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Jean-Julien Baronnet becomes CEO of EuropaCorp
EuropaCorp has announced the appointment of Jean-Julien Baronnet to the post of chief executive. The company has also reinforced its board with the nomination of new administrators including Herve Digne, currently president of Postmedia Finance, and Gregoire Chertok of Rothschild & Cie.Europa co-founder, Luc Besson, retains his position as president ...
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Wild Bunch sells Javier Fesser's Camino to several territories
Spanish director Javier Fesser's controversial, but popular religious family drama Camino has been sold by Wild Bunch to several territories, including Latin America and India.Currently on general release in Spain through Alta Films, the film has been picked up by SPI for Poland, Quality Films for Latin America, Alliance for ...
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US remake of Norwegian Troubled Water optioned by Basil Iwanyk
Norwegian director Erik Poppe's Troubled Water (De Usynlige) has been optioned by Hollywood producer Basil Iwanyk of Thunder Road (Clash of the Titans), for an American version. According to Scandinavian distributor Scanbox Entertainment, Iwanyk will develop the project with US-Icelandic producer Joni Sighvatsson and his Palomar Pictures.Sighvatsson is also backing ...
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IMAX expands theatre deal with Ukraine's Triumph
IMAX Corp. and Kyiv-based media company Triumph have added a third cinema to its giant-screen roll-out in the Ukraine. Triumph's exhibition arm, Kinokompaniya Triumf, will now have theatres in Kiev, Odessa and Kharkov. The Kiev site was installed last month, while the Odessa site is expected to be operational by ...
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On Set: Christian Alvart's Pandorum
German director Christian Alvart could not believe his eyes when he was given an early draft of Pandorum to read by UK producers Jeremy Bolt and Paul WS Anderson of Impact Pictures and Robert Kulzer of Germany's Constantin Film: Travis Milloy's spec script was similar to a project Alvart had ...
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High School Musical ready to rock international marketplace
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (WDSMPI) will seek to mobilise the tweens this weekend as Disney Channel's smash High School Musical brand makes its first foray into theatres in the form of High School Musical 3: Senior Year.Zac Efron and his posse of all-singing, all-dancing friends step into more ...
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Preview: European Film Awards
It became clear at Cannes: 2008 has been a terrific year for European films. A French film, The Class, won the Palme d'Or for the first time in more than 20 years, while two Italian films, Gomorrah and Il Divo, confirmed Italy is back to its best as a film-making ...
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Komandarev takes Grand Prix at Bergen International Film Festival
Stefan Komandarev's The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner has received the Grand Prix in the Cinema Extraordinaire competition at Norway's Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF).The film also took the Special Jury Prize at Warsaw last week, Saturday October 19.Produced by Pallas Film (co-founded by German producer ...
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TrustNordisk takes on US remake Love at First Hiccup
TrustNordisk will handle international distribution of Love at First Hiccup, the US remake of Danish box-office franchise success, Anya & Victor. Danish sales agency, TrustNordisk, will handle international distribution of Love at First Hiccup, an American $2.4 million re-make of Danish romantic comedy Anya & Victor.'A world in crisis needs ...
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Medusa to remake Welcome to the Sticks for Italy
Rome-Italian powerhouse Medusa has bought the remake rights for France's run-away box office success Welcome to the Sticks (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis) a Medusa spokesperson confirmed to Screen Daily.The film will be in development and production in 2009 for a potential 2010 release. Everything about the Italian re-make has yet ...
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The Man Who Loves and Eight/Huit open International Rome Film Festival
Actor Al Pacino provides star presence for the festivities of the International Rome Film Festival, which kicks off its third edition today, October 22, in the Italian capital.Pacino will receive the Gold Marco Aurelio career honours and appear at a sold out panel in front of the local cinema-going community ...
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Strong European representation under EFP's AFM umbrella
28 European sales agents and production companies from 13 countries have registered at European Film Promotion's (EFP) umbrella office in Santa Monica's Loews Hotel for the forthcoming AFM.The companies working out of the European Film Promotion office will include: the UK production houses Zephyr Films, Foundation Films and Reach Up ...
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Czech documentary Rene wins Prix ARTE
The European Film Academy has announced that Rene, by Czech director Helena Trestikova, will receive the 2008 Prix ARTE for documentary film.The recipient of the award is chosen by an independent jury, which this year was made up of Danish producer Karoline Leth, Moscow Film Festival programme director Kirsi Tykkyläinen, ...
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Protti renamed president ofItaly's cinema body with reform agenda
Paolo Protti has been reappointed president of Italy's exhibitor organisation ANEC or the National Association of Cinema Exhibitors for a second three-year term.Protti, who oversees the concerns of the nation's some 3,000 screens, says his aims include restructuring ANEC by merging ANEM (National Association of Multiplex Exhibitors) into ANEC. FICE ...
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Four Nights With Anna is best film at European Cinema Festival
Polish master Jerzy Skolimowski's Polish-French co-production Four Nights With Anna, has won the best film award and $8,000 (Euros 6,000) at the 21st Panorama of European Cinema Festival in Athens.The purse, intended to back the local release of the film, was offered by festival organizer Athens daily, Eleftherotypia.Skolimowski's film received ...
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Yuri's Day wins Grand Prix at Warsaw Film Festival
Russian-German co-production Yuri's Day won top honours at the 24th Warsaw Film Festival.Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz presented the Warsaw Grand Prix at the festival's closing ceremony on October 18. Yuri's Day tells the story of a self-centred opera singer whose son disappears when she takes him to visit her provincial ...
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Steve Jacobs' Disgrace wins $200,000 Black Pearl prize at Abu Dhabi
Steve Jacobs' Disgrace has picked up the $200,000 Black Pearl prize for best narrative film at the Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) in Abu Dhabi.The adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's award-winning novel offers a disturbing insight into the soul of modern South Africa. Click here for review.The $150,000 best documentary ...
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James Newton Howard named Film Composer of the Year at Ghent
James Newton Howard has been names film composer of the year at the World Soundtrack Awards at the 35th Ghent International Film Festival. The prize came for work including Charlie Wilson's War, Michael Clayton and I Am Legend.The best original score honour went to Dario Marianelli for Atonement, while Marc ...
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Interview: Star Media founder Vlad Ryashin
In the latest of her interviews with senior figures in the Russian film industry, Olia Hercules talks to Vlad Ryashin, founder of the Star Media film and TV company and former-director of the largest Ukrainian TV channel, Inter.ScreenDaily: Why did Star-Media, a Russian media company open an office in the ...
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Strong Austrian presence as 2008 Viennale opens
Austrian filmmakers will have an unprecedented presence at this year's Viennale (Vienna International Film Festival).The festival opens today (October 17) with the Golden Palm winner The Class (Entre Les Murs).More than 20 local feature-length and short films have been programmed by festival director Hans Hurch including the world premieres of ...