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Beautiful City triumphs at India Film Festival
Iranian film-maker Asghar Farhadi's The Beautiful Citywalked away with the top prize, the Golden Peacock, in the Asian competitivesection of International Film Festival of India which concluded in Goa onDecember 9.The film is the story of a sixteen year old murderer who hasreceivedthe death penalty but is being held in ...
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Koch Lorber elopes with Syrian Bride in US
Koch Lorber Films has acquired all US rights to The Syrian Bride, the political comedy that won prizes at Locarno and Montreal. World sales are handled by France's TF1 International.Structured as a French-German-Israeli co-production, Bride is the story of a woman who crosses from the disputed territory of theGolan Heights ...
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Incredibles set to soar for BVI in Germany
Pixar's The Incredibles should still be the one to beat this weekend as Buena VistaInternational (BVI) releases the animated hit in Germany on Dec 9 and SouthAfrica a day later.The picture has already amassed $110m from its short run and isexpected to prosper in both markets and a host of ...
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Harold Lloyd comedy to get Sony update by Gordon & Dana
Producer Mark Gordon is teaming up with Columbia Pictures on SafetyLast, a contemporaryromance loosely based on Harold Lloyd's 1923 silent classic.Keith Bunin wrote the screenplay and the picture is being producedby Gordon and Jennifer P Dana. Lloyd's granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd will serveas executive producer.Lawrence Inglee will oversee the project for ...
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Greek film industry faces Olympic cuts
Director KyriakosKatzourakis and producer Costas Labropoulos make a perfect match.The first, a well knownpainter, made a splash in 2003 with hisdebut docudrama The Way To The West.His film, which was hailedas the "best ever" by local critics, stormed the Greek State Cinema awards,toured an impressive round of international festivals (Yamagata, ...
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Revolver runs with Saint Ralph in UK
Revolver Entertainment has picked up the UK and Eire rightsto Toronto festival hit Saint Ralph.Directed by Michael McGowan, the film is abittersweet comedy about a Catholic schoolboy who attempts to save his mother'slife with a miracle by winning the Boston marathon. It was billed as 'theCanadian Billy Elliot' by Screen ...
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FRANCE 10 December
Both Pixar's powerhouse TheIncredibles and French cop drama 36, Quai Des Orfevres remained atthe top of the chart this week with a 33% and 38% drop off resepectively.New entry Narco, acomedy starring Guillaume Canet, opened strongly in third place with a $7,365per screen average. That film was followed by The ...
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HUNGARY 10 December
The Incredibles saw off the challenge from seven newreleases at the Hungarian box office last weekend. The film managed to stay atthe top of the chart and is now standing at nearly 70,000 admissions. IstvanSzabo's Being Julia has also maintained its strong performance and hasalready passed the 55,000 admissions mark.The ...
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ROMANIA 10 December
Despite challengesfrom Dodgeball and Exorcist: The Beginning, Cellular hasmaintained its top position at the Romanian box office despite a forty-twopercent loss in its second weekend admissions.Meanwhile Dodgeballgrabbed the second position of the chart with nearly three and a half thousandadmissions on six prints but it was outdone by Exorcist: The ...
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Amazon piles into UK online DVD rental market
Internet retailer Amazon has launched into the hugely competitive online DVD rentalmarket in the UK.The service was launched today (Dec 10), and is integrated into Amazon's UK site, which is already a popular DVD retail store.Unlike most other services,Amazon imposes a limit on the number of DVDs customers can ...
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Development heaven for UK Film Council winners
Capitol Films, EalingStudios, Pathe and Jeremy Thomas' Recorded Picture Company are amongstthe seven winners of the UK Film Council's development franchises, theGovernment-backed support body announced today.The consortia of producers,sales agents, financiers and distributors will pump £15m into the UKdevelopment sector over the next three years, half from the council'slottery coffers ...
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Tom Group invests in leading Chinese film outfit
Hong Kong's Tom Group has joined the rush of overseas mediagroups investing in China's film and television industry by acquiring a 35%stake in leading private film producer and distributor Huayi BrothersInternational Holdings.The deal sees Tom Group acquire a 27% stake in HuayiBrothers for US$5m in cash. Tom will also subscribe ...
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Italian industry rails against funding crisis
Italianentertainment body AGIS is once again urging the Italian government toimmediately address the financial problems that have been crippling the localfilm industry for the last 12 months.It is the second time in the last year that the Italianfilm sector has protested against massive cuts to state funds, endless delaysin handing ...
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France, Switzerland sign co-production agreement
Franceand Switzerland have signed a co-production agreement with a view to "tightenthe bonds between the two cinematographic industries."Swissculture minister Pascal Couchepin was on hand with his French counterpartRenaud Donnedieu de Vabres in Paris for the signing of the new agreement whichreplaces and updates a 1977 accord. The new terms include ...
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Rwanda, Voices get PGA Kramer award
Hotel Rwanda and Innocent Voices will share the Producers Guild of America's (PGA)2005 Stanley Kramer Award honouring work that highlights provocative socialissues.Hotel Rwanda producers A Kitman Ho and Terry George and InnocentVoices producers Lawrence Bender,Luis Mandoki and Alejandro Soberon will accept the honour at the PGA Awards onJan 22."This year's ...
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German fund to bankroll Mann's Miami Vice
Three high profile big budget feature projects fromMichael Mann, Sam Mendes and Gary Ross have been shortlisted for considerationby the investors of Hannover Leasing's (HL) second Montranus media fund at ameeting in Munich next week (December 17).After consulting with film industry experts, theMunich-based fund has put forward three projects with ...
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Disney favours Blu-Ray in DVD format face-off
Eight days after Paramount,Universal and Warner Bros announced their support of the next generation HD DVDin a deal with Toshiba, the Walt Disney Company has joined the Sony camp andthrown its weight behind rival technology Blu-Ray.Disney said it would becomea board member of the Blu-Ray Disc Association and Buena Vista ...
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Scullions signs partners to complete Hooligans movie
Mike and Kevin Scullion'sHooligans - The Movie Inc has signed a deal with Calgary-based production houseNomadic Pictures and secured completion funds from Dublin/Glasgow-basedHannaywood Studios and subsidiary Film Das Abra for their inaugural feature Hooligans.Both Hooligans - The MovieInc and Nomadic Pictures bring distribution partners to the table and areexpected to ...
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Parker's Denmead merges with Rogers & Cowan
Nikki Parker's LA-basedpublicity outfit Denmead Marketing has merged with public relations companyRogers & Cowan in a deal announced yesterday (8).Effective immediately,Parker becomes executive vice president of Rogers & Cowan and will team upwith Rogers & Cowan's executive vice president of worldwide film publicityand marketing Michael Dalling, whose clients include film ...
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Samuel Goldwyn says yes to Lila
Samuel Goldwyn Films haspicked up North American rights to Ziad Doueiri's story of sexual awakening LilaSays (Lila Dit Ca).Doueiri's follow-up to WestBeirut stars newcomers Vahina Giacante, Mohammed Khouas and Karim Benhadou andrecently premiered at Toronto.The story centres on anattractive blonde who moves into a predominantly Arab neighbourhood and sets inmotion ...