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Ratatouille posts $12.2m German opening and leads weekend
Ratatouille scurried to the top of the international charts more than three months after its first overseas foray thanks to a $19.7m estimated weekend haul from 3,010 screens in 38 markets that towered over everything else.The result was powered by a $12.2m number one German debut on 700 screens and ...
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Crusade In Jeans, Stages lead Golden Calf awards in Utrecht
Ben Sombogaart's English-language family film Crusade In Jeans won the Golden Calf for best Dutch feature film at the end of the 27th annual Netherlands Film Festival on Saturday night. The film was produced by Dutch staple Kees Kasander of The Kasander Film Company.The Golden Calves jury, consisting of Andre ...
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PUSAN: Five film commissions join AFCNet ranks
With Asian nations vying for the lucrative international location shooting business, five Asian film commissioners are making their debut as new members of AFCNet at BIFCOM, the locations showcase held concurrently with Pusan 's Asian Film Market. Australia 's Gold Coast City Council, Philippines Film Development Council, Thailand Film Office, ...
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PUSAN: Thailand's Mono Film dials up Missed Calls
After scoring a hit with romantic drama Me Myself which was subsequently bought for a Korean remake, up-and-coming Thai production house Mono Film is attending Pusan's Asian Film Market with new romantic drama Missed Calls. Directed by Piti Chaturaphat, the picture is about three young people who are compelled to ...
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PUSAN: Irving, Baek to star in Fire Circle's Hanji Box
US actress Amy Irving is to star in the first US-Korea co-production to shoot in Seoul with funding and support from the Seoul Film Commission (SFC). Fire Circle Films announced the project at Pusan, in preparation for a round of co-production meetings they are planning for the market. Based on ...
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PUSAN: KOFIC, UK Film Council sign distribution agreement
The UK Film Council (UKFC) and Korean Film Council (KOFIC) have signed a co-distribution agreement, under which they will provide p&a support to films from each other's territories. Under the terms of the agreement, which takes effect in November 2007 and lasts for two years, KOFIC will allocate $200,000 to ...
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THINKFilm teams with Half Nelson producers on Blue Valentine
THINKFilm is reuniting with its Half Nelson partners Silverwood Films and Hunting Lane Films on the drama Blue Valentine, which marks the first time THINKFilm will fully finance a feature.Filming is set to begin in February with Silverwood's Lynette Howell and Hunting Lane's Jamie Patricof and Alex Orlovsky serving as ...
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Once, Savages, Jesse James feature at 34th Flanders festival
The 34th annual Flanders International Film Festival will run from oct 9-20 and screen more than 200 films, documentaries and shorts including Benelux premieres for Once, The Savages, and The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford.Among the special guests set to attend are Maurice Jarre, Walter Hill,Danny ...
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Radha Mitchell joins cast of Mimi Leder's The Code
Radha Mitchell has joined Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas on Nu Image/Millennium Films, Revelations Entertainment and Equity Pictures' drama The Code.Mimi Leder will begin filming in mid-October in New York and subsequently at Nu Image's Nu Boyana Film Centre in Sofia, Bulgaria.Boaz Davidson, Lori McCreary, Danny Lerner, Les Weldon and ...
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Noodle to have US premiere opening Israel Film Festival
The US premiere of Ayelet Menahemi's Noodle will open the 22nd Annual Israel Film Festival (IFF) in New York on Oct 23.This year's event run until Nov 8 and will feature 30 features, documentaries, and television dramas, as well as Q&A sessions.Ron Silver will receive the 2007 IFF Lifetime Achievement ...
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Gutwillig steps down at Outfest after eight years
Stephen Gutwillig will step down as Outfest executive director after eight years in the role at the end of the year.Gutwillig was a prominent figure in the LGBT film community and a driving force at the festival who instigated, among other programmes, the Outfest Legacy Project, currently the only LGBT ...
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Pinewood Media adds collection account management to offerings
UK-based financial services company Pinewood Media, which provides global foreign exchange, currency transfer, international payments and risk management to the film, TV and new media industries, has recently launched a new collection account manangement (CAM) service. The service lets Pinewood Media (which is not tied to Pinewood Studios) to allocate ...
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Cinecitta rebounds from fire, books in Spike Lee and U-900
Cinecitta Studios is back in business after a blaze last August partly damaged an area of the studio's back lot, the studio announced today.The August 9th fire was extinguished without any residual damage to the studios buildings or archives - but not before the 'Roman suburbs' set from the BBC/HBO ...
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Loose Change Final Cut to launch online Nov 11
MercuryMedia is at Mipcom with Loose Change Final Cut, the followup to Loose Change 2, which was made famous by a Vanity Fair profile last year.Dylan Avery's film is an independent investigation of the events surrounding September 11. The Final Cut version includes new material since the first one was ...
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Paddy Considine, Royston Tan set for Encounters screenings
Singapore's controversial director Royston Tan will head up the Spotlight on Singapore event at this year's Encounters Short Film Festival in the UK.With a record number of entries from more countries than ever before in its 13 year run, the festival has selected shorts from as far as Belarus, Ecuador ...
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Telefilm renews $2m theatrical documentary fund
Telefilm Canada has announced the renewal of the Theatrical Documentary Pilot Program. Designed to assist the production and post-production of feature-length documentaries intended for Canadian theatrical release, the $1.875m initiative is co-financed by the National Film Board of Canada and the Rogers Group of Funds, a foundation underwritten by Canada's ...
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Eros signs string of new media deals in SE-Asia
India 's Eros International, which has a library of around 1,300 films, has signed multiple content licensing deals with leading telcos and on-demand service providers in South-East Asia. Among the deals, Eros will be the exclusive Bollywood content provider to Mauritius Telecom's video-on-demand (VoD) service, carried on its IPTV platform, ...
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PUSAN: Asia Pacific Actors Network launches at PIFF
The Asia Pacific Actors Network (APAN) saw its launch today (Oct 5) at the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF). Headed by veteran Korean actors Ahn Sung-ki, Kang Soo-yeon and Park Joong-hoon, APAN is creating a film development fund to provide pre-production costs to up-and-coming directors, with funds from producer/distributor M&FC, ...
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PUSAN: TBS slate headed by two world premieres
Japan's Tokyo Broadcast System (TBS) has unveiled its Pusan slate which is headed by two world premieres screening at the event - Natsuki Imai's Sky Of Love and Miike Takashi's Crows: Episode 0. Sky Of Love will premiere in Pusan's Asian Film Market on October 8 and 9 before it ...
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PUSAN: Busan City breaks ground on $35m post facility
Marking the second day of the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), Busan Metropolitan City has broken ground for the Busan Post-Production Facility - to be built in the Centum City complex in Haeundae. The facility will house a film lab and studios for digital intermediate, editing, computer graphics, sound recording ...