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Hong Kong's Focus Films picks up Malaysian duo
Hong Kong's Focus Films hastaken on the international sales rights to two Malaysian films - Tan Chui Mui'sdebut feature Love Conquers All and Yasmin Ahmad's latest film Mukhsin. Both films are currentlyplaying in the Winds of Asia section of the Tokyo International Film Festival. Love Conquers All, which won ...
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Rome riches go to Russia's Playing The Victim
Russian drama Playing TheVictim (Izobrajaya Zhertvy) wasawarded the top Marco Aurelio prize at the Rome Film Fest's first editiontoday. The prize (awarded by a juryof fifty 50 Roman filmgoers led by Ettore Scola) includes a large cash prize of$252,310 (Euros 200,000), which was awarded to the film's director KirillSerebrennikov. Playing ...
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Academy Foundation gives $290,000 to US-based film festivals
The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts andSciences has allocated $290,000 in grants among 27 US festivals for calendaryear 2007.Separately three festivals - the Los Angeles Film Festival, theSan Francisco International Film Festival and Telluride Ð have received $50,000each under a multi-year grant programme to fund long-term ...
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Pacino to receive AFI's 35th Life Achievement Award
Al Pacino will receive the 35th AFI Life Achievement Award at agala tribute in Los Angeles on Jun 7, 2007."Al Pacino is an icon of American film," HowardStringer, chair of the AFI board of trustees, said. "He has created someof the great characters in the movies Ð from Michael Corleone ...
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IFC Films goes AMERICANese
IFC Entertainment has taken all North American rights to EricByler's AMERICANese,and will release the relationship drama through IFC First Take in 2007.Byler wrote and directed the feature, which receives itsEast Coast premiere this weekend at the Hamptons International Film Festivaland earlier this year won the audience award for best narrative ...
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Santa Barbara festival names Will Smith a Modern Master
Will Smith will receive the 2007 Santa Barbara International FilmFestival's Modern Master Award.Smith stars in this season's upcoming drama The Pursuit OfHappyness and hiscredits include Men In Black, I Robot, Independence Day, and Hitch.Previous recipients of the award include Michael Douglas,Peter Jackson, Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Penn, Jeff Bridges, ...
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Industry finds first Rome Film Fest unique from Venice
As the Rome Film Festprepares to wrap its first edition on Saturday, the fears that it could not co-exist with Venice seem to have dissipated. .Although, of course, there remainsthe contentious issue of Rome's datesto be settled. Gaettano Blandini, General Director of Cinema at Italy's Culture Ministry told ScreenDaily.com the ...
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Fortissimo boards world sales for No Regret
Fortissimo Films has pickedup worldwide sales rights outside Korea to No Regret from DCG+ and Generation Blue Films.New film-maker LeesongHee-Il's film deals with the romance between a male escort and a man from highsociety, played by Lee Han and Lee Young-Hoon.Yoonhee Choi, managingdirector of Korean sales company Film Messenger, on ...
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New fees and passes planned for Berlin market
The organisers of nextyear's European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin (Feb 8-18, 2007) will now be offering film professionals three waysof attending the market.As EFM deputy director KarenArikian told ScreenDaily.com, the EFMwill have "alternatives which were not in place before. For example, forthe first time, we are offering EFM attendees ...
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UK Film Council gives P&A support to Volver
The UK Film Council hasannounced the latest funding recipients from its Prints and Advertising(P&A) Fund. The latest distributors andfilms supported include:$470,500 (£250,000) to Pathefor Pedro Almodovar's Volver $297,363 (£158,000) toOptimum Releasing for Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth$282,367 (£150,000) to Iconfor Michele Placido's Romanzo Criminale$200,254 (£106,380) to UIPfor ...
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David Lean classics to be restored by 2008
The BFI National Archive andGranada International have announced a new plan to restore and preserve eightclassics by David Lean before 2008, the centenary of his birth.The David Lean Foundationhas funded the initiative, which will preserve In Which We Serve (1942), ThisHappy Breed (1944), Blithe Spirit(1945), Brief Encounter (1945), Great Expectations ...
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61 films submitted for foreign language Academy Award
A record 61 countries have submitted films for consideration inthe foreign language film category for the 79th Academy Awards.As previously reported, Finland had submitted Aki Kaurismaki's LightsIn The Dusk, which thedirector subsequently said he wanted to withdraw, claiming his permission tosubmit was not sought. At time of going to press ...
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Sega to adapt two games into animated features
Sega Sammy Group Holdingsand subsidiary TMS Entertainment Co have announced plans to adapt two of itsmost popular game franchises into animated theatrical feature films to bereleased next spring.Osharemajo Love And Berry and Kabutomushi:Oja Mushiking are two of Japan's best selling card and video games for girls andboys respectively. Both games ...
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EFP again hosts umbrella office at AFM
European Film Promotion isfor the ninth year running an umbrella office for European sales companies atthe American Film Market (Nov 1-8).This year, the EFP office(Loews room 504) will host 16 industry professionals from eight countries. Participating companies are:Austria's EastWest, Belgium's PPA - Walter Ertvelt and Banana Films, the CzechRepublic's Simply ...
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Love Conquers All, Betelnut take top Pusan prizes
Malaysian drama Love Conquers All, directed by Tan ChuiMui, and Chinese director Heng Yang's Betelnutwere jointly awarded Best New Asian Filmmaker of the Year at the PusanInternational Film Festival (PIFF) on Friday night (Oct 20). The $30,000 award ispresented to the best film in New Currents, which is the only ...
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Alliance Atlantis puts MPD on the block
Alliance Atlantis Communications has hung a for sale sign onits majority-owned releasing arm, Motion Picture Distribution (MPD). The decision, announced today, to "explore ownershipalternatives" comes after months of speculation and much internal acrimony. InJuly of this year MPD chairman Victor Loewy and two senior MPD executivesabruptly left the company amidst ...
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Summit calls for UK business shake-up alongside tax breaks
The annual Screen International UK Film Finance Summit heard calls for a quick resolution to the current delay in ratification of the planned new tax law.But the clear message from a distinguished series of panellists was that the industry needed to improve its commercial skills and adapt to customer-driven change, ...
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PIFF to expand to LA, launch TV channel
The Pusan International FilmFestival is collaborating with JoongAng Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) to setup a Los Angeles edition of the festival and also launch aPIFF-branded cable channel in South Korea. The two partners, along withthe JoongAng group's LA-based newspaper KoreaDaily, plan to hold the first edition of the tentatively titled "PIFF ...
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Children Of Men multiplies in four major territories
Fox International's overseas champion The Devil Wears Prada stands a chance of crossing $100m thisweekend as it launches in four territories.The comedy has amassed $83.5m and goes out in smallermarkers this weekend including Sweden on Oct 20. Decent holds in previouslyopened territories should account for another strong weekend haul.Little Miss ...
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New York Film Critics Circle welcomes four new members
VA Musetto and Kyle Smith from The New York Post, and David Fearand Joshua Rothkopf from Time Out New York have been invited to join the NewYork Film Critics Circle (NYFCC).The organisation has also voted Stephen Whitty from the StarLedger and Newhouse News as vice-chairman. He will replace Marshall Fine ...