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Denmark's NATfilm festival promises record screenings
Denmark's 17th edition of the NATfilm whichopens on Friday, (24 March- 9 April) will be showing a record number of 165 moviesfrom around the world. This audience festival attracts a good number of peoplewith ticket sales usually around the 40,000 mark with screenings in Copenhagen,Odense, Århus and Aalborg and Malmö ...
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The Caiman (Il Caimano)
Dir: Nanni Moretti. It-Fr. 2006. 112mins.Part impassioned political expose, part maritaldrama, part meta-cinematic comedy, Nanni Moretti's new film TheCaiman is a curious hybrid that, in most other hands, would feel forced. It'sthe director's intuitive command of tonal shifts - from slapstick to serious,from Allen-esque one-liners to barbed Moore-ish satire - ...
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Eden
Dir: Michael Hoffman. Ger-Switz. 2005. 98mins.Voted the audience award winner at Rotterdam, MichaelHoffman's Eden is a natural crowdpleaser that successfully combines food and sex for aromantic romp in the best tradition of hits like Mostly Martha.More demure and lessenergetic than Sandra Nettlebeck's feature, thiscomedy about the encounter between an overweight, ...
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Paper Dolls
Dir/scr: Tomer Heymann. Is-Swiss.2005. 80mins.A surefire winner on specialistcircuits, Paper Dolls, Tomer Heymann's documentary abouta group of Filipino transsexuals in Israel has everything a successful pictureneeds: endearing characters, tears, laughter, heartbreak and an explosiveclimax at the most unexpected moment.Originally commissioned as asix-part TV series, it has now been cut to ...
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Moscow fest launches market; becomes annual event
For the first time in its 43-year history, the Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) is set to become an annual event from this year. The festival, which will run July 19-29, is also launching a market focusing on European and Russian product.The MIFF has previously been held every two years, ...
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Smoking team signs first look deal with Searchlight
Hot on the heels of the storming opening of Thank You ForSmoking, director JasonReitman and producing partner Daniel Dubiecki of Hard C have signed a two-yearfirst-look deal with Fox Searchlight Pictures.Reitman and Dubiecki want Hard C to become a "subversive"home base for their projects in development as well as a ...
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Sapadin named business affairs vp at KOCH
Lawrence Sapadin has been named vice president of business affairsfor KOCH Vision, KOCH Lorber Films, and KOCH Entertainment Distribution.Sapadin will primarily be responsible for overseeing all legalmatters and negotiations involving acquisitions, licensing and digital distributionfor each of the companies.Based at KOCH's distribution headquarters in Port Washington, New York,Sapadin will report ...
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Elephant Tales, Lassie, RV among family titles at Tribeca.
The world premiere of Mario Andreacchio's Elephant Tales, as well as Charles Sturridge's Lassie, DreamWorks Animation comedy Over TheHedge, and BarrySonnenfeld's RV areamong the Tribeca Family Festival screenings next month.The line-up of 15 features and four shorts programmes includes anew section, T4Teens geared towards young adults. The Family Festival will ...
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Sundance buys eight-screen theatre in San Francisco
Sundance Cinemas has signed a purchase agreement with AMC Theatresto acquire the Kabuki 8 Theatre in San Francisco.Sundance Cinemas anticipates a late April takeover of theproperty, which will undergo a significant facelift following the San FranciscoInternational Film Festival, with plans to re-open in early autumn 06 as theSundance Kabuki.The announcement ...
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Icon, Infinity sign three-picture deal
Vancouver and LA-based Infinity Features and Mel Gibson and BruceDavey's Icon Productions have signed a non-exclusive three-picture developmentand production deal.First up is the sci-fi thriller Push based on David Bourla's screenplay aboutAmerican ex-pats with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities on the run from theUS government in Beijing.Push iscurrently in a packaging ...
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Universal's Inside Man arrives in Germany, UK, Brazil
Fox International will be looking to keep The Pink Panther in the number one international slotthis weekend with a major launch in Italy.The comedy remake is set to open on Mar 24 on 367 prints and todate the picture has amassed more than $50m.Date Movie,currently on $17.8m, goes out in ...
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Pernille Fischer Christensen's A Soap sold to the US
Pernille Fischer Christensen's Silver Bear winning debutfeature A Soap has been acquired byStrand Releasing for US and by Theodora Films for Italian rights. The US deal was struck between Jon Gerransof Strand Releasing and Natja Rosnerof Trust Film Sales."We're thrilled to be working with Nimbus Filmand Trust Film Sales again, ...
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Crossing Europe Film Festival launches Austrian Screenings
This year's CrossingEurope Film Festival in Linz (April 25 - 30) is launching the AustrianScreenings to give international film festival programmers and buyers theopportunity to view new Austrian films.The Screenings programme,which has been compiled in collaboration with the Austrian Film Commission, Sixpack Film, the Diagonale, theAustrian Film Institute and the ...
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Hollywood studios plan their first Hindi films
Hollywoodstudios are actively seeking partnerships with Indian production houses asSony, Paramount and Disney announced their plans to make their first Hindifilms. With India's filmed entertainment business valued at $1.5billion in 2005 Hollywood studios see a huge opportunity to cash in on the Bollywood (Hindi Song & Dance film industry) marketthrough ...
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The Baker to start Wales shoot for Grandville, Picture Farm
Grandville Pictures and Picture Farm Ltd. willstart principal photography on March 27 for The Baker, the feature film debutfrom writer/director Gareth Lewis. The comedy will shoot on location in South Wales for six weeks.Damian Lewis, who is the director's brother,stars as a hitman who hides out in a small Welshvillage ...
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Star pledges $64m for Chinese-language production
News Corp-owned broadcaster Star TV is setting up a Chinese Programming Department through which $64m (HK$500m) will be invested in Chinese-language film and television productions, some of which will be aimed at the international market.Veteran Hong Kong TV producer Michael Mak will head the department which represents a significant expansion ...
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Croall named director of Sheffield documentary festival
The SheffieldInternational Documentary Festival has appointed Heather Croallas its new director.She starts her newpost in early April and this year's Sheffield event will be held October 30-November 5. Croall was previously director ofAustralian International Documentary Conference. She also previously worked forthe South Australian Film Corporation and as a documentary producer, ...
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Hahn's Midsummer Madness starts Latvian shoot
Alexander Hahn's Midsummer Madness (Janu Nakts) starts principal photography this weekend in Riga, Latvia. The comedy stars Dominique Pinon, Maria de Medeiros, Tobias Moretti, Orlando Wells, Birgit Minichmayr, Detlev Buck, Roland Düringer, and Gundars Abolins. Austria's Fischer Film, the UK's Steve Walsh Productions, and Latvia's Kaupo Filma are producing.EastWest ...
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Malkovich joins Jane in Mutant Chronicles
John Malkovichwill join Thomas Jane in Ed Pressman's sci-fi adaptation of hit board game TheMutant Chronicles.Simon Hunter isdirecting from a screenplay by Philip Eisner set in the 23rd century in whichcorporations have ravaged the planet's resources, leaving humans and mutants tofight it out for the scraps.Malkovich willplay the omnipotent head ...
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NYC's Lincoln Centre launches Kieslowski retrospective a decade after his death
New York's Film Society of Lincoln Centre will present acelebration of Krzysztof Kieslowski on the 10th anniversary of his death.A Road Map Of The Soul: The Complete Kieslowski will feature a near-completeretrospective from Apr 5-23 and will include a roundtable discussion on workingwith Kieslowski on Apr 9.The retrospective will include ...