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Prestigious New Directors/New Films unveils lineup
Sundance grand jury prize winners Quinceanera and 13 Tzameti and Berlin Silver Bear winner A Soap are among the titles selected for thisyear's 35th New Directors/New Films festival, which runs at the Film Society ofLincoln Center and MoMA in New York from Mar 22-Apr 2.The prestigious event will open with ...
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Miami Film Festival names nine new projects for Encuentros sidebar
The Miami International Film Festival's Miami Encuentros sidebarwill run from Mar 9-11 within the timespan of the festival.The nine-strong programme takes place over three days and offersproducers from Spain and Latin America the chance to present new projects to USindustry professionals.The festival proper kicks off with Eliseo Subiela's Heartlift, a ...
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Osorio joins Focus/Rogue as vice president, publicity
Paulette Osorio has joined Focus Features as vicepresident of publicity and will be based in the company's West Coast offices.Osorio will oversee corporate publicity and publicity campaignsfor genre banner Rogue Pictures, and reports directly to Focus executive vicepresident of publicity and marketing Adriene Bowles.She will also contribute to Focus' release ...
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Michael Winterbottom options controversial memoirs
Fresh from the controversy ofhis Berlinale Silver Bear winner The Road To Guantanamo,prolific British director Michael Winterbottom is setto tackle an equally contentious project. Winterbottomrevealed this week that his company Revolution has optioned Murder In Samarkand, the memoirs of Craig Murray, the former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan. Comedian Steve Coogan ...
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BBC earmarks more than $500m for UK cinema
The BBC has announced a substantial increase inits intended film production and acquisition budget. All of the proposed investments are subject tothe favourable settlement of the current licence fee negotiations but the broadcaster says its new plans could mean an investment of $522m (£300m) to British film over its ...
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IIF lines up production and distribution slate
Rome'sItalian International Film (IIF) is lining up an ambitious new production anddistribution slate, which includes historical epic The Inquiry starring Dolph Lundgren andMax Von Sydow.Italiandirector Giulio Base recently wrapped production onthe $10m (Euros 8.5m) action-thriller, which is set three years after thecrucifixion of Jesus Christ and sees Roman Emperor Tiberius ...
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Audiard's film wins top prize at Lumiere Awards
Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My HeartSkipped took home the Best Picture prize at France's Lumiere Awards Tuesday. The awards are the local equivalentof the Golden Globes, voted on by members of the foreign press working in France.With ten nominations, Beat is a favorite for top prizes at theupcoming Cesar ...
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Golden Bear winner finds more buyers
Jasmila Zbanic's Golden Bear winner Grbavica has been picked up byVentura Film for theatrical release in Germany later this year, while Switzerland's Trigon-Filmplans to release the mother-daughter drama in the aftermath of the Bosnian warthis autumn.TheAustrian-Bosnian-German-Croatian co-production will be opened by Polyfilm in Austria next week on March 3 with ...
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Menzel ready to shoot on long-awaited King of England
Jiri Menzelwill begin filming his long-awaited film IServed the King of England on March 9th. German actress Julia Jentsch, who won numerous awards for her performance in thetitle role in Sophie Scholl, which isup for an Oscar, is starring along with Czech actor OldrichKaiser. The film is based on the ...
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Wellspring closed as TWC, Genius announce restructure
US independent distributor Wellspring appears to have been shutdown this week as parent company Genius Products announced a strategiccorporate shift.Genius, which acquired Wellspring last year and later in the yearcompleted a deal with The Weinstein Co (TWC) whereby TWC gained a controllinginterest in Genius, said TWC would handle Wellspring's theatrical ...
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Paramount specialty arm buys thriller script from Pastor brothers
Paramount's evolving specialty division has bought the speculativescript to Alex and David Pastor's post-apocalyptic thriller currently known asThe Untitled Pastor Project.Alex Pastor will direct thestory of four friends trying to escape a viral pandemic in the American Westwho discover they pose a greater danger to each other than the virus. ...
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SRO seals France, Australia deals on Girls Will Be Girls
SRO Pictures has secured distribution deals in France andAustralia for Richard Day’s cultcomedy Girls Will Be Girls.Eagle Entertainment has picked up DVD rights for Australia and NewZealand, and Optimale will handle theatrical and DVD rights in France, Monaco,Dom-Tom (French overseas territories), Andorra, French-speaking Switzerland,and French-speaking Belgium.Girls Will Be Girls was ...
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Georgia Lee's Red Doors sold to Imagine in Australia
Imagine Entertainment has picked up Australian and New Zealandrights to Georgia Lee’s RedDoors from ForwardEntertainment.As previously announced, Polychrome will release the picture inMay in the US. The story follows a dysfunctional Chinese-American family withthree overachieving daughters. Tzi Ma, Jacqueline Kim, Elaine Kao, KathyShao-Lin Lee, Freda Foh Shen, and Rossif Sutherland ...
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Thailand's M Pictures takes trio from Nu Image
Thailand's M Pictures has acquired three titles from Nu Imageat the Bangkok Film Market, including DayOf The Dead, the remake of George A Romero's classic horror.The company has also snappedup action titles End Game, directedby Andy Cheng, and Isaac Florentine's Undisputed2, which are both set to open in Thailand later ...
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Hungarian admissions at lowest level in 11 years
In contrast to Hungary'sbooming production industry, theatrical business looks quite grim. Local boxoffices saw 10.8 million admissions in 2005 - just over three million feweradmissions than in the previous year. Sales fell to $43.2m (HUF9.1bn)Indeed 2005 saw the lowest admissions in 11 years. In thepast five years, admissions have dropped ...
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Dogwoof picks up two Berlinale titles
UK distributor DogwoofPictures has picked up two titles out of the Berlinale, Man Push Cart and Brasileirinho. Both deals werestruck with French sales company Wide Management. Ramin Bahrani's Man PushCart is about a Pakistani immigrant trying to establish a life in New York City.Mika Kauriskami's Brasileirinho is a documentary about ...
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Red Films comes to Bangkok Film Festival with impressive slate
The 3rd Bangkok Film Marketkicked off today with more than 80 exhibitors from over 30 countries. Malaysia'sproduction company Red Films has chosen this market to make its debut as aseller, offering 12 productions by cutting-edge independent Malaysianfilm-makers.Its slate, which features productions fromChinese, Malay to English and Tamil, includes three titles ...
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Artificial Eye picks up Offside and It's Winter
UK distributor Artificial Eye has acquiredboth of the Iranian films that played in Competition at the Berlin FilmFestival. The first is Jafar Panahi'sOffside,shared winner of the Silver Bear about a girl who disguises herself as a boy towatch a football match in Tehran. The distributoralso acquired Rafi Pitts' Zemestan (It's ...
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World's Fastest Indian races to Kiwi record
TheWorld's Fastest Indian has become the mostsuccessful New Zealand story at local cinemas and it may inch into the top 10hits of any nationality.Asof Sunday February 19, New Zealanders had spent $4,458,405 (NZ$6,694,808) tosee Anthony Hopkins play Burt Munro, who traveled from their country to Utah inthe 1960s and set ...
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Germans join forces for $47.7m English-language slate
Production outfit Schmidtz KatzeFilmkollektiv and the Berlin-based developmentcompany mediacontentfactory (mcf)have joined forces to initiate a $47.7m (Euros 40m) slate of English-languagegenre films for the international market.According to thejoint venture's partners, the slate of six to seven thriller,fantasy or adventure feature films will either be based on successful novels,games and/or creative ...