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Raindance to offer content through Joost
Raindance.tv, the online and mobile film portal founded by the Raindance Film Festival with dandy productions, Dogwoof Pictures and Crucible Media, has partnered with Internet TV platform Joost. Joost users will now be able to view - for free - Raindance.tv's independent features, shorts and documentaries. Offerings include UK thriller ...
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Fortissimo takes on Schnabel's Lou Reed film Berlin
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide sales rights, excluding North America, to Julian Schnabel's Berlin, a concert film featuring Lou Reed. Waterboy's Jon Kilik produced with Tom Sarig and Reed. Executive producers are LM Media Gmbh, Stanley Buchthal and Maja Hoffmann. Berlin will world premiere at this week's Venice International Film ...
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San Sebastian unveils full competition and Horizontes programme
The 55th San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled the full line-up for its Official Selection and Horizontes Programme. The festival runs Sept 20-29. As previously reported, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises will open the event in competition. The remaining 15 films in Official Selection are: Battle For Haditha, dir. Nick ...
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Celluloidveteran Tanja Meissner joins Memento Films
Former Celluloid Dreams sales executive Tanja Meissner has joined Paris-based producer/distributor Memento Films. Meissner will act as head of world sales and acquisitions for the company.Her first markets will be Venice and Toronto. Memento has recently acquired Philippe Aractingi's Under The Bombs which traces the story of a Shiite woman ...
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Eros picks up Varma's Darling, Bhool Bhulaiyaa
India's Eros International has acquired the overseas distribution rights to two forthcoming films from local production house T-Series - Ram Gopal Varma's Darling and Bhool Bhulaiyaa, directed by Priyadarshan. Darling is a horror-comedy-musical, starring Fardeen Khan, Esha Deol and Isha Koppikar, which is scheduled for worldwide release on September 7. ...
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EVA picks up international sales on Antonio Vivaldi, Un Prince A Venise
Germany's Entertainment Value Associates (EVA) has secured international distribution rights to Jean-Louis Guillermou's biopic Antonio Vivaldi, Un Prince A Venise which will have its gala world premiere tonight in Paris ' in the presence of a VIP audience including French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The French-Italian co-production by Dream Film, M.A.D. ...
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Verhoeven plans $27m adaptation of Dexter's The Paperboy
Paul Verhoeven will direct the big-screen adaptation of Pete Dexter's novel The Paperboy, which former cinematographer Jan de Bont will produce. The Dutch collaborators will reunite for this $27m (Euros 20m) drama about three people being influenced by the execution of a presumed killer. Shooting is scheduled in a couple ...
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Celluloid Dreams on board for Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django
Celluloid Dreams has taken on Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django, which will have its world premiere in competition at Venice before screening in Toronto's Midnight Madness section. Celluloid has acquired worldwide rights outside of Asia, which Sedic International is handling. Producers are T. Nakazawa of Sedic International; Geneon Entertainment; Sony ...
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A Man's Fear Of God takes best feature prize at Sarajevo
Ozer Kiziltan's Turkish-German production A Man's Fear Of God (Takva) won the Heart of Sarajevo award for the best feature film at the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 17-25).The jury, presided by Jeremy Irons and including Frederic Maire, Ozgu Namal, Andrea Staka and Meinholf Zurhorst, gave the $34,160 (Euros 25,000) ...
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Blood Brothers has strong opening in mainland China
Alexi Tan's Blood Brothers, produced by Lion Rock Productions and Taiwan 's CMC Entertainment, has raked in around $3m (RMB23m) in mainland China between its opening on August 16 and last Sunday (Aug 26). The film, distributed in China by Beijing-based Huayi Brothers, grossed $1.6m (RMB$12m) on its opening weekend, ...
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Action thriller Midnight Eagle to open Tokyo film festival
The Tokyo International Film Festival has announced that Midnight Eagle will be the opening screening of the festival's 20th edition (October 20-28). The film is directed by Izuru Narushima and stars Takao Osawa (Crying Out Love, In The Center Of The World), Yuko Takeuchi and Hiroshi Tamaki. The story follows ...
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Sarajevo set to joinEuropean film fund network
The Film Foundation Sarajevo could become one of the members of Cine Regio, the European network of regional film funds, by the beginning of October. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily during Sarajevo's CineLink market, Cine Regio's general secretary Charlotte Appelgren said that meetings had been held with representatives of the Sarajevo ...
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Mehruji to head Pusan's New Currents jury
The 12th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has announced the jury for its New Currents award, which will be headed by Iranian cineaste Darjush Mehruji (The Cow). The jury will award $30,000 each to three films by first-time directors in the New Currents section. Mehruji will be joined by Chinese ...
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New Zealanders McIver, Dando cast in The Lovely Bones
Following a worldwide search Peter Jackson and his team have cast New Zealanders actresses Rose McIver and Carolyn Dando in DreamWorks/Film 4's upcoming drama The Lovely Bones.The Alice Sebold adaptation tells the story of murder victim Susie Salmon, who continues to observe her family on Earth after her death as ...
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Fremaux gets new general manager title at Cannes
Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux has been named general manager of the festival, organizers announced Monday. The appointment was made by the Cannes board of directors on July 19 based on a proposal by Cannes president Gilles Jacob.Fremaux officially took up his new functions on August 9, while continuing to ...
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Kinowelt unveils production slate
Neue Kinowelt Filmproduktion (NKF), the recently founded production arm of Germany's Kinowelt Group, has unveiled an ambitious slate of projects.They include new German language features by Esther Gronenborn, Til Schweiger, Michael Schorr and Hendrik Handloegten spanning all genres from arthouse to the mainstream.According to Kinowelt's Bertil le Claire, NKF aims ...
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Cineclick Asia picks up Pang Ho-cheung's Exodus
Korea-based sales agent Cineclick Asia is repping Hong Kong director Pang Ho-cheung's new thriller Exodus - recently announced in the Toronto and San Sebastian film festival line-ups. Licensor Filmko Entertainment reserves rights to Chinese-speaking territories (mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore), along with Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. Pang, whose ...
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Wet weather contributes to sunny UK box office
One of the wettest ever summers in the UK contributed to a record-breaking number of ticket sales last month.The Film Distributors Association says 21.8 million cinema visits were made in July, the equivalent of one in three of the population.The previous highest monthly total in recent years was 19.0 million ...
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Bavaria picks up Argentinian title
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has picked up international rights for Argentinian filmmaker Anahi Berneri's latest film Encarnacion which will be having its world premiere in the Visions sidebar of the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.The co-production between Argentina's BD Cine and Spain's Wanda Filmes about an ageing actress trying to ...
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Elite Squad to open Rio International Film Festival
Rio International Film Festival (Sept 20 - Oct 4) will open with the highly anticipated Jose Padilha's Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite).It will give an explosive start to an event which will screen more than 300 films from 70 countries over 35 venues, including outdoor screenings on he famous Copacabana ...