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Michael Sheen to host Britannia Awards in LA
Michael Sheen, who portrayed the former British Prime Minster Tony Blair in The Queen, will host the 16th Annual BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 1.Sheen, who recently appeared as a presenter at the Hollywood Film Awards, will next be seen in the drama Music Within and ...
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Vue to open $10m new all-digital 10-screen complex in Hull
Vue Entertainment says it plans to launch Europe's first newly built fully digital cinema.Vue has invested $10m in the Princes Quay development in Hull, with the 10-screen all-digital cinema to open Dec 14.Vue Hull will be equipped with the latest in digital projection technology, including a 10 Terabyte server that ...
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Akin's The Edge Of Heaven wins Europe's first LUX Prize
Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven, Germany's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, is the first winner of the European Parliament's new LUX Prize. The inaugural award was presented to the film's producer Klaus Maeck and actress Hanna Schygulla at a plenary session of the parliament in ...
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StudioCanal adds new films from Jaoui, Lepage, Bruno and Nicolas
StudioCanal has added several films to its line up heading into next week's American Film Market. Award-winning actor-director Agnes Jaoui returns to directing with relationship comedy Let It Rain starring Jamel Debbouze, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Jaoui herself. The film is currently in production with rights available worldwide. Also in production ...
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Irish scheme shortlists 10 for low-budget features
Catalystproject, the new Irish low-budget feature scheme, has selected its shortlist of 10 film-making teams, three of which will be greenlit. Catalystproject was launched with a series of seminars earlier this year, with 270 participant writers, producers and directors selected from nearly 400 applicants. Filmmakers participated in a series of ...
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Amnesty and MySpace back premiere of Abu-Jamal doc
MySpace and Amnesty International are backing the simultaneous world premiere tonight of documentary In Prison My Whole Life at both the Times bfi London Film Festival and the Rome Film Fest. Marc Evans, whose Snow Cake opened the Berlinale in 2006, directs. Livia Firth and Nick Goodwin Self produce, with ...
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Kitano sets up rival Tokyo festival
Office Kitano, the production, distribution and promotion team built around offbeat Japanese actor-director (Beat) Takeshi Kitano, has launched a new festival of Asian and independent film.The establishment of the festival is seen as something of a backlash against the growing commercialism of the long-established Tokyo International Film Festival, which this ...
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Skouras, Blackwatch buy the world on Tully
Skouras Films and Blackwatch Releasing have jointly acquired worldwide rights to Hilary Birmingam's directorial debut The Truth About Tully, the major prize winner at this year's Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (LAIFF) when it was known as Whatever Happened To Tully.Skouras plans to release the film in the US in ...
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Sweden's Yellow Bird plans $15m Millennium trilogy
The late Swedish author Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, which has sold almost two million books in Sweden, will be filmed by Sweden 's Yellow Bird on a $15.4m (Euros 10.7m) budget. Swedish actors Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace will star in the three thrillers filled with action and courtroom drama, ...
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Earth to open Brazil's Amazonas Film Festival
Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield's Earth will open the fourth annual Amazonas Film Festival in Manaus, Brazil. The announcement came as the festival unveiled its feature and documentary film competitions as well as its symposium for the 2007 edition which runs Nov 9-15. The UK-Germany co-production, a feature-length companion to ...
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Wales agencies plan Greenlighting conference in November
The Film Agency For Wales and MEDIA Antenna Wales are planning a two-day Greenlighting Your Film conference in Cardiff Nov 12-13.The event will consist of talks, panels and case-study discussions. Speakers will include Angus Finney, Graham Begg, Ivana MacKinnon, Tom Roberts, Mare Evans, and Rebekah Gilbertson.'From polishing the script to ...
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TF1 adds Spike Lee's Miracle and David Morey's Mutants
TF1 International will be present at the upcoming AFM with two important new titles as well as a wolrd premiere and promo reels for several of its highly-anticipated projects. The sales outfit recently signed Spike Lee's Miracle At St. Anna, a film based on the novel by James McBride and ...
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New Zealand Film Commission climbs new Mountain with King
The New Zealand Film Commission and Film Fund are backing Jonathan King's recently announced Under the Mountain. Capitol Films and NZ On Air are also behind the project. As previously reported, Capitol sister company THINKFilm will launch the project to buyers (excluding Australia and New Zealand) at the forthcoming AFM. ...
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Sundance picks seven projects for Middle East Writers Lab
The Sundance Institute has announced the selection of seven projects for the third annual Middle East Screenwriters Lab, which takes place in Jordan Oct 28-Nov 1. Run in collaboration with Jordan's Royal Film Commission, the Lab involves the upcoming directors and writers taking part in an intensive workshop with 'creative ...
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Omega on board for non-US sales of Six Lives Of Henry Lefay
Omega Entertainment is co-financing and handling international sales on the Tim Allen comedy The Six Wives of Henry Lefay. The film, which will be introduced to buyers at the forthcoming AFM, is also financed by Ring Productions and Aramid. Producers are Brillstein Entertainment Partners' David McIlvain and Holly Wiersma. Cassian ...
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Editorial - Screen says - The ideas business
The fear that one day the money might just dry up is a permanent fact of life even for established film-makers. This year's Screen International UK Film Finance Summit was a fine opportunity to take the temperature of a major international business and that underlying concern was tangible.There's a general ...
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AFM- Buyers go global in search of spice
Fuelled by fears of an industry-wide strike and financed by Wall Street's billions, Hollywood's production schedules are in overdrive to get projects in front of the cameras before next April. North American and international distributor schedules are already packed with US projects to see them through 2008. Following a sluggish ...
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Start-ups - The Newcomers
Although notoriously one of the most risky sectors of the global film industry, it is easy to see why so many want to be in North American distribution. Choose the right personnel, secure financial backing, build a strong pipeline, commit a sensible amount to p&a, get the marketing right - ...
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Helen Lee-Kim adjusts to the increased volume at Mandate International
These are happily hectic times for Helen Lee-Kim, newly ensconced as president of international sales at Mandate International following Lionsgate's $56m acquisition of Mandate Pictures in September.For what was formerly Lionsgate's international division, now read Mandate International. The expanded operation has seen Kim's workload balloon to accommodate films from Mandate, ...
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United States - Ehud Resurrected
Changes are afoot at Bleiberg Entertainment, where effervescent company founder Ehud Bleiberg is already plotting his next big move as a hugely successful year draws to a close.A familiar face on the foreign sales circuit for many years, Bleiberg knew it was time to make a bold move two years ...