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Original version of Lost In Beijing to screen at EFM
The production and sales companies behind Berlin competition title Lost In Beijing say they plan to screen the original version of the film at the European Film Market, rather than the modified version that was approved yesterday by China 's censors. French sales outfit Films Distribution issued a statement today ...
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Wild Bunch takes on sales for new Morgan Spurlock documentary
While continuing brisk sales on Laurent Tirard's Moliere, which has been acquired by Spain 's Golem, Pathe in the UK, Bim in Italy and Australia 's Hopscotch; Wild Bunch has unveiled its line up for the upcoming Berlin festival with several new projects in the pipeline. First is the new ...
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Orange plans BAFTA red-carpet event hosted by Myleene Klass
BAFTA title sponsor Orange has announced plans for new red-carpet coverage to be broadcast to the Orange website and Orange mobile TV. Myleene Klass will host the red-carpet coverage starting at 4:30 pm on awards night, Feb 11. The one-hour special will be available at orange.co.uk/redcarpet and through Orange 3G ...
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Louhimies' Man Exposed pulled from cinemas after script debate
A High Court in Helsinki has ordered Finnish production house Lasihelmi Filmi to withdraw Finnish director Aku Louhimies' feature, Man Exposed, from public distribution, supporting scriptwriter Veli-Pekka Hanninen's claim that producer Harri Rati violated his rights. Cinemas or others infringing the verdict will be subject to a $129,000 (Euros 100,000) ...
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On The Road With Judas
Dir/scr: JJ Lask. 100mins. US. 2006. In On the Road with Judas, novelist and television-commercial editor JJ Lask shows aptitude for making sense of a complex, multi-character narrative that in less sure hands would be chaotic and incoherent. However his achievement is more technical than emotional as beneath the Charlie ...
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Stream's Minoli fired for Telepiu meeting
Giovanni Minoli has been dismissed from his position as general director of Italian pay-TV platform Stream in an unexpected move that casts further doubts over the future of the beleaguered News Corp and Telecom Italia-owned company.Stream CEO Lucia Morselli said in a letter that she had taken her decision after ...
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NonStop Sales picks up rights for Darling
Just prior to the European Film Market in Berlin, Stockholm-based international distributor, NonStop Sales, has picked up all rights for Darling, Swedish director Johan Kling's feature debut, which won the Nordic competition at Sweden's Göteborg International Film Festival. 'The film will open domestically on Friday (Feb 9) through Svensk Filmindustri,' ...
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King of California
Dir/scr: Mike Cahill. US. 2007. 93mins. A bittersweet comic fable, Mike Cahill's debut feature King of California navigates a quixotic emotional register perched between fantasy and delusion that imagines a sweetly anarchic world where adolescent desire for normality and adult hope for grandeur clash by night. It features a lovely, ...
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Locarno to honour Hou Hsiao-hsien
Taiwanese film-maker Hou Hsiao-hsien is to receive the Leopard of Honour at the 60th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival (August 1-11, 2007) in recognition of his work as a director and producer.Previous illustrious recipients include Jean-Luc Godard, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Abbas Kiarostami, Wim Wenders and, last year, ...
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Pan's Labyrinth takes top honours at new UK regional critics awards
Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth continues its winning streak as it won top honours of Film of the Year from the new UK Regional Critics Film Awards. Del Toro was also honoured as the group's Filmmaker of the Year. ''I'm delighted that Pan's Labyrinth has won Film of the Year ...
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Summit tempts EFM buyers with Lindsay Lohan, Tarsem
Leading LA production, financing and sales outfit Summit Entertainment arrives in Berlin with a slate of new pictures led by Lindsay Lohan thriller I Know Who Killed Me, Berlin Generation 14Plus entry The Fall, Sundance award winner Once, and the previously announced John Woo epic Red Cliff. 360 Pictures' I ...
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Chris Petrikin named corporate comms senior vp at Fox
Chris Petrikin has left William Morris Agency (WMA) and joined Twentieth Century Fox as senior vice president of corporate communications.Petrikin, a former trade journalist who previously served as WMA's senior vice president of corporate communications, will also oversee the studio's corporate advertising and charitable projects.'Chris is a strategic thinker who ...
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Biel steps in for Lohan in A Woman Of No Importance
Jessica Biel has replaced Lindsay Lohan as the lead in the contemporary version of Oscar Wilde comedy A Woman Of No Importance, which Los Angeles-based Myriad Pictures is selling at the European Film Market in Berlin.Biel, who recently starred opposite Edward Norton in The Illusionist, will play Hester Worsely and ...
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Film and TV production output worth $60.4bn in 2005, says MPAA
Film and television production in 2005 generated more than 1.3m American jobs and $60.4bn in output to the US economy, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) chief Dan Glickman told delegates at a symposium in Washington DC yesterday [Feb 6].Glickman was speaking before the start of 'The Business Of Show ...
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Miami Film Festival takes focus on documentaries
92 documentaries will screen at the upcoming 24th Annual Miami International Film Festival, set to take place in Florida from Mar 2-11.The overall selection comprises 23 non-fiction entries, 21 of which have made it into the world competition category.These include: Carles Bosch's Spanish entry Septembers (Septiembres), about a prison song ...
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Massis takes worldwide on Czech comedy Close To Heaven
Alex Massis' The Film Source has made its first acquisition of 2007, taking worldwide rights to Dan Svatek's Czech comedy Close To Heaven.Svatek also wrote and produced the film, which is said to be the first English-language film produced in the Czech Republic.The story centres on a diverse group of ...
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Kuyper joins Warner Premiere as vp, physical production
Warner Bros Entertainment's recently formed direct-to-platform unit Warner Premiere has hired Jon Kuyper as vice president of physical production.Kuyper will oversee all aspects of physical production, including locations, construction, transportation, property and crew staffing.He reports directly to division president Diane Nelson and will work closely with other Warner Premiere executives ...
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UK pirate DVD sellers given deportation notices
Six Chinese nationals who were arrested on February 1 in Hackney, East London, on charges of film piracy and breach of copyright have since been identified as being in the UK illegally and served deportation notices.The two men and four women, who all pleaded guilty to charges related to selling ...
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Finishing the Game
Dir: Justin Lin. US. 2007. 93mins. Following his foray directing the studio assignments Annapolis and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Justin Lin exhibits a warmer, more personal touch with Finishing the Game, a clever though very thin divertissement about filmmaking, Asian cultural stereotypes and the iconic representation of ...
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Police raid pirate film factory, seize over 6000 DVDs
A 42-year-old man has been arrested following a raid of a private house in Heywood, Greater Manchester. Police seized 40 DVD burners, three computers, printers, over 6000 counterfeit DVDs and £5000 in cash that were found on the premises. The operation was conducted by Greater Manchester Police in conjunction with ...
