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Handpicked lines up financing for 11 films with Ginepri
Michel Shane and Anthony Romano's Los Angeles-based Handpicked Films has secured multi-year financing for several slates backed by New York based hedge fund Ginepri Capital Partners. The initial Ginepri Motion Picture Slate of 11 films is valued at approximately $110m and Shane and Romano will act as executive directors and ...
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Vito Rocco's MySpace winner Faintheart starts shooting
Faintheart, the winning film in the MySpace MyMovieMashUp competition, is starting principal photography this week.Director Vito Rocco beat out 800 other hopefuls in the contest to get his film greenlit with a budget of $2m (£1m). The project, being billed as 'the world's first user-generated feature film,' is a romantic ...
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Roxburgh's Romulus leads Australian Film Institute nominees
Actor Richard Roxburgh's debut film as a director, Romulus, My Father, leads the nominees for the Dec 6 Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards.Romulus, The Home Song Stories, Lucky Miles and Noise have been nominated for best film. Roxburgh has been nominated best director, alongside Tony Ayres for the Home Song ...
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Ascot picks up three: Boarding Gate, Fido and Opium
Ahead of this year's American Film Market, Switzerland's Ascot Elite Entertainment Group has picked up all German language rights on three titles. The new acquisitions are:Olivier Assayas' erotic thriller Boarding Gate, starring Asia Argento and Michael Madsen, from Magnet; Andrew Currie's satirical comedy Fido, with Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly and ...
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TIFFCOM: Nonzee's Chao Phraya River wins TPG award
Thai director Nonzee Nimibutr's Just As Chao Phraya River Flows picked up the first ever Tokyo Project Gathering (TPG) Award at the conclusion of the TIFFCOM market on Wednesday night (Oct 24). Presented by Sony PCL vice president Yuji Takizawa, who is also director of the Skip City International Digital ...
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City Of Men (Cidade Dos Homens O Filme)
Dir: Paulo Morelli, Brazil, 106minsA touching coming-of-age story set against the violence and poverty of Rio's favelas, City of Men is the final instalment in a cycle of work inspired by Fernando Meirelles' City of God. Featuring characters from the three-year-running TV series City of Men that was commissioned following ...
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Fortissimo takes on Chorus Line doc Every Little Step
Fortissimo Films has taken worldwide sales rights (excluding North America and Japan) to Every Little Step: The Journey Of a Phenomenon from Endgame Entertainment. The deal was negotiated between Fortissimo's co-chairman Michael J. Werner and Greg Schenz of Endgame Entertainment. Fortissimo will start pre-sales at next week's American Film Market. ...
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Fabrica Cinema launches television arm
Benetton-funded production company Fabrica Cinema plans to launch a television production arm to be headed by director Marco Bellocchio and Fabrica director and former Locarno festival chief Marco Mueller."Fabrica Television is borne out of the necessity to double our efforts to create visibility for films otherwise regarded as marginal," said ...
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Ardant and Depardieu to shoot Hello, Goodbye in Israel
Fanny Ardant and Gerard Depardieu will travel to Israel in November to shoot new French featureHello, Goodbye (working title).The stars reunite after appearing together in Truffaut's The Woman Next Door and Anne Fontaine's Nathalie.In Hello, Goodbye, Ardant and Depardieu will play a married Jewish couple living in Paris who undergo ...
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Image Entertainment shareholders approve BTP deal
North American home entertainment company Image Entertainment announced that its stockholders have approved the amended agreement for Image to be acquired by BTP Acquisition Company. The merger is expected to close by Nov 6. The revised agreement will give shareholders $4.68 per share in cash. In March, Image agreed to ...
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Wes Anderson to get visionary award at 18th Stockholm festival
The Stockholm International Film Festival, has programmed 170 films from 40 countreis for its 18th edition (Nov 15-25) Festival director Git Scheynius announced that Wes Anderson will receive the Stockholm Visionary Award 2007. Anderson will attend the festival to introduce his latest film, The Darjeeling Limited, and fellow US director ...
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Golden Network carries Case, Peach Blossom to AFM
Hong Kong-based sales agent Golden Network Asia has picked up worldwide rights excluding mainland China to two titles from Chinese producer Lola Zhang's Yunnan New Film Project - Wang Fen's The Case and Peach Blossom Land, to be directed by Huang Ruxiang. Golden Network's Carrie Wong will be selling both ...
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Fabicki wins $42,000 prize at Rome New Cinema Network
Polish filmmaker Slawomir Fabicki has been awarded the Best New European Project for Bonobo Jingo at Rome Film Festival's New Cinema Network. The award comes with $42,600 (Euros 30,000) in production funds sponsored by Mini. The jury, headed by Osca- winning producer Cedomir Kolar (No Man's Land), Italian producer Rosanna ...
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Shochiku closes raft of Asian sales on Midnight Eagle
On the last day of the TIFFCOM market, Japanese studio Shochiku announced that it has closed a raft of Asian sales on action thriller Midnight Eagle, which opened the Tokyo International Film Festival last week. Among deals concluded at the market, Dong-A Export Co bought the film for South Korea, ...
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Australia's documentary film-makers could get $18m boost
Australian documentary makers are hoping to eventually get $18m (A$20m) per year for production and marketing from philanthropists and corporate donors thanks to the creation of the Australian Documentary Foundation. Documentary Australia was launched tonight in Sydney and aims to educate the two sectors about each other through a comprehensive ...
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Little Film Co to unveil Nettlebeck's English-language debut at AFM
Los Angeles-based production and sales company The Little Film Company has begun principal photography in Vancouver on Sandra Nettelbeck's drama Helen starring Ashley Judd, Goran Visnjic and Lauren Lee Smith.Nettelbeck's English-language debut centres on a seemingly happy woman who harbours a dark secret that threatens to disrupt her entire life.Germany's ...
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Horrorfest scares up US theatrical outlet for Mulberry Street
Belladonna Productions' Tribeca Film Festival entry Mulberry Street will get a US theatrical release through the After Dark Horrorfest.After Dark acquired rights from Lionsgate, which retains domestic home entertainment rights. Media 8 is handling international sales.Jim Mickle directed the story of a mysterious sickness that turns New York City residents ...
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Caviezel stars in Arclight's remake of Long Weekend
Jim Caviezel and Claudia Karvan will star in Arclight Films' thriller remake Long Weekend, which is scheduled to begin shooting in Australia in mid-November.The company's genre label Darclight is handling worldwide distribution and will commence pre-sales at AFM.Jamie Blanks, whose credits include Urban Legend and Storm Warning, is directing based ...
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Young French stay away from cinemas
Fewer young people are going to the movies in France, according to a CNC report assessing the cinema-going habits of 6-24 year olds, the "golden age group". But fortunately those who do go, go more often than before, mostly due to the multiplex boom. It is finally dawning on the ...
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Miller leads trio of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment promotions
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has promoted three executives in the company's international group, led by T Paul Miller's appointment as senior vice president of international and general manager of emerging markets.Also elevated in the corporate ranks are Claude Borna, promoted to vice president of retail marketing, Europe, and Orrie ...