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Jan Sverak's Empties fills coffers at Czech box office
Empties (Vratne Lahve), the new film from father-and-son team Jan and Zdenek Sverak (Kolya) drew more than 110,000 viewers its opening weekend. The Sveraks' film just broke the record set earlier this year by Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England.'Young people are going to see it and they ...
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Piedmont announces new $33.1m (Euros 25m) film fund
Italy 's Piedmont region announced the inception of the Piedmont Film Company and the details of its new $33.1 million (Euros 25m) film fund to a packed press conference that was attended by industry insiders, cultural politicians and directors including Gabriele Salvatores and Mario Martone. Piedmont region President Mercedes Bresso ...
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UK Film Council lotteryunaffected by Olympics budget blowout
Today's announcement by Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell that the 2012 London Olympics budget has risen to $18.11bn (£9.35bn) will not impact the next round of UK Film Council funding, a spokesperson has assured ScreenDaily.While a further $1,307m (£675m) is expected to be taken from lottery funds, the Film Council spokesperson ...
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Tartan drops title after teen accused of double murder
Cutting-edge UK distributor Tartan Video announced today (Mar 15) that it will cease supplying retailers with DVD copies of The Last Horror Movie. The award-winning 2003 film has become involved in the trial of a teen in the UK, who, itis claimed, murdered his two friends. The trial has heard ...
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FDA and The Script Factory to offer free script seminars
Film Distributors' Association (FDA) and The Script Factory will join forces to provide a script-reading training programme and a series of seminars exclusively for UK film distributors. Three one-day script-reading training courses, which are free to those working in film distribution, aim to help distributors enhance feature film script analysis. ...
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China Film Group forms partnership with Taiwan's Era
Chinese state-owned conglomerate China Film Group and Hong Kong-based Era Information and Entertainment unveiled a long-term strategic partnership at a press conference today in Beijing. The two companies plan to co-produce 10 Chinese-language feature films over the next three years. It is understood that the two companies will set up ...
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Director Kwietniowski joins jury for the Central European Pitch Forum
UK writer-director Richard Kwietniowski, the Polish Film Institute's deputy director Maciej Karpinski, Italian writer-director Giovanni Robbiano and Christina Kallas, president of the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE), have been named as members of an international jury for the first Central European Pitch Forum (CEPF).This four-person jury will select 12 ...
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UK Film Council chief warns producers of tougher times ahead after tax clampdown
UK Film Council chief executive of the John Woodward has warned the UK film industry it will have to face up to a tough period of contraction following this month's tax clampdown.'Things will get worse before they get better,' he said.Earlier this month, the Treasury announced it was effectively ending ...
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Contender takes on Daddy's Girl starring Jaime Winstone
UK distribution company Contender Entertainment Group has taken all UK rights from Carnaby International to horror film Daddy's Girl. The UK psychological thriller was directed by Welsh first-time feature director DJ Evans. Nerys Lloyd of Boda Cyf produced. The project is a Boda/Carnaby co-production in association with the Arts Council ...
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Future Films creates joint venture with post company Pepper
UK- and US-based financier and production company Future Films is creating a new partnership with London-based post-production company Pepper. Pepper has worked mostly on TV drama (Life On Mars, Prime Suspect) and independent features such as Michael Winterbottom's The Road To Guantanamo but will now expand its film services to ...
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US exhibitor announces first all-digital multiplex in Chicago
Muvico Entertainment announced at ShoWest this week that it will build the world's first theatre complex equipped with Sony's 4K SXRD projectors in each theatre. The projectors will be installed in Muvico's new Chicago area entertainment complex as the initial step in converting the chain's 12 US theatres - comprising ...
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Gooding tostar in heist thriller Hero Wanted for Millenium
Cuba Gooding Jr has signed to star in Millennium Films' Hero Wanted, which is scheduled to begin shooting in April in Bulgaria.Brian Smrz makes his directorial debut on the story of a garbage collector who stages a heist so he can play the hero and impress his girlfriend. When the ...
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AFCI launches Global Initiatives to assist producers
The Association Of Film Commmissioners International (AFCI), which is staging its annual Locations Trade Show in Los Angeles April 12 to 14, is launching a series of AFCI Global Initiatives.The initiatives include a worldwide educational programme covering the breadth of the film commission profession, easy access to the most current ...
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Udine Far East Film Fest will open with Japanese blockbuster Dororo
Director Akihito Shiota's Dororo will open the 9th edition of Italy 's Udine Far East Film Festival (April 20-28). Shiota will be present at the Dororo's European premiere. The film - which has grossed $26 million to date, is a massive success in his native Japan and already spawned plans ...
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Women directors dominate SXSW awards
Films by women directors dominated the prizes at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW), the hip indie film festival and conference held in the Texan capital city of Austin.Jamie Babbit's narrative feature Itty Bitty Titty Committee won the top dramatic jury prize taking Best Narrative Feature. Jennifer Venditti's Billy The ...
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Eurimages to support digitisation of its funded films
The Council of Europe's Eurimages fund is planning to provide support for the digitisation of its funded films from the middle of this year to boost their circulation throughout Europe.Speaking at this year's Sofia Meetings, Eurimages' executive secretary Jan Vandierendonck revealed that he is currently drafting the guidelines for an ...
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Williams, McGregor and Macfadyen on board for Maguire's Incendiary
Bridget Jones's Diary director Sharon Maguire will start shooting her new project Incendiary later this month in London with a cast featuring Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor and Matthew Macfadyen. Archer Street 's Andy Paterson and Anand Tucker are producing, with Aramid Entertainment Fund financing. Capitol Films is handling international sales. ...
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UTV to co-produce Shyamalan's Happening with Fox
Indian entertainment conglomerate UTV Motion Pictures has announced that it will co-produce M Night Shyamalan's next film The Happening with Twentieth Century Fox. UTV and Fox will share global revenues from the $57m film in all media, in perpetuity, equally. The deal is part of UTV's ongoing relationship with Fox ...
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Sony signs TV distribution deal with Korea's CJE
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed a long-term distribution agreement with leading Korean film distributor CJ Entertainment (CJE). The deal gives SPTI the right to distribute a limited number of films from CJE's current and future slates to broadcasters across Asia excluding Japan, mainland China and Korea. Yu Ha's ...
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Japan's VAP ships Death Note DVDs in record numbers
Japanese video distributor Video Audio Project (VAP) has made an initial shipment of 500,000 box sets of Death Note and its sequel Death Note 2: The Last Name for a total of one million discs. The shipment sets a record for any domestic film released in 2006. The set also ...