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Bruges, Doomsday, Road fly out of Focus at EFM
Focus Features International (FFI) has finalised key territory sales at EFM led by new titles In Bruges, Doomsday, and Reservation Road.SND bought rights for all three in France, while Concorde took German rights for Doomsday, and Mikado took Italian and Sun acquired all Latin American rights for In Bruges. Scanbox ...
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TLA takes UK home rights to Sorry, Haters
TLA Releasing has acquired the UK home entertainment distribution rights to US feature Sorry, Haters. TLA partner and director of acquisitions Richard Wolff negotiated the deal with Silke Wolz of Dream Entertainment, on behalf of the film-makers. The film is about a New Jersey woman who becomes involved with an ...
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Venice Critics' Week unveils line-up
Giuseppe Rocca's Lontano In Fondo Agli Occhi, a bittersweet love story set in the 1950s, is the only Italian film selected for the Critics' Week competition at this year's Venice Film Festival. The line-up, selected by a panel of six Italian critics, also includes Noites, directed by Portugal's Claudia Tomaz; ...
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Solid sales business boosts growing EFM
The EFM was winding down yesterday with many buyers already on their way home and complaints that new product was underwhelming, especially when the hottest titles here were documentaries - Morgan Spurlock Untitled which Wild Bunch sold throughout the world, First Look International's Larry Charles Project and Fortissimo's Rolling Stones ...
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Hot Fuzz
Dir: Edgar Wright. UK/USAt its best, Hot Fuzz, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's follow-up to Shaun Of The Dead, is wildly funny and very inventive. The film-makers take the conventions of the British cop drama and subvert them entirely. They relish combining gentle whimsy with hellzapopping violence. Their frame of ...
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Beaufort
Dir: Joseph Cedar. Is. 2007. 120mins Based on an award-winning, best selling documentary book by journalist Ron Leshem about the last stand of an Israeli unit in Southern Lebanon before their retreat in 2000, Joseph Cedar's painful and highly relevant film adaptation, while not addressing directly last summer's renewed outbreak ...
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The Third Day scoops Fajr International Film Festival
Tehran 's annual Fajr International Film Festival came to a close on February 11 with a national awards ceremony that saw the main gongs go to Mohammad Hossein's war drama The Third Day. Despite multiple nominations, critics' favourite The Night Bus, an original take on the war theme by first-time ...
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Hart splits with Sharp and launches Evamere
After more than ten years in business together, the founding partners of New York based Hart Sharp Entertainment - John Hart and Jeffrey Sharp - have decided to pursue different opportunities. For his part, Hart has now launched a new venture called Evamere Entertainment that will focus on ...
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Shorts International launches ShortsTV channel
Shorts International has turned on its ShortsTV cable channel airing an extensive catalogue of short films 24 hours a day to audiences in France, Belgium and Luxembourg. As well as Oscar-winning works and commended films from around the world, there will be up to 1,800 new films screened this year. ...
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Spain's film-makers call for a Spanish Unifrance
Spanish film-makers and industry representatives are calling on their government to help better promote Spanish cinema abroad by following the model of Unifrance. The call came as one of a series of conclusions out of a landmark two-day industry-wide conference held this week in Cordoba (Feb 12-14) to analyse key ...
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French Film Festival UK releases programme line-up
This year's French Film Festival UK will span London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee from April 20 - May 4 with a varied and unique programme of films. The Discovery section of the line-up consists of new French films that are seeking a UK distributor. There will be screenings ...
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Delpy's latest sparks sales boom for Rezo
The Works UK Distribution has taken UK rights on Julie Delpy's Two Days In Paris, one of the buzz titles in this year's Berlinale. The film, which screened as a Panorama special, stars Delpy, Adam Goldberg and Daniel Bruhl. It's about a New York-based couple on holiday in Europe, trying ...
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UK's executive programme Inside Pictures names 15 participants
The UK's prestigious Inside Pictures programme, now run through the Film Business Academy at Cass Business School, has selected 15 applicants for its 2006-2007 programme. The new participants are:Darren Bender, head of development/producer, Bigger PicturesEd Clarke, head of development & acquisitions, Capitol FilmsChris Collins, producer, Home Movies LtdPeter Ettedgui, producer, ...
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Telefonica completes Endemol buy-out
Spain's Telefonica has successfully completed its share-for-share buy-out of Dutch entertainment group Endemol with the acquisition of 97.4% of Endemol's shares.Telefonica had set 75% as the minimum amount of shares exchanged for the acquisition to be accepted.The public offer, which valued Endemol at Euros4.79bn, ran from July 3 through 24. ...
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Banderas and Perez to back new Spanish talent
Antonio Banderas' Malaga-based Green Moon Productions and Antonio Perez's Seville-based Maestranza Films have signed a new film-per-year co-production agreement. Signed in Berlin, where Banderas was on hand to present new features as both director (Panorama title Summer Rain) and actor (competition contender Bordertown), the agreement will focus on backing new ...
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Thandie Newton launches Film Club for UK schoolchildren
Chancellor Gordon Brown, Thandie Newton and film directors Kevin Macdonald (Last King of Scotland) and Beeban Kidron (Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason) today launched Film Club, which aims to expose 10,000 primary and secondary schoolchildren in the UK to the joys of film. Funded and supported by the UK ...
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Unifrance opens NY event with La Vie En Rose
The 12th edition of the Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema will open in New York on February 28 with recent Berlin opener La Vie En Rose by Olivier Dahan. The event runs through March 11 and takes place at Lincoln Center, where 16 recent French films will have their US ...
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La Vie En Rose woos the box office
Following its lauded opening at the Berlin Film Festival last week, Olivier Dahan's La Vie En Rose debuted in Paris on Wednesday February 14. The Valentine's Day release was met with much local love as the film took 230,370 admissions on 675 screens on its first day. By way of ...
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Viva! Film Festival to premiere Salvador
The 13th annual Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival returns to Manchester from March 15-25 and will host the UK premiere of Goya Award winning Salvador on its opening night. The festival, which will showcase up to 100 Hispanic films including features, shorts and documentaries from Spanish and Latin ...
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Indian drama Parzania faces unofficial ban in Gujarat
Rahul Dholakia's controversial drama Parzania has been unofficially banned in the state of Gujarat, where cinema owners have opted not to screen the film for fear of a political backlash from the ruling party. The English-language film, starring Naseeruddin Shah and Sarika, is based on a true incident of the ...