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Lights In The Dusk and Frozen City top Finland 's Jussis
Concluding his losers' trilogy, Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's Lights In The Dusk turned up as a winner, cashing in on three out of six nominations for the Jussis - Finland's national film prizes - winning Best Film, Best Cinematography (Timo Salminen) and Best Set Design (Markku Patila). The previous instalments ...
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Chinese censors approve Lost In Beijing with major cuts
Li Yu's Berlin competition title Lost In Beijing was finally passed by China's Film Reviewing Committee this afternoon. However the approved film is 15 minutes shorter than the original version according to the film's producer Fang Li. Zhang Hongsen, deputy director of the Film Bureau under the State Administration of ...
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Because I Said So
Dir: Michael Lehmann US. 2007. 100mins. Diane Keaton leads a multi-generational female ensemble in Because I Said So, a mostly frothy and predictable romantic comedy that occasionally gets serious on subjects including mother-daughter relationships and even female sexuality. The cast and viewpoint could be enough to pull in a fairly ...
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Santa Barbara gives top international prize to Beauty In Trouble
Jan Hrebejk's Czech ensemble drama Beauty In Trouble won the Best International Feature Film Award at the 22nd annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Jan 25-Feb 4). The American Spirit Award went to Michael Schroeder's Man In The Chair starring Christopher Plummer and Michael Angarano. The Gold Vision Award for ...
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The Messengers
Dirs: Oxide and Danny Pang. US. 2007. 91mins. The studio debut of the gifted horror specialists Oxide and Danny Pang (The Eye , Bangkok Dangerous), The Messengers is a visually assured though dramatically flat ghost story about an endangered American family unaware their just purchased North Dakota farmhouse harbors a ...
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Brussels approves Vizzavi portal, with conditions
The European Commission's competition division has given its blessing to the establishment of Vizzavi, the multi-platform Internet portal launched last month by Vivendi and mobile phone group Vodafone Airtouch. However, approval came with conditions.The success of the portal is key to the proposed merger between Canal Plus, Vivendi and Seagram ...
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Editorial - Screen says Looping the loop
ScreenDaily.com this week reported that Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media is teaming up with Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking to co-finance approximately 45 films from an as-yet-unnamed Hollywood studio over the next five years. Following the parameters of recent co-financing equity structures with Hollywood, as much as $1.1bn could be invested ...
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Film finance - A question of duty
Pierre Drouot is a worried and angry man. The director of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund fears that the work of 20 years' hard lobbying for a Belgian tax shelter to support film finance may soon be killed off. And he believes he has identified the culprits responsible."The analysis is very ...
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In focus - Screen conference - Sunshine states
Screen International is hosting a conference covering all aspects of film financing, from private equity to state tax breaks.Among the speakers will be Ryan Kavanaugh whose Relativity Media this week announced a monster deal, co-financing 45 films from an unnamed studio.There are also speakers on the tax breaks that have ...
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United States/Denmark - Lit Fuse
In the 10 years since he moved from his native Denmark to Los Angeles, Mikkel Bondesen has established himself in the competitive world of management and expanded into film and TV production.Fuse Entertainment, the literary management company he launched in 2004, has a list of writer clients including Josh Schwartz ...
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United states/Europe - Water works
For Mark Horowitz and Andras Hamori, the recently launched international sales and co-production arm of H2O Motion Pictures is part new venture, part professional reunion.The two executives previously worked together in the late 1990s, when Hamori was president of the Alliance Pictures production operation and Horowitz served as president of ...
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Spain - Saints above
Like The Da Vinci Code before it, Ray Loriga's Teresa (Teresa, El Cuerpo De Cristo) has drawn the ire of the Catholic Church from Madrid to London before the film - which stars Spanish siren Paz Vega as the 16th century saint - has even premiered.Controversy, says writer-director Loriga, "is ...
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Czech Republic/Poland - Ay Karamazov!
Numerous directors have filmed Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, most notably Richard Brooks in 1958 and Russians Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov in a 1969 joint effort. Now Czech director Petr Zelenka (Wrong Side Up, Year Of The Devil) thinks the novel's time has come again."It's quite a thrilling ...
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Sony fills key posts
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has named Adrian Alperovich as senior executive vice-president and general manager, and hired former Momentum VP of acquisitions Lara Thompson as senior vice-president of acquisitions. Scott Shooman has been promoted to executive director of acquisitions, and Lia Buman has joined as director of acquisitions.
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Participant social action role for Schreiber
Participant Productions has hired event producer John Schreiber in the newly created position of executive vice-president of social action and advocacy.
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Furst and Kessel move to Starz's Overture
Sean Furst and Robert Kessel have been appointed executive vice-presidents of productions and acquisitions at Starz's new theatrical division Overture Films. Furst's brother Bryan arrives as senior vice-president of productions and acquisitions.
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Carlton names new boss as UK TV battle begins
Thanksgiving records collapsed over the five-day holiday weekend led by the phenomenal holdover success of Universal Pictures' Dr Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas. The family adventure took an estimated $73.8m from Wednesday to Sunday - about $52.4m over the Friday to Sunday period - bringing its ten day total ...
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Fukuda tapped by NBC Universal in Tokyo
NBC Universal International has named Taichi Fukuda as managing director, Japan Representative, to be based in Tokyo. He will work with divisions including the home-entertainment arm Universal Pictures Japan, TV and New Media Distribution, Mobile Entertainment and Cnbc.Fox promotes Echeverria Eduardo Echeverria has been promoted to executive vice-president of Latin ...
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Film Movement promotes Gartenstein
Adley Gartenstein has been promoted to president at distributor Film Movement. Stuart Litman, who previously held the role, will continue as CEO of the business.
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Kasell leaves Hamptons
Hamptons International Film Festival executive director Denise Kasell is leaving her post after nine years. Artistic director Rajendra Roy remains in place.