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Brisk sales continue for Golden Bear winner Grbavica
Michael Weber's salesoutfit The Match Factory has closed a raft of deals for Jasmila Zbanic's GoldenBear winning Bosnian drama Grbavica in addition to previous sales to Germany, Switzerland and Italy.TheAustrian-Bosnian-German-Croatian co-production has now been picked up by Golem(Spain), Cinemien (Benelux), Kinoswiat(Poland), Ost for Paradis(Denmark), Budapest Film (Hungary), Folkets Bio(Sweden), Providence ...
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Dardenne brothers' The Child to open Sofia Film Festival
The Dardenne brothers' Golden Palm winner The Child will open the 10th anniversary edition of the SofiaInternational Film Festival (SIFF) on March 9.Among theinternational filmmakers expected in the Bulgarian capital between March 9-19are Bent Hamer (Factotum),Craig Lucas (The Dying Gaul) Alexey Fedorchenko (First On The Moon), Volker Schloendorff (The TinDrum), ...
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Cast lines up for Vaughn's Stardust
Robert De Niro,Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, and Sienna Miller have joined the cast of Matthew Vaughn's Stardust. The fantasy love story is about a young man(Cox) travelling into a magical world to win the heart of his beloved (Miller).Vaughn wrote the script with Jane Goldman, based on Gaiman's1997 ...
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Woody Allen to shoot his next film in Paris
Woody Allenwill begin production on his latest film in Paris this summer. Titled The Woody Allen Summer Project 2006, the film marks the thirdconsecutive time the director has chosen to shoot in Europe following his two latest outings inLondon, Match Point and Scoop. Continuing his love affair with Europe, in ...
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Papal biopic grosses more than $1m in Poland
A biopic of Pope John Paul II has become a smash hit in Poland - the place of his birth - one month ahead of the firstanniversary of his death. The film, Pope John Paul II (Jan PawelII), opened top of the Polish chart last weekend (March 3-5) grossing over$1m ...
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Intel, Cinequest strike distribution, content alliance
California-based technologyoutfit Intel Corp and Northern California-based film institute Cinequest havestruck a content and distribution alliance.Users of Intel's Viivintegrated home entertainment platform will be able to access independent andinternational content gathered by San Jose-based Cinequest.Cinequest will providetitles that have not been released in North America but have played at its ...
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Warner, Weinsteins divvy up distribution rights on Ninja Turtles
Warner Bros will overseedomestic distribution and The Weinstein Company (TWC) will handle internationalon Imagi Services' upcoming CGI-animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles feature.The companies jointlyacquired the project and have announced a Mar 30 2007 North American releasedate.Imagi's Kevin Munroe willdirect from his own screenplay that was developed in consultation with Turtlesco-creator ...
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Krisztina Goda begins shooting Children of Glory
Hungariandirector Krisztina Goda beganprincipal photography March 5 on Childrenof Glory, a Hungarian-UK co-production based on a script by Joe Eszterhas and produced by Andy Vajna."Thisis an epic movie portraying the heroic efforts of the Hungarian people to tryto break the chains of their Communist occupiers and thereby influence thehistory of ...
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Parisian shorts to open Un Certain Regard at Cannes
TheCannes Film Festival has announced it will open the Un Certain Regard sidebar with the collection of shorts entitled ParisJe T'Aime.Paris Je T'Aime, produced by Claudie Ossard (of Amelie fame) and Emmanuel Benbihy,is a series of 20 short films shot by renowned international directors in eachof the capital city's 20 ...
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Bauer Martinez's Crash Bandits delays Thailand shoot
Bauer Martinez's Crash Bandits has pushed back filming in Thailand to January 2007 to allow for longer pre-production time, according to government agency Thailand Film Office. The John McTiernan-directed big-budget action adventure feature was originally scheduled for a three-month shoot in southern Thailand from mid-February through local fixer Kantana.The project ...
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UK distributors spend more than $523m on P&A
UK distributors spent more than $523m (£300m) on prints and advertising last year, according to figures released by the UK-based Film Distributors’ Association (FDA).The FDA Yearbook, using research from Nielsen Media Research, shows film prints and trailers in2005 cost UK distributors $221.5m, up 2% from 2004, while media advertising spend ...
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FACT adds more information to website
The UK's Federation Against CopyrightTheft (FACT) has re-launched its website with more emphasis on newsand information for the media as well as updates on currentlegislation related to film piracy and a web-based form for consumers to reportpirate activities."Thenew FACT website addresses consumers, journalists and law enforcement and wesee it as ...
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Wim Wenders closes Belgrade Film Festival (FEST)
The BelgradeInternational Film Festival, this year subtitled FEST Forward, was closed on March 5 by special guest Wim Wenders with a screening of his Don't Come Knocking. A retrospective of Wenders'films was shown at the festival and he also opened an exhibition of hisphotographs entitled, Pictures from theSurface of the ...
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Per Fly's Manslaughter wins best film at Bodil Awards
Per Fly's last instalment of his class trilogy,Manslaughter, cleaned up on Sundaynight at the Bodil Awards in Copenhagen. The Danish Association of Film Critics Awardsare amongst the most prestigious along with the RobertAwards. Manslaughter won Best Film, Best Actor and Best femalesupporting actress. Jesper Christensen, who is alsoknown for the ...
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Intertainment founder resigns from supervisory board
Ruediger "Barry" Baeres,the founder of beleaguered German licence trader/producer Intertainment,has stepped down from his position as chairman of the company's supervisoryboard "for personal reasons" "with immediate effect."Baeres founded Intertainmentin 1993 and took the company to the Neuer Markt stock exchange in 1999 as the Chairman of the Boardof Management. Baeres ...
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Oscar win for Inside Pictures alumni
Two alumni of the Skillset's training programme Inside Pictures have won an Oscar. Producers Kenton Allen and Mia Bays, who met on the 2002 Inside Pictures programme, won for the Academy Award for short film Six Shooter, directed by Martin McDonagh. "Congratulations to Mia and Kenton for a fantastic ...
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Sony Classics goes for American Hardcore
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American, Mexican,Australian, New Zealand and German rights to Paul Rachman's punk documentary AmericanHardcore.The AHC Productions picture premiered at Sundance and traces therise of punk from its early 1980s roots to its virtual extinction in 1986.Steven Blush wrote the screenplay inspired by his book ...
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Brandon promoted in anti-piracy department at Warner Bros
Marc Brandon has been promoted to vice president of anti-piracy internetoperations at Warner Bros Entertainment.In his new post Brandon will be responsible for coordinating the studio'sonline anti-piracy efforts with a team of local internet anti-piracyspecialists in eight countries.He will work closely with law enforcement agencies, the MotionPicture Association of America, ...
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Flood of Australian film shoot without FFC funds
Film-maker Alkinos Tsilimidos is soon tolock on his fourth feature, the crime thriller Em 4 Jay. In keeping with his focus on social realist cinema - andhis disinterest in "safe, middle-class" stories - it follows two people whoturn to armed robbery to sustain their smack habit.Keeping budgets low allowshim to ...
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Hanneman, Jegeus named co-presidents of Fox International Theatrical
PaulHanneman and Tomas Jegeus have been named co-presidents of Twentieth CenturyFox International Theatrical.Theexperienced pair have overseen Fox International since the departure of StephenMoore last summer and officially assume their titles this week.Theexecutives will jointly run the division with equal responsibilities. Theypreviously worked together in Hong Kong from 1998 to 2002, ...