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Kramer's Rive Gauche picks up Cuban Oscar submission El Benny
Jon Kramer's Rive Gauche Films has acquired worldwide rightsto Cuban smash and foreign-language Oscar submission El Benny and will bring the picture to AFM.Jorge Luis Sanchez's picture recounts the life of Cubanmusic legend Benny More, whose Afro-Cuban jazz big band sound took the nationby storm in the pre-Castro 1950s and ...
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Dublin-set tale wins Final Draft's Big Break contest
TomCosgrove's The Sea Devils beat off3,000 competitors to win Final Draft's seventh annual Big Break InternationalScreenwriting Competition in Hollywood.Cosgrove'sDublin-set tale centres on the world-weary crew of an Atlantic trawler thatbecomes locked in a fight for survival after the fisherman winch a monster fromthe ship's hold into the ocean's dark zone.YehudiMercado's ...
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Cinemanila festival gains government support
The 8th Cinemanila film festival(Nov 3-15), which is the Philippines' only international film festival, has forthe first time gained the support of two national government agencies. Both the Film DevelopmentCouncil and the National Commission for Culture and Arts, along with theIndependent Cinema Association, are major partners of this year's event. ...
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Film Sales Company picks up Somebody Like You
AndrewHerwitz's New York-based Film Sales Company has picked up worldwide rights tothe romantic comedy Somebody Like Youstarring Vanessa Williams.RichardSchenkman makes his feature directorial debut on the story of a successfulcareer woman who unknowingly falls in love with the man who donated the spermto father her son. Eartha Kitt, newcomer Kevin ...
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Silverman's Reveille signs movie deal with Universal
Reveille,the TV production company behind US remake hits The Office and Ugly Betty, haslaunched Reveille Motion Pictures (RMP) and entered into a first-look deal withUniversal Pictures.RMPwill create, acquire and develop a broad slate of diverse films and has alreadypurchased and put together a slate of unannounced projects.ProducerGraham Larson, who serves ...
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Hildebrand named MD of Future's UK office
FutureFilms has tapped Qwerty Films veteran Andrew Hildebrand as managing director ofFuture's UK operations.Hildebrandhad been head of commercial and business affairs at Michael Kuhn's QwertyFilms, working on films including Kinsey and I Heart Huckabees. He previously served as director of business affairs at Film4,head of business affairs at Channel 4 ...
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The Waiting Room starts London shoot
Roger Goldby's debut feature The Waiting Room has begun shooting in South London.The film, whose stars include Anne-Marie Duff and Rupert Graves, has been funded entirely by private investors including Sir Tim Rice with the cast and crew receiving a stake in the final film.The film will shoot for five ...
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The Optimists triumphs at Valladolid
GoranPaskaljevic was the main winner of the 51st annual International Film Festivalof Valladolid, taking home the Golden Spike award and best actorprize forThe Optimists (Optimisti).The film'scharismaticlead Lazar Ristovskistars in five varied tales that turnin one way or another on the search for hope in modern-day Serbia. It wasthe second time ...
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Hyde Park teams with Capcom for new Street Fighter movie
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and video gamesdeveloper and publisher Capcom have set up a joint venture to adapt anotherfilm version of the hit game Street Fighter.Thefeature will focus on Chun Li, the game's most popular character who embarks ona quest for justice.Details of the story are being kept under ...
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Prada maintains international lead with $16.7m weekend
The Devil Wears Prada remained the number one overseas picture this weekend, adding anestimated $16.7m through Fox International from 4,400 screens in 53 markets fora $130m tally.Thecomedy opened top in South Korea and Belgium on $2.9m from 241 screens and$807,000 from 60 respectively.Strong holds saw the picture add $2.7m from ...
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South Korea signs co-production agreement with France
South Korea has signed its first international filmco-production agreement with France. The agreement letsco-produced films enjoy domestic film status in distribution and when applyingfor government support in both countries.Korea's Minister of Culture and Tourism Kim Myung-gon andhis French counterpart Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres signed the agreement in Seoul over the ...
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Ten Canoes, Jindabyne shine at Oz critics awards
It was always going to be afilm that pleased the critics and TenCanoes did just that on the weekend, winning best film at the Film CriticsCircle of Australia awards, held in Melbourne. But the most awards went tothe drama Jindabyne, which won bestdirector for Ray Lawrence, supporting actor for Deborra-Lee ...
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Bangkok festival proceeds despite coup
The 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival (BKKIFF) is going ahead as scheduled on January 26 - February 5 despite doubts related to last month's military coup.Chattan Kunjara Na Ayudhya, the new co-festival director said the event would proceed albeit on a reduced scale.There have been budget cuts of at least ...
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Summit brings Pope Joan, Buck Howard to buyers
Summit Entertainment hasboarded Constantin Film's latest English-language production Pope Joan which will be directed by Volker Schloendorff withFranka Potente in the title role.The film, based on Donna Cross'bestseller, is the story of Johanna von Ingehlheim who, according to legend,disguised herself as a man, and entered the highest ranks of the ...
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Eisenberg joins Nu Image/Millenium as producer, consultant
Elyse Eisenberg has joined Nu Image/Millennium Films as a producerand consultant as Avi Lerner and Danny Dimbort's production and distributioncompany steps up its bigger budget projects.Eisenberg will work closely with co-chairman Lerner and head of production Boaz Davidson and her first project willbe Body Clock.She will produce the thriller with ...
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Zhang Side dominates top Chinese awards
Yin Li's Zhang Side dominated the 15th Golden Rooster and Full Blossom Awards. The biopic about a celebrated Chinese soldier took the best picture, best director and best actor awards. For the first time the awards shortlists were decided by moviegoers across the country. According to China Film Association, ...
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French comedy OSS 117 wins top prize at Tokyo
In a surprising result,Michel Hazanavicius' spy comedy OSS 117, Cairo Nest OfSpies was awarded the Tokyo SakuraGrand Prix at the 19th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). The crystaltrophy was accompanied by a cash prize of $100,000. While there was no clearfavourite in the lead-up to the awards, local buzz and ...
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Saw III wreaks havoc at North American box office
Saw IIItore into the competition with all the relish of an unleashed serial killer atthe weekend, dominating the North American box office with an estimated $34.3mthree-day haul that marked a record debut for the franchise. Lionsgate's $10m horror sequel once again stars Tobin Bell as themaniacal Jigsaw whose ingenious games ...
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Mudge's WWE gets Isolated for AFM
BarbaraMudge's Worldwide Film Entertainment (WFE) has picked up worldwide rights toEric Nichols' thriller Isolated andwill commence sales at AFM next week.Isolated, which will screen in Santa Monica, stars Peter Quartaroliand David Newham.WFEis also bringing family titles For Heaven's Sake to AFM. Nat Christian's picture stars Florence Henderson,Stephanie Patton and Joseph ...
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Wang Xiaoshuai plans November shoot for Zuo You
Chinese filmmakerWang Xiaoshuai will be shooting $1.25m drama Zuo You (literally Left And Right) as his 10th feature film, the Cannes-winningdirector announced at the Golden Rooster Baihua Film Festival in China's Hangzhou City today.Beijing-basedDebo Film, producer of Wang's previous film ShanghaiDreams, will again be the main production and financing company ...