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Belgian film fund reports 18 film investment
Belgian media fund Motion Investment Group (MIG) raised $21.4m (Euros $16.5m) for 18 films in 2006, making it the country's biggest source of film finance.The company's end-of-year report shows MIG backed 13 features, four television productions and a documentary.Added to its foundation year of 2005, the company has now raised ...
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New Prescience venture aims to raise $10m
A new UK Enterprise Investment Scheme venture from Prescience Film Finance and tax specialist Chancery aims to raise around $10m (£5m) for UK film and television productions.Prescience Pictures' initial projects include a Bruce Beresford-directed film version of Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance, to star Lindsay Lohan and to ...
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The Queen reigns over BAFTA nominees
Stephen Frears’ The Queen leads the nominations for the The Orange British Academy Film Awards, or BAFTAs. The film was recognised in 10 categories.
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Bond and The Queen head BAFTA longlist
Thesecond round of Film Voting will open at 1800 GMT on Thursday 4 January andclose at 1800 GMT on Wednesday 10 January.BestFilmBabelBobbyCasinoRoyaleChildrenof MenTheDepartedTheDevil Wears PradaFlagsof Our FathersTheHistory BoysTheLast King of ScotlandLittleMiss SunshineNoteson a ScandalPan'sLabyrinthTheQueenUnited93VolverBestDirectorApocalyptoBabelBobbyCasinoRoyaleChildrenof MenTheDepartedFlagsof Our FathersTheHistory BoysTheLast King of ScotlandLittleMiss SunshineNoteson a ScandalPan'sLabyrinthTheQueenUnited93VolverOriginalScreenplayBabelBloodDiamondBobbyBoratBreakingAnd EnteringHollywoodlandLittleMiss SunshineMissPotterPan'sLabyrinthTheQueenStrangerThan FictionUnited93VenusVolverTheWind That Shakes The ...
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Bond and The Queen head BAFTA longlist
Thesecond round of Film Voting will open at 1800 GMT on Thursday 4 January andclose at 1800 GMT on Wednesday 10 January.BestFilmBabelBobbyCasinoRoyaleChildrenof MenTheDepartedTheDevil Wears PradaFlagsof Our FathersTheHistory BoysTheLast King of ScotlandLittleMiss SunshineNoteson a ScandalPan'sLabyrinthTheQueenUnited93VolverBestDirectorApocalyptoBabelBobbyCasinoRoyaleChildrenof MenTheDepartedFlagsof Our FathersTheHistory BoysTheLast King of ScotlandLittleMiss SunshineNoteson a ScandalPan'sLabyrinthTheQueenUnited93VolverOriginalScreenplayBabelBloodDiamondBobbyBoratBreakingAnd EnteringHollywoodlandLittleMiss SunshineMissPotterPan'sLabyrinthTheQueenStrangerThan FictionUnited93VenusVolverTheWind That Shakes The ...
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China halts foreign investment in production companies
A senior Chinese governmentofficial has confirmed that China has halted new foreign investment in film and TVproduction companies. The move overturns aregulation introduced in 2003 which allowed foreign companies to take stakes ofup to 49% in local production houses or Sino-foreign joint ventures.'Our policy is totemporarily not approve the creation ...
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Production begins for Second World War spoof
Alan Cumming is to star asHitler and Timothy Spall as Winston Churchill in Jackboots OnWhitehall, a comedy set during the Second World War, London-basedproduction company Swipe announced today (Dec 7).Based on the idea that theGermans won the Battle Of Britain but were defeated bythe Scots, the film also includes well-known ...
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Director Robert Altman dies at age 81
Famed director Robert Altmanhas died age 81.His New York-based Sandcastle5 Productions told the Associated Press that Altman died Monday night but didn'tdisclose the cause of death.A multiple best directorOscar nominee, Altman received an honorary Academy Award earlier in 2006 forhis body of work, which includes MASH, Nashville, The Player, Gosford ...
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German pay-per-view service launches on KDG cable service
Subscribers to German cable service KDG are to be offered local and Hollywood films through a pay-per-view content service, CineExpress from On Demand Group (ODG).The initial service will include movies from Universal, Paramount, DreamWorks, Constantin, Prokino and TMG.The standard price will be $3.8 (Euros 3)
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Thin wins LFF's Grierson Award
Thin, thedirectorial debut from photographer Lauren Greenfield, has won this year's Grierson Award for the best feature-length documentaryscreened at The Times BFI London Film Festival.The documentary follows fourwomen as they struggle to overcome eating disorders in a US clinic. SandraHebron, artistic director of the festival, described it as a "powerful ...
