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Zhang Yimou's new film gets Oscar-qualifying run
Beijing-based NewPicture Film Co has announced that Zhang Yimou's Curse Of The GoldenFlower will be eligible to be the Chinese candidate for the bestforeign-language film category at next year's Oscars. The film will have anOscar-qualifying run in Shenyang city in Northern China for a week, starting Sept 23.The film'sofficial release ...
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FilmFour promotes Carlton to senior commissioning editor
FilmFour has promoted Peter Carlton, head of FilmFour Lab, to senior commissioning editor for FilmFour. Carlton now has increased commissioning responsibility andwill work closely with FilmFour head Tessa Ross to commissionprojects and executive produce films at a variety of budget levels. Despite movingaway from the "Lab" tag, Carlton will continue ...
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Raindance line-up includes world premiere of Ramones film
The 14th RaindanceFilm Festival will run in LondonSept 27-Oct 8 with 80 features and 150 shorts selected in what organisersdescribe as a "festival of discovery."As previously announced, thefestival opens Sept 27 with the London premiere of Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's Brothers OfThe Head, which recently won the Michael Powell ...
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French TV sales up 2.7% to $192.5m in 2005
French TV exports continuedto rise in 2005 according to a study by film board theCNC and TV France International, the country's TV exportorganisation.At TV France International'sannual Rendez Vous held inSt Tropez this week, organizers announced that for 2005 sales totalled $192.5m(Euros 150.8m) for a 2.7% increase over last year.The US ...
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Artificial Eye gets UK rights to latest from Alain Resnais
UK distributor Artificial Eye has picked up UK rights to Alain Resnais' Private Fears In Public Places, which premiered in competition in Venice and will also play in Toronto.The French-Italian co-production stars Lambert Wilson, Sabine Azema, Andre Dussollier, Laura Morante, Pierre Arditi and Isabelle Carre. Bruno Pesery produced the production ...
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Mueller says Venice needs bigger theatres and more buyers
Venice Festival directorMarco Mueller has again repeated his calls for the festival to "solve itsinfrastructural problems" and ramp up its industry facilities. "We need biggertheatres," Mueller told ScreenDaily.com as this year's festival heads into itsclosing weekend. "We need the capacity of those theatres to be bigger. We needthe autonomous sidebar ...
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Nu Image wraps Bulgarian shoot for Day Of The Dead
Director Steve Miner haswrapped production on zombie thriller DayOf The Dead, a new interpretation of George Romero's1985 horror classic, after six weeks of shooting in and around Sofia. The production usedfacilities of Nu Image's BoyanaStudios in the Bulgarian capital and other sets and locations around thecountry, including Ilientzi, where Brian ...
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Stranger Than Fiction to open 42nd Chicago festival
Marc Forster's StrangerThan Fiction will openthe 42nd Annual Chicago InternationalFilm Festival, which is running from Oct 5-19.Columbia Pictures and Mandate Pictures' comedy receivesits world premiere as a Special Presentation here tomorrow at Toronto and starsWill Ferrell as a man who hears the voice of an author inside his head anddoesn't ...
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IFC takes North America on ...So Goes The Nation
IFC Entertainment has picked up North American rights to thepolitical documentary ...So Goes The Nation, which receives its world premiere in Toronto. The film isdirected by Endgame Entertainment founder James Stern and Adam Del Deo....So Goes the Nation explores America's tumultuous electoral process and focuses onthe infamous Ohio vote count ...
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Construction finally begins on Toronto Film Studio
Construction has begun onToronto Film Studio's long-delayed mega-studio project. The first phase, to becompleted by 2008, includes a 45,000 square-foot,clear-span "mega-stage" TFS claims will be world's largest purpose-builtsoundstage, as well as six other sound stages. "Thisstage will attract blockbuster feature films costing $100m or more, like SpidermanIII or Die Hard ...
