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    Sarajevo Panorama section to open Aug 15 with 24 City

    2008-07-03T13:34:00Z

    The Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has unveiled this year's Panorama section, which 'strives to bridge avant-garde and mainstream films with exceptional narrative films.'Panorama will open Aug 15 with Jia Zhang-ke's 24 City and will close with Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale. Both were well received in Cannes Competition.The other ...

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    Tilda Swinton launches unusual film festival in Scotland

    2008-07-04T06:00:00Z

    Actress Tilda Swinton has unveiled plans for the newest, most unusual film festival in the UK. The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema Of Dreams, as the event is currently called, will take place over 8 1/2 days in a Ballroom in Nairn, in the north-east of Scotland, next month (Aug 15-23).The festival ...

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    Germany's DFFF extended from 2010 to 2012

    2008-07-03T13:45:00Z

    The German Government has agreed to extend the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) for another three years from 2010 to 2012 with an annual budget of $94.2m (Euros 60m).The DFFF's incentive scheme was launched at the beginning of last year with an annual budget of $ 94.2m (Euros 60m) for ...

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    Renaissance adds Gilliam, Hytner projects to slate

    2000-10-22T22:23:00Z

    Terry Gilliam has for the second time this year secured financing out of Europe for a large-scale production, partnering with the UK's Renaissance Films to direct $50m comic fantasy Good Omens. Renaissance has also announced that it will handle Los Alamos, a $25m romantic thriller to be directed by Nicholas ...

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    BAFTA calls for UK foreign-language Oscar submissions

    2008-07-03T13:51:00Z

    The British Academy of Film and Television Arts will again be the organisation appointed by AMPAS to select the UK's submission for consideration for the Foreign Language Oscar in 2009.Producers and distributors must declare their intention to submit UK foreign-language films by July 22 to deenam@bafta.org.Eligible films must have been ...

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    Zbanic, Belvaux, Radford films backed by Eurimages

    2008-07-03T13:55:00Z

    At its 111th meeting (June 29-July 1), the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund has announced its latest funding round of $6.7m (Euros 4.275m) to 12 feature co-productions.The backed films are:The Flowers of Kirkuk - Fariborz Kamkari (Italy, France, Switzerland) Na Putu - Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia ...

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    Alex Cox plans Repo Man sequel Repo Chick

    2008-07-04T06:00:00Z

    Maverick British writer-director Alex Cox (Sid & Nancy, Walker) is plotting a follow-up to his 1984 cult hit, Repo Man.Cox has already completed the screenplay for the project, Repo Chick, and is looking for studio backing. The original Repo Man was distributed domestically by Universal.The new film comes billed as ...

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    Asia House launches new UK festival at London's Renoir

    2008-07-03T14:32:00Z

    Asia House will launch the first Asia House Festival of Asian Film this August in London.The series will screen films from Singapore, South Korea, Iran, Indonesia and China.Asia House is partnering with Curzon Cinemas for the showcase of festival favourites.The event runs Aug 22-28 at London's Renoir Cinema. The opening ...

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    Jan-Pelgrom de Haas takes CEO post at Kinowelt Group

    2008-07-03T16:06:00Z

    Jan-Pelgrom de Haas has been appointed as CEO of the Kinowelt Group with immediate effect as the successor to Bertil Le Claire who stepped down from this post at the end of May.Commenting on the choice of de Haas, Kinowelt's founders Michael and Rainer Koelmel said that the 45-year-old media ...

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    SPRI unleashes Hancock on 5,500 prints across the world

    2008-07-03T21:13:00Z

    Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) unleashes Will Smith in half the world's multiplexes this weekend to tie in with the action picture's Independence Day holiday launch in North America.The story of an alcoholic superhero who makes good will touch down on approximately 5,500 prints in 50 territories.Despite a mostly lukewarm ...

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    UK film-makers should spread co-production wings, conference told

    2008-07-04T06:27:00Z

    Co-productions may open up opportunities to UK film-makers that are restricted by thelimitationsinlocal film finance, the third International Screenwriters Festival in Cheltehnam was told.Producer Mike Downey of Film and Music Entertainmentsaid international deals were an opportunity for UK film-makers to sidestep the usual cornerstone funders of British film: Channel 4, ...

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    Screen Opinion: Feel the fear and do it anyway

    2008-07-03T23:29:15Z

    A word that has recurred with increasing frequency over the last few weeks is 'scary'.It is not an unknown word, of course: film is a scary business. It is, at heart, about betting the house on predictions of future audiences' tastes, and showing blind faith in a limited distribution infrastructure.Showing ...

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    In Focus: World cinema arrives in India

    2008-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Despite its huge population, India is still classed as a tiny territory by international sales agents, one where even the US studios have failed to make much of a dent in the Bollywood juggernaut.But whereas Indian buyers used to pick up occasional genre films to squeeze in around local product ...

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    In Focus: Fox Filmed Entertainment

    2008-07-04T00:00:00Z

    When New Regency's adventure movie Jumper opened through Fox in Korea in February, Fox co-chairman and co-CEO Jim Gianopulos called New Regency president of filmed entertainment Sanford Panitch to deliver the good news.The film had grossed $4.8m to score Fox's seventh biggest ever opening in the territory.But, Panitch recalls, that ...

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    Parents holds off Bedazzled, Pay It Forward

    2000-10-23T02:31:00Z

    Neither 20th Century Fox's comedy Bedazzled nor Warner Bros' Pay It Forward could unseat Universal's Meet The Parents from the top slot at the domestic box office. The popular Ben Stiller/Robert De Niro fell just 23% in its third weekend to take $16.3m and bring its total to $81m - ...

  • Features

    Greece - In search of Eden

    2008-07-04T00:00:00Z

    It was the subject matter of Eden Is West that lured Costa Gavras back to Greece. A drama about the impact of illegal immigration on Western Europe, the film is a road movie of sorts, starring Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio."Shooting in Greece seemed appropriate," says Gavras from his set in ...

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    France - The film Fan-ancier

    2008-07-04T00:00:00Z

    In April 2008, Yann Le Quellec was named managing director of Continental Entertainment Capital's (CEC) European operation based in Paris. A former banker with JP Morgan, Le Quellec is no stranger to the film industry, nor to CEC.As head of EWB Finance, an affiliate of Wild Bunch, Le Quellec was ...

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    Profile: Chris Coen's Halcyon Pictures

    2008-07-04T00:00:00Z

    If producers look for the quickest way to expand their businesses, the usual first step is to move into sales.But Chris Coen, who has produced Wristcutters: A Love Story, Deepwater and Michael Haneke's recent US remake of Funny Games, has taken a different sideways step, into distribution.His London-based Halcyon Pictures ...

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    Independent launches digital unit

    2008-07-03T00:00:00Z

    UK sales and production outfit Independent has launched a digital distribution and marketing arm - Independent Digital.The new venture will run alongside CEO Luc Roeg's existing business to explore new-media opportunities.Eric Stevens will lead the unit, which is financed by the Living Capital Group.The initial aim is to exploit the ...

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    Festival preview: Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian & Arab Cinema

    2008-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Now the Indian film industry is making more noise on the world stage, its film festivals are also starting to attract a more international crowd. One of the best known outside India is Mumbai-based Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian & Arab Cinema, which this year takes place July 10-20 in ...