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Locarno competition hopeful nominated for First Steps award
Locarno competition entry The Longing (Das Verlangen) (pictured) by Iain Dilthey, which has its international premiere in the official competition here on Thursday 8th August, is among five feature-length films by German film school graduates nominated for this year's FIRST STEPS Awards which will be announced in Berlin on August ...
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Distinguished Features to shoot Dead Bodies, premiere Puckoon
Dead Bodies, the debut feature from young Irish company Distinguished Features and director Robert Quinn, will start principal photography in and around Dublin on September 1.The film will be the first project to avail of the Irish Film Board's Low Budget Feature Initiative, announced at the Galway Film Fleadh in ...
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Lord Of The Rings breaks UK video & DVD sales record
The UK video and DVD release of The Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring has outsold previous record-holder Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone by 20,000 copies on its first day - despite going on sale on a Tuesday as opposed to Potter's Saturday release.UK distributor Entertainment in ...
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German regional film office fights for survival
Some 200 members of a German regional film office have protested to the local government at plans to close down its operations after 22 years of activity.Filmmakers Christoph Schlingensief, Ulla Wagner, Adolf Winkelmann and producers Gerhard Schmidt (Gemini Film). Frank Huebner (ApolloMedia), Joachim Ortmanns (Lichtblick) are among 200 members of ...
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Bavaria takes world sales on Fuehrer Ex
Bavaria Film International (BFI) has taken over world sales for Winfried Bonengel's Fuehrer Ex which will have its world premiere in competition at the 59th Venice Film Festival.According to BFI's head of sales Thorsten Schaumann, the story of Fuehrer Ex is likely to polarise audiences on its screening in Venice. ...
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Kinowelt decision set for today
The future of the beleaguered Kinowelt group will be decided once and for all at a meeting in Munich today. The creditor committee of the ABN Amro Bank, BHF Bank and HypoVereinsbank will hear presentations from two groups bidding to take over the running of Kinowelt's core operations of theatrical ...
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Motown, Migration among Toronto's 32 documentary features
A special presentation of Paul Justman's passionate account Standing In The Shadows Of Motown (pictured) and the highly cinematic Winged Migration (Le Peuple Migrateur) from Jacques Perrin are among the 32 documentary feature films announced for the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs September 5-14.The international premiere of the ...
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Montreal world film festival reveals full competition line-up
With a total of five films, France is especially well represented in the official competition of the 26th Montreal World Film Festival, which runs from Aug 22 to Sept 2. Competing against the five French films - four of which are international co-productions - are four films from Spain and ...
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Large format operator IMAX continues international expansion, posts upbeat results
Maintaining its recent expansion into international markets, Toronto-based large format operator IMAX Corp is to open Russia's first 3-D IMAX theatre this autumn.The IMAX theatre is to be housed in Moscow's new Ramstore hypermarket, with site owner Ramenka saying that it is currently holding a tender for an operator. According ...
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Venice to host amfAR AIDS benefit
The Venice festival (Aug 29 - Sept 8) will once again be home to an amfAR spectacular raising money for AIDS research. Stars expected to attend include Shirley Bassey, Milla Jovovich and the evening's host Lauren Bacall. It will be co-chaired by Paolo Bulgari, Lady Helen Taylor, Venice festival director ...
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Venice to host amfAR AIDS benefit
The Venice festival (Aug 29 - Sept 8) will once again be home to an amfAR spectacular raising money for AIDS research. Stars expected to attend include Shirley Bassey, Milla Jovovich and the evening's host Lauren Bacall. It will be co-chaired by Paolo Bulgari, Lady Helen Taylor, Venice festival director ...
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British Indie film awards secures new sponsor
The British Independent Film Awards has secured a new headline sponsor, the independent financial services group Park Caledonia. A new venue has also been found for the fifth annual award ceremony, which will be held at Pacha London on 30th October The full list of BIFA nominations will be announced ...
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George Lucas joins board of governors of BAFTA/LA
George Lucas, who received the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from the British Academy Of Film And Television Arts/Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA) in April, has joined the board of governers of the organization. He joins a board which includes fellow US film-makers Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese."I have ...
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Macleod to head Media Business School marketing course
Charlotte Macleod, founder of UK script development body The Script Factory, is to head the marketing and distribution course at the EU-backed Media Business School.Macleod, who will oversee the course part time, replaces Jill Tandy of Michael Kuhn's London-based Kuhn & Co. The high-powered course has included speakers such as ...
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Mockridge moves to Stream as Murdoch closes on Telepiu
Rurpert Murdoch has appointed News Corp. veteran Tom Mockridge as CEO of Stream, Italy's struggling pay-TV outfit. He replaces Marty Pompadur and joins Enrico Bondi, Telecom Italia's CEO, the two being recently appointed respectively interim CEO and president of Stream. They replaced Lucia Morselli and Renato Cassaro.The moves come as ...
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Italy's Medusa Film announces new president
Claudio Sposito, CEO of Silvio Berlusconi's media giant Fininvest, has been named president of the multi-billion dollar group's film division, Medusa Film. Sposito (pictured), who will retain his position at Fininvest, replaces Berlusconi's eldest daughter, Marina, who was appointed to the top job last year, following the sudden death of ...
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Blue Moon rights selling fast in Locarno
Monopole Pathe has picked up all Swiss rights for Austrian director Andrea Maria Dusl's feature debut Blue Moon which had its world premiere in the Locarno Festival international competition this weekend.Starring Austrian stand-up comedian Josef Hader, leading Ukrainian actress Viktoria Malektorovich and German actor-director Detlev Buck, Blue Moon follows the ...
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New research reveals the real value of cinema food sales
With a current global value of $4.5bn, cinema concessions revenues are set to rise this decade, increasingly providing more profit for many exhibitors than that from movie ticket sales.According to new research from trade analyst Screen Digest, and the first time that such an in-depth study has been undertaken, if ...
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Columbia TriStar snaps up rights to Japanese sci-fi Returner
Columbia Tristar Motion Picture Group has bought worldwide rights, outside Asia, to Returner, a sci-fi thriller expected to be one of the big Japanese films of the year.Although Hollywood has taken a greater interest in Japan in recent years, the purchase by a major studio of worlwide rights to a ...