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Pieter Jan Brugge recruited for Netherlands talk
Producer/director Pieter JanBrugge will be the new guest of honour at this year's Binger - Screen International Interview at theNetherlands Film Festival on Friday. Jasmila Zbanic, who won Berlin's Golden Bear for Grbavica, had to cancel her plans to attend on doctors' orders. Dutch-born Brugge has workedin Hollywood on The ...
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First Rome Film Fest adds more studio premieres
The Rome Film Fest hasannounced the line-up for its first edition, which runs from Oct 13-21. With atotal of 12 world premieres in its two main sections, the festival line-up hasgone some way towards disproving predictions that the newborn event would becrushed in the autumn festival logjam.In addition to opening ...
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Rome unveils lineup for inaugural festival
Premiere Section Alatriste,Agustin Diaz Yanes (Spain)The Stone Council (Le Concile De Pierre), Guillaume Nicloux (France/Italy/Germany)Fur: An Imaginary Portrait OfDiane Arbus, Steven Shainberg (US)The Hoax,Lasse Hallstrom (US)N, PaoloVirzi (Italy/France/Spain)The Namesake, Mira Nair (US)The Prestige, Christopher Nolan (US)The Unknown (La Sconosciuta), Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy/France) Uno Su Due,Eugenio Cappuccio (Italy) Cinema 2006 Section ...
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Rome unveils lineup for inaugural festival
Premiere SectionAlatriste,Agustin Diaz Yanes (Spain)The Stone Council (Le Concile De Pierre),Guillaume Nicloux (France/Italy/Germany)Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of Diane Arbus,Steven Shainberg (US)The Hoax, Lasse Hallstrom (US)N, Paolo Virzi (Italy/France/Spain)The Namesake, Mira Nair (US)The Prestige, Christopher Nolan (US)The Unknown (La Sconosciuta),Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy/France) Uno Su Due, Eugenio Cappuccio (Italy)Cinema 2006 SectionA Casa ...
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Lars von Trier to shoot horror project next summer
Only hours after the worldpremiere of Lars von Trier's The Boss Of It All at the Copenhagen International Film Festivallast Thursday, the maverick director has announced his next film. Moving fromthe comedy of The Boss OfIt All, he will next tackle horror in Antichrist.The project was announced forthe first time ...
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Wenders joins Bardem's The Invisibles project
Director Wim Wenders has come on board for the new portmanteau film TheInvisibles (Los Invisibles), produced by Spanish actor Javier Bardem. In October, Wenders will travel to Congoto shoot a short film about the sexual abuse of women in that country. His isthe last of five 15-20 minute projects to ...
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LoveFilm sets up German operation
LoveFilmis continuing its European expansion. The online DVD rental company,headquartered in London, haslaunched LoveFilm Deutschland in Germany. Inestablishing the German business, LoveFilm has struck a strategic partnershipwith postal and logistics company Deutsche Post WorldNet Group.For thisinitial launch, LoveFilm will provide the website, customer and marketing supportand project management to run ...
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Cars speeds past $200m for BVI
Pixar Animation Studio's Cars has become only the sixth film released in 2006 to pass$200m at the international box office this week.The film is actually the seventh film to achieve the mark duringthe year and third for distributor Buena Vista International (BVI), as Decemberholdover, The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, ...
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Japanese actor Tetsuro Tamba dies aged 84
Tetsuro Tamba, one of Japan's most famous and prolific actors, died of pneumonialate September 24 at the age of 84. Born in Tokyo in 1922, Tamba became a translator for alliedoccupation forces after Japan was defeated in WWII. He made his film debut in 1952,going on to appear in over ...
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Demme to make doc about Carter's book on Middle East
Jonathan Demme is preparing a documentary about Jimmy Carter'sbook Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, thedirector said at the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept21-30) this week."I'm going to do a documentary film starting in aboutsix weeks with the former United States president Jimmy Carter, who has a newbook coming out," Demme ...
