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UK film pirate gets three-year prison sentence
In a landmark case in thefight against film piracy, a UK court has given a Cambridge-based DVD pirate,a three-year prison sentence.Jayanti Amarishi Buhecha,who was estimated to make more than £25,000 per month from piracy, was found guilty of two offences under theTrade Marks Act 1994, at Harrow crown court, in ...
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NonStop makes host of acquisitions at Berlin
NonStop Entertainment hasannounced the following acquisitions at the recently closed Berlin FilmFestival.From Celluloid Dreams:The Beat That My Heart Skipped, which was awarded the Silver Bear for BestMusic at the Berlinale 2005. NonStop will distribute The Beat in Sweden,Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. Me And You And EveryoneWe Know, the US ...
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A Year Without Love wins Berlin's Teddy Award
Thewinner of the 19th Teddy Award for the best gay/transgender film at theBerlinale has been won by Argentina's A Year Without Love (Un Ano Sin Amor).Director Anahi Berneri will take home a cash prize of Euros 3,000 from theTeddy Award foundation and other donors in Berlin's gay and lesbian community.Winnerof ...
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European Film Market closes at an all-time high
Newsfrom the floor of the European Film Market as it wrapped for another year:busier than ever before. While there were no headline-grabbing North Americanor multi-territory deals forged by the classics divisions of Hollywood studios,serious business was done. One seller alone reported over 500 deals completedhere.Non-English-languagecommercial fare and art-house pictures were ...
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A Killing In The Woods wins Oscar Moore prize
This year's Annual OscarMoore Screenwriting Prize of £10,000 has been won by Marcus Shepherd for histaut, largely three-character thriller A Killing In The Woods. The story concerns 10-yearold Chris, who is staying with his Aunt, Uncle and cousin Becky, at theirholiday home in the woods. All seems well until Chris ...
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Berlin Today is Alright
Alright Love, by Finnish writer-director Samuli Valkama and creative producerRoman Sorger from Austria, has won this year's Berlin Today Award. Thedigital short, which was shot in Berlin last autumn with Valerie Lasserre andTim Sander playing a young couple who meet by chance in the U-Bahn, won outover Bucuresti - Berlin ...
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Tartan snags The Devil documentary
Active market buyer Tartan Films has picked up UK rights to TheDevil And Daniel Johnston, the documentaryabout a cult musician which won Jeff Feuerzeig the directing prize at Sundancelast month. The film is being sold by Jeremy Barber of talent agency UTA,who negotiated with Tartan's Jane Giles. A US deal ...
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Lions Gate Int'l takes selected rights on Isolation
Lions Gate FilmsInternational has picked up worldwide rights excluding the UK, France and NorthAmerica to UK-Irish horror movie Isolation which is being directed byfirst-timer Billy O'Brien. Produced by The Bureau inassociation with Blue Orange Films and Element Films, Isolation stars JohnLynch, Ruth Negga and Sean Harris in the story of ...
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Icon takes Perfect Creature for the UK
Icon Entertainment haspicked up UK rights to Perfect Creature, the New Zealand-UK producedvampire thriller. Starring Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows, Stuart Wilson andScott Wills it explores a retro-futuristic world where vampires and humansco-exist. The Icon deal was signed byArclight Films, which handles international sales jointly with New ZealandFilm. "We get the ...
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British feature wins at Miami
The Miami International FilmFestival ended yesterday with Amma Assante's British feature A Way Of Lifewinning the grand jury prize and the FIPRESCI prize for best dramatic featurein world cinema competition.In the documentary featurecategory, the grand jury prize went to Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez's LaSierra from Colombia which shows a ...
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Beyond boosts Berlin slate
Beyond Films has added twoUK films to its slate at Berlin. Richard Kwietniowsky is to direct black comedyNo One Gets Off In This Town, which is expected to star Brenda Blethyn,Jane Horrocks, John Hurt Amira Casar and Rupert Evans. "We are pre-selling thefilm as part of the financing," said Beyond, ...
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European cinema admissions rocket in 2004
Cinema admissions for theenlarged European Union of 25 member states rocketed to record levels in 2004,topping the 1bn mark for the first time ever, according to provisional figurescompiled by the Strasbourg-based European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO).Initial estimates havelogged a year-on-year-increase of 5.87 percent, led by a stunning 11.6 percentadmissions hike in ...
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Skillset launches flagship film industry website
UKtraining body Skillset has launched a new film website for people working orwanting to work in the UK film industry. The siteis billed as a one-stop shop for all information on getting in and getting onin film careers.Coveringall aspects of film from development through to exhibition, the site includes: - ...
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Miramax Films acquires Pathe's Mrs Henderson Presents
Miramax Films has acquired the North American, Latin American, and German distribution rights to Stephen Frears's Mrs. Henderson Presents.Starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins, Mrs. Henderson Presents is a Pathe Pictures-BBC Films production written by Martin Sherman and produced through Heyman-Hoskins Productions by Norma Heyman, and executive produced by ...
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Overture sweeps Thai Oscars
Local Thai box office hit TheOverture (Hom Rong), a period film about a Thai classical musician, has wonseven Supannahongsa Film Awards.Directed by IthisoonthornVichailuck, The Overture won awards for best film, best director, bestscreenplay, best sound effects, best script, and best cinematography. It wasnominated in 14 categories. Pidisak Yaovanaan won thebest ...
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...as Russian 4 polarises festival opinion
By consensus, the 34th International Film Festival Rotterdam(IFFR), which ended at the weekend with a screening of Howl's MovingCastle, was a solid but unspectacularaffair. Box-office was slightly up on last year and a steady streamof international filmmakers - Alexander Payne, Roger Michell, Lukas Moodyssonand Pawel Pawlikowski among them - passed ...
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One Eyed Films picks up two Latin American titles
UK-based sales companyOne Eyed Films has picked up two award-winningLatin American titles - Almost Brothers and Up Against ThemAll.Almost Brothers boasts a string of awards including Best Brazilianfilm of 2004 at Sao Paulo and best director, and best Latin American filmamongst others at the Rio film festival.Produced by Fernando Meirelles, ...
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Tango Entertainment announces key appointments
Tango EntertainmentInc, the home entertainment operatorformed at the end of 2004 by industry veterans Paul Levinson and WarrenGoldberg, has made two key appointments.Evan Fisher joins thecompany as senior vice-president of sales and marketing with an emphasis onestablishing a broad spectrum of distribution channels and originating newretail outlets.Working alongside Fisher inthe ...
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INTERNATIONAL 27 January
Having spent two weeksracking up healthy numbers in Germany - its only international outing so far,multiple Oscar nominee Ray expanded into seven further territories.Openings in the UK, Italyand Australia helped Ray to enter the chart in 17th place with a $2.2m weekend - and thanks to its Germanreception where it ...
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Katja von Garnier to direct Lakeshore's Blood And Chocolate
Germandirector Katja von Garnier has signed on to direct Lakeshore Entertainment's BloodAnd Chocolate, it was announced today byLakeshore's Tom Rosenberg.Produced by Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi with Daniel Bobker, the film isset to start shooting this spring.Set inEastern Europe, Blood And Chocolate is the story of Vivian Gandillion, anineteen year old ...