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Richard Hober returns to film with Antibes
After five years working in the theatre, Swedish writer-director Richard Hober will return to the screen, having started started principal photography for A One-Way to Antibes (En enkel till Antibes), starring Swedish actor-singer Sven-Bertil Taube, at Luleå in northern Sweden.
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Pusan to launch new online screening service
Secure site will offer festival and market films as well as Pusan Promotion Plan directors’ previous works.
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YouTube UK offers 400 movies online
YouTube has launched a new movies section of its site in the UK, offering more than 400 films free, on demand.
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Ghent to open with romantic comedy Madly In Love
The 37th Ghent Film Festival will open with Madly In Love by director Hilde Van Mieghem.
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Bavaria, Beta bulk up slates ahead of awards season
Bavaria Film International has taken on worldwide sales rights to Icelandic film-maker Fridrik Thor Fridriksson’s melancholic comedy Mamma Gogo ahead of its international premiere in Toronto.
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Nu Image / Millennium set to commence Louisiana shoot on Trespass
Joel Schumacher is ready to start filming in Shreveport on Monday [30] on the thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage.
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NewsSony projects world's first 3D press conference to Madrid
US studio Sony broke new ground Friday by projecting the first 3D press conference for its film Resident Evil: Afterlife to Spanish press in Madrid.
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Coixet’s documentary Aral to premiere at San Sebastian
Leading Spanish director Isabel Coixet’s documentary Aral: El Mar Perdido will receive its world premiere in the non-fiction sidebar of San Sebastian, alongside Andrei Ujica’s The Autobiography Of Nicolae Ceaucescu and Federick Wiseman’s Boxing Gym.
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NewsTakers snatches US box office crown in tight weekend
Screen Gems’ heist thriller Takers edged out Lionsgate’s The Last Exorcism over the weekend as $20.5m secured the crown by the tightest of margins according to confirmed results issued on Monday [30]
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NewsAirbender rules on $18m as Avatar crosses $2bn overseas
Inception was finally forced to cede authority to another film as Paramount/PPI’s The Last Airbender ruled the waves over the weekend thanks to an estimated $18m haul from 5,843 sites in 51 territories that boosted the running total to $120m.
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Woo’s Flying Tigers to be shot in IMAX format
John Woo and producer Terence Chang’s upcoming action epic Flying Tigers will be digitally re-mastered into the IMAX format, marking IMAX Corporation’s second release in China following blockbuster Aftershock.
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Isabella Rossellini to chair 61st Berlinale jury
The Italian-American actress and director will serve as president of the Jury for the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, set to run from February 10-20, 2011.
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Holly Hunter to preside over Stockholm jury
Holly Hunter has been named president of this year’s Stockholm International Film Festival.
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Langella to serve as president of Zurich festival's international section
Frank Langella will serve as jury president of the international section of the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) that takes place in Switzerland from September 23-October 3.
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Indian state orders cinemas to protect local-language Marathi films
The state government of Maharashtra (of which Mumbai is the capital), has made it mandatory for all multiplexes in the state to lower ticket rates for films in the local Marathi language and allocate them prime slots.
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Media Luna boards Blessed Events ahead of Toronto
Media Luna New Films has taken on worldwide distribution rights to Blessed Events by Berlin-based director Isabelle Stever, which will receive its world premiere in Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema section.