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Profile: Luis Berdejo
Many international directors working in Hollywood can fall victim to being over-hyped by agents and publicists. There has been plenty of buzz, for example, surrounding Spanish director Luis Berdejo and his first English-language film, The New Daughter, which is produced by Gold Circle Films and stars Kevin Costner.This time, if ...
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Profile: The public life of Rebecca Miller
The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee is a homecoming of sorts for Rebecca Miller. The film is based on her own novel of the same name and is being shot in the area of Connecticut where she grew up.'The house I'm staying in while I film is where I grew ...
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United Kingdom - Summer school
Camilla Bray may have come across a new genre with her first feature film as lead producer: she describes Kenny Glenaan's Summer as "an adult coming-of-age story".She explains: "It's about two best friends who live together as adults and have been partners in crime since they were young. Daz (Steve ...
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United Kingdom - If the shoes fit
He is renowned as one of the UK's most intense and committed actors, and now Paddy Considine is taking his talent behind the camera.His debut short, Dog Altogether, picked up a Venice Silver Lion last year and a Bafta this year - and he is writing his feature debut, Tyrannosaur.In ...
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Escape Artists ties up international partners
A group of international distributors comprising the UK's Momentum Pictures, Spain's Sogepaq, Italy's Eagle Pictures, Scandinavia's Egmont and Germany's Constantin have been confirmed as partners with the Steve Tisch Co and sales outfit Summit Entertainment in long-gestating production outfit Escape Artists.Some of the distributors are understood to taking equity ...
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France - Tomorrow le monde
Gregoire Melin shot onto the French sales scene as an independent at this year's Cannes with a new company and a line-up of notable, robust-selling titles. But he is no wet-behind-the-ears newcomer. The founder of new label Kinology, Melin began his career in sales at French major Gaumont in 1998. ...
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Bandit country
The death in May of Paul Reyes, one of the leaders of the Colombian terrorist group, Farc (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), lends a timely appeal to Victor Gaviria's new project about the origins of the movement.The Colombian director, probably the best known film-maker to emerge from the territory, ...
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Production - Eastern Europe - Pole star
As a filming location, Poland is building a reputation as a healthy alternative to its bigger, more established neighbours. In recent years, major productions such as The Chronicles Of Narnia films and David Lynch's Inland Empire have been lured by Poland's cheap costs, contrasting scenery and established reputation as a ...
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European Box Office Review
While Sex And The City and Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull battle it out with local super-hits for European box-office supremacy, the words 'recession', 'credit crunch' and 'weak dollar' are worrying the region's distributors and exhibitors.Click for country reviews: United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Russia & ...
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International - Indian Summer Arrives
Tamil film Dasavatharam was the highest non-US entry in the international chart, taking $4.6m from 11 territories in its opening weekend.The sci-fi drama played on 1,211 screens for a $3,825 screen average, putting it at number seven this weekend. It opened at number 11 in the UK with a $248,175 ...
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International - Finding space to grow
Cinema analyst Dodona this week points to a growing split between the mature markets of the West and emerging markets.It is an undeniable fact, if one allows for a little blurring about what constitutes emergence. The simplest dividing line between the two worlds is in screen capacity.The markets of the ...
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Karlovy Vary announces competition line-up
The 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) has announced its final line-up.The festival will conclude July 12 with a gala screening of Mamma Mia!, Phyllida Lloyd's adaptation of the musical inspired by the music of Abba.As previously reported, Barry Levinson's What Just Happened' will open the festival July 4.Robert ...
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Eye Of The Sun takes Taormina honours
Egyptian film maker Ibrahim El Batout's Eye Of The Sun (Ein Shams) won the Golden Tauro for best film atSicily's Taormina Film Festival.The film was part of the festival's main 'Mediterranean' competition section.Eye Of The Sun, El Batout's second film focuses on a taxi driver named Ramadan whose routes through ...
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Paramount gets to $1bn in domestic grosses in record time
Paramount Pictures has crossed the $1bn mark in domestic ticket sales in record time just days after its international division PPI achieved the same feat. Paramount becomes the first studio to reach the milestone this year and bettered the old record by three weeks.The studio was the first to reach ...
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IAC, Bregman head for Goldcoast with Pacino
The UK's IAC Films is set to handle $65m drama The Goldcoast, starring Al Pacino, through a development and production venture with US producer Martin Bregman.The adaptation of a novel by Nelson Demille is to be directed by Harold Becker next summer in New York. Bregman's credits include Pluto Nash, ...
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Man On Wire, American Teen among winners at Nantucket
FM Strype's Anna Down East won Showtime's Tony Cox Screenplay Competition as the 13th Annual Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) came to a close on Sunday (June 22).Showtime's Tony Cox Award For Screenwriting was presented to Daniel Schechter for Goodbye Baby, while the second annual Adrienne Shelley Excellence In Filmmaking Award ...
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Chapa to star in Gangster for his own Amadeus Pictures
Amadeus Pictures is lining up a July start in Los Angeles for its action adventure Mexican Gangster starring company founder and president Damian Chapa.Mexican Gangster is based on the true story of Johnny Sun, an ex-con who struggles to break free from his former life of crime.Christine Manoukian, Romanian newcomer ...
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Ballast, Frozen River win top prizes at Provincetown Film Festival
Ballast director Lance Hammer won the John Schlesinger Award for a first time film-maker as the 10th Provincetown Film Festival came to a close at the weekend.Another Sundance premiere, Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, won the audience award for best feature while Irena Salina's FLOW: For Love Of Water took the ...
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Academy welcomes 105 new members including Cotillard, Haneke
The Academy Of Arts & Sciences has welcomed 105 new members into its hallowed ranks representing 'artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.'Among the new members were Oscar winners from 2007 such as Marion Cotillard (best actress), Diablo Cody (best original screenplay), Didier ...