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UK trade minister calls for private investment in film
UK Trade Minister, Lord Jones of Birmingham is calling on private investors to take a longer term view of film production.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com at the IBC convention in Amsterdam, the minister said: 'I would love to see private investment in film production applied with a longer term perspective. 'In Germany ...
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Hamburg's Douglas Sirk Award goes to David Cronenberg
Canadian director David Cronenberg will receive the Douglas Sirk Award at this year's Filmfest Hamburg, running Sept 27 to Oct 4. Festival opens with best-selling author Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's directorial debut Odette Toulemonde. The award in recognition of Cronenberg's 'outstanding contribution to cinema' will be presented to the director on the ...
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Beta Film coproducing and selling animation projects
Beta Film is serving as a sales agent and co-producer on two animation feature films - Moonbeam Bear and Princess Lillifee - which are currently in production. Based on the books by Rolf Faenger and Ulrike Moeltgen which have been published in nine countries, the 3D animation film Moonbeam Bear ...
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Japanese Hero makes heroic impact on Screen's international chart
Fuji TV's Hero was the hot international opener this weekend, according to Screen's international chart. Click here for full details.Generating $8.9m in its home territory from 475 screens, the Takuya Kimura-starrer, directed by Masayuki Suzuki catapulted to number three in the weekly chart of top performing films in international markets.While ...
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Magnolia Pictures launches genre label
Magnolia Pictures has launched the genre label Magnet to release 'thewild, unquantifiable and uncompromised', kicking off with the DVDrelease of Jeremy Saulnier's hipster slasher film Murder Party on Oct16.The label will allow Magnolia to specialise in an area that it haspreviously serviced through releases such as The Host, Severance,Exiled, and ...
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Magnolia Pictures launches genre label
Magnolia Pictures has launched the genre label Magnet to release 'thewild, unquantifiable and uncompromised', kicking off with the DVDrelease of Jeremy Saulnier's hipster slasher film Murder Party on Oct16.The label will allow Magnolia to specialise in an area that it haspreviously serviced through releases such as The Host, Severance,Exiled, and ...
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Superman producer Pierre Spengler plans Luchadores 5
Spengler, who produced the live-action Superman films, returns to the comic book genre with Luchadores 5, the first of a 12-picture slate based on titles from graphic novel publisher Les Humanoïdes Associes/Humanoids.Former Humanoids chief executive F. Alexander Ciger, who is also Spengler's producing partner in Clubdeal, will produce.The live-action adaptation ...
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We Are Together finds a home Down Under
Rialto Distribution has acquired the theatrical and home video rights for documentary feature, We Are Together (Thina Simunye) for both Australia and New Zealand.The deal was negotiated by Rialto's CEO, Kelly Rogers and by Annie Roney from ro*co films international on behalf of the producers, Rise films.Rialto's Rogers said, 'We ...
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Pan-Europe participants selected for first pitch forum
Thirteen screenwriters from all over Europe, including the UK, Poland, Hungary, Macedonia and Italy have been selected to present their screenplays to a panel of international producers at the first Central European Pitch Forum to be held during the Pecs International Film Festival on October 3.The Pitch Forum's organisershad 60 ...
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Toronto deals close on Visitor, Nothing Is Private, Diary Of The Dead
Following an anaemic first few days at Toronto the domestic acquisitions scene finally showed signs of life as Overture Films took North American rights to Thomas McCarthy's crowd-pleaser The Visitor, Warner Independent Pictures and Red Envelope jointly took North America and other territories on Alan Ball's Nothing Is Private and ...
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Eros to release Om Shanti Om on 2,000 screens
Eros International is preparing its widest ever release for Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om, which will open on more than 2,000 screens worldwide on November 9. Produced by Red Chillies Entertainment, the film stars Bollywood's number one star, Shah Rukh Khan. It also marks the debut of model Deepika Padukone. ...
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Films Distribution finds home for Ben X
French sales outfit Films Distribution has acquired the debut feature from Nic Balthazar, Ben X. The film is the story of a 17-year-old autistic boy who finds solace in online gaming while in real life being violently harassed by two school bullies. His revenge against the kids ultimately takes an ...
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Senator Entertainment gets $28m loan
Senator Entertainment's reinvigorated return to the German production and distribution scene has been given an additional boost after the group secured a $28m (Euros 20m) loan agreement with the Berlin branch of the Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank to finance future acquisitions of film rights and film production.Senator announced the deal ...
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Stockholm Festival reveals early details of 170-film programme
The 18th Stockholm International Film Festival has revealed the first details of what will beits 170-film line-up.Jarret Schaefer's Chapter 27, centring on John Lennon's murderer Mark David Chapman, Driving with my Wife's Lover, the feature debut from Korean director Tai-sik Kim and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the award-winner ...
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Sydney film fest launches international competition
In June 2008, the Sydney Film Festival will become the first in Australia to have an official FIAPF-approved competition, organisers announced today. The New South Wales state government has committed nearly $1.8m (A$2m) additional funding over the next four years. Twelve features will be in competition, judged by a jury ...
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Run, Fat Boy, Run races to top of UK box office
Simon Pegg ran up another big hit in the UK at the weekend as Entertainment's Run, Fat Boy, Run took the number one slot in its first weekend and generated $4.1m (£2.01m) from 413 sites (including $330,204 of one-day previews).The comedy, which is David Schwimmer's directorial debut, had a site ...
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Britfilms showcases UK cinema for German schools
Film Education UK has joined forces with Germany's educational body Vision Kino and the arthouse cinemas' association AG Kino-Gilde to launch Britfilms, a touring showcase of British cinema aimed at German schoolchildren, with accompanying teacher study guides and teaching materials.The Britfilms tour begins October 18 in Essen's Lichtburg cinema with ...
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Kings is Irish entry to Academy Awards
IFTA, The Irish Film and Television Academy has today formally announced that Tom Collins's Kings has been officially selected by an independent IFTA jury as Ireland's submission to the 80th Academy Awards, in the Best Foreign Language Film category.Kings, which is predominantly in the Irish language, stars Colm Meaney, Donal ...
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Film Financing Circle announcedfor Abu Dhabi Festival
Organisers of Abu Dhabi 's inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) have announced details of the accompanying Film Financing Circle (FFC), which takes place at the Emirates Palace hotel, the festival centre, October 15-17. 'Since the conception of the festival, I have wanted to offer an arena where global ...
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Venice winner opens Warsaw International Film Festival
Andrzej Jakimowski's Venice Days title Tricks, which received the Europa Cinemas label and Laterna Magica Award in Venice last weekend, will open this year's Warsaw International Film Festival on October 12. The 'touching and intimate look at everyday working class life in the Polish countryside' will be released theatrically in ...