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Lithuania becomes eligible for Eurimages funding
Lithuania has become the 33rd country to join Eurimages, the Council of Europe-supported film co-production, distribution and exhibition fund. The Eurimages board had recommended the inclusion at its March 2006 meeting and Lithuanian authorities have now confirmed their membership. Now all projects involving a Lithuanian co-producer can be considered for ...
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Hunton takes new role at Paramount Home Entertainment
Paramount Home Entertainment International (PHEI) has appointed Don Hunton to a new post as executive vice president, general manager Paramount Home Entertainment for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Hunton was previously senior vice president of the Asia Pacific, UK and Ireland regions for PHEI. Prior to joining PHEI, he ...
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European film commissions join forces in Brussels
A new association, the European Film Commissions Network, met for the first time during the recent Cannes Film Festival.Fifty film commissions from all over Europe had their first general assembly meeting during the festival and will continue to meet on a regular basis to share experiences and foster joint initiatives, ...
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Cannes Market attendees up 4% to 10,491
The Cannes Film Market has announced strong results for its most recent edition. 10,491 participants were accredited from 92 countries with new territories from Africa and Asia taking part for the first time. The figures represent a 4% jump over last year with, notably, increased participation from Latin America (up ...
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MK2 sells Van Sant's Paranoid Park to 72 territories
MK2 has announced stellar sales on Gus Van Sant's Cannes competition film Paranoid Park. The skateboarder-turned-accidental-murderer tale, which won the 60th anniversary award at Cannes last weekend, has been sold in 72 territories including the UK to Tartan Films, Italy to Lucky Red, Spain to Vertigo, India to Palador, Argentina ...
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Germany's Constantin Film to co-produce Faubourg 36
Leading German producer-distributor Constantin Film has joined forces with France's Galatee Films and Pathe Renn production to produce Faubourg 36 (working title), the next feature from The Chorus director Christophe Barratier. Set in Paris in 1936, Faubourg 36 will focus on three unemployed theatre professionals - played by The Chorus ...
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NonStop's Cannes buying spree includes 4 Months and Paranoid Park
By purchasing Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's Cannes winner, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Sweden 's NonStop Entertainment has concluded a golden hat trick, having already acquired the Golden Bear winner from Berlin (Tuya's Marriage) and the Golden Lion winner from Venice (Still Life).NonStop will distribute Mungiu's illegal abortion ...
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EEAP kicks off Paramount Vantage deal with Marc Pease
Berlin-based East European Acquisition Pool (EEAP) has begun a long-term cooperation with Paramount's independent division Paramount Vantage by acquiring all Central and East European rights to the new Ben Stiller comedy The Marc Pease Experience. In addition, EEAP continued its close cooperation with The Weinstein Company by picking up six ...
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German and UK producers to bring Catweazle to the big screen
The Red Baron producers Dan Maag and Thomas Reisser of Niama Filmproduktion are teaming up the UK's Paul Knight and Richard Carpenter of Catweazle Ltd. for a feature film based on the 1970s cult international hit TV series Catweazle. Based on Carpenter's original series about the magical adventures of the ...
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Thijs Romer to co-star in Tucci's Van Gogh remake
Young Dutch actor Thijs Romer will co-star in the forthcoming remake of Theo van Gogh's Blind Date, to be directed by Stanley Tucci. Shooting starts in two weeks in Belgium. It will be Romer's international film debut. He co-stars as a waiter, who is watching a married couple who are ...
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AV closes more deals on crocodile thriller Black Water
AV Pictures has closed more deals on its hot seller Black Water, including a North American deal with Grindstone Entertainment Group. Other new deals at the end of Cannes included France (Free Dolphin Entertainment), Germany (Legend), Scandinavia (Nobel Entertainment), CIS (Lizard Cinema Trade), Mexico & Central America (Cine Video y ...
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Sony challenges Disney's Pirates box-office record figures
Walt Disney Co has released final box office figures for the opening of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, producing a slightly increased six-day worldwide total of $404m. At the same time, however, Sony, distributor of this month's earlier global blockbuster Spider-Man 3, has raised doubts about some of ...
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Coach 14 books healthy sales during first Cannes
At its first Cannes, Coach 14 steamed ahead with healthy sales on four of its titles.Project El Rey De La Montana, by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego concluded pre-sales with the UK's Optimum, Madman in Australia and New Zealand, Eureka Pictures in Korea, France's WildSide and Canada's Seville Pictures.The US, Switzerland, Germany and ...
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Senator continues Weinstein relationship with four more titles
German producer-distributor Senator Film has consolidated its close working relationship with The Weinstein Company (TWC) by acquiring another four titles from the US independent during last week's Cannes festival. The quartet of acquisitions are headed by Michael Moore's 'out of competition' film Sicko and include Rian Johnson's romantic comedy The ...
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Concorde picks up 4 Months and Band's Visit for Germany
Germany's Concorde Film has picked up Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's Golden Palm winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days from Wild Bunch and will release the film theatrically in German cinemas later this year. Among Concorde's other acquisitions from Cannes include Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin's Un Certain Regard hit The ...
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Transilvania competitors include 4 Months, 3 Weeks
Twelve films are set to compete for the grand prize at this year's Transilvania International Film Festival, among them Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days. This year's festival, which opens Friday, will also feature the world premiere of Nae Caranfil's The Rest Is Silence, ...
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Belgian tax fund invests in two major co-productions
Belgian tax fund Motion Investment Group (MIG) has raised finance for two co-productions - The Possibility of an Island and Disco.The first is a futuristic drama based on the potential for human cloning and marks the directorial debut of novelist Michel Houllebecq and starring Benoit Magimel,The film is produced by ...
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Artificial Eye picks up three Cannes Competition titles
UK arthouse distributor Artificial Eye has acquired three Competition titles at Cannes.The company has picked up Cristian Mungiu's Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days from Wild Bunch, Catherine Breillat's Cannes Competition debut An Old Mistress from Pyramide International and Christophe Honore's Love Songs (Les Chansons d'Amour) from ...
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Persepolis to have English-language makeover from SPC
Sony Pictures Classics is set to record an English-language version of Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's warmly received Cannes competition title Persepolis, an animated project based on Satrapi's bestselling graphic novels.Catherine Deneuve, who plays the role of the mother in the French version, is re-recording her part this summer, joined ...
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De Lorenzo plans new June festival in Caserta, Italy
Italian Organisers have announced plans for a new film festival to be held in Caserta at the Royal Palace Vanvitelliana and Royal Site Belvedere of St Leucio.Francesco De Lorenzo of Darkness Production has started the Drake International Film Festival, which will run June 23-30, with 'the aim of promoting the ...