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Splendid acquires majority stake in Enteractive
Germany's Splendid Medien has acquired an 85% stake in newly-launched multimedia company Enteractive which specialises in developing content for DVD and internet distribution. The company was founded by Hans Henseleit who holds the remaining 15%. He previously worked for DVD mastering company K-Kontor. "Exploitation of content via DVD and internet ...
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Reviews
The Living and the Dead (Zivi I Mirtvi)
Dir: Kristijan Milic. Bosnia-Herzegovina/Croatia, 2007. 90 mins.The winner of theGrand Prixat The 54th Pula Film Festival,garnering seven awards in total (including best picture and director), The Living and the Dead is a striking examination of war-fever, unadulterated and Balkan-style. Kristijan Milic's debut film will strike a familiar chordwith its own ...
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Bong Joon-ho begins shoot on his part of Tokyo omnibus
The Host director Bong Joon-ho this week started shooting Shaking Tokyo, starring Japanese actress Aoi Yu as his segment of the multinational Tokyo omnibus. Following in the steps of Paris Je T'aime, the Tokyo project has three directors - Bong, Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), and Leos ...
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Fortissimo takes international rights to Israeli doc Children Of The Sun
Fortissimo Films hasacquiredinternational sales rights outside Israel and North America to Lama Films'documentary Children Of The Sun, directed by Ran Tal.Thefilm follows the lives of people brought up in the Kibbutzim in 1920s and 30s Israel.The film premiered to critical acclaim at the Jerusalem Film Festival, where it won a ...
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Yablans' Promenade launches with The Ten Commandments
Former Paramount president Frank Yablans' Promenade Pictures will enter the US theatrical distribution arena with the 3-D CGI feature The Ten Commandments on Oct 26.The film is the first in the 12-title Epic Stories Of The Bible series to be launched by the family-oriented production and distribution outfit.Each film will ...
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Ang Lee's Lust, Caution gets NC-17 rating in US
Focus Features said today [Aug 23] that it will not contest a ruling by the Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) to award Ang Lee's Lust, Caution an NC-17 rating.MPAA officers had not returned calls at time of writing, however the ruling is believed to be in response to the ...
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AFI executive vice president Estrin steps down
The American Film Institute's executive vice president Jonathan Estrin will depart his post after three years on Sept 28 to pursue other opportunities.Estrin will continue as a consultant for AFI on a variety of projects. During his tenure he was instrumental in designing the AFI Dallas International Film Festival and ...
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Medem, Babenco films confirmed for Rome competition
The Rome Film Festival has announced several titles confirmed for its second edition, which takes place October 18-27 in the Italian capital.Argentinian film-maker Hector Babenco's The Past (El Pasado) starring Gael Garcia Bernal as well as Spanish director Julio Medem's Chaotic Ana (Caotica Ana) are both confirmed for Rome's main ...
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Kitano to receive newly-created director prize in Venice
The Venice International Film Festival has announced that director Takeshi Kitano will be the inaugural recipient of the newly-created 'Glory To The Filmmaker Prize'. The prize is named after Kitano's latest feature Glory To The Filmmaker! (Kantoku Banzai!) and will be awarded for recognition of directorial talent. Kitano is set ...
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China 2007 box office expected to reach $400m
As the number of cinemas and admissions continues to grow, China's 2007 boxoffice is expected to break the $400m (RMB3bn) milestone, industry players have estimated. According to monthly statistics from the Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), total box office for the first half ...
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IN THE HOT SEAT - VLADIMIR GUSINSKY
Media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky has survived the Russian government's sustained assault on his media empire, which encompasses film, TV and press, and even made political capital out of this recent arrest and imprisonment. But has President Vladimir Putin succeeded in reining in one of his most vocal opponents' Anna Franklin ...
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Bavaria acquires international rights to Toronto title Encarnacion
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has picked up international rights for Argentinean filmmaker Anahi Berneri's latest film Encarnacion which will be having its world premiere in the Visions sidebar of the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. The co-production between Argentina's BD Cine and Spain's Wanda Filmes about an aging actress trying ...
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Schoettle moves sideways from Sprockets to TIFF
Jane Schoettle, the founding director of Sprockets International Film Festival for Children, is stepping down from her position after 10 years to expand her programming activities at the Toronto International Film Festival. TIFFG will soon post an international talent search for Schoettle's replacement. A candidate is expected to be announced ...
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Montreal festival's Cauchard lambasts Telefilm's Clarkson
The Montreal World Film Festival opened with a bang on Thursday with the festival's second-in-command calling for the government of Canada to intervene on behalf of the beleagured event.In her welcoming address, festival vice-president Danielle Cauchard called on Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper to give Telefilm Canada executive director Wayne ...
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Corbijn takes major honours at Edinburgh
Anton Corbijn's Control emerged as one of the major winners at the 61st Edinburgh International Film Festival. Corbijn's stunning monochrome biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis was one of the discoveries at Cannes this year and has continued to build critical acclaim and industry buzz. In Edinburgh it won ...
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Opinion -getting in the grown-ups
Getting the grown-ups in is becoming a healthy obsession for distributors and theatres. Venice film festival head Marco Mueller celebrates the change in Screen this week (See Venice buzz, p16-20): 'Just four years ago, to think that Universal would put an opening film in competition (Atonement) ... or that Warner ...
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Bring on the class action
After a summer in which most of the films had the number three after them, the Hollywood studios and their specialised divisions are preparing for the deluge of prestige movies that comprise the so-called awards season - high-profile, director-led features which are being carefully groomed for prime positions in the ...
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Features
United States - Planting Marigold
Since setting up its US distribution operation last year, Indian entertainment giant Adlabs has released a swathe of Bollywood pictures to US-based Indian audiences, including sci-fi box-office hit Krrish, which took $2.2m across North America.Now, the company is gearing up for its first ever release to US mainstream theatres, with ...
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United States - Tales: Take two
I feel like the pilot of a 747 that's been flying through a hurricane and is finally coming in to land," Richard Kelly says of his most recent film, Southland Tales.It has been two years since Kelly began production on his labyrinthine black comedy-cum-thriller, about the Apocalypse, set in Southern ...