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De Heer to head jury in Sydney, which sticks to mid-year spot
Australian auteur director Rolf de Heer has agreed to be president of the competition jury for the 2009 Sydney Film Festival (SFF).The competition rewards new directions in film and organisers use words such as audacious, courageous, cutting-edge and emotional to describe the kind of films sought. It was launched this ...
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Bengt Toll appointed head of Swedish Film Institute's Audience Dept
Bengt Toll, of Swedish regional film centre, Film i Väst in Trollhättan, has been appointed head of the Swedish Film Institute's Audience department, as of February 2009. Previously Toll was head of development of Swedish regional film centre, Film i Väst in Trollhättan and is also currently chairman of CineRegio, ...
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Celluloid Dreams acquires Wagenhofer doc, Let's Make Money
Celluloid Dreams has acquired Erwin Wagenhofer's documentary, Let's Make Money. Produced by Allegro Film's Helmut Grasser, the film is a behind-the-scenes look at the ways in which ordinary people are implicated in the political and economic machinations of the international finance market through a simple bank deposit.Celluloid will premiere the ...
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Consumer spending on video rose to $17.3bn in 8 key markets in 2007
Consumer spending overall on movie and TV videos rose by 26% to $17.3bn in eight key markets; UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, Japan and the US in 2007. Despite the rise, spending on buying movies declined everywhere except the US, UK and Australia.That was one of the key findings ...
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Beta Cinema presents four market premieres at AFM
The Munich-based sales agent will be having market screenings for the first time of:Robert Dornhelm's $ 6.4m (Euros 5m) production of the Puccini opera La Boheme with star singers Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon, which has been released so far in Austria (Constantin Film) and Germany (NFP/Warner);Nicolai Rohde's drama 10 ...
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NDTV Lumiere strikes online deal with BIGFlix
NDTV Lumière has partnered with Indian entertainment portal www.bigflix.com to provide 30 world movies titles from its extensive acquisitions list to India and the SAARC territories. These titles will be available on the site on a yearly basis at a price of $1.99 per download-to-rent and $4.49 per download-to-own.Viewers can ...
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Warlords heads the pack forTaiwan's Golden Horse Awards
Peter Chan's The Warlords leads the race for the 45th Golden Horse Awards with nominations in 12 categories, including best feature film, best director and best actor for Jet Li. Also competing for the best film award are Feng Xiaogang's Assembly, Wei Te-sheng's Cape No. 7, Liu Fendou's Ocean Flame ...
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Oz genre filmmakers check into The Clinic
Distributor Richard Sheffield and producer Jonathan Shteinman are the executive producers on thriller The Clinic, which goes into production on November 10 in the isolated regional town of Deniliquin in Australia. Producer Samuel Pinczewski and director James Rabbitts are the drivers behind the film, set in the middle of nowhere ...
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Wenders helps toturn First Page in Taipei
Wim Wenders formally announced his new project, First Page Taipei, in Taiwan's capital today. The German filmmaker, introduced as 'the master of road movies', will executive produce the debut feature of Taipei-born and San Francisco-raised director Arvin Chen. Wenders stated that he and his director have two things in common: ...
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New York's South Asian Film Festival gives The Pool top honours
Chris Smith's The Pool was named best narrative feature and ChristyGarland and Susan Armstrong's Doormat took documentary honours as the2008 fifth annual South Asian Film Festival (SAIFF) came to a close onOctober 25.Dipti Gogna's Narmeen won best short film prize as nearly 200 attendees packed the gala ceremony event at ...
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Lake Tahoe finds a US distribution home with Film Movement
Film Movement has acquired domestic rights to Fernando Eimbcke's Mexican drama Lake Tahoe, winner of the FIPRESCI Award and the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 2008 Berlinale.The film follows the antics of a teenager who escapes from his miserable home life only for his car to break down, leading to ...
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Sam Mendes attached to direct Columbia's Preacher
Columbia Pictures has attached Sam Mendes to direct a feature adaptation of the graphic novel Preacher that Neal Moritz will produce through Original Films banner alongside Kickstart Productions' Jason Netter.This will be Mendes' second graphic novel project after Road To Perdition, although the property's supernatural tone marks a dramatic direction ...
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Goldcrest Independent boards Marceau-Lambert drama Percussions
Goldcrest Independent has acquired international rights to Thelma Films and Cine Nomine's upcoming French romance Percussions starring real-life couple Sophie Marceau and Christophe Lambert.Executive president of sales Pierre Weisbein will introduce the project to buyers at AFM following a seven-week shoot in the Colombia city of Cartagena.Currently in post-production in ...
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Bleiberg to self-distribute Adam for Oscar qualifying run
Bleiberg Entertainment will self-distribute the Holocaust drama Adam Resurrected in New York and Los Angeles for an Academy Awards qualifying run in December.Adam Resurrected premiered at Telluride and Toronto recently and will screen at the AFI FEST 2008 on November 8 and 9.Jeff Goldblum stars as a survivor who ends ...
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Regent Releasing picks up worldwide rights to Blue Tooth Virgin
Regent Releasing has swooped on worldwide distribution rights to US comedy The Blue Tooth Virgin written and directed by Russell Brown.Regent plans a limited release in early 2009 following the film's world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival last summer, where it won the special jury award.The story charts ...
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Berry and Skarsgard go before camera on Frankie and Alice
Principal photography has commenced on Geoffrey's Sax drama Frankie and Alice, starring Halle Berry and Stellan Skarsgard in the lead roles. Produced by Toronto-based Access Motion Pictures, the project will makes its first market appearance at the AFM through Cinesavvy, Access' partner sales company, which is handling world rights.Set against ...
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Mamma Mia! becomes biggest ever UK movie at UK box-office
Mamma Mia! The Movie has broken box office records to become the biggest UK movie of all time at the UK box-office. Like the James Bond and Harry Potter franchises, the film is a UK-US collaboration. With box-office reaching $104,590,000 (£66,995,244), it is the second highest-grossing film of all time ...
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Delphis takes international rights on Dutch family hit Letter For The King
Montreal sales company Delphis Films has acquired international sales rights to Dutch filmmaker Pieter Verhoeff's chivalric adventure Letter For The King. The deal is for rights outside Benelux and German-language territories. The German release is scheduled for November.Budgeted at Euros 7.5m and shot on location in Holland, Germany, Belgium, France, ...
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UKfilm tax credit provides $170m in support since Jan 2007
The UK government's has published figures showing the amount of film tax relief provided in support of UK production, since the current scheme was introduced in January 2007.They show that 110 claims received tax relief to the end of March 2008 totalling $170m (£104m), and covering around 100 new films. ...
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Universal Pictures takes Benelux distribution rights to De Storm
Universal Pictures International Studio has acquired Belgian, Netherlands and Luxembourg distribution rights to De Storm (The Storm). The Dutch film was directed by Ben Sombogaart, whose latest film Bride Flight was released in cinemas in the Netherlands on October 16 and opened third in the Dutch box office chart.'Ben Sombogaart ...