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Birgit Moller's Valerie wins Hamptons' top feature prize
Birgit Moller's German drama Valerie won the Golden Starfish for Best Feature and an awards package of more than $185,000 of in-kind production services as the 15th Annual Hamptons International Film festival came to a close on Oct 21.Matthew Galkin's US entry I Am An Animal: This Story Of Ingrid ...
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Longoria, Biggs star in theatrical comedy for Starz Media, Ambush
Eva Longoria, Jason Biggs and Rob Corddry will star in Starz Media and Ambush Entertainment's comedy Lower Learning.Starz Media will handle the worldwide theatrical release. The film will get a domestic theatrical release through an as yet undetermined distributor, and will launch on DVD through Starz Media subsidiary Anchor Bay ...
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Ratatouille becomes 10th Disney film to cross $300m overseas
Ratatouille stayed atop the international box office chart for the third consecutive weekend thanks to an estimated $27.7m haul from 3,793 theatres in 33 territories that raised the running total to $308m.The film ranked number one in 13 countries and the key driver was Italy, where the rat scored Pixar's ...
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Summit reunites with Aronofsky on 1980s-era wrestling drama
Summit International has reunited with Darren Aronofsky and will commence international pre-sales at AFM on the drama The Wrestler starring Nicolas Cage.Aronofsky will direct and is producing alongside Cage and Norm Golightly's Saturn Films and producer Scott Franklin. Jean-Luc De Fanti and Jeff Sagansky's Winchester Capital Partners is financing the ...
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Richard Edlund wins ASC Presidents Award
Richard Edlund will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Presidents Award at the 22nd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles on Jan 26.Edlund earned four Academy Awards for his visual effects work on Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) ...
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30 Days Of Night takes $16m box office bite
Columbia/Ghost House Pictures' vampire screamer 30 Days Of Night stole the show at the weekend with an estimated $16m number one launch that provided a suitable prelude to North America's Halloween box office season.David Slade's directorial follow-up to the acclaimed Hard Candy is based on the graphic novel about an ...
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Ben X takes grand jury prize at first Abu Dhabi festival
The inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) came to an end Friday evening with a lengthy awards ceremony and the screening of Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah. The Black Pearl Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film went to Nic Balthazar's Ben X, presented ...
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Rome has mixed reactions for Coppola's Youth Without Youth
Francis Ford Coppola's return to film-making was met with mixed reactions, as the Rome Film Fest Saturday presented the world premiere of his Youth Without Youth, based on a novella by Mircea Eliade.The packed press screening Saturday morning was followed by absolutesilence before a moderate applause slowly broke out, indicating ...
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Band's Visit takes top prize at Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema
Eran Kolirin's popular Israel-France co-production The Band's Visit won the Louve d'Or at 36th Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema.The jury, composed of Paul Ahmarani, Celine Bonnier et Jean-Francois Lamarche, presented a special mention to Australian title Boxing Day by Kriv Stenders. That film's lead, Richard Green, took the Acting Award. ...
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Turkey's Antalya fest has double-header opening
An official two-day double opening kicked off the 44th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and its accompanying 3rd International Eurasia Film Festival last Friday. As the biggest film event in the Turkish calendar, the first opening night was a glamorous affair for local cinema. Following a lavish opening cocktail reception ...
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Eurimages funds new features from Haneke, Noe, Ceylan
Eurimages, the Council of Europe's film fund, has come on board to support 11 feature films for a total of $6.2m (Euros 4.38m) at its last meeting which ended Oct 16. The co-productions supported are: Aeblet & Ormen by Josef Fares & Anders Morgenthaler (Denmark, Sweden) Appelsinpiken by Eva Dahr ...
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Goal! 3 starts shooting with director Andy Morahan
Milkshake Films has started principal photography this weekn on Goal! 3. Andy Morahan, veteran of commercials and music videos, direct. That marks a change since 2006, when the producers said Michael Apted would direct.Mike Jefferies, who wrote the first two films in the football franchise, wrote the script with Piers ...
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LA agents confirmed for new Best Of Brits showcase
Agent Sally Whitehall, formerly of Curtis Brown, has launched a new LA-based film event to recognise UK talent. Best of Brits will be a celebration of UK films and film-makers. Whitehill said that confirmed attendees include representatives from ICM, Endeavor, UTA, William Morris, CAA, Brillstein Grey, Fuse and others. On ...
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Content on board for The Daisy Chain starring Samantha Morton
ContentFilm International has acquired worldwide rights to supernatural thriller The Daisy Chain, starring Samantha Morton.Aisling Walsh (Song For A Raggy Boy) will direct based on an original screenplay by Lauren MacKenzie. The film starts shooting Oct 29 as a UK/Irish co-production. Subotica Entertainment's Tristan Orpen Lynch and Dominic Wright will ...
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Wajda's Katyn to have international premiere at 2008 Berlinale
Veteran Polish director Andrzej Wajda' Katyn (aka Post Mortem) is set to have its international premiere at next February's Berlinale, Screen Daily.com learnt during this week's Warsaw Filmfest.The $5.8m (PLN 15m) Polish-French co-production by Akson Studio with Margaret Menegoz's Les Films du Losange as minority partner had received its world ...
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Wild Bunch takes a stake in Italian distributor Bim
Confirming rumors that have been rumbling in industry circles for some time, French sales, distribution and financing outfit Wild Bunch has taken a stake in Italy 's Bim Distribuzione. Financial terms were not disclosed. The move reinforces Wild Bunch's ambition to be present in distribution over multiple European territories. Wild ...
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Ratatouille still strong for Disney as it races into Italy, China
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International's Ratatouille launches in Italy and China and should have little trouble holding on to the number one overseas spot for the third consecutive weekend.The Pixar film has reached $279.4m to date opens in the final five territories including Italy on Oct 17 and China ...
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Inferno options Ison's romantic novel The List
Los Angeles-based Inferno Distribution has optioned Tara Ison's romantic novel The List, which was published in March and centres on a dysfunctional couple's desperate final act.The pair make a list of 10 ideal dates before they agree to part amicably. However as the dates progress they begin to see each ...
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Bassett, Wyle join all-star cast of YFG's Nothing But The Truth
Angela Bassett and Noah Wyle have joined Yari Film Group's (YFG) thriller Nothing But The Truth, which Rod Lurie is directing.Bassett and Wyle join Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Alan Alda, Vera Farmiga, Harry Lennix and David Schwimmer on the production, which commenced shooting in Memphis, Tennessee, earlier this month.Bob Yari ...
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Wind Dancer plans US, Provence shoot on Williams' Mistral
Wind Dancer Films is lining up a US and Provence, France, shoot on the romantic fable Mistral with Wind Dancer partner Matt Williams attached to directed.Josh Kesselman and Andrea Smith will produce with Wind Dancer Films based on a screenplay by Brett Hershey and Matt Tilker loosely inspired by a ...