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UK financier to set up joint venture with Shanghai Film Group
Chinese state-owned Shanghai Film Group Corporation (SFGC) is setting up a joint venture with UK-based finance house Nations Trust to invest in film production, post-production and an animation production centre, SFGC president Ren Zhonglun confirmed today. The two sides had quietly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in February to ...
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UKFC P&A Fund backs French hits La Ve En Rose and Tell No One
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has announced it latest round of supported projects. They are: $307,980 (£151,606) to Icon for Olivier Dahan's La Vie En Rose $225,056 (£110,774) to Revolver Entertainment for Guillaume Canet's Tell No One $203,146 (£100,000) to Pathe for Laurent Tirard's Moliere $10,158 (£5,000) ...
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Goteborg to host posthumous 50-film Bergman retrospective
As the film world remembers Ingmar Bergman, the Goteborg International Film Festival has reiterated its plans to host a Bergman retrospective during its 31st event, Jan 25-Feb 4, 2008.About 50 of the director's features will be screened during the fifth Bergman week Jan 24-29. Goteborg has a long history with ...
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Financial challenges for future of Locarno festival
On the eve of the 60th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival, the future of the event's financial standing is in the headlines. Speaking to the Swiss daily newspaper Tagblatt, Locarno's artistic director Frederic Maire explained: 'We must increase the budget to around $9.1m (11m CHF). We hope that ...
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Van Sant's Paranoid Park and Bernal's Deficit added to TIFF line-up
Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park and Gael Garcia Bernal's Deficit will have their North American premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival. The two films, both screening in the Vanguard programme, were announced today along with the balance of the Real to Reel documentary programme and additional Midnight Madness titles ...
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The Little Vampire
Dir: Ulrich Edel. Germany-UK. 2000. 95minsProd Co: Cometsone Pictures. Int'l sales: New Line Cinema. Prod: Richard Claus. Exec prods: Alexander Buchman, Anthony Waller, Larry Wilson. Scr: Karey Kilpatrick, Larry Wilson based on the Little Vampire novels by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg. DoP: Bernd Heini. Prod des: Joseph C. Nemec III. Ed: Peter ...
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Kent companies form new Film Syndicate
The new Kent Film Syndicate will launch with a screening of locally shot Ruby Blue from Medb Films.Producer Elaine Wickham and writer/director Jan Dunn shot the drama Ruby Blue, starring Josiane Balasko and Bob Hoskins, in Ramsgate and surrounding areas.The Syndicate will host the preview screening on Friday in Ramsgate. ...
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London Film Festival to open with Cronenberg's Eastern Promises
After world premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises will serve as the opening-night gala at the London Film Festival on Oct 17.The Canada-UK co-production for Kudos and Serendipity Point stars Viggo Mortenson as a London-based Russian mobster who crosses paths with an innocent ...
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PPI crosses $1bn gross mark in its first year of operation
Powered by the overseas success of Shrek The Third and Transformers, Paramount Pictures International (PPI) has crossed $1bn.Shrek The Third has crossed $400m and is already the biggest animated release of all time in Russia ($23m). It registered the biggest opening weekend in history in five territories including Poland and ...
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Miller's Secret to close Montreal World Film Festival
Claude Miller's Un Secret will have its world premiere as the Closing Night film of Official Competition at the 31st Montreal World Film Festival on September 3, the festival announced today. The director and leading actress Cecile de France will be in attendance.Adapted from the awarded-winning novel by French novelist ...
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Roma Khanna to leave CHUM for NBC Universal International
Roma Khanna has been named president, Global Networks and Digital Initiatives, at NBC Universal International, based in London. She takes up the new position on Sept 17 after leaving Canada 's CHUM Television, where she was co-head and senior vice president of content. She will report to Peter Smith, president ...
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Italian Film Festival UK plans leading ladies retrospective
The Italian Film Festival UK is planning a retrospective dedicated to the leading ladies of Italian cinema. The Signore & Signore season will run Sept 27 to Nov 29 in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The programme will cover more than four decades of films in a range of styles. The ...
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Ahead of Locarno premiere, Vexille sells to 75 territories including US
As the androids in Japanese director Fumihiko Sori's animated sci-fi thriller Vexille invade the Piazza Grande for tonight's opening of the Locarno International Film Festival 2008, the $10m CGI feature has already been sold to 75 countries, including the US. According to vp international sales and licensing Aki Harimoto, of ...
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UKFC's new Capital and Access Fund opens applications
The UK Film Council's new Capital and Access Fund for cinemas will give Lottery Funding of $1m (£500,000) to independent cinemas to update buildings and facilities and better serve impaired audiences. The fund will assist cinemas with essential capitol projects including expansions or improvements such as access for disabled cinema-goers. ...
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Showbox boards Lee Jun-ik's Vietnam War drama
Major Korean investor and distributor Showbox Mediaplex has signed with hit director Lee Jun-ik to back and distribute his upcoming Nimeun Mon Gotsae (original title), a $7.5m film set during the Vietnam War. In the film, a woman joins a troupe of entertainers sent to build soldiers' morale in Vietnam ...
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Ridley Scott to bring new version of Blade Runner to Venice
The Venice Film Festival has announced the surprise Midnight film will be Ridley Scott's Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Shown as a world premiere in the out of competition Midnight section, the screening will also be in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the classic sci-fi, cyber punk noir's original ...
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Thai horror Alone finds company in Taiwan
Thai horror film Alone has scored the biggest opening ever for a Thai film in Taiwan. The Phenomena and Dedicate production from the directors of Shutter opened in Taiwan on July 27 and made $187,000 over the three-day weekend in Taipei. In its first five days on release, it has ...
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Showroom and Workstation hire team for new Festival Centre
Showroom and Workstation are moving ahead with plans for a new Festival Centre in Sheffield, UK. London-based architectural studio Carmody Groarke will design the centre. The firm previously worked on a new film studio in Australia, the refurbishment of the Electric Ballroom in London and Antony Gormley's Light Pavilion. The ...
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Gandhi My Father
Dir: Feroze Abbas Khan. Ind. 2007. 128mins. 'To his nation, he was a father. To his son, he was a father...he never had.' Thus reads the tag line for Feroze Abbas Khan's Gandhi My Father, a film which never seems entirely sure whether it wants to be a sweeping historical ...
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Rise Of The Footsoldier
Dir: Julian Gilbey. UK. 2007. 120mins tbc Goodfellas comes to Essex in Julian Gilbey's gangster thriller Rise Of The Footsoldier. Luridly violent, full of macho posturing and often mired in cliche, the film nonetheless has an epic sweep and relentless narrative drive that show Gilbey is more than just another ...