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Gabriel Byrne chairs New York Irish Cultural Centre
Irish actor Gabriel Byrne has accepted the Irish Arts Minister's invitation to chair a working group to establish a permanent Irish Cultural Centre in New York. The working group will be made up of representatives of the Irish/Irish-American business community who will also advise the Irish Government on the enhancement ...
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Cannes Residence selects participants for 14th edition
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the names of the latest group of participants for the 14th session of the Cannes Residence.Director Laurent Cantet presided over a jury which chose six directors from 140 submissions. The next session will run from March 1 to July 15, 2007 and will see ...
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Rotterdam adds five to Tiger Awards Competition
The Rotterdam International Film Festival has added five new titles to its Tiger Awards Competition and announced that Abderrahmane Sissako and Johnnie To will be the 36th festival's film-makers in focus.La Marea, by Belguim's Diego Martinez Vignatti; Fourteen, by Hirosue Hiromasa; Die Unerzogenen, by Pia Marais; Does It Hurt' The ...
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Rise in Competition entries gives Berlinale welcome problem
The Berlinale's selectors are spoilt for choice for the line-up of the 2007 Competition thanks to the festival's increasing popularity with film-makers from around the globe.Speaking to ScreenDaily, festival director Dieter Kosslick said: 'There are many more films which are wanting to come to Berlin this year. There is a ...
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Mortimer replaces Morton on cast of Transsiberian
Emily Mortimer has signed on to take the place of an injured Samantha Morton in the cast of Brad Anderson's Transsiberian, now shooting for Spain's Filmax Entertainment.According to a statement released by Filmax, Morton was injured in an accident in her London home and will resume her production schedule in ...
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Kaminski's Christmas tale Hania to wrap in January
Two-time Oscar winner Janusz Kaminski hopes to wrap production on Polish-language Christmas drama Hania in January, for a planned release next year.The director, best known for his work on Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, is in the midst of a 30-day shoot on locations in and around ...
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Chairman of EMI joins Vue
EMI chairman Eric Nicoli has been appointed as non-executive chairman of Vue Entertainment with immediate effect.Nicoli will work closely with Vue CEO Tim Richards to facilitate the company's continued growth in the UK and Ireland, including the opening of an additional 10 new state-of-the-art multiplexes over the next two to ...
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International rollouts slow for Xmas weekend
With much of the world busy preparing for Christmasfestivities there are only scattered international openings for US studio filmsthis weekend. South Korea, Italy and Germany get most of the action. Fox International's Night At The Museum is the solestudio film getting its first major-territory launch. A day before its releasein ...
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Maltes plans movie for comic book hero Captain Thunder
Young Spanish production house Maltes Producciones has taken a three-year option on rights to popular local comic book series Captain Thunder and is developing a $30-40m (Euros 25-30m) English-language feature.Under the working title The Adventures Of Captain Thunder, Maltes founder Pau Vergara says he aims to follow the production model ...
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Toronto critics bow to The Queen
Toronto's filmcritics showed their former colonial colours this year by heaping awards on TheQueen. The Englishfavourite won Best Picture, Peter Morgan won for Best Screenplay, Helen Mirrenfor Best Female Performance and Michael Sheen for Best Supporting MalePerformance (as British prime minister Tony Blair) while Stephen Frears tiedfor Best Director alongside ...
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Happy Feet crosses $10m on IMAX screens
Warner Bros' animated featureHappy Feet has passed the $10mmark on IMAX screens. The film opened November 17 on 79 IMAX screens in NorthAmerica and will eventually expand to a further 28 IMAX screensinternationally. Total worldwide gross in both conventional and large-format isapproaching $200m. 'We arevery pleased with the film's strong ...
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Alliance Atlantis put up for sale by controlling shareholder
Alliance AtlantisCommunications (AAC) is for sale. The Canadian entertainment company announcedlast night that its controlling shareholder, Southhill Strategy, has been"exploring strategic alternatives". Southhill is owned by AAC executivechairman Michael MacMillan and former AAC executive Seaton McLean, two of thefounders of the original company, Atlantis Communications. The move comes twomonths after ...
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Norwegian debut director Eva Sorhaug prepares $2.3m Lunch
Norwegian director Eva Sorhaug is working on her feature debut, the $2.3m (Euros 1.8m) Lunch.The film, scripted by Per Schreiner, who won an Amanda, the local Oscar, for The Bothersome Man has the backing of the Norwegian Film Fund which will pick up $1.5m (Euros 1.1m) of the budget.Lunch, which ...
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Berlin World Cinema Fund receives extra funding
The German Federal Culture Foundation has agreed to extend funding for the Berlin-based World Cinema Fund (WCF) for another two years.Support will now run for 2008 and 2009, having initially been planned for just three years from 2005-2007. But there will be a reduction in contributions to $395,000 (Euros 300,000) ...
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Yelmo buys out Loews' stake in Spanish theatrical chain
The Yelmo Group has bought out its partner Loews Cineplex's 50% stake in Spanish exhibition chain, Yelmo Cineplex.The joint venture between the two was signed in 1998 to ramp up Yelmo Films' theatre interests. It has since grown from 108 screens to the current 329, making it Spain's third largest ...
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Senator acquires Weinstein films for Germany
German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment has acquired a package of six films from The Weinstein Company, including the latest films by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.'I am awfully pleased that we can release these films in the cinemas for Dimension in Germany,' commented Marco Weber, Senator's board member responsible for production ...
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Dafoe joins Goldblum in Schrader's Adam Resurrected for Bleiberg
WillemDafoe has joined Jeff Goldblum in the cast of Paul Schrader's Holocaust drama AdamResurrected whichis being financed and produced by Bleiberg Entertainment.Bleiberg'schairman and CEO Ehud Bleiberg is producing the film with Werner Wirsing, headof German distributor EMS/3L. Ulf Israel is executive producer.Based onthe novel by Yoram Kaniuk, the film tells ...
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AFC continues support for low-budget pictures
Two low-budget thrillers, Cactus and Cedar Boys, have received production funding from the AustralianFilm Commission (AFC), while a third film, TheBullet Boy, was promised money for post-production.Writer/director JasmineYuen-Carrucan, producer Paul Sullivan and executive producer Bryan Brown, whois best known internationally as an actor, are behind Cactus. The film tells the ...
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Warner Premiere staffs up in marketing, business affairs, production
Warner Bros Entertainment has hired key executives to staffits recently launched direct-to-DVD and direct-to-platform production armWarner Premiere. Irika Slavin has been named senior vice president,marketing; Geoff Shaevitz is vice president, production; Sean Wimmer is vicepresident, post production; Stephanie Schroeder is vice president, businessaffairs and Eva Davis is vice president, acquisitions.The ...
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Atlantic Overseas, EuroCo set US/Hungarian co-production slate
New York-based AtlanticOverseas Pictures and Budapest-based EuroCo Productions are partnering up toco-produce a slate of films kicking off with Holocaust love story The FlowerOf The Fence starring RichardDreyfuss and Maia Morgenstern.Written by Atlantic Overseaspresident Harris Salomon and Matt Salzberg, the film tells the real story ofHerman Rosenblat who found his ...