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Skoll hires former Hard Rock Cafe chief Berk as Participant CEO
Former Hard Rock Cafe International president and chief executiveofficer James Berk has joined LA-based Participant Productions as chiefexecutive officer.The appointment ends a lengthy search by Participant chairman andfounder Jeff Skoll and president Ricky Strauss to find a suitable executive toreplace Skoll as chief executive officer.Berk will assume day-to-day executive leadership ...
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Quaid, Weisz, Haden Church star in Groundswell's People
Filming is set to begin on Nov 6 in Pittsburgh on Groundswell Productions'comedy drama Smart People starring Dennis Quaid, Rachel Weisz and Thomas Haden Church.Michael London's Groundswell isproducing the project along with Bill Block's QED International and GrosvenorPark. QED's Kim Fox is handling international sales.Quaid stars as a curmudgeonly professor ...
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Beta takes on sales for German hit Hui Buh
BetaCinema has taken on the international sales for Sebastian Niemann'sfamily entertainment film Hui Buh, which has been seen by 1.8m cinema-goers since Constantin Film released it in Germany in earlyJuly.The story about the lovable, bumbling castle ghost HuiBuh, played by Michael 'Bully' Herbig of Manitou'sShoe and Dreamship Surprise fame, also ...
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The Works adopts Bragason's Children
The Works International has taken on international sales forRagnar Bragason's Icelandic feature Children. The sales company will startnegotiating for the film at the Toronto International Film Festival. Children will screen in the Zabaltegi-New Directors sectionat San Sebastian and has also beenselected for Pusan. Children is the first of two parent-and-child ...
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UK's Metropolitan Film School taps producer Jonny Persey as school director
The Metropolitan Film School, basedat London's EalingStudios, has appointed Jonny Persey as its new school director. Persey is an active film producer through APT Films,which is finishing Jerry Rothwell's documentary Deep Water. Perseypreviously produced films including WondrousOblivion and Everyone's Child. Healso has a background in education and training in London, ...
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Maja Dyekaer Giese joins Trust Film Sales as CEO
Maja Dyekaer Giese has been appointed CEO ofDenmark-based Trust Film Sales.Giese had been head of distribution andmarketing at the Danish Film Institute and previously worked as head of theatricaldistribution at Scanbox Entertainment. She will attend the Toronto InternationalFilm Festival with the Trust team, working on films including Susanne Bier's After ...
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Venice deals emerge for The Island and Falling
As theVenice Festival ends the final stretch, there has been a small flurry ofdeal-making on the Lido. Russiansales agent Intercinema has soldits competition title The Island by Pavel Longouine to Metropole Pathe for Switzerland and hasdeals pending with distributors in Mexico, Turkey, the UK and Greece for thetitle. Intercinema's Raisa ...
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Beirut Film Festival makes plans for October event
Despite last month's war in Lebanon, the organisers of the seventh Beirut InternationalFilm Festival have confirmed that their event will be going ahead from Oct 4-11.A range of international titles have already been invited including Mark Dornford-May's Son OfMan, Jafar Panahi's Offside, Cannes hit Paris Je T'Aime,and Pedro Almodovar's Volver.The ...
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Peccadillo gets UK rights to Maximo Oliveros and Beyond Hatred
Peccadillo Pictures hasacquired all UK and Irish rights to TheBlossoming of Maximo Oliverosby Auraeus Solito and Beyond Hatred by Olivier Meyrou. Both films won Teddy Awardswhen they played at the 2006 Berlinale. The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, soldby UFO, is a Filipino drama about a 12-year-old cross-dresser who strikes up ...
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UK tax credit financier Brighthaven on board for Magicians
Brighthaven, the new film financing venture formed byWaking Ned and Shooting Fish producer Richard Holmes, has agreed to board itsfirst feature film. Brighthaven will be cash-flowing thenew UK tax credit for Andrew O'Connor's Magicians,a comedy feature from the team behind the UK hit TV series Peep Show. Brighthaven was established ...