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Paradiso moves into Netherlands distribution with Amsterdam office
Brussels-based Paradiso Filmed Entertainment has opened new offices in Amsterdam to handle theatrical distribution in the Netherlands. Patrick Terryn, COO theatrical, and Guy Bronselaer, marketing Manager, are currently supervising the Dutch team, assisted by consultants Heleen Rouw and Dirk de Lille. Paradiso's first release in the Netherlands will be Guillermo ...
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Industry has mixed reactions to HanWay-Celluloid merger
The announcement yesterday of the merger between HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams to create a new combined company, dreamachine, has provoked a mixed response from the European film industry. Some have welcomed the consolidation of the two companies. For example, Tartan Films founder Hamish McAlpine applauded the move. 'Hanway and ...
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Tine Klint takes international sales post at Nordisk
Tine Klint has taken over as the new head of international sales at Denmark-based Nordisk Film. Klint started her career at Trust Film/Zentropa Film in 1999 and worked as a sales executive and project manager. She leads the sales team that also consists of Susan Wendt, Sanne Arlo, Nicolai Korsgaard, ...
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Dutch FilmWorks co-founder Roelofs takes on freelance role
Wiljan Roelofs, one of the founders of Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) has decided to take a step back from his role as commercial director and will take up a freelance role at the Netherlands distributor.Roelofs will now oversee the DVD rental arm of the company, but will continue to work closely ...
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Euphoria wins best film at goEast with The Trap taking best director
Russian dramatist Ivan Vyrypaev's feature film debut Euphoria picked up the Golden Lily for Best Film at this year's goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, which closed with an awards ceremony in Wiesbaden tonight. The international jury, headed by veteran Romanian director Lucian Pintilie, praised the film ...
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Marc Klocker moves to Senator Film from X Verleih
Marc Klocker has moved from X Verleih back to former employer Senator Film to take over the post of head of marketing since the beginning of this week. Klocker had worked at Senator from 1994 to 2000 before moving to X Verleih in 2001 to head up marketing and film ...
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HanWay and Celluloid Dreams merge to create dreamachine
In a move that will shake up the international sales world, Jeremy Thomas' UK-based HanWay Films and Hengameh Panahi's Paris-based Celluloid Dreams are planning to merge. The new sales, production and financing venture, dreamachine, will be based in London, Paris and Toronto. Financial terms have yet to be disclosed, but ...
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Marchal starts shooting thriller MR 73 for Gaumont and LGM
French director Olivier Marchal has begun shooting thriller MR 73 in Marseilles with Daniel Auteuil and Olivia Bonamy in the lead roles. Principal photography began in mid-February on the film, about the complex relationship between a loner cop and the young woman he protects when her parents' murderer is released ...
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Locarno to launch new sidebar for 60th anniversary
Ahead of its 60th anniversary, the Locarno International Film Festival is planning to introduce a new sidebar, 'Here and Elsewhere,' presenting a selection of documentaries and fictional features 'sharing an original vision of contemporary life, which touch on politics and history as much as they do society and the arts.' ...
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Constantin, SamFilm and Zipfelmutzen lead German producers in 2006
German producer-distributor Constantin Film has double cause for celebration after being named the most successful German producer and distributor of 2006 by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and posting the 'most successful fiscal year of its history' in 2006. This was the third year running that Constantin had received ...
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True North wins best film at Cherbourg-Octeville
The 22nd Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish and British Film (March 14-20) gave its top awards to Steve Hudson's True North. The film took best film, best film voted by the student jury, and best actress for Angel Li. The other winner was Niall Heery's Small Engine Repair, which won the ...
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Ascot Elite Home Entertainment partners with MFA+
Stuttgart-based independent Ascot Elite Home Entertainment has entered a long-term partnership with German theatrical distributor MFA + FilmDistribution to handle the home entertainment rental and sell-through distribution and marketing of selected MFA + titles in all German-speaking territories. It will begin in the coming months with the Colombian box-office hit ...
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Potboiler to follow Gardener with Le Carre's Mission Song
Following its successful adaptation of John Le Carre's The Constant Gardener, Simon Channing Williams and Gail Egan's London-based Potboiler Productions is preparing a new film based on Le Carre's latest book, The Mission Song. Joe Fisher, writer of acclaimed TV drama Soundproof and of 1998's The Tichborne Claimant, is scripting ...
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UK actor cast in male lead for next Oskar Roehler project
UK actor Ray Fearon, who appeared in the soap opera Coronation Street and Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, has been cast as the male lead for German director Oskar Roehler's next feature Lulu And Jimi, to follow his 2006 Berlinale competition film Elementary Particles (Elementarteilchen). Fearon, who is currently ...
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Warner Bros to co-produce release new Til Schweiger project
Warner Bros' German office is serving as co-producer and distributor on actor-director-producer Til Schweiger's new feature film Keinohrhasen which begins principal photography on location in Berlin today. Produced by Schweiger and Tom Zickler's production company Barefoot Films with Warner Bros Film and private broadcaster SAT.1, the romantic comedy was co-written ...
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Egeda launches Spanish VOD site
Spanish rights society Egeda has launched Filmotech.com, A VOD service offering Spanish and European titles at a price lower than DVD rental costs.Run by Egeda Digital, the site currently offers around 250 live-action features, shorts, documentaries and animated movies which either never received DVD distribution or can no longer be ...
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Pascale Ferran to head jury for Cannes Un Certain Regard
The Cannes Film Festival has announced that director Pascale Ferran will head up the jury for the Un Certain Regard sidebar at this year's event, which runs May 16-27. Ferran has been to the festival before, having been selected with her 1990 short film Le Baiser followed by La Sentinelle ...
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Odeon takes over Munich production company Hofmann & Voges
The restructured film and TV group Odeon Film has taken over Munich-based production company Hofmann & Voges Entertainment, which will continue to operate as a separate entity under the new owner's roof. The purchase price (in single-digit millions) was largely paid for with shares in Odeon, thus making Mischa Hofmann ...
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Hitman starts Bulgarian shoot for Fox and EuropaCorp
Twentieth Century Fox and EuropaCorp started principal photography Tuesday on thriller Hitman directed by Xavier Gens. Timothy Olyphant stars with Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Ulrich Thomsen and Michael Offei. Skip Woods wrote the screenplay based on the video game franchise of the same name, about a professional assassin who gets ...
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Trap, Victim and Ragtime among competitors at goEast festival
Srdan Golubovic's thriller The Trap, Kirill Serebrennikov's black comedy Playing The Victim and the world premiere of Pulat Ahmatov's Ragtime..., a depiction of everday life for two young Russian women in a small frontier town, are among 10 feature films and six documentaries selected for the main competition of the ...