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Coppola's Tetro set for US release through Zoetrope on June 11
American Zoetrope will self-release Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro in limited release in the US on June 11 based on the first original screenplay by Coppola since The Conversation in 1974.The story tells of two brothers, of family lost and found, and the conflicts and tragedies within a highly creative Argentine-Italian ...
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Regent sets May as US release for Oscar winning Departures
Regent Releasing and Here Media will release their Japanese foreign language Oscar winner Departures in May, the distributor said following the picture's Academy Awards win at the weekend.Yojiro Takita's victory marked the first time Regent and Here received an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category and the ...
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One Life Stand sweeps board at Scottish BAFTAs
Pioneering digital drama One Life Stand scooped five prizes at the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards in Glasgow on Sunday evening including best drama and best writer and director for its creator May Miles Thomas.The low-budget, independent feature also secured best film performance for actress Maureen Carr. Thomas also received ...
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HKIFF to celebrate 25th anniversary of Film Workshop
This year's Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) will feature a special sidebar programme celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong production house Film Workshop, founded by filmmaker Tsui Hark and veteran producer Nansun Shi. Entitled 'A Tribute to Romantic Visions: 25th Anniversary of Film Workshop', the sidebar will screen ...
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Russian Box Office Stats 2008
CIS Box Office Top 20 2008* TITLE (ORIGIN) DISTRIBUTOR Total gross 1 The Irony Of Fate: The Sequel (Rus) 20th Century Fox CIS $49.9m 2 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (US) UPI $40.8m 3 Admiral (Rus) 20th Century Fox CIS $33.7m 4 The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (US) UPI ...
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Bavarian fund backs projects by Hirschbiegel, Wieland and Kraus
New films by Sundance winner Oliver Hirschbiegel, Ute Wieland and Chris Kraus are among the projects receiving funding totalling $5m (Euros 3.9m) from the Bavarian regional fund FFF Bayern. The largest single award, $1.2m (Euros 950,000), went to Hirschbiegel's adaptation of Andreas Ulrich's bestselling book Angel Face. The film tells ...
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UK's Left Bank Pictures appoints Mackie as head of film
Suzanne Mackie has joined Left Bank Pictures as head of film, effective immediately. She joins from Harbour Pictures where she was director of development. Mackie will focus on Left Bank's film development slate including the film adaptation of Ayub Khan-Din's play Rafta Rafta, which is already in advanced stages of ...
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NewsCannes Film Festival honours Clint Eastwood
The Cannes Film Festival has honoured Clint Eastwood with a special Palme d’Or.In Paris for the release of his latest directorial effort, Gran Torino, Eastwood was awarded the special Palme by festival president Gilles Jacob and delegate general Thierry Fremaux in recognition of the auteur who ...
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Dutch government reveals future funding plans for Hubert Bals Fund
Details have finally emerged of how the Dutch government will continue to support the Hubert Bals Fund, with private investment playing a more key role than previously. As previously reported in ScreenDaily, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs had agreed to continue its backing of HBF after fierce debate as ...
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Swipe Films sells UK rights to Beyond The Fire
Swipe Films has sold UK distribution rights to Beyond The Fire to Met Film Distribution. The deal was negotiated by Frank Mannion of Swipe Films and Patrick Fischer on behalf of Met Film Distribution. Written and directed by Maeve Murphy, Beyond the Fire is a love story and stars Scot ...
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Busan celebrates opening of AZ Works post-production complex
After five years of work, the city of Busan and the Busan Film Commission (BFC) are celebrating the opening of the 'AZ Works on the beach' post-production complex in Busan's newly developing Centum City. AZ Works, which also has labs in Seoul and Beijing, is headed by CEOLee Yong Gi, ...
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Oscilloscope takes domestic rights to Oscar-nominated Garden
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired all North American distribution rights to Scott Hamilton Kennedy's Oscar-nominated documentary The Garden.The New York-based company plans a theatrical release this spring and DVD release in early summer on the story of a political wrangle over the fate of a community garden.David Fenkel negotiated the deal ...
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Morena to co-produce Portozas Vision's Pencil
Madrid-based production house Morena Films has boarded The Carpenter's Pencil (El Lapiz Del Carpintero), a feature film in development at Galician outfit Portozas Vision.International co-producers are being sought for the film, which is backed by regional broadcaster Television Galicia. First-time feature director Anton Reixa is prepping Pencil for a May ...
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Zac Efron to be honoured at ShoWest as Breakthrough Performer
Zac Efron is the latest name to be added to the honouree roster at ShoWest and will collect the 2009 Breakthrough Performer Of The Year Award on April 2.Efron appeared on stage in a musical number at the 81st Annual Academy Awards last weekend and his credits include the High ...
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Dutch DP Anton Van Munster dies at the age of 74
Anton Van Munster, the award-winning cinematographer and brother of producer-director Bertram van Munster, died on February 11 in Holland after a brief illness. He was 74.After studying cinematography in Rome at the Centro Spirimentale Di Cinematografia, Van Munster worked for many years with Dutch director Bert Haanstra. Their work on ...
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HKIFF to open with Shinjuku Incident, Night And Fog
Derek Yee's Shinjuku Incident, starring Jackie Chan, and Ann Hui's Night And Fog will open this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival (March 22-April 13) which announced its line-up today. The world premiere of both films will take place on March 22, one night before the opening of Hong Kong ...
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Ning Hao gears up to shoot Chinese road movie
Chinese filmmaker Ning Hao will start shooting road movie Wu Ren Qu in China's north-west Xinjiang province on March 10, Ning's Stoneman Films has confirmed. China Film Group Corporation and Beijing Guoli Changsheng Film and TV Productions - which backed Ning's last film Crazy Racer - are both investing in ...
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SWF's Scriptmarket opens for submissions
Scriptmarket, a scheme to help up-and-coming screenwriters get their films made and on screen, opens for submissions tomorrow (February 27). 'Emerging screenwriters may have written or even optioned a great spec script, but getting it noticed, getting feedback on it and getting meetings to progress it can be an uphill ...
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Belgrade Fest hosts fourth co-production market
The 37th Belgrade International Film Festival FEST has opened its fourth East-West co-production market, the B2B Industry Meetings.B2B spotlights countries that are geographically in Europe, but not fully integrated in European film networks and markets, as well as countries outside Europe with strong European influence and heritage.The co-production market gives ...