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$30m epic to become most expensive Scandianavian film
Svensk Filmindustri's The Knight Templar is to set to become Scandinavia's most expensive feature with a budget of $30.3 million (Euro 22.8 million).The film is an adaptation of Swedish writer Jan Guillou's bestselling trilogy of Arn Magnusson to be shot in two parts by the Swedish major.Danish director Peter Flinth ...
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Chesneau appointed Rezo's head of world sales
Sebastien Chesneau has joined Rezo Films International, the sales arm of Paris-based producer/distributor Rezo Films as head of world sales. Chesneau, who took up his functions on December 1, replaces outgoing sales head Cecile Gaget.Previously at Celluloid Dreams (2004-2006), Chesneau was also a sales executive at France Televisions Distribution from ...
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NBR honours Letters From Iwo Jima, Whitaker and Mirren
Naming the first winners of the 2006/07 awards season, The National Board of Review has voted Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima the best film of 2006, while Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren earned respective acting honours for The Last King Of Scotland and The Queen.Martin Scorsese got his awards ...
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Eurimages gives $5.7m backing to 14 features
The Council of Europe Eurimages Fund Board of Management has agreed to invest $5.7m (Euros 4.3m)in 12 films.They are:* Dusan Rapos' Cinka Panna (Slovakia/Hungary) * Amos Gitai'sDesengagement (France/Italy/Israel) * Carlos Saura's Fados (Portugal/Spain) * Ole Christian Madsen's Flammen & Citronen (Denmark/Germany) * Dagur Kari's The Good Heart (Iceland/ Denmark/France) * ...
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Casino to open in Australia, Mexico, strides past $200m
Casino Royale will sweep past $200m this weekend with four releases plannedthrough Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).007 ventures out into Australia and Argentina on Dec 7followed in Mexico a day later. It currently stands at $195.6m.SPRI executives adjusted the cumulative gross from the higher one reportedat the weekend following exchange ...
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CineAsia wraps with confirmation of move to Macau
After two years in Beijing, exhibition trade show and conference CineAsia willmove to Macau, a Special Administrative Region in South China, in 2007. Robert Sunshine, vice president of VNUFilm Exposition Group, announced the move at the closing ceremony of thisyear's conference on Thursday in Beijing.Sunshine added that the new venue ...
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Ten Canoes sweeps the board at AFI Awards
Auteur director Rolf deHeer's Ten Canoes, which he producedwith Julie Ryan, was crowned best film at the Australian Film Institute Awardson Thursday night (Dec 7) in Melbourne.While its untrainedindigenous cast failed to take home any acting awards, it won six of the 10categories for behind-the-camera roles including best screenplay for ...
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Warner UK signs digital download deal with AAM
Warner Bros Entertainment UKhas signed an electronic sell-through deal for Arts Alliance Media to offer digitaldownloads of Warner Bros movies and TV series.The first DVD title underthe new service is Superman Returns,which was available as of Dec 4 in the UK. The pact will cover Warnernew and catalogue products, including ...
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Rome and Turin festivals to move back slightly
Italian culture ministerFrancesco Rutelli held a round table meeting in Rome that has settled the 2007dates for Italy's three fall film festivals in Venice, Rome and Turin. Themeeting was announced last summer in reaction to the controversial appearanceof first edition of the Rome Film Fest and its placement on the ...
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Goteborg Fund backs five new features
The Goteborg InternationalFilm Festival (GIFF) in association with the Swedish International DevelopmentCooperation Agency (SIDA) has granted another $586,200 (SEK 4m) to films madein countries of transition. The five latest projects toget development support are: The First Rainy Day by Nguyen Phan Quang Binh (Vietnam) (which earlierreceive Goteborg funding at Pusan), ...
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Estonian films boost local market share
Estonian films are expectedto double their market share of the local box office to 10%, with over 120,000tickets being sold for national productions this year.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com at this year's Baltic Event, the Estonian FilmFoundation's information manager Eda Koppel explained that the Estonian-Latvianco-production Lotte From Gadgetville is the top local ...
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Irish companies get slate development funding
The Irish Film Board hasannounced ten successful applicants for its Multiple Project Development (MPD)funding, a multi-project development initiative drawn up in September. Following on from the IFB'sCompany Development Initiative (CDI) which went through two three-year cycles,MPD funding provides support for producers who have an attractive slate ofprojects to develop. It ...
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Sony passes $3bn in worldwide grosses for the first time ever
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) will cross $3bn in worldwideticket sales on Friday Dec 8, marking the first time the company will haveachieved the feat.Thiswill be only the fourth time in motion picture history that any studio hasreached the $3bn mark in a single year.Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) is enjoying ...
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China's The Road scoops top prizes at AFFF
China's The Road was the biggestwinner at the 2nd Asian Festival of 1st Films (AFFF), which wrapped Wednesdaynight in Singapore. The Zhang Jiarui-directeddrama walked away with best film, best script and a new Foreign Press Choice'sPurple Orchid award. US production Journey From The Falltied with Dombivli Fast from India in ...
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TWC has Nightmare for North America, UK, Australia
TheWeinstein Company has acquired North American, UK and Australian/New Zealand rights to Japanesedirector Shinya Tsukamoto's Nightmare Detective, which recently premiered at the Pusan and Rome filmfestivals.Easternlight is handling international sales on the film which was sold to several otherterritories at the recent AFM. Produced by Japan's Movie Eye Entertainment andKaijyu ...
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Horror thriller Amusement starts shooting in Budapest
Production began this week in Budapest, Hungary, onMacari/Edelstein Productions' horror-thriller Amusement, which Picturehouse will release inNorth America.Keir O'Donnell, Katheryn Winnick, Laura Breckenridge, JessicaLucas, and Tad Hilgenbrinck have joined the project about three women stalked bya killer who harbours a childhood grudge.John Simpson is directing from a script by Jake Wade ...
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Production begins for Second World War spoof
Alan Cumming is to star asHitler and Timothy Spall as Winston Churchill in Jackboots OnWhitehall, a comedy set during the Second World War, London-basedproduction company Swipe announced today (Dec 7).Based on the idea that theGermans won the Battle Of Britain but were defeated bythe Scots, the film also includes well-known ...
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Emperor Motion Pictures boards Jiang Wen's Sun
Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Pictures has boarded Jiang Wen'supcoming The Sun Also Rises as salesagent and equity investor. Under an agreement reached with Jiang's production company Buyilehu Films, EMP is contributing almosthalf of the film's budget, which has risen from $6.8m at the start ofproduction to $10m, and will also ...
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Rickman joins Depp, Bonham Carter in Sweeney Todd
Alan Rickman has been cast as the nefarious Judge Turpin in Dreamworks/WarnerBros' film of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical Sweeney Todd.Judge Turpin is a sinister creature who frames Todd andsteals his wife before meeting his untimely demise in Todd's barber's chair. TimBurton is directing the film which stars Johnny Depp as ...
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Index Corp restructures to focus on contents business
Japanese conglomerate Index Corpis streamlining its approximately 70 consolidated subsidiaries to focus on itsoriginal core business of mobile contents.Non-core interests such asclothing accessories and electronic product manufacturers will be sold off orconsolidated into other group companies. The group aims to reduce the number ofsubsidiaries by around 30% by summer 2007. ...