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Love Marriage and Keep Smiling take pitch prize in Abu Dhabi
The inaugural Middle East International Film Festival's Film Financing Circle (FFC) came to an end Wednesday night with an awards ceremony for the finalists of its pitching programme, the InCircle Pearl.Audience favourite Soman Chainani's Love Marriage, a comedy about two weddings that threaten to tear apart an Indian family in ...
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Celluloid adds Bobby Allen and welcomes back Menahem
Celluloid Dreams has announced the appointment of Bobby Allen to the post of vice-president acquisitions, production and sales. Further, former Celluloid executive Pierre Menahem will rejoin the company as director of international sales. Allen was most recently head of production for MTV Films and has held senior executive positions in ...
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StudioCanal taps van Lier as new head of international sales
Former Intermedia and Summit executive Harold van Lier has been appointed head of international sales at StudioCanal. The company made the announcement Tuesday evening in Paris. Van Lier officially took his post on October 1 and replaces Muriel Sauzay who left to become deputy managing director of Pathe Distribution (France) ...
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The Counterfeiters takes grand prize in Ghent
The 34th Ghent International Film Festival has given its grand prize for best film to The Counterfeiters by Stefan Ruzowitzky. The award comes with $28,421 (Euros 20,000) to support the film's release in at least five cinemas in Flanders and Brussels. Kathleen Turner led the international jury, and she was ...
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International box-office: Italy's SMS beats Resident Evil and Stardust
Indian films made a significant dent in this weekend's international chart, taking more than $6.7m from 1,255 screens and accounting for 5.5% of the revenue from the top 40 films. For the full chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here. Dramatic thriller Bhool Bhulaiyaa entered in at number six with ...
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Real D signs 500-system deal with Odeon and UCI
Real D has signed another huge deal, partnering with Odeon and UCI for the installation of 500 digital 3-D systems across the UK and Europe