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Ralph Fiennes and Hayley Atwell join Duchess' court
Ralph Fiennes, Hayley Atwell and Dominic Cooper have all joined Keira Knightley in the cast of The Duchess, which starts shooting in London on Sept 23. Gabrielle Tana for Magnolia Mae and Michael Kuhn for Qwerty Films are producing with backing from Pathe Productions and BBC Films. Bullet Boy's Saul ...
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InFrame strikes groundbreaking newspaper deal for The Riddle
Brendan Foley's UK thriller The Riddle, starring Vinnie Jones, Derek Jacobi, Vanessa Redgrave and Julie Cox, will become the first feature film to receive its premiere via a national newspaper release. The Mail on Sunday purchased the rights to the film and is giving away up to 2.5m DVDs with ...
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Charlotte Gainsbourg recovering from brain hemorrhage
Actress Charlotte Gainsbourg underwent surgery overnightWednesday following a brain hemorrhage. News reports said the actress was 'doingvery well' on Thursday.Gainsbourg's agent,Dominique Segall, said in a statement that the actress had taken a fall a fewmonths ago whilst water skiing and underwent surgery for a small hematoma inthe brain.'She is ...
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Goldwyn acquires Lelouch's thriller Roman De Gare
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights for Claude Lelouch's new thriller Roman De Gare, which premiered in Cannes and opened in August in France.Dominique Pinon and Fanny Ardant star in the story of a popular novelist who does unusual research to find new characters. Lelouch wrote, directed and produced. ...
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Bart Walker joins Cinetic Media as partner
Bart Walker has joined Cinetic Media as a partner as the company announced it was expanding to allow film-makers and financiers to 'take greater control' of the film-making process.Walker joins Cinetic founder John Sloss and Robert Nathan on the partnership, at the same time as the company announced it has ...
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Norway submits Gone With The Woman for Oscar race
Norwegian director Petter Naess' Gone with the Woman (Tatt av kvinnen), which will have its international premiere here in Toronto, will represent Norway in the race for the foreign-language Oscar.Starring Trond Fausa Aurvag and Marian Saastad Ottesen, the film is adapted from Erlend Loe's 1993 novel. Naess was also up ...
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Universal and Paramount partner up in Russia
Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) and Paramount Home Entertainment International (PHEI) announced a union for Russian distribution. Eddie Cunningham, President, UPIE and Dennis Maguire, President, PHEI say that from 2 October 2007, Universal Pictures Russia will handle Paramount's DVD for marketing and distribution throughout the country.Product includes titles from MTV ...
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Jeff Daniels turns Traitor in Toronto
Overture Films' spy thriller Traitor, which begins filming in Toronto with writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff gets added boost from Jeff Daniels who joins Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce in the cast.Neal McDonough, Archie Panjabi, Alyy Kahn and Said Taghmaoui also star in the tale of a rogue operative who helps terrorists, ...
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Denmark's Niels Aden Oplev completes Two Worlds
Danish director Niels Arden Oplev, whose We Shall Overcome (Drømmen) ended No 5 on the local charts from 406,000 admissions in 2006, has completed principal photography for his new feature, Two Worlds (To verdener), from an original screenplay co-written by Steen Bille.The Danish Film Institute has chipped in $1.2 million ...
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Sweden's TV4 fills gap for Arn: The Knight Templar
Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 replaces Swedish pubcaster SVT as co-producer of Svensk Filmindustri's Arn: The Knight Templar.The $30.3m (Euro 22.8m) adaptation of Jan Guillou's bestselling trilogy of Arn Magnusson lost support from pubcaster SVT because 'the material we have seen does not live up to the quality we expected.'Stepping into ...
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Hungary nominates Palfi's Taxidermia for Oscar race
Gyorgy Palfi's Taxidermia has been chosen for consideration for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar by Hungary's selection committee for the Academy Awards. Palfi's film won out over other recent high-profile Hungarian films, including Janos Szasz's Opium and Krisztina Goda's Children Of Glory. Bela Tarr's Cannes competition title The ...
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Four Minutes and The Edge of Heaven among Germany's Oscar offers
This year's Golden Lola winner Four Minutes by Chris Kraus and Fatih Akin's Cannes competition title The Edge Of Heaven are among seven films submitted for consideration as Germany's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at next year's Academy Awards.Other films nominated include Robert Thalheim's And Along Come ...
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UK government backs fight against piracy
Margaret Hodge, Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism, met with senior figures from all sectors of the film industry in London yesterday to discuss how to tackle the growing problem of piracy. Speaking at the event, held at BAFTA and titled Stop Film And Video Theft, Hodge said: 'Last ...
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Deauville applauds Affleck's Gone Baby Gone
Based on the novel by Mystic River author Dennis Lehane, Gone Baby Gone tells of two private detectives' attempt to find a young girl abducted in a rough part of Boston.Pre-screening, Casey Affleck joked that brother Ben was 'a pain in the ass' as a director while the director himself ...
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Beta Cinema reps Stoehr's Berlin Calling
Germany's Hannes Stoehr's third feature Berlin Calling which shoots in Berlin this week, is to be sold internationally by Beta Cinema. Stoehr's third feature pivots on DJ Ickarus, aka Martin Karow who tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release, ...
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Johnnie To set to produce Ghost trilogy for Meridian
Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To will produce a trilogy based on the popular Chinese online novel series Gui Chui Deng, about grave-robbing, treasure-hunting and ghosts, for Shanghai-based Meridian Pictures. 'We have bought the rights of the four books and plan to make three films,' Meridian 's director of int'l distribution ...
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NFDC launches co-production market at Goa fest
India's National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) is launching a co-production market for Indian projects to take place during the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa from November 24-26. The three-day event will be held at Goa's Marriott Resort as part of IFFI's Film Bazaar, which was launched last ...
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Tsi resigns as director of Hong Kong film festival
Peter Tsi has resigned as executive director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), citing personal reasons. The festival, whichtakes placeat the same time as Hong Kong Filmart in March/April, has been forced to change direction over the past few years due to a sharp decrease in government funding. ...
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Maximum and Fortissimo strike Canadian-Asian partnership
Robert Lantos' new Toronto-based distribution and sales company Maximum Films has created an unusual partnership with Hong Kong-based Fortissimo Films whereby Maximum will distribute Fortissimo's films in Canada and Fortissimo will represent the sale of Maximum's projects in Asia. The deal, for an initial term of two years, was unveiled ...
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Jim Harvey takes Media 8 VP post after leaving Element
Jim Harvey has joined Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Media 8 as vice president of worldwide distribution after exiting the now defunct Element Films International (EFI).Harvey will be in Toronto to oversee all sales, licensing and distribution on a slate that includes the historical drama Eichmann starring Thomas ...