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One Perfect Day
Dir: Paul Currie. Australia. 2003. 105minsTelling their tale of a young 'genius' who rejects composing at London's fusty old Royal Academy of Music in favour of spinning the decks at Melbourne clubs and Outback raves, it was essential that the makers of One Perfect Day got the soundtrack right. This ...
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African cinema gets Dogme injection
The low-budget adrenaline injection which awoke the Danish film industry in the mid 90s is set to be applied to the African film industry.That, at least, is the hope of Zentropa staffers Pia Severin and Pia Nielsen as well as filmmaker Vibeke Muasya (Birds Of Passage), who have thrown themselves ...
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Berlin rekindles the spirit of Che Guevara
Last month, Che Guevara's old Cuban friend and travelling companion Alberto Granado was denied entry to the US for the Sundance World Premiere of Motorcycle Diaries, Walter Salles' film based on his 1952 journey round South America on the back of a Norton 500 with Guevara.Thankfully, the 81-year-old did make ...
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Paramount Classics gets Intimate
Paramount Classics is in final negotiations to pick up rights in North America and select other territories on Patrice Leconte's latest drama Intimate Strangers (Confidences Trop Intimes) which screened in competition in Berlin.The deal which should close this weekend marks the third Leconte movie for Paramount Classics which has scored ...
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UK Film Showcase unveiled
Further details have emerged of The UK Film Showcase, the new screenings initiative for British films being launched in London this summer.London mayor Ken Livingstone is investing roughly £50,000 into the event, due to be held in late June at the three-screen National Film Theatre in London. The Showcase is ...
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Japanese fall for My Girl
Thai drama My Girl (Fan Chan), which screens in both Berlinale's Forum and the EFM, was scooped up by Japanese buyers Cinema Parisien and Artist Film.'We are thrilled to have sold it to these distributors which are also releasing Party Monster and have recognised the film's cross-over potential between youth ...
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Wondrous director readies Dali, Lorca project
Director Paul Morrison, whose film Wondrous Oblivion opened the Berlinale Kinderfest, is set to direct Little Ashes, a drama based on the relationship between Spanish artists Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali in 1920's Madrid.The screenplay is by Philippa Goslett, and was developed by Moira Campbell through UK production company ...
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Rezo says Yes to Men
French seller Wild Bunch claimed one of the first deals of the EFM with the sale on Friday afternoon of recently picked-up documentary The Yes Men to Rezo Films for France.The film by Chris Smith, Dan Oldman and Sarah Price was quickly snapped up by Rezo buyer Laurent Danielou. Yes ...
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Kinowelt sales slate swelled by Playa, Verhoeven doc
Kinowelt International has picked up Felix Moeller's documentary The Verhoevens and Peter Lichtefeld's new feature Playa Del Futuro for international distribution.Stelios Ziannis, head of international sales at Kinowelt International, plans to begin presales on Lichtefeld's film which was shooting in Cologne before Christmas and will be moving production to Andalucia ...
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Berlinale co-production market opens for business
The first edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market opened for business with around 200 participants at the Talent Campus venue of the House of World Cultures.32 projects, including new features by Daniel Burman, Alexander Sokurov, Robert Glinski, Susanne Bier, Goran Paskaljevic and Pang Ho Cheung, were selected from 230 entries ...
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Unapix taps Abramowitz for new US theatrical arm
New York''s ambitious Unapix Entertainment has hired film marketing specialist Richard Abramowitz, most recently senior executive vice president of Carl Ichan's Stratosphere Entertainment, to spearhead the company''s new push into US theatrical releasing.As president of Unapix Films Theatrical, Abramowitz will oversee the release of six feature films over the next ...
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Besson's EuropaCorp raises Euros 25m
EuropaCorp, the French studio created three years ago by Luc Besson and Pierre-Ange LePogam, raised Euros 25m on the Paris stock market, through the issue of a convertible corporate bond on Friday.The cash raised will be used to finance the development of the company and its slate of productions. ...
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Cinema Guild gets Inheritance for the US
Per Fly's The Inheritance, which won six Danish Film Academy's Robert awards last week, has been picked up for US release by The Cinema Guild's Philip Hobel and Ryan Krivoshey.The film was the most popular local release last year in Denmark and was in the main competition in San Sebastian, ...
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German media fund strikes radical US deal
Producers Eberhard Junkersdorf and Dietmar Guntsche's private German media fund Neue Bioskop Germany (NBG) has teamed up with US producer @radical.media.Junkersdorf said that the co-operation with production and commercials outfit @radical.media, a producer of Oscar nominated documentary The Fog Of War, would "immediately give us a partner at our side ...
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SHIP shapes up with detective trilogy
Studio Hamburg International Production (SHIP), the English-language division of Studio Hamburg Produktion (SHP), has unveiled a slate of five feature projects for production in 2004/2005.The first project scheduled for production at the end of this year is the children's adventure film The Mystery Of Skeleton Island, which will be the ...
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New tax scheme for 'Bollywood UK'
UK Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt is backing a scheme to raise £34m to set up a production base for Indian films made in Europe, specifically in the Leicester area of England.The plan is to offer wealthy British individuals the chance to invest in a portfolio of Indian films ...
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Shooting Stars hit Berlin
Yesterday (Sunday) in Berlin, young thesps from all over Europe were paraded at a series of events in Berlin as part of the 7th 'Shooting Star' showcase.They had 'speed breakfasts' with casting directors, met the press at a special lunch in the Hotel Esplanade and rubbed shoulders with directors, producers ...
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Latido beats Spanish drum
New Spanish-language sales consortium Latido has closed a string of sales on Manuel Gutierrez Aragon's Berlin competition entry Your Next Life prior to the film's premiere today (Monday) - and the company's official launch at the post-premiere party.Your Next Life (La Vida Que Te Espera) has sold to Canada's Seville ...
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Film Italia launches with Mifed price cut promise
Georgio Gosetti will today in Berlin (Monday) present Film Italia the new national promotional body that replaces Italia Cinema, and unveil the first concrete elements of Mifed's response to the challenge of an autumn AFM."In the past we have had too many announcements about Mifed which have not been followed ...
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Barbershop 2 takes plenty off the top for MGM with $25.1m bow
MGM's comedy sequel Barbershop2: Back In Business opened number one at the weekend on an estimated $25m, shunting Buena Vista's true-life sports drama Miracleinto the silver medal position on $19.4m.The only other top 10 openerwas Fox's family adventure Catch That Kid, which bowed in sixth place on$6m as box office ...