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Icelandic comedy among new titles on Bac Films Cannes slate
Bac Films will bring three new projects to the Cannes market this year and also unveil the market premiere screening of Back Soon by Solveig Anspach. The comedy is about a woman in Iceland who's had enough of her pot-selling business and decides to move away with her two sons. ...
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Charly wins top award at Crossing Europe
French director Isild de Besco won the main European Competition award for Charly at the fifth Crossing Europe Film Festival. The win is her second in Linz, following Half Price in 2005. The prize, worth $15,660 (Euros 10,000), was presented by a jury comprised of Swiss film critic Catherine Ann ...
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Little Girl Blue takes top honours at Plzen
An international jury at the 21st Finale Plzen film festival awarded the Golden Kingfisher for Best Film to Alice Nellis' Little Girl Blue. Produced by Jan Sverak, the film tells the story of one fateful day in the life of a middle-aged woman, played by actress and musician Iva Bittova. ...
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Summit options sci-fi script Arena by Wagstaff, Howell
Summit Entertainment has optioned the rights to the speculative sci-fi script Arena from first-time writers Toby Wagstaff and Darren Howell.Benderspink will produce along with the writers' manager Jim Thompson, who recently produced War and the hip-hop documentary Diamonds In The Rough.Arena follows a unit of soldiers as they are mysteriously ...
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Sarah Marshall is queen of international with $7m weekend
Universal's Forgetting Sarah Marshall led the international market through UPI thanks to an estimated $7m haul from 1,000 sites in nine territories.The three-day result elevates the comedy's early running total to $9.3m and was driven by an excellent number one UK launch on $4.1m from 393 for producer Judd Apatow's ...
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Baby Mama, Harold & Kumar 2 lead domestic box office
Two new comedies dominated the North American charts as Universal's Baby Mama launched at number one on estimated $18.3m followed by New Line/Warner Bros' Harold And Kumar sequel on $14.6m.Box office was up for the second consecutive weekend as the top 12 titles combined for $91m and climbed 17% against ...
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UK documentary The English Surgeon wins top prize at Hot Docs
UK filmmaker Geoffrey Smith's The English Surgeon won the Best International Feature Documentary Award as the 15th annual Hot Docs festival wrapped in Toronto this weekend. Produced by Smith and Rachel Wexler, the film follows renowned British brain surgeon Henry Marsh as he operates on life-threatening brain tumours in the ...
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Shane Meadows leads UK delegation at Tribeca
BAFTA winner Shane Meadows gave a masterclass to Tribeca Film Festival attendees including graduates of the UK Skillset academies on Saturday [April 26].Meadows, whose latest film Somers Town received its North American premiere here, spoke to an audience that included film-makers from seven UK projects selected under the auspices of ...
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Documentaries stir up heat at Tribeca Film Festival
In its short history the Tribeca Film Festival has been slow to trigger buying sprees and sure enough as the event reached the first weekend's halfway mark no major deals had closed.However by Saturday interest had coalesced around Keif Davidson's World Documentary Competition entry Kassim The Dream, which recounts the ...
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Natalie Sakai promoted in film acquisitions at IFDC
Natalie Sakai has been promoted to manager of worldwide acquisitions and operations at entertainment consultants IFDC Inc.Sakai joined IFDC Inc in 2007 and continues to work alongside president Jerome Bliah in international film acquisitions.Sakai began her professional career as an assistant to Academy Award winning documentarian Robert Amram.She moved into ...
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CEC hires Yann Le Quellec as European chief
Citi affiliate Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC) has hired EWB Finance co-founder Yann Le Quellec as managing director.Le Quellec will head the company's new European operation CEC Europe in Paris and will report directly to CEC's president and CEO, Benjamin Waisbren.CEC Europe will provide structured financing solutions to European media and ...
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Who is selling what: Cannes' sales slate stories
The following stories about sales company slates will be frequently updated in the run-up to the Cannes market.The names of sales companies are in alphabetical order. Click on a story for more.Arclight Arsenal to pre-sell Gooding comedy Harold AWP picks up The Lena Baker Story Icelandic comedy among new titles ...
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Match Factory adds Liverpool to its Cannes slate
The Match Factory has added Argentinian film-maker Lisandro Alonso's Liverpool as the fifth title in its sales lineup for next month's Cannes Film Festival.Alonso's film will have its world premiere in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar and be the director's fourth time in Cannes after his debut La Libertad in Un ...
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The Edge Of Heaven claims four Lolas
Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven (Auf Der Anderen Seite) picked up four Golden Lolas, including for Best Film, at the German Film Awards at the weekend in Berlin.Produced by Akin's own company Corazon International, the film also received the Lolas for Best Direction, Best Screenplay and Best Editing (Andrew ...
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Tribeca All Access awards narrative prize to Chatmon's $Free.99
Pete Chatmon won the fifth annual Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Awards narrative prize for $Free.99 at the weekend [April 25].Chatmon co-wrote the screenplay with Candice Sanchez McClaren about a bank robber who is more than he appears.In the emerging narrative section screenwriter Leigh Dana Jackson and producer Moira Griffin ...
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Duran named svp at Warner Channel Latin America
Alfredo Duran has been named senior vice president of branded services and general manager of The Warner Channel Latin America.Duran will be based in Miami and will report to Malcolm Dudley-Smith, who as executive vice president of sales and business development for Canada, Latin America and Asia, oversees WBITD's branded ...
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Om Puri appointed chairman of India's NFDC
Veteran actor Om Puri has been appointed chairman of the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) by the Indian government. The term of the appointment is three years. In his new role Puri will look out for new talent in filmmaking, examine scripts and consider production and co-production opportunities for the ...
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Francemay openup tax breaks to international productions
The French government is considering relaxing its tax breaks to include foreign films. French daily Le Figaro reported Friday that the culture and finance ministries are considering opening up what is known as the credit d'impot system in order to attract international productions.The credit d'impot was originally set up four ...
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Strong showing for France and Latin America in Directors Fortnight
Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte in ParisThe Directors Fortnight line-up was announced Thursday morning in Paris with a robust 20 titles set to screen in between opening film Four Nights With Anna by Jerzy Skolimowski and closing film The Pleasure Of Being Robbed from US film-maker Josh Safdie.The section is heavy on Latin ...