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Berlin to launch $3.8m fund for regional films
The city ofBerlin is to launch a $3.8m (Euros 3m)Bank Fund to support the production and distribution of film productions fromthe region from 2007.Berlin's Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit announced the new initiative at the beginning ofthis week's Medienforum Berlin-Brandenburg,explaining that the fund would be financed by the city of Berlin ...
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Black Dahlia gets enthusiastic response in Venice
Brian De Palma's James Ellroy adaptation TheBlack Dahlia yesterday received a mixed but largely enthusiastic receptionas it opened the 63rd Venice Festival yesterday. Maverick crime novelist Ellroy himself - who attended the opening press conferencealongside stars Scarlett Johansson, Josh Hartnett,Aaron Eckhart, Mia Kirchner and director De Palma -was clearly delighted ...
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TPS and Canal Plus cleared for merger
France'sFinance ministry has authorized the merger of rival satellite platforms TPS andCanal Plus, Canal parent company Vivendi said in astatement Thursday morning.The merger between France'sbiggest pay-TV operators will create a new group in which Vivendiwill take an 85% share while TPS owners TF1 and M6 will each get 9.9% and ...
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Peter Jackson, Universal to remake Dambusters
Peter Jackson and hisWingNut Films have revealed plans to make a new film based on the book TheDam Busters by Paul Brickhill andthe classic 1954 British war film of the same name.Jackson will produce andChristian Rivers, who has worked with Jackson for over 17 years most recentlyas animation director on ...
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German box office up 8.9% over first half of 2005
Despite Germany's hosting ofthe World Cup and sweltering temperatures from late May, German cinemas havereported marked increases in box-office takings and admissions for the firsthalf of 2006 over the same period last year, according to figures collated bythe German Federal Film Board (FFA).The FFA reported that box-office takings had increased ...
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One Eyed Films boards production of new Marins film
The UK-based company OneEyed Films, which specialises in Latin American films, has come on board as oneof the producers of Embodiment Of Evil, a horror film to be directed by Brazilian cultfigure Jose Mojica Marins,who has made more than 40 films. The other producers are Olhosde Cao, Gullane Filmes and ...
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Venice opens with more talk of Rome rivalry
As the 63rd VeniceFilm Festival opened yesterday with the world premiere of Brian De Palma's TheBlack Dahlia, the rumbling row about what impact the upstart new Rome Festival(due to be held for the first time in October) will have on Venice's long-termfuture showed no sign of dissipating."We are in Venice.Let's ...
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Korean Screen Quota Action Alliance to hold Venice campaign
The Korean Screen QuotaAction Alliance has announced it is holding a campaign at the 63rd Venice FilmFestival, which started yesterday, to protest against the screen quotareduction.Director Ryoo Seung-wan,whose The City Of Violence isscreening out-of-competition at the festival, will spearhead the campaign witha solo protest on Sep 1, with other protests ...
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Norway's Bawke wins top prize at Palm Springs ShortFest
Hisham Zaman's Norwegian entry Bawke won the 2006 Palm Springs InternationalFestival of Short Films & Short Film Market (ShortFest)'s Best of FestivalAward on Aug 29. In other jury awards, The Best Live Action Under 15 Minutes prizewent to Sophie Barthes' US festival favourite Happiness, while Jens Assur's Swedish picture TheLast ...
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Korean-US co-production Never Forever wraps in NYC
New York-based Vox3 Films co-founder Andrew Fierberg and LeeJoon-Dong of Now Films have completed principal photography on Gina Kim'sromance Never Forever.Set in New York City, the US-Korean co-production follows theaffair between a Korean immigrant and a frustrated Caucasian housewife. Vera Farmiga, Korean star Ha Jung-Woo, and David McInnis head thecast ...
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THINKFilm takes on Kasdan's The TV Set
THINKFilm has acquired all North American rights to Jake Kasdan'scomedy The TV Set andplans a spring 2007 release.The picture, which premiered at Tribeca this year, centres on thetrials and tribulations of the idealistic writer of a TV pilot. David Duchovny,Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Bateman and Judy Greer star.Kasdan produced ...
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Greenaway to start Nightwatching shoot next week
Peter Greenaway'sNightwatching,about Rembrandt's most famous painting, will start shooting in location in Poland and Wales from Sept 4. Martin Freeman, known forhis roles in The Office and The Hitchhiker's Guide ToThe Galaxy, will play Rembrandt, and the supporting cast includesEva Birthistle, Jodhi May,Emily Holmes and Natalie Press. The film follows ...
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Bosnia puts forward Grbavica for foreign-language Oscar
Jasmila Zbanic's GoldenBear-winning feature debut Grbavica has been selected by Bosnia and Herzegovina as its official submission for the Foreign LanguageFilm category at the forthcoming Academy Awards.The co-production between Austria's coop99 Filmproduktion, Zbanic's own company Deblokada Filmproduction, Germany's Noirfilm Filmproduktion,and Croatia's Jadran Film has alreadybeen sold to more than 45 ...
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Pan Europeenne Edition renamed Wild Bunch Distribution
The distribution arm of French sales and financing outfit Wild Bunch,Pan Europeenne Edition, has been re-baptized Wild BunchDistribution the company announced.Wild Bunch took an interest in Pan Europeenne, adistribution and production house run by Philippe Godeau, in 2004.Executives at the newly christened Wild Bunch Distribution remain inplace with the company ...
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Match Factory takes on Half Moon and Takva
Germansales company The Match Factory will handle international sales onKurdish-Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi'slatest feature Half Moon and Turkishdirector Ozer Kiziltan's Takva - A Man's Fear Of God which are bothhaving their world premieres at the forthcoming Toronto International FilmFestival. Ghobadi's film, which is produced by his own companyMIJ Films with ...
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Gale Force 10 to premiere on eve of Flanders festival
Gale Force 10, the new Flemish film by Hans Herbots, willhave its world premiere on October 6 on the eve of the Flanders InternationalFilm Festival in Ghent.Gale Force 10 is the official opening film of the Festival Previews section. The festivalwill also host an official competition opening on Oct 11, ...
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ASC sets annual awards for Feb 18, 2007
The 21st Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awardsfor Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography will take place on Feb 18 2007 inLos Angeles.'Our members established this annual celebration in 1986 forthe purpose of recognising and inspiring the pursuit of excellence in the artand craft of cinematography,' ASC chairman of the ASC's ...
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Goldwyn, Roadside to handle US on Amazing Grace
Samuel Goldwyn Films and Roadside Attractions will jointlydistribute the Toronto International Film Festival's closing night film AmazingGrace in the US.The Bristol Bay Productions' feature is directed by Michael Aptedand stars Ioan Gruffudd as the anti-slavery champion William Wilberforce.The cast includes Romola Garai, Rufus Sewell, BenedictCumberbatch, Youssou N'Dour, Ciaran Hinds, Michael ...
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Burstyn takes the lead in Skogland's Stone Angel
Writer-director KariSkogland has begun principal photography on her feature The Stone Angel with Academy Award-winner Ellen Burstyn in the lead.Based on the novel by thelate Margaret Laurence -- a staple of modern Canadian literature - thefilm will be distributed in Canada by Odeon Films with world sales through IACFilm/Sequence Film. ...
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First wave of Blu-ray releases announced in Japan
Sony, Matsushita and majorhome video companies have announced that consumer-priced Blu-ray disc playersand 75 movie titles will be released in Japan this November.The discs will sell at arange of prices under $42.78 (Y5,000) which is slightly more than standard DVDreleases. The initial releases coincide with Sony's debut of the PlayStation ...