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Rotterdam to offer Focus tributes to Breer and Jamie
The International Film Festival Rotterdam, which is under the new leadership of director Rutger Wolfson for its 37th edition, is focusing its programme on Free Radicals, 'film-makers and artists who idiosyncratically and energetically follow their own course.' US film-maker Robert Breer and US artist Cameron Jamie will be the subject ...
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Swedish Institute gives record funding to Moodysson's Mammoth
Swedish director Lukas Moodysson's first English-language feature, Mammoth (Mammut), which starts principal photography on Nov 5 in Thailand, has received a record $1.7m (Euros 1.3m) production funding from the Swedish Film Institute.Gael Garcia Bernal will star in the $10m-plus (Euros 7.4m-plus) production which will move to the Phillippines and Swedish ...
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Let's Say (On Dirait Que)
Dir: Francoise Marie, France 2007. 82 mins.A touching, telling documentary about older children's perspectives on the world of grown-ups, Let's Pretend That... has the potential to rival the success of Etre et Avoir (To Be and To Have) - Nicolas Phillibert's widely distributed study of a primary school class in ...
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Catherine Demier leaving Cannes administrative director post
After two years of service, the Cannes Film Festival's Catherine Demier is in the process of leaving her position as administrative director. On Monday, Demier told ScreenDaily.com that her post 'no longer corresponds to the conditions under which I joined the festival.' In August, it was announced that ...
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IMAX moves into Morocca with Al Amine Casablanca deal
IMAX Corp. has signed a deal with Moroccan retail developer Al Amine Investissement to install a giant-screen cinema in a new retail facility in Casablanca, the first in the country. Set to open in early 2009, the cinema will be the anchor attraction at the new Morocco Mall, expected to ...
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UK producers need to think globally and diversify
The UK film industry would be in great shape - if only it was based in the US. That was the somewhat daunting message for delegates at the UK's first Production Finance Market, which kicked off today, organised by Film London in partnership with the Times BFI London Film Festival.The ...
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Rome Business Street sees several deals in second year
Rome Film Fest's well-attended four-day market event The Business Street came to a close yesterday with a scattering of deals done and an increasingly important profile for European business, buyers and sellers said.Michael Werner of Sweden's Nonstop Sales said he didn't close any deals but found the market useful anyway. ...
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THINKFilm on board for Argentina-set thriller The Appeared
THINKFilm International has taken on international sales rights (excluding Spain) to supernatural thriller The Appeared (Aparecidos). THINKFilm will screen the film at next week's American Film Market. Paco Cabezas wrote and directed the Argentina-set supernatural ghost story about a brother and sister who discover an old family diary ...
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Ratatouille becomes 10th Disney film to cross $300m overseas
Ratatouille stayed atop the international box office chart for the third consecutive weekend thanks to an estimated $27.7m haul from 3,793 theatres in 33 territories that raised the running total to $308m.The film ranked number one in 13 countries and the key driver was Italy, where the rat scored Pixar's ...
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Ben X takes grand jury prize at first Abu Dhabi festival
The inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) came to an end Friday evening with a lengthy awards ceremony and the screening of Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah. The Black Pearl Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film went to Nic Balthazar's Ben X, presented ...
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Rome has mixed reactions for Coppola's Youth Without Youth
Francis Ford Coppola's return to film-making was met with mixed reactions, as the Rome Film Fest Saturday presented the world premiere of his Youth Without Youth, based on a novella by Mircea Eliade.The packed press screening Saturday morning was followed by absolutesilence before a moderate applause slowly broke out, indicating ...
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Youth Without Youth
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola. Rom/Fr/It. 2007. 124minsTen years after the polished, anonymous professionalism of The Rainmaker, Francis Ford Coppola returns with an epic, magic realist tale of miraculous rejuvenation. Anyone who hoped that life might imitate art will be sorely disappointed by Youth Without Youth. This is an amateur production ...
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Eurimages funds new features from Haneke, Noe, Ceylan
Eurimages, the Council of Europe's film fund, has come on board to support 11 feature films for a total of $6.2m (Euros 4.38m) at its last meeting which ended Oct 16. The co-productions supported are: Aeblet & Ormen by Josef Fares & Anders Morgenthaler (Denmark, Sweden) Appelsinpiken by Eva Dahr ...
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Wild Bunch takes a stake in Italian distributor Bim
Confirming rumors that have been rumbling in industry circles for some time, French sales, distribution and financing outfit Wild Bunch has taken a stake in Italy 's Bim Distribuzione. Financial terms were not disclosed. The move reinforces Wild Bunch's ambition to be present in distribution over multiple European territories. Wild ...
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Wajda's Katyn to have international premiere at 2008 Berlinale
Veteran Polish director Andrzej Wajda' Katyn (aka Post Mortem) is set to have its international premiere at next February's Berlinale, Screen Daily.com learnt during this week's Warsaw Filmfest.The $5.8m (PLN 15m) Polish-French co-production by Akson Studio with Margaret Menegoz's Les Films du Losange as minority partner had received its world ...
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Al Shaibani and Al Muhairi take Emirates awards in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi's Middle East International Film Festival (Oct 14-19) today announced the winners of its competition for Emirati filmmakers. Hani Al Shaibani, whose second feature Jumaa and the Sea screens at the festival, and Fadel Al Muhairi, who participated in the festival's pitching programme with his Gulf-based period action-adventure project ...
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Theoren named CEO at IM Internationalmedia, replacing Schuermann
Veteran producer Konstantin Thoeren is to be appointed as CEO of IM Internationalmedia to join CFO Sascha Konzack who had been managing the company alone since the resignation of Martin Schuermann from the post of CEO in July. Thoeren has a more than 30-year track record as an independent producer ...
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Rome rolls out red carpet for Corneau's The Second Wind
The second edition of the Rome Film Fest kicks off tonight with Alain Corneau's The Second Wind (Le deuxieme souffle), playing in competition.The remake of the 1966 Jean-Pierre Melville crime noir stars Italian starlet Monica Bellucci and French actor Daniel Auteuil. Bellucci will inaugurate the Fest's red carpet, perhaps with ...
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Croff ousted at Venice Biennale after four years
Italian Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli will not be renewing the mandate of David Croff, the Minister declared at a Biennale Foundation summit meeting last night.Croff has acted as President of the Venice's Biennale and worked alongside Cinema artistic director Marco Mueller for four years.The President of the Biennale is in ...
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Branco's new Portugal festival score two world premieres
The first European Film Festival in Estoril, Portugal (Nov 8-17) has attracted some high-profile names thanks to Portugal's best-known producer, Paulo Branco, serving as festival director. Pedro Almodovar (whose career is celebrated with a full retrospective) will be giving a masterclass as will fashion designer Emmanuel Ungaro, director Werner Schroeter ...