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AFI launches international cultural exchange programme
The AmericanFilm Institute (AFI) has launched the international cultural exchange andcollaboration programme AFI Project 20/20.Up to20 American and international filmmakers who have films screening at thisyear's AFI Fest will be announced as participants during the festival, whichruns in Los Angeles from Nov 1-12.AFIProject 20/20 will invite select filmmakers to tour ...
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Monaco's Zimand opens office in Los Angeles to develop feature slate
HenriZimand's Monaco-based international production company Zimand Entertainment hasopened a second office in Los Angeles top focus on a slate of feature films.Developmentand production executive Kate McArdle will head the office and is charged withsourcing screenplays and seeing them through development and production.McArdle most recently produced Robert Greenwald's Outfoxed and Uncovered.Zimandrecently ...
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First symposium on animation and FX to take place in New Zealand
Theinaugural international symposium on animation and visual effects AnimfxNZ isset to take place In Wellington, New Zealand, from Nov 4-5.Presidentof Warner Bros' feature animation division Sander Schwartz and Over TheHedge director Tim Johnson will give thekeynote addresses at the event, which includes panel events and networking sessions.'Wewere thrilled to be ...
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Nominations announced for third Hollywood World Award
ScreenInternational and The Hollywood Film Festival have named the ten nominationsfor this year's Hollywood World Award.Apanel of international judges voted for the award, now in its third year, whichwill be presented to the best film in world cinema at the annual HollywoodAwards ceremony in Beverly Hills on Oct 23.Theshortlist is ...
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Rang De Basanti is India's Oscar submission
Rakeysh Mehra's Rang De Basanti has been selected by the Film Federation Of India asIndia's official entry to the foreign language category of the Academy Awards.A jury member said they voted on Mehra's film about youthawakening because "we felt that Rang De Basanti is more Indian and talks about today's ...
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Myriad closes sales on Beethoven with Hopscotch, Nexo
Myriad Pictures has closed further sales on Agnieszka Holland'sdrama Copying Beethoven starring Ed Harris following its world premiere at Toronto.The Los Angeles-based company has sold rights to Hopscotch inAustralia and Nexo in Italy. The picture has virtually sold out worldwide, andonly the UK, France and Scandinavia remain available.Myriad previously concluded ...
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Bertram named president of business operations for PHEW
SteveBertram has been appointed president of business operations for Paramount HomeEntertainment Worldwide.Bertramwill report directly to Kelley Avery, president of worldwide home entertainmentfor the Paramount Motion Picture Group, and will take charge of businessaffairs, finance, operations, acquisitions and business development.Hewill also work with the heads of domestic and international to expand ...
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Lionsgate gets worldwide to Fox's Beyond The Sky
Lionsgatehas picked up worldwide rights excluding Mexico to Javier Patron Fox'sdirectorial debut Beyond The Sky (FueraDel Cielo).Thisis the company's second worldwide acquisition following the Spanish-languagedrama La Mujer De Mi Hermano under itsdeal with Panamax Films to develop and produce pictures targeting Latino audiences.Mexicanfilmmaker Fox's crime drama is set in Mexico ...
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Imax taps Peter Eiff as GM for EMEA
Imax Corp. has appointed PeterEiff to general manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Eiffwill relocate from Los Angeles to Berlin before the end of 2006. Eiff joins Imax from consultingfirm International Film Finance Services. He has previously worked atLucasfilm, Paramount, New Regency Productions and Buena VistaInternational. 'Peter's thoroughunderstanding ...
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Thailand selects Invisible Waves as Oscar entry
Thailand has chosen Pen-ek Ratanaruang's noir thriller Invisible Waves as its official entryfor the best foreign-language film category of the 2007 Academy Awards.The meeting of the selectioncommittee was postponed from last Wednesday as a result of the military coupthat put Thailand under martial law the night before. The selection committee ...