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  • News

    Jason Reitman's Juno takes Best Film prize in Rome

    2007-10-28T16:50:00Z

    Jason Reitman's teen pregnancy drama/comedy Juno won Rome Film Fest's Marco Aurelio Best Film Award, announced yesterday. Reitman was in Rome to accept the award, along with screenwriter Diablo Cody.The lucrative award also comes with $287,700 (Euros 200,000).'It is terrifying to bring your film to another culture where they speak ...

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    Saw IV could show international strength in Spain, Latin America

    2007-10-26T13:42:00Z

    Saw IV is expected to cast a ghoulish shadow over the international box office arena this weekend as it opens day-and-date with North America in Spain and Latin America. The fourth episode in the celebrated horror franchise opens in the key territories of Spain, Mexico and Brazil on Oct 26. ...

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    Despite tricky timing, Antalya's Eurasia market spurs a few deals

    2007-10-26T13:38:00Z

    The second edition of the Eurasia Film Market drew to a close yesterday, but participants said the market's timing proved difficult for some buyers. Despite a good mix of local and international sales companies and a bigger presence from Asia with Hong Kong's Media Asia, China's Huayi Brothers and Three ...

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    Michelle Williams joins Bernal for Moodysson's Mammoth

    2007-10-26T13:22:00Z

    Oscar nominee Michelle Williams has joined the cast of Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth, opposite Gael Garcia Bernal.The Swedish auteur makes his English-language debut with the project, which starts shooting Nov 5 in Thailand before moving to the Phillipines, Sweden and New York. Lars Jonsson of Memfis Film will produce.'In Michelle Williams ...

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    TF1 adds Spike Lee's Miracle and David Morey's Mutants

    2007-10-26T03:00:00Z

    TF1 International will be present at the upcoming AFM with two important new titles as well as a wolrd premiere and promo reels for several of its highly-anticipated projects. The sales outfit recently signed Spike Lee's Miracle At St. Anna, a film based on the novel by James McBride and ...

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    Magnolia swoops for Spanish time-travel buzz-film

    2007-10-25T23:33:00Z

    Magnolia Pictures has picked up worldwide rights excluding Spain from producer Eduardo Carneros to Nacho Vigalondo's sci-fi film Timecrimes.Laird Adamson, head of international sales at Magnolia's sister company HDNet, will screen the film and begin international sales at AFM.Timecrimes centres on a man who inadvertently discovers the perils of time ...

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    Omega on board for non-US sales of Six Lives Of Henry Lefay

    2007-10-25T16:21:00Z

    Omega Entertainment is co-financing and handling international sales on the Tim Allen comedy The Six Wives of Henry Lefay. The film, which will be introduced to buyers at the forthcoming AFM, is also financed by Ring Productions and Aramid. Producers are Brillstein Entertainment Partners' David McIlvain and Holly Wiersma. Cassian ...

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    Sundance picks seven projects for Middle East Writers Lab

    2007-10-25T16:11:00Z

    The Sundance Institute has announced the selection of seven projects for the third annual Middle East Screenwriters Lab, which takes place in Jordan Oct 28-Nov 1. Run in collaboration with Jordan's Royal Film Commission, the Lab involves the upcoming directors and writers taking part in an intensive workshop with 'creative ...

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    Sweden's Yellow Bird plans $15m Millennium trilogy

    2007-10-25T15:16:00Z

    The late Swedish author Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, which has sold almost two million books in Sweden, will be filmed by Sweden 's Yellow Bird on a $15.4m (Euros 10.7m) budget. Swedish actors Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace will star in the three thrillers filled with action and courtroom drama, ...

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    StudioCanal adds new films from Jaoui, Lepage, Bruno and Nicolas

    2007-10-25T13:24:00Z

    StudioCanal has added several films to its line up heading into next week's American Film Market. Award-winning actor-director Agnes Jaoui returns to directing with relationship comedy Let It Rain starring Jamel Debbouze, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Jaoui herself. The film is currently in production with rights available worldwide. Also in production ...

