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GreeneStreet sells The Nines on back of Venice Critics Week screening
Ariel Veneziano of GreeneStreet Films International has closed a slew of sales in Venice on John August's feature directorial debut The Nines.Rights have gone to: Argentina (Telexcel), Brazil (Playarte), Eastern Europe (Blue Sky), Greece (Village Roadshow), Iceland (Sena), Israel (Forum Film), the Middle East (Italia Film), Portugal (Castelo Lopes), Scandinavia ...
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Nic Balthazar's Ben X conquers Montreal
Nic Balthazar's Belgium-Netherlands coproduction Ben X was the toast of Montreal as the debut film-maker took the audience award, the Ecumenical Prize and shared top competition honours with Claude Miller's A Secret as the 31st Montreal World Film Festival wrapped on Monday night. The story of a young autistic man's ...
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Sony Pictures returns to German-language production
Sony Pictures is making a comeback to the production of German-language feature films after acquiring the film rights to Tommy Jaud's bestselling second novel Resturlaub.The comedy about a German brewery manager's dream of beginning a new life at the other end of the world in Argentina has already sold more ...
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Silk to close curtains at Tokyo InternationalFilm Festival
The Tokyo International Film Festival (October 20-28) has announced that François Girard's Silk will be the closing film of this year's 20th edition. The $26m Canadian-Italian-Japanese co-production stars Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho, Alfred Molina, Miki Nakatani and newcomer Sei Ashina, who won the part through an audition of ...
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Into The Wild
Dir: Sean Penn. US. 2007. 148mins.Sean Penn's fourth feature as a director is as exhilarating as it is unwieldy, a sprawling hymn to nature, humanity and personal freedom which firmly establishes the much-feted actor as a film-maker of vision. Shining an affectionate light on the drifters and counter-culturalists living in ...
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Finnish producers ready to strike over film subsidy
Finnish film production will be brought to a halt if the government does not fulfil a alleged promise of an extra $1.6m (Euros 1.2m) subsidy. At a press conference in Helsinki, 30 feature film producers announcedthey will not start new projects until their demand has been met. 'If not they ...
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Lolafilms, Kinowelt make Rain together in Iowa
Marking their first co-production since announcing their share-swapping production and distribution pact at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Spain's Lolafilms is joining forces with Germany's Kinowelt to make Rain, an English-language American-set project to which Martin Scorsese is attached as executive producer. The film will be a 50-50 co-production between ...
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Movies from 26 countries compete for European Film Awards
Cristian Mungiu's Palme D'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Chris Kraus Golden Lola-winner Four Minutes, Shane Meadows' This Is England and Tom Tykwer's Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer are among 42 films competing for this year's European Film Awards.Unlike previous years, no major film nation ...
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Halloween
Dir: Rob Zombie US 2007 110mins Rob Zombie's're-imagining' of the original Halloween replaces the atmospheric suspense of John Carpenter's 1978 slasher classic with plodding gonzo horror that offers plenty of blood but not much of the rocker-turned-filmmaker's usual gory flair. Still, the combination of Zombie with one of the horror ...
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Joffe finishes shooting You And I
Roland Joffe has wrapped principal photographyin Moscow on hiscoming-of-age drama You And I. Previously titled Finding t.A.T.u, the adaptation of Alexei Mitrofanov's Russian bestseller, is a stylistic departure forthe director of The Killing Fields and The Mission. Shot entirely on location in and around Moscow,the film starsMischa Barton and newcomer ...
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Jia Zhangke on track with Chinese doc 24 Cities
Golden Lion winning director Jia Zhangke, whose new documentary Useless about clothing designer Ma Ke screened in Venice's Orizzonti, has revealed further details of his next dramatic feature, which he is planning to have ready in time for the Olympic Games.The project (provisionally titled 24 Cities) follows four women working ...
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It's A Free World
Ken Loach UK/Germany/Italy/Spain/Poland,/ 2007, 96 minutesKen Loach is back in familiar groove in It's A Free World. This is a small-scale but often affecting and very well observed film in the vein of The Navigators, Riff-Raff and Raining Stones. It may not be vintage Loach (there are moments of improbability ...
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Pusan boasts premiere-packed programme
The 12th Pusan International Film Festival (Oct 4-12) has announced a 275 film line-up from 64 countries - with 193 world, international or Asian premieres. 'This shows how far the Pusan festival has come in establishing itself,' said Asian Cinema programmer Kim Ji-seok. 'We're very proud to announce that all ...
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Wolfson named as part-time director of Rotterdam
In a surprise move, the Board of the International Film Festival Rotterdam has appointed Rutger Wolfson as director of the forthcoming January 2008 edition.However, the 37-year-old Wolfson will be doing the job on a part-time basis and his appointment is for one year only. While overseeing IFFR, Wolfson will also ...
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Lumina sells German-speaking Europe on Donkey Punch to Universum
London-based Lumina Films has sold German-speaking rights to Olly Blackburn's British thriller Donkey Punch to Universum Film.The film, produced by Warp X, is now in post-production and is scheduled for a summer 2008 release in the UK by Optimum Releasing.Produced by Angus Lamont, Mark Herbert and Robin Gutch, the film ...
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Publicist Robert Garlock dies in New York at 41
Robert Garlock, the well-known New York-based publicist has died at the age of 41 of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was most recently head of the talent division at 42West where he represented clients including Penelope Cruz, Hugh Grant, Clive Owen, Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver, Hilary Swank and Kate Winslet,Garlock ...
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Wild Bunch announces equity boost and $150m joint venture
French sales, distribution and financing outfit Wild Bunch has raised $34m (Euros 25m) in equity and announced a $150m co-production and acquisition venture with US investment group Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC). CEC is providing most of the new capital with additional support from capital risk fund Iris Capital, which is ...
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Spengler to kick off Humanoides slate with Luchadores 5
Superman producer Pierre Spengler has announced plans for his next comic book adaptation, Luchadores 5. The film is the first in Spengler's previously announced 12-film slate with the European comic book/graphic novel publisher Les Humanoides Associes.Former Humanoids chief executive and Spengler's producing partner in Clubdeal, F Alexander Giger, will also ...
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Sony acquires US ancillary rights to D-War
Shim Hyung-rae, director and producer of Korean fantasy actioner D-War, has announced a deal with Sony Pictures for US video, DVD and TV rights to the film. The film has grossed over $51.5m since opening on Aug 1 in South Korea. A former slapstick comedian, now head of his own ...
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Chan makes English-language debut with Don't Look Up
Distant Horizon has announced that award-winning Hong Kong director Fruit Chan will direct the English-language remake of Japanese filmmaker Hideo Nakata's Don't Look Up. The company's president Anant Singh also announced that the film will be produced in association with Japan 's Action 5. One of Nakata's early films before ...