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Luhrmann's Australia starts production in Sydney
Filming started today in Sydney on the long-planned romantic action adventure Australia , Baz Luhrmann's fourth film and his third with 20th Century Fox. The cast is headed by Nicole Kidman, as English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley, and Hugh Jackman, the rough hewn cattle-drover who initially repulses her, then catches ...
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Network 18 launches $110m fund for Indian film
India's Network 18 Group is launching a fund to invest in both Indian films and films targeted at Indian audiences, which aims to raise $110m via a flotation on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. The Mumbai-based media giant is behind the Indian Film Company (IFC), a newly-incorporated, ...
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Debut feature wins Golden Kingfisher in Plzen
Coming-of-age drama Pusinky (Dolls) won the grand prize at the 20th Film Festival Finale Plzen on Saturday. Karin Babinska's debut feature, Dolls is a coming-of-age story about three young women on a road-trip holiday. The film is produced by Cineart TV Prague. International sales are being handled by Telexport Prague. ...
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Ireland agrees co-production agreements with three countries
Ireland's Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism John O'Donoghue has received government approval for the signing of three bilateral co-production agreements with Germany, Luxembourg, and New Zealand.Similar agreements are in already operation with Canada and Australia, but these will be the first such agreements negotiated between Ireland and EU Member ...
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TF1 International unveils Cannes slate
TF1 International has unveiled its slate for the upcoming Cannes Film Market. Among the official selections, TF1 is handling Directors Fortnight closer Mutum by Sandra Kogut.The company has also announced three new films.- Ca$h, directed by Babylon A.D. screenwriter Eric Besnard, stars Jean Reno, Jean Dujardin and ...
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TFI International acquires Tavernier's In The Electric Mist
TFI International has acquired In The Electric Mist, the new English-language film from director Bertrand Tavernier.TFM Distrbution will release Mist in France in 2008. TF1 is selling world rights outside the US and English-speaking Canada where Ithaca will handle the film.The pedigree cast includes Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter ...
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Disturbia heads soft pre-Spider weekend at domestic box office
Faced with the modest threat of three new releases, Paramount's thriller Disturbia held on to the number one spot for the third weekend in a row as an estimated $9.1m elevated its running total to $52.2m.This was an extremely slow weekend - how often does the top film gross less ...
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Hogs, Bean lead lacklustre international weekend
Buena Vista International's (BVI) biker romp Wild Hogs held on to the international box office by the skin of its teeth as it added an estimated $7.2m from 3,200 screens in 37 markets to raise the tally to $55m.Nearly one-quarter of this amount has come from Australia, where after two ...
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DFFF-backed Flame & Citron moves to Babelsberg Studios
Shooting begins today on the lot of the Babelsberg Studios for Ole Christian Madsen's thriller Flame & Citron (Flammen und Citronen), which has become the first international co-production to receive support from the newly established German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).The story about two gangsters who became the most wanted men ...
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Fortissimo on board for Bela Tarr's Cannes title The Man From London
Fortissimo Films has taken on worldwide rights outside of Germany, France and Hungary to Bela Tarr's The Man From London, from TT Filmmuhely, 13 Production, Black Forest Films, Von Vietinghoff and Cinema Soleil.The film will premiere in Competition in Cannes. It marks Tarr's first feature in seven years, after 2000's ...
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Tribeca attendees talk tough about Oscars documentary rules
As could have been anticipated, a heated debate broke out as the independent documentary film-making community got a chance to debate the Oscar eligibility rules with two of the Academy's governors, Michael Apted and Rob Epstein.In a outreach programme at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts ...
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Tribeca All Access prizes go to Waste, Salvation and Sisterhood
The Tribeca Film Festival's fourth Tribeca All Access programme closed Saturday night with awards (including cash prizes) presented to Ben Rekhi's Waste (narrative prize), Dee Rees' Eventual Salvation (documentary prize) and Marilyn Fu's The Sisterhood Of Night (screenwriting prize). The TAA programme, which seeks to connect industry experts with narrative ...
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Ossard to produce Chomet's first live-action feature
French producer Claudie Ossard plans to work with animator Sylvain Chomet (Belleville Rendez-Vous) on Chomet's first full-length live action feature.The pair previously collaborated on one of the segments of portmanteau project Paris je t'aime. Ossard, producer of past hits including Amelie and Delicatessen, spoke about the new project at a ...
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Newspaper veteran named new CEO of Danish Film Institute
The Danish Film Institute has announced that Henrik Bo Nielsen will take over as the new CEO of the instutute, as Henning Camre steps down from the post in June.Camre had strengthened the Danish industry's profile internationally, as well as backing local hits, in his decade at the job.Nielsen previously ...
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Film Movement takes North American rights to Tribeca title Fraulein
Film Movement has acquired the North American theatrical and home video rights to Fraulein, which as been screening this week at the Tribeca Film Festival. Andrea Staka's feature is about three modern women from the former Yugoslavia now living in Switzerland who have to come to terms with their pasts.The ...
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Israeli fund support for Eyal Sivan documentary sparks row
A storm has erupted in Israel after an important fund announced its intention to back a documentary by Eyal Sivan, a fierce opponent of the country's policies.The Paris-based Israeli film-maker's documentary Jaffa is to receive support from the Cinema Project, a division of Tel Aviv's Joshua Rabinovitch Cultural Fund.But the ...
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Goodman, Ricci and Sarandon join Speed Racer cast
John Goodman, Christina Ricci and Susan Sarandonhave joined the cast of Larry and Andy Wachowski's action film SpeedRacer which will commence principal photography at the BabelsbergStudios outside of Berlin from June. The German-English co-production between Sechste Babelsberg Filmand London-based Velocity Productions - which is based on the animated1960s cult series ...
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Bona Culture branches out from Polybona
Li Chiyan, one of the founding members of Polybona Film Distribution along with Yu Dong, has left the company to form his own distribution outfit, Bona Culture. The new company plans to distribute around ten films a year of which eight will be Chinese-language and two will be foreign films ...
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Losers And Winners the top winner at 14th Hot Docs
German filmmakers Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken's Losers And Winners won the Best International Feature Documentary as the 14th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival wrapped this weekend. The film looks at the impact of globalisation as a German smelting plant is disassembled to be rebuilt in China. The International ...
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Summit back at Cannes with Walden, Polanski, Step Up 2
Patrick Wachsberger's Summit International, now embedded in the worldwide production and distribution company Summit Entertainment, has unveiled its Cannes sales slate.The roster includes two Summit productions - a second instalment in the nascent dance franchise Step Up and the teen fight club drama Get Some - as well as third ...