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San Sebastian's Zabaltegi-New Directors names 14 selections
The San Sebastian Film Festival has unveiled the 14 films in its Zabaltegi-New Directors section.The section, with a Euros 90,000 prize to be shared between the director and the Spanish distributor, is devoted to film-makers presenting first or second films not previously screened at any other international competition. (Official Selection ...
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Elle Driver picks up titles in Venice, Toronto including Paper Soldier
Nearing its first birthday, French sales company Elle Driver will head to its first Venice and Toronto Festivals with a handful of films across the various sections including some new titles.In Venice, Elle boasts the previously announced The Sky Crawlers by Mamoru Oshii which Warners released in Japan on August ...
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Deauville adds Chaos Theory, Sex And The USA, and Polanski doc
The upcoming Deauville Festival of American Film has added a handful of films and a tribute to independent director Charles Burnett for its 34th edition. Further, it has announced the jury members for the Cartier Revelation Prize.Zoe Cassavetes, whose Broken English ran in competition last year, will head up the ...
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The Works takes on Belgian titles Unspoken and Loft
Ahead of this year's Toronto film festival, London-based The Works International has picked up the world sales rights to a brace of Belgian films: Unspoken, written and directed by Fien Troch, and Erik Van Looy's Loft.Unspoken will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. It is scheduled ...
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Haugesund's New Nordic Films kicks off with record 325 attendees
Opening on today with a record number of 325 participants, New Nordic Films - the three-day market section of the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund - will this year present 23 recent Nordic features and 11 works-in-progress, adding 18 projectsat the Nordic Co-Production Forum.'The showcase is intended support Nordic ...
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Zurich to welcome Sly Stallone for first Golden Icon Award
Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone is to receive the Golden Icon Award which is presented for the first time in recognition of an actor or actress's life's work at this year's Zurich Film Festival (Sept25 to October 5).The award ceremony on Sept 26 will be accompanied by a small retrospective of ...
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Rome's first selections include 8, The Duchess,Baader Meinhof
The International Film Festival of Rome has unveiled the first titles for its upcoming third edition, which runs Oct 22-31 in the Italian capital.8 (Huit), a composition of eight shorts by Jane Campion, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jan Kounen, Mira Nair, Gaspar Noe, Abderrahmane Sissako, Gus Van Sant and Wim Wenders ...
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Honigmann's Oblivion to open Horizones Latino in San Sebastian
San Sebastian has announced the films in its Horizones Latinos section, devoted to Latin American productions, films made by film-makers of Latin American origin, or films that address Latin America.Dutch director Heddy Honigmann's Oblivion (El olvido), set in Peru, will open the section and compete.Fourteen films, including works from Argentina, ...
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Constantin's theatrical distribution up 92% in first half of 2008
Constantin Film's theatrical distribution arm generated 92% more revenues year-on-year to June 30, according to the group's interim management report issued today for the first six months of 2008.Constantin garnered a 9.9% market share and held on to its position as Germany's leading independent distributor with box office takings of ...
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IM Internationalmedia filing for insolvency
The beleaguered IM Internationalmedia filed for insolvency proceedings in Munich today since pending illiquidity was putting continued business operations at risk.According to an adhoc communique, the reason for the illiquidity could be traced back to an investment group around David Bergstein, Eluvium Holdings, not paying for exercised options.But Bergstein's R ...
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Polish Film Festival in Gdynia announces competition
The 33rd Polish Film Festival (PFF) has announced its line-up, with Polish director Robert Glinski as president of the main competition jury.Sixteen films compete for the festival's main grand prize, including Jerzy Skolimowski's Quinzaine title Four Nights With Anna; A Warm Heart, from European Film Academy co-founder Krzysztof Zanussi; and ...
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Widely tipped Parque Via from Mexico wins Locarno Golden Leopard
Mexican director Enrique Rivero's feature debut Parque Via won the Golden Leopard at this year's Locarno International Film Festival which closed with the world premiere of Solveig Anspach's Back Soon.Based on the life of Nolberto Coria who plays himself (as Beto) in the story about the gap between rich and ...
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Heddy Honigmann. Gregory King selected for Binger Script Lab
The Binger Filmlab has named the participants for its September 2008 semester of the Script Development Programme.The Netherlands-based labs, workshops, seminars and master-classes will welcome:Alice Bell (Australia / Gin & Tonic) Jan Bonny ( Germany / A Politician's Wife) Carlos Contreras (Mexico / On Speaking Terms) Tamar van den Dop ...
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars launches in 22 international territories to chase Knight, Mummy
The Dark Knight will soar past $300m this weekend as it bids to reclaim the overseas crown from The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor - however the force may be with an entirely new release. Warner Bros Pictures International's crime epic The Dark Knight stands at $285.9m and ...
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Warner Bros pushes back Harry Potter 6 to July 2009
In a move that highlights the crucial strategic role played by global day-and-date releases, Warner Bros has pushed back Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince from November 21 to July 17 2009.The sixth episode in the studio's highly successful children's fantasy franchise will now open day-and-date domestically and in the ...
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Speculation heats up over Maire replacement in Locarno
Locarno's Frederic Maire has pronounced himself 'very pleased' with how his third outing as the festival's artistic director panned out this year. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com ahead of the announcement of the awards at the weekend, Maire pointed to such highlights as the reaction of the audience to the Amos ...
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Preview: Haugesund Norwegian International Film Festival
This year we have every reason to spell NORWAY with capital letters,' says Hakon Skogrand, programme director of the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund (August 16-23). 'Local films will open and close the festival, and in total there will be 15 premieres of Norwegian films, including all features, documentaries, ...
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In Focus: Norwegian film
Cold Lunch, Eva Sorhaug's debut feature, will open Critics' Week at the Venice film festival later this month, the first Norwegian film to do so. It will then screen in the Discovery section at the Toronto International Film Festival.Starring Aksel Hennie, Pia Tjelta and Ane Dahl Torp, Cold Lunch juggles ...
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Andrzej Wajda begins work on new film Tatarak
Polish auteur Andrzej Wajda began filming this week on a new feature, Tatarak.Producers told ScreenDaily.com that filming began on location in Grudziadz in northern Poland and will continue until the end of September.Wajda and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk have adapted the script from a novel by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz and from ...
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Tropic Thunder to strike in San Sebastian
San Sebastian has announced that Ben Stiller's film Tropic Thunder will be in official selection, out of competition, at this year's festival.Stiller and actor Robert Downey Jr. will be at the Basque festival to present the film, which is being released in Spain by Paramount Pictures Spain on Sept 26.Tropic ...