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Little Studio strikes two-picture deal with director Claridge
US management and production company Little Studio Films has concluded a two-picture directing deal with Munich-based British director Peter Claridge for two of its feature projects - action thriller Terminal Leave and the romantic comedy The Vedova.The Vedova, which is set entirely in Italy and in the style of Michael ...
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Local films get high presence at first Copenhagen festival
The first edition of the Copenhagen International Film Festival, August 13-20, has announced its main competition line-up, which includes three local productions and two Danish co-productions. The three local titles are Jesper W. Nielsen's The Bouncer (Manden Bag Doeren), Torben Skjoedt Jensen's The Tenth Muse (Afgrunden) and Swedish-born newcomer Anders ...
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Raintree, Spaceworks team for English-language co-productions
Singapore's Raintree Pictures is teaming up with Toronto-based production company Spaceworks Entertainment to co-produce two English-language films. The first to go into production will be romantic comedy Leap Of Love, adapted from the novel by Singapore author Catherine Lim. Seah Wee Thye, who previously directed two of Singapore's top-rating TV ...
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New German distributor to release Don's Plum
RD Robb and John Schindler's Don's Plum, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, will now be released in Germany by new distributor Favorit Film.Established in the Bavarian town of Wasserburg by Bernhard Troestl and Esther Jakub, Favorit Film has also picked up Andrea and Antonio Frazzi's World War 2 drama ...
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Swedish Film Institute re-awards funding to troubled production
Exactly one year after the Swedish Film Institute's (SFI) unprecedented decision to withdraw its financial support of $619,000 (SEK5m) for the screen adaptation of 2001 local best seller Popular Music From Vittula (Popularmusik fran Vittula), the production has received a new grant of $866,000 (SEK7m) from the SFI.The state funding ...
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Sydney screening of Ken Park raided by police
Australian police stepped in to prevent a much-publicised Sydney screening of the banned US film Ken Park. The film hardly got past the opening credits before the it was confiscated in front of the capacity crowd gathered at an inner city town hall.Several of the organisers, including high-profile critic Margaret ...
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T3's first day gross of $16.5m sends Intermedia shares soaring
Having climbed 19% lastweek, Intermedia shares had rocketed a further 18% by press time yesterday asopening figures for Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines came in. The film, which grossed $4m on Tuesdaynight previews, took $12.5m on its first full day on release yesterday throughWarner Bros, bringing its first day ...
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GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZ Prod Lists - July 4 2003
AUSTRIA/GERMANY & SWITZERLAND - July 4AUSTRIAPRE-PRODUCTIONIM JAHR DES PFERDES (Wildart Film) Backers: Filmfonds Wien, BKA, Land Upper Austria. Documentary. Story of the Asian community in Vienna and the Khmer in Helsinki and Cambodia. Prod: Vincent Lucassen. Dir/scr: Ebba Sinzinger. DoP: Wolfgang Thaler. Ed: Karina Ressler. Shooting from summer 2003 in ...
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De Jong sails Kameleon to Dutch success
Director Steven de Jong's new film, The Skippers Of The Kameleon (De Schippers Van De Kameleon) swept into Dutch cinemas last weekend with a $414,743 (Euros 362,900) opening gross.The Dutch-language film, released by Independent Film with Bridge Entertainment, sold 84,000 tickets in its first five days, setting an opening weekend ...
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South Africa to host second '3 Continents' film festival
South Africa will host the second 3 Continents Film Festival this September, showcasing recent documentary and feature-length films from Latin America, Africa and Asia that explore human rights issues. The 3 Continents Film Festival is an initiative of Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), Southern African Communications for Development (SACOD) and ...
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Internationalmedia stock gets boost from T3 expectations
Shares in IM Internationalmedia, Intermedia's corporate parent, rose 19% this week ahead of the US release yesterday of the company's high stakes behemoth, Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines.Shares in the US-German film operation were at Euros 1.61 at press time late yesterday afternoon, 1.23% down from Tuesday's close of ...
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France increases production aid to encourage export
The French national cinema centre (CNC) has announced the establishment of a new form of aid to filmmakers based on export potential.L'IFCIC, the institute for film and cultural industry financing, which acts as a guarantor for loans made to filmmakers - most notably behind film finance structure Coficine - will ...
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Hochbetrieb wins FFA Short Tiger award
Hochbetrieb by Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg (FBW) student Andreas Krein has won this year's Euros 25,000 Short Tiger award sponsored by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) for students at German film schools.The other five nominees - including two fellow FBW students, Sven Martin (Ritterschlag) and Anna Matysik (Post Card), Oliver Held ...
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Spanish digital merger concluded
Spain's Sogecable and Via Digital have completed the merger of their pay TV platforms, joined in new unit Digital+, with Wednesday's integration of Telefonica-backed Via Digital into Grupo Prisa and Groupe Canal+ -backed Sogecable. Digital+, the merged offspring of Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) and Via Digital, will be launched at ...
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Vienna International Film Festival courts controversy
The seeds for a potentially controversial Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale, October 17-29) have been sown with the inclusion of two special programmes - one dedicated to US actor-director Vincent Gallo and the second to Austrian filmmaking as a riposte to Austria's Secretary of State for the Arts Franz Morak.The ...
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Wiedemann to head new Danish talent development fund
Editor turned scriptwriter turned film commissioner, Vinca Wiedemann, has been appointed artistic director of the new $3.9m Talent Development Fund at the Danish Film Institute (DFI). The new fund has been established by public broadcasters DR, TV2/Danmark and the Film Institute as part of the four-year media agreement. Its starts ...
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Highsmith's White On White starts UK shoot
Shooting started in the UK this week on White On White, the latest outing of Patricia Highsmith's anti-hero Ripley, produced and backed by German fund Cinerenta. Lakeshore Entertainment is handling international distribution.Based on Highsmith's novel Ripley Underground, the protagonist Tom Blessing - AKA Ripley - will be played by Barry ...
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Academy gets tough on Oscar campaigning
The Academy OfMotion Picture Arts & Sciences yesterday issued strict new guidelines overmarketing practices for Oscar contenders. They aren't guidelines anymore,the Academy statement said, they are 'regulations.'The Academythreatens suspension of membership or expulsion if members indulge in campaignactivities which have undermined the letter or spirit of the regulations andeven suggests ...
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Academy gets tough on Oscar campaigning
The Academy OfMotion Picture Arts & Sciences yesterday issued strict new guidelines overmarketing practices for Oscar contenders. They aren't guidelines anymore,the Academy statement said, they are "regulations."The Academythreatens suspension of membership or expulsion if members indulge in campaignactivities which have undermined the letter or spirit of the regulations andeven suggests ...
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Rywin teams with Atlantic Alliance for Holocaust drama
AtlanticAlliance Pictures, a recently formed joint venture between two US producers anda third in the UK, has teamed up with Lew Rywin and his Heritage Films inPoland to produce its first feature Love Is A Survivor.Heritagecollaborated with both Steven Spielberg on Schindler's List and with Roman Polanski on ThePianist, although ...