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Summer wraps UK shoot for The Works, Vertigo
Kenny Glenaan has wrapped principal photography on Summer for The Works International and Vertigo Films. Summer shot for five weeks in and around Bolsover, Derbyshire. Post-production will start in Glasgow next week. Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets and Rachael Blake star with newcomers Sean Kelly, Matthew Workman, Jo Doherty, Christopher Russell, ...
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Athens gives Golden Athena for best film to Puenzo's XXY
The Argentinian production XXY directed by Lucia Puenzo was named best film of the international competition at the 13th Athens International Film Festival (Opening Nights Conn-X) receiving the Golden Athena and a prize of $14,170(Euros 10,000) in cash handed out by the European Youth Jury formed by 11 young European ...
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BBC Films restructures with new board working under Jane Tranter
In London this morning, Jane Tranter, Controller BBC Fiction, spelled out her vision for a newly revamped BBC Films. 'The BBC's commitment to BBC Films is as absolute as it ever has been,' Tranter said.The major change is now that BBC Films will be managed by a new four-member BBC ...
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Bac founder Labadie plans to legally contest ousting from company
Bac Films has announced the departure of its founder and managing director, Jean Labadie. The board of holding company Bac Majestic, of which Bac Films is a 100% subsidiary, revoked Labadie's mandate on September 12 and also put an end to his employee contract as of September 24. Labadie, who ...
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Park Entertainment takes on sales for Cheung's Bodyguard
Park Entertainment is handling world sales for Bodyguard - A New Beginning. UK-based director Chee Keung Cheung has finished principal photography on the action movie, which shot in Hong Kong and northwest England. The cast features Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa, Richard Ng, Vincent Sze, Mark Strange and Nathan Lewis. Park Entertainment also ...
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Films from 19 countries nominated for Asia Pacific awards
Lebanon's Caramel , South Korea's Secret Sunshine, Turkey's Takva: A Man's Fear Of God and Iran's Night Bus are the most nominated films competing for the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Each of the four films have been nominated three times, including for the best feature category, it was announced ...
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Seachd producer withdraws from BAFTA over Oscar snub
Award-winning Scottish producer Chris Young has resigned from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in protest at the academy's refusal to submit any British film in the foreign language category. Young's Gaelic-language feature Seachd-The Inaccessible Pinnacle was thought to be a front runner for the British submission. BAFTA ...
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Kieft, Mediaport set to open first Cinestar 'plex
German exhibitor Kieft & Kieft Filmtheater will open its first multiplex through the Cinestar joint venture, created with Italy's Mediaport and property developer Dora, in Udine, Italy on September 14. Kieft and Mediaport, which is part-owned by state-backed Italian producer-distributor Istituto Luce, launched the joint venture, which aims to build ...
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NonStop acquires It's A Free World and La Zona
Stockholm-based distributor NonStop Entertainment has acquired Scandinavia and Iceland rights for Ken Loach's It's A Free World and Scandinavia and Baltics rights for Rodrigo Pla's La Zona. Loach's It's A Free World, about a British woman who tries to make money from illegal immigrants working in the UK, won the ...
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Fat Boy outruns new releases to lead fourth week at UK box office
British comedy Run, Fat Boy, Run dominated the UK box office for the fourth weekend in a row, keeping a firm hold of the number one slot with a $2.01m (£988,788) take from 398 sites.The film, released by Entertainment Film Distributors, is one of four films that refused to budge ...
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AFM to feature 106 industry world premieres
Organisers at the upcoming 28th AFM in Santa Monica have announcedthat 522 features will screen at the event, among them 106 industryworld premieres and 364 market premieres.Industry world premieres include: Mad Money starring Katie Holmes,Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah, which Nu Image is selling; SmartPeople with Thomas Hayden Church, Sarah ...
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Blanchett to receive top honour at Santa Barbara
Cate Blanchett, expected to be a leading Oscar contender this seasonfor key roles in two upcoming prestige releases, will receive the 2008Santa Barbara International Film Festival's (SBIFF) highest honour,the Modern Master Award, on Jan 26 2008.Blanchett won the Coppa Volpi at Venice last month for her performanceas Bob Dylan in ...
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Blanchett to receive top honour at Santa Barbara
Cate Blanchett, expected to be a leading Oscar contender this seasonfor key roles in two upcoming prestige releases, will receive the 2008Santa Barbara International Film Festival's (SBIFF) highest honour,the Modern Master Award, on Jan 26 2008.Blanchett won the Coppa Volpi at Venice last month for her performanceas Bob Dylan in ...
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Hong Kong's FDC unveils details of film fund
Hong Kong's Film Development Council, established by the government earlier this year to support the ailing local film industry, has unveiled details of its Film Development Fund (FDF), which aims to provide financial support for small-to-medium budget film productions. The $38m (HK$300m) fund, which is now inviting applications, will fund ...
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Richard Gere and Marc Forster to receive Hollywood honours
Richard Gere will receive the Hollywood Actor Of The Year Award, Marc Forster the Hollywood Director Of The Year Award, Ellen Page the Hollywood Breakthrough Actress Of The Year Award, and Diablo Cody the Hollywood Breakthrough Screenwriter Of The Year Award at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony in Los ...
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Taiwan gears up for 5th Film & Television Expo
Details have started to emerge about the 5th Taiwan International Film & Television Expo (TIFTE) which will take place from Nov 17 and culminates with the Golden Horse Awards on Dec 8. Five events will take place under the umbrella of the expo: 41st Golden Bell Television Awards (Nov 17) ...
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IMAX, Regal sign digital projection deal for five new IMAX systems
IMAX Corp. and US exhibitor Regal Cinemas have signed the first North American order for the giant screen company's new digital projection technology. The joint-venture agreement will see five IMAX systems added to the Regal chain in the US, boosting Regal's IMAX circuit to 21 screens by the spring of ...
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Czech Culture Ministry drops tax incentives from film law proposal
Hopes for a comprehensive Czech film law which would benefit runaway productions as well as local films are fading, but there remains a chance that both foreign and local producers will see improved conditions in the middle distance. As Screendaily.com reported in July, Czech filmmakers and politicians have long been ...
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Fine Line, Overseas buy Before Night Falls
Fine Line Features has bought North American rights and Overseas FilmGroup has taken international rights to Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls, which screened to great acclaim at the Venice Film Festival this weekend. The company, which competed with Sony Pictures Classics for the film, paid just north of $1m for ...
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Aardman plans Wallace and Gromit short for BBC TV
Aardman's famed Wallace and Gromit characters, last seen on the big screen in 2005 feature Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, are returning to a 30-minute format for TV. Trouble At' Mill will be shown on BBC 1. The short is in pre-production now and will start shooting in January 2008 to ...