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Nina's Heavenly Delights to close LA Fusion festival
Ray Yeung's comedy Cut Sleeve Boys and Ashish Sawhny's documentary HappyHookers are among theline-up of the 4th Annual Fusion: the Los Angeles LGBT People of Color FilmFestival.The event will kick off with a selection of international shortsand closes with the US Premiere of Pratibha Parmar's romantic comedy Nina'sHeavenly Delights.The festivalincludes ...
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Matt Williams launches film development fund Wind Dancer
Matt Williams, who produced What Women Want and created the hit TV show Roseanne, has launched the feature developmentcompany Wind Dancer Films.Backed by private equity investors through a deal brokered byMerrill Lynch, Wind Dancer Films will develop 12 to 15 features in the $15m to$30m range over the next three ...
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MarVista moves into theatrical with Sasquatch Dumpling Gang
Los Angeles-based TV programming production and distribution houseMarVista Entertainment is moving into the theatrical arena with the acquisitionof all international rights excluding the UK and Canada to The SasquatchDumpling Gang.MarVista will introduce the project to buyers at AFM inSanta Monica next month. Company president Michael Jacobs said the venture wasthe ...
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Japan still on outer edge of pan-Asian market
Japan may be Asia's largest box office territory, and currently one ofthe region's most active producers, but it's still only a peripheral player inthe developing pan-Asian market, according to speakers at a TIFFCOM seminar onTuesday. Reliance on a huge domesticmarket, language barriers, cultural differences and historical antipathies haveall contributed to ...
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EFP's Shooting Stars head to Seville
European Film Promotion willbring its touring Shooting Stars programme to Spain's Sevilla Festival de Cine (Nov3-11) for the second year.A group of eight of the 21European Shooting Stars (first presented at the Berlinale) will come to Sevilleto present their film and meet local press and audiences. The participants are:Hungary's Gabriella ...
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Lightning takes on psychological thriller Killing Floor
Los Angeles-based Lightning Entertainment has picked upinternational sales on recently completed psychological thriller The KillingFloor.Lightning will commence sales at AFM on the picture, which countsAvi Arad and Doug Liman as executive producers and was produced by EdenWurmfeld.Gideon Raff wrote and directed the story set in the Manhattanpublishing world where a ...
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Kinowelt acquires producer/distributor Pegasos
After acquiring amajority stake in the license trader Intertainment earlier this year, theKinowelt Group has now continued its expansion by taking over the Cologne-baseddistributor-producer Pegasos Filmverleih und Produktion.In the deal signedin Leipzig on the eve of this year's Hof Film Days, Kinowelt has committed tocontinuing Pegasos' business exploiting rights to ...
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Fortissimo takes on sales for Children Of Glory
Fortissimo Films has pickedup worldwide rights to the Andy Vajna-produced Children Of Glory, an action-drama setagainst the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The film premiered in its home territorythis week during fraught celebrations of the uprising's 50th anniversary.Previously, Fortissimo'sco-managing director Michael Werner had signed on as sales and marketingconsultant on the film. ...
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Dodona predicts half of US cinemas will be digital by 2011
Half of US cinemascreens will be Digital Cinema Initiative-compliant by 2011, according to a newreport from industry analysts Dodona Research. "The publication ofthe DCI Digital Cinema Systems specification haskickstarted the transition to digital in the United States," Dodona said. "The cost of digital cinema systemsis falling and leading circuits are ...
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Documentary programme Greenhouse Project revived
The Greenhouse Project is back in action. Thetraining program for the development of feature-length documentaries, whichlaid dormant for the best part of the last ten months, is now registeringcandidates for its first round of seminars, to take place in January 2007 in Istanbul. Targeting East Mediterranean territories, the programmeexpects candidates ...
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Vittorio Cecchi Gori's Finmavi declared bankrupt
In yet another blow toItalian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori's long-avowed comeback - Finmavi -Cecchi Gori's financial holding company for his media group - has been declaredbankrupt by the Rome bankruptcy court, a press release issued by theCecchi Gori Group said late Monday.Cecchi Gori vowed to battlethe decision: 'I will ...
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Wenders and Tykwer to celebrate 40th Hof Film Days
WimWenders, Tom Tykwer and Aki Kaurismaki will be among the film-makerscelebrating the 40th anniversary of the Hof Film Days, which opens today with MarcusH. Rosenmueller's comedy Schwere Jungs.WhileWenders and Tykwer will be coming to Hof for screenings of their films Paris, Texas and Deadly Maria (DieToedliche Maria) as part of ...
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Korean Ministry of Culture announces support plan
In a follow-up to thesupport plan announced by South Korea's Ministry of Culture and Tourism in January, ministerKim Myong-gon announced the Film Industry Mid-to-Long-term Development Plan onMonday (Oct 23).Speaking at a joint pressconference between the Ministry and ruling Uri Party's Special Committee forKorean Film Development, Kim outlined the plan which ...
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Donner, Juonifilmi on board for The Border
Oscar-winning Finnishproducer Jorn Donner will return to filmmaking after a six-year hiatus, asproducer of Lauri Torhonen's The Border, which marks the first feature from productioncompany Juonifilmi. Scripted by Aleksi Bardy, The Border is based on the real-lifestory of Donner's father, which Donner told Torhonen as they collaborated onthe 1986 film ...
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Perhaps Love leads the pack in Golden Horse race
The nominations for the 43rd Golden Horse Awards for Chinese-language cinema were announced today in Taipei. Titles competing for Best Feature Film are Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile, Ning Hao's Crazy Stone, Johnnie To's Exiled, Peter Chan's Perhaps Love and Su Chao-pin's Silk.Musical Perhaps Love dominates the race to ...
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Germany's FFA backs next Glawogger film
New feature films fromAustria's Michael Glawogger, theatre/film director Leander Hausmann and the directorialduo Marcus Mittermeier and Jan Henrik Stahlberg are among seven projectsawarded a total of $2.8m (Euros 2.25m) production support by the German FederalFilm Board (FFA).Glawogger received $313,937(Euros 250,000) for Contact High, thesequel to his comedy Nacktschnecken, which will ...
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EFA documentary nominees Groening and Hopkins
The European Film Academy hasannounced the nominees for this year's Prix Arte for documentary film. The eight nominees are:37 Uses For A Dead Sheep by BenHopkins (UK)Into Great Silence (Die Grosse Stille)by Philip Groening (Germany)Dreaming By Numbers by Anna Bucchetti(The Netherlands)Grandmother's House (La Casa De MiAbuela) by Adan Aliaga (Spain)Maradona, ...
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UK's AAM adds downloads-to-own from Sony
Following on their VOD deal announced in August, Arts Alliance Media (AAM) and Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) have struck anagreement for downloads-to-own. Starting today, AAM's partner sites LoveFilm and AOL UK will offer UK-only downloads-to-own of select Sony Pictures films.The initial 40 films onoffer include The Da Vinci Code, ...
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Flanders Fest awards top prize to Ten Canoes
The Flanders InternationalFilm Festival closed its 33rd edition with its top award going to Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer and PeterDjigirr. The grand prize for bestfilm came with a $25,116 (Euros 20,000) award to help with distribution costsin Flanders and Brussels. Producer Jan Harlan chairedthe jury, which also included ...
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Berlinale gets cooking with new culinary cinema sidebar
Berlinale festivaldirector Dieter Kosslick is introducing a new film programme of features,documentaries and shorts entitled Look & Cook - Culinary Cinema at the 2007festival. Held at the Wintergartenvariete theatre ten minutes away from Potsdamer Platz, the programme will includescreenings complemented by discussions and tastings as top German chefs will beinvited ...