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Five world premieres for Berlinale Special
The selection of films for Berlinale Special has beenfinalised. This film series has a varied programme with two football filmsfeaturing among the five world premieres which are, Luis Llosa'sThe Feast of the Goat (La Fiesta Del Chivo), based on the best-selling novel of the samename by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas ...
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New Spanish film festival to be held in June
International buyers of Spanish featureshave a new event to mark on their calendars: the Spanish Film Screenings ofMadrid, to be held June 18-20.Dubbed "Madrid de Cine,"themini-market will fill the hole left by the cancellation of the Spanish FilmScreenings of Lanzarote.It will offer a more central and accessiblelocation for international travellers, ...
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Debut feature film wins the Grand Prix-Golden FIPA
Wega-Film production Mein Morder (MyMurderer), the debut feature of Austrian former documentary director and journalistElisabeth Scharang received the Grand Prix-Golden Fipa in the Fiction section of the 19th Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) in Biarritz January24-29. The five-memberjury headed by Polish film director Krzysztof Zanussi and including among others ...
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Marilyn Manson to direct, star in Lewis Carroll feature
Rocker Marilyn Manson will attend Berlin'sEuropean Film Market to present his directorial debut to buyers - $4.2m ( 3.5m Euros) Phantasmagoria - The Visions Of Lewis Carroll,in which Manson will play the author of Alice In Wonderland.With French sales agent Wild Bunch on board - WB partnerAlain de la Mata ...
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New projects for NoDream Cinema and Mantarraya Producciones
NoDream Cinema, headed up byMexico's Carlos Reygadas, and Jaime Romandia's Mantarraya Producciones are upping their collaboration to back fourupcoming projects, all budgeted around the $500,000 mark.New projects by Reygadas and Amat Escalante (Los Bastardos) are joined by A Mexican Story, by Russia's Artur Aristakisian, and a directorial debut by Spain's ...
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Open Window
Dir/scr: Mia Goldman. US. 2006. 98mins.Debut film-maker Mia Goldman uses the intelligent andtroubling Open Window to explore the ramifications- physical, psychological and emotional - of a sexual assault upon a young woman.In the process, she denies the audience the visceral satisfaction of vengeance,opting instead for helplessness, defeat and inadequacy. It ...
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God Grew Tired Of Us
Dir. Christopher Quinn. US. 2006. 86minsAn emotionally absorbing documentary from ChristopherQuinn, God Grew Tired Of Us is apiece that demands another telling of the genocidalSudanese civil war and the horrifying emotional and physical conditions itinflicted on its thousands of battered survivors.It also stands as an ablecompanion piece to Megan Mylan ...
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Arndt takes producer prize at Cologne
Stefan Arndt has been awarded the Producer Prize at this year's Cologne Conference. The Casting Award went to Anja Dihrberg.Arndt is one of four partners, along with Tom Tykwer, Wolfgang Becker and Dani Levy, in hot Berlin production outfit X-Filme creative pool which has credits including Run Lola Run, Life ...
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Rick Sands joins MGM as chief operating officer
Former DreamWorks president and chief operating officer Rick Sandshas switched studios and joined MGM as chief operating officer.Sands, who also previously served as the Weinsteins' right handman as Miramax chief operating officer, will set about leveraging the company'sacclaimed film and television library across multiple platforms both here andabroad.He will work ...
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Paramount hires Poku for international marketing post
Former Focus Features director of publicity Dee Poku has joinedParamount's rebranded specialty division as vicepresident of international marketing.Poku (pictured) will relocate from New York to Los Angeles andreport to division chief John Lesher."Dee's relationships in the international marketplace, aswell as her incredible talent and filmmaker relationships, make her an idealchoice ...
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Golden Globes to introduce animated feature in 2007
Members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) havevoted to add the category of best animated feature film to next year's 64thAnnual Golden Globes.Eligible films must be 70 minutes or longer with no more thanone-quarter comprising live-action footage.If less than eight animated films qualify, the award will not behanded out ...
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Lucy Liu thriller goes international via Lionsgate
Hot on the heels of itsSundance acquisition of dirty bomb thriller Right At Your Door, Lionsgate has bought international rights to theheist thriller Devil To Paystarring Lucy Liu.Lionsgate Internationalpresident Nick Meyer will commence sales at Berlin next week on the Echo LakeProductions and Intellectual Properties Worldwide (IPW) project.Echo Lake's Doug ...
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Weinstein Co acquire comedy pitch starring stand-up Cook
The Weinstein Company hasacquired the rights to develop an untitled comedic pitch with comedian DaneCook.Cook will star in theproject and produce through his production company SUperFInger Entertainment.New Wave Entertainment’s Barry Katz will also produce and his colleagueBrian Volk-Weiss serves as executive producer.“I am thrilled to be collaborating with Dane Cook ...
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Film Sales Co takes on rights to Panorama title Dolls
Andrew Herwitz's The FilmSales Company has bulked up its Berlin sales slate with Israeli Filmmaker TomerHeymann's Paper Dolls, whichreceives its world premiere in the Panorama section. Herwitz is handlingworldwide rights on the picture.Claudia Levin and StanleyBuchthal produced the picture, which chronicles the life of Filipinotransvestites who enter Israel illegally to ...
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LA marketing firm BD Fox & Friends to launch film sales division at Berlin
Hollywood-based entertainment advertising and marketing firm BDFox & Friends will launch a sales division at the European Film Market inBerlin next week.The inaugural slate will feature six titles comprising fourcompleted projects: Michael Parness’ dysfunctional family comedy MySuicidal Sweetheartstarring Tim Blake Nelson and Rosanna Arquette; Tony Elwood’s thriller ColdStorage; JetEller’s alien ...
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Voltage picks up international on Arquette's Tripper
Los Angeles-based Voltage Pictures has picked up internationalrights to David Arquette's directorial debut, the slasher project TheTripper starring ThomasJane.Production is set to begin innorthern California in mid-February on the story of a group of weekendconcert-goers who fall prey to a maniacal killer hell-bent on finishing what hestarted years ago.Arquette co-wrote ...
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Screenwriters Festival enjoys industry support at launch
TheScreenwriters Festival was launched last night in London.A packedevent of big-name supporters were told of ambitious plans for the festival,which will take place from June 27-30 in the UK town of Cheltenham.It will bea unique opportunity for writers to share experiences and ideas, said festivaldirectorand Arturi Films producer David Pearson.Screenwriterswho ...
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Fearless storms across Asia over Chinese New Year
Fearless,the latest martial arts epic from uber-producer Bill Kong, had a strong openingweekend (Jan 26-29) across Asia over the Chinese New Year holiday grossing $7.5mfrom six territories. The film, directed by RonnyYu and starring Jet Li, Nakamura Shidou and Collin Chou, racked up a mighty $3.7m(RMB30m) in China and $1m ...
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ContentFilm racks up sales on Book Of Revelation
ContentFilm Internationalhas sold The Book Of Revelation,directed by Ana Kokkinos (Head On), to22 territories, one of the most robust sales performances by an unseenindependent Australian film in recent years.Distributors including TheWorks (UK), A Film (Netherlands and Belgium), Scanbox (Scandinavia) and Palace(Australia and New Zealand) signed on prior to the film ...
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Nina's Journey wins Sweden's best film award
The Swedish film awards served up a night of surprises in Gothenberg.Lena Einhorn's Nina's Journey,was the unexpected winner of Best Picture and Best Screenplay honours.Among the favourites, seven-times nominated Bjorn Runge's Mouth to Mouth received just one Guldbagge, while Swedish Oscar nominee Josef Fare's Zozo took two. Nina'sJourney, based on ...