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BAFTA/LA launches inaugural Comedy Festival as part of BritWeek
BAFTA/LA will launch the inaugural BAFTA/LA British Comedy Festival from April 28 to May 1, honouring the best in British cinema and television.The event will run as part of BritWeek, the series of UK-centric series of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the British Consul General in Los Angeles.Winners will ...
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Film Source takes on ancient evil tale, The Seer
Florida-based The Film Source Company has picked up worldwide rights to Nuragic Films' Italian English-language horror film The Seer.Luigi Desole directed the tale of cult members who search for a missing element that will awaken an ancient evil.The Seer was shot in Sardinia and is based on a screenplay by ...
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MGM launches hi-def channel in Israel
MGM Networks will launch a high definition version of Israel's The MGM Channel this spring that will be simulcast with the existing standard definition channel.Starting this month, the service will begin broadcasting as part of the HD basic tier of Israeli DTH platform, YES.Over the coming months, it will ramp ...
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Sundance unveils New York premieres of festival hits at BAM
New York premieres of Sundance 2008 hits American Teen, Anvil! The Story Of Anvil and Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr Hunter S Thompson are among the highlights of the third annual Sundance Institute at BAM series, set to run in New York from May 29 to June 8.All ...
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Game on for Lakeshore's video game junkie project
Lakeshore Entertainment has acquired the rights to Ernie Cline's original screenplay Thundercade, about a grown-up video game junkie who ditches his job to reclaim his world record at a gaming tournament.Lakeshore chairman Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi will develop and produce with Dan Farah of Farah Films. Lakeshore intends to ...
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Saetre leaves Bonne Pioche for solo march
Linda Saetre, who headed the New York-based sales arm of Bonne Pioche and led the company's 2006 Oscar campaign for March Of The Penguins, has launched her new company Saetre Film.Saetre will continue to co-produce with Bonne Pioche and serve as their salesperson for documentaries and TV programmes on a ...
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Canwest commits $4m to new documentary support programme
Canwest Global Communications has committed $4m to a new documentary support programme, the Canwest-Hot Docs Funds. The new programme, which consists of a $3m completion fund and a $1m development fund, will be managed and dispersed through the Toronto-based Hot Docs International Documentary Festival over the next seven years. The ...
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goEast 2008 launches project market and DVD label
An East-West project market is being held at Wiesbaden's goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film (April 9-15), which will open Wednesday evening with Nikita Mikhalkov's Oscar-nominated film 12.The one-day event this coming weekend is being hosted by goEast in cooperation with the Robert Bosch Foundation and will ...
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Jungle Cineclub launches season of Brazilian films
Jungle Cineclub is to hold its first monthly screening of Brazilian films at the Rich Mix Cinema, Shoreditch on April 10. For its first season from April-November, the event will be themed around the social origins of violence in Brazilian cinema.Paulo Morelli's City Of Men will open the event, which ...
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L: Change The World to kick off Far East Film
The international premiere of Hideo Nakata's fantasy thriller L: Change The World will kick off the Far East Film Festival April 18 in Udine. The 10th edition of the festival will close April 26 with Johnnie To's musical comedy Sparrow.This year's festival will host an industry event in collaboration with ...
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UK Film Council to invest $35.4m in film in regions
The UK Film Council will be investing a total of $35.4m (£18m) over the next two years in the English regions to help them boost their local film industries and open up access for the public to British film heritage.This support comes from two sources of funding: $30.3m (£15.4m) from ...
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Metrodome acquires full UK rights to Warlords
Metrodome Distribution has acquired full UK rights to Peter Chan's action film The Warlords. The film has earned $40m at its domestic box office, making it one of China's most successful domestic theatrical releases ever. Metrodome is looking to release the film nationwide later this year. The Warlords has been ...
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UK Film Council unveils $36m boost for regional films
The UK Film Council has announced an £18m boost for English regional film funds over the next two years.$15.4m (£7.7m)will be shared between the nineRegional Screen Agencies (RSAs)in each of the next two years.It is aimed to boost the wide variety of work supporting and developinglocal film industries.Each RSA will ...
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Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Dirs: Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg . US. 2008. 101 mins.2004's Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle was such a pleasant surprise - a witty stoner comedy with some depth and genuine laughs - that it was perhaps too much to hope that the sequel could retain the original's ...
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Row erupts in Australia over production offset
Two Australian film agencies are trading insults over the financing arrangements behind comedy drama Subdivision, which Japanese Story director Sue Brooks starts filming April 14. Both are investors.Once completed, Subdivision will be applying for 40% of its costs back under the new producer offset. It has always been assumed that ...
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Zanucks strike first-look deal with DreamWorks
Veteran Hollywood producers Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck have signed a two-year, first-look deal with DreamWorks Pictures. Richard Zanuck has already produced Deep Impact for the studio in 1998 with his longterm producing partner David Brown and he is teaming with Dean Zanuck to produce Road To Perdition, ...
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French comedies dominate international weekend
French cinema enjoyed yet another impressive weekend in the international arena as two comedies accounted for 12.7% of the international top 40 revenue. New entry Disco was the highest entry in the chart this weekend, coming in at number two with an $8.7m take from Belgium, France and Switzerland. The ...
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Australian Writers Guild quits Australian Screen Council in protest
The dream of the Australian film and television production industry talking to government with one powerful voice on key issues is in tatters tonight with one of the four member organisations of the Australian Screen Council (ASC) resigning over what it says is financial mismanagement.The executive director of the Australian ...
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Haneke, Gorris backed by German incentive scheme
New features by Michael Haneke, Marleen Gorris and Jaco van Dormael are among seven international co-productions awarded over $8.5m (Euros 5.4m) by the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) incentive scheme in the first quarter of 2008.Another $3.6m (Euros 2.3m) in incentives was paid out to nine German films, including Anno ...
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A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures
Dir. Chris Waitt. UK. 2007. 89mins.A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures is funny. The more viewers are charmed by Chris Waitt, the funnier they will find this low-budget documentary. But he's not overwhelmingly charming, even to his long-suffering mother, and doubts linger at the end as to whether he's ...