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Middle East festival to add four more days to Abu Dhabi event
The Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF), now planning its second festival in Abu Dhabi. The festival, running October 10-19, has grown by four days to accommodate a larger programme of films.The inaugural run in 2007 screened more than 80 films, a number set to increase this year. Also new ...
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Cinema Libre acquires worldwide rights to Bloodline
Cinema Libre Studio has acquired worldwide rights to Bruce Burgess' hot-button Holy Grail documentary Bloodline and has set the US premiere for May.The film-makers interviewed archaeologists and members of secret societies and investigated a tomb that some say could prove the existence of a Jesus Christ-Mary Magdalene bloodline.The subject of ...
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Shorts Golden Bear splashed out for A Good Day For a Swim
The Berlinale's shorts jury has given its Golden Bear to A Good Day For a Swim (O zi buna de plaja) by Romania's Bogdan Mustata, about three juvenile delinquents who break out of prison and go to the beach.Of the winner, the jury said: 'The film raises questions about its ...
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here! picks up North American rights to Holding Trevor
here! Films has picked up North American rights from Stray Films to Rosser Goodman's relationship drama Holding Trevor.here! plans a May release on the story of a gay man whose life is turned upside-down by his drug addict boyfriend, a new lover and jealous friends.Brent Gorski wrote and produced and ...
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InternetStudios ups McKean; completes merger
InternetStudios.com, the LA-based web-site for licensing film and TV distribution rights and tracking entertainment industry data, has promoted Alex McKean to the position of vice president of finance. He was formerly director of finance for the company.A former corporate accounting manager at PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, McKean will be responsible for ...
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David Alcade to direct The Seeing For Leomax
Los Angeles and Berlin-based Leomax Entertainment has optioned the screenplay The Seeing (formerly 27 Times) and set Spanish effects supervisor and commercials director David Alcade to direct.Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Regina, Canada, in the early summer on the story of a 14-year-old boy haunted by visions of ...
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Andrzej Wajda lines up Tatarak with Krystyna Janda
Further details have emerged this week about Tatarak, the next project from revered octogenarian Polish auteur Andrzej Wajda whose Oscar-nominated Katyn screens out of competition in Berlin on Friday.Production will begin later this year on the film which is an adaptation of the book by Polish novelist and poet Jaroslaw ...
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Niels Arden Oplev preps Scandinavian detective opus
Danish director Niels Arden Oplev, whose Worlds Apart screened in official selection in Berlin, has revealed further details of his big budget new project Men Who Hate Women, an adaptation of the first part of Stieg Larsson's 'detective trilogy.' Oplev is directing the first part as both a feature film ...
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As Berlin winds down, attention turns to potential Cannes selections
A clearer picture is emerging of what films will be ready for this year's Cannes Film Festival in May and the lineup looks like it will be filled with its usual blend of veteran auteur films, new discoveries and US studio fare.Official selection berths already seem set for Ari Folman's ...
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New Wave takes Ceylan's Cannes-bound Daydreams for UK
New Wave Films, the new UK distribution company set up by former Artificial Eye bosses Robert Beeson and Pam Engel, has made its second acquisition of the Berlin market, taking Daydreams, the latest feature from Turkish maestro Nuri Bilge Ceylan from Pyramide International.Like New Wave's first pick-up - the Dardennes' ...
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David Lee steps down as EVP at Weinstein Company in Asia
DavidLee has stepped down as executive vice president of Asian Operations atThe Weinstein Company, where he was responsible for overseeing creativeaspects of the company's Asian Film Fund. He will be partially replaced by Steve Squillante who has come on board as a consultant for the fund. Squillantewill work alongside TWC's ...
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Heart of Fire producers stack up new projects
Producers Sven Burgemeister of TV-60Film and Goldkind Film and Andreas Bareiss of BurkertBareiss Development have unveiled their slate of new projects ahead of the world premiere of Luigi Falorni's Heart Of Fire in competition at Berlin today.Bareiss and partner Gloria Burkert are producing newcomer Su Turhan's feature debut Ayla about ...
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French Film Festival UK to welcome Lola Doillon, Jean Becker
The French Film Festival UK (7 - 20 March 2008) has revealed details of itsprogramme and guests. The event, likely to have added prominence as a showcase for French cinema in the UK this year following the cancellation of the Unifrance London 'Rendez-Vous,' takes place in Edinburgh, Glasgow,Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, ...
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Nordisk/Trust rack up sales on Lordi horror, Von Trier, Moodysson
As the EFM draws to a close, Nordisk and Trust are continuing to rack up sales on their Berlin slate. One heavy seller is their English-language horror film Dark Floors, starring Finnish rock band and Eurovision Song Contest winners, Lordi. Deals announced yesterday (Wednesday) included Turkey (Umut Sanat/Ozen FilmTAS), Benelux ...
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Big titles at EFM overshadow festival selection in Berlin
The Berlinale kicked off in fine style with Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary Shine A Light but after several days the general consensus was that - at least for buyers - the festival line-up was in danger of being upstaged by the market.Focus inevitably turned to the EFM following a ...
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Canal Plus Spain picks winners for script fund
Spanish pay-TV outlet Canal Plus has unveiled the six winners of its newly relaunched script development fund, known as Canal Plus Guiones.Canal Plus chose six treatments from 372 applications in which it will invest between $2,857 (PTS500,000) and $14,286 (PTS2,500,000) each to develop over the next year.The channel is also ...
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Bavaria closes further deals on Cherry Blossoms and Black Ice
BavariaFilm International (BFI) has reported a raft of sales on two of itstitles in Berlinale Competition. DorisDoerrie's Cherry Blossoms - Hanami has now been sold to South Korea(JinJin Pictures), Taiwan (Swallow Wings), Colombia (Cine Colombia),Mexico (Cine Video y TV) and Greece (PCV) in addition to the deal ...
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Filth and Wisdom
Dir: Madonna. UK. 2008. 81 minsContrary to billing, there's not much filth and precious little wisdom in Madonna's directing debut. Even so, you have to applaud her for daring to get behind a camera, given that her career in front of it has been strewn with clunkers. While Filth And ...
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Asterix tops Screen international chart
Asterix At The Olympic Games won the gold medal again this weekend, generating a dynamite $24.5m after expanding in six territories. The top-40 films generated $192.4m across 43,382 screens from the period of February 8-10.For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.Pathe's latest instalment of the Asterix ...
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Preview: International Screenwriters Festival
In three years, the International Screenwriters Festival has claimed an important place in the industry calendar.Interview with festival head David Pearson The speakers Pitching events Sponsors Official siteFounder and festival head David Pearson, of Arturi Films,took the initiative to start the event in 2006, convinced that there needed to be ...