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Interview: Thierry Fremaux
Cannes' general manager Thierry Fremaux has become a respected trendsetter, carving his mark on the festival by welcoming feature documentaries and animations into the competition and embracing US film-makers.In the week the 2008 Cannes line-up is unveiled, Fremaux talks to Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte about where he plans to take the festival ...
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Mark Urman takes over from Sackman as THINKFilm president
Mark Urman has been named president of THINKFilm in the wake of Jeff Sackman's departure last week.Urman was a co-founder of the company and previously served as head of the theatrical division. He will remain in New York, which will serve as the company's new headquarters.'Mark has played a crucial ...
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Hamer selected for Un Certain Regard as Norway targets the Croisette
Norwegian director Bent Hamer's O'Horten - his return to local film-making after his US feature, Factotum (2005), from Charles Bukowski's novel - will unspool in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, as Hamer's fourth official entry in the festival. The selection coincides with Norway's largest promotional effort on the Côte d'Azur, ...
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Bavaria Film International picks up Critics' Week title
Martin Blaney in Berlin Bavaria Film International has picked up international distribution rights for Emily Atef's second feature film The Stranger In Me (Das Fremde In Ihr), which has been selected for this year's Critics' Week in Cannes.The drama of a young mother who is thrown into emotional turmoil after ...
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Video-on-demand in Europe sees surge in growth
The number of video-on-demand (VoD) services in Europe almost doubled in the 12 months to December 2007. A report published by the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) - Video On Demand In Europe - has found 258 VoD services in operation in the 24 European countries surveyed, compared with 142 at ...
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New Figgis feature to screen at Tribeca and Cannes
Danny Plunkett in LondonLove Live Long , the first feature from Mike Figgis since 2003's Cold Creek Manor, will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28. It will launch internationally in the market at Cannes on May 18.Written and directed by Figgis, the film was shot over seven ...
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UK film-maker wins top prize at Nyon doc fest
Martin Blaney in NyonUK film-maker Molly Dineen has been awarded the Grand Prix for The Lie Of The Land about the hard daily routine of English farmers at Nyon's Visions du Reel documentary film festival which closed on April 23.In addition, the International Jury, which included US producer Claire Aguilar ...
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Cannes Critics' Week unveils selection
The line-up for the 47th running of Critics Week was announced at Paris Cinematheque Francaise on Thursday morning. In his opening remarks, the section's artistic director Jean-Christophe Berjon noted that submissions this year had come from 69 countries, with 850 feature films being screened by the selection committee. Ultimately, with ...
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Europa Corps restructures sales team
EuropaCorp has restructured its sales team and brought in two new international sales directors, the company said in a statement Wednesday evening. Marie-Laure Montironi joined Europa this month while Pascal Degove will take up his new post as of May. Montironi is an industry veteran who was instrumental in the ...
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Slater, Bentley to star in Dolan's Cadillac for Film Bridge
Christian Slater and Wes Bentley have signed up to star in the adaptation of Stephen King's novella Dolan's Cadillac.The thriller follows a young man (Bentley) who seeks to avenge his wife's murder by the untouchable Las Vegas mobster Jimmy Dolan (Slater).Emmanuelle Vaugier rounds out the key cast on the project, ...
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Queensland signs MoU with Korea's Gyeonggi province
A 10-year-old sister state relationship between the Australian state of Queensland and the Gyeonggi Province of South Korea has been extended into the film arena with this week's signing of a memorandum of understanding. The agreement is between the Gyeonggi Film Commission, the Gyeonggi Digital Contents Agency, and the Pacific ...
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Mason, Collee partner with Hopscotch in production venture
Australian distributor Hopscotch has enticed two of Sydney's most successful international filmmakers, producer Andrew Mason (the Matrix trilogy) and screenwriter John Collee (Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World) to help attract investment and talent to pump into its new production division. The pair will work closely with ...
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Tribeca 2008 kicks off as NY state tax credit is tripled
The seventh Tribeca Film Festival kicked off in high spirits yesterday [April 23] as New York Governor David Paterson signed into law a tripling of the state's tax credit for film and TV productions and festival sponsors American Express extended their commitment for a further five years.The new tax legislation ...
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Shyer, HandMade set nine year-old Australian Beatty to play Eloise
Nine year-old Australian actress Jordana Beatty has been cast in the title role of Eloise in the new live action feature of children's classic Eloise In Paris being backed by HandMade Films and directed by Charles Shyer.Beatty joins Uma Thurman, who has been cast as Nanny in the contemporary adaptation ...
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Marcie Bloom launches Marcie Bloom Fellowship In Film
Marcie Bloom, a founding partner of Sony Pictures Classics, is launching The Marcie Bloom Fellowship In Film.The New York-based initiative is a mentoring programme designed to introduce up to four students a year to the world of independent film production and distribution. The fellowship will allow the fellows to define ...
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Delphis does aggressive business on Arthy's Fighter
Montreal sales house Delphis Films has wrapped a number of international deals on Natasha Arthy's Fighter. The film, which premiered in the Berlinale 14+ competition and will screen at Tribeca, has sold to more than a dozen countries, including Momentum for the UK, Europacorp for France, Hopscotch for Australia, VCL ...
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EuropaCorp hires Montironi, Degove on international sales staff
EuropaCorp has restructured its sales team and brought in two new international sales directors, the company said in a statement Wednesday evening. Marie-Laure Montironi joined Europa this month while Pascal Degove will take up his new post as of May.Montironi is an industry veteran who was instrumental in the development ...
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Moxie Makers shortlists eight projects for $500,000 prize
The Big Pitch, a new competition from UK-based micro studio Moxie Makers, has short listed eight projects to compete for a feature film production prize worth up to $500,000 (£250,000). The scheme, supported by Skillset, was launched through Ipso Facto Films, (which manages Moxie Makers) in December 2007 at the ...
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UK's New Wave adds Unrelated, Tricks, Quiet Chaos
New Wave Films, the new UK distributor set up by Artificial Eye veterans Pam Engel and Robert Beeson in February 2008, has acquired three new films for its initial slate.The new acquisitions are Unrelated, Tricks and Quiet Chaos.Joanna Hogg's Unrelated from the UK won the Fipresci prize at the 2007 ...
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Swedish Film Institute backs 10 new features
Signing for $9.3m (Euros 5.8m) production funding, the Swedish Film Institute has set 10 features, five documentaries and seven shorts rolling, including Jorgen Bergmark's A Rational Solution, which won the ARTE France Cinema Award for Jens Jonsson's script at Rotterdam's CineMart, and the new, un-titled film by Mans Herngren.A Rational ...