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Films Distribution readies director driven Cannes slate
When he's not busy fielding a barrage of calls from distributorshoning in on Christian Carion's Merry Christmas - which is screening outof competition at Cannes - Films Distribution's Francois Yon and his team areputting together a mighty line up heading into the Cannes market. The French sales outfits slate includes ...
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Mandoki's Mexican Voices wins at RiverRun
Luis Mandoki's InnocentVoices picked up bestnarrative feature, best foreign feature and best screenplay awards at the 7thannual RiverRun International Film Festival in North Carolina, which ran fromApr 21-24.Nina Davenport's ParallelLines won best documentary feature,while audience awards went to Georgina Garcia Riedel's How The Garcia GirlsSpent Their Summer for best featureand ...
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Bac Majestic posts Euros 5.3m loss for 2004
French distribution group BacMajestic has announced a loss of Euros 5.3m for 2004 on revenues of Euros33.8m. This is compares with a net loss of Euros 11.5m in 2003 on revenues ofEuros 53.2m.The revenues were higher thanexpected - projected revenues had been in the Euros 28 to 31m range. Thecompany ...
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Interpreter rules international, North American charts
For the first timethis year the international and North American tables aligned to produce asingle champion: The Interpreter.This feat islikely to be the first in a string of such occurrences as the approachingsummer season brings with it a plethora of day-and-date global releasesstarting with Sony's xXx2: State Of The Union ...
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Film Council, Pact take 'Next Steps' towards breaking down barriers
Senior figures from theworlds of film and television are set to gather in London on 10 May for a 'NextSteps' brainstorm to look at action needed to tackle the barriers currentlyfaced by Minority Ethnic Led (MEL) independent companies.This follows up a recentreport carried out on behalf of the UK Film ...
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Silent Hill embarks on Canada shoot
Shooting started this week on Silent Hill,the Samuel Hadida-produced adaptation of the hit horror video game.SeanBean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates and Jodelle Ferland, the young star of Terry Gilliam's Tideland, havejoined Radha Mitchell in the cast of the Canada-France co-production.Principalphotography started on Monday in Canada, with Christophe ...
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MDC takes on sales for Puipa's Forest Of The Gods
Berlin-based MDC International has taken oninternational sales for veteran Lithuanian director Algimantas Puipa's latestfeature Forest Of The Gods.The film has beenincluded in MDC's Cannes Market line-up and is set for delivery this autumn .A co-production between Lithuania's Baltic FilmGroup and the UK's IMS G LLP and starring Valentinas Masalskis, Steven ...
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Herrero readies Los Aires Dificiles
DirectorGerardo Herrero, competing this week in the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga(April 22-30) with Heroine, is set to begin shooting on his nextfeature, Los Aires Dificiles, on June 6.The Euros 3m film is a co-production between Herrero'sown Tornasol Films, Heroine partner Continental Films and Seville-basedMaestranza Films, producer of this year's ...
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Canada's Equinoxe begins production on Rwandan genocide pic
Montreal-based EquinoxeProductions begins principal photography May 27 on A Sunday In Kigali, a romantic drama set against the backdrop of theRwandan genocide. Directed by Robert Favreau and produced by Lyse Lafontaineand Michael Mosca, the $5.6m (C$7m) film shoots in Kigali and in surroundinglocations for 37 days. Equinoxe Films will handle ...
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Black Friday wins top jury prize at Indian LA fest
Anurag Kashyap'sBlack Friday won thedramatic feature competition grand jury prize and Theresa Thanjan's WhoseChildren Are These'claimed documentary honours at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, whichclosed on Apr 24.In the audienceawards, Bhartbala's Hari Om won best feature, Carl Byker and Mitch Wilson's The NewHeroes: India won forbest documentary, and ...
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Sony sets release date for Bond's Casino Royale
The search for a new 007 continues to drag on, but adate has already been set for the release of the next Bond film.Bond's new distributor Sony (which has just completedits acquisition of former Bond studio MGM) has earmarked November 17, 2006, forthe release Casino Royale in North America and ...
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European 'Producers on the Move' named
Nineteen Europeanproducers have been selected to be presented at the forthcoming Cannes FilmFestival as "Producers on the Move" by the member organisations ofthe pan-European promotional body European Film Promotion (EFP).The producers will be able to discuss theirprojects at a Co-Production Lunch with 100 producers from all over Europe andat a ...
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London Film Festival announces 2005 dates
The Times bfi 49th London Film Festival has announcedits dates for 2005.Festival director Sandra Hebron said the event will takeplace from October 19 through to November 3. Currently scouting for films for this year's programme,Hebron said "Our autumn dates make us ideally positioned to premiere highprofile quality titles due ...
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Oz Dollars cashes in at local box office
Local drama Three Dollarsmade a big impact at the Australian box office over the weekend.Three Dollars grossed $177,000 (A$227,747) fromjust 15 screens over the five-day holiday weekend. The Dendy/Footprint releasewas fourteenth in the chart but it was its screen average of $11,800 thatreally impressed - and has paved the way ...
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Brad Weston confirmed at Paramount
In a widelypredicted move, Brad Weston is leaving his post as co-president of DimensionFilms and joining Paramount Pictures as co-president of production.Reporting toincoming Paramount president Gail Berman, Weston will oversee the day-to-daydevelopment and production of the studio's annual slate of films and literaryacquisitions along with fellow co-president Alli Shearmur, who ...
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Cannes unveils Directors' Fortnight line-up
Twenty-onefilms will screen in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar of the Cannes FilmFestival, it was announced today (April 26).In hissecond year at the helm, Fortnight director Olivier Pere has pulled together aselection that includes several films from Europe with a smattering from Asia,the US, Iran and Australia. SixFrench productions or co-productions ...
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Karlovy Vary shines spotlight on Central Europe
The Karlovy VaryInternational Film Festival has unveiled the first films to play in its 2005competition line up, with a strong focus on films from Central Europe.Poland will be representedby the international premiere of director Krzysztof Krauze's biography MyNikifor, in which actress Krystyna Feldman plays the male protagonist,artist Nikifor Krynicki. A ...
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Star-studded World Cup doc kicks off for Film Sales Co
Production has begun on Bob Potter And Paul Doyle's footballdocumentary World Cup 2006: Dreams Of Glory, which Andrew Herwitz 's New York-basedFilm Sales Company will be representing for worldwide sales at the Cannesmarket.Herwitz has already sold UK rights to Revolver and is close toannouncing other key sales on the project, ...
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Scaturro is key note speaker at Large Screen Format conference in LA
AdventurerPasquale Scaturro will be the keynote speaker at this year's 9th Annual LargeFormat Cinema Association Conference, which kicks off in Los Angeles today[Tuesday] and runs until Apr 29. Theindustry forum will explore issues affecting the large format business, andincludes panel discussions, revenue generating ideas, and technicaldemonstrations. Ninelarge format 70mm screenings ...
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TIFFG launches year-round support programme for Canadian film-makers
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival Group has launched a year-round industry-oriented supportprogramme for Canadian filmmakers and their films. Designed to further themission of the festival's OMDC Sales Office, the new department, dubbed theIndustry Initiatives Office and headed by long-time Sales Office directorKelley Alexander, will provide programmes and services in marketing, artisticdevelopment ...