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Berlinale expands eastwards with new venue for 2009
The Berlinale will include Europe's largest revue theatre, the Friedrichstadtpalast, as one of its screening venues at the 2009 festival.The Berlinale plans to programme four to six screenings each day at the venue, from the Competition or Berlinale Special sections.The venue will be known as the FriedrichstadtFilmpalast during the festival ...
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The Man Who Loved Yngve wins best feature at the Nordic Film Days
Norwegian director Stian Kristiansen's debut, The Man Who Loved Yngve, won the NDR-Prize for best feature at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, Germany. The event is the festival circuit's largest showcase for Nordic and Baltic films.Kristiansen and his lead actors, Rolf Kristian Larsen and Ole Christoffer Ertvag, received the ...
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Cavina and Gossetti to leave theRome International Film Festival
Teresa Cavina and Giorgio Gossetti, co-curators of theRome International Film Festival's Cinema 2008 section will not renew their mandate for next year's festival. Both have cited uncertainty about the direction of future editions following changes in the local government's political hierarchy, which may impact the festival.Their roles in developing the ...
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Rome InternationalFilm Festival confirms future dates and market ambitions
As the third edition of theRome International Film Festival wrapped, Rome's President Gian Luigi Rondi outlined some of his plans for future editions. Those plans included dates for Rome's next three editions: October 15-25 2009; October 25-November 4 2010; and 2011 is likely to be October 26-November 6. Citing Venice ...
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Opium War and Resolution 819 win best film awards at Rome International Film Festival
Siddiq Barmak's Afghanistan set Opium War has won The Golden Marco Aurelio Critics' award for Best Film, while Giacomo Battiato's Resolution 819 earned the festival's Golden Marco Aurelio Audience award for Best Film. Both of these prizes are accompanied by $96,400 (Euros 75,000) in prize money from BNL - Gruppo ...
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Berlin to showcase German film industry to Bollywood
The German film industry will showcase its services and funding opportunities to Bollywood in a special presentation to the Indian film industry in Mumbai.The event will be organised by Berlin-Brandenburg Film Commission (BFFC) and inward investment agency Berlin Partner on November 2.India 's burgeoning film industry has recently been building ...
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Le Pacte acquires world rights to Bonnell's La Dame De Trefle
French sales and distribution company Le Pacte has acquired world rights to the latest film from director Jerome Bonnell, La Dame De Trefle. Le Pacte will handle the French release and will commence sales at the AFM next week.A drama with a thriller bent, the film stars Malik Zidi, Florence ...
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Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler to open 49th edition of Thessaloniki
The Wrestler , winner of this year's Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, will open the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival on Friday, November 14th. It will be presented by Evan Rachel Wood who plays the role of Rourke's daughter in the film. Director Aronofsky has been a Thessaloniki ...
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Celluloid Dreams acquires Wagenhofer doc, Let's Make Money
Celluloid Dreams has acquired Erwin Wagenhofer's documentary, Let's Make Money. Produced by Allegro Film's Helmut Grasser, the film is a behind-the-scenes look at the ways in which ordinary people are implicated in the political and economic machinations of the international finance market through a simple bank deposit.Celluloid will premiere the ...
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Beta Cinema presents four market premieres at AFM
The Munich-based sales agent will be having market screenings for the first time of:Robert Dornhelm's $ 6.4m (Euros 5m) production of the Puccini opera La Boheme with star singers Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon, which has been released so far in Austria (Constantin Film) and Germany (NFP/Warner);Nicolai Rohde's drama 10 ...
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Berlinale 2009 retrospective dedicated to 70mm
The programme will concentrate on 70mm films which were originally shot on 65mm or 70mm negative film and then printed onto 70mm for the cinema screen. It will be prepared by the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum for Film & Television.Among the classic titles already confirmed for screening are David Lean's ...
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Belgian trio's Rumba wins in Zagreb
Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy' s Rumba won the main prize and $6,250 (Euros 5,000) at the sixth Zagreb Film Festival, which ran from October 18-25. This is the directing trio's second win at Zagreb after Iceberg in 2005. Special mention went to Mexican Rodrigo Pia's The Desert ...
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MRP Matila Röhr Productions and Nordisk Film TV to merge
Finnish leading production house, MRP Matila Röhr Productions, and Nordisk Film TV - the Finnish subsidiary of Danish major, Nordisk Film - will merge their operations under the banner of Matila-Röhr-Nordisk. They will maintain two production lines, feature films and TV programming.'We have long wanted to invest in television drama, ...
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Andrea Segre wins best new project at Rome's New Cinema Network
Italian filmmaker Andrea Segre has won best new European project at Rome's New Cinema Network, Fabbrica dei progetti, for Shun Lee and the Poet (Shun Lee e il poeta).The prize includes a $37,500 (Euros 30,000) award in production funds.Segre's project delves into the cultural impacts of immigration in Italy. The ...
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Arsenal takes German rights to Argentinian music doc El Ultimo Aplauso
Arsenal has bought German rights to German Kral's Argentinian music documentary El Ultimo Aplauso, following its world premiere at the Hof Film Festival. The deal was closed on Sunday night with Beatrix Wesle's Atrix Films.The company plans an early 2009 release.The film follows a group of forgotten Tango singers, who ...
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Sola Media takes on international rights to Long Shadows
Stuttgart-based Sola Media has picked up international rights to terrorist drama Long Shadows which had its world premiere in competition in Rome this week.Directed by Connie Walther and starring Franziska Petri and Ulrich Noethen, the film follows a former German RAF terrorist released after two decades in prison who falls ...
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Bela Tarr to start The Turin Horse next month with Werc Werk Works
Elizabeth Redleaf and Christine Kunewa Walker's fledgling US production and finance company Werc Werk Works is putting together the international drama The Turin Horse that Hungarian film-maker Bela Tarr will direct.Werc Werk Works is collaborating with Hungary's T T Filmmuhely, France's Movie Partners In Motion FILM, Swiss producer Vega Film ...
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Erik Van Looy's Loft soars to top of Belgian box office
Erik Van Looy's new feature Loft, which was recently picked up for international sales by London-based The Works, is becoming a bona fide box office smash in its home territory of Belgium.Loft, which opened last week, has now posted 125,000 admissions, five times more than the number two film in ...
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Nick Love starts UK shoot of Vertigo production The Firm
Principal photography has started on The Firm, written and directed by Nick Love (The Business, The Football Factory) starring newcomer Paul Anderson, Calum MacNab (The Football Factory) and Daniel Mays (Shifty).The $4m (£2.5m) film is produced by Allan Niblo and James Richardson of Vertigo Films. Shooting will take place in ...
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Murphy, Broadbent and Gleeson sign up for Perrier's Bounty
Cillian Murphy, Jim Broadbent and Brendan Gleeson have signed to star in Perrier's Bounty, a Parallel Films and Number 9 Films production. The film will be directed by Ian Fitzgibbon (A Film With Me In It) from a script by Mark O'Rowe (Boy A, Intermission).Perrier's Bounty will be produced by ...