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Babelsberg posts most successful financial year since privatisation
Studio Babelsberg has posted its most successful financial year since the privatisation of the production complex in 1992 thanks, in particular, to such international co-productions as the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer, Bryan Singer's Valkyrie and Tom Tykwer's The International.On the publication of its annual report for 2007 on Tuesday morning ...
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Blindness to open Cannes Film Festival
Fernando Meirelles' Blindness is to open the Cannes Film Festival and will join the Competition line-up, it has been confirmed.The film, about a city hit with a plague causing most of the population to go blind, was adapted by Don McKellar from the novel by Jose Saramago.The cast is led ...
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Pyramide's Cannes line-up calls for Snow
Pyramide International has announced the addition of Critics Week title Snow to its line-up for the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. The film is directed by Aida Bejic and focuses on residents of a small village whose lives are disrupted by visiting businessmen just before a storm hits. Also on the ...
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Coen brothers' Burn After Reading to open Venice Film Festival
Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading will open the 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival as a world premiere.The film's classification as a gala or competition screening will be announced at a later date, the Biennale has said.In either case, the follow-up to the Coen Brother's celebrated No ...
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Little Girl Blue takes top honours at Plzen
An international jury at the 21st Finale Plzen film festival awarded the Golden Kingfisher for Best Film to Alice Nellis' Little Girl Blue. Produced by Jan Sverak, the film tells the story of one fateful day in the life of a middle-aged woman, played by actress and musician Iva Bittova. ...
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The Edge Of Heaven claims four Lolas
Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven (Auf Der Anderen Seite) picked up four Golden Lolas, including for Best Film, at the German Film Awards at the weekend in Berlin.Produced by Akin's own company Corazon International, the film also received the Lolas for Best Direction, Best Screenplay and Best Editing (Andrew ...
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Francemay openup tax breaks to international productions
The French government is considering relaxing its tax breaks to include foreign films. French daily Le Figaro reported Friday that the culture and finance ministries are considering opening up what is known as the credit d'impot system in order to attract international productions.The credit d'impot was originally set up four ...
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Strong showing for France and Latin America in Directors Fortnight
Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte in ParisThe Directors Fortnight line-up was announced Thursday morning in Paris with a robust 20 titles set to screen in between opening film Four Nights With Anna by Jerzy Skolimowski and closing film The Pleasure Of Being Robbed from US film-maker Josh Safdie.The section is heavy on Latin ...
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Cannes quartet taken on by The Match Factory
Martin Blaney in Berlin The Match Factory will be handling international sales for four films selected to the official programme of next month's Cannes Film Festival.After last year's The Edge Of Heaven, Michael Weber's Cologne-based company has another film in this year's Competition: Ari Folman's animated documentary Waltz With Bashir, ...
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M-Appeal adds five titles to line-up for Cannes market
Fledgling Berlin-based company M-Appeal has added another five titles to its sales line-up, which will have their market premieres at the forthcoming Marche du Film in Cannes.M-Appeal will be handling international distribution on the following films:Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi's documentary Suddenly, Last Winter about homophobia in Italy, first shown ...
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Cannes 2008: The Screen Guide
The buzzCannes Buzz: Competition Cannes Buzz: Out of competitionCannes Buzz: Director's fortnightCannes Buzz: Hot picksIn Focus: Searching for a new supply line Blindness to open Cannes Film FestivalHunger to open Un Certain RegardInterview Thierry FremauxThe line-upCannes competitionCompetition/ out of competition/ special screeningsUn Certain RegardDirectors FortnightCritics WeekCinefondation/ shortsCannes 2007Festival and market ...
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Sarah Marshall hopes 8 territories won't forget this weekend
The start of the blockbuster season is almost upon us and with one week to go before Paramount Pictures International (PPI) unleashes Marvel's Iron Man around the globe, the release schedule is predictably subdued.Universal's comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall gets a push this weekend with eight launches through UPI including Russia ...
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Hamer selected for Un Certain Regard as Norway targets the Croisette
Norwegian director Bent Hamer's O'Horten - his return to local film-making after his US feature, Factotum (2005), from Charles Bukowski's novel - will unspool in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, as Hamer's fourth official entry in the festival. The selection coincides with Norway's largest promotional effort on the Côte d'Azur, ...
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Bavaria Film International picks up Critics' Week title
Martin Blaney in Berlin Bavaria Film International has picked up international distribution rights for Emily Atef's second feature film The Stranger In Me (Das Fremde In Ihr), which has been selected for this year's Critics' Week in Cannes.The drama of a young mother who is thrown into emotional turmoil after ...
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Video-on-demand in Europe sees surge in growth
The number of video-on-demand (VoD) services in Europe almost doubled in the 12 months to December 2007. A report published by the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) - Video On Demand In Europe - has found 258 VoD services in operation in the 24 European countries surveyed, compared with 142 at ...
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New Figgis feature to screen at Tribeca and Cannes
Danny Plunkett in LondonLove Live Long , the first feature from Mike Figgis since 2003's Cold Creek Manor, will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28. It will launch internationally in the market at Cannes on May 18.Written and directed by Figgis, the film was shot over seven ...
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UK film-maker wins top prize at Nyon doc fest
Martin Blaney in NyonUK film-maker Molly Dineen has been awarded the Grand Prix for The Lie Of The Land about the hard daily routine of English farmers at Nyon's Visions du Reel documentary film festival which closed on April 23.In addition, the International Jury, which included US producer Claire Aguilar ...
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Cannes Critics' Week unveils selection
The line-up for the 47th running of Critics Week was announced at Paris Cinematheque Francaise on Thursday morning. In his opening remarks, the section's artistic director Jean-Christophe Berjon noted that submissions this year had come from 69 countries, with 850 feature films being screened by the selection committee. Ultimately, with ...
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Europa Corps restructures sales team
EuropaCorp has restructured its sales team and brought in two new international sales directors, the company said in a statement Wednesday evening. Marie-Laure Montironi joined Europa this month while Pascal Degove will take up his new post as of May. Montironi is an industry veteran who was instrumental in the ...
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UK's New Wave adds Unrelated, Tricks, Quiet Chaos
New Wave Films, the new UK distributor set up by Artificial Eye veterans Pam Engel and Robert Beeson in February 2008, has acquired three new films for its initial slate.The new acquisitions are Unrelated, Tricks and Quiet Chaos.Joanna Hogg's Unrelated from the UK won the Fipresci prize at the 2007 ...