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Media Park to co-produce Risi's Three Wives
Spanish content broker and producer Media Park has boarded its third feature film, Three Wives (Tres Esposas) from Italian director Marco Risi.Wives follows Media Park's first two forays into feature films: Mi Dulce, a co-production with Tusitala starring Aitana Sanchez-Gijon and now in post-production; and Universal Pictures Spain's Km. O, ...
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Danish Film Institute dips into the mainstream
Denmark's main public funding body, the Danish Film Institute (DFI), is moving towards commercially-driven fare in its latest funding round by awarding $1.89m (DKr15m) to three mainstream, family-oriented films.Danish national broadcaster TV2 is also co-financing the projects. "We need films which can draw a lot of people to create a ...
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Fukasaku to flesh out Battle Royale
Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku is preparing a director's cut of his controversial gore fest, Battle Royale, which should enable its target audience of under 16-year-olds to see the film for the first time in Japan.The dark, futuristic thriller, about a group of 15-year-olds on a desert island who are picked ...
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Kevin Bacon joins Canton/Senator's 24 Hours
Kevin Bacon has signed star alongside Charlize Theron and Courtney Love in Luis Mandoki's latest picture 24 Hours which is being produced by The Canton Company, Mandolin Entertainment and Propaganda Films.A thriller about a family in jeopardy, the film is produced by Mimi Polk Gitlin and Mandoki and executive produced ...
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Sundance-Toscano script lab projects named
The Sundance Institute International Program has selected ten projects for its annual Sundance-Toscano Screenwriters Lab which is set to take place Feb 14-18 in Oaxaca, Mexico. The lab will allow the participating screenwriters to collaborate in story meetings with a group of creative advisors to develop their works. Those advisors ...
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John Burnham moves to ICM from William Morris
John Burnham, one of the most senior talent agents in Hollywood, has left the William Morris Agency (WMA) to become head of the motion picture department at International Creative Management (ICM).He is known to have clashed with WMA's new chairman Jim Wiatt, who himself defected from ICM last year. Burnham ...
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Sundance Channel buys US TV on The Woman Chaser
The Sundance Channel has acquired US TV rights to The Woman Chaser, Robinson Devor's debut feature which screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival in the American Spectrum section. It was released theatrically in 14 US markets last summer by Bob Berney's Inwood Films.The deal was negotiated by Larry Greenberg, ...
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Bench takes top honours at Danish film awards
Per Fly's intense and realistic drama The Bench won five awards including best film, best director and best actor (Jesper Christensen) at the Danish Film Academy's Robert awards on Sunday night.The Zentropa-produced title also won awards for best costume and best make-up. After an unprecedented number of nominations, Zentropa titles ...
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Das Werk launches Spanish production-sales outfit
German facilities giant Das Werk has launched a new production and sales company in Spain under the name 42nd Street Productions.Headed by CEO Thomas Spieker, the new company will invest some $200m in film and television production through 2005 with five-year plans encompassing nearly a dozen feature films developed in-house, ...
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Brotherhood is a hit but no record breaker
The Brotherhood Of Wolves, backed by StudioCanal, has attracted a strong 1.5 million admissions in its first five days in France, but the $29m (FFr200m) title has yet to top records set by other domestic films such as Taxi 2 and Asterix Et Obelix Contre Cesar.The Christophe Gans-directed title, which ...
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FilmFour to lie within Channel 4 commercial arm
UK features operation FilmFour is to be spun off from parent broadcaster Channel 4 into a new company, 4 Ventures Limited.Channel 4 confirmed in a statement on Monday that the new holding company would include the film production, distribution and sales subsidiary alongside the channel's commercial ventures such as pay-TV ...
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Euro quartet team up for feature-length docs
Tapping into the growing demand for feature-length documentaries, four European producers have launched a joint venture to produce a slate of creative docs.The quartet is made up of Fabienne Servan-Schreiber of France's Cineteve, Domenico Procacci of Italy's Fandango, Karl "Baumi" Baumgartner of Germany's Pandora and Rosa Bosch of UK-Mexican production ...
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Feilberg takes post at Danish Film Institute
The board of the Danish Film Institute has appointed Lars Feilberg as area manager for production and development, replacing Thomas Stenderup, effective from April. Feilberg has previously held positions as managing director of Domino Film & TV Produktion, MTV Produktion and Endemol Entertainment. He was also a project manager and ...
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London's Electric Cinema set to reopen
The Electric Cinema, one of London's most celebrated theatres, is to reopen on February 21 after a seven-year hiatus with a charity gala screening of Stephen Frears' Liam.The cinema's initial programme also includes screenings of Marc Singer's acclaimed documentary Dark Days, a re-release of The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, ...
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Verhoeven shorts to heat up Tampere fest
The leading Nordic short film event, Finland's Tampere International Short Film Festival (March 7-11), has unveiled the programme of its 31st edition which includes cult favourites chosen by Aki Kaurismaki as well as early shorts from Paul Verhoeven.Both international and Finnish competition films will be judged by an international jury ...
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Argentine production to receive tax boost
Argentina is poised to introduce a new law which will create tax shelters for companies investing in cinema and other cultural endeavors, along the same lines as the Brazilian model. The so-called Ley de Mecenazgo (Sponsorship Law) will be put forward in March for final deliberations by the government.Under the ...
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Valentine can't edge out Wedding Planner from No 1
Columbia Pictures' The Wedding Planner - sold internationally by Intermedia - held on to the number one slot at the North American box office over the weekend, taking in an estimated $11m to bring its ten day total to $28.2m. The romantic comedy beat out competition from Warner Bros' teen ...
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Cool And Crazy bags top award at Goteborg
Knut Erik Jensen's feature-length documentary Cool And Crazy (Heftig Og Begeistret) picked up the Nordic film award at Scandinavia's largest film event, the Goteborg Film Festival in Sweden, which wrapped on Saturday night.The film had its successful world premiere at the Tromso International Film Festival in Norway, but director Jensen, ...
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Uruguay's 25 Watts lights up Rotterdam
Uruguayan directors Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll's 25 Watts, about a group of bored teenagers in Montevideo, clinched one of the three VPRO Tiger Awards, along with the Movie Zone Award, at this year's Rotterdam International Film Festival.The other two Tiger Award winners, who each receive prizes worth Euro10,000, ...
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Pellet scoops four awards at Spain's Goyas
Actor-turned-director Achero Manas' debut feature film, Pellet (El Bola), was the surprise grand winner at the 15th edition of Spain's top Goya Awards on Saturday night.A startlingly realistic tale of child abuse and one of the first titles out of new production house Tesela Producciones, Pellet won four out of ...