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Sundance commissions original movies for mobile phones
Robert Redford's SundanceInstitute is dipping an experimental toe in the mobile entertainment arena bycommissioning five original short films intended for viewing on cell phonesworldwide.The three-to-five minutefilms will debut in Barcelona, on the opening day of next February's 3GSM WorldCongress, a mobile communications conference that attracts some fifty thousandtelecom-related professionals from ...
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Katapult closes AFM deals on Sherrybaby, Hawk
Katapult Film Sales has closed significant deals on its AFM slate, with the Maggie Gyllenhaal drama Sherrybaby going to Metrodome in the UK, Madman in Australia, and Line Tree in South Korea.The Paul Giamatti-starrer The Hawk Is Dying has sold to Zootrope Films in France, Art Free in Greece, and ...
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Katapult closes AFM deals on Sherrybaby, Hawk
Katapult Film Sales has closed significant deals on its AFM slate, with the Maggie Gyllenhaal drama Sherrybaby going to Metrodome in the UK, Madman in Australia, and Line Tree in South Korea.The Paul Giamatti-starrer The Hawk Is Dying has sold to Zootrope Films in France, Art Free in Greece, and ...
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The Waiting Room starts London shoot
Roger Goldby's debut feature The Waiting Room has begun shooting in South London.The film, whose stars include Anne-Marie Duff and Rupert Graves, has been funded entirely by private investors including Sir Tim Rice with the cast and crew receiving a stake in the final film.The film will shoot for five ...
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Germany's e-m-s to coproduce Lolafilms' Manolete
Spanish producer Lolafilmshas recruited Germany's e-m-s new media as aco-producer on Manolete, starringAdrien Brody and Penelope Cruz, as well as for Io Don Giovanni. The film finishedprincipal photography this summer. Werner Wirsing, CEO ofe-m-s, is now an executive producer of the film and his company will handledistribution in Germany and ...
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Israel chooses Sweet Mud as Oscar submission
Dror Shaul's drama Sweet Mud has been named as the official Israeli submission for thisyear's foreign-language Oscar category. The film, set in a kibbutz in the1970s, follows a 12 year-old boy and his attempts to navigate the needs of hisemotionally fragile mother.Sweet Mud was given four Ophir awards in Sept ...
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Rome unveils lineup for inaugural festival
Premiere Section Alatriste,Agustin Diaz Yanes (Spain)The Stone Council (Le Concile De Pierre), Guillaume Nicloux (France/Italy/Germany)Fur: An Imaginary Portrait OfDiane Arbus, Steven Shainberg (US)The Hoax,Lasse Hallstrom (US)N, PaoloVirzi (Italy/France/Spain)The Namesake, Mira Nair (US)The Prestige, Christopher Nolan (US)The Unknown (La Sconosciuta), Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy/France) Uno Su Due,Eugenio Cappuccio (Italy) Cinema 2006 Section ...
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Rome unveils lineup for inaugural festival
Premiere SectionAlatriste,Agustin Diaz Yanes (Spain)The Stone Council (Le Concile De Pierre),Guillaume Nicloux (France/Italy/Germany)Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of Diane Arbus,Steven Shainberg (US)The Hoax, Lasse Hallstrom (US)N, Paolo Virzi (Italy/France/Spain)The Namesake, Mira Nair (US)The Prestige, Christopher Nolan (US)The Unknown (La Sconosciuta),Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy/France) Uno Su Due, Eugenio Cappuccio (Italy)Cinema 2006 SectionA Casa ...
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Vesper soars at Sundance Channel
ChristianVesper has been promoted to senior vice president, acquisitions, programplanning and scheduling at Sundance Channel. He continues to report to LauraMichalchyshyn, executive vice president, programming and marketing at thechannel.In hisexpanded role, Vesper will manage the channel's international sales activityand work closely with the digital media team, licensing content for the ...
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Hammer & Tongs wraps Son of Rambow
Shooting has wrapped on Son Of Rambow, the latest film from the UK film-making team of Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith, better known as Hammer & Tongs (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy).The film is being sold in Toronto by Celluloid Dreams and was executive produced by Hengameh Panahi and ...