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Ruby Blue, Kill Kill win top prizes at London International fest
At the London Independent Film Festival, Jan Dunn's Ruby Blue won best UK feature and Gareth Roberts' Kill Kill Faster Faster won best international feature.For the UK award, sponsored by Prime Focus London, writer/director Dunn and her producer Elaine Wickham won post-production finance worth about $100,000.Julian Richards was named best ...
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Special People wins Germany's Britspotting prize
Justin Edgar's Special People won the best feature audience award at Britspotting, the British & Irish Film Festival in Germany. The film wins a post-production/editing prize worth $22,200 (Euros 14,000).Dominic Coleman, Sasha Hardway, Robyn Frampton, David Proud and Jason Maza star in the story of four kids in wheelchairs who ...
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The Match Factory to handle Petzold's new feature Jerichow
The Match Factory will handle international sales on Christian Petzold's new feature Jerichow which begins shooting in the east German town of Wittenberge, the Prignitz region and along the Elbe from today. It is the sales agent's second Petzold film after his 2007 competition film Yella and marks the director's ...
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Edinburgh programmes 22 docs, with gala for Man On Wire
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced that its programme will include 22 documentary features this year.There will be three galas for Chris Waitt's A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures, James Marsh's Man On Wire and Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure.In addition, festival's Document section will show 19 ...
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Citizen Havel, Everything Is Relativein firstDoc Alliance showcase
Pavel Koutecky and Miroslav Janek's Citizen Havel and Danish filmmaker Mikala Krogh's Everything Is Relative are among five creative theatrical documentaries to be showcased by a new venture called Doc Alliance created by five leading European documentary film festivals.Doc Alliance's first lineup is: Citizen Havel by Pavel Koutecky and Miroslav ...
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Twelve titles to compete for Plzen's Golden Kingfisher
The 21st Finale festival of Czech films begins April 21 in Plzen, Czech Republic. The annual event is a competitive and comprehensive overview of Czech feature-length films released in the past year.Twelve titles will compete for the Golden Kingfisher for Best Feature Film, including the French-UK-Czech co-production La Vie En ...
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Nayar, Grushow team up for digital studio Filmaka
LA-based producer Deepak Nayar and former Fox TV chief Sandy Grushow have officially launched Filmaka, an ambitious 'digital studio' and online creative community which plans to create a new model for identifying talent and developing entertainment properties.Nayar founded the company, which is based at www.Filmaka.com, in late 2006 as a ...
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Thailand's GTH has phobia for Cannes market
Leading Thai producer-distributor GMM Tai Hub (GTH) will debut a new portmanteau film 4bia (pronounced as 'phobia') at the Cannes Film Market. The new picture is directed by four horror gurus: Parkpoom Wongpoom and Banjong Pisanthanakun (the duo directors behind Shutter and Alone), Paween Purijitpanya (Body) and veteran filmmaker Yongyoot ...
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Icarus buys North American rights to Bitomsky's Dust
Boutique North American distributor Icarus Films has acquired German film-makerHartmut Bitomsky's documentary Dust.Bitomsky's film explores the omniscient particles in a manner that attempts to offer new insight into our bodies, the environment and the cosmos.The film premiered in Venice and screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Philadelphia ...
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Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate team for premium TV, VOD service
Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate will jointly launch a premium TV channel and Video On Demand (VOD) service in autumn 2009 featuring new and library film titles and original programming from the studios.The new venture will have access to Paramount and Paramount Vantage titles released theatrically on or after January 1 ...
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Toronto's Stardust Pictures preps $10m comedy Wing Man
Toronto-based Stardust Pictures has completed financing on its first feature, the $10m comedy Wing Man that will shoot in Toronto in the late summer.Harland Williams will direct and Stardust's Justin L Levine and Howard Kerbel will produceStardust recently acquired Canadian rights to Jamie Kennedy's documentary Heckler and will release on ...
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Jackie, Jet Li and Sarah Marshall storm domestic box office
The long awaited on-screen union of Jackie Chan and Jet Li reaped rewards for Liosgate and The Weinsten Company as The Forbidden Kingdom leapt to number one thanks to an estimated $20.9m three-day gross.The martial arts adventure takes place in modern-day America and a mythical past in China where a ...
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Horton leads international box office by a whisper over 21
Horton Hears A Who is making hay while the sun shines. Two weeks before Iron Man launches across the globe the Fox International children's tale continued to dominate overseas as an estimated $9.7m from approximately 5,300 screens in 52 markets raised the tally to $117.7m.The film is easily the biggest ...
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Egg wins international competition at Istanbul festival
The top honors in the international competition of this year's Istanbul Film Festival have gone to Egg (Yumurta) by local film-maker Semih Kaplanoglu, the story of a poet returning to his mother's home in the country after her death.Kaplanoglu's picture, which opened last year in Cannes' DirectorsFortnight, is the third ...
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Ufa Cinema debuts with Mein Kampf
New producer-distributor Ufa Cinema, launched at the end of last year by the RTL Group and Freemantle Media through its German subsidiary UFA, has boarded its first project: Urs Odermatt's Mein Kampf.The film begins shooting in Vienna next Tuesday (April 22).Ufa Cinema will co-produce the film - based on the ...
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MPA signs agreement with seven Chinese web-sites
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with seven Chinese web-sites to establish a co-ordination mechanism for online copyright protection. The seven websites are popular video-sharing web-sites, or user-generated content sites, including 56.com, 6.cn, tudou.com, youku.com, pomoho.com, ku6.com and ouou.com.The MoU was signed Friday (April 18) ...
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Swiss Film Prize to move in 2009
Nextyear'sSwiss Film Prize is to move from January's Solothurn Film Days to a new venue at Lucerne's Culture and Conference Centre (KKL) on March 7 in a gala ceremony.The eventwill beorganised by national broadcaster SRG SSR with the partners Swiss Films, the Federal Office of Culture (BAK) and the Swiss ...
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Mexico's Olaizola wins best film at BAFICI for Intimacies
Mexican Yulene Olaizola's first feature Intimacies of Shakespeare And Victor Hugo won the prize for best film in the international competition at the tenth Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI).China's Night Train, directed by Diao Yinan, took the Special Jury Prize and the one for Best Actress (Liu ...
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The Girl By The Lake dominates Donatellos
First-time director Andrea Molaioli's The Girl By The Lake was the surprise winner of Italy's David of Donatello awards taking home 10 statuettes in principal categories including best film, director, first film and screenplay.The thriller - adapted by screenwriter Sandro Petraglia (Best Of Youth)and backed by local film giant ...
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Lifesize picks up LARPing documentary Monster Camp
New Jersey-based distributor and worldwide sales agent Lifesize Entertainment has picked up Cullen Hoback's documentary Monster Camp.The film offers a glimpse into the world of live-action role playing - known as LARPing - in which players immerse themselves in the video game phenomenon World Of Warcraft. Aaron Kirk Douglas produced.'Monster ...