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Four films picked for WCF funding
Inits third round of funding, the Berlin-based World Cinema Fund (WCF) hasselected four projects for production support and one project to back forGerman theatrical distribution.Theproduction funding went to Faro, La Reine Des Eaux, dir: Salif Traore (Mali), German co-producer: Bärbel Mauch Film (funding: $72,400 ...
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Aardman Licenses Mobile Content In Global Deals
Aardman Animations, theUK-based company behind Wallace and Gromit, has signed a numberof deals licensing its content for mobile phone platforms. Tied to the release of Wallaceand Gromit: The Curse of theWere-Rabbit, Aardman has struck an exclusive partnership withOrange UK to cover movie downloads, wallpapers, voice tones and screensavers. Aardman has ...
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Indie thriller shoots in Oxford and London
UK-based Cat's Paw Productions hasstarted production on low-budget independent film Framed on location in Oxfordand around London. Shooting started on September 28 and will continue throughNovember 6. Jon Kirby (Jack of Diamonds,Requiem)is directing, with Crispin Manson and Matthew Stradling producing and Stephan Evans(Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Mother) ...
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Indie thriller shoots in Oxford and London
UK-based Cat's Paw Productions hasstarted production on low-budget independent film Framed on location in Oxfordand around London. Shooting started on September 28 and will continue throughNovember 6. Jon Kirby (Jack of Diamonds,Requiem)is directing, with Crispin Manson and Matthew Stradling producing and Stephan Evans(Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Mother) executive ...
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Rotunda starts crime shoot in UK second city
UK production company Rotunda Films will start shooting this weekfor Lycanthropy, a feature film set in Birmingham.Kevin McDonagh (Open Window, Idol of Evil) iswriting, directing, and producing, with David Beaumont executive producing andserving as cinematographer. ITN Distribution are handling pre-sales and arelaunching the project during this week's AFM.The producers ...
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Ferrari replaces Cabanillas at RTVE
Javier Gonzalez Ferrari has been appointed general director of Spain's public television broadcaster Radio Television Espanola (RTVE), replacing outgoing head Pio Cabanillas, who was given the post as spokesperson for the recently re-elected national government.Ferrari takes on a television network steeped in debt as well as an on-going controversy concerning ...
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City Screen co-founder steps down after 16 years
Tony Jonesis leaving the City Screen arthouse chain he co-founded 16 years ago.He wants toconcentrate on developing the Cambridge Film Festival, although he will alsocontinue to programme the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge and to act as afreelance consultant.CityScreen has developed into the UK's largest chain and has been a champion ...
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Festival heads Scottish Bafta contenders
AnnieGriffin's ensemble comedy Festivalheadsthe contenders for this year's BAFTA Scotland Awards with six nominations including best film. Writer/directorGriffin's feature debut took its inspiration from Robert Altman'sNashville and casts a jaundiced eye over the agonyand the ecstasy of theannual arts Festival in Edinburgh.GabyDellal's On A Clear Day starringPeter Mullan has received ...
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Festival heads Scottish Bafta contenders
Annie Griffin's ensemble comedy Festivalheadsthe contenders for this year'sBAFTA Scotland Awards with six nominations including best film. Writer/directorGriffin's feature debut took its inspiration from Robert Altman'sNashville and casts a jaundiced eye over the agonyand the ecstasy of theannual arts Festival in Edinburgh.GabyDellal's On A Clear Day starringPeter Mullan has received ...
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Celluloid Dreams handles international sales on Atomised
CelluloidDreams is to handle international sales for Oskar Roehler's adaptation ofcontroversial French author Michel Houellebecq's best-selling novel Atomised(Elementarteilchen) which is currently in post-productionand may premiere at next year's Berlinale.Theco-production between Constantin Film and MOOVIE - the art of entertainment isthe first of Constantin's local in-house productions to be handled by ...
