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Locarno's Buzz Films
North Face (Nordwand) (Ger)Piazza GrandeDir: Philipp StolzlThe story: An all-star German cast of Benno Furmann, Florian Lukas and Ulrich Tukur play climbers attempting to scale the Eiger in the 1930s. The plot touches on love, political conflict during the Nazi era and the mountaineers' obsession.The buzz: Such an epic narrative ...
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Journey to the Third Dimension
In 1953, studio chief Jack Warner implored Alfred Hitchcock to work in the new format of 3D for his film Dial M For Murder. Hollywood had just introduced the colour stereoscopic photographic technology to fend off the pervasive reach of television. But by the time of the release, the 3D ...
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Screen opinion:A double take on piracy
The UK government took its swig from the poisoned chalice of film and music piracy this week. The result, of course, was a fudge. Most attempts to take on counterfeiting have proved either incoherent or unworkable. Sometimes both.Like the 'war on drugs' the prospects for a knock-out blow are limited ...
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Venice Film Festival: Italian squad takes on rest of world
The Italian flag will fly high over the Lido this year. Following a strong showing at Cannes, four local titles will screen in competition at the 65th Venice film festival, with the Italian industry out in force with 20 films.Artistic director Marco Mueller reportedly had to make an official request ...
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Postcard from Karlovy Vary
Karlovy Vary is known as a relaxed setting, ideal for renewing contacts. A little business was done in the pine-fringed Czech spa town during the festival (July 4-12), four films picked up local distribution, and the Eastern European line-up went down well with enthusiastic audiences, many of whom were backpacking ...
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The Mummy goes up against Batman in 28 territories
The Dark Knight would appear to be the one to beat yet again as the film enters its third weekend, although Warner Bros Pictures International can look for some spirited competition from Universal's The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor which opens in 28 territories.The crime epic has amassed $159m ...
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Di Pierro, Cirillo team up for revenue sharing online distributor
Former Warner Brothers executive Vince Di Pierro and marketing veteran Joe Cirillo have launched the revenue sharing online distributor Indie RoadThe founders will canvas a panel of experts to select material that visitors to the site will be able to download or stream for prices starting at less than a ...
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Lucasfilm wins copyright case against Shepperton Design Studios
The High Court in London has ruled that Shepperton Design Studios and its principal Andrew Ainsworth violated Lucasfilm's US copyrights by manufacturing and selling Stormtrooper helmets and other costume replicas from the Star Wars franchise.The decision handed down from the High Court's Chancery Division today [July 31] affirmed that Lucasfilm ...
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Luke Ryan joins MGM as vp of theatrical production
Former vice president of MTV Films Luke Ryan has joined the MGM motion picture group as vice president of theatrical production.Ryan will oversee the production and development of new MGM projects and reports to chairman of the worldwide motion picture group Mary Parent.He will immediately get to work on priority ...
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Tribeca Film Festival sets 2009 dates as April 22 to May 3
The Tribeca Film Festival's 2009 edition will take place in New York from April 22 to May 3, organisers announced today [July 31].The Tribeca Film Institute's Tribeca All Access (TAA) programme will run from April 20 to April 25.For further information about Tribeca visit the official website at www.tribecafilm.com.
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Grande ambitions: Locarno preview
On the eve of this year's 61st Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16), the organisers are in bullish mood. Festival director Frederic Maire is clearly delighted to secure Julian Jarrold's Evelyn Waugh adaptation Brideshead Revisited as the festival's opening film.'It's a very strong film, which looks really classical but is ...
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China Film, Enlight team to produce new media shorts
Chinese state-owned China Film Group Corporation and private media group Enlight Media are teaming up to produce short films for new media platforms. The two groups aim to produce 100 short films in the coming year. According to Wang Changtian, president of Enlight Media Group, the films will be three ...
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Korea's constitutional court rules against restricted rating
South Korea's Constitutional Court has ruled against the Korea Media Rating Board's 'Restricted' classification, effectively compelling the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to create a revised law proposal for the legislative body. Local importer World Cinema filed suit in February of this year after its Cannes 2005 pick-up Battle ...
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Adlabs commissions studyof Indian cinema audiences
Mumbai-based Adlabs Cinemas has commissioned India's leading research agency, IMRB International, to carry out research that will probe the Indian cinema audience on parameters such as advertising exposure, cinema habits and exposure to media. Adlabs Cinemas is a part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, while IMRB International is ...
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Projects by Fliegauf, Alvart, Sax receive backing from German funds
New productions by Benedek Fliegauf, Christian Alvart, and Geoffrey Sax are among 35 projects receiving over $12m in support from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and Leipzig-based Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung (MDM).At its latest sitting the Berlin-based FFA supported such projects as Hungarian director Fliegauf's first English language production, Womb, produced ...
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Disney takes New Zealand rights to Under The Mountain
Walt Disney has signed on with sales agent NZ Film to distribute Black Sheep director Jonathan King's scary teen adventure Under The Mountain in New Zealand. Sam Neill has been cast in the film, an adaptation of a 1979 Maurice Gee novel about teenage twins who battle the dark forces ...
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Russian box-office sales boom in first half of 2008
Cinemas in Russia and the CIS saw a 3.7% year-on-year increase in admissions in the first half of 2008 while sales in the first six months of the year ballooned 38.2% over the same period in 2007. According to Russian Film Business Today, more than 56m tickets were sold in ...
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Xingu partners with comic kingpin Pat Millsfor American Reaper film
Repeat Offenders, a new UK company developing graphic novels with cinema potential, is at work on its first two projects, both based on the work of lauded comics duo Pat Mills and Clint Langley.Trudie Styler's Xingu Films has acquired big-screen rights to upcoming graphic novel American Reaper created by writer ...
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Colin Brown steps down as Editor-in-Chief of Screen International
Colin Brown is stepping down as the longstanding Editor-in-Chief of Screen International to pursue new entrepreneurial ambitions in the global media and entertainment sphere.Announcing the amicable departure, Natasha Christie-Miller, Managing Director, Retail & Media at Emap Inform, Screen's parent company, paid tribute to Brown's long and profitable association with the ...
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Match Factory handles Venice competitors Jerichow, Teza
Cologne-based The Match Factory will handle international sales on two Venice competition titles - Christian Petzold's Jerichow and Haile Gerima's Teza - screening as world premieres at the festival.Jerichow marks The Match Factory's second collaboration with Petzold after his Berlinale 2007 competition film Yella which won lead actress and Petzold ...