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Abu Dhabi's MEIFF to host Youssef Chahine exhibition
The Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi (Oct 10-19) will host an exhibition dedicated to the late Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.Executive Director Nashwa Al Ruwaini says: 'The exhibition contains 100 frames of tens of rare photos and rare artifacts that will be held in one of the halls ...
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Jessica Alba to star in Marilyn Agrelo's Invisible Sign
Jessica Alba will star in Silverwood Films and iDeal Partners Fund's modern fable An Invisible Sign Of My Own, which Kimmel International chief Mark Lindsay will introduce to buyers here and Endeavor is representing for North America.Marilyn Agrelo, who scored a hit with the 2005 Sundance documentary Mad Hot Ballroom, ...
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CPH:PIX recruits top Danish directors, artists for new project
Copenhagen's new CPH:PIX festival will debut the ARTFILM-FILMART project during its first edition.The initiative will present five Danish acclaimed filmmakers creating five different films in collaboration with five renowned visual artists. The pairs are Pernille Fischer Christensen (A Soap) and Cathrine Raben Davidsen; Christoffer Boe (Reconstruction) and Balder Olrik; Dagur ...
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Ashley Luke leaves Fortissimo for New South Wales FTO
Ashley Luke joins the New South Wales Film and Television Office (FTO) as director of market development on September 29 after seven years with sales agent Fortissimo.'I have been in Australia for four years and now know it pretty well and this move means I can solely concentrate on Australian ...
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Bavaria clinches Russian Krabat deal with Film Depot
Bavaria Film International has closed its first sale on Krabat ahead of the first public screening of the film, to Russia's Film Depot.Bavaria Film International's Head of Sales Stefanie Zeitler announced the deal.Marco Kreuzpaintner's 1646-set drama about an orphan who trains to be a sorcerer's apprentice, adapted from Otfried Preussler's ...
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C.R.A.Z.Y.'s Vallee sets up Shoe Business
Jean-Marc Vallee, the multi-award winning filmmaker behind 2005 Quebecois smash C.R.A.Z.Y., is setting up his next production, Shoe Business, a comic drama set at the height of the 1970s disco craze.Vallee will produce the film on an estimated $6.6m-$9.4m (C$7m-C$10m) budget through his C.R.A.Z.Y. Films production shingle, although he is ...
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Stewart Till buys Icon as foundation for international network
Stewart Till's company Stadium has agreed a deal to acquire the international operations of Mel Gibson and Bruce Davey's Icon Group comprising sales outfit Icon Entertainment International, the UK and Australian distribution operations and the Majestic Films & Television library. The deal is subject to due diligence.The acquisition marks the ...
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Fortissimo strikes Maximum Canadian deal for Disgrace
Fortissimo Films continues its strong Toronto sales with a Canadian deal for Steve Jacobs' Disgrace with Maximum Film Distribution.John Malkovich stars in the adaptation of JM Coetzee's lauded South-Africa set novel, about a disgraced professor who is confronted with violence on his daughter's rural farm. The deal is for all ...
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CMG seals three-picture deals with Poland, Turkey
Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group has closed sales on its key Toronto sales titles Zambezia, Killer Bean Forever and The People Speak.Poland's Vison Film and Turkey's Film Pop acquired rights to the trio. The animated feature Killer Bean Forever is based on Jeff Lew's short Killer Bean 2: The Party, ...
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Bangkok Dangerous is top of lacklustre domestic weekend
Nicolas Cage stands atop the domestic box office charts following a typically lacklustre post-Labor Day weekend that saw the action thriller Bangkok Dangerous launch at number one through Lionsgate on an estimated $7.8m.There were no other new entries in the top ten as DreamWorks-Paramount's comedy Tropic Thunder ranked second on ...
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Strong international weekend for Universal led by Mamma Mia!
Universal's musical adaptation Mamma Mia! led the international pack at the weekend and is nearing $300m following an estimated $15m haul through UPI from 3,493 sites in 39 territories that raised the tally to $280.1m.Mamma Mia! overtook The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian to become the fifth biggest grossing international ...
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Venice FIPRESCI prizes go to Goodbye Solo, Inland (Gabba)
Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo, which is screening at TIFF through September 11, took the FIPRESCI international critics prize in Venice, as best film in Horizons and International Critics' Week.The FIPRESCI prize for the international competition went Inland (Gabbla) by Tariq Teguia. Inland is about present-day Algeria, through the experiences of ...
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Millennium comes on board Norton-starrer Leaves In The Grass
Millennium Films has boarded the $9.5m Edward Norton comedy Leaves InThe Grass after the financing deal set up through New York-based Barbarian fell apart in the summer.Tim Blake Nelson will start shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, on September 22 to take advantage of state tax incentives and Millennium's facility in the ...
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Celluloid takes international to Soul Power, Ocean buys France
Celluloid Dreams has acquired all international rights from Submarine to Jeffrey Levy-Hinte's documentary Soul Power following its world premiere here and has concluded a deal in France with Ocean.Celluloid is weighing up other offers from the UK and Australia, among others, and expects to close further deals this week. Submarine ...
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Canadian Film Centre launches actors' training programme
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) is launching Canada's first professional training program for established screen actors. The scheme, set to launch in autumn 2009, will offer advanced onscreen performance training to up eight experienced Canadian actors. Its principal backers are CanWest and the Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation.The training will explore ...
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Carmody plans 3-D project Evil Dead: The Musical
Producer Don Carmody and partners are in negotiations with Spidermandirector Sam Raimi to bring to the screen the musical version of the formerhorror meister's Evil Dead films, Evil Dead: The Musical.Conceived by George Reinblatt, Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris, the camp stage interpretation of Raimi's cult classic horror ...
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K5 on board for world sales of zomcom Wasting Away
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 International has acquired Matthew Kohnen's Wasting Away for worldwide sales.The US 'zomcom' feature, uniquely presented from the zombies' perspective, has picked up awards at ScreamFest, New Beijing, Festivus and Zompire.K5 spotted Wasting Away at Sci-Fi London and K5's Bill Stephens, Daniel Baur and Oliver ...
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Maximum Films takes the world on Control Alt Delete
Maximum Films International has picked up worldwide sales rights on Cameron Labine's feature debut Control Alt Delete. Maximum Films Releasing will distribute in Canada. The slacker comedy makes its world premiere at TIFF on Wednesday in the Canada First! programme.Set at the turn of the century when Y2K scared the ...
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Gale Ann Hurd picks up remake rights to Quebecois hit Nitro
LA-based production powerhouse Valhalla Motion Pictures has acquired English-language remake rights to the Quebecois street racing action hit Nitro.The film, produced by Pierre Even of Montreal-based Cirrus Communications and directed by Alain Desrochers, earned $1.2m on its opening weekend in Quebec in 2007, besting Live Free Or Die Hard and ...
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Visit Films closes five-picture deal with Australia's Beyond
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's New York-based Visit Films has closed a five-film deal here with Beyond Entertainment in Australia.Beyond has acquired rights to Hannah Takes The Stairs, LOL and Kissing On The Mouth by Joe Swanberg and Dance Party USA and Quiet City by Aaron Katz.'With deals like this, ...