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NewsJokinen starts shoot in Estonia for Purge
Film based on Finninsh bestselling novel by Sofi Oksanen.
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NewsFirst Rains wins best film at Eurasia film festival
Japan-Kazakh co-production The First Rains Of Spring was awarded best film at the Eurasia International Film Festival, which took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan (Sep 19-24).
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NewsThe Double Steps wins Golden Shell at San Sebastian festival
Catalan director Isaki Lacuesta’s Mali-set drama The Double Steps picked up the Golden Shell as the San Sebastian International Film Festival came to a close Saturday night.
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NewsFestival Films take Spanish rights to Camera d’Or winner Las Acacias
Urban Distribution International has sold Pablo Giorgelli’s Camera d’Or winner Las Acacias to Festival Films for distribution in Spain off the back of its successful screening in the Horizontes Latinos section at the San Sebastian film festival.
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NewsVerhoeven plans user-generated project
Paul Verhoeven, the 73-year-old Dutch director of Basic Instinct and Robocop, will be attending MIPCOM next month to explain the concept behind his new “user generated” movie that will be made in collaboration with the general public.
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NewsFrenetic strikes Swiss deal for TrustNordisk's Black's Game
Swiss distributor Frenetic Films has acquired Óscar Thór Axelsson’s Icelandic thriller Black’s Game.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase this week
UK productions Blood and Postman Pat: The Movie - You Know You’re The One, as well as French feature Ipu - Convicted To Live are among Screenbase’s highlights this week.
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NewsWild Bunch Benelux goes on mini-acquisition spree
Speaking on the opening day of the Netherlands Film Festival (21-30 September) in Utrecht, company M-D Pim Hermeling revealed that he has pre-bought Only Decent People, the new film from IDTV producer Frans van Gestel (a guest of honour at the festival this year.)
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NewsBavaria and Telepool merge foreign sales units
Thorsten Ritter to head film sales at new company Global Screen; Rolf Moser and Thomas Weymar will be managing directors
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NewsIceland's Oscar committee selects Runarsson's Volcano
Runar Runarsson’s debut feature Volcano will represent Iceland in the Foreign Language Oscar race.
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NewsDavid Heyman to be honoured at Frankfurt Book Fair
The Harry Potter producer will collect the award for the best international film adaptation.
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NewsPage Eight, A Dangerous Method to book-end Warsaw
David Hare’s Page Eight and David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method will open and close this year’s Warsaw Film Festival (WFF) which is running for ten days on nine cinema screens with a programme of 127 feature-length films and 97 shorts from 59 countries from October 7-16.
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NewsReykjavik Film Festival kicks off tonight with Sigur Ros film Inni
Guests and honorees at festival will include Bela Tarr and Lone Scherfig.
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NewsKorine, Kwiecinski, Fedorchenko to direct portmanteau feature for Grolsch
Val Kilmer will star in Hamony Korine’s chapter of the feature, which is part of Dutch beer company Grolsch’s latest film based initiative - Grolsch Film Works.
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NewsWild Bunch take sales rights to Vigalondo’s English-language project Windows
Wild Bunch has picked up the international sales rights to Oscar-nominated Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo’s hotly anticipated new thriller project Windows, currently in development.
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NewsFrench court rules that Pathé must share Nothing to Declare profits with Thomas Langmann
Two-year-old case stems from an option held by Thomas Langmann’s late father Claude Berri to produce the third film by Nothing to Declare director and star Dany Boon.
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NewsMemento secures spate of new deals for Nader And Simin
Memento Films International has sold Asghar Farhadi’s Golden Bear winner Nader and Simin, A Separation to several key territories, off the back of its successful screenings at Toronto and now San Sebastian.
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NewsThe Unliving director Lilja finds backing for feature version
Coproduction office and Swedish Film Institute support feature adaptation of Berlinale-winning short, produced by Filmlance International.
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NewsFrench film tax incentives less attractive than key EU counterparts, says CNC
Comprehensive 133-page study commissioned by France’s National Cinema Centre reveals French film tax incentives lag behind those of European counterparts Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Britain.