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Private investors fund new $22.6m The Red Baron
Germany's most expensive new production in 2006, Niki Muellerschoen's $22.6m (Euros 18m) English-language production The Red Baron (Der Rote Baron), begins principal photography on July 3 in Prague as a 100% privately financed project. The financing for the film about the legendary First World War fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen ...
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Jonescompany pacts with FilmFour
UK producer Robert Jones, whose credits include The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill, But Came Down A Mountain and The Usual Suspects, is striking a first-look deal with FilmFour, the company announced on Friday.The first three projects under the deal with Jones' London-based production outfit Jonescompany Productions include The ...
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Fortissimo gets four Hal Hartley features
Sales company Fortissimo Films has struck a dealwith director Hal Hartley and his Possible Films to add four of his films tothe Fortissimo library.Marking the first time Hartley has worked withFortissimo, the company is taking rights to 1990's Trust, 1995's Flirt, 1997'sHenry Fool and 2005's The Girl From Monday. Hartley ...
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Sojitz, DBJ team for animation sales venture
Japanese conglomerate SojitzCorp, its affiliate Klockworx and the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) haveinvested $12m (Y1.4bn) in a limited partnership to buy animation contents andlicense them to the global market. Sojitz is contributing 64%,DBJ 28% and Klockworx 8% of the investment in the partnership. Internationalsales of the contents will be ...
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Berlin's World Cinema Fund backs five new projects
New feature projects by Mexico's Carlos Reygadas and Kyrgyzstan's Aktan Arym Kubat are among five filmprojects recommended for a total of $363,935(Euros 290,000) production funding in the fourth selection round ofthe Berlin-based World Cinema Fund (WCF). The WCF jury, comprising theFrench independent distributor Isabelle Dubar,UK-based curator Keith Shiri, Swiss Television'sprogramme ...
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Geertsen says European industry should pay its share for digital revolution
As the 15th CinemaExpo International got underway in Amsterdam today Anders Geertsen,director of distribution at the Danish Film Institute and director of the commercialmodule at the European Digital Cinema Forum, delivered a call to arms to theEuropean industry.Delivering the convention's firstkeynote address on the subject of digital cinema - a ...
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Germany's Splendid Film revives theatrical business
Cologne-basedlicense trader Splendid Film is to revive the theatrical arm Splendid Filmverleih to handle the releases of its own films inGerman cinemas.Responsibilityfor Splendid's theatrical releases will be assumed bydistribution veteran Veronika Morawetzwho will continue managing her own independent distribution outfit Stardust Filmverleih at the same time.Splendid's first new release will ...
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First ThinkTank draws 170 international delegates
The inaugural Copenhagen ThinkTank, which took place last week, has been pronounceda success by organisers. "I think it wasextraordinary. We had 170 people there, representing 34 countries including Australia and Canada," the Danish Film Institute's chief executiveHenning Camre said. During the conference, delegatesbrainstormed strategies for "strengthening and reinvigorating European film." ...
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Uro
Dir: Stefan Faldbakken. Nor. 2006. 104mins.A rogue undercover cop pursues a muddle-head path towards redemption in URO, a solidly commercial first feature from Stefan Faldbakken. Familiarity hasn't blunted the appeal of a character type that has been a fixture of police thrillers from the glory days of Sidney Lumet through ...
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Spain's Telespan 2000 to merge with Telson
Leading Spanish producer Telespan 2000 is merging with Telson,the audiovisual arm of telecommunications giant Avanzit.The idea is to create anintegratedmedia holding incorporating companies from all sectors, withthe Telespan team heading content creation. The deal marks a first moveinto content creation for Telson, a specialist inpost-production services and thematic channel packaging, ...
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Moviemax gets rights to Mr Magorium and King Of California
Italian distributor Moviemax has acquired rights totwo upcoming US films: Mr Magorium'sWonder Emporium and King OfCalifornia.Sold by Freeway Entertainment, Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium stars Natalie Portman as the awkward clerk of a fantastical toy store. But whenthe 243 year-old eccentric store owner (Dustin Hoffman) leaves it to her, shemust decide ...
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Edinburgh picks Reed's Odd Man Out for closing night
The Edinburgh International FilmFestival (EIFF) announced that Carol Reed's 1947 film noir Odd Man Out will be the closing-night film at this year's 60thanniversary festival. The film opened the same year that the festival waslaunched, and a digitally restored version will be shown in Edinburgh (as well being shown in ...
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Los Angeles Film Critics set awards dinner for Jan 14, 2007
TheLos Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) will hold its 32ndannual film achievement awards ceremony the day before the Golden Globes on Jan14 2007 in Los Angeles.Theevent will take place at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Century City.Thedate of the group's December 2006 voting meeting will be announced this autumn.
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Offutt promoted to creative executive at Participant
AmberOffutt has been promoted to creative executive at Participant Productions,freeing her up to work on development and production at the Los Angeles-basedcompany.Offuttpreviously served as executive assistant to Participant executivevice-president of creative affairs and production Chris Salvaterra.Priorto joining Participant she worked at production companies LioneyesEntertainment and Ovation Entertainment. Offutt began her ...
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Steckler, Greenfield join Searchlight in production roles
JeremySteckler and Matthew Greenfield have been appointed senior vice presidents ofproduction at Fox Searchlight Pictures. They will report to production chiefClaudia Lewis.Stecklerarrives after three years at di Bonaventura Pictures, while Greenfield is aproducer who previously had two films, The Good Girl and Star Maps,distributed through Searchlight."Matthew'sstellar reputation in the independent ...
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Zhang's Curse lands at Sony Pictures Classics
SonyPictures Classics has picked up North American and Latin American rights toZhang Yimou's period epic Curse Of The Golden Flower.Currentlyshooting in China, the Beijing New Pictures production stars Chow Yun Fat andGong Li, and marks SPC's ninth collaboration with the director following, mostrecently, this year's Riding Alone For Thousands Of ...
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Gaumont to shoot thriller Avatar in September
Frenchstudio Gaumont has announced that it is inpreparation on Avatar, a first film by Julien Leclercq. The film is scheduled to begin shooting onSeptember 12 for ten weeks in Paris.Avataris a $10.9m (Euros 8.7m) production starring Albert Dupontel,Marie Guillard, Melanie Thierry, MartheKeller, Estelle Lefebure and Francis Renaud. Set in Parisin ...
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The Holiday gets strong response for UIP at CineExpo
Anyregular attendee of Cinema Expo International knows that Monday has becomeknown as UIP day. This year was no different, although CineExpo'sBob Sunshine introduced the beginning of the UIP presentation yesterday as'the end of an era' as chairman and CEO Stewart Till and presidentand COO Andrew Cripps prepared to deliver the ...
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CineExpo told of great threat from closing release windows
Theproblem of closing release windows is 'the only issue that can end cinemaas we know it,' John Fithian of the National Association of Theatre Owners(Nato) in the US told Cinema Expo Internationaldelegates in Amsterdam yesterday on the thornyissue.'Thepreservation of theatrical release windows is the most important issue weface,' he said, ...
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German industry fights piracy with innovative campaign
Attendees at Cinema Expo in Amsterdam heard how real progress is being made in getting themessage to consumers about copyright theft.Jan Oesterlin,managing director of Zukunft KinoMarketing,explained that the problem in Germany was that previous education-oriented campaigns didnot show results, so a decision was made in September 2003 to become more ...