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Indie Circle acquires first European title
Celebrated Spanish film Take My Eyes (Te Doy Mis Ojos) has become the first European picture to be bought collectively by multi-national buying consortium Indie Circle.The deal was struck with seller Sogepaq following its screening in San Sebastian and means the film will be assured of distribution in France (through ...
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Belgian Oscar hopeful gets new ending
In a remarkable move, Belgian director Stijn Coninx has decided to change the ending of his new film Verder Dan De Maan (Sea Of Silence), the Belgian submission for the foreign-language Oscar - even though the submission deadline has already passed. The film was screened at the recent Dutch Filmfestival ...
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Evil director returns to school for ghost story
While Mikael Haafstroem's adaptation of Jan Guillou's autobiographical bestseller, Evil (Ondskan), is still dominating the local box-office, he has started shooting his new film Strandvaskeren (literally 'the body washed ashore') outside Stockholm. A co-production between Hans Lonnerheden's Greta Film and Nordisk Film's H.P. Lundh, the SKR16.8m psychological thriller takes place ...
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Francois Da Silva appointed at Europa Corp.
Former Cannes Directors' Fortnight artistic director Francois Da Silva has joined Europa Corp. as Artistic Advisor. Luc Besson and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam's successful Paris-based studio announced Da Silva's appointment on Tuesday in a press release and said he had been effectively working with the company since October 1.Da Silva surprised ...
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SpaaMART names its hottest scripts
Nadia Tass, director of the popular comedies Malcolm and The Big Steal, John Curran of cult hit Praise fame, and Tony Ayres, whose recent debut feature Walking On Water drew wide critical acclaim, are at the helm of three of the 23 films to be presented at this year's inaugural ...
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AFM: Redbus takes Sidewalks for UK
Fast-moving UK distributor Redbus Film Distribution has pre-bought Ed Burns' Sidewalks Of New York from Buena Vista Film Sales.The romantic comedy, which has just started shooting, is written, directed, and produced by Burns, who also stars alongside Heather Graham and Stanley Tucci. Budgeted at under $10m, it follows the trials ...
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Video-on-demand gathers speed
The way forward for video-on-demand (VoD) seems suddenly to be gaining momentum around the world - although pure VoD in which all content is always available at the click of a button still looks a very remote possibility.The technology to deliver VoD has existed for several years, but until recently ...
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Solo Film, EuroVideo sign license deal
German theatrical distributor Solo Flim Verleih has concluded a wide-reaching deal with EuroVideo Bildprogramm for the rental and sell-through video/DVD rights to sixteen of its titles.The package includes such films as The Good Thief, The United States Of Leland and 11:4 as well as the current release Jester Till (Till ...
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MIPCOM closes with host of deals
The studios were particularly active in using MIPCOM to announce film and made-for-TV film deals:Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) struck a multi-year agreement with Lusomundo for the pay-TV broadcast of its entire Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures slates in Portugal. The first-time deal covers features and TV movies which ...
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Australia seeks support in free trade negotiations
With support from international writers' guilds, the Australian industry is now hoping to get actors to back their quest to get a cultural exemption in the free trade agreement currently being negotiated between Australia and the US.There remains extreme nervousness that the right to have subsidies, tax advantages and content ...
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Japanese Story, Gettin' Square lead Australian awards race
The stand-out films from yesterday's announcement of the nominations for the annual IF Awards are Japanese Story and Gettin' Square, each of which have eight chances to take home an award from the November 12 presentation. Both have been nominated for best feature and direction.The third nominee for best feature ...
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NORWAY
As expected the release of Mother's Elling, the prequel to 2001's box-office sensation and Oscar nominated comedy-drama, thundered into number one with more than four times the take of number two The Woman Of My Life. Both Alexander Eik's romantic comedy and S.W.A.T. dropped considerably - 40% and 50% from ...
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Irish UIP Awards announced
Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) has announced the winners of the UIP Irish Directors Awards which will be presented at the Cork Film Festival this coming weekend. Inaugurated in 2000 by SPI in conjunction with UIP and the Irish Film Board and open only to Irish directors they remain, with a ...
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Runaway Jury
Dir: Gary Fleder. US. 2003. 127 mins.John Grisham adaptations were big box office performers in the mid-nineties but it's been almost six years since Hollywood last put one of the author's brisk legal thrillers onto the big screen. This Regency Enterprises version of Grisham's 1996 bestseller about a hijacked corporate ...
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Myriad is hot for Porn
Myriad Pictures has picked up international sales rights to Porn 'n Chicken, the first feature film to be made by the Comedy Central group.The film was directed by Lawrence Trilling and is a story based on urban legends about a group of five students who form a club to watch ...
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Bertolucci named Critics' Week patron
Bernardo Bertolucci will take on the newly-created role of patron of the Critics' Week (May 11-19) at this year's Cannes Film Festival.To honour the Italian director, the organisation will hold a public screening of his debut, Before The Revolution (Prima Della Rivoluzione), which screened at the festival in 1964 and ...
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Film20 assesses EU-expansion in the film industry
In advance of the second part of its Euro Expansion Conference, to be held in Berlin on October 20 - 21, Germany's Film20 producer lobby group held a press conference in Berlin to set the agenda. Titled 'Pro Extension in the film business' the event set out the strategy of ...
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Intermission dominates Irish Film&TV Awards
Intermission, which passed the Euos 2m mark at the Irish box office last week, has been shortlisted in 11 award categories in the Irish Film & Television Awards which will be announced in Dublin on November 1. Debut director John Crowley, and writer Mark O'Rowe have both been nominated for ...
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Comfortable premiere anticipated at Bergen
Norway's Bergen International Film Festival (Oct16-21) will see the world premiere of highly anticipated local documentary, Gunnar Hall Jensen's Gunnar Goes Comfortable.The Bergen-based filmmaker's highly autobiographical documentary has been much talked about since an incomplete version won the Swedish Film Institute's Documentary Award back in 2002. It follows Jensen who ...
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Mifed unveils market premieres
Milan's Mifed market has announced its market premieres for its 70th edition (Nov 9-13), as well as unveiling a new strand designed to showcase young European filmmakers to buyers.Mifed's new titles include Wild Bunch's Janis And John, Samuel Benchetrit's film about Janis Joplin which stars Marie Trintignant in one of ...