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Film Movement takes domestic rights to The Country Teacher
Film Movement has picked up North American rights to Bohdan Slama's Czech drama The Country Teacher and will release in 2009.The film follows a gay teacher whose jealous ex-boyfriend causes trouble when he arrives in town. Pavel Liksa and Zuzana Bydzovska star.Film Movement president Adley Gartenstein negotiated the deal with ...
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Regent Releasing picks up Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata
Regent Releasing has acquired North American rights to Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner Tokyo Sonata, which received its North American premiere at Toronto recently.Tokyo Sonata will get its New York premiere at the 46th New York Film Festival along with Regent's other Toronto pick-up from Fortissimo, Serbis.Teruyuki ...
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Sean Penn to receive BAFTA/LA's Stanley Kubrick Award
Sean Penn will receive BAFTA/LA's most prestigious honour when he collects the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award For Excellence In Film at the 2008 BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards on November 6 in Los Angeles.Penn won the lead actor Oscar for Mystic River and is expected to figure in this season's awards race ...
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EuropaCorp begins shoot on From Paris With Love
EuropaCorp has announced the start of principal photography on the $55m (Euros 38m) From Paris With Love, starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Director Pierre Morel began filming Monday near Annecy and will carry on to Paris and its environs for a total 12-week shoot. The film is based ...
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Netherlands Production Platform presents 20 European co-productions
The 20th Holland Film Meeting will this year present 14 International projects and six Dutch projects at the Netherlands Production Platform (NPP).The NPP encourages co-production between the Netherlands and other countries by pitching selected projects to international film professionals in order to assess their market potential.Among the projects to be ...
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Funny Balloons seals raft of territories for Louise-Michel
French sales outfit Funny Balloons has sold Benoit Delepine and Gustav Kervern's black comedy Louise-Michel to Ad Vitam in France, Pony Films (Austria), Columbus (Switzerland), Cirko (Hungary), Independenta (Romania), UTV (India), Vendetta (New Zealand/Australia), and Maywin (CSI and Baltics). The deals were closed on the back of the film's world ...
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San Sebastian announces Cinema In Motion award winners
San Sebastian's Cinema In Motion programme has selected Najwa Najjar's romantic drama Pomegranates And Myrrh, Mohamed Chrif Tribak's political tale Le Temps Des Camarades and De Gaulle Eid's moving film Chou Sar' as this year's winners.The three were chosen from a shortlist of five projects all from the Maghreb region ...
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Vue to host one-night Arctic Monkeys film screening
Vue and other independent cinemas in the UK will host a special one-night presentation on Oct 14 of Arctic Monkey At The Apollo, a Warp Films Production presented by Warp Films, Domino and Bang Bang.Vue will host the night in 33 venues across the UK, alongside other cinemas including the ...
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The Day After Peace toscreen at Dubai International Film Festival
The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) announced that the documentary feature film, The Day After Peace, has been chosen as part of the line up for 2008. The choice of film reflects the organisers support for film-makers who promote worldwide peace.'The film has a cultural bridge theme furthering the Festival's ...
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With A Little Patience nominated for the European Film Awards
Turelem (With A Little Patience) has been announced as the final of 14 shorts nominated for the European Film Awards 2008. The announcement was made at the International Short Film Festival in Greece.The Hungarian short was written and directed by Laszlo Nemes and produced by Hungarian studio Inforg. Nemes teamed ...
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LoveFilm UK strikes marketing deal for Lionsgate UK titles
Online DVD rental company and entertainment website LoveFilm has struck a multi-title marketing partnership with Lionsgate UK.The pact kicks off with Righteous Kill, the new thriller starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.The six-month media deal continues into 2009 for titles also including I've Love You So Long, Midnight Meat ...
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Pusan's Asian Film Market to host Asian Film Funds Forum
The Pusan International Film Festival's 3rd Asian Film Market will be holding a three-day film financing event, the Asian Film Funds Forum (Oct 3-5), which is being co-hosted by Screen International. 'Participants will be able to obtain the key information on film financing in Asia, in addition to a general ...
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Son quits Show East to launch M-Line Distribution
South Korean film company Show East's head of international business Michelle Son has left to launch a new sales outfit, M-Line Distribution. The new company will make its debut at the upcoming Asian Film Market during the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF).'We have to look harder for good Korean titles ...
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Warner Brothers' case against Mirchi Movies dismissed
The Delhi High Court has rejected Warner Bros' plea that Indian film Hari Puttar - A Comedy Of Terrors, produced by Mirchi Movies, sounds too similar to their franchise series Harry Potter. The Hollywood studio had moved the court for an interim restraining order on the release of the Punjabi ...
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US independent Liberation signs video deal with RYKO
LA-based independent Liberation Entertainment has signed a deal with RYKO Distribution for exclusive rights to all Liberation video releases in the US beginning October 1.The agreement covers all catalogue titles as well as new releases. Upcoming titles include Eden, TOKYO! and Just Buried.'We view this new partnership as a perfect ...
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Revolver scares up multi-platform holiday plans for Mum & Dad
Revolver Entertainment is planning an innovative UK multi-platform release for Steven Sheil's Mum & Dad.The distributor says the film's Dec 26 release will be simultaneous in theatres, DVD, VoD, electronic sell-through and rental. A similar US release is planned timed for Mother's Day 2009.Sheil's low-budget horror film is described as ...
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Slamdance to offer features two hours after festival premieres
Organisers at the 15th Slamdance Film Festival have signed a deal with online distributor Indieroad.net to stream features two hours after their theatrical premiere at the festival.Viewers will be charged $9 per stream with one-third of profits going back to the film-maker. Each selection will be available in two bandwidths ...
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Elliott Associates increases minority stake in Relativity Media
New York based private investment firm Elliott Associates has increased its minority stake in Relativity Media in the second major financing story of the day following Media Rights Capital's deal for a $350m revolving credit facility.Elliott decided to increase its investment on the heels of a profitable summer for the ...
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Hamptons teams with EFP to present three Shooting Stars
The Hamptons International Film Festival has partnered with European Film Promotion to showcase talent from the European Shooting Stars programme, marking the first time the talent campus will come to the US.The festival runs from October 15-19 and will present three stars from the Shooting Stars programme, now in its ...
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Summit sets Oct 23, 2009, as Astro Boy release date
Summit Entertainment will release Imagi Studios' animated feature Astro Boy in North America on October 23, 2009, on more than 3,000 screens.Summit and Imagi are putting together the final details on a marketing plan targeting family and adult audiences. The marketing strategy includes a commitment from a major fast food ...