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The Film Source Co picks up worldwide rights to Nuzhat
Alex Massis' The Film Source Company has acquired worldwide rights to Judd Ne'eman's Israeli drama Nuzhat.Muhammad Bakri, Yael Hadar, Merav Guber and singer-songwriter Efrat Gosh star in the story of a pregnant soap star who discovers that her real life is being scripted by the writer of her TV show, ...
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Focus, Coens have career best openings with Burn After Reading
Fuelled by high profile world and North American premieres at Venice and Toronto, Focus Features scored its first number one launch and the Coen Brothers enjoyed the best debut of their careers as Burn After Reading opened top of the charts on an estimated $19.4m.The all-star ensemble dark spy comedy ...
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Mamma Mia! leads international with $17.5m weekend for UPI
Universal films ruled the roost at the weekend led by an estimated $17.5m haul for Mamma Mia! from 4,296 sites in 44 territories through UPI that took the musical adaptation over $300m.The film opened top in France on $2.4m and Belgium on $1m, as well as in French-speaking Switzerland on ...
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Tom McCarthy's The Visitor takes top prize at Deauville
Tom McCarthy's The Visitor has taken the Grand Prize at The 34th Deauville Festival of American Film.The film, starring Richard Jenkins as a widower who truly finds himself via an unlikely encounter with a couple of illegal immigrants in New York, was a hit with the festival crowd in what ...
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Europa Cinemas to debate dangers of D-cinema switchover
Europa Cinemas will examine the potential threat posed to cinemas across Europe by digital switchover at its 13th annual conference in Paris in November.Growing concerns that the cost of the digital switch will be beyond the reach of independent and arthouse cinemas have recently been highlighted in Screen International.The Europa ...
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Goetz Spielmann's Revanche named as Austria's Oscar entry
Goetz Spielmann's Revanche has been selected as Austria's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at next year's Academy Awards.The rural drama had its world premiere in the Panorama Special section of the Berlinale in February and is handled internationally by The Match Factory.To date, Revanche has received 10 ...
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Slumdog Millionaire takes prestigious audience prize at Toronto
Click on film name's to see reviewDanny Boyle's Mumbai-set Slumdog Millionaire won the Cadillac People's Choice Award as the Toronto International Film Festival wrapped its 33rd edition on Saturday. The award comes with a cash prize of $14,000 (C$15,000).Accepting the award on behalf of Boyle, actress Freida Pinto saluted Mumbai, ...
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Departures selected as Japan's Oscar entry
Yojiro Takita's Departures (Okuribito) has been selected as Japan's official entry for the Academy Awards' foreign-language film category, the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren) announced on Friday. The final selection for films nominated in the category will be announced by AMPAS in January.Departures is a dramedy starring Masahiro ...
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Match Factory takes on Wuste projects from Oberli, Taddicken
The Match Factory will handle international sales on two new feature film projects by Wüste Film - Bettina Oberli's The Murder Farm (Tannöd) and Sven Taddicken's Zwölf Meter Ohne Kopf - which both began principal photography this week.Late Bloomers director Oberli's dark crime story is starring Julia Jentsch, Monica Bleibtreu ...
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IM Internationalmedia's future as 'Film library company'
The beleaguered IM Internationalmedia Group may see its future operating as 'a mere film library company.' according to the company's interim report for the first half of 2008, The prediction follows the company's decision to file for insolvency proceedings in Munich last month due to pending illiquidity. IM also revealed ...
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IM Internationalmedia's future as 'Film library company'
The beleaguered IM Internationalmedia Group may see its future operating as 'a mere film library company.' according to the company's interim report for the first half of 2008, The prediction follows the company's decision to file for insolvency proceedings in Munich last month due to pending illiquidity. IM also revealed ...
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IM Internationalmedia's future as 'Film library company'
The beleaguered IM Internationalmedia Group may see its future operating as 'a mere film library company.' according to the company's interim report for the first half of 2008. The prediction follows the company's decision to file for insolvency proceedings in Munich last month due to pending illiquidity. IM also revealed ...
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Forman, Havel collaborating on adaptation of The Ghost Of Munich
Oscar-winning director Milos Forman is collaborating with Vaclav Havel on a screenplay based on The Ghost of Munich by Georges-Marc Benamou.The book tells of a journalist who seeks out Edouard Daladier, the aging former French prime minister, in 1968. Daladier represented France at the 1938 Munich conference, at which the ...
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Forman, Havel collaborating on adaptation of The Ghost Of Munich
Oscar-winning director Milos Forman is collaborating with Vaclav Havel on a screenplay based on The Ghost of Munich by Georges-Marc Benamou.The book tells of a journalist who seeks out Edouard Daladier, the aging former French prime minister, in 1968. Daladier represented France at the 1938 Munich conference, at which the ...
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Blow to Germany as Cartoon Movie market moves to Lyon
Just days before this year's Cartoon Forum financing market is held in the south-west German town of Ludwigsburg from Sept 16, Brussels-based CARTOON has announced that its annual market for animation feature films, Cartoon Movie, is leaving its venue of 10 years at Potsdam's Babelsberg Studios to be held in ...
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Serbia's The Trap takes top prize at Chungmuro fest
The 2nd Chungmuro International Film Festival in Seoul (CHIFFS) awarded its Grand Prize to Srdan Golubovic's Serbian thriller The Trap on Thursday night. The five-member jury headed by Michael Cimino also presented a Special Jury Prize to Aida Begic's Bosnian drama Snow and its Discovery Award to local director Hur ...
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Fine Cut's Hansel And Gretel heads to Canada
Canadian genre film distributor Evokative Films has picked up local rights for Korean horror film Hansel And Gretel from Fine Cut. The film, directed by Yim Phil-sung, recently won a special mention from the European Federation of Fantastic Film Festivals Jury at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) and ...
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South West Screen adds five to board including Rebecca O'Brien
UK regional agency South West Screen has added some major players to its board of director.The five new board members are: Ken Loach's long-time producer Rebecca O'Brien of Sixteen Films; Dan'l Hewitt of Bebo; producer and PACT chair Charles Wace; DCMS veteran Brian Leonard; and media consultant Chris Wensley.Caroline Norbury, ...
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Moviehouse sings along with LFF selection 1 2 3 4
Moviehouse Entertainment is now on board for international sales of 1 2 3 4, which is a music-themed fictional film set to have its world premiere at the Times BFI London Film Festival.Radiohead's Ed O'Brien executive produces.Giles Borg directs (making his feature debut) and Simon Kearney produces for UK-based Carson ...