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Cinesite's Brown named British Film Commissioner
Colin Brown has been appointed British Film Commissioner, afterrecently stepping down as chairman of Cinesite (Europe) Ltd. Brown replaces Steve Norris,who recently departed the commissioner post to become managing director of filmat Framestore. Both Cinesite and Framestore are leading UK production and effects houses.Brown had been a member ofthe UK ...
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Jiang banned for seven years by China
Chinese actor-director Jiang Wen has been banned from making films for seven years by the Chinese Film Bureau. His film Devils At The Doorstep (Guizi Lai Le), about China during the time of Japanese occupation, was judged as insufficiently patriotic. Jiang, who starred in several films by Zhang Yimou and ...
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Fleur Knopperts joins Sheffield team
The Sheffield InternationalDocumentary Film Festival has appointed Fleur Knopperts as industry andmarketplace director.Knopperts, who will move to Sheffield in February 2007, was formerly managing director of The Forum at theInternational Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). She will follow inthe footsteps of former IDFA employee David Teigeler, who joined the Docfestteam ...
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Dogwoof buys Fissures and Stolen Holidays
UK distributor Dogwoof Pictures has acquired two new French titles: Fissures (Ecoute Le Temps) by Alante Kavaiteand Stolen Holidays (Les Petites Vacances)by Olivier Peyon. Both deals were struck with Wide Management in Paris. Thriller Fissures stars Emilie Dequenne, LudmilaMikael, Mathieu Demy, Jacques Spiesser and Etienne Chicot in the story of ...
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Cinemart to present 46 projects to 800 partners
The world's largestco-production market, Rotterdam'sCinemart, has announced its line-up for the 24th edition, which will run fromJan 28 to Feb 1, 2007.A total of 46 projects - upone from last year's tally of 45 - have been selected to present to an internationalaudience of up to 800 buyers, sales agents, ...
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Delluc prize shortlist includes Flanders and Coeurs
Rather than being whittled down, the short list forthe Louis Delluc prize has been augmented to six candidates, it was announcedtoday. Along with the previously nominated Bled Number One by RabahAmeur-Zaïmeche, Cannes Palme d'Or winner Flanders by Bruno Dumont, OtarIosseliani's Jardins En Automne, Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterleyand Xavier Giannoli's Cannes ...
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Bergeron starts Un Monstre A Paris
Shark Tale directorEric "Bibo" Bergeron has begun work on animated feature Un Monstre A Paris,in his new 3-D animation studio in Nice. Monstre is beingdeveloped by Luc Besson's EuropaCorp. with Remi Burahin to produce. The roughly $26m (Euros 20m) comedy/horror film is set to bedelivered in late 2008 or early ...
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Filmaka launches twice-monthly online competition
Los Angeles-based film-maker collective Filmaka.com has launchedan online twice-monthly competition and is offering a production deal with thecompany and its principals to the year-end finalist.Twice a month Filmaka.com will announce contest topics and invitecontestants to shoot a one-to-three-minute film and upload it to the site.At the entry level contestant films ...
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TWC signs music and soundtrack deal with Cherry Lane
The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Cherry Lane Music PublishingCompany have signed a multi-year administration agreement covering all musicand soundtracks from films released by TWC.Under the terms of the agreement, Cherry Lane will represent andexploit all music and soundtracks owned by TWC while securing performancerights fees from various music publishers worldwide.'We ...
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Lucas to receive one-time honour from San Francisco Film Festival
George Lucas will receive the San Francisco Film Society's Irving'Bud' Levin Award, a one-time only honour that will be presented during the50th San Francisco International Film Festival on May 3 2007.Named after San Francisco International Film Festival founder BudLevin, the award recognises Bay Area resident Lucas' 'deep appreciationfor movies as ...
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PLATFORM to launch as North American animation hub
The PLATFORM International Animation Festival will launch in June2007 seeking to make its mark as the first major North American festivaldedicated to the genre.Set to run from in Portland, Oregon, from Jun 25-30 2007, theevent will feature competition screenings, installations, workshops, networkingopportunities, and exhibitions. Cartoon Network is the sole sponsor.The ...
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Stickmen Pictures to self-distribute ice hockey documentary In The Crease
Matt Gannon and Michael Sarner's Los Angeles-based StickmenPictures will release the ice hockey documentary In The Crease in the US and Canada on Dec 7.The company will primarily handle the release of its debut filmthrough its website www.inthecreasemovie.com as well as through sports stores.In The Crease takes an inside look ...
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Production report: HK strives for pan-Asian appeal
The running joke at the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum in April was that the only Asian country producing films of a lower quality than Hong Kong was Macau. The huge success at the Hong Kong box office this year of Nakata Hideo's Japanese psycho-horror Ring ($4m) and Kang Je-gyu's ...
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Tribeca to launch sports film festival in conjunction with ESPN
Tribeca Enterprises and ESPN Inc will launch The Tribeca/ESPNSports Film Festival during the 2007 Tribeca Film festival, which is set to runfrom Apr 25-May 5.In a multi-year arrangement, The Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festivalwill be programmed and operated by the Tribeca Film Festival with on-airsupport from ESPN.Targeted at both the film ...
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Slamdance unveils lineups for 13th festival in Jan
The Slamdance Film Festival hasexpanded the 2007 documentary programme and for the first time is presenting anequal number of narrative and documentaries in competition with ten apiece.The festival, whose 13thedition runs from Jan 18-27, received more than 3,600 submissions andwill open with Allan Moyle's screwball comedy Weirdsville starring Scott Speedman ...
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Love And Honor beats Bond at Japanese box office
Yoji Yamada's Love And Honor, the final film in hissamurai trilogy, ranked number one at Japan's box office on its opening weekend, beating Bondpicture Casino Royale which it openedhead-to-head against. Love And Honor earned $3.8m (Y437m) over the three-day weekend from 354 screens for a$10,734 screen average, while Sony Pictures' ...
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China's digital loop stymied by lack of US product
Chinese cinema proprietorsspoke of the difficulty of securing enough product to make the expansion ofdigital cinema a profitable business, on the first day of the CineAsia conventionand trade show in Beijing. China's State Administrationof Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has recently reiterated its goal to rollout a nationwide network of ...
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China's production volume up by 27% in 2006
Tong Gang, director of China's Film Bureau, has announced that China produced 330 films in 2006, an increase of 27% fromthe 260 produced the previous year. Speaking at the opening ofthe CineAsia conference which is being held for the second time in Beijing, Tong added that two thirds of these ...
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Pakistan's Kara Film Festival introduces cash prizes
Pakistan's Kara Film Festival is introducing cash prizes forthe first time this year, including a $3,500 prize for best feature. The sixth edition of thefestival, which takes place in Karachi December 7-17, will screen 170 films from 37countries, including 40 features, 34 documentaries and 100 short films. A cashprize of ...
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Lars von Trier unveils Lookey concept
Aftergiving the film world Dogme and Automavision, Lars von Trier has unleashed hislatest concept: Lookey.TheDanish director describes Lookey as a "basic mind game, played with movies asgame boards."VonTrier explains that a Lookey is an out-of-context visual element added to afilm, with five to seven to be found in each feature. ...