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Swiss Television launches Audience Award for national films
Swiss box-office hits Grounding - The Last Days Of Swissair, Mein Name Ist Eugen and Vitus are among 14 films nominated for a new Audience Award launched by Swiss Television SF and the internet portal Bluewin to coincide with their free-TV premieres during 2007.After each airing in Sunday evening prime-time ...
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Zachrison, Lundberg bag new roles at Swedish Film Institute
As part of a top management reshuffle, the Swedish Film Institute has today (March 20) appointed Linda Zachrison - advisor of former culture minister Leif Pagrotsky - head of the Audience department, a new division comprising information, international, the Cinemathèque, Children, Youth & Film, and Domestic Cinema. Zachrison, a former ...
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Pathe, BBC, DJ Films plan Margaret Thatcher film
Pathe International, at Filmart with the UK Film Council stand, is handling worldwide sales on a new biopic of Margaret Thatcher.Pathe Productions, the BBC and DJ Films are working with Brian Fillis to develop a screenplay about Thatcher as she tries to save her career in the 17 days preceeding ...
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Tribeca shorts line-up includes films from Plympton, Stiles
Entries featuring Bob Geldof, Mariel Hemingway and Zooey Deschanel are among 62 short films set to play during the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.Returning directors include Marie Losier, Bill Morrison, Bill Plympton and Jay Rosenblatt, with actor Julia Stiles also trying her hand.Among the progrmammes is the non-competitive section 'We Are ...
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Spike Lee signs on as advisor to Ckrush Entertainment
Spike Lee will serve as an advisor to entertainment group Ckrush Entertainment and will select projects and serve as executive producer on certain releases.The arrangement is for an initial period of two years. Ckrush had previously announced Lee 's involvement in the LiveMansion: The Movie director competition, in which he ...
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SPC takes on Ruzowitzky's Lola-nominated The Counterfeiter
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American rights from Beta Cinema to Stefan Ruzowitzky's Nazi drama The Counterfeiter, which is nominated for seven Lola awards including best film, actor and screenplay. The film recently received its world premiere in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival and tells the ...
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Studio 2.0 pacts for eight titles with VOD outfit RealNetworks
Korean investment and distribution company Studio2.0 has pacted with RealNetworks on multiple internet video-on-demand (VOD) deals for eight of its titles including recent horror film Cello.The deals see RealNetworks acquiring internet VOD rights to Studio2.0's films for Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand.'By partnering ...
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Three Dots backs first-time directors on 2007 slate
Continuing its support for developing new talent, Taiwan's Three Dots Entertainment is to back two feature films by young first-time directors in their twenties. Gavin Lin will start filming his feature debut Tears (working title) this June. The low budget production is a warm-hearted animal film about a young woman ...
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High Point takes on Australian teen story 48 Shades
High Point Films has taken on world sales for Australian coming-of-age teen story 48 Shades. Actor Daniel Lapaine makes his directorial debut with the adaptation of Nick Earls' cult novel 48 Shades Of Brown. Fiona Crago and Rob Marsala produced for Prima Productions. Richard Wilson, who stars in ...
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Fortissimo boards Pen-ek's Ploy as co-producer, sales agent
Fortissimo Films has come onboard as co-producer on Pen-ek Ratanaruang's latest film Ploy, an erotic psychological drama about jealousy produced by the Thai writer-director's longtime producer Thailand's Five Star Production. Fortissimo is also selling the film, which is currently in post-production in Thailand.The story, written by Pen-ek, is an exploration ...
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Chang's Butterfly reborn with CMC backing
Taiwan's CMC Entertainment has boarded Chang Tso-chi's gangster drama Butterfly. The long-gestating film has been a regular participant at project markets since it was first announced in 2003. Chang is attending Filmart's HAF with his forthcoming feature, The Dream.Production of Butterfly halted one year ago when funds ran out. CMC's ...
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Singapore's I Not Stupid franchise goes to China
Following the phenomenal success of I Not Stupid and I Not Stupid Too, which is nominated for best Asian film at this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival, MediaCorp Raintree Pictures is set to extend the franchise to the vast China market with a follow-up to be shot entirely in ...
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Singapore/US financier Upside Down commits to Exodus
New Singapore-US film financing venture Upside Down Entertainment (UDE) is to back Daniel Chan's $12.8m Exodus, the first installment of the Battle of Hong Kong trilogy, as its first project. The new entity, a joint venture between Singapore's production house Upside Down Concepts and Mark Byers' Quixotic Media Group of ...
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Korean Film Council reorganises in wake of new ticket tax
With a 3% ticket tax going into effect July 1, the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) is reorganizing its in-house structure to manage the new funds.Initially, concerns were voiced over who would shoulder the burden of the tax - filmgoers, exhibitors or producers - but 'the industry realizes that taking on ...
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Degeto gets TV rights to Getting Home from Fortissimo
German broadcaster Degeto Film, making its first trip to Filmart, has closed its first deal with Fortissimo Films for the TV rights to Getting Home.Zhang Yang's Hong Kong/China co-production was selected for the 2006 Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum and recently won the ecumenical jury prize after its screening in ...
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Hong Kong's Filmko unveils five to be financed
Hong Kong's Filmko Entertainment will put aside up to HK$70 mn this year for five productions including Pang Ho Cheung's Exodus and Law Chi Leung's Kidnap, both currently in post-production, according to president Dominic Yip.Exodus, featuring Simon Yam and Annie Liu as husband and wife, revolves around how men stumble ...
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Hong Kong's Mei Ah Entertainment scales Red Cliff
Mei Ah Entertainment has acquired all Hong Kong rights to John Woo's upcoming military epic Red Cliff. Hong Kong is the last major Asian territory to sign on for the $75m picture which is scheduled to start shooting on March 29 in and around Beijing. Woo and his producer partner ...
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Cannes reveals Atelier programme
The Cannes Film Festival has announced its selection for this year's Atelier de la Cinefondation. The programme, created in 2005, aims to help young film-makers bring their projects to fruition.This third edition of the Atelier has chosen 15 directorial projects from 15 different countries. During this year's Cannes Festival, the ...
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Bianca Taal takes over Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has appointed Bianca Taal to lead the festival's Hubert Bals Fund, as current fund head Marianne Bhalotra steps down. Taal joined Rotterdam in 2000 working on both CineMart and the Hubert Bals Fund. She became a co-head of CineMart with Marit van den Elshout in ...
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Yuen to wreak Vengeance for Celestial
Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures has added a remake of Chang Cheh's Vengeance, to be directed by Corey Yuen, to its slate of productions inspired by titles in its Shaw Brothers library. Yuen is attached to direct the project from a script by Jeff Lau, the writer-director behind iconic Hong Kong ...