnadillo named as godfathers to Cannes Critics Week

    2009-04-12T11:29:00Z

    Directors Juan Antonio Bayona and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will act as Godfathers to Cannes Critics’ Week for the 2009 edition.

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    Female Agents infiltrate Spain, UK says Let The Right One In

    2009-04-10T16:53:00Z

    ScreenDailypreviewslocal and independent releases in key markets: comedy Al Final Del Camino off to strong start in Spain, Wild Bunch releases French comedy Bank Error on 398 prints; John Rabe has disappointing start in Germany; and Momentum launches Swedish vampire hit Let The Right One In on 70 prints in ...

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    Belgrade documentary fest kicks off with private funding

    2009-04-10T16:48:00Z

    The new Beldocs, the Belgrade International Feature Documentary Festival, opened on April 7 with the world premiere of Goodbye, How Are You’, the new film by Serbian film-maker Boris Mitic, best known for his 2003 festival hit Pretty Dyana. James Marsh’s Oscar winner Man on Wire followed. The festival wraps ...

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    Il Divo leads nominations for Italy's Donatello awards

    2009-04-09T17:56:00Z

    Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo has scooped 16 nominations for Italy’s top film honours, the David of Donatello Awards. The film beat Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah, which picked up 11nominations.

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    Italian film industry tomake donation toearthquake victims

    2009-04-09T17:19:00Z

    Italian exhibitors Anec and Anem and Anica, the country’s film industry body, will donate the national gross box office ticket sales from April 23 to people affected by theearthquake that hit the country earlier this week.

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    Muezzin world premiere to open Crossing Europe Film Festival

    2009-04-09T14:27:00Z

    The 6th Crossing Europe Film Festival, held in Linz on April 20-26, will open with the world premiere of Sebastian Brameshuber’s documentary, Muezzin.The documentary focuses on several young muezzins, the people chosen by a mosque to lead the call to prayer, as they prepare for the preliminary rounds of a ...

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    The Works International to handle sales of La Prima Linea

    2009-04-09T12:38:00Z

    The Works International has picked up the world sales rights to Italian thriller La Prima Linea (The Front Line). It has acquired the film in conjunction with sales agency QuickfireFilms.

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    Other Angle picks up rights for Bus Palladium and Les Beaux Gosses

    2009-04-09T06:00:00Z

    Other Angle Pictures, the new Paris-based sales company, has picked up the international rights to Bus Palladium and Les Beaux Gosses.

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    Media 8 heads to Cannes Marche flush with Cash

    2009-04-09T03:44:00Z

    Media 8 Entertainment has taken on worldwide rightsahead of Cannes next monthto Immortal Thoughts Productions’ psychological thrillerCashstarring Sean Bean.

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    Global gains at the box office

    2009-04-09T00:00:00Z

    It is more than official. At ShoWest - the North American cinema convention which has traditionally sidetracked international concerns to a pre-show ‘International Day’ - Motion Picture Association Of America (Mpaa) president Dan Glickman declared international box office revenues now accounted for 65% of the studios’ theatrical pie.Given that international’s ...