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Film Department sets Brothers In Arms for March 2008
Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's financing, production and international sales company The Film Department has acquired Noah Lukeman's script Brothers In Arms and hired Marcel Langenegger to direct.The company is targeting a March 31 2008 start date in the Czech Republic and is out to casting on the true story ...
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Australia's Abacus Fund backs Geena Davis project Accidents Happen
A film fund aimed at raising $26.4m (A$30m) for the production of Australian films has been formed, with the first beneficiary being Andrew Lancaster's debut film Accidents Happen, starring American actress Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise). Accidents Happen was one of five films which yesterday won investment from the ...
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Sony pacts with Tiscali UK for on-demand TV offerings
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) and Tiscali TV have launched a new video on demand service, called Screen Gems, as part of Tiscali's on-demand TV platform in the UK.The service initially includes catalogue TV series such as Bewitched, Starsky & Hutch and Charlie's Angels, with new Sony shows to be ...
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Alvin And The Chipmunks
Dir: Tim Hill. US. 2007. 91minsFor nearly 50 years, in various incarnations on the small screen and in other forms of media, lively chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore have been delighting young audiences around the world, wreaking havoc and crooning in distinctively high-pitched, three-part harmonies which have become a pop ...
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P.S. I Love You
Dir: Richard LaGravenese. US. 2007. 126minsThe lightweight Ghost-meets-Bridget Jones dramedy of Irish novelist Cecelia Ahern's PS, I Love You turns into forced romantic comedy in this miscast and largely Americanized screen version starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler. Interest in the film's theatrical release will come mostly from avid chick ...
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New German funding model generates spend of almost $588m
The German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) has generated a 'German spend' of almost $588m (Euros 400m) in its first year of operations after backing 99 feature film and documentary projects with over $87.3m (Euros 59.4m). Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com, DFFF project manager Christine Berg explained that the 99 films with ...
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European Commission approves UK Lottery funding
The European Commission has given the greenlight to 12 Lottery funded film support schemes in the UK. This allays any concerns that the funding could fall foul of EU state aid rules and the schemes have now been approved until the end of 2012.The go-ahead covers more than $45m (£22m) ...
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Rezo works on new Cebula and Laine projects
At the upcoming Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris, Rezo Films will unveil two new films, one from director Idit Cebula and the other from Marion Laine. The former, Two Lives Plus One, is produced by Les Films du Kiosque and stars Emmanuelle Devos and Gerard Darmon in the story of ...
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Control, Atonement lead London Critics' Circle nominations
Anton Corbijn's Control and Joe Wright's Atonement lead the nominations for the London Critics' Circle Film Awards. Each has eight nominations. Other films with multiple nominations include There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men and The Lives Of Others, with four nominations each.The awards will be handed out ...
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Atonement leads Golden Globe nominations
Joe Wright’s Atonement leads the nominations for the 65th annual Golden Globes, voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Atonement has seven nominations, for best film, director (Joe Wright), screenplay (Christopher Hampton), actress (Keira Knightley), actor (James McAvoy), supporting actress (Saoirse Ronan), and score (Dario Marianelli).
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Israeli Producers Association to host international networking session
Feeling they did not get the credit they deserve for the recent forward leap of the Israeli films and their resounding worldwide success, the Israeli Producers Association is organizing a networking session to be attended by international experts, including producer-director Claude Lelouch, producers Cedomir Kolar, Paul Trijbits, and the BBC's ...
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Valladolid opens with Dancer, unveils competition
Lars von Trier's Palme d'Or winner Dancer In The Dark will inaugurate this year's 45th annual Valladolid International Film Week.Dancer will screen out of competition in the popular festival's Official Section. Von Trier's Breaking The Waves opened Valladolid in 1996.Among the films in competition are L'Amour, L'Argent, L'Amour from Germany, ...
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Humphreys includes Katyn, Waveriders in first Dublin programme
Grainne Humphreys, new Director of the Jameson Dublin InternationalFilm Festival (JDIFF), has announced the first titles included in her first programme for the sixth JDIFF, running Feb 15-24, 2008. There will be a Special Presentation of GW Pabst's classic Pandora's Box (1929) in the 900-seater Savoy Cinema with live ...
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Warner Bros signs longterm TV deal with Saran Media in Turkey
Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a multi-year television distribution agreement with Saran Media in Turkey.The new output deal expands upon WBITD's current deal with Saran, its partner of the last 10 years.Under the terms Saran has acquired premium, basic, free and subscription VOD rights to a wide ...
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Golden Globe nominee reactions in full
We’re so overjoyed with the Golden Globe nominations and it’s gratifying that at the end of the year you get an opportunity to acknowledge the company you have been keeping,’ Focus Features CEO James Schamus said in response to the company’s 11 nominations, which included seven for Atonement. ‘It’s so ...
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Capitol Films signs three-film distribution deal with 3-D outfit StereoVision
Capitol Films has signed a three-film distribution deal with 3-D production company StereoVision and will announce further details in due course.'We believe the timing is perfect to exploit StereoVision's theatrical 3-D movie model,' Capitol Films chairman David Bergstein said.'There is going to be an exponentially growing demand for theatrical 3-D ...
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Santa Barbara Festival to present inaugural Virtuosos Award
Casey Affleck, Marion Cotillard, James McAvoy, Ellen Page, and Amy Ryan will receive the inaugural 2007 Virtuosos Award at the 23rd Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF).The 2007 Virtuosos Award was created this year to recognise 'a select group of young actors who have distinguished themselves through performances in film ...
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Sundance Institute names 13 projects in annual Screenwriters Lab
Sundance Institute has announced the 13 projects for the annual January Screenwriters Lab scheduled to take place from January 11-16, 2008.Film projects supported this year explore a wide range of topics including an exploration of class and race in Brazil, a story about a mother reintegrating into society after serving ...
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Classic Jarman, Araki films to screen in Sundance Collection programme
Derek Jarman's Edward II and Gregg Araki's The Living End will be shown at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to mark the 10th anniversary of the festival's From the Collection category.Jarman's 1991 drama Edward II updates Christopher Marlowe's 16th century Elizabethan tragedy about the newly crowned king of England's gay ...
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Bee Movie, I Am Legend offer competition to Compass
DreamWorks' animated hit Bee Movie gets a big push through PPI this weekend and launches in 24 territories including France on December 12, Germany on December 13 and the UK on December 14.The film has amassed $39m to date and will pose a major threat to New Line International's The ...