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Film Center Serbia shares $2.7m between nine projects
The Film Center Serbia, whose board is now headed by Emir Kusturica, has chosen nine projects to co-finance. Seven projects selected for financing of production are feature films and one feature documentary, while one is a feature in post-production.FEATURE FILMSWhite, White World (Beli, Beli Svet), written by Milena Markovic and ...
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Sean Gascoine leaves Coulson for United Agents
London-based United Agents has announced two newcomers to the agency: agent Sean Gascoine and his associate agent Hania Elkington.Gascoine is a 15-year veteran of Lou Coulson Associates.His clients are writers, actors and directors. He brings to United clients including: Hallam Foe director David Mackenzie,writer/actor Sanjeev Bhaskar, playwright Kwame Kwei Armah, ...
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UK genre download site to launch in November with $6m backing
A new genre-specific online film site, The Film Lounge (www.filmlounge.com), is set for a November launch in the UK, backed by about $6m (£3m) from private investors.Founder Terry Stone said the site would launch with about 60 independent titles, most of which would be exclusive to Film Lounge.The unique position ...
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Laurence Dawkin-Jones named UK MD for Global Networks
Laurence Dawkin-Jones has been appointed UK managing director of Global Networks, an international division of NBC Universal.He will report to Roma Khanna, president, Global Networks & Digital Initiatives, to whom he will report.Dawkin-Jones will take up the London-based post this autumn. He had been executive director (commercial) for UKTV since ...
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Match Factory to sell Somali supermodel film Desert Flower
The Match Factory will be handling international sales on Sherry Hormann's adaptation of Waris Dirie's bestselling autobiography Desert Flower.The film is currently shooting in Berlin before being due to wrap in New York next week.Structured as a $17.4m (Euros 11m) European co-production by the 'single purpose' company Desert Flower Filmproductions ...
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Toei, TV Asahi set to co-produce Partners spin-off
Japanese studio Toei and regular television partner TV Asahi are planning to co-produce a spin-off to local hit Partners: The Movie. Entitled Partners: Investigator Mamoru Yonezawa's Case File (Aibo Series: Kanshiki Yonezawa Mamoru No Jikenbo), the story will focus on the character of the image and fingerprint expert who played ...
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Halcyon takes on UK for Critics Week title Moscow, Belgium
As it ramps up its UK distribution activities, Chris Coen's Halcyon Pictures has added another title to its fast growing release slate. The new acquisition is Christophe Van Rompaey's Moscow, Belgium (sold by Bavaria Film International).The film premiered in the Critics' Week in Cannes.'I loved it. I thought it was ...
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Wild Bunchto handle sales and French distribution on Chanel film
Wild Bunch will handle international sales and French distribution on Chanel And Stravinsky. The film is to be directed by Jan Kounen and produced by Claudie Ossard and Chris Bolzli of Eurowide Film Production.Anna Mouglalis starring as the legendary designer.While other Chanel films are currently in the works, Wild Bunch ...
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SPWAG lands domestic rights to animated Planet 51
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has acquired all US rights to the $60m CGI animated family picture Planet 51.Sony Pictures Releasing will give the picture a wide North American release under the TriStar Pictures label on November 20 2009.Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman ...
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Sci-fi actioner Road To Hell starts shooting in LA
Santa Monica-based Filmwerks has begun principal photography in Los Angeles on the action sci-fi Road To Hell starring Michael Pare, Clare Kramer, and Courtney Peldon. Albert Pyun (Left For Dead, Invasion) is the director.Cynthia Curnan wrote the screenplay about a soldier whose attempt to return to a normal life after ...
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New York-based Palisades buys Tartan Films' UK film library
New York-based P&A financier Palisades Media Corp has bought the majority of Tartan Films UK's film library of more than 400 titles several weeks after the company went into administration.The move follows Palisades' acquisition of Tartan's US film library in May. The catalogue includes Super Size Me, La Haine, Secretary, ...
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here! Films take domestic on gay comedy Breakfast With Scot
here! Films has acquired North American rights to Laurie Lynd's family comedy Breakfast With Scot, the opening night screening of Outfest 2008: The 26th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.Based on Michael Downing's novel of the same name, the picture charts the lives of a gay couple who take ...
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Screen Media Films buys worldwide on Lake City
Screen Media Films has taken worldwide rights to Hunter Hill and Perry Moore's Southern drama Lake City starring Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity and Rebecca Romijn.Dave Matthews, Keith Carradine, Drea De Matteo, Allison Sarofim and newcomer Colin Ford star in the story of an estranged mother and son who reunite years ...
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Berk promoted to svp of Universal's creative services division
Universal's vice president of creative services Julie Berk has been promoted to senior vice president of the division.Berk formed the creative services department when she joined the studio in 1995 as director of creative advertising. She was promoted to vice president in 2000.Over the last 12 years she has streamlined ...
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Dardennes, Salles plan trips to November Thessaloniki festival
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Terence Davies, Walter Salles, Gustavo Santaolalla, Lita Stantic are among the top names set to be present at the upcoming Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 14-23).The principal tribute of the 49th edition of the Greekfestival, headed by Despina Mouzaki, will be dedicated to two-time Cannes Golden ...
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Abdellatif Kechiche to lead debut film jury in Venice
Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche will preside over the International Jury for the Luigi De Laurentiis Prize for a debut film at the 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival, the Biennale said.Kechiche himself won the first feature prize at Venice in 2000 for his film Blame it on Voltaire. In ...
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UKFC gives $200,000 to Icon for release of Man On Wire
UK Film Council's Prints and Advertising (P&A) Fund has announced the latest round of films it has supported.The fund is set up to give wider distribution to specialised films, giving UK audiences more choices.The awards are to:$206,507 (£104,567) for Man On Wire, Icon Distribution$9,874 (£5,000) for Couscous, Artificial Eye$9,874 (£5,000) ...
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Second Run DVD plans UK release of Tropical Malady
UK Distributor Second Run DVD plans a July 28 DVD release of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Tropical Malady (Sud pralad). The award-winning Thai film was made in 2004, a fractured love story and mysterious drama set in a Thai jungle.The UK DVD will include his 1997 short film Thirdworld, a new interview ...
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Mikado puts increased attention on 'original' commerical films
Italy's Mikado Film goes into the 2008 and early 2009 distribution season with a series of titles that reflect the company's auteur tradition - but which includes an increased investment in what CEO Alessandro Usai calls 'original' commercial films, as well as select Italian films aimed at un-tested markets here.Mikado's ...
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Films chosen for Melbourne fest's first market screenings
Paul Cox's latest film, Salvation, is one of 10 finished films that will be shown to buyers later this month as part of 37South, the market attached to the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF).The films were chosen from a field of 20 and only one has a sales company attached ...