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Sweden's Yellow Bird plans $15m Millennium trilogy
The late Swedish author Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, which has sold almost two million books in Sweden, will be filmed by Sweden 's Yellow Bird on a $15.4m (Euros 10.7m) budget. Swedish actors Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace will star in the three thrillers filled with action and courtroom drama, ...
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Amnesty and MySpace back premiere of Abu-Jamal doc
MySpace and Amnesty International are backing the simultaneous world premiere tonight of documentary In Prison My Whole Life at both the Times bfi London Film Festival and the Rome Film Fest. Marc Evans, whose Snow Cake opened the Berlinale in 2006, directs. Livia Firth and Nick Goodwin Self produce, with ...
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Irish scheme shortlists 10 for low-budget features
Catalystproject, the new Irish low-budget feature scheme, has selected its shortlist of 10 film-making teams, three of which will be greenlit. Catalystproject was launched with a series of seminars earlier this year, with 270 participant writers, producers and directors selected from nearly 400 applicants. Filmmakers participated in a series of ...
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StudioCanal adds new films from Jaoui, Lepage, Bruno and Nicolas
StudioCanal has added several films to its line up heading into next week's American Film Market. Award-winning actor-director Agnes Jaoui returns to directing with relationship comedy Let It Rain starring Jamel Debbouze, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Jaoui herself. The film is currently in production with rights available worldwide. Also in production ...
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Akin's The Edge Of Heaven wins Europe's first LUX Prize
Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven, Germany's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, is the first winner of the European Parliament's new LUX Prize. The inaugural award was presented to the film's producer Klaus Maeck and actress Hanna Schygulla at a plenary session of the parliament in ...
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Vue to open $10m new all-digital 10-screen complex in Hull
Vue Entertainment says it plans to launch Europe's first newly built fully digital cinema.Vue has invested $10m in the Princes Quay development in Hull, with the 10-screen all-digital cinema to open Dec 14.Vue Hull will be equipped with the latest in digital projection technology, including a 10 Terabyte server that ...
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Michael Sheen to host Britannia Awards in LA
Michael Sheen, who portrayed the former British Prime Minster Tony Blair in The Queen, will host the 16th Annual BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 1.Sheen, who recently appeared as a presenter at the Hollywood Film Awards, will next be seen in the drama Music Within and ...
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Miller leads trio of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment promotions
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has promoted three executives in the company's international group, led by T Paul Miller's appointment as senior vice president of international and general manager of emerging markets.Also elevated in the corporate ranks are Claude Borna, promoted to vice president of retail marketing, Europe, and Orrie ...
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Caviezel stars in Arclight's remake of Long Weekend
Jim Caviezel and Claudia Karvan will star in Arclight Films' thriller remake Long Weekend, which is scheduled to begin shooting in Australia in mid-November.The company's genre label Darclight is handling worldwide distribution and will commence pre-sales at AFM.Jamie Blanks, whose credits include Urban Legend and Storm Warning, is directing based ...
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Horrorfest scares up US theatrical outlet for Mulberry Street
Belladonna Productions' Tribeca Film Festival entry Mulberry Street will get a US theatrical release through the After Dark Horrorfest.After Dark acquired rights from Lionsgate, which retains domestic home entertainment rights. Media 8 is handling international sales.Jim Mickle directed the story of a mysterious sickness that turns New York City residents ...
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Little Film Co to unveil Nettlebeck's English-language debut at AFM
Los Angeles-based production and sales company The Little Film Company has begun principal photography in Vancouver on Sandra Nettelbeck's drama Helen starring Ashley Judd, Goran Visnjic and Lauren Lee Smith.Nettelbeck's English-language debut centres on a seemingly happy woman who harbours a dark secret that threatens to disrupt her entire life.Germany's ...
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Australia's documentary film-makers could get $18m boost
Australian documentary makers are hoping to eventually get $18m (A$20m) per year for production and marketing from philanthropists and corporate donors thanks to the creation of the Australian Documentary Foundation. Documentary Australia was launched tonight in Sydney and aims to educate the two sectors about each other through a comprehensive ...
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Fabicki wins $42,000 prize at Rome New Cinema Network
Polish filmmaker Slawomir Fabicki has been awarded the Best New European Project for Bonobo Jingo at Rome Film Festival's New Cinema Network. The award comes with $42,600 (Euros 30,000) in production funds sponsored by Mini. The jury, headed by Osca- winning producer Cedomir Kolar (No Man's Land), Italian producer Rosanna ...
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Shochiku closes raft of Asian sales on Midnight Eagle
On the last day of the TIFFCOM market, Japanese studio Shochiku announced that it has closed a raft of Asian sales on action thriller Midnight Eagle, which opened the Tokyo International Film Festival last week. Among deals concluded at the market, Dong-A Export Co bought the film for South Korea, ...
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Golden Network carries Case, Peach Blossom to AFM
Hong Kong-based sales agent Golden Network Asia has picked up worldwide rights excluding mainland China to two titles from Chinese producer Lola Zhang's Yunnan New Film Project - Wang Fen's The Case and Peach Blossom Land, to be directed by Huang Ruxiang. Golden Network's Carrie Wong will be selling both ...
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Wes Anderson to get visionary award at 18th Stockholm festival
The Stockholm International Film Festival, has programmed 170 films from 40 countreis for its 18th edition (Nov 15-25) Festival director Git Scheynius announced that Wes Anderson will receive the Stockholm Visionary Award 2007. Anderson will attend the festival to introduce his latest film, The Darjeeling Limited, and fellow US director ...
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Image Entertainment shareholders approve BTP deal
North American home entertainment company Image Entertainment announced that its stockholders have approved the amended agreement for Image to be acquired by BTP Acquisition Company. The merger is expected to close by Nov 6. The revised agreement will give shareholders $4.68 per share in cash. In March, Image agreed to ...
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Ardant and Depardieu to shoot Hello, Goodbye in Israel
Fanny Ardant and Gerard Depardieu will travel to Israel in November to shoot new French featureHello, Goodbye (working title).The stars reunite after appearing together in Truffaut's The Woman Next Door and Anne Fontaine's Nathalie.In Hello, Goodbye, Ardant and Depardieu will play a married Jewish couple living in Paris who undergo ...
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Fortissimo takes on Chorus Line doc Every Little Step
Fortissimo Films has taken worldwide sales rights (excluding North America and Japan) to Every Little Step: The Journey Of a Phenomenon from Endgame Entertainment. The deal was negotiated between Fortissimo's co-chairman Michael J. Werner and Greg Schenz of Endgame Entertainment. Fortissimo will start pre-sales at next week's American Film Market. ...
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TIFFCOM: Nonzee's Chao Phraya River wins TPG award
Thai director Nonzee Nimibutr's Just As Chao Phraya River Flows picked up the first ever Tokyo Project Gathering (TPG) Award at the conclusion of the TIFFCOM market on Wednesday night (Oct 24). Presented by Sony PCL vice president Yuji Takizawa, who is also director of the Skip City International Digital ...