All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 58
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NewsBondarchuk says Battalion will top Stalingrad
Stalingrad 3D’s producer-director Fyodor Bondarchuk has a US major in his sights for the national and international distribution of the forthcoming Russian war film, Battalion Of Death, set during the First World War.
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NewsRussian 'leaders' pitch projects to RCF
31 projects were presented by nine Russian production houses at a pitching to the Russian Cinema Fund.
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NewsBondarchuk prepared to bleep obscenities
Leading Russian actor-director-producer Fyodor Bondarchuk has indicated that he is prepared to bleep out the obscenities in Valeria Gai Germanika’s new film Yes And Yes (Da I Da) to ensure its Russian theatrical release.
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NewsFramestore, David Kelly board Mexican Cold War film
EXCLUSIVE: The UK’s Framestore and producer David P. Kelly are set to partner on a $5m Mexican Cold War feature Lunik III, pitched at this week’s Moscow Business Square (MBS).
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NewsPatrick Cassavetti boards Lenin?!
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran UK producer Patrick Cassavetti has boarded Marat Alykulov’s black comedy Lenin?!.
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NewsCreative Europe chief to step down
EXCLUSIVE: Xavier Troussard to leave after 12 months in role.
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NewsSerbia first non-EU country to sign Creative Europe agreement
Serbia has become the first non-European Union country to sign up and participate in the European Union’s new Creative Europe programme.
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NewsEC backs Berlinale, Rotterdam funds
Co-production funds run by the Berlin and Rotterdam film festivals and a new day-and-date initiative are among new projects by supported by the European Commission (EC).
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NewsThe Tribe wins at Tarkovsky fest
Ukrainian feature wins Grand Prix at ‘Zerkalo’ Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival.
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NewsSentsov's lawyer speaks out
Ukrainian film-maker “cruelly beaten”, threatened with rape and isolated from lawyers.
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NewsBerlinale and Cannes winners competing in Odessa
Peter Webber to head jury, David Puttnam to deliver lecture during fifth edition of the Ukranian festival.
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NewsThilo Rothkirch dies aged 65
European animators mourn passing of producer-director Thilo Rothkirch.
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NewsUK and Latin America focus at 6th MBS
Moscow Business Square (June 21-24) runs parallel to the Moscow International Film Festival.
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NewsTest wins at Kinotavr
Alexander Kott’s love story [pictured] awarded the Grand Prix and the prize for best cinematography.
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NewsTransilvania Trophy goes to Spain
The Transilvania International Film Festival’s (TIFF) main prize went this year to Spanish film-maker Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Stockholm as the week-long festival came to a close on June 8.
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NewsTransilvania reveals first grants
An observational documentary and two fiction films are the first projects to be supported by the Transilvania Film Festival Fund (TFFF).
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NewsLeviathan producer named Russian leader
Non Stop Productions, producer of Cannes winner Leviathan, is among nine “industry leaders” selected by the Russian Cinema Fund (Fond Kino) to take a share of $55m (RUB1.9bn).
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NewsJeunet's Spivet to open Munich
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The Young and Prodigious Spivet will be the opening film at this year’s Filmfest München (June 27-July 5) after Jeunet previously kicked off the festival in Munich in 2001 with Amelie From Montmartre.
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NewsFack Ju producer moves to Constantin
Lena Schömann, producer of box office hit Fack Ju Göhte (Suck Me Shakespeer), is switching to Constantin Film after 12 years at the distributor-producer’s subsidiary Rat Pack Filmproduktion.