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Interview: Star Media founder Vlad Ryashin
In the latest of her interviews with senior figures in the Russian film industry, Olia Hercules talks to Vlad Ryashin, founder of the Star Media film and TV company and former-director of the largest Ukrainian TV channel, Inter.ScreenDaily: Why did Star-Media, a Russian media company open an office in the ...
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High Point Films takes rights to East, West, East - The Final Sprint
High Point Films, the theatrical sales division of Carey Fitzgerald's London based High Point Media Group, has taken international rights to Albanian/Italian co-production, East, West, East - The Final Sprint by Albanian Gjergj Xhuvani.Francesco Tagliabue (Sandokan, Don Milani) is producing out of Italy for Fast Rewind srl, along with Arben ...
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UK Film Council takes six UK film companies to TIFF and TIFFCOM
For the first time, the UK Film Council (UKFC) is taking a delegation of UK film companies to exhibit at the Tokyo International Film Festival and the Tokyo Film and Content Market.The companies are Film and Music Entertainment, Headline Pictures, Screen West Midlands, Velvet Octopus Independent and Starfield Productions. The ...
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Strong Austrian presence as 2008 Viennale opens
Austrian filmmakers will have an unprecedented presence at this year's Viennale (Vienna International Film Festival).The festival opens today (October 17) with the Golden Palm winner The Class (Entre Les Murs).More than 20 local feature-length and short films have been programmed by festival director Hans Hurch including the world premieres of ...
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Fortissimo Films appoints Kees Koot to Chief Finance Officer
International film, TV, and sales outfit Fortissimo Films has appointed Kees Koot as its Chief Finance Officer. Koot will head Fortissimo's finance department out of its head office in Amsterdam. Koot joins Fortissimo from Dutch distributor A-Film Distribution where he was Finance Manager and helped create the company's Accounting and ...
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Amsterdam Filmmuseum and Thought Equity Motion in $40m project
The Amsterdam Filmmuseum has entered into a partnership with US company, Thought Equity Motion.The move is part of the Netherlands' hugely ambitious 'Images For The Future' project to digitise the country's entire film, radio and TV holdings. The Filmmuseum has around $40m (Euros 30 m) to spend on its digitisation ...
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UK initiative to bring female led comedy features to the big screen
Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones' Diary) and Olivia Poulet (Margaret, Killing me Softly) are among 13 women selected to take part in Last Laugh: Women Create Comedy, the new feature film development initiative from Warp X and Birds Eye View, supported by industry body Skillset.The initiative aims to bring female led ...
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Summit signs with Anders, Morris to develop untitled comedy
On the eve of Summit Entertainment's release of the teen comedy Sex Drive, the company has signed a deal with the film's screenwriters Sean Anders and John Morris to develop an untitled comedy.Anders will direct and Morris will produce the film about a wild college sophomore who inherits a stubborn ...
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UK Opposition party promises more Lottery money for film
A Conservative government would increase National Lottery-funded spending on film by 10%, shadow cultural secretary Jeremy Hunt told the Screen International UK Film Finance Summit.He said the oppositon - currently leading the government in opinion polls - was committed to the creative sector.'We recognise that the film industry is extremely ...
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Singapore's Raintree partners with Irresistible Films
Singapore's MediaCorp Raintree Pictures is to become the third partner inHong Kong-basedfilm fund, Irresistible Films, alongside producer Bill Kong and Japan's Avex Group. Raintreewill contribute a third share of the $25m fundwhich aims to invest in four to six Asian films a year, with budgets ranging between $1m-$3m, directed by ...
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Fox looks to lead international as Max Payne shoots into 32 territories
Fox International ruled the roost last weekend with Andrei Kravchuk's The Admiral and will look to hold on to its winning ways with the wide day-and-date launch of the video game adaptation Max Payne starring Mark Wahlberg.The action film breaks into 32 territories this weekend, among them Australia, New Zealand, ...
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Ricci, Neeson to star in After.Life for Lleju Productions, Plum Pictures
Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson will star in the psychological thriller After.Life for venture capitalist Bill Perkins' new LLeju Productions and Plum Pictures.ICM packaged and arranged financing for the project through Perkins and represents Ricci and writer and first time director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo. ICM holds North American rights and IM ...
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Oscilloscope takes worldwide on Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie
Oscilloscope Laboratories has taken worldwide rights to Jay Delaney's documentary Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie and will release it today [October 17] at the Pioneer Theater in New York and on DVD in winter 2009.The film is styled as a buddy movie about Bigfoot researchers Wayne Burton and Dallas Gilbert ...
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Kenny Glenaan's Summer tops BAFTA Scotland film nominations
The Kenny Glenaan drama Summer leads the film nominations for this year's BAFTA Scotland awards. Click to see Screen review.Summer is one of three contenders for Best Film and has also secured nominations for Robert Carlyle's central performance and for Best Director. Carlyle stars a a middle-aged man facing up ...
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Eurocinema's Namer to give keynote at China conference
VOD service Eurocinema's head of North American operations Larry Namer will give the keynote speech along with News Corp Europe chairman I Martin Pompadur at China's first International Media And Technology Conference, which runs from October 22-25.The symposium is co-sponsored by the China Radio And Television Association (CRTA) and the ...
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LongTale International picks up international on Strathairn drama
LongTale International has acquired international rights to Eithor/Or Films' off-beat drama The Sensation of Sight starring David Strathairn.Aaron J Wiederspahn directed the story about a middle-aged English teacher's search for meaning amid the ache of despair.Jane Adams, Ann Cusak, Elisabeth Waterston, Joe Mazzello, and Scott Wilson round out the key ...
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Taraji Henson takes lead in No More Bloodshed
Taraji Henson, who recently starred in Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys, will star in the quirky thriller No More Bloodshed that is set to begin shooting in Los Angeles in March 2009.The film centres on a paroled hit man determined to change his life and reclaim the son he's ...
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New York Critics to announce annual awards on Dec 10
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) will hold its annual vote on the year's best in film on December 10 and the awards ceremony will take place at Spotlight in New York City on January 5 2009.The group's outgoing chair and Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum also announced that ...
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Pretty Pictures acquires Richard Eyre's The Other Man for France
Richard Eyre's The Other Man has been acquired for France by Pretty Pictures.The deal was concluded between James Velaise of French distribution company Pretty Pictures and Natalie Brenner of Ealing Studios.The Other Man has created good festival buzz, having premiered at Toronto and opened the San Sebastian Film Festival. It ...
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Snow, Rumba and Synecdoche, New York, in Zagreb competition
The Zagreb Film Festival has announced the films in competition for its sixth edition.Entries featured in competition are first or second films by their directors, and fall into three sections: features, documentaries and shorts. The festival runs from October 19-25.Films already receiving attention from the feature competition programme include Charlie ...