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    Akin's The Edge Of Heaven wins Europe's first LUX Prize

    2007-10-25T13:20:00Z

    Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven, Germany's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, is the first winner of the European Parliament's new LUX Prize. The inaugural award was presented to the film's producer Klaus Maeck and actress Hanna Schygulla at a plenary session of the parliament in ...

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    Miller leads trio of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment promotions

    2007-10-25T00:04:00Z

    Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has promoted three executives in the company's international group, led by T Paul Miller's appointment as senior vice president of international and general manager of emerging markets.Also elevated in the corporate ranks are Claude Borna, promoted to vice president of retail marketing, Europe, and Orrie ...

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    Little Film Co to unveil Nettlebeck's English-language debut at AFM

    2007-10-24T23:16:00Z

    Los Angeles-based production and sales company The Little Film Company has begun principal photography in Vancouver on Sandra Nettelbeck's drama Helen starring Ashley Judd, Goran Visnjic and Lauren Lee Smith.Nettelbeck's English-language debut centres on a seemingly happy woman who harbours a dark secret that threatens to disrupt her entire life.Germany's ...

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    Fabicki wins $42,000 prize at Rome New Cinema Network

    2007-10-24T16:40:00Z

    Polish filmmaker Slawomir Fabicki has been awarded the Best New European Project for Bonobo Jingo at Rome Film Festival's New Cinema Network. The award comes with $42,600 (Euros 30,000) in production funds sponsored by Mini. The jury, headed by Osca- winning producer Cedomir Kolar (No Man's Land), Italian producer Rosanna ...

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    Wes Anderson to get visionary award at 18th Stockholm festival

    2007-10-24T16:09:00Z

    The Stockholm International Film Festival, has programmed 170 films from 40 countreis for its 18th edition (Nov 15-25) Festival director Git Scheynius announced that Wes Anderson will receive the Stockholm Visionary Award 2007. Anderson will attend the festival to introduce his latest film, The Darjeeling Limited, and fellow US director ...

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    Ardant and Depardieu to shoot Hello, Goodbye in Israel

    2007-10-24T11:36:00Z

    Fanny Ardant and Gerard Depardieu will travel to Israel in November to shoot new French featureHello, Goodbye (working title).The stars reunite after appearing together in Truffaut's The Woman Next Door and Anne Fontaine's Nathalie.In Hello, Goodbye, Ardant and Depardieu will play a married Jewish couple living in Paris who undergo ...

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    Ascot picks up three: Boarding Gate, Fido and Opium

    2007-10-24T10:49:00Z

    Ahead of this year's American Film Market, Switzerland's Ascot Elite Entertainment Group has picked up all German language rights on three titles. The new acquisitions are:Olivier Assayas' erotic thriller Boarding Gate, starring Asia Argento and Michael Madsen, from Magnet; Andrew Currie's satirical comedy Fido, with Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly and ...

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    Rotterdam to offer Focus tributes to Breer and Jamie

    2007-10-23T17:08:00Z

    The International Film Festival Rotterdam, which is under the new leadership of director Rutger Wolfson for its 37th edition, is focusing its programme on Free Radicals, 'film-makers and artists who idiosyncratically and energetically follow their own course.' US film-maker Robert Breer and US artist Cameron Jamie will be the subject ...

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    Swedish Institute gives record funding to Moodysson's Mammoth

    2007-10-23T16:11:00Z

    Swedish director Lukas Moodysson's first English-language feature, Mammoth (Mammut), which starts principal photography on Nov 5 in Thailand, has received a record $1.7m (Euros 1.3m) production funding from the Swedish Film Institute.Gael Garcia Bernal will star in the $10m-plus (Euros 7.4m-plus) production which will move to the Phillippines and Swedish ...

  • Reviews

    Let's Say (On Dirait Que)

    2007-10-23T12:26:00Z

    Dir: Francoise Marie, France 2007. 82 mins.A touching, telling documentary about older children's perspectives on the world of grown-ups, Let's Pretend That... has the potential to rival the success of Etre et Avoir (To Be and To Have) - Nicolas Phillibert's widely distributed study of a primary school class in ...