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ACE seminars to look at 17 European projects
TheEuropean Cinema Workshops (ACE) will be held this year from Dec 6-12 inRoubaix/Tourcoing in the Nord Pas-de-Calais region of France.Theworkshops are an opportunity for European producers to gather with European andUS professionals in order to examine financing, co-production and distributionpotential for, in this year's case, a total of 17 projects. ...
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Sean Ellis starts shoot for The Broken
Writer/director Sean Ellishas started principal photography for his second feature, The Broken. As previously reported, LenaHeadey stars and the cast also includes Richard Jenkins, Melvil Poupaud, UlrichThomsen, Michelle Duncan and Asier Newman. The psychological horrorfilm will shoot for seven weeks. Headey plays a woman who thinks she seesherself drive past ...
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Gaumont goes digital with XDC France
French major Gaumont hassigned a deal with digital developer XDC to offer its upcoming features in adigital format for cinemas equipped with the necessary projection systems. Themove makes Gaumont the first French producer/distributor to make its filmsavailable digitally. The newly created XDCFrance, a subsidiary of XDC International, proposes technical ...
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Filmauro to adapt Manfredi's The Empire of Dragons
Aurelio De Laurentiis has announcedthat his Rome-based Filmauro production company has purchased the rights to The Last Legion author Valerio MassimoManfredi's The Empire of Dragons,with principal shooting to take place in China next year.A period epic adventure, Dragon winds a historical tale thatintersects the Roman and Chinese civilizations. Currently being ...
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Chan's $40m Ci Ma starts shooting in Beijing
Andre Morgan and Peter Ho-sunChan, who together run production house Morgan Chan Films, unveiled their$40m martial arts period drama Ci Ma (working title) today in Beijing.The Hong Kong-China co-productionis directed by Chan and features a stellar cast headed by Jet Li, Andy Lau andTakeshi Kaneshiro. Principal photography has just started ...
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SPRI's Casino wins jackpot with $44.7m third weekend
Bond ruled the waves for a third consecutive weekend as CasinoRoyale grossed anestimated $44.7m from 6,770 prints in 54 territories for $196.5m.The film will cross $200m on Monday [Day 17] and alreadystands at more than $312m worldwide. 007 is on course to finish hisinternational mission in the mid-$300m range.Casino Royale ...
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Spanish producers partner in Argentinian production outfits
Two new production companies have been launched inArgentina with the backing of Spanish partners.Pampa Films is owned by Pablo Bossi --former president ofleading production house Patagonik Film Group-- in association with directorJuan Pablo Buscarini and renowned Spanish producers Julio and Carlos Fernandezfrom Filmax.Haddock Films is a partnership between Vanessa Ragone, ...
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Catherine Le Clef to run Fortissimo's TV arm
Fortissimo Films has appointed Catherine Le Clef as seniorvice president - TV and ancillary sales.She will join Fortissimo from Paris starting Jan 1. In addition to running Fortissimo's existing TV activities,Le Clef will be charged with expanding the company's TV business to includedocumentaries for TV and made-for-TV movies.Le Clef had ...
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WFTV to honour producer Norma Heyman
The UK's Women in Film and Television will present its 2006lifetime achievement award to veteran producer Norma Heyman. She will receive the honourat the WFTV annual awards luncheon on Dec 8 at London's Hilton Park Lane. Previous winners includeMaggie Smith, Judi Dench, Cilla Black, Barbara Windsor and Esther Rantzen. "Norma ...
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Chinese film wins Golden Peacock at Goa
HasiChaolu's Chinese drama The Old Barber won the Golden Peacock best film award at the 37th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. Theprize, with its $22,000 (Rs 1m) purse, was presented by actor-writer-directorAparna at the closing ceremony of the festival.Announcingthe award, jury chairman, Australian filmmaker Rolf De Heer ...
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Danes dominate IFDA doc prizes
The 19th International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), proveda triumph for Danish documentary makers.IDFA's most prestigious prize, The VPRO Joris Ivens Award, went to Danish feature doc The Monastery - Mr Vig And The Nun, directed byPernille Rose Gronkjaer. (The Monastery was also selected last weekfor The World Cinema Documentary Competition ...
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Grisebach's Longing takes top prizes at Gijon
Spain's Gijon International Film Festival (Nov 28- Dec 1) awarded its top honours to Valeska Grisebach's Longing (Sehnsucht).The German film about a man who unexpectedly falls in love with another woman, picked up best feature film award and the Fipresci prize.The best director prize was awarded ex-aequo to Maziar Miri ...
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The Lives Of Others and Volver share EFA honours
FlorianHenckel von Donnersmarck's Stasi thriller The Lives Of Others (DasLeben Der Anderen) and Pedro Almodovar's Volver were the big winners atthis year's European Film Awards. The German entry for theOscar and Golden Globes, won best European Film, best actor for UlrichMuehe and best screenplay for the director at the awards ...
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The Lives Of Others and Volver share EFA honours
FlorianHenckel von Donnersmarck's Stasi thriller The Lives Of Others (Das Leben Der Anderen) and Pedro Almodovar's Volver werethe big winners at this year's European Film Awards.TheGerman entry for the Oscar and Golden Globes, won best European Film, bestactor for Ulrich Muehe and best screenplay for the director at the awardsceremony ...
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Feet keeps marching for Warner Bros in domestic market
Warner Bros' animated hit Happy Feet kept on marching and stayed atop thecharts for the third consecutive weekend as Sony's Casino Royale remained in second place.Happy Feetadded an estimated $17m for $121m after three weekends, while 007 raised histally by $15.1m to $115.9m after the same amount of time. Casino ...
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Babel gets director, ensemble awards at Palm Springs festival
The 18th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present the cast of Babel with the festival's Ensemble Performance Award and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu with the Director of the Year Award. Cast members Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi are expected to attend along with Inarritu. ...
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Picture players: Best director contenders
Asthe final wet prints of year-end releases are frantically unveiled toawards voters in Los Angeles, New York and London, a picture of theplayers who will rise to the top in the kudos countdown is emerging.And that picture is a surprising one. 2006 has featured an unusuallylarge number of so-called prestige ...
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Austrian board backs biopic of popstar Falco
Debut features by Serbianfilmmaker Stefan Arsenijevic and the Iranian-born video artist Shirin Neshatand a biopic on the life of Rock Me Amadeus singer, the Austrian pop star Falco,are among six new projects backed with a total of $1.75m (Euros 1.31m) by thejoint funding committee of the Austrian Film Institute and ...
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Swedish Film Institute overhauls staff and productions
The Swedish Film Institute will stage a majorreshuffle of its organisation, implementing new measures to better reach thegoals of Swedish film policy, and to improve the quality of Swedish cinema.Both production volume and personnel will be radically reduced."We want to take a more active role in theSwedish film industry, where ...
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007 should dominate for third weekend, Japan opens today
James Bond should prove too tough for his international rivals forthe third consecutive weekend as Casino Royale bears down on $200m.The 007 saga has reached $150m through Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational and is expected to add in the region of $30m-$40m this weekendthrough strong holds and the release in Japan on ...