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Whishaw and Goode take leads in HanWay's Brideshead Revisited
HanWay Films has announced that Ben Whishaw and Matthew Goode have taken the lead roles as Sebastian and Charles, respectively, in the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Julian Jarrold is directing the project, and Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae are producing through their Ecosse Films. HanWay is handling worldwide ...
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Lightning takes on Open Sky's Cougar Club
Los Angeles-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has acquired international rights from Open Sky Entertainment to The Cougar Club. Christopher Duddy directed the comedy from a screenplay he co-wrote with Glenn Garland and Cris Mancuso about college graduates who establish a club of young men who pursue sexually desirable ...
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BFI, Bac sign French deal for Distant Voices Still Lives
The British Film Institute struck a deal with Bac Films for all Frenchrights to the BFI's restoration of Terence Davies' Distant Voices StillLives. The BFI will re-release the film theatrically in the UK in April followed by a new DVD release. Bac Film's Jean Labadie negotiated the deal with BFI ...
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Fortissimo scores German hat trick with Kinowelt
Fortissimo Films has closed a three-picture deal with Kinowelt Filmverleih consisting of Martin Scorsese's untitled Rolling Stones documentary, Christopher Guest's comedy For Your Consideration and Marion Hansel's Africa-set drama Sounds Of Sand. The deal was brokered by Kinowelt's founder and chief Rainer Kolmel and Fortissimo executive vice president, international sales, ...
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Scandal rocks UK box office
Notes On A Scandal has catapulted to number one at the UK box-office due to an impressive mid-week performance. The Oscar and BAFTA nominated drama - a collaboration between Fox Searchlight and DNA films - generated £1.89m ($3.68m) as of February 8 from 300 sites. The film, starring Cate Blanchett ...
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Toronto announces official hub location
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) organisers have announcedthat the Sutton Place Hotel will become the centralised festival hubstarting this autumn.Festival offices will occupy the first and second floors of the hotel,which will also accommodate delegates at reduced rates.The venue will encompass the sales and industry office, press officeand press conferences, ...
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Dongsoong sets up production and distribution subsidiary
Korean arthouse distributor and exhibitor Dongsoong Art Center has set up a subsidiary, JinJin Pictures, to handle production and distribution, with a new additional focus on commercial films.JinJin Pictures chief executive officer Nan-sook Kim is at the EFM shopping for films with Tae-Won Jung from her Business Strategy Plan & ...
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Karlovy Vary pick for Min Boung-hun's Grapevine
Korean director Min Boung-hun's Pruning The Grapevine has made it into the 42nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) as an early selection.Min previously directed Let's Not Cry in 2001, winning multiple awards at the 37th KVIFF and the 43rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, and The Flight of the Bee ...
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Canal Plus Spain tunes into TV film sector
Canal Plus has finally made its definitive move into made-for-TV feature production in Spain, striking a four-year accord with regional network Television de Galicia (TVG).The partners, which collaborated last year on TV movie La Rosa De Piedra, are to co-produce TV movies, documentaries, fiction series and short films. According to ...
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Cinemavault takes international rights to Leeson doc
Cinemavault Releasing International has acquired international rightsto Lynn Hershman Leeson's documentary Strange Culture, which isplaying in Panorama Dokumente following its world premiere atSundance.The film documents the ongoing legal battle of artist Steve Kurtz, whowas arrested on suspicion of being a terrorist after his wife diedsuddenly and the police that responded ...
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Russia not yet in from the cold
For all its explosive box office growth, Russia remains a problematic market where DVD revenues are minimal and an impending law reducing the amount of allowable TV advertising threatens to undercut film pre-sales by broadcast networks.This sobre assessment was provided by a panel discussion on the Russian marketplace at Screen ...
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ETF lines up Holland and Nettelback projects
Germany's Egoli Tossell Films (ETF) is moving forward fast with new films from Agnieszka Holland and Sandra Nettelback in addition toMichael Hoffman's $20m Tolstoy drama The Last Station to star AnthonyHopkins and Meryl Streep.Holland is directing Peter & Catherine which ETF will co-produce withChris Curling's Zephyr Film. Chloe Sevigny is ...
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Loach's Wind That Shakes The Barley tops Irish Film Awards
Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes The Barley and Neil Jordan's Breakfast On Pluto took the top film honours at last night's Irish Film & Television Awards ceremony. Loach's Palme d'Or winning film picked up both the Academy and the public vote for Best Irish Film of the year. Neil ...
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ReviewsThe Year My Parents Went On Vacation (O Ano Em Que Meus Pais Sairam De Ferias)
DIr: Cao Hamburger. Brazil 2007. 103 mins.
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The Counterfeiters (Die Falscher)
Dir: Stefan Ruzowitzky. Aust-Ger. 2007. 98mins. A serious contender for one of this year's Bears, even a Golden one, Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters retells the Nazi attempt to sink the Allied economy by flooding it with counterfeit money. The film successfully tackles two issues. The first is whether concentration camp ...
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Tuya's Marriage (Tu Ya De Hun Shi)
Dir: Wang Quan'an. China. 2007. 92mins.Tuya's Marriage is a clever and witty tale of a practical woman searching for a reliable man in a remote part of China in the throes of growing pains. Director and co-writer Wang Quan'an reminds us in his third feature that this quest is as ...
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Lovers, Lies And Thieves resurrected by Girard
Lovers, Lies And Thieves - a comedy caper whichfell apart five weeks into pre-production in 2001 - is back on themarket courtesy of Arsam International's Illann Girard, producer ofBerlinale competition entry Goodybe Bafana and executive producer ofMarch Of The Penguins. The project is a comic take on the true story ...
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Criterion commits to Berlin Alexanderplatz
In what promises to result in its most lavish compendium to date, high-end US DVD distributor The Criterion Collection has bought US DVD rights Reiner Werner Fassbinder's monumental 939-minute Berlin Alexanderplatz: Remastered. The film is screening in its entirety today at the Volksbuhne, starting at 10am and finishing at 3am ...
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WW2 drama wins Giffoni festival
The Sky Falls (Il Cielo Cade), a World War II drama set in Tuscany, won the top prize at the 30th edition of the Giffoni Film Festival after 320 child jurors gave the Italian title the thumbs up on Saturday.Veronica Niccolai, who plays opposite Isabella Rossellini, also picked up the ...
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Wajda film throws spotlight on Polish film fund
The expected unveiling at this year's Cannes Film Festival of Andrzej Wajda's Post Mortem will also serve as the international launch party of Poland's generous but still largely unknown new film fund. Wajda, whose Man Of Iron won the top prize at Cannes in 1981, will be among the ...