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Svenska Bio strikes deal to acquire Astoria Cinemas
Swedish insolvent cinema circuit, Astoria Cinemas - once the country's second-largest theatre chain - has been sold to Svenska Bio, which is 49% controlled by Svensk Filmindustri (SF), a sister company of market leader SF Bio. After the deal, with Svenska Bio, Bonnier-owned SF and SF Bio account for almost ...
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Ben Kingsley to head cast of Levine's The Wackness for Occupant
Los Angeles-based Occupant Films has cast Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, Mary Kate Olsen, Olivia Thirlby and Method Man in its upcoming comedy The Wackness.Jonathan Levine, whose debut feature All The Boys Love Mandy Lane was Occupant Films' hit maiden launch at Toronto 2006 and will now be released ...
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IFC acquires domestic theatrical and TV to Joe Strummer doc
IFC Entertainment has acquired North American theatrical and television rights from Sony BMG Music Entertainment to Julien Temple's documentary Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten.The film launched at Sundance and chronicles Strummer's life from diplomatic corps brat to influential band leader of The Clash and The Mescaleros, before his death ...
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Maryam Keshavarz gets inaugural Adrienne Shelly grant
The Sundance Institute in collaboration with The Adrienne Shelly Foundation has awarded the inaugural Adrienne Shelly Foundation Women Filmmakers Grant to Maryam Keshavarz.The Adrienne Shelly Foundation will provide a $5,000 grant to be awarded by Sundance Institute each July to a film-maker coming out of the Feature Film Progamme's June ...
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Cinema Epoch picks up US rights to Limousin's Young Yakuza
US distributor Cinema Epoch has picked up Jean-Pierre Limosin's Young Yakuza, which played in official selection at Cannes this summer, and plans a January 2008 release.Filmed over an 18-month period, Young Yakuza explores the Japanese criminal underworld by contrasting the lives of a 20-year-old initiate and his boss.Celluloid Dreams' Hengameh ...
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HFPA gives grants totalling $1.2m to film schools and non-profits
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association today (Thursday) today held its annual installation luncheon in Beverly Hills and presented $1.2m in financial grants to 28 film schools and non-profit organizations.
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Toronto names 13 new titles in Discovery programme
The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled 13 films in the Discovery programme to accompany the previously announced Those Three.The new titles are: David Ross' US drama The Babysitters, about a teenager that turns a babysitting service into a call girl ring; Tamar van den Dop's Netherlands/Belgium/Bulgaria romance Blind; Israel ...
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PorchLight launches non-family unit Condor Releasing
US-based PorchLight Entertainment has launched worldwide distribution and home entertainment division Condor Releasing.The new venture will handle projects that fall outside PorchLight's family entertainment constituency and launches with its first acquisition, the thriller Towards Darkness with America Ferrera.The Golden Globe winner served as executive producer on Antonio Negret's film, a ...
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Bourne starts international Ultimatum
Universal/UPI's domestic smash The Bourne Ultimatumopens in 11 territories as it starts its overseas campaign. The keyterritories are Hong Kong on Aug 8, South Africa on Aug 10, and Taiwanon Aug 11.UPI's comedy Evan Almighty, currently on $15.6m, opens in eight territories including Germany on Aug 9.Both The Simpsons Movie ...
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Death Note spin-off L to get same-day release across Asia
L, the spin-off of the successful Death Note series, is slated to open simultaneously in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan on Feb 9, 2008.The pan-Asian release strategy is the widest of its kind for a Japanese film, with more countries possibly signing on. Previous sequel Death Note 2: The ...
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Eichinger's Baader-Meinhof Komplex begins shooting in Berlin
Bernd Eichinger's ambitious production of Uli Edel's Der Baader Meinhof Komplex has begun principal photography in Berlin and will continue shooting later at locations in Munich and Morocco before wrapping at the end of November.This weekend, the adaptation of Stefan Aust's standard work on the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorism ...
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Kinowelt takes over Cine-International catalogue
Kinowelt International has taken over the film catalogue of the Munich-based sales agent Cine-International which declared insolvency last month.The transaction was concluded by the Kinowelt subsidiary Futura Film Weltvertrieb im Filmverlag der Autoren with the insolvency administrator Oliver Schartl.Cine-International's library includes such films as Joseph Vilsmaier's Autumn Milk (Herbstmilch), Helma ...
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The Luzhin Defence
Dir: Marleen Gorris. UK. 2000. 110mins.Prod cos: Renaissance, ICE3. Co-prods: Lantia, Magic Media. US dist: Sony Picture Classics. UK dist: Entertainment Film Distribs. Int'l sales: Renaissance Films, tel: (44) 20 7287 5190. Exec prod: Jody Patton. Prods: Caroline Wood, Stephen Evans, Louis Becker, Philippe Guez. Scr: Peter Berry, based on ...
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Edinburgh works with Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation
The Edinburgh International Film Festival will present two films from Martin Scorsese's new non-profit World Cinema Foundation.EIFF artistic director Hannah McGill said the festival will screen Moroccan documentary Transes and Brazilian feature Limite, both restored by the foundation (Limite will be presented partially restored).The screenings are the first public showings ...
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San Sebastian plans New Nordic Cinema programme
The San Sebastian Film Festival is planning a New Nordic Cinema retrospective of 38 films.Cold Fever will look at post-Dogme cinema in the five Nordic countries since 1995. Danish critic Christian Monggaard will write an accompanying book.Selections include Lars Von Trier's Breaking The Waves, Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher, Susanne Bier's ...
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Shyam Benegal to get India's top film honours
Indian Film Company chairman Shyam Benegal has received this year's Dada Saheb Phalke Award, India's highest honour for cinema.Indian President Pratibha Patil will present the award, along with a cash prize, to Benegal later this year. Benegal is the director of classics including Ankur, Nishant, Kalyug and Bhumika. He currently ...
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Posne to leave post as CEO of Sonet Film
After 23 years as CEO of Sonet Film, the leading Swedish producer-distributor owned by Modern Times Group, Peter Posne is leaving the company. As of Jan 1, 2008, he will be replaced by head of legal affairs and deputy manager Mathias Berggren.Originally Posne set up Sonet to import and distribute ...
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Sparkle
Dir/Scr: Tom Hunsinger & Neil Hunter UK. 2007. 104minsTom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter have built a reputation for making exceedingly engaging, increasingly polished ensemble pieces on the vagaries and vulnerabilities of the human heart. Despite critical acclaim for Boyfriends (1996) and especially The Lawless Heart (2001), they have yet to ...
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Cinecitta copes with fire on back lot
A fire broke out on Rome's Cinecitta studios back lot Thursday night at 22:00 local time.'Last night, a fire developed around Cinecitta Studios, exclusively affecting a peripheral part of the back lot where sets are constructed in open air,' the famed studio's Friday statement read.'The fire originated inside a tent ...
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UTV partners with Virgin for new superhero books and films
India-based UTV Motion Pictures and its SpotBoy production arm are working with Virgin Comics, a division of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, to collaborate on four new superhero franchises. The brands will be leveraged across publishing, film, animation and gaming. The stories will initially be released as graphic novels published worldwide ...