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Finecut picks up new feature from Hong Sang-soo
Seoul-based Finecut has picked up worldwide sales rights for Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo's upcoming feature Jal Aljido Mot Hamyeonsuh (original title). Currently in post-production, the film has yet to settle on an international title, although the original Korean title means 'as if you even know properly' or as Finecut puts ...
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Fassbender, West and Kurylenko to headline Neil Marshall's Centurion
Pathe and Celador have confirmed casting on Neil Marshall's Roman era Centurion with Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds, Hunger), Dominic West (300) and Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) to headline the film. Shooting begins next month on February 22. The script is written and will be directed by Marshall, whose The ...
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E1 picks up Sundance winner An Education for UK and Ireland
E1 Films has taken UK and Irish rights for An Education, the Nick Hornby adaptation of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir. The film is fresh from its success at this year's Sundance where it won the world cinema audience award, dramatic and the world cinema cinematography award, dramatic. The deal ...
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E1 picks up Lone Scherfig's An Education for the UK and Ireland
E1 Films has taken UK and Irish rights for An Education, the Nick Hornby adaptation of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir. An Education is directed by Lone Scherfig (Italian For Beginners). BAFTA nominated Finola Dwyer (Backbeat, Me Without You) of Finola Dwyer Productionsand Amanda Posey (Fever Pitch) produced the film ...
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Kerasotes Showplace Theatres heads to be honoured at ShoWest
Kerasotes Showplace Theatres chairman and CEO Tony Kerasotes and president and COO Dean Kerasotes will be honoured as 2009 ShoWesters Of The Year in Las Vegas on March 31.Tony Kerasotes has more than 40 years of experience in exhibition and sits on the executive committee of the National Association Of ...
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LA's Principal Communications Group allies with Abrams Research
Paul Pflug and Melissa Zukerman's strategic corporate communications firm Principal Communications Group has struck an alliance with new consultancy Abrams Research Group.Principal will identify new clients in the media and entertainment fields for Abrams, which offers business leaders industry insight through its network of freelance media professionals.Abrams Research was founded ...
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Myriad sets Puerto Rico shoot for comic book adaptation Hybrid
Principal photography will commence in May in Puerto Rico on Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Myriad Pictures and Studio 407's live-action comic book adaptation Hybrid.The horror story falls under the first-look deal between Myriad and Studio 407 and is being directed by Ernie Barbarash. Myriad is handling worldwide ...
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Four producers named in The Reader's best picture Oscar nomination
The producers branch executive committee of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has ruled that the late Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack shall be credited with producing The Reader alongside Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris.The executive committee convened because four producers were listed on the credits form submitted ...
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San Francisco Film Society secures $3m in funding over next five years
The San Francisco Film Society has secured $3m in funding over the next five years from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation to support narrative features made in the San Francisco Bay Area.The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants support films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, anti-discrimination, ...
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John Irvin to direct Bosnian conflict action film The Filthy War
New York-based Mozgofilms has hired Briton John Irvin to direct the Bosnian conflict action film The Filthy War.Filming is scheduled to begin in spring on location and studios in Hungary with a yet-to-be announced international star in the lead.The story centres on Eduardo, a footloose journalist who organises an international ...
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Elle Driver to take London River and Samson & Delilah to EFM
After a successful Sundance, French sales house Elle Driver is revving up for the European Film Market with new titles from Rachid Bouchareb and Warwick Thornton. Bouchareb's latest, London River, has its world premiere in competition at Berlin. It is his first film since the Oscar-nominated Days Of Glory which ...
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Death Ray Films, Maya team for comic book adaptation El Zombo Fantasma
Death Ray Films and Maya Entertainment are to adapt the Dark Horse comic book El Zombo Fantasma for the big screen.El Zombo Fantasma was created by David Wilkins and Kevin Munroe and will be produced under the Death Ray Films label recently formed by Chris Patton, Munroe and Robert Sanchez, ...
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Film Movement picks up US rights to Sorin's The Window
Film Movement has picked up all US rights to Carlos Sorin's Argentine drama The Window (LA Ventana) and will release the drama theatrically in May.The Spanish-language film won the FIPRESCI Award at the Valladolid International Film Festival and was an official selection in Toronto last year.Antonio Larreta stars as a ...
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UK 's Cineworld self-finances digital deal
Cineworld, the UK cinema chain which is set to increase its number of digital screens by 100%, from 74 to 148, will self-finance the $5.57m (£4m) investment in order to capitalise on the growing 3D market. The chain would not be drawn on the details of the self-financing but the ...
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UK 's Cineworld self-finances digital deal
Cineworld, the UK cinema chain which is set to increase its number of digital screens by 100%, from 74 to 148, will self-finance the $5.57m (£4m) investment in order to capitalise on the growing 3D market. The chain would not be drawn on the details of the self-financing but the ...
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Red Cliff II scales Korea's Lunar New Year box office
The second part of John Woo's action epic Red Cliff topped South Korea's Lunar New Year holiday charts, with the film grossing $2.7m since its release on Jan 22. Distributed locally by co-financier Showbox Mediaplex, the film took in 588,683 admissions, according to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC)'s integrated box ...
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Berlinale Official Selection 2009
The 59th edition of the Berlin International film festival has confirmed the complete lineup for its 2009 official selection.Please click highlighted titles to see Screen review.BERLINALE OFFICIAL SELECTIONIN COMPETITION All The Others (Ger) - Dir: Maren Ade Cheri (UK-Ger) - Dir: Stephen Frears Darbareye Elly (About Elly) (Iran) - Asghar ...
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The Match Factory to present five world premieres at EFM
Cologne-based sales agent The Match Factory will handle international sales on four new films invited to screen in Berlinale's Competition. The films are: Uruguayan filmmaker Adrian Biniez's comedy Gigante, starring Horacio Camandulle, Leonor Svarcas; The Milk Of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada), from Barcelona-based Peruvian director Claudia Llosa; Veteran Greek director ...
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Films by Loncraine, Scherfig and Guggenheim complete Berlinale programme
Richard Loncraine's 1950s-set My One And Only, starring Renee Zellweger, Kevin Bacon, and Logan Lerman, will screen as a world premiere in Competition, while Scherfig's An Education, with Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard and Dominic Cooper, will be coming direct from Sundance for a gala presentation at the Friedrichstadtpalast in the ...
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Icon scores foreign film nods for Australia's FCCA Awards
Icon distributed three of the eight films nominated in the two best foreign film categories of the 25th annual Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) Awards, it was announced today. The films are In Bruges and Slumdog Millionaire in the English language category and The Diving Bell And The Butterfly ...