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  • Reviews

    Breaking Up (Separacoes)

    2003-03-20T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Domingos De Oliveira. Brazil. 2002. 110mins.A sophisticated, wordy, extremely fast-moving comedy about the loves and lusts of a group of Rio artists and intellectuals (think Woody Allen, with Manhattan angst replaced by an irrepressible Latino hedonism), Breaking Up was a great popular favourite with audiences in Mar Del Plata ...

  • News

    TPS to increase local production investment

    2003-03-21T04:05:00Z

    French satellite platform TPS is to increase its investment in local low- to medium-budget films.As stipulated by French broadcast authority, the CSA, TPS will continue to invest Euros 2.01 per subscriber per month in buying and pre-buying French films.TPS also contributes to 'cinematic diversity' by spending 15% of its investments ...

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    Barrandov to build new stage - even without investor

    2003-03-21T04:05:00Z

    Barrandov Studios plans to go ahead with a new 4,000 square meter stage for its Prague film complex, despite the news that owner Moravia Steel is no longer seeking an investor.The announcement of the cancelled sale sparked concern in the local film industry, but it's business as usual at Barrandov, ...

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    Alfonso Cuaron's production company unveils new titles

    2003-03-21T04:05:00Z

    Anhelo, the film production company forged by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron and partner Jorge Vergara, has unveiled three international projects in the pipeline. Cuaron and Vergara initially launched Anhelo to produce the Cuaron-directed international hit Y Tu Mama Tambien which is currently in the running for a best screenplay Oscar. ...

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    EU regulators suspend Canal Plus investigation

    2003-03-20T00:00:00Z

    The European Union's competition watchdog has suspended its investigation into French pay-TV group Canal Plus' deals with the Hollywood studios. Mario Monti, the Commissioner whose responsibilities include competition, internal markets and the information society, has put on "indefinite hold" its long-standing probe into the pay-TV company, following changes in the ...

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    Spain's DeA Planeta announces string of pick-ups

    2003-03-21T04:05:00Z

    Spain's DeA Planeta has announced a string of high-profile pick-ups including Ingmar Bergman's Saraband and Tod Williams' Door In The Floor.The company - the joint media venture of Spanish and Italian publishing giants Grupo Planeta and De Agostini - has taken all rights in Spain from Svensk Filmindustri to Bergman's ...

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    Rising Danish star takes on Norwegian thriller

    2003-03-21T04:05:00Z

    Hot Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is to star in Erich Hortnagl's Norwegian psychological thriller A Cry In The Woods (Den som frykter ulven). Mikkelsen will play a Danish police detective investigating a horrific murder in a small Norwegian town, which turns out to have a personal significance to him. Mikkelsen ...

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    Celluloid Nightmares, Mongrel Media close three-film deal

    2010-11-16T19:33:00Z

    Deals closed at AFM for Canadian rights to Jon Hewitt’s X, Fernando Barreda Luna’s Atrocious and The Orozco Brothers’ Greetings To The Devil. All three films are targeting festival premieres in early 2011.

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    Screen Media takes North American ancillary rights to La Soga

    2010-11-16T19:03:00Z

    7-57 Releasing has licensed North American ancillary rights to Screen Media Films for Josh Crook’s Dominican hit La Soga.

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    Reviews

    Aung San Suu Kyi – Lady Of No Fear

    2010-11-17T19:06:00Z

    Dir: Anne Gyrithe Bonne. Denmark. 2010. 60mins

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    Helena Bonham Carter, Liam Neeson to be honoured at BIFAs

    2010-11-17T12:08:00Z

    The Moet British Independent Film Awards will give special honours this year to Helena Bonham Carter and Liam Neeson.

  • News

    Ternstrom joins Metrodome acquisitions team

    2010-11-17T13:02:00Z

    She moves from The Works UK Distribution.

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    Amazon.com launches film development business Amazon Studios

    2010-11-17T13:09:00Z

    E-commerce multinational Amazon has created a new online film and script development business, with a built in first look deal with Warner Bros.

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    StudioCanal secure key sales on Spanish titles Bruc and Tadeo Jones

    2010-11-17T14:09:00Z

    French sales outfit StudioCanal has confirmed several deals on Daniel Benmayor’s historical drama Bruc and Enrique Gato’s animation Tadeo Jones at the AFM, including StudioCanal-owned Optimum taking UK rights to both titles.

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    Skanhaus Group plans to invest $24m in new studio complex near Berlin

    2010-11-17T15:12:00Z

    UK-based Skanhaus Group is planning to invest $24m (Euros 18m) in the construction of a new film production complex north-east of Berlin which is being billed as the world’s “first eco-friendly film studio.”

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    World Cinema Fund backs four projects including By The Fire

    2010-11-17T18:51:00Z

    Jury members on the 13th WCF session included film scholar and curator Viola Shafik, playwright Alby James, WCF project managers Sonja Heinen and Vincenzo Bugno and distributor/producer Jan De Clercq.

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    Nolan to collect inaugural VES Visionary Award

    2010-11-17T18:37:00Z

    Christopher Nolan will receive the inaugural VES Visionary Award from at the Visual Effects Society’s 9th annual awards show on January 28, 2011 in Los Angeles.

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    Tribeca Film takes US rights to Bang Bang Club

    2010-11-17T18:54:00Z

    Tribeca Film has taken the Apartheid drama off the shelf and will release theatrically in the second quarter of 2011 as well as on VOD and other platforms.

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    Cinema Guild acquires Puiu's Romanian thriller Aurora for US

    2010-11-17T19:06:00Z

    The Cinema Guild has acquired US rights to Aurora, Romanian auteur Cristi Puiu’s follow-up to his 2005 Un Certain Regard winner The Death Of Mr Lazarescu.

  • News

    Constantin options Ahern novel Where Rainbows End

    2010-11-17T22:28:00Z

    Constantin Film has optioned film rights to Where Rainbows End, the second novel by Irish besteller Cecelia Ahern.