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Four films pick up cash prize from Balkan Fund
The four projects receiving awards from this year's Balkan Fund, have been announced at the ThessalonikiInternational Film Festival.The $12,000 (10,000 Euros) prizes go to:Conversation with SerafimScreenwriter and director Silviu Purcarete, producer Ozana Oancea (Libra Films, Romania)Asphyxiation Screenwriter and director Asli Ozge, producer Deniz Kunkut>(DKFY, Turkey) Cum ...
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Hong Kong lines up Chinese New Year blockbusters
A live-actiontake on popular animated character McDull, martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia and a comedy about shopping are set to battle itout in Hong Kong and other Chinese-speaking territories next Chinese New Year.Peter Ho-sun Chanand McDull creator Brian Tseare producing McDull, The Alumni,which combines live-action and animated sequences to recount ...
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Potter release breaks IMAX records
The box office phenomenonthat is Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire has been felt within the giant-screen realm. The fourth Potter film has broken every record for an IMAX Hollywoodtitle on simultaneous release. Debuting at 66 IMAX venues in North America, thefilm scored a three-day opening of $2.93m for ...
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New German culture minister raises hopes for film finance
Hopesfor a swift resolution of the German film funding crisis following thescrapping of media funds have been raised with the appointment of Germany's newState Minister For Culture, Bernd Neumann.The63-year-old has taken a strong interest in film finance issues. Earlier thisyear argued that support "doesn't have to be the funds in ...
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Pathe signs nine new deals for Frears' The Queen
Pathe Pictures International has announced a slew of deals closed at the recent American Film Market. Pathe screened footage from Stephen Frears' The Queen for buyers and sold rights to Avex Entertainment for Japan, Vertigo for Spain, Sandrew Metronome for Scandinavia, Prooptiki for Greece and the former Yugoslavia, LNK for ...
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Legal download sites launched in Hong Kong
Two legal movie downloadsites are being launched in Hong Kong - by government-ownedIT flagship Cyberport and private film company Mei Ah Entertainment - amidindustry discussion about their feasibility and audience demand.Mei Ah's service, M@TV, has accessto a library of more than 1,000 movies including acquisitions and a few hundredtitles produced ...
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France increases threshold on Soficas finance schemes
France's Soficasinvestment schemes will see their limit increase by $11.7m (Euros 10m) to $66m(Euros 56m) next year.Prime ministerDominique de Villepin approved the measure at therequest of culture minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres.The Sofica system was created in 1985 to encourage individualinvestment in film. Essentially film-financing companies, the Soficas raise money ...
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District 13 goes to US via Magnolia
Magnolia Pictures has picked up North American rights toPierre Morel's futuristic crime thriller District 13 (Banlieue 13), which attracted close to 1 million admissions in its native France.The film is co-written and produced by Luc Besson.Magnolia plans aspring 2006 release for the story, set in the Paris ghettos around 2010 ...
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Dream picks up worldwide rights to I Am
DreamEntertainment has picked up worldwide rights to Dorota Kedzierzawska'sPolish-language title I Am (Jestem),which premiered recently at Toronto.The LosAngeles-based company plans to self-distribute the film in the US for the firsttime in its history.I Am tells the story of an orphaned boy insearch of life and identity who finds love with ...
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THINKFilm, Screen Media buy Loverboy
THINKFilm inpartnership with Screen Media Films has acquired North American theatricalrights to Kevin Bacon's Loverboy, which premiered at Sundance in Jan this year and stars Kyra Sedgwickas an obsessive mother.THINK plans aspring release to coincide with the launch of the second season of Sedgwick'stelevision crime series The Closer.Based on Victoria ...
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Franco-German call for extension to film fund
Frenchand German producers and distributors want the $3.5m (Euros 3m)"mini-traite" co-production fund to be extended to include thesupport of the theatrical distribution in the two countries.Thecall came at this year's French-German Cinema Rendez-Vous in Cologne but faces significant obstacles if it is top succeed.Although a French-German distribution agreement is in ...
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Schloendorff under fire from Solidarity heroine
Oscar-winning director Volker Schloendorff has comeunder fire from the mother of Poland's Solidarity movement Anna Walentynowiczfor his latest film Die Vergessene Heldin which began shooting atoriginal locations in the Baltic port of Gdansk at the end of October. In an interview with the Polish dailynewspaper Rzeczpospolita, 76-year-old Walentynowicz said that ...
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Greengrass starts shooting 9/11 re-enactment at Pinewood
Director Paul Greengrass has started principal photography on his9/11 feature film Flight 93 for Universal Pictures and Working Title Films in associationwith Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.Greengrass (Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Supremacy) started shooting Flight 93 at the UK's Pinewood Studios on November14, and shooting will continue on location in the UK ...
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New ending Pride on 12 UK screens
Universal plans a 12-screenUK release of the alternate version of Pride & Prejudice that was recentlyunveiled in the US. The US version of the film has an extended ending thatwasn't seen during the original UK release. Starting November 25,United International Pictures will release the extended version in select UKand Irish ...
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Dimension picks up domestic on Dead Or Alive
Dimension Filmshas acquired acquired North American distribution rights from Constantin toCorey Yuen's video game adaptation Dead Or Alive.The long-gestating project is based on Tecmo's game andfollows three women as they fight their way through a martial arts contest.Devon Aoki,Sarah Carter, Natassia Malthe, Matthew Marsden, Jaime Pressly, Eric Roberts andnewcomer Holly ...
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Apted starts UK shoot for Walden's Amazing Grace
Director Michael Apted has started principal photography on Amazing Grace, a feature film about antislavery pioneer William Wilberforce.The film is a Walden Media production. Terrence Malick and Ed Pressman are producing for Sunflower Productions with Patricia Heaton and David Hunt for FourBoys Films as well as Ken Wales, Mark Cooper ...
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Tsotsi, Henderson share Denver audience awards
The 28th DenverInternational Film Festival ended on Saturday night with a gala screening of BrokebackMountain and theannouncement of the juried award-winners. The festival is sponsored by StarzEntertainment Group.The audience award for best feature was shared betweenStephen Frears' Mrs Henderson Presentsand Gavin Hood's Tsotsi, bestdocumentary went to Donnie I Betts' Music ...
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Darwin's Nightmare proves to be an Austrian dream
When the InternationalDocumentary Film Festival Amsterdam opens in the Dutch capital on Thursday (Nov24) it will feature two documentaries from the same country on the same topic.The overlap is not due tosome error by the selection committee: the films in question - each Austrianand dealing with food politics - are ...
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Fortissimo gets ready for Battle
Dutch-HongKong-based sales agent Fortissimo Films is to plunge deeper into the territoryit carved out on Seven Swords by investing in the US$16m martial artsepic A Battle Of Wisdom, directed by Hong Kong's Jacob Cheung.Fortissimohas also acquired international sales rights to the title, which stars HongKong's Andy Lau (House of Flying ...
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Hong Kong film industry explores US business ties
Agroup of Hong Kong film industry figures is expecting to increasebusiness activities with the US following a trademission organised by the US Consulate General'sCommercial Service in Hong Kong. A delegation of senior executives from sevenHong Kong film companies took part in the second ImaginAsian Film Trade Mission (Oct24 - Nov ...