All articles by Theodore Schwinke – Page 14
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Krauze's Saviour's Square takes top prizes at Polish festival
Saviour's Square, the new film from Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze, haswon the grand prize at the 31st Festival of Polish Film in Gdynia. The film also received bestactress honours for Jowita Budnik, best supporting actress for EwaWencel, best score for PawelSzymanski and a special award from the Polish president.A ...
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Nu Image wraps Bulgarian shoot for Day Of The Dead
Director Steve Miner haswrapped production on zombie thriller DayOf The Dead, a new interpretation of George Romero's1985 horror classic, after six weeks of shooting in and around Sofia. The production usedfacilities of Nu Image's BoyanaStudios in the Bulgarian capital and other sets and locations around thecountry, including Ilientzi, where Brian ...
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Warsaw to open with Karwowski's South By Northwest
The 22nd edition of theWarsaw International Film Festival will open Oct 6 with the world premiere of Lukasz Karwowski's South By Northwest.The programme, which runsuntil Oct 15, will include roughly 140 films from 48 countries. Czech filmmaker Petr Zelenka will chair the jury,which will award the Nescafe Grand Prix and ...
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Dubrovnik's Libertas festival to open with Three Burials
The second Libertas Film Festival begins Friday (Aug 25) with ascreening of Tommy Lee Jones' The ThreeBurials Of MelquiadesEstrada. Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelsonare among the guests expected to attend the six-day festival in the picturesqueCroatian port of Dubrovnik. M. Night Shyamalan's Lady In The Waterwill close the festival following ...
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Palace strikes deal for Intercom's Hungarian multiplexes
Palace Cinemas Central Europe has announced the acquisition of nine Hollywood Multiplex sites from AndyVajna's production, distribution and exhibitioncompany InterCom.Palace Cinemas would notdisclose the value of the asset-purchase arrangement.Of the nine sites, five arein the capital of Budapest and one is to open in November. The asset purchase agreementadds 56 ...
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Jakubisko wraps shoot for $13.5m Bathory
Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko has wrapped principal photography on Bathory, anEnglish-language drama about the 17th-century Hungarian noblewomanand reputed murderess Countess Erzsebet Bathory.The $13.5m project is a Slovak-Czech-UK-Hungarianco-production. Jakubisko Film Slovakiais the delegated producer in partnership with JakubiskoFilm Czech Republic. Film & Music Entertainment and LunarFilms represent the UK side, and ...
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Magic Box strikes Czech deal with Warner Bros
Warner Home Video (WHV) hasstruck a deal with Czech independent home entertainment company Magic Box tolicense and distribute Warner Bros' new releases and library titles as ofOctober this year. In April, Warner Bros CzechRepublic managing director Ladislav Stastny told ScreenDaily.comthat falling revenues had lead to the decision to phase out ...
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Janek takes over as director of Citizen Havel
Czech documentary film-maker Miroslav Janek has agreed to take over as director of Citizen Havel,a documentary about former Czech president Vaclav Havel,following the tragic death of the project's original director, Pavel Koutecky. Janek has directed numerous Czech documentaries,including Kha-chee-pae,which screened in documentary competition at Karlovy Vary, and served as editor ...
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Karlovy Vary gives top prize to Sherrybaby
Laurie Collyer's Sherrybaby has taken the grandprize at the Karlovy Vary International FilmFestival.At the festival's closing ceremonies July 8, the director received theCrystal Globe for Best Feature and $20,000 for her film about a recovering drugaddict who struggles to reconnect with her daughter after being released fromprison.Collyer also accepted the ...
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Eli Roth plans Czech shoot for Hostel 2
Eli Roth will begin production on Hostel 2 in September in Prague, Cesky Krumlov, Karlovy Vary andother locations around the Czech Republic.The director told reporters at theKarlovy Vary International Film Festival the film financing was a negative pick-upby Columbia Screen Gems and Lionsgate. Lionsgate will distribute the film with Sony ...
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Czech film industry promised help by expected government coalition
Leaders of the likely next Czech government have vowed to create a comprehensive film law to address the needs of film-makers in the Czech Republic, and are planning a provisional increase in subsidies to the industry.Mirek Topolanek, the leader of the centre-right Civic Democrats, which emerged the frontrunners in the ...
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Czech film industry promised help by expected government coalition
Leaders of the likely next Czech government have vowed to create a comprehensive film law to address the needs of film-makers in the Czech Republic, and are planning a provisional increase in subsidies to the industry.Mirek Topolanek, the leader of the centre-right Civic Democrats, which emerged the frontrunners in the ...
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Czech film industry promised help by expected government coalition
Leaders of the likely next Czech government have vowed to create a comprehensive film law to address the needs of film-makers in the Czech Republic, and are planning a provisional increase in subsidies to the industry.Mirek Topolanek, the leader of the centre-right Civic Democrats, which emerged the frontrunners in the ...
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Karlovy Vary kicks off with Garcia, Kim Ki-duk
Andy Garcia received aCrystal Globe award for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema at the openingceremonies of the 41st Karlovy Vary International Film.The festival will see theEuropean premiere of Garcia's directorial debut, The Lost City, about a family torn apart by the communistrevolution in Cuba. Garcia's own family fled the island ...
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Palace in talks to buy Budapest's Hollywood Multiplexes
Palace Cinemas says it isnegotiating to purchase the Hollywood Multiplexes in Budapest owned by Andy Vajna'sproduction, distribution and exhibition company InterCom.Neither Palace Cinemas nor InterCom would comment on the price, date of handover,number of facilities involved or whether the purchased cinemas would remain inoperation. Admissions have beendropping precipitously in Hungary ...
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Karlovy Vary competition boasts six world premieres
The KarlovyVary International Film Festival has announced the competition films for its41st edition to be held June 30-July 8.In addition to thepreviously announced Beauty In Troubleby Jan Hrebejk, MouthTo Mouth by Bjorn Runge and Several People, Little Time by Andrzej Baranksi, the competition line-up includes a further dozenfilms screening in ...
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Transilvania gives top honours to 12:08 East Of Bucharest
Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu's film 12:08 East Of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost') followedits Cannes wins with the top prizes at the fifth Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF). The feature received $12,612 (Euros 10,000) and the Transilvania Trophy for Best Film, anadditional $2522 (Euros 2,000) for best film in ...
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Transilvania gives top honours to 12:08 East Of Bucharest
Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu's film 12:08 East Of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost') followedits Cannes wins with the top prizes at the fifth Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF). The feature received $12,612 (Euros 10,000) and the Transilvania Trophy for Best Film, anadditional $2522 (Euros 2,000) for best film ...
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Boost to Czech film fund dies in parliament
The Czech parliament hasfailed to override a presidential veto of a measure that would have increasedstate support for the local film industry threefold and required greatercontributions from exhibitors and distributors. In April, the Chamber ofDeputies passed legislation that would increase the annual size of the StateFund for the Support and ...
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Kim Ki-Duk's Time to open Karlovy Vary
Kim Ki-Duk's new film Time will open the Karlovy Vary International FilmFestival. TheKorean director is scheduled to attend the world premiere of the film June 30 at the Czech festival. The film will see its marketpremiere in Cannes on May 20 and has reportedly already been sold in 15territories. Time ...