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Italian locations: historical monuments
As any Italian film commissioner knows, movie producers en route to Italy come armed with ambitious shooting agendas involving the nation's most treasured and ancient locations.While permits are granted on a site-by-site basis, major locations such as Rome and Venice have dedicated permit offices which are well versed in granting ...
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Italian locations: Sicily
The beautiful, but under-employed island of Sicily has lured some of the world's most renowned film-makers to its shores, from neo-realists such as Roberto Rossellini to contemporary Oscar winners such as Giuseppe Tornatore for Cinema Paradiso.Today, with support from regional, national and EU funding, the island is hoping to create ...
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EFP selects 21 producers for Cannes Producers on the Move
The Hamburg-based, pan-European promotional organisation European Film Promotion (EFP) has selected 21 aspiring European producers for its Producers On The Move networking initiative to take place during the Cannes Film Festival next month. Since being launched in 2000, Producers On The Move has enabled over 120 up-and-coming European producers to ...
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Ben Hopkins starts shoot in Turkey for The Market
Simon Magus and The Nine Lives Of Alex Katz director Ben Hopkins started shooting in Turkey today for his third fiction feature, The Market. The project is the first co-production between Kazakhstan, Turkey, Germany and the UK. The Market will be shot in the Turkish language.Producers are Roshanak Behesht Nedjad ...
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The Bothersome Man racks up more prizes in Norway's Canon awards
Norwegian director Jens Lien's The Bothersome Man added four prizes to its string of 20 national and international kudos, when the Norwegian film industry handed out the Canon awards at the the Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival, which ended yesterday.Decided by the business organizations - actors' prizes are voted by ...
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Market forces and buzz titles
At first glance, this year's Cannes Competition has a lopsided look. It comprises a handful of US films from well-known film-makers (almost all of which are already pre-sold everywhere) and some vintage European arthouse fare, on most of which all territories are available.'The films that are interesting commercially are already ...
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Cannes: the price of a weak dollar
In April, the UK pound moved through the $2 mark for the first time since 1992. The euro has also grown in strength against the US dollar. On one level, Cannes-bound US companies are bound to suffer. Bringing staff to the Riviera is not cheap, even when the dollar is ...
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Cannes Critics Week to close with Miniucchi's Expired
The 46th Cannes Critics Week will kick off with Bruno Merle's Heros, starring Michael Youn, Patrick Chesnais and Elodie Bouchez and close with Expired from Cecilia Miniucchi and starring Samantha Morton and Jason Patric.The Critics Week line up was announced Thursday morning in Paris with seven titles in the main ...
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China's J.A. Media taps Chan, Shi as consultants
Start-up Chinese producer-distributor J.A. Media has tapped former Media Asia sales chief Jeffrey Chan and leading Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi as consultants as it ramps up its film distribution activities. Based in Beijing, the company is a subsidiary of Jilin-based biotech and alternative energy producer, Jian Group, owned by ...
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300 sweeps past $20m in worldwide grosses on IMAX screens
IMAX chiefs said this week that Warner Bros' smash action feature 300, which swept past $20m in worldwide receipts on the large screen format in record time, has opened the door to a new demographic for the company.Zack Snyder's adventure feature has grossed more than $422m worldwide through all formats ...
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Al Gore opens Tribeca with climate-change shorts programme
The sixth-annual Tribeca Film Festival opened Wednesday night in downtown Manhattan with a programme of short films and music to raise awareness for climate change.TFF's opening night presented the premieres of nine of the planned 60 short films that are part of the SOS campaign about the global climate crisis.There ...
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HBO Films, FSLC stage US competition for film trailers
HBO Films and The Film Society of Lincoln Center are holding a nationwide competition offering students the chance to create a trailer to precede film screenings at the Lincoln Center.The Film Society of Lincoln Center will premiere the winning work in the Student Trailer Competition at its 45th New York ...
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Vollman gets expanded publicity duties at Paramount
Paramount's executive vice president of integrated marketing Mike Vollman has added theatrical publicity to his duties.In his expanded role, Vollman will oversee national publicity campaigns and lead the studio's field and integrated marketing activities. He will continue to report to president of worldwide marketing Gerry Rich.'Mike has played an integral ...
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Peter Naish joins Capitol Films as managing director
Former Icon Entertainment head of distribution Peter Naish has joined Capitol Films as managing director and will oversee both Capitol and THINKFilm under David Bergstein's growing entertainment empire.Naish will start work on Apr 30 and will join the team of Capitol head of sales James Norrie and sales manager Sophia ...
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Cannes Film Festival: 60th may be a dignified affair
Emir Kusturica returns but Francis Ford Coppola's comeback is nowhere to be seen. The British have not received an invitation to the party but Stephen Frears will still sit at the top table. The French presence does not display an unseemly bias towards the home team but the Italians are ...
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'It would be good if there was a new leadership'
In a move which took even her staff by surprise, Sandra Den Hamer today confirmed that she will be leaving her position as director of the Rotterdam International Festival to take over as director of Amsterdam's Filmmuseum.'For me as well, it was quite sudden,' Den Hamer told ScreenDaily.com of her ...
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Cannes announces three additions to Un Certain Regard
A week after unveiling its official line up, the Cannes Film Festival has added three films to the Un Certain Regard sidebar, organizers announced today.Hou Hsiao Hsien's Looking For The Red Balloon will open the section on May 17. The film stars Juliette Binoche and is being handled by Films ...
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Sandra Den Hamer leaves Rotterdam International Film Festival
Sandra Den Hamer is to step down as director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Den Hamer, who has been involved with the event for more than two decades, will start work as director of Amsterdam's Filmmuseum from September 1.The Board of the Rotterdam Film Festival will start exploratory talks ...
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Nikkatsu, IMJ join forces to launch production outfit
Japan 's Nikkatsu Corp and production company/creative agency Inter Media Japan Entertainment (IMJE) have jointly established a new production company named Dzonot Corp. IMJE invested 51% and Nikkatsu 49% of the initial $85,000 (Y10m) in capital to set up Dzonot, which will be headed by IMJE chief executive Osamu Naito. ...
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Japanese animation Doraemon secures Chinese release
Japanese publisher Shogakukan has announced that one of its recent feature films in the popular Doraemon franchise will screen theatrically in 35 cities across mainland China. Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 , which was released domestically in March last year, will become the first Japanese animated feature to be screened theatrically ...