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Sarajevo film festival launches Balkan script development project
The Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) has attracted support from Rotterdam International Film Festival's Hubert Bals Fund and the Dutch foundation HIVOS for a "Regional Script Development Project" which aims to support film production in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia. SFF director Mirsad Purivatra announced that the new venture will be launched ...
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UK co-production tax breaks face uncertain future
It has been a gold rush to rival the Klondike, only this time many of the prospectors have been rushing the other way across the Atlantic. Since the UK introduced generous tax breaks in 1997, international co-productions have rocketed by some 400%. Canadian-UK co-productions mark the biggest single rise at ...
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UK's Moviehouse picks up Britpop documentary
UK-based sales outfit Moviehouse Entertainment has picked up Live Forever, the Britpop music documentary produced by John Battsek, who won an Academy Award for best documentary for One Day In September.The film charts the rise and fall of the mid-1990s music scene in the UK against a changing political backdrop ...
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Buyers say yes to Noi
Noi The Albino (Noi Albinoi), Icelandic director Dagur Kari's debut feature which has won six festival prizes in as many weeks, has proved a winner with buyers as well. Handled by Paris-based sales and production outfit, The Co-Production Office, Noi has now been licensed to nine territories. Latest deals closed ...
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UK's Feature Film Company strikes Sterling deal
Having recently earned kudos by boarding Bloody Sunday and The Last Great Wilderness at production stage, the UK's Winchester Entertainment-owned distributor: Feature Film Company is stepping up activities. FFC, which operates as the specialised arm of Winchester's UK distribution division, has appointed Laurence Gornall as managing director and struck ...
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Daly's Miracle launches Scoundrel's Wife
John Daly's Miracle Film Distribution (MFD), the independent distributor that was recently launched by Miracle Entertainment as a wholly owned company to serve the US domestic theatrical market, announced today (Feb 19) that the WWII romantic drama The Scoundrel's Wife will be its first release. The picture will open on ...
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Stars line up to deliver Eulogy for Myriad
Jesse Bradford, Zooey Deschanel, Glenne Headly and Kelly Preston have joined Myriad Pictures' star-studded comedy Eulogy. The four join Hank Azaria, Ray Romano, Rip Torn and Debra Winger, who have already committed to the project, with principal photography due to begin in Los Angeles on Saturday (Feb 22). Artisan Entertainment ...
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Producers team for Nettelbeck's Helen
Sandra Nettelbeck's next feature Helen is to be produced by MTM Medien & Television Muenchen's Andreas Bareiss and co-produced with Pandora Film's Karl Baumgartner, who produced her international hit Mostly Martha.Helen, which will be shot in English, centres on a law professor fighting to save her life and her family ...
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Fox opens Daredevil in two markets, grosses $3.6m
Fox International began its international roll-out of Daredevil over the weekend, grossing $3.6m from 440 screens in two markets. In the UK, the Marvel Comics adaptation fared slightly below expectations, opening with $3.2m on 384 screens in second place behind holdover Two Weeks Notice. In Puerto Rico the picture grossed ...
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Revolution teams with Universal, BVI in Japan
Joe Roth's Revolution Studios has sealed two separate studio deals for distribution of its 2003 slate in Japan. Universal Pictures has taken theatrical and TV rights to six films kicking off with Jennifer Lopez hit Maid In Manhattan, while Buena Vista International (BVI) has taken three films kicking off with ...
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Steven Paul launches genre division Renegade
Steven Paul's Crystal Sky has established a new genre division Renegade Worldwide which kicks off at AFM with Jon Voight-starrer Deadly Course and 3:44, a movie set against the underground music scene with Carrie Ann Moss in the lead role. Run by Paul and Patrick Ewald, Renegade Worldwide is also ...
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IFP/New York acts again as US rep for Quinzaine
For the 13th year, IFP/New York will serve as theofficial US representative for the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine desRealisateurs) which in previous years has provided a Cannes showcase for suchAmerican films as Lisa Cholodenko's Laurel Canyon, Allen & Albert Hughes' Menace II Society, Tamara Jenkins' The Slums Of BeverlyHills, Spike Lee's ...
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Cyprus becomes MEDIA Programme's 25th member
Cyprus has become the 25th member of the European Union's MEDIA Programme following the Slovak Republic which signed its association agreement on January 10. Both agreements have been back-dated to January 1, 2003.While the Slovak Republic has committed to pay Euross 160,000 annually as its financial contribution towards the MEDIA ...
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UK animation grows up
A clutch of major UK animation features are cranking up, most with US Studio backing. Aardman aims to start shooting a new spoof-horror Wallace And Gromit movie with backing from DreamWorks SKG by September. Pathe is already in production on The Magic Roundabout, while Walt Disney Co has North America ...
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Aurora provides a ray of hope in Australia
Every cinema-producing country is always abuzz about which up-and-coming writers and filmmakers are worth watching. Cate Shortland is one of Australia's. Her script, More Than Scarlet, was one of four chosen from a field of 40 for last year's inaugural Aurora intensive scriptwriting workshop."I suddenly found myself in a room ...
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South Korean cinema risks becoming a victim of its own success
If the signals emerging from the South Korean film world these days seem a bit contradictory, it may be because the industry is on the brink of a transformation. Despite producing numerous award-winning films and an amazing 47% local market share in 2002, Korean cinema finds itself facing a host ...
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New kind of tax-based German production fund proposed
German feature film producers could receive an injection of Euros 70m-80m worth of fresh cash from an unexpected source - the pay-TV platform Premiere.The offer came after Premiere CEO Georg Kofler criticised the different VAT rates which apply in Germany for those subscribing to pay television (16%) and taking out ...
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Gordon Green teams with ContentFilm for Undertow
Hot on the heels of hiscritically acclaimed Sundance Film Festival prize-winner All The Real Girls, hot US director David Gordon Green has set his nextfilm Undertow at Edward Pressman and John Schmidt's ContentFilm with DermotMulroney, Josh Lucas and Jamie Bell in the lead roles.The project has been indevelopment for over ...
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Two Weeks Notice an international smash for Warner
Warner Bros enjoyed hugesuccess over the weekend with Castle Rock comedy Two Weeks Notice, grossing $15m in 23 territories. The film whichstars Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant remained at number one in the UK in itssecond weekend with $3.6m (£2.19m) at 417 sites beating Fox's opener Daredevil and bringing its ...
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Infernal Affairs leads Hong Kong Film Award nominations
Hit crime thriller Infernal Affairs leads the race for the 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards with 16 nominations including best film, best director, for Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, and an impressive five nods in the best actor and supporting actor categories. The Media Asia production, which topped the Hong ...