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Venice Days premieres include Aprahamian's Broken Lines
Czech director Bohdan Slama's A Country Teacher (VenkovskyUcitel) will have its international premiere at this year's Venice Dayssidebar, which is heavy on European and Eastern European films in thisyear's edition.A Country Teacher, sold by Wild Bunch, tells the story of a brilliantprofessor who moves to the Bohemian countryside in order ...
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Council of Europe sponsors Sarajevo's main award
The Council of Europe has become the partner of the Sarajevo Film Festival and sponsor of the 'Heart of Sarajevo' award for the best feature film.Since 1988, the European Support Fund for the Co-production and Distribution of Creative Cinematographic and Audiovisual Works, or Eurimages, has worked within the Council of ...
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Samantha Morton to direct drama for UK's Channel 4
Actress Samantha Morton will make her directorial debut on a Channel 4 television drama, The Unloved.The drama is a Channel 4 production with co-finance from regional screen agency EM Media through the European Regional Development Fund.The story is about a young girl growing up in a children's home.Morton plans to ...
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Japanese box office plummets 13.7% in first half of 2008
Japanese box office earnings for the first half of 2008 totaled $743.54m (Y79.83bn), a 13.7% drop from the same period last year, according to figures reported by media trade publication Bunka Tsushin.The total comprises grosses of the the top 13 foreign and local distributors in the territory, representing approximately 95% ...
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Sundance names documentary film-makers for Aug lab
The Sundance Documentary Composers and Story Lab has named the seven film-makers and six composers invited to the lab Aug 3-8 at the Sundance Resort in Utah.The lab, which will explore the creative process in sound and story and the role of film music in nonfiction storytelling, is a collaboration ...
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Man On Wire takes British feature prize at third BritDoc
The UK's third BritDoc documentary festival wrapped on Friday (July 25) with James Marsh's Man On Wire continuing its festival awards spree by winning the British Feature Film Documentary Prize.Jerry Rothwell's Heavy Load - a film about a punk band with learning difficulties that was pitched at BritDoc in 2006 ...
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Altavista eyes Spain as production base
Expanding Mexican producer Altavista Films has unveiled plans to establish a production beach head in Spain. "We hope to set up local operations in order to gain access to Spanish government incentives," said Altavista director general Francisco Gonzalez Compean.Altavista is currently in co-production talks with some of the biggest players ...
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Theo Angelopoulos pulls Dust of Time from Venice
Just one day before theVenice Film Festival announces its line-up (Tuesday), one of the most eagerly-awaited world premieres, Theo Angelopoulos' Dust of Time has been pulled from the selection.The decision by the Greek auteur and his producers came after screenings slots could not be found that would have allowed leading ...
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No One's Son sweeps Croatian national awards
Arsen Anton Ostojic's No One's Son picked up six of the 16 Golden Arena awards at the 55th Pula Film Festival, including best film, best director and best actor.The crime drama - Ostojic's second feature - about a crippled Croatian soldier in search of his identity also won the Croatian ...
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Knight clubs the competition with $65.6m international weekend
The bat ruled the waves as Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) The Dark Knight clobbered the opposition thanks to an estimated $65.6m weekend gross from 43 markets for $126.3m after two weekends.The action epic has grossed 156% of the box office its 2005 prequel Batman Begins generated in the same ...
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Warner's Knight crosses $300m in record time in North America
The Dark Knight demolition derby continued apace as Warner Bros' world-beating action epic grossed an estimated $75.6m to set a new second weekend record and crossed $300m in another new mark of 10 days.Christopher Nolan's phenomenon currently stands at $314.2m and trails Iron Man by a whisker as the second ...
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Arranged wins best picture at Japan's Skip City fest
US-based directors Stephan Schaefer and Diane Crespo's Arranged has won best picture at the 5th annual Skip City International Digital Cinema Festival (July 19-27). The accolade also carried a $92,700 (Y10m) cash prize by fest sponsor Sony. Arranged tells the story of two female teachers in Brooklyn, one Jewish and ...
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Studios parade 2008 and 09 blockbusters at Comic-Con
Sam Raimi will commence exploratory work this week on a new instalment in his iconic Evil Dead series, the director told Comic-Con attendees.Speaking after he unveiled footage from his upcoming horror release Drag Me To Hell, a back-to-roots exercise following the grand scale of the Spider-Man franchise, Raimi said he ...
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Oz filmmakers urged to seek different subject matter
Scripts must reflect big ideas that are unique and engaging, local distributors and potential overseas partners told the Australian and New Zealand filmmakers pitching projects as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival's financing market 37South. While hardly a new or surprising message, it is a crucial one at a ...
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Chaser takes top awards at Korea's PiFan fest
The 11th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) awarded Na Hong-jin's serial murderer thriller The Chaser with its top Best of Puchon prize and the European Federation of Fantastic Films (EFFF) Asian Award. The film also took best actress for Seo Young-hee. 'We had great rains over the weekend and ...
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Sierk promoted to deputy role in acquisitions/sales at Telepool
Thomas Sierk has been named deputy head of acquisitions & sales for German-speaking territories at Telepool.He reports to the division's new head Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann, who takes her post as of January 2009.Sierk is a law graduate who has worked at Telepool since 2003.Higuchi-Zitzmann said: 'In Thomas Sierk I have found ...
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Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Dir: Joe Berlinger. US. 2000. 90minProd co: Haxan Films, Artisan Entertainment. US dist: Artisan Entertainment. Int'l Sales: Summit Entertainment, tel: (1) 310 309 8400. Exec prod: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez. Prod: Bill Carraro. Scr: Dick Beebe, Berlinger. DoP: Nancy Schreiber. Prod des: Vince Peranio. Ed: Sarah Flack. Music: Carter Burwell. ...
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Three And Out gets simultaneous DVD/VOD launch
Sky Television and Worldwide Bonus Entertainment have struck a deal to release UK feature Three And Out simultaneously on DVD and Sky Box Office.Three And Out will be offered on Sky Box Office and Sky's online VOD service for a four-month window priced around $8 per viewing.The DVD retail and ...
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First Light gets kids' shorts on Virgin Atlantic planes
First Light Movies, the initative to get UK youngsters making films, has struck a deal for five of its shorts to be shown on Virgin Atlantic planes.First Light-funded films made by six- to 18-year-olds will be shown on Virgin Atlantic's inflight entertainment system from July to November.The selected films are: ...