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Myriad boards Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl
Myriad Pictures has picked up all international rights to GeorgeHickenlooper's Edie Sedgwick drama Factory Girl with Sienna Miller attached to play thelead and Guy Pearce in talks to star as Andy Warhol.Shooting is expected to being next month in New York andShreveport, Louisiana, with Holly Wiersma and Richard Galub serving ...
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Bedford, Geronimo form production joint venture
New York-based BedfordEntertainment and Belfast-based Geronimo Productions have formed a jointventure, Mick 'n' Mack Productions, to produce a slate of feature films to beshot in Northern Ireland and the UK.The slate of eight films, tobe shot over the next two years, will have individual budgets of $1 million to$20 million. ...
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Sales sizzle for Nordisk on hot Scando festival titles
In the run-up toAFM, Nordisk has closed deals on several titles that screened on the autumnfestival circuit.Finnish foreignlanguage Oscar contender (and Toronto official selection) Mother Of Mine has sold to Eurocine for Spain andPortugal and Cine Video y Television for Mexico, with France in negotiations. Market premiere Murk, a psychological ...
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TriStar takes English-speaking world on Wedding Daze
TriStar Pictures has picked up worldwide rights inEnglish-speaking territories to the romantic comedy Wedding Daze.Media 8 is selling the rest of the world at AFM on itsco-production with Handprint Entertainment that takes place during a marriageceremony.Jeff Pollack, Benny Medina, Jane Berliner and Sammy Lee areproducing the project, which is out ...
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New Films strikes three-picture deal with Highland Myst
Continuing its thrust into filmmaking, Los Angeles-based New FilmsInternational will co-produce three projects from writer-director Jon Keeyesand his producing partner Brandon Baker through Keeyes' Highland MystEntertainment.New Films will retain all worldwide distribution rights to theprojects, which kick off with Keeyes' previously announced thriller Living& Dying, whichwrapped recently in Dallas and ...
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THINKFilm takes on worldwide rights to Penguins spoof
THINKFilm is selling international rights to Bob Saget's spoofdocumentary Farce Of The Penguins, featuring comedic voice-overs and an R-rated theme andsoundtrack set to wildlife photography.The picture is in production for a spring 2006 North Americanrelease through THINK and is being represented to AFM buyers through thecompany's sales consultant Mark Horowitz.Saget ...
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Momentum, Aurum buy The Hoax for UK and Spain
UK distributor MomentumPictures and its Spanish sister company Aurum Producciones have acquired threefilms for release in 2006: Lasse Hallstrom's The Hoax for the UK and Spain, Mark Neveldine and BrianTaylor's Crank for Spain, andGavin Hood's Tsotsi for the UK.Momentum's vice president of acquisition Lara Thompson spearheaded all threedeals.The Hoax, currently ...
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New Benelux distributor BFD hoovers up Hannibal, Bobby Z
In the run-up to the AFM,voracious new Dutch and Belgian-based outfit Benelux Film Distributors (BFD),is hoovering up product. Along with titles already announced, the company hasconfirmed it will be releasing Young Hannibal: Behind The Mask, The LastMogul, Hurricane Chasers, The Life And Death Of Bobby Z, Running Scared and The ...
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Campfires Burning at Celluloid Dreams
Underlining its growing appetite for upscale English-language fare,Paris-based Celluloid Dreams is taking up sales duties on US road movie CampfiresBurning, the debut feature from Mary Sweeney. The $5 million feature, shootingnext summer for delivery in 2007, will be shot by Diego Vignatti Martinez (BattleIn Heaven) and cast by Johanna Ray ...
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Siritzky introduces Chinese Emmanuelle to AFM buyers
Veteran producer and salesagent Alain Siritzky is hatching a new $5 million Emmanuelle-style erotic drama to shoot in Beijing and Shanghai.The Mandarin-language drama,billed as "sex in the forbidden city," is based on the hugely popular blogs by26-year-old Chinese writer Mu Zimei. These blogs have now been published inbook form. "I ...