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Senator acquires Silentium rights for Germany
Berlin based Senator Film has acquired German rights forAustrian box office hit Silentium, while Frenetic Films acquired allSwiss rights.A murder story centring in the city of Salzburg, thethriller has racked up more than 200,000 admissions through Austriandistributor Luna Film. World Sales are handled by Solveig Langeland's Sola Mediaand Beatrix Wesle's ...
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Cinemart names project market winners
Two films have won the Arte France Cinema Awards, worthEuros 10,000, at this year's CineMart project market at the Rotterdam FilmFestival.Five Worlds is a five part film project byfilmmakers Sobhi al-Zobaidi (Palestine), U-Wei bin Hajisaari (Malaysia), KamalTabrizi (Iran), Homayoun Paiz (Afghanistan), Garin Nugroho and producer leBrocquyFraser Productions.Dry Season (Daratt), which ...
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Gavin Film strikes Yasmin deals
UK based sales outfit GavinFilm has closed a string of deals on Yasmin,Kenny Glenaan's post 9/11 tale of Muslim life in Britain. It has sold France (LesFilms du Safran), Brazil (California Films) and the UK (3DD Entertainment).Academy Films have the rights for Germany, Switzerland and Austria.In the UK the film ...
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Berlinale unveils full Panorama line-up
The Berlin International Film Festival's Panorama section has unveiled the final additions to its lineup, which now comprising 34 features, 18 documentaries and 26 short films inits main programme and Special,Dokumente and Short Film series. The films come from 30 different countries and 28 of themwill be screened as world ...
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Russia's Return wins BBC Four prize
Russian drama The Returnhas been named winner of the BBC Four World Cinema Award.Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, The Return previously won the 2003 Golden Lion award at theVenice Film Festival. The prize was presented at an awards ceremony held in Londonon Thursday and hosted by Jonathan Ross.
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Economic boom sees surge in Russian cinema building
The number of modern cinema screens in Russia is expectedto nearly triple to 1,900 by 2009, according to research published this week.DodonaResearch's report CinemagoingRussia says that the growth in newshopping complexes is providing locations for entertainment facilities andunderpinning a rapid expansion in the cinema sector.Several operators have successfully raised investmentfinance ...
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Berlinale names competition jury members
The Berlinale (Feb 10-20) has named the members ofthe International Jury for its main competition films.The jury will decide which of the 21 films set to play incompetition will win the festival's top prizes, the Golden and Silver Bears.As previously announced, German director Roland Emmerichwill head the jury. The other ...
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ICM agency recruits Jones for below the line team
Vanessa Jones is to join UK agency ICM on Feb 1 after atwo-year break travelling the world.The former PFD agent joins the below the line team of SueGreenleaves, Chris Smith, Kate Ledger and Rachael Taylor at the agency."Vanessabrings to ICM a wealth of experience and a great personality, and willcompliment ...
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Los Angeles film production leaps 19% in 2004
Film production in LosAngeles boomed in 2004 according to latest figures from LA's EntertainmentIndustry Development Corp.It said one of the keyreasons for the 19% increase in production days for feature films in 2004 wasthat the decline in value of the US dollar has made it more attractive forHollywood films to ...
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Aviator dominates 77th Academy Award nominations
Martin Scorsese's TheAviator has emerged as the clear front-runner for the 77thAcademy Awards with 11 nominations, ahead of Finding Neverland and MillionDollar Baby which bagged seven nods apiece.The nominations wereannounced this morning in Los Angeles and also saw Ray receive six nodsand Sideways rewarded with five. All five of these ...
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Berlinale lifts lid on 'sassy' Forum programme
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 10-20) hasunveiled the full programme of the 35th International Forum of New Cinema, which focuses largely on films by new and youngdirectors.The programme, which is one of the key festival strands alongsidethe main competition, Panorama, the Kinderfilmfest and the Perspektive DeutschesKino, is billed by ...
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ITV renews NBC Universal film deal
UK broadcaster ITV and NBC Universal have extended theirexclusive licensing agreement for the terrestrial rights to NBC Universal'sfeature films and television series.ITV will have access to NBC Universal's 2004 - 2006theatrical titles, including product from Working Title Films. The agreement also includes titles from NBC Universal'sfilm and television libraries, as ...
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Berlinale unveils full competition programme
The Berlinale (Feb 10-20) has unveiled its completecompetition programme with 21 films set to compete for the festival's Goldenand Silver Bears. Five more films will play out of competition.Africa emerges as a key theme of the selection with RaoulPeck's Sometimes In April and Terry George's Hotel Rwanda bothaddressing the genocidal ...
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The Aviator takes off in BAFTA nominations
The Aviator has emerged as the front-runnerin the nominations for the forthcoming Orange British Academy Film Awards.The Martin Scorsese directed film, which won the best dramaprize at last night's Golden Globes, received 14 BAFTA nominations, ahead of FindingNeverland and Vera Drake which both received 11 nominations each.Foreign language films also ...
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Aviator takes off in BAFTA nominations
The Aviator has emerged as the front-runnerin the nominations for the forthcoming Orange British Academy Film Awards.The Martin Scorsese directed film, which won the best dramaprize at last night's Golden Globes, received 14 BAFTA nominations, ahead of FindingNeverland and Vera Drake which both received 11 nominations each.Foreign language films also ...
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Odyssey takes on August Rush sales
Ralph Kamp and Louise Goodsill's OdysseyEntertainment is to handle worldwide sales and distribution on SouthpawEntertainment's August Rush. To be directed by Kirsten Sheridan, August Rushis billed as a modern-day fairy tale about a ten-year-old orphan whose musicalgifts lead him on a journey to find his parents. It will be scored ...
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Pathe takes on sales for Swedish Heaven
Pathe Pictures International is to represent thisyear's Swedish Oscar entryAs It Is In Heaven forworld-wide sales. As It Is In Heaven iswritten and directed by Kay Pollak and is about an internationally acclaimedmusic conductor who retires to his childhood village in the North of Sweden- and rediscovers his long lost ...
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BAFTA puts cap on membership
BAFTA has decided to place a cap of 6500 on its worldwidevoting membership, effective immediately. The organisation said the decision followed many months ofdiscussion about how best to manage its membership base following an'enormous increase in membership applications over the past fouryears.'The American Academy has already capped its membership at6000. ...
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Berlinale unveils Panorama line-up
TheBerlinale's Panorama section has announced the first films to make itsselection.Thearthouse strand, which plays alongside the Berlinale's official Competition,includes a string of features from high profile directors including KevinSpacey, Fruit Chan, Dominic Savage and Sally Potter as well as notable films by newcomers.The wide-ranging selection has aparticularly strong focus on ...
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Five titles nominated for BBC Four's World Cinema Award
UK broadcaster BBC Four hasannounced the nominations for the BBC Four World Cinema Award 2005, as voted byUK film critics, film school heads and exhibitors. Two Asian martial arts films- Zhang Yimou's Hero and Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi - make thefive strong shortlist. The other competitors are Pedro Almodovar's BadEducation, Walter ...