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Tribeca hosts world premieres of InDigEnt film, restored Leone classic
Kill The Poor, the latest low-budget feature from the festival-winning digitalvideo collective InDigEnt, are among the many additional films that will bereceiving their world premieres at this year's Tribeca Film Festival in earlyMayDirected by Alan Taylor, whose Palookaville won the award for best first feature atthe Venice Film Festival, Kill ...
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Menemsha takes North American rights on El Bonaerense
Neil Friedman's LA-based sales and distribution outfit Menemsha Films has acquired North American rights to Argentine police drama El Bonaerense, the second feature from Pablo Trapero. Menemsha secured all rights (with the exception of pay-TV, which went to HBO) from Wild Bunch/ TVOR.Trapero won widespread critical acclaim with his ...
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European Film Promotion to tour Argentina
Pan-European promotional body European Film Promtion (EFP) will presenting a touring programme of new European films through Argentina in May and June as part of a first collaboration this year with the Buenos Aires V Festival Internacional de Cine Independente (BA FICI) (April 16-26)Organised under the banner 'New Directors/New Directions', ...
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Italy follows France in big budget stakes
Taking a lesson from the French industry, Italian producers are lining up a string of big budget features in a bid to wow local and international audiences.Cast an eye over many of Italy's forthcoming films and one things stands out: despite the financial woes of the local industry, a slew ...
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German broadcasters to double film funding
Germany's public and private broadcasters have agreed to double their financial contribution to the German Federal Film Board (FFA) to Euros 22.4m from 2004, State Minister for Culture Christina Weiss (pictured) announced on unveiling the draft German Film Law (FFG) on Wednesday (April 2).While public channels ARD and ZDF will ...
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Russian distributors focus on foreign-language films
Russia's box office grew by a stellar 45% last year - and with the chief beneficiaries being the Hollywood majors, Russian distributors are increasingly relying on foreign-language films.Animation and major releases aside, one of the things that characterises the Russian market is the popularity of French films. Thirty-eight French films ...
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US arthouse renamed after benefactor who donated $2.5m
As a reflectionof philanthropy many arthouse film theatres might envy, the Rafael Film Centrein northern California has changed its name to the Christopher B Smith RafaelFilm Centre to honour donations of $2.5m from benefactor Smith.Smith hails from a family of philanthropists andentrepreneurs and is a long-time supporter of the centre, ...
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Filardi boards Armada's Drum
Bringing DownThe House screenwriterJason Filardi has signed on as executive producer on independent financing,production and distribution company Armada Pictures' upcoming thriller, Drum.Filardi will supply creative input on the screenplay aswell as other aspects of the production, which is inspired by real events andcentres on two South African journalists involved in ...
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Visionbox, Small Planet team on US release of Charlotte
Los Angeles-basedproduction outfit Visionbox Pictures has teamed up with fledgling USdistributor Small Planet Pictures on the theatrical release of itsaward-winning drama Charlotte Sometimes, with a roll-out scheduled for May in Los Angeles, SanFrancisco, Chicago and Hawaii.The film, written and directed by Eric Byler (Kenji'sFaith), centres on a love triangle betweena ...
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UIP signs content deal with Neos Interactive
UnitedInternational Pictures (UIP) has signed a non-exclusive content deal with NeosInteractive, the developers of upscale hospitality digital entertainment systemNeosTV (formerly known as IRIS).The deal wasfacilitated by content procurement specialist Federal Hill Communications,which was appointed by Neos Interactive to oversee talks with the majorstudios.The UIP packagefeatures a range of titles including ...
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Film-maker partners with HBO, Magnolia on US release of Friedmans
Capturing TheFriedmans, AndrewJarecki's galvanizing documentary which was the talk of this year'sSundance Film Festival and winner of its documentary grand jury prize, will bereleased in US theatres in a three-way partnership between Jarecki himself,Eamonn Bowles' Magnolia Pictures and HBO Documentary Films. The team hasopted for an exclusive run in New ...
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Franchise, Warner land Monkeyface
ElieSamaha's Franchise Pictures has signed on to finance the $52m heistthriller Monkeyfaceto star Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones and to be directed by StephenFrears. Laura Bickford and Mark Shorrock are producing the film which will be distributedin North America by Warner Bros per its distribution agreement with Franchise.The deal comesjust ...
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The In-Laws gets world premiere at Tribeca
FranchisePictures and Warner Bros' comedy The In-Laws, which stars Michael Douglas and AlbertBrooks, will receive its world premiere at the second Tribeca Film Festival onMay 10, co-founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal announced today (Apr 3).The picturefollows the uneasy relationship between two prospective fathers-in-law whosechildren are to be married. ...
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UK Film Council takes over BFI exhibition function
The British Film Institute's exhibition department is to be closed and its functions taken over by the UK's Film Council.According to local reports from the BBC, the BFI is to close its programming unit, which supplies support to regional film theatres for the screening of arthouse product.According to the BBC, ...
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Cendres Et Cachotteries wins grand prize at Paris fest
The 18th Paris Film Festival closed Tuesday night with Cendres Et Cachotteries (pictured) by Alice Nellis taking home the Grand Prize. Madame Brouette from Senegalese director Moussa Sene Absa earned two awards, the special jury prize and the best actor statue for Aboubacar Sadikh Ba.American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal won the ...
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Matrix Reloaded confirmed for Cannes
Likely to deliver some of the most spectacular images on the Croisette this year, Matrix Reloaded has been confirmed as receiving a place in the Cannes Festival's official selection.The film, which is the second installment of the Matrix trilogy and is directed by the Wachowski brothers, will be given a ...
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Israel's Channel 10 on the brink of bankruptcy
The future of Israel's newest television broadcaster, Channel 10, hangs in the balance as controlling shareholder Yossi Maiman gives the station one week to avoid bankruptcy.Maiman, who holds 51% of Channel 10's interests, has recently been injecting some $8m a month into the operation to keep it afloat. Last weekend, ...
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Strand takes North American rights to A Thousand Peace Clouds
Santa Monica-based Strand Releasing has snapped up North American rights to award-winning Mexican gay drama A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle The Sky (Mil Nubes De Paz Cercan El Cielo) by Julian Hernandez. Hernandez, who also wrote the screenplay, recently took home the Best Director and Best Sound awards for his ...
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Screwball comedy scores Spain's fifth biggest opening
Actor-turned-director Jesus Bonilla struck gold this weekend with star-studded comedy Moscow Gold (El Oro De Moscu), recording the fifth top opening weekend ever for a Spanish film.The success follows on the heels of Mortadelo & Filemon - The Big Adventure, which continues its record streak with a cumulative Euros 21.6m ...
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CETV granted extra broadcast rights in China
CETV, the Chinese-language entertainment channel majority-owned by AOL Time-Warner, has been granted additional broadcast rights in mainland China.In a statement AOL Time-Warner said that the channel will be allowed to broadcast via cable networks in the cities of Guangzhou and Shenzen. Since October 2001 it has been allowed to broadcast ...