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Bulgaria looks to cash in on footloose productions
Bulgarian studios are getting ready to profit from the increase in prices that is expected to accompany the accession of its neighbours to the European Union next year."We see the three years between 2004 and 2007 when Bulgaria is scheduled to join the EU as a window of opportunity," said ...
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Malaysian funding plan runs into controversy
Malaysian director-screenwriter Adman Salleh's third feature, Paloh, is proving almost as controversial as his last film, Amok, which was once banned in its home country. Paloh is claimed to be the first Malaysian film that touches on the sensitive issue of the inter-racial relationship between the Chinese and the Malay. ...
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Hamburg fest plans Euro hits showcase
A showcase of local European box-office hits is one of the programme innovations being planned for this year's Filmfest Hamburg (Sept 19-26) under the new festival director Albert Wiederspiel.Austria's Poppitz, Sweden's Kops and Italy's Christmas On The Nile (Natale Sul Nilo) are already confirmed for the Eurovisuell sidebar which is ...
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German producer pair relaunch film fund
Producers Eberhard Junkersdorf (pictured) and Dietmar Guentsche have relaunched their media fund Neue Bioskop Germany (NBG) with the support of the Hamburg-based private bank Bankhaus Woelbern to raise private equity for the financing of a raft of German and English language features to be shot in Europe.The original fund, which ...
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Tornatore targets Kidman for Leningrad
Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and Medusa vice-president Giampaolo Letta will be flying out to New York next week to talk to Nicole Kidman about joining the cast of the Oscar-winning director's upcoming English language movie, Leningrad.While Rome-based Medusa does not expect to sign a contract next week, company spokesman Claudio ...
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UK's Optimum acquires Thousand Months, Since Otar Left
Optimum Releasing have acquired UK rights to A Thousand Months and Since Otar Left from Fortissimo and Celluloid Dreams respectively. Faouzi Bensaidi's A Thousand Months, selected for Un Certain Regard at this year's Cannes Film Festival, tells the story of Amina and her son Mehdi who live in the heart ...
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Girl band musical storms Argentinian box office
A musical starring local all-girl band Bandana has become this year's box office sensation in Argentina. Bandana: Vivir Intentando has attracted 778,000 admissions, posting a per screen average of 30,000. Co producers Patagonik Film Group and RGB Productions are hoping to reach the one million mark in a few weeks. ...
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Austrian Film Institute backs five co-productions
Five international co-productions are among the projects awarded over Euros 2m in production support from the Austrian Film Institute (OFI) in its latest round of funding.Production backing was allocated to Jessica Hausner's thriller Hotel, to be co-produced by Coop99 Filmproduktion with Germany's Essential Filmproduktion; Wolfram Paulus's coming of age tale ...
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Toronto mega-studio plans are back on track
Toronto's on-again, off-again bid to build astate-of-the-art purpose-built studio on its disused port area is back on track.Three months after the last Portlands deal fell apart,the city's corporate proxy, Toronto Economic Development Corp. (TEDCO), hasannounced a new Request for Expressions of Interest (RFI) toward theconstruction of a facility up to ...
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Campion's Cut to premiere at Toronto
Jane Campion's In The Cut will makes its world premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival along with North American premieres of Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 and Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men. The latter two films are premiering at Venice. Toronto will present all three films at Gala screenings.In The ...
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Full competition line-up
Venezia 60 - In CompetitionBuongiorno, Notte dir Marco Bellocchio,Segreti Di Stato, dir Paolo Benvenuti,Le Cerf-Volant, dir Randa Chahal Sabbag, Raja, dir Jacques Doillon,Twentynine Palms, dir Bruno Dumont,Alila, dir Amos Gitai, 21 Grams, dir Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Imagining Argentina, dir Christopher Hampton, A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baram-Nan Gajok), dir Im Sangsoo, ...
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Venice: full competition line-up
Venezia 60 - In CompetitionBuongiorno, Notte dir Marco Bellocchio,Segreti Di Stato, dir Paolo Benvenuti,Le Cerf-Volant, dir Randa Chahal Sabbag, Raja, dir Jacques Doillon,Twentynine Palms, dir Bruno Dumont,Alila, dir Amos Gitai, 21 Grams, dir Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Imagining Argentina, dir Christopher Hampton, A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baram-Nan Gajok), dir Im Sangsoo, ...
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Copenhagen fest completes jury
The first edition of the Copenhagen International Film Festival (Aug 13-20) has filled the remaining two seats of its five man jury, who will be presided over by Theo Angelopoulos. Joining Denmark's Bille August and Sweden's Jan Troell are German writer-director Jutta Brückner and Belgian actress-turned filmmaker Marion Hänsel. Together ...
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Venice's last-minute Lido line-up
Venice has unveiled its competition line-up for the festival's 60th edition (Aug 27-Sep 6), including widely anticipated films from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Michael Winterbottom, Takeshi Kitano, Christopher Hampton and Bruno Dumont - although most of the hotly awaited US titles will screen out of competition"It was a particularly difficult year," ...
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MGM withdraws from Universal bidding process
And then there were four.After weeks of speculation and strategic manoeuvring that have shed little ifany light on the prospects for Vivendi Universal's entertainment assets,MGM chairman and chief executive officer Alex Yemenidjian said yesterday thatthe company had withdrawn from the sale.The dramatic announcementremoves arguably the most aggressive suitor from the ...
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Suicide bombers and von Trier edge on to Razor slate
Former Senator Film executives Gerhard Meixner and Roman Paul have unveiled the production slate of their Berlin-based production outfit Razor Film with a two-track strategy - serving as the German partner on international co-productions and producing features by up-and-coming local talent.Razor's first international co-production will be Palestinian-born Hany Abu-Assad's drama ...
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Hamori teams with Brightlight for five films
AndrasHamori's LA-based H2O Motion Pictures is teaming with Vancouver-basedBrightlight Pictures in a $50m, five-picture international coproduction slateto be filmed over the next three years. The slateincludes a starring role for Samuel L. Jackson and long-gestating project WhiteClouds, the lastscreenplay of late British dramatist Dennis Potter, which moved from the BBC ...
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Mueller unveils debut Downtown slate
Marco Mueller's new production company, Downtown Pictures, has unveiled a slate of 12 pictures, including the directorial debut of Italian actress Chiara Caselli and the first European movie by Hong Kong filmmaker Kirk Wong.Downtown's first completed film is Turkish-Cypriot picture Fango (Mud) by Dervish Zaim. A satire about nationalism in ...
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Hong Kong indies enjoy share surge
The Hong Kong stock market is anticipating boom times for local companies following the signing of the recent free-trade agreement between the once freewheeling territory and mainland China.Shares of several Hong Kong film companies have climbed since the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) was unveiled at the beginning of the ...
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Erland Josephson gets tribute programme at Montreal
Veteran Swedishactor Erland Josephson will be the subject of a tribute at the 2003 MontrealWorld Film Festival. The 80-year-old star of stage and screen, best known forhis long collaboration with compatriot Ingmar Bergman, will be presented withthe Special Prize of the Americas for career achievement. A selection ofhis films will ...