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Thomas Peter Friedl to leave Constantin Film after January
After over 18 years working in the field of distribution and for Constantin Film, Thomas Peter Friedl has announced that he will not be extending his contract as Distribution, Marketing & Central Services Director at Constantin Film after January 31, 2008.The management of the distribution arm Constantin Filmverleih will be ...
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GEM works for DVD, theatrical launch of Peterson films
GEM Entertainment has taken UK and US rights to seven features from UK-based Global Films, EdgeImageBank, Norwood Pictures, and Mnemonics Pictures. Nick Peterson, also known as a musician under the name Virtual Alien, directed all of the films. Five that will be released on DVD are: Writing On The Wall, ...
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Guy Maddin and Isabella Rossellini open 2008 Berlinale Forum
For the third year in a row, Guy Maddin and Isabella Rossellini will have films shown at the forthcoming Berlinale.My Winnipeg, Maddin's autobiographical fairytale about his Canadian native city, and Rossellini's three one-minute Green Porno shorts made for mobile phones and mobile video players will have their international premieres as ...
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Paul Hills starts post-production on Do Elephants Pray'
Post-production has started on the $1m romantic drama Do Elephants Pray'PaulHills directs and produces. He previously worked on projects including 1996 feature Boston Kickout.The film, which was shot in the UK and France, was jointly financed by private investment and produced by Amaranth Film Partners/Elephant Features Ltd.Jonnie Hurn and Julie ...
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Clare Morrow to join Screen Yorkshire in Industry Development
Regional screen agency Screen Yorkshire has announced that Clare Morrow will head its Industry Development team. Morrow takes her post in January. Until April she was controller of programmes north for ITV, and currently works as a freelance executive producer and manager of the Broadcasting and Creative Industries Disability Network. ...
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Brussels Fund starts $1.17m lab for maverick film-makers
In a move designed to ensure that maverick filmmakers do not slip through the net, Brussels-based VAF (The Flanders AudioVisual Fund) is setting up a new fund targeting new talent. The Filmlab, as the new scheme is called, will invest $1.17m (Euros 800,000) in supporting adventurous new film projects. This ...
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Future Shorts launches new Secret Cinema series in 6 cities
Future Shorts and Future Cinema are launching a new events series, Secret Cinema. The monthly screenings will surprise guests with unannounced films shown at themed locations with surprise scores, special guests and live installations. The series starts Dec 16 in London, and will continue in Bristol, Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow ...
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Sky gets UK broadcast rights to Oscars and Golden Globes
UK TV company Sky has announced that it will broadcast the Golden Globe Awards live on Sky Movies Premiere for the first time. Live red carpet coverage and awards highlights will be shown on Jan 13 and Jan 14 on Sky One, in Sky's exclusive UK broadcast deal. For the ...
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Beta Cinema to handle Helmer's third feature Absurdistan
Beta Cinema will handle world sales for German film-maker Veit Helmer's third feature Absurdistan which will have its world premiere in January in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Absurdistan's screenplay, which was co-written by Helmer with Gordan Mihic and Zaza Buadze, was selected as one ...
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Bavaria takes on world sales for Doerrie's Cherry Blossoms - Hanami
Bavaria Film International will handle world sales for Doris Doerrie's Cherry Blossoms - Hanami, which will have its world premiere in Berlinale Competition. Munich-based Olga Film produces, reteaming after working with Doerrie more than two decades ago on Men. Co-producers are Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), ARD/Degeto and arte and other backers ...
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New jury selects nine actors for Shooting Stars at 2008 Berlinale
Romania's Anamaria Marinca, Germany's Hannah Herzsprung and the UK's Andrew Garfield are among nine of the best young actors in Europe who have been named by European Film Promotion (EFP) as the Shooting Stars of 2008 to be showcased at the forthcoming Berlinale. They were selected by a jury of ...
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The Works to handle international sales on high-wire doc
The Works International is to handle international sales for James Marsh's documentary Man On Wire.The film tells the story of daredevil Philippe Petit's attempt to walk across a high wire between New York's Twin Towers in 1974.Currently in post-production, the film will premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at ...
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Japan's Avex establishes arthouse subsidiary
Avex Group film subisidary, Avex Entertainment, has launched an arthouse label PiX Inc, the company announced yesterday. PiX will handle arthouse and other specialty titles that fall outside of Avex Entertainment's more mainstream contents. Avex Entertainment formed the company with a capital outlay of Y60m ($536,000). Avex Entertainment COO Mio ...
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New York critics opt for No Country For Old Men
The Coen Brothers dominated the New York Film Critics Circle awards announced this morning, taking best picture, director, screenplay and supporting actor for Javier Bardem. Paul Thomas Anderson's oil saga There Will Be Blood, which was the clear favourite with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's at the weekend, earned ...
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New York online critics pile awards on There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood dominated the major categories in the New York Film Critics Online's 2007 poll, tying for best film with The Diving Bell And The Butterfly and earning director and actor honours for Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis as well as the cinematography prize for Robert Elswit ...
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European digital cinemaclose to breaking deadlock - report
Digital cinema deals signed by studios and exhibitors with integrator Arts Alliance Media (AAM)is close to breaking the D-cinema deadlock in Europe, according to analyst Screen Digest.While rollout has continued apace in the US, there has been an impasse in Europe with a few exceptions such as the UK's digital ...
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George Clooney opens Dubai International Film Festival
The fourth edition of the Dubai International Film Festival, which showcases 141 films from 52 countries, kicked off with a glamorous gala presentation of legal thriller Michael Clayton. Speaking at the opening press conference, the film's star George Clooney highlighted the role of the lavishly-funded festival in acting as a ...
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The Weinstein Company picks up rights to Telepool 3D animation
The Weinstein Company has acquired rights from Munich-based Telepool for all English-language and Latin-American territories for the European 3D animated film Niko & The Way To The Stars by Michael Hegner and Kari Juusonen.Described as 'a modern-day fairytale for the whole family', the CGI-animated film about the adventures of the ...
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Paramount signs French home entertainment deal with Gaumont
Paramount Home Entertainment France and Gaumont Video have signed an accord which will see the former release the French major's films in the French DVD sector.Paramount's Luigi-Theo Calabrese said the partnership should allow the duo to 'pass the 10% market share bar for France.' No specific duration was indicated for ...
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Berlinale announces five world premieres
World premieres of new films by Damian Harris, Doris Doerrie, Wang Xiaoshuai and Errol Morris are among the first eight titles confirmed so far for the Competition programme of next February's Berlinale (February 7-17). The five world premieres selected by festival director Dieter Kosslick are: Damian Harris's UK-US production Gardens ...