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Onoma takes on sales for Ferenc Torok's Overnight
French sales company Onoma International has taken on the world sales forHungarian filmmaker Ferenc Torok'snew film Overnight.The project has been shooting in Budapest since July 14 and will be moving to Germany on Aug 30 before a final stage of shooting in Bombay.Overnightis the final film in Torok's trilogy about ...
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Beta Cinema on board for Quinn's 32A
Germany's BetaCinema has taken on world sales for Marian Quinn's bittersweet comedy 32A which is now in principalphotography in Ireland. The film, about 13-year-old girls in 1979 Dublin, starsthe director's brother Aidan Quinn along with Ailish McCarthy, Orla Brady,Jared Harris, Sophie Jo Wasson, Orla Long and Riona Smith.The$1.9m (Euros 1.5m) ...
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New outfit Diffusion takes UK rights to Mutual Appreciation
New UK distributor Diffusion Pictures hasacquired all UK rights to director Andrew Bujalski's first two films, Mutual Appreciation and FunnyHa Ha. Diffusion struckthe deal with US-based Goodbye Cruel Releasing and FilmFour/Channel4 International at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where Mutual Appreciation is playing.The films havealso been sold to New Star ...
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Wide Blue Yonder finds funding at first Nordic Co-Production Forum
UK producer John Cairns of Parkland Films left theNorwegian Film Festival in Haugesund yesterday with his new feature, Wide Blue Yonder, fully financed, havingrecruited Stavanger's Sydvest Film as Norwegian co-producer at the first NordicCo-Production Forum.Cairns was one of the ten UK independent producers,pitching new feature film projects to potential co-producers ...
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Sony breaks $1bn international gross mark in record time
Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI) has announced that it passed $1bn in grosses today(Aug 24)- a record time for the company. The previous record for the studio wasSept 8, 2002, when the company went on to take $1.3bn in international grosses.So far in 2006, the companyhas taken $2.1bn in worldwide grosses ...
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TIFF Group sets ground-breaking for new centre in 2007
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival Group says it will break ground on its proposed headquarters inthe first quarter of 2007 towards an opening in the second quarter of 2009. Construction of FestivalCentre, as it is dubbed, was announced in April 2003 and was originally plannedto begin in 2005 - and be ...
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Harness wins UK Film Council's 25 Words Or Less scheme
Writer Peter Harness and hispitch The Bone Family has won the"Director's Cut" competition for the UK Film CouncilDevelopment Fund's 25 Words Or Less scheme. Harness is now working with Intermission director John Crowley todevelop the script, about a man cursed with freezing the women he falls in lovewith.Other 25 Words ...
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PHEI makes series of senior appointments and promotions
Paramount Home EntertainmentInternational (PHEI) has made a series of promotions and appointments in itsinternational management team to reflect the integration of DreamWorks into thecompany, among other factors.The appointments wereannounced by Kelley Avery, president of worldwide home entertainment atParamount Pictures.Don Hunton, currently seniorvice president of the Asia Pacific business adds the ...
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Regent takes worldwide rights to Aurora Borealis
Regent Releasing hasacquired worldwide rights to James Burke's family drama Aurora Borealis and will release it domestically on Sept 15.The film, which stars JoshuaJackson, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis and Louise Fletcher, has played atnumerous film festivals throughout the US including Tribeca, Jackson Hole andFort Lauderdale.Jackson plays an aimlessyoung man who ...
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Beautiful Dreamer to open Temecula Valley Film festival
Terri Farley's romanticdrama Beautiful Dreamer will openthe 2006 Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival on Sept 13.The festival, which runs Sept 13 to 17, will also screen the short West BankStory on opening night, a musicalcomedy about an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian girl torn between their lovefor each ...
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Cholera cast beefs up with Leguizamo, Montenegro
John Leguizamo, HectorElizondo and Fernanda Montenegro have joined the cast of Mike Newell's film ofGabriel Garcia Marquez's novel Love In The Time Of Cholera which is set to start shooting on Sept 4 inCartegena, Colombia and London.They join Javier Bardem,Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Benjamin Bratt in the film which has been ...
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Fox's History Boys to have royal world premiere in London
Nicholas Hytner's upcomingfilm of Alan Bennett's stage phenomenon The History Boys will have its world premiere in London in thepresence of the Prince Of Wales and the Duchess Of Cornwall on Oct 2. Thepremiere will be held in aid of The Prince's Trust.The cast of the play, whichalso appears in ...
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Celluloid picks up Maddin's Toronto premiere Brand
Celluloid Dreams hasacquired international sales rights to Guy Maddin's upcoming Toronto title BrandUpon The Brain! The film will besold through Celluloid Nightmares, the company's genre label.The silent feature willscreen at TIFF as a Special Presentation with live orchestral accompaniment aswell as on-stage foley artists, a narrator and a castrato. It ...
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Saari's Kasting wins horror short competition
Aloysha Saari'sKasting haswon the Zone Horror CUT! short film competition.London-based Aloysha wins $9460 (£5000) and gets aspecial screening Aug 26 with nine other CUT! finalists at the Zone Horror FrightFest. The two-minute film's budget was only £100. It stars Monica Bertei as an actress auditioning for a part that could ...
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Von Sychowski joins London's Deluxe Laboratories
Patrickvon Sychowski has joined Deluxe Laboratories in London as director of digital business development.Hehad been of director of business development at Unique Digital Ltd., and priorto that was a senior analyst at Screen Digest.VonSychowski will complete the creation of DeluxeDigital Cinema's London office, liaise with distributors and exhibitors, createnew business ...
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Oli Harbottle joins UK distributor Dogwoof
UK distributor Dogwoof Pictures has expanded itsteam with the appointment of Oli Harbottleas release co-ordinator. Harbottle previously spent several years producing the Raindance Film Festival.Dogwoof managing director Andy Whittaker said the company was 'delighted that Oli has joined the DogwoofPictures team, ...
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TWC, IFC Films reteam to import Indigenes
The Weinstein Company andIFC Films are reteaming to co-distribute Rachid Bouchareb's Indigenes aka Days Of Glory in North America. The film played in competition atCannes this year and won the best actor award for male ensemble cast. It willhave its North American premiere at Toronto next month.The film takes place ...
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Verhoeven's Black Book selected as Dutch Oscar entry
PaulVerhoeven's long-awaited Black Book has been named as the official Netherlands entry for the Best ForeignLanguage Film Academy Award.The filmwill have its world premiere Sept 1 at the 63rd Venice FilmFestival, where it is screening in competition.The$21.8m (£17m) wartime thriller is the most expensive predominantly Dutch-languageproduction ever made and tells ...
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New competition launched for UK screenwriters
A new script competition hasbeen launched for emerging young UK writers. The Make Your Mark in Film With CobraVision is connected to EnterpriseInsight's Make Your Mark programme and Cobra Beer's short film competition CobraVision.The winner, working with ascript of the theme of "having an idea and making it happen" will ...
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Kim Ki-duk stirs controversy in Korean film world
Maverick Koreandirector Kim Ki-duk, known internationally for filmsincluding 3-Iron, Samaritan Girl and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring,has renounced all his previous films as "trash" saying he will leave the Koreanfilm world after a public brouhaha started on a television debate program. On Aug 18, whileappearing on an MBC TV ...