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International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009 update
More than midway through the 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), there is a clear feeling of relief among industry delegates. Some had feared that thanks to the global economic downturn, even an event as well-established as IFFR's coproduction market CineMart might have fallen completely flat. However, despite a cautious ...
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Suso D'Amico to receive first WGAW Jean Renoir Award for screenwriting
Italian screenwriter Suso D'Amico will receive the inaugural Writers Guild Of America West's Jean Renoir Award for screenwriting achievement.D'Amico is credited with writing more than 100 films including The Bicycle Thief, Rocco And His Brothers and Big Deal On Madonna Street.The lifetime achievement award will be given on an occasional ...
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Amanda Seyfried takes the lead in A Woman Of No Importance
Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried has signed on for the leading role of Hester Worley in Myriad Pictures' Oscar Wilde adaptation A Woman Of No Importance.Bruce Beresford is directing and Donald Zuckerman producing, with Myriad president and CEO Kirk D'Amico serving as executive producer.Annette Bening and Sean Bean also star ...
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Samuel L. Jackson joins cast of Rodrigo Garcia's Mother And Child
Samuel L. Jackson has joined the cast of Rodrigo Garcia 's Mother and Child,he joinsNaomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, and Jimmy Smits.Prinicpal photography has now started with writer and director Rodrigo Garcia directing from his own screenplay. Mother And Child tells the intersecting story of three women - a ...
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Japanese box office down 1.8% in 2008
According to annual data published today by The Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren), overall box office revenues for 2008 totalled $2.164bn (Y194.84bn), a 1.8% decrease from 2007's $2.204bn (Y198.44bn). The figure represents earnings on 160.49 million admissions, a 1.7% drop on the previous year's 163.19m cinemagoers. The average ...
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UK lottery funding for the Film Agency for Wales drops 21%
The Film Agency for Wales is to receive $1.1 million (£750,000) of lottery money to invest in Welsh film production and development in 2009. The investment fund is significantly lower than the figure allocated for the previous year. Over the course of 2008 the agency invested almost $2.5 million (£1.7 ...
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Omega, Latin partners to launch virtual market
Japanese production outfit Omega Pictures is teaming up with three Latin American media companies to launch an on-line film sales outfit, based in Puerto Rico, where they have been lured by significant tax and funding initiatives.Omega will take a 40% stake in the joint venture, entitled Intermedia Contenido, with the ...
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Russia and CIS box office up 46.9% year on year
Russia and CIS box office grossed $830m in 2008, a 46.9% year on year rise from 2007's $565m, according to Russian Film Business Today. The main reasons behind the increase are a significant rise in admissions combined with a considerable hike in ticket prices. Admissions for 2008 totalled a record ...
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M-Appeal picks up international sales for Simon Chung's End Of Love
M-Appeal has picked up international distribution for Hong Kong filmmaker Simon Chung's drama End Of Love, which will have its world premiere in the Panorama Special at the Berlinale next month. End Of Love's cast includes Lee Chi Kin, Guthrie Yip and Clifton Kwan, Scripted by Chung, the film centres ...
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Warner Bros' Josh Berger joins UK Film Council board.
Minister for Culture Barbara Follett has announced today that Josh Berger, President and MD of Warner Bros. Entertainment UK Ltd (WBEUK) has been appointed to the UK Film Council's board of directors. Berger, who has been with Warner Bros Entertainment Inc. since 1989, has been WBEUK's President and MD since ...
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Rossi, Mori hired by Paramount in acquisitions group
Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions Group (PWAG) has appointed Alexandra Rossi to vice president of the group in London and Mineko Mori to director of the group in Mexico City.The group was set up in July 2008 as Paramount's centralised acquisitions and local co-production division servicing Paramount Pictures International and its territories ...
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins Swank in Hammer's The Resident
Watchmen star Jeffrey Dean Morgan has joined Hilary Swank in Hammer Films' thriller The Resident, which will be available at next week's EFM in Berlin.Hammer will produce for parent company Exclusive Media Group, the global company that combines Hammer and Los Angeles-based Spitfire Pictures and is backed by strategic investment ...
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UK government to legislate against piracy
The UK government has announced that it will legislate to tackle piracy resulting from peer to peer file sharing. The government's plans are set out in the report Digital Britain issued today, January 29, by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory ...
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Myriad takes on international rights to McGehee/Siegel drama
Kirk D'Amico's Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company Myriad Pictures has acquired all international rights to the action drama Uncertainty starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lynn Collins.Myriad will screen the film and commence sales at EFM next week after Myriad's Luiza Ricupero negotiated the deal with Christine Kim of Cinetic. ...
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Summit arrives at EFM with Furry Vengeance, Next Day Air
Summit International arrives at EFM with the $50m family adventure Furry Vengeance starring Brendan Fraser and urban comedy caper Next Day Air starring Mos Def and Mike Epps.Summit Entertainment plans a 2010 North American release on Furry Vengeance, in which Fraser plays a conniving developer whose cruel intentions meet with ...
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Screen opinion:Film industry must dodge thesucker punch
Don't worry,' a reassuring senior financier mentioned this time last year, 'the thing with film is that there will always be another sucker at the table.' The hedge funds might dry up and the dodgy tax loopholes close but in true Micawber fashion, he remained confident that 'something would turn ...
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Caine to star in Beresford's Boswell
Michael Caine has boarded 18th century legal drama Boswell For The Defence, which Bruce Beresford is to direct from a script by Patrick Edgeworth. The $13m project is being set up by German fund MBP, Australian-based sales house Beyond Films and the UK's Scala Productions. Set in 18th century London, ...
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Berlin Buzz: the key films
It may be as much a question of lucky timing as one of programming genius, but at first glance the competition line-up of the 59th Berlinale, which was finalised this week, makes for an appetising buffet.The opening out-of-competition film, global finance thriller The International, stars Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. ...
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German films - Doors open for rush of local films
The entire Berlin festival this year acknowledges the role played by German production houses in international projects. Tom Tykwer's The International, Stephen Frears' Cheri and Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth all benefited from the German Federal Film Fund's incentives, as did a slew of Panorama titles including Michael Glawogger's Kill Daddy Good ...