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Balhetchet named chair of UK's WFTV
UK-based Women in Film and Television has appointed Sophie Balhetchet as its new chair. Balhetchet is a founding member of WFTV and also a producer of TV dramas as well as the co-founder of Cougar Films. At Cougar, she and partner Lynda La Plante have produced the feature Imagine Me ...
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KOFIC and Singapore's MDA join forces
The Korean Film Council of the Republic ofKorea (KOFIC) has inked a co-operation agreement with Singapore'sMedia Development Authority for film production under the Korean-Singapore FreeTrade Agreement (KSFTA).KSFTA, made in August this year, is Korea'sfirst FTA with an Asian country. The new co-operation agreement was signedtoday by MDA chairman Tan Chin ...
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High Point invests in thriller The Front Line
London-based sales company High Point Films has invested "a substantial sales guarantee" against world rights for The Front Line, a feature film being directed by David Gleeson. Nathalie Lichtenthaeler's Wide Eye Films is producing.The thriller is shooting now in and around Dublin and Hamburg. Eriq Ebouaney (Kingdom of Heaven), James ...
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CineLink announces three award winners
CineLink, the Sarajevo FilmFestival's co-production market for projects from Albania, Bosnia andHerzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia and Serbia andMontenegro, had its third edition at this year's, 11th festival (Aug 19-27,2005). CineLink has announced the winners with thetotal prize fund of $58,5000 (50,000 Euros) provided by theSarajevo Film Festival, ...
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Hong Kong's Focus turns to Father And Son
Hong Kong's Focus Films has picked up international rights toPatrick Tam Ka-ming's Father And Son,starring Aaron Kwok (Divergence) andCharlie Young (Seven Swords), whichstarts shooting this month in Malaysia. The film marks Tam'slong-awaited return to directing after a stint teaching screenwriting anddeveloping the story of Father And Son.Regarded as one of ...
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Little Sky takes top prize at Damascus
The Golden Award of the 14thDamascus International Film Festival went to Little Sky (El Cielito)by Maria Victoria Menis (Argentina) while the Jury Special Award wentto The Willow Tree by Majid Majidi (Iran). The Golden Award for the bestshort film went to the Russian film TheDoor by Vladimir Kott. Feature Film ...
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Weinsteins acquires film rights to 80s TV series Equalizer
The Weinstein Company has acquired feature rights to the hit 1980stelevision series The Equalizer, about a veteran spy who quits his agency and offers his servicesfor hire to the general public.The company picked up the rights from the series' original creatorsMichael Sloan and Richard Lindheim.Mace Neufeld, TonyEldridge and Sloan will ...
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Golden Globes Preview
Looking at the winners in the musical and comedycategories of the Golden Globe Awards in the last five years, it is not such asurprising selection: most films and actors went on to win Oscar nominations. But look at the nominations and the real surprisesappear. Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality,Robert De ...
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Former Miramax exec Steinberg joins Universal as senior vp of production
Former Miramax senior vice president of production Erica Steinberghas joined Universal Pictures in the same capacity.Steinberg will report to the studio's presidents ofproduction Jon Gordon and Donna Langley and will be based at the studio'sUniversal City headquarters.She served 16 years at Miramax, where her highlights includeoverseeing production and serving as ...
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Sympathy wins best picture at Korea's Blue Dragon Awards
Park Chan-wook's Sympathy For LadyVengeance took best picture at this year's Blue Dragon Awards in Seoul. The Venice competition entry also picked up the best leading actressaward for Lee Young-ae's performance, despite strong competition from Jeon Do-yeonin romantic drama You Are My Sunshine.Box office hits in thesecond half of the ...
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West 175 negotiates Natural Nylon investment
New Zealand-based media company West 175 Enterprises is in talks to invest in the UK's Natural Nylon, a spokesperson for the Britpack production outfit confirmed on Thursday.The talks could lead to West 175 taking a stake in the production venture founded by actors such as Ewan McGregor and Jude Law ...
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Foxx to star in Universal's Middle East actioner The Kingdom
Jamie Foxx will star in The Kingdom for Universal Pictures based on anoriginal idea brought to the studio by Peter Berg and Michael Mann.As previously announced,Berg will direct the thriller based on a screenplay by Matthew MichaelCarnahan. Mann will produce through his company Forward Pass, along with ScottStuber. Mary Parent ...
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Potter continues reign with France, Korea, Australia openings
Harry Potter And TheGoblet Of Fire remains the runawaychampion at the international box office and nothing will challenge itssupremacy this weekend. Heading into its thirdweekend the family adventure has already sold more than $236.9m in ticketsoutside North America and opens in several major territories this weekend. Warner Bros PicturesInternational (WBPI) ...
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Clark's Wassup Rockers to open Slamdance on Jan 19
The Slamdance Film Festival 2006will open on Jan 19 with the US premiere of Larry Clark's Wassup Rockers. The story centres on a groupof Latino skateboarders from the East Los Angeles ghettos who venture out toexplore the rarified environs of Beverly Hills. The picture received itsworld premiere at Toronto; First ...
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Exclusive GoldenEye Film Festival set for Dec 7-13 in Jamaica
The 2nd annual GoldenEyeFilm Festival and Retreat will run from Dec 7-13 at the former home of IanFleming in Oracabessa Bay, Jamaica. Highlights include a mediaconference and retrospectives covering James Bond, the history of Jamaican andHong Kong cinema, martial arts, surf cinema, Westerns and programmers'favourites under the title Guilty Pleasures. ...
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New Zealand aims for homegrown benefits to tentpole success
The NewZealand film industry claims it can build a sustainable business after anotheryear of winning international production business.Both ofthis year's biggests end-of-yeartentpoles, King Kong and Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And TheWardrobe were shot in New Zealand, which has been marketing itself as a majorlocation following the Lord ...
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The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
Dir: Andrew Adamson. US.2005. 140mins.Hopes are riding high on the back of Aslan, the talking lion, for The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, the first of Disney andWalden Media's mooted adaptation of CS Lewis' seven-book series.Coming after Peter Jackson'sstorming, imaginative rendition of TheLord Of The Rings trilogy - and ...
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Cairo film festival focuses on war drama
TheCairo International Film Festival entered its 29th year this week witha focus on war dramas like Danielle Arbid's In the Battlefields and Mohamed Amin's Egyptian competition entry The Night Baghdad Fell. The festival runs from November 29 - December 9. Thefestival also features a special tribute to Chinese cinema, opening ...
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Sogepaq announces sales for Fernando Leon's latest
Spain's Sogepaq has announced first sales in Europe and Latin America on Fernando Leon's Sundance World Competition entry, Princesses (Princesas). The film has sold to France and Belgium (ARP), Switzerland (Xenix), Greece & Cyprus (Audiovisual), Portugal (Atalanta Filmes), Mexico (Cine Video y TV), Argentina, Chile, Uruguay & Paraguay (Alfa Films) ...
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Zentropa sign deal with producer Regnar Grasten
Zentropa has invited a new partner into Filmbyen, Copenhagen. Local producer RegnarGrasten has moved his production facilities from DetDanske Filmstudie where many popular classics were made to Zentropa.Zentropa will produce Grasten'snext three films, one of which is a fourth sequel to the popular Anja & Viktor series, a Christmasfilm for ...