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Boll World Sales picks up English-language horror film Fear
Boll World Sales has picked up international distribution rights for Munich-based filmmaker Gerhard Hross' English-language horror film Fear which wraps principal photography in Berlin on July 30.Producer-director Uwe Boll is also serving as a co-financier for the low-budget production by Udo Bomnueter and Helmar Baum's Berlin-based Valerian Fear. Co-producers are ...
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Britdoc gives international prize to Devil Came On Horseback
The second-annual Britdoc festival wrapped Friday with its international jury prize going to Darfur project The Devil Came On Horseback by Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern.The winner of the Screen International British competition was Kim Longinotto's Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go, about a school for children with severe emotional ...
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Stephen Daldry's The Reader gears up for Berlin shoot
Nicole Kidman is set to be the latest of the Hollywood A-listers coming to work in Berlin later this summer, following a long line of colleagues such as ex-husband Tom Cruise, Susan Sarandon, John Goodman, Richard Roundtree shooting in the German capital, according to German press reports.It has been revealed ...
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Celestial Movies launches on Indonesia's TELKOMVision
Celestial Movies launched today on the cable and DTH satellite platform operated by Indonesian pay-TV operator TELKOMVision. This positions Celestial Movies as the only Chinese movie channel available on all four major pay-TV platforms in the country. The Jakarta-based TELKOMVision is Indonesia 's only pay-TV operator that provides both DTH ...
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FFC greenlights new films from Campion, Blanks, Brooks
Five new Australian films have received a production greenlight from Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC), including projects from world-renowned directors Jane Campion (The Piano), Jamie Blanks (Urban Legend) and Sue Brooks (Japanese Story). All three of these films - UK/Australian period film Bright Star, horror film Long Weekend and comedy ...
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Korean film orgs pledge to co-operate as investment falls
Ten Korean film industry organisations, headed by the Korean Film Producers' Association (KFPA), issued the 'Korean Film Industry's Great Compromise Declaration' in Seoul this week. KFPA head Tcha Seung-jai, who is also head of major production house Sidus FNH, was joined by representatives from each sector of the industry - ...
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Nimoy, Quinto to play Spock in Paramount's new Star Trek
Leonard Nimoy will reprise his role as Mr Spock in J J Abrams' upcoming Star Trek feature for Paramount, the director announced on the opening day of Comic-Con in San Diego.Meanwhile Zachary Quinto, one of the stars of this year's hit US television series Heroes, will portray the Vulcan in ...
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Simpsons take on the world in 71 territories
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix will surge past $400m this weekend in what will be a tightly contested bout with the global release of The Simpsons Movie.Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) fifth Potter episode has raced to $395m and should continue to make strong gains in its ...
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Toronto confirms Special Presentations from Venice
The Toronto International Film Festival today augmented its September line-up with a number of Special Presentations, many of them world premiering at Venice. Among the titles are Andrew Dominik's The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan picture I'm Not There and Paul Haggis' ...
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Cause and effects
From Harry Potter to Sunshine, the UK's post houses are creating world-class effects work. But how is the sector being affected by the exchange rate and increasing competition from India' Geoffrey Macnab reports. The past 12 months has been something of a banner year for the UK post sector. From ...
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FX and tax credit
How does the UK's new tax credit affect the post sector' Geoffrey Macnab reports.It is understandable the Hollywood studios looked askance at the UK last year, as rules governing Gaap funds were changed and those governing the new UK tax credit were altered to conform with European Union (EU) criteria.'From ...
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Cultural test: yes or no'
Is a rigorous cultural test a good way to determine which projects are eligible for national tax breaks' Two Screen writers give their opinions based on the experiences of the UK and Australia, where governments are both attempting to create sustainable, long-term film industries by making state financing available to ...
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Editorial opinion: punching its weight
Can we judge the success of a national film industry on the numbers brought in by studio productions through subsidies and incentives, asks Michael GubbinsThere was a time when terms like the 'creative economy' sounded wildly self-important to the general public - at least outside Los Angeles. Even the term ...
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William Ireton: the interpreter
First he brought the Hollywood A-list to Japan. Now the head of Warner Entertainment Japan is turning his attention to stars closer to home. Jason Gray reports.In 2006, when Japanese films took a larger bite of the pie than Hollywood imports for the first time in more than two decades, ...
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Shooting messengers
Attacks on film critics are misguided. It is the executive suites that have lost the popular touch, argues Len Klady. In the past few years, I've read a fair amount about the role of the film critic. To be more precise, it's felt like open season on people that critique ...
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Lionsgate takes minority stake in Roadside Attractions
Lionsgate announced today that it has bought a minority ownership stake in Howard Cohen and Eric D'arbelloff's distributor Roadside Attractions.The passive investment means Roadside will remain an autonomous entity and plans 12 to 14 annual theatrical releases in North America, with Lionsgate handling home entertainment and ancillary markets.Cohen and D'arbeloff ...
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Rushes Soho Shorts adds documentary competition
The ninth Rushes Soho Shorts Festival in London will run July 28-Aug 3 with screenings of 90 short films across the categories of newcomer, animation, music video, and this year's addition, documentary, as well as a series of educational and networking events.Screenings will centre around the Curzon Soho and highlights ...
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Media Luna and Wide pick up Locarno competition films
Cologne-based sales company Media Luna Entertainment has picked up the world sales for Lugano-born Fulvio Bernasconi's feature debut Off The Ropes (Fuori Dalle Corde), which will have its world premiere in official competition at the Locarno International Film Festival next week.The story of a young Italian boxer from Trieste with ...
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Venice lines up strong English-language programme
Hollywood will be jetting to the Lido for the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival where a cluster of top shelf US directors are unveiling their current projects in a festival that underscores the force of English-language cinema.While six American pictures have made the competition cut, they are flanked ...
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Cactus Three: reality check
New York-based Cactus Three has become a key player in the growing market for documentaries. Wendy Mitchell meets its founders. Having worked together at the now-defunct US indie distributor Wellspring, Julie Goldman, Caroline Stevens and Krysanne Katsoolis established their New York-based non-fiction mini-studio Cactus Three in 2003. It proved fortuitous ...