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Punto Y Raya named as Venezuelan Oscar contender
EliaSchneider's Punto y Raya (Step Forward) has been named as Venezuela'sofficial entry for best foreign language consideration in this year's Oscarrace.Thehighest grossing local film of the year in Venezuela, Punto Y Raya wasalso winner of the Rita Award for Best Picture at the recent 2004 Los Angeles,Latino Int'l Film Fest ...
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European Film Awards names 42 finalists
The European Film Academy has announced the 42 finalistsselected to compete for this year's 17th edition of the European Film Awards,to be celebrated on December 11 in Barcelona.Among thetitles are international festival favourites and local box office hits such as BadEducation, Ae Fond Kiss, 5 x 2, The Sea Inside, ...
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Boorman's Skull drives Civilian Content into profit
Buoyed by revenues from JohnBoorman's Country Of My Skull, media concern Civilian Content hasreported its first interim pre-tax profits.Civilian was forced topostpone reporting revenues from County Of My Skull last year whenproduction was delayed, a key factor in the company's £1.1 million pre-tax lossfor last year. But the AIM-listed outfitposted ...
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Smith to drive UK's£50m film training strategy
Alexander producer Iain Smith has been named as the new chairof the Skillset Film Skills Strategy Committee.The committee is in charge ofguiding the delivery of A Bigger Future - the £50m five year trainingstrategy for the UK film industry.Smith, who has sat on theFilm Skills Strategy Committee since it was ...
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New Euro TV powerhouse eyes US broadcasting stake
Pearson TV (PTV) and CLT-Ufa are to join forces, creating Europe's largest integrated production and broadcast group that now has its eye on North American broadcasting.Friday's merger announcement is the biggest yet in the rapid consolidation of the European television and new media sectors and was accompanied by an on-going ...
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Bernal to star in Gondry's The Science Of Sleep
HotMexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal is to star in the next film by EternalSunshine Of The Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry.The Science Of Sleep will also star French actress Charlotte Gainsbourgand French actor-director Alain Chabat.Productionoutfit Partizan and French major Gaumont will co-produce The Science OfSleep.Thescript was written by Gondry and ...
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Lelouch billed for free Parisiens screenings
45,000people took advantage of free screenings of Claude Lelouch's Les Parisiensin France on Friday.The freescreenings were paid for by the director himself in an effort to combatdreadful reviews from most of France's leading media outlets.On Monday, Lelouch spoke tothe press and said that the free screenings had personally cost him ...
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Bavaria scores with pack of Bombon sales
Bavaria Film International hada busy Toronto with its shaggy dog story Bombon - El Perro whichratcheted up a pack of high profile sales.The film was licensed to TF1for France, Cinequanon for Japan, Pathe for the UK, A Film for Benelux, LevFilms for Israel, Audiovisual for Greece and Hopscotch for Australia. ...
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Mexican exhibitor signs three-screen deal with IMAX
Mexico City-based Cinepolisand IMAX have signed a multi-year agreement that will see three giant-screencinemas in the country.The exhibitor, the largestin Latin America, will retrofit an existing large format cinema at CinepolisPerisur in the capital city. The second and third theatres will be newadditions built onto existing multiplexes. Locations are pending. ...
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Chaplin, Kier, Pare join the cast of BloodRayne
GeraldineChaplin, Udo Kier and Michael Pare have joined Ben Kingsley, Kristanna Loken,Michelle Rodriguez, Matt Davis and Michael Madsen in the cast of BloodRayne, the new film adaptation of the popularvideo game.Currentlyshooting in Romania, the film is produced and directed by Uwe Boll and writtenby Guinevere Turner. It stars Loken, last ...
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Bourne takes $6.7m in 23 territories for Universal/UIP
The Bourne Supremacy grossed $6.7m from 2,284 sites in 23 territoriesover the weekend for Universal/UIP, bringing its international total to date to$54m.The thriller sequel openedsecond in Spain after local smash Mar Adentro with a $1.9m gross from 356 sites, a 2% increase inlocal currency on The Bourne Identity in 2002 ...
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Denver Film Festival to present focus on German cinema
The Starz DenverInternational Film Festival, which holds its 27th annual event Oct14-24, will stage a focus on German cinemaMargarethe VonTrotta will attend the festival wih her films Rosenstrasse and The Other Woman, which she directed, and AmericanSoldier, in which sheacted. Other German films screening include Head-On, Jester Till, When TheRight ...
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Bahamas launches film festival in Dec
The Bahamas InternationalFilm Festival will take place for the first time Dec 9-12 in Nassau, Bahamas.The event plans to presentabout 50 films encompassing international features, shorts, documentaries andanimated films. The theme of this year's competitive section is Spirit OfFreedom with a focus on films providing insight into the "mosaic of ...
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Finland submits Producing Adults as 2004 Oscar entry
Aleksi Salmenpera'sfeature directing debut Producing Adults was been selected as the official Finnish submission forthe 2004 foreign language film Oscar.The romanticcomedy is written by Pekko Pesonen and produced by Petri Jokiranta and TeroKaukomaa's Blind Spot Pictures. It follows Venla (Minna Haapkyla), apsychologist working at an infertility clinic, who decides to ...
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Losique launches Montreal counterattack
Serge Losique, the embattledpresident of the Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF), has fired back at hisnemeses at Telefilm Canada and its Quebec counterpart SODEC.On September 7, the twoagencies, the principal sources of public subsidy of the MWFF, issued a callfor proposals for a film event in Montreal, a direct challenge ...
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Redbus hoards rights ahead of VoD launch in UK
The fast-surging UK media concern Redbus Film Group has accumulated a number of studio-level films for its upcoming video-on-demand service through a television package deal struck with German rights broker Intertainment.Intertainment, which has been busy of late concluding several free TV sales across Europe, announced this week television deals in ...
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ProSiebenSat.1 launches inhouse sales outfit
Germany'sProSiebenSat.1 group has launched an in-house sales outfit SevenOneInternational which will have its market premiere at the forthcoming MIPCOM(October 4-8).The new company will be headed by Jens Richterwho was managing director of KirchMedia's international sales operation BetaFilm from 2000 until May this year. Since leaving Beta Film, Richter has beenworking ...
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'Son of Section 48' details announced by UK Treasury
The UK government hasfinally launched its 20% tax credit for UK qualifying films.The Treasury, which was dueto unveil details as far back as July, aims to give filmmakers 20% of theirbudgets via a tax credit even if films fail at the box-office.But commercially successful filmmakers may be able to claim ...
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Yesterday named as South African Oscar choice
AIDS drama Yesterdayhas been selected as South Africa's official contender for the foreign-languageOscar nomination.Yesterday, directed by Darrell Roodt, follows a village woman(played by Roodt's Sarafina star Leleti Khumalo) who has contractedAIDS, but is disowned by her husband. Alone, she travels the country fendingfor herself and their daughter.The selection was made ...
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DeA Planeta likes look of Mirror Maze
Spanish-Italianmedia conglomerate DeA Planeta has boarded new Rioja Films thriller MirrorMaze as co-producer and local distributor.Rioja chief Jose Antonio Romero and the film's director,Guillermo Groizard, unveiled the project at the San Sebastian InternationalFilm Festival (Sept 17-25).It is oneof five feature co-productions brought to DeA Planeta by new executivepresident Alvaro Zapata ...