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Rapid sales for Roehler's The Elementary Particles
Celluloid Dreams has announced 15 territory sales on Oskar Roehler's Competition titleThe Elementary Particles, tocompanies including France'sTFM, Momentum in the UK,Canada's Sevilleand Lucky Red in Italy.Particles was not pre-sold: 'We wanted to seewho actually liked the film after Michel Houllebecq'scontroversial novel,' said Celluloid head Hengameh Panahi. 'But we've had multiple ...
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Wajda to tackle feature on wartime massacre of Poles
Revered 79-year-old Polish auteur AndrzejWajda, in Berlin to receive an honorary Golden Bear,has revealed details of what promises to be one of the most ambitious andcontentious films he has ever made.The new feature will deal with the KatynForest massacre, in which an estimated20,000 Poles were killed by the Soviet Union ...
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Nimbus slate to include two Kragh-Jacobsen features
Prolific Danish production house Nimbus Film is pushingahead with a slate of new projects including two features from Kragh-Jacobsen (Mifune) which may shoot back to back.First up should be romantic comedy The Sandwich Thief, dueto shoot in September. Once that is wrapped, Kragh-Jacobsenwill move straight ahead with political thriller, Another ...
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Roginas to head St Petersburg Film Festival
Ex-Eurimages executive secretary RenateRoginas has been named Artistic Director for the first St. Petersburg InternationalFilm Festival in July.Roginas, who has been appointed toa five-year contract, wants to see the festival become 'a bridge from Russiato Europe and also to the rest of the world. I think itwill be important ...
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Paramount's specialty arm takes domestic on Truth
Paramount Pictures' new specialty division has acquired worldwide rightsto Participant Productions' documentary An Inconvenient Truth which had itsworld premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year.Davis Guggenheim's film features former US vice president Al Gore in astudy of global warming. The science of global warming is weaved in with Gore'spersonal ...
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Frigo assumes management reins at BVI Europe
Daniel Frigo hasbeen promoted to senior vice president and general manager of Europe, MiddleEast and Africa for Buena Vista International (BVI).As of Feb 1,Frigo assumed responsibility for BVI's European operations, replacing BVIexecutive vice president and general manager of Europe Stuart Salter, who isretiring after shepherding BVI Europe for 14 years. ...
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Gaga reveals ambitious domestic and international plans
Japan's new-look Gaga plans to produce up to 10Japanese films a year, in addition to international co-productions, as part ofa drive to expand its production activities.Since launching production banner Gaga Films lastyear, the company has already shot two Japanese features - Ryo Nishimura's Waters,which opens in Japan next month, and ...
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Morena greenlights Latin American productions
Spain's Morena Films is preparing a new slate offilms, with the $3.6m (Euros 3m) Andalusian road movie Blinkerscurrently at the Berlin Co-Production market and three more set to shoot shortly.With Morena currently in post on Mexican veteranArturo Ripstein's El Carnaval De Sodoma, its forthcomingproductions tap into Latin American talent.Shooting from ...
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Venice Film Festival bounces back with new sponsorship
Withthe buzz surrounding this year's Rome Film Festival, industry watchers have beenincreasingly scrutinising the Venice Film Festival. Causingparticular concern is the Lido's apparent difficulty in lifting itself out of bothadministrative and financial doldrums.Now,Venice is hitting back: Venice Biennale president Davide Croff has announced thatdespite a $3m (Euros 2.5m) cut to ...
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QED joins Intermedia for four film deal
BillBlock's newly formed QED International (Screendaily, Feb 10) has formed anagreement with Intermedia to co-finance and co-produce four Intermedia-developed films.QEDwill complete the financing, co-produce and handle worldwide distribution onthe films, led by Spring Break In Bosnia. The comic thriller from The Matador writer/director Richard Shepard will be distributed in the ...
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Lee and Shin to oversee Korea's Prime Entertainment
Lee Seung-jae, CEO of Korean production company LJFilm, has confirmed that he will oversee film production at rising Koreanstudio Prime Entertainment, formerly known as Innotz.Lee brings with him CJ Entertainment's former head offilm business Shin Sang-han who will head up distribution and exhibition.Prime will produce 15 films a year starting ...
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Woody flirts with France
IsWoody Allen going Gallic' In the Martin-Gropius-Bau, there have been strongrumours that the much-travelled US filmmaker is looking to shoot a new featurein France as early as this spring.Allen isexpected in Paris for the Cesars later this month. The word at the EFM is thathe has been discreetly sounding out ...
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Revolution plans multi-platform release for Guantanamo
Revolution Films is planning a simultaneous UK theatrical, DVD, andInternet release for Michael Winterbottom's The Road To Guantanamo, which will haveits world premiere Tuesday in Berlin's competition.The move goes one stepfurther than 2929 Entertainment's US release of Steven Soderbergh's Bubble on Jan 27, which didn't include a simultaneousInternet offering.Guantanamo was ...
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Wong Kar-wai prepares Nights with Norah Jones
Wong Kar-wai is gearing upto work this year with multi-platinum singer Norah Jones who will make heracting debut in his first English-language film which has the working title My Blueberry Nights.Based on a short film thatWong shot in Hong Kong several years ago, the film will be co-produced byStudioCanal and ...
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Les Bronzes 3 stays in front of international pack
French smash Les Bronzes 3: Amis Pour La Viewas once again the biggest money-maker in the international marketplace thisweekend, grossing more in its home territory than Hollywood movies including Munich,Chicken Little and Walk The Line could manage from multiplemarkets.In its second weekend in France, the Gallic hit,distributed by Warner Bros ...
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New Pink Panther purrs at US box office
MGM/Columbia's The Pink Panther won a tightrace at the North American box office this weekend, as four new wide releasesfound their respective audiences and took the top four spots on the box officechart. With an estimated gross of $21.7m, The PinkPanther edged out New Line's Final Destination 3, while Universal's ...
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New Pink Panther purrs at US box office
MGM/Columbia's The Pink Panther won a tightrace at the North American box office this weekend, as four new wide releasesfound their respective audiences and took the top four spots on the box officechart. With an estimated gross of $21.7m, The PinkPanther edged out New Line's Final Destination 3, while Universal's ...
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VCL and 3Rosen on a Promise with Warner Bros
ChenKaige's The Promise, which screened at the Berlinale last week, will be one of the firsttitles to be released theatrically in Germany as part of a new venture betweenDatty Ruth's VCL Film + Medien and the 3Rosen Filmverleih.WarnerBros Germanywill handle billing and booking on Kaige's fantasy epic, while 3Rosen will ...
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Ambitious Rome festival to launch co-production event
Theinaugural Rome Film Festival (Oct 13-21) is looking to set up aco-production event along the lines of Rotterdam's CineMart which will includea cash prize for the best project presented."TheCineMart structure is so far the best one," explained Rome's internationalprogramme manager Teresa Cavina on the decision to emulate Rotterdam's popularpitching bazaar.Rome'sindustry ...
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Capitol unleashes Pawlikowski's Beasts
Rhys Ifans, Eddie Marsan, and Ben Whishaw, who is setvault to fame in the lead role of Tom Tykwer's Perfume later this year, will star in Pawel Pawlikowski's next film The Restraint Of Beasts. Capitol Films has boarded as worldwide sales agent.Pawlikowskiand his My Summer of Love producer Tanya Seghatchian ...