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Shorts International offers 21 sci-fi shorts on iTunes
Shorts International has struck a deal with the iTunes Store in the US, UK and Canada to offer The Sci Fi Collection, a group of 21 shorts.The shorts include Josh Lee Kwai's Eli starring Heroes actor David Anders; Australian drama Sleeper by Andrew Milner; Youngwoong Jang's animation Mirage; Ransom Riggs' ...
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First Branchage festival to open in Jersey with Man On Wire
The programme has been unveiled for the first Branchage Jersey Film Festival, taking place on the island Sept 25-28.The festival will open at the island's Opera House with a gala screening of the multiple-festival-winning Man On Wire and close at the historic Gorey Castle with Vertigo/Film4's MySpace user-generated film Faintheart, ...
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Jonathan Demme to chair San Sebastian jury
Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme will chair the official jury at this year's San Sebastian film festival.Demmeis known for films includingThe Silence Of The Lambs, Philadelphia, The Manchurian Candidate, Stop Making Sense and Neil Young: Heart Of Gold. He will also be presenting a 'work in progress' version of his ...
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Sarajevo lines up shorts jury; Kevin Spacey to attend fest
The jury of the 14th Sarajevo Film Festival's short films competition will be comprised of Michael J. Werner, co-chairman of Fortissimo Films; Sejla Kamerlic, artist and filmmaker whose short film What Do I Know had premiere at last year's Venice Corto Cortissimo, and won the best short film award at ...
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Polish exhibitor Multikino plans 10 Ukraine cinemas
Polish multiplex operator Multikino is planning to open 10 cinemas in Ukraine in the next five years. The first of these, in Lviv, will open at the end of 2009.The company further plans to open four additional multiplexes in Poland by the end of 2009.Wojciech Kostrzewa, CEO of International Trading ...
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Cinema City International goes digital in 3D
Cinema City International is in the process of equipping its theatres in Central and Eastern Europe and in Israel with D-Cinema technology suitable for 3D projection.The multiplex operator has ordered 50 Kinoton DCP 30 Digital Cinema Projectors with integrated Dolby 3D system, several of which have already been installed in ...
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Media Luna picks up Locarno competition title Autumn
With the Locarno film festival kicking off last night, Media Luna Entertainment has picked international distribution rights for Turkish director Özcam Alper's feature debut Autumn (Sonbahar) which has its international premiere in Locarno's International Competition on Thursday.Onur Saylak, Megi Koboladze, R. Gulefer Yenigul and Serkan Keskin are the cast in ...
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Dance Of The Dragon wins in West Hollywood
John Radel's Singaporean drama Dance Of The Dragon was crowned best festival picture as the first annual West Hollywood International Film Festival concluded its four-day run.The film earned best director editing and cinematography prizes.Festival founder Martin De Luca and his team corralled more than 100 films during the event, which ...
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Red Cliff to open Tokyo International Film Festival
John Woo's epic martial arts drama Red Cliff will be the opening film of this year's Tokyo International Film Festival (Oct 18-26). The news was announced at a Tokyo press conference for the upcoming Japanese release of Red Cliff on November 1.The film will be distributed by Toho-Towa and Avex ...
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TIFF announces Asian and Spanish-language titles
The Toronto International Film Festival has added a raft of Spanish-language and Asian titles to its September line-up, including the world premiere of South Korean filmmaker So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain, the follow-up to her acclaimed 2006 debut In Between Days. Inspired by events in her own life, the new ...
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The Location Guide relaunches free locations website
TheLocationGuide.com has relaunched its website feature free access and new functionalities. The online resource is geared to film producers seeking locations and services across 180 countries.Changes at the site include more types of companies listed and a new look for online discussion area Pre Production Forum.The Location Guide is a ...
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Fitzgerald, Arriaga expected to attend fifth Eurasia festival
The fifth Eurasia International Film Festival hopes to welcome guests including Jack Nicholson, Antonio Banderas, Michael Fitzgerald, and Guillermo Arriaga to Astana, Kazakhstan from Sept 7-13.Other invitees include Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Armand Assante, Sean Penn, Fred Ross, Bruce Beresford, Lucrecia Martel, Nae Caranfil, Johnny To, Jia Zhangke, Fatih ...
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Vladivostok festival to host new Coproduction & Financing Forum
Vladivostok, Russia'sPacific Meridian International Film Festival of Asian-Pacific countries is staging a Coproduction & Film Financing Forum and the Generation Campus for young film-makers as part of its first Eurasia International Film Summit (Sept 14-17).[The name is not to be confused with Kazakhstan's Eurasia film festival also in September.]The financing ...
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Forward, Slingshot start shooting UK school horror Tormented
Teen horror film Tormented has started shooting in Birmingham, UK.New UK production company Forward Films makes its feature debut with the film, being produced as the fourth feature from digital studio Slingshot.The project is also backed by BBC Films and Screen West Midlands. Pathe International will handle international sales and ...
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KOFIC awards p&a cash to Dutch, Hong Kong distributors
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced that its second P&A Fund for Korean Films Abroad will be awarded to Stichting Nederlands Filmmuseum and Hong Kong's Golden Scene to distribute five films in total, including Secret Sunshine and The Chaser. A committee of five jury members selected Stichting Nederlands Filmmuseum ...
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Bavaria takes on Toronto world premiere Krabat
Bavaria Film International has picked up international distribution rights for Marco Kreuzpaintner's $15.5m (Euros 10m) fantasy film Krabat which will have its world premiere in the official selection of the forthcoming Toronto International Film Festival.Set in the 17th century, the story of Krabat, an orphan boy who is apprenticed to ...
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Charles McDonald to leave Premier to run own PR business
Film publicity legend Charles McDonald plans to step down as joint CEO of London-headquartered Premier PR at the end of October.He will leave Premier and handle a number of his own key clients independently, likely his most active Premier clientssuch as BBC Films, Optimum Releasing, European Film Awards and Europa ...
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Weber steps down as CEO of Senator parent to take LA head job
As of Sept 1, Marco Weber will acquire all shares in Los Angeles-based Senator Entertainment Inc. and step down as chief creative officer of the German parent company Senator Entertainment AG.Weber, who is currently CEO and President of Senator Entertainment Inc., will then focus solely on production of English-language films ...
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Hong Sang-soo starts shooting low-budget HD film
Korean auteur director Hong Sang-soo has commenced shooting his ninth film, which is a high-definition (HD) project with a budget of less than $100,000, according to his production house Jeonwonsa. The film stars Kim Tae-woo, who was previously in Hong's Woman Is The Future Of Man and Woman On The ...
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Usen chief launches production and acquisitions outfit
Yasuhide Uno, CEO of Japanesebroadband giant and Gaga Communications parent Usen Inc, has set up a new independent production and acquisitions company.Uno has personally invested 100% of the $2.31m (Y250m) start-up capital in the company, dubbed U's Films Inc. The new outfit is completely independent of the Usen group.Former Gaga ...