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NewsMy Life in Ruins holds world premiere in Athens
My Life in Ruins, produced by Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson’s Playtone, is holding its world premiere in Athens two months before it launches in the US. It is thought to be the firsttime a Hollywood production backed by industry heavyweights has opened in Greece.
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NewsSafari adventures in France, The Boat That Rocked launches in the UK
ScreenDaily takes a look at the local and independent releases vying for attention against animated 3D blockbuster Monsters Vs Aliens this weekend.
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NewsWinterbottom's The Killer Inside Me saved by last-minute funding deal
The Killer Inside Me, the latest collaboration between director Michael Winterbottom and producer Andrew Eaton, has been saved after securing new funding. The $13m projectwas close to collapse after it lost key financial support.
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NewsInhabited Island: Part II to hit Russian screens on April 23
The second part of the $36.6m Russiansci-fi blockbuster, Inhabited Island: Part II will be released on April 23.
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Roissy takes on international sales to Singing Nun tale Soeur Sourire
Roissy Films has acquiredSoeur Souriredirected by Stijn Coninx for international sales. Produced by Ocean Films’ Eric Heumann and Marc Sillam, the film will be released byOcean on April 29 in France.
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NewsGerman Federal Film Fund gives $2m to new projects
New films by Leander Haussmann, Benedek Fliegauf and Isabelle Stever will receive $2m (Euro 1.5m) from incentive scheme German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).
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The Investigators, Cherry Blossoms among winners at Cleveland
Dorris Dorrie’sCherry Blossomswas the winner of the audience choice award at the 33rd annual Cleveland International Film Festival which ended last week.Sean Baker’s Prince Of Broadway won the $2,500 cash prize American Independent Award also determined by audience vote from the films in the American Independent Film Competition.Meanwhile Attila Gigor’s ...
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HandMade hires Tara Gaule and Carlos Rodriguez
HandMade Films International has boosted its sales and marketing team with two key appointments. Tara Gaule joins as senior sales executive and Carlos Rodriguez has beenappointed as senior vice-president in the marketing department.
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Passchendaele wins Best Picture at Canada's Genie Awards
Paul Gross’ WWI epicPasschendaeletook six awards, including best picture, as the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced the 2009 Genie Award winners in Ottawa on Saturday.The film, which premiered at Toronto in 2008, also won the prizes for art direction, costume design, sound editing and overall sound. It was ...
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Sarasota's top prizes go to The Maid, Winnebago Man
Sebastian Silva’s Sundance award winner The Maid continued its winning spree by taking the honours for Best Narrative Feature at the 11th annual Sarasota Film Festival. The Best Documentary Feature was Ben Steinbauer’s Winnebago Man.For the first year, Sarasota’s awards came with distribution prizes. The narrative feature gets a DVD/VOD/TV ...
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NewsFast And Furious speeds to $100m global opening for Universal
The on-screen reunion of Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in Fast & Furious delivered the biggest launch of the year-to-date with a spectacular $72.5m estimated gross reminiscent of summer launches that also set a new April opening weekend record and produced the biggest debut in Universal’s eight-year action franchise.Diesel and ...
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Monsters Vs Aliens wins international box office with $34.2m
In a vibrant weekend in which both PPI’sMonsters Vs Aliensand UPI’sFast & Furiousgrossed more than $30m it was the former that ran out the winner as it debuted in 43 territories and grossedan estimated $34.2m overall from 6,991 sites to raise the early international running total to $47.7m.
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Children Of Invention to open 25th LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
Tze Chun’sChildren Of Inventionand Yojiro Takita’s Oscar winningDeparturesbookend the 25th Anniversary Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, set to run from April 30-May 7.A roster of 35 features and 146 shorts will screen at the event, including So Yong Kim’s Centrepiece gala screening Treeless Mountain, Anders Ostergaard’s Burma VJ, Christine ...
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Von Trier, Wong score at European Film Awards
Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark was the clear winner at this year's European Film Awards in Paris, taking away the top honour of Best European Film 2000, as well as the European Actress award for Bjork. The film, which has polarised critics ever since it was first seen ...
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Gigantic, Skin among key winners at AFI Dallas festival
Matt Aselton’s Gigantic won the unrestricted $25,000 cash prize for the Target Filmmaker Award for Best Narrative Feature as the AFI Dallas International Film Festival came to a close, while Paul Saltzman’s Prom Night In Mississippi won the corresponding documentary prize and the unrestricted $25,000 cash prize from Target.Joe Berlinger’s ...
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NewsIndustry pioneer Wouter Barendrecht of Fortissimo Films dies at 43
Fortissimo Films confirmed yesterday that company co-founder and co-chairman Wouter Barendrecht died of heart failure on Sunday April 5 in Bangkok, Thailand , where he had gone to screen a rough cut of Fortissimo’s upcoming Thai co-productionNYMPH.Barendrecht was a passionate advocate of independent cinema for the last 19 years at ...
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Russian musical Hipsters scoops best film at Nika Awards
Valery Todorovksy’s Hipsters has won the best film award atthe 22nd Nika Awards. The musical also took awards for best cinematography, costume design and sound editing.
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Australian film andacting schools unite for One More Day
The two best-known institutions in Australia for preparing people for a career in film and television are gearing up to shoot a feature film together, One More Day, in June/July. The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) approached the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) about doing a project ...