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Lives Of Others leads German critics award nominations
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's European Film Award-winning The Lives Of Others has picked up nominations in seven of the nine categories for the 2006 German Film Critics' Award. The Stasi thriller, which is Germany's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at next month's Academy Awards, has been nominated ...
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Intel, Eros hook up to provide Bollywood on-demand
Eros International has joined forces with the Intel Corporation to deliver Bollywood movies on-demand, via broadband to PCs connected to televisions. The service will be available to Intel Viiv technology-based PC users, with plans to release a pre-DVD online premiere of I See You, a Bollywood film starring Arjun Rampal, ...
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Slingshot hosts first online test screening for Sugarhouse Lane
New UK digital production and distribution company Slingshot Studios has hosted the world's first online test screening for its first feature, Sugarhouse Lane . For the screening, Slingshot partnered with LoveFilm, Arts Alliance Media and Nielsen NRG for the project, which screened the film to more than 500 people in ...
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Ewan McGregor signs on to Jackboots On Whitehall
London 's Swipe Films has announced that Ewan McGregor will play the lead in their new indie comedy feature.Jackboots On Whitehall is a WWII spoof that tells what could have happened had the Germans won the Battle of Britain but were ultimately defeated by the Scots. 'Ewan will play a ...
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Shooting starts on Rise Of The Footsoldier
Principal photography began December 10, 2006 on Rise Of The Footsoldier, a British crime epic about East London villain Carleton Leach. Written by Julian and William Gilbey, the film is scheduled for a six-week shoot on location at Three Mills Studios in East London and Essex. Its ensemble cast includes ...
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Germany's K5 Film expands reach with K5 International
Film sales veteran Bill Stephens has partnered with production company K5 Film to form a new international sales company. K5 International promises four to six features per year with budgets up to $20m. In a joint statement by Stephens and his partners Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur, it was revealed ...
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Berlin's market boasts record number of companies and buyers
Beki Probst looks set to be able to celebrate her 20th year in the post of market director of the Berlinale's European Film Market (EFM) by breaking last year's records when the festival launched its new market venue in the Martin Gropius Bau (MGB). According to the latest figures obtained ...
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Mar Abadin joins new Spanish sales group 6 Sales
New Spain-based international sales consortium 6 Sales has hired Mar Abadin as its head of sales. Abadin was formerly a sales executive at Filmax, where she worked for six years. She will attend Berlin's European Film Market with 6 Sales managing director Marina Fuentes. 'I've known Mar a long time ...
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Macclesfield retires from UIP
Mike Macclesfield is retiring as vice president of international sales and development at United International Pictures (UIP), the joint distribution partnership of Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Macclesfield, who has served more than 26 years at UIP, will step down at the end of this year. Julian Stanford, senior vice ...
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Frozen City leads Finnish Jussis awards nominations
Finnish director Aku Louhimies' Frozen City won a top number of eight nominations for the Jussis - Finland's national film awards - as the Filmiaura Association of local film professionals announced its choice of films considered for the prizes, which will be handed out at a gala in Helsinki on ...
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Europa Cinemas to present third award at Berlinale Panorama
Europa Cinemas will again present its label prize to the best European film in the Panorama section of the Berlinale. This will be the prize's third year in Berlin, in addition to Europa Cinemas awards in Cannes, Venice and Karlovy Vary. This year's jury includes four Europa Cinemas exhibitors. They ...
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Norwegian Film Fund injects millions into local productions
Norwegian director Erik Poppe will take a break before concluding his Oslo trilogy - Schpaa; Hawaii , Oslo - to make The Invisible. The film is about 'the big questions', according to film consultant Nikolaj Frobenius from the Norwegian Film Fund, which has supported the $3.3m (Euros 2.6m) Paradox Film ...
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UK distributor and sales company The Works secures $4m in financing
The Works Media Group has announced that in late December it successfully closed a share placing through Seymour Pierce Ellis. The share placing, when combined with a loan facility, gives the UK-based company a further $4m in financing. The Works' sales slate include Shane Meadows' This Is England and Sarah ...
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Optimum among buyers of Zinc's Botched from Darclight
Darclight Films has closed a raft of sales on the comedy-horror caper Botched from Joel Silver's Zinc Entertainment.Rights have gone to Optimum in the UK, Legend Media in Germany, Dutch Film Works in Benelux, Ukrainian DVD in CIS and Eastern Europe, Imagem in Brazil, PT Amero in Indonesia, and Gulf ...
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WGA unveils nominees for documentary screenplay award
Deliver Us From Evil (Amy Berg), The Heart Of The Game (Ward Serrill), Once In A Lifetime (Mark Monroe), Who Killed The Electric Car' (Chris Paine), and Why We Fight (Eugene Jarecki) have been nominated for the Writers Guild of America's documentary screenplay award.The inaugural award was handed out in ...
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Cinemavault gets international rights to Canvas
Cinemavault Releasing International has acquired international rights to the drama Canvas starring Marcia Gay Harden, Joe Pantoliano, and newcomer Devon Gearhart.The Los Angeles-based company will screen the film for buyers at next month's European Film Market in Berlin.Joseph Greco wrote and directed the story of a family's struggle to cope ...
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Sony staffs up worldwide acquisitions department
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) has named Adrian Alperovich (pictured left) senior executive vice president and general manager and hired Lara Thompson (pictured centre) as senior vice president of acquisitions.Alperovich will oversee daily operations of the acquisitions team, which has hitherto operated under the auspices of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment ...
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Schreiber joins Participant overseeing social action and advocacy
Participant Productions further demonstrated its credentials as one of Hollywood's most overtly political company by hiring event producer John Schreiber in the newly created position of executive vice president of social action and advocacy.Schreiber 's prolific output includes organising White House gala events, Chinese cultural shows in New York and ...
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M6 first half revenues up by 21%
French broadcaster M6 has reported a 21% hike in first-half revenues, to Euros377.3m, compared to Euros211.9m for the same period in 1999. The increase was mostly due to a rise in advertising revenues, which increased 28.3%, from Euros214.6m in the first half of 1999, to Euros275.3m during the same period ...
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New LA outfit to produce socally relevant film and TV
Santa Monica-based The Johnson-Roessler Company will produce and finance its debut feature Harrison For America, a satirical look at political fundraising.The company's David Johnson, Craig Roessler and Jesse Singer are serving as producers. Dennie Gordon (What A Girl Wants) is set to direct and production is scheduled to begin this ...