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PIFF to expand to LA, launch TV channel
The Pusan International FilmFestival is collaborating with JoongAng Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) to setup a Los Angeles edition of the festival and also launch aPIFF-branded cable channel in South Korea. The two partners, along withthe JoongAng group's LA-based newspaper KoreaDaily, plan to hold the first edition of the tentatively titled "PIFF ...
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UK Film Council gives P&A support to Volver
The UK Film Council hasannounced the latest funding recipients from its Prints and Advertising(P&A) Fund. The latest distributors andfilms supported include:$470,500 (£250,000) to Pathefor Pedro Almodovar's Volver $297,363 (£158,000) toOptimum Releasing for Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth$282,367 (£150,000) to Iconfor Michele Placido's Romanzo Criminale$200,254 (£106,380) to UIPfor ...
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New fees and passes planned for Berlin market
The organisers of nextyear's European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin (Feb 8-18, 2007) will now be offering film professionals three waysof attending the market.As EFM deputy director KarenArikian told ScreenDaily.com, the EFMwill have "alternatives which were not in place before. For example, forthe first time, we are offering EFM attendees ...
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Fortissimo boards world sales for No Regret
Fortissimo Films has pickedup worldwide sales rights outside Korea to No Regret from DCG+ and Generation Blue Films.New film-maker LeesongHee-Il's film deals with the romance between a male escort and a man from highsociety, played by Lee Han and Lee Young-Hoon.Yoonhee Choi, managingdirector of Korean sales company Film Messenger, on ...
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Wenders and Tykwer to celebrate 40th Hof Film Days
WimWenders, Tom Tykwer and Aki Kaurismaki will be among the film-makerscelebrating the 40th anniversary of the Hof Film Days, which opens today with MarcusH. Rosenmueller's comedy Schwere Jungs.WhileWenders and Tykwer will be coming to Hof for screenings of their films Paris, Texas and Deadly Maria (DieToedliche Maria) as part of ...
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Perry-Melish, Piano join website Reelplay.com
International film sales business-to-business website Reelplay.com has made some key appointments from the film world to join its team.- Chris Perry-Melish, formerly president of international sales at Kushner-Locke Co, has been named senior vice president of sales. Perry-Melish previously held sales and distribution posts at Conquistador Entertainment, Prism Entertainment and ...
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Animaker plans Finland's highest-budget feature
Following Help! I'm a Fish and The Ugly Duckling And Me!,Danish director Michael Hegner stays in animal kingdom for his next feature, The Way To The Stars.Staged by Finnish productionhouse Animaker, and co-directed by Finnish director Kari Juusonen, the $7.7m(Euros 6.1m) CGI-animated feature - the most expensive productionever in Finland ...
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Industry finds first Rome Film Fest unique from Venice
As the Rome Film Festprepares to wrap its first edition on Saturday, the fears that it could not co-exist with Venice seem to have dissipated. .Although, of course, there remainsthe contentious issue of Rome's datesto be settled. Gaettano Blandini, General Director of Cinema at Italy's Culture Ministry told ScreenDaily.com the ...
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David Lean classics to be restored by 2008
The BFI National Archive andGranada International have announced a new plan to restore and preserve eightclassics by David Lean before 2008, the centenary of his birth.The David Lean Foundationhas funded the initiative, which will preserve In Which We Serve (1942), ThisHappy Breed (1944), Blithe Spirit(1945), Brief Encounter (1945), Great Expectations ...
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EFP again hosts umbrella office at AFM
European Film Promotion isfor the ninth year running an umbrella office for European sales companies atthe American Film Market (Nov 1-8).This year, the EFP office(Loews room 504) will host 16 industry professionals from eight countries. Participating companies are:Austria's EastWest, Belgium's PPA - Walter Ertvelt and Banana Films, the CzechRepublic's Simply ...
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Alliance Atlantis puts MPD on the block
Alliance Atlantis Communications has hung a for sale sign onits majority-owned releasing arm, Motion Picture Distribution (MPD). The decision, announced today, to "explore ownershipalternatives" comes after months of speculation and much internal acrimony. InJuly of this year MPD chairman Victor Loewy and two senior MPD executivesabruptly left the company amidst ...
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IFC Films goes AMERICANese
IFC Entertainment has taken all North American rights to EricByler's AMERICANese,and will release the relationship drama through IFC First Take in 2007.Byler wrote and directed the feature, which receives itsEast Coast premiere this weekend at the Hamptons International Film Festivaland earlier this year won the audience award for best narrative ...
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Academy Foundation gives $290,000 to US-based film festivals
The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts andSciences has allocated $290,000 in grants among 27 US festivals for calendaryear 2007.Separately three festivals - the Los Angeles Film Festival, theSan Francisco International Film Festival and Telluride Ð have received $50,000each under a multi-year grant programme to fund long-term ...
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Santa Barbara festival names Will Smith a Modern Master
Will Smith will receive the 2007 Santa Barbara International FilmFestival's Modern Master Award.Smith stars in this season's upcoming drama The Pursuit OfHappyness and hiscredits include Men In Black, I Robot, Independence Day, and Hitch.Previous recipients of the award include Michael Douglas,Peter Jackson, Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Penn, Jeff Bridges, ...
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Pacino to receive AFI's 35th Life Achievement Award
Al Pacino will receive the 35th AFI Life Achievement Award at agala tribute in Los Angeles on Jun 7, 2007."Al Pacino is an icon of American film," HowardStringer, chair of the AFI board of trustees, said. "He has created someof the great characters in the movies Ð from Michael Corleone ...
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Rome riches go to Russia's Playing The Victim
Russian drama Playing TheVictim (Izobrajaya Zhertvy) wasawarded the top Marco Aurelio prize at the Rome Film Fest's first editiontoday. The prize (awarded by a juryof fifty 50 Roman filmgoers led by Ettore Scola) includes a large cash prize of$252,310 (Euros 200,000), which was awarded to the film's director KirillSerebrennikov. Playing ...
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Gladiator passes $350m in worldwide grosses
Ridley Scott's Gladiator which was co-financed by DreamWorks SKG and Universal Pictures has crossed the $350m mark at the worldwide box office. Its international gross through Universal/UIP is now at $180m and rising, surpassing the $171m it has generated domestically on its DreamWorks release.The movie is to date the year's ...
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Hong Kong's Focus Films picks up Malaysian duo
Hong Kong's Focus Films hastaken on the international sales rights to two Malaysian films - Tan Chui Mui'sdebut feature Love Conquers All and Yasmin Ahmad's latest film Mukhsin. Both films are currentlyplaying in the Winds of Asia section of the Tokyo International Film Festival. Love Conquers All, which won ...
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The Prestige opens top for Buena Vista in North America
Christopher Nolan's period mystery The Prestige starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackmanbeat out Clint Eastwood's wartime saga Flags Of Our Fathers at the domestic box office over theweekend.The Prestige is an intrigue-laden tale about rival magicians and opened numberone domestically through Buena Vista on an estimated $14.8m.Flags Of Our Fathers, ...
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Screenwriting guru Field to receive honour from Big Break Awards
Syd Field will collect Final Draft's 2006 Hall Of FameAward at the 7th Annual Big Break! Awards in Hollywood on Oct 26.Winners of the Big Break! International Screenwriting Contest willalso be announced at the event.The Hall of Fame Award recognises entertainment industry luminarieswho foster the art of scriptwriting and nurture ...