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Hawaii festival awards top honours to Love For Share
The 26th HawaiiInternational Film Festival (HIFF) held its awards ceremony Oct 26, with theHalekulani Golden Orchid for best feature film going to Indonesian film Love For Shareby Nia Dinata.The main jury wasmade up of New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell, programmer Matt Dentler fromSouth by Southwest, and actor Kal ...
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Axiom gets UK rights to Fleck's Half Nelson
UK producer and distributor Axiom Films has acquired all UK distribution rights to US independent film HalfNelson, sold internationally and distributed in the US by THINKFilm. The movie, written anddirected by Ryan Fleck, receives its UK debut at the London Film Festival tonight. Itrecently won special jury prizes at both ...
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Vertigo works with funding partner for Northern Star
UK producer Vertigo Films has lined up the first two productions to comeout of its new relationship with Pacific Continental Fund Management's FilmOpportunities Fund. The first project to shootwill be Simon Ellis' Northern Star - A Love Story (workingtitle), a rites-of-passage love story that will shoot in Gateshead, Newcastle starting ...
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Germany braces for Seven Dwarfs 2 from Universal
Now that Fox International's The Devil Wears Prada is officially part of the One HundredClub the name of the game is crossing $150m.Fox International executives will be looking for strong holds anda decent launch in South Korea on Oct 26 as the comedy improves on its $111.7moverseas tally.Fox International holds ...
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TWC has No Mercy for North America
Korean investment and salescompany The Core Studio has sold North American rights to No Mercy For The Rude to The Weinstein Company. The deal was initiated afterits market premiere screening at the inaugural Asian Film Market, during thePusan International Film Festival (PIFF) last week.The film features aprofessional killer with a ...
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Tam's Exile to open Toronto Reel Asian fest
Celebrating its 10thanniversary, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival will open withthe North American premiere of Hong Kong director Patrick Tam'sAfter This, Our Exile, which recentlyreceived its world premiere at Pusan and the inaugural Rome Film Festival.As Canada's longest-running showcase of contemporary Asiancinema and work from the Asian diaspora, ...
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Rhys Meyers, Mitchell, Chow join Yeoh in Children
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell and Chow Yun Fat will joinMichelle Yeoh in the 1930s set romantic adventure The Children Of Huang Shi.Roger Spottiswoode will direct from a screenplay by Jane Hawksley,and Hyde Park International will commence pre-sales at AFM next week.Filming on the Chinese-Australian-German co-production is set tobegin on ...
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Lightning picks up international rights to genocide doc Screamers
Los Angeles based sales and distribution house LightningEntertainment has swooped on international rights prior to AFM to CarlaGarapedian's genocide documentary Screamers.The picture features the participation of the rock band System OfA Down and explores how the denial of the Armenian genocide contributed toother international crises including the ongoing situation in ...
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Optimum in UK, Square One in Germany take Storm
Darclight Films has closed a number of sales on the thriller StormWarning, which iscurrently in post-production and stars Nadia Fares, Robert Taylor and JohnBrumpton.Deals have concluded with Optimum in the UK and Square One inGermany. Rights previously went to Manga (Spain), Dutch Filmworks (Benelux), Noble(Scandinavia), Imagem (Brazil), Spenzos (Greece), CLMC ...
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Mexican wrestler Misterio to star in horror movie Wrestlemaniac
Los Angeles-based Lightning Entertainment has picked up international sales on the horror title Wrestlemaniac and will introduce the project to buyers at AFM next week.Jesse Baget wrote and makes his feature directorial debut on Wrestlemaniac, which follows a crew of amateurfilmmakers who stumble upon a hidden ghost town in Mexico ...
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Kingsley, Mortimer, McGregor to star in Number Thirteen
Ben Kingsley and Emily Mortimer have joined Dan Fogler and EwanMcGregor on Beverly Hills-based production and finance company Union SquareEntertainment's drama Number Thirteen.Chase Palmer makes his feature directorial debut on the imaginedstory of the mystery surrounding Alfred Hitchcock's lost and unfinished firstfilm, Number Thirteen.Fogler will play the young director, who ...
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Lowe promoted to vp, production, at Universal Pictures
Kristin Lowe has been promoted to vice president of production atUniversal Pictures.Lowe joined Universal Pictures in 2004 as director of developmentfollowing a stint as director of development at Warner Bros Pictures.She oversees day-to-day production on many of the studio'spictures, including the upcoming trio of Children Of Men, The Kingdom and ...
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Turin award gives funds to Argentos and Tullio Giordana
Marco Tullio Giordana and Darioand Asia Argento will be the first recipients of the $19,000 (Euros 15,000)prize Set Torino Piemonte - for actors, directors and producers working in Italy's Turin - Piedmont region.A $19,000 (Euros 15,000) prizewill be given to each of three recipients on behalf of the Film CommissionTorino ...
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Tokyo market draws more buyers but mixed reviews
The TokyoInternational Film Festival's contents market, TIFFCOM, concluded its thirdedition yesterday evening after a three-day run.Approximately 460registered buyers attended this year's market, a 30% increase over last year.They visited a combined total of 163 companies (versus 131 in 2005) throughoutthe 40th floor of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower. While domesticsellers outnumbered ...
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UK's HandMade relaunches with Sequence/IAC deal
A team of UK veterans has come together to revive the HandMadeFilms banner as a production and sales company. The new executive team of chairman Patrick Meehan and managing director David Ravdenwill now run HandMade, which was started by George Harrison in the 1970s andcontrols rights to the Eloise franchise ...
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Distributor SF Norge starts production division
SF Norge - Norway's leading distributor, a subsidiary of Swedishmajor, Svensk Filmindustri - is establishing its own production department,with the ambition to produce two features annually, and co-produce another two.The first slate is topped by the $12.8m package of six films about Norwegian privatedetective Varg Veum, which has currently shooting.Before ...
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Odeon gets rights to Fitzek's Die Therapie
Odeon Pictures hasacquired the film rights to adapt Sebastian Fitzek's bestselling psychothrillerDie Therapie, which was publishedthis July and immediately appeared in the bestseller lists.Berlin-based Fitzekwill be actively involved in the development of the screenplay and will serveas an advisor to the project from concept through to principal photography, which is ...
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Denmark's Flame And Citron gains momentum
Danish feature FlameAnd Citron has raised 75% of itsrelatively large $7.6m (45m Danish Kroner) and will head into production withdelivery set for 2008.Ole Christian Madsen willdirect the story of two colourful and important freedom fighters during WorldWar II. Lars K Andersen wrote the script.The director sees his newfilm as an ...
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Honor De Cavalleria takes Viennale Fipresci prize
Albert Serra's Honor DeCavalleria was named the winner ofthe FIPRESCI Prize at the Viennale 'for its imaginative and challengingcinematic reinvention of the classic novel Don Quixote.' The Vienna International Film Festival closedlast night with a gala screening of Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion.The Vienna Film Prize forthe best Austrian ...
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EC says it will rule on UK film tax by end of year
The European Commission has offered further clarification asto what has caused its delay in EC approval for the new UK film taxlegislation. The EC now says it is aiming to make a decision "by the endof the year." In a statement to ScreenDaily.Com yesterday, EuropeanCommission Spokesman on Competition Jonathan Todd ...