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Romanian CNC awards $7.2m for production and development
The Romanian Film Board (CNC) has awarded nearly $7.2m (Euros 5.3m) in production and development funding, including grants, to new projects from Un Certain Regard winner Cristi Puiu, Camera d'Or laureate Corneliu Porumboiu, and actress Fanny Ardant on her directorial debut.The single largest award, $569,000 (Euros 417,000), went to Aurora, ...
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CNC slaps fine on UGC over loyalty pass
French film industry watchdog, the CNC, has fined UGC $198,000 (FFr1.5m) because the exhibitors' controversial loyalty card scheme breaches its regulatory code.The UGC pass allows cinema-goers to see an unlimited number of films for FFr98 a month with a minimum subscription period of one year. The CNC argues that cinema ...
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Episode 3 by Renzo Martens opens 21st edition of IDFA in Amsterdam
The 21st International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is to open next month with the world premiere of Episode 3 by Renzo Martens.IDFA runs from 20 to 30 Nov.The film is the third in a series of three films in which Martens questions the role of filmmakers and photographers in ...
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Eagle and Bunny chase Mamma in international marketplace
Expansion by studio releases including Eagle Eye and The House Bunny could finally end the reign of international box office queen Mamma Mia! this weekend. Having hunted down $17.5m to date from the first stage of its international roll-out, DreamWorks-Paramount thriller Eagle Eye swoops into its first major European and ...
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Belmonte and Nauchtergaele share top awards at Rio
Jose Eduardo Belmonte's Se Nada Mais der Certo and Matheus Nauchtergaele's directorial debut A Festa da Menina Morta shared the major spoils at the 10th Rio de Janeiro Film Festival. Belmonte's thriller Se Nada Mais de Certo took best feature award and best actress prize for Caroline Abras. A ...
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Rio winners led by Should Nothing Else Work Out, Dead Girl's Feast
The winners of the 2008 Rio International Film Festival were announced tonight at the closing award ceremony at Odeon theatre. The Premiere Brasil's best film prize, known as the Redentor award, was given to Se Nada Mais Der Certo (Should Nothing Else Work Out), directed by Jose Eduardo Belmonte. One ...
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Screen opinion: Advantage of surprise
You have to ask what we come to these film festivals for,' asked a producer, his mouth full of pintxos as the sun set over La Concha in San Sebastian a couple of weeks ago.Leaving aside the obvious merits of location, the grand 'What are we for'' questions are sounded ...
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In Focus: Summer festival review
Here are three thoughts about film festivals. Some of us spend too much time at them. Like junkies trying to recapture that first blissful high, we return time and again in search of a lost sense of excitement and discovery. Second, some take themselves terribly seriously. Not just the big ...
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In Focus: Groundbreaking indie film My Suicide
Independent movie My Suicide is unlike anything you have ever seen. Ostensibly the story of a 17-year-old boy who announces he will commit suicide on camera for his school project, the story is told from the point of view of the boy (newcomer Gabriel Sunday) as a visual stream of ...
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Interview: Ridley Scott
'Ridley Scott is the most efficient director I've ever worked with,' says Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars in Scott's latest epic Body Of Lies.'There are not many people able to focus simultaneously on six or seven different cameras at various angles and be a human editing machine. He's got seven monitors ...
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In Focus: Lance Daly's Kisses
Lance Daly's crowdpleaser Kisses began its festival journey in Galway this summer, where it won the best Irish film award. Click here for review.Its international premiere followed in competition at Locarno, and by the time the film screened in Telluride and Toronto, Focus Features International had come on board to ...
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Profile: Meneka and Sheenu Das' Little Box Of Sweets
Meneka and Sheenu Das were so determined to make their first feature, Little Box Of Sweets, they took out a bank loan, used their savings and sold Sheenu's house to fund it.But the ambitious sisters, who moved from India to the UK in the early 1990s, have no regrets. 'You ...
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Viacom acquires BET for $2.43bn
Viacom has agreed to purchase BET Holdings, the parent group of successful US cable channel Black Entertainment Television (BET), for $2.43bn in stock and $570m worth of debt. Based in Washington DC, BET serves the African American market and will continue to be run by Robert L Johnson (chairman and ...
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Preview: Tokyo International Film Festival
Despite its size and status as Japan's only International Federation of Film Producers Associations (Fiapf) accredited event, the Tokyo International Film Festival (Tiff) has sometimes been overlooked outside Japan.But as Tiff enters its 21st edition (October 18-26), a new mission statement together with Asia's growing interconnection is bringing the centrepiece ...
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Tiffcom - Autumn window for Japanese productions
Although it falls in a crowded autumn calendar between Toronto, Pusan, Mipcom and AFM, Tiffcom is still a good place to source increasingly strong Japanese content such as manga and animations, as well as films for remakes, TV dramas and music properties.The mostly local market is also striving to be ...
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Festival talk - Tokyo at the cutting edge
Which festivals do you particularly rate and enjoy'This year I've been to Berlin, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Toronto and will go to Pusan and AFM. I enjoy just about any festival. Berlin is very chilly but always has lots of new interesting things. Beki Probst (head of the European Film ...
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Preview: The Times BFI London Film Festival
There is a fierce debate about the future and the identity of The Times BFI London Film Festival (LFF). Stewart Till, chairman of the UK Film Council (UKFC) has made no secret of his desire to see the LFF transformed into a 'bigger, louder festival' with 'more impact on the ...
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Festival talk: Sandra Hebron - 'As the name implies, a degree of festivity is important'
Which festivals do you rate and enjoy'I rate New York, Telluride and Vienna from a programming point of view. In terms of all-round usefulness, Cannes continues to reign supreme, for the sheer volume and range of what it is possible to see there, combined with the benefits of having so ...
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MIPCOM focus: Is TV tuning back into film'
The relationship between Europe's film distributors and their local TV broadcasters is peculiarly vexed and complicated. It mingles dependency and resentment. Tensions were exacerbated around a decade ago, as the market for TV pre-sales for film contracted in an alarming fashion. The collapse of the Kirch media group in Germany, ...
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International - Canine and able
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International's Beverly Hills Chihuahua was the highest new entry at number seven in Screen's international chart for the October 3-5 weekend, debuting just one place ahead of new Japanese crime thriller Suspect X.The talking-dog family comedy, follows the titular Chihuahua, Chloe (voiced by Drew Barrymore), ...