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Bollywood invades Yorkshire for IIFA weekend
The Indian film industry has invaded the UK's Yorkshire region for the Indian International Film Academy (IIFA) awards, known as the Bollywood Oscars. The awards themselves will be given out Saturday night in Sheffield, but related events started Thursday and run during the four-day event in Leeds, Hull, Bradford and ...
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Cinema Expo to honour 4 Months actress Anamaria Marinca
Cinema Expo International, held in Amsterdam later this month, will honour Romanian-born British actress Anamaria Marinca with its Excellence in Acting award. Marinca is one of the stars of Cannes Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days and will next been seen in Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without ...
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Spanish industry bemoans quotas continued in new film law
Spanish producers, exhibitors and TV networks are giving mixed reviews toSpain's controversial new film law, recently approved by the Council ofMinisters.The legislation, expected to receive fast-track treatment in Parliament, has been mired for months by bitter opposition from exhibitors, TV networks and some actors - and the controversy hasn't died ...
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New Dutch scheme to offer $17m annually in matching funds
New Dutch regulations for film investment offer matching funds for films with two-thirds funding in place.Producers with 65% of their financing in place will be able to apply for the other 35% of their film's budget under the new incentive. To access the cash, 25% of total financing must be ...
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Guillermo Del Toro begins shoot for Hellboy 2 in Budapest
Guillermo del Toro begins principal photography today on Universal's Hellboy 2 in Hungary.With an estimated budget of $72m, the film is biggest ever to shoot in Hungary. The production also benefits from the country's 20% tax rebate, which helped Budapest woo the shoot away from Prague, where del Toro filmed ...
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UKFC P&A Fund backs Tell No One and Black Gold
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has announced its latest awards to help with wider distribution of niche films. The latest funding recipients are:$217,553 (£110,774) to Revolver Entertainment for Tell No One (Ne Le Dis A Personne) by Guillaume Canet $123,728 (£63,000) to the BFI for A Throw ...
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Metrodome takes UK rights to Sarkies' Out Of The Blue
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights to Robert Sarkies' drama Out Of The Blue and will release the film later this summer.NZ Film has worldwide sales rights, and NZ Film's Kathleen Drumm and James Thompson negotiated the deal with Metrodome's Tom Stewart and Kate Falconer.NZ Film's Drumm also struck ...
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Pirates faces international challenge from Shrek
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End should stay at the top of the international box office in its third weekend, although Shrek The Third will pose a challenge.Buena Vista International's high seas adventure stands at a staggering $438m following its $216m launch weekend two weeks ago last weekend's biggest ...
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Scarlet, Schafer promoted at Tribeca, Freccero joins full-time
Peter Scarlet has been promoted to artistic director and Nancy Schafer has been promoted to co-executive director of the Tribeca Film Festival.Jennifer Maguire Isham, who served six years as festival president, becomes executive vice president of Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff's Tribeca Enterprises and will seek out ...
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Participant boards environmental comedy Taildraggers.
Participant Productions is partnering with producers Jay Chandrasekhar and Julia Dray of Broken Lizard to develop the comedy Taildraggers.Participant's director of production Nate Moore will oversee the project about five slackers in Alaska who stumble upon a plot to syphon oil while working as pilots for a low-budget airline. Will ...
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Sundance Institute Documentary Fund gives grants to 25 projects
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film programme has announced the 25 feature projects to receive what the Institute says is a record number of grants from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund.The recipient projects were chosen from more than 300 applications from 20 countries. The Sundance Institute Documentary Fund was established in ...
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Holland to direct National Lampoon's Ratko: The Dictator's Son
National Lampoon has signed Savage Steve Holland to direct the fish-out-of-water story Ratko, the company's second in-house production after Bagboy.National Lampoon's Ratko: The Dictator's Son follows the adventures of a despot's son who heads to the US to attend college. Robert Mittenthal and Michael Rubiner wrote the screenplay.The National Lampoon, ...
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Foresight sells key territories on Machine, Ledge, Alive
Mark Damon's production, financing and sales company Foresight Unlimited has reported a strong Cannes on a diverse slate, headed by sales on the $15m Jean-Claude Van Damme mixed martial arts film Smashing Machine.Sony picked up the UK, Australia, France, Japan, and Italy to Smashing Machine, which also sold to Germany ...
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Abel Ferrara: go go dancer
The new film from energetic film-maker Abel Ferrara is a sexy, glossy comedy - or so he promises, says Sheri JenningsWhat does a director like Abel Ferrara, who has already had four films invited to Cannes, do for his next act' Something completely different, it seems.Ferrara's Go Go Tales screened ...
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Chiara Arroyo: asilent witness
The Mexican director of the Cannes prize-winner Silent Light tells Chiara Arroyo why he chose to make a film about an isolated German-speaking sect. Just a decade ago, Mexico's Carlos Reygadas was a high-profile human-rights lawyer for the European Commission, specialising in armed conflicts. Now he is one of the ...
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James Gray: good cop, bard cop
Shakespeare and Italian melodrama provided the creative inspirations for James Gray's We Own The Night, set in New York in the 1980s. Peter Bowen reports. The inspiration for James Gray's We Own The Night, a character-driven drama about a man who has hidden his past only to confront an inevitable ...
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BBC Films: a drama or a crisis'
The planned relocation of BBC Films back to BBC headquarters has provoked a panic in the UK, where producers fear the future of one of the territory's most important financiers is under threat. Geoffrey Macnab reports. At Cannes last month, BBC Films arrived with what its boss, David Thompson, has ...
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Jon Kilik: for whom the Bell tolls
The US producer of The Diving Bell And The Butterfly tells Peter Bowen how he got the film made when both Johnny Depp and Universal dropped out. The French-language memoir The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon) marks the third collaboration between US producer Jon Kilik ...
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Black Gold: storm in a coffee cup
Coffee expose Black Gold riled multinationals in the US and is now raising awareness in the UK. Chris Evans speaks to film-makers Marc and Nick Francis about taking on the world's second-largest export industry. Following Super Size Me, An Inconvenient Truth and most recently Michael Moore's Sicko, brothers Marc and ...
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Critical view: breaking the rules
Romania's cash-poor but ideas-rich film industry is proving that necessity is the mother of invention with a string of influential titles. What's the secret formula, asks Lee MarshallWhat is it about those Romanians' The Eastern European country's cash-strapped film industry manages to squeeze out no more than 10 full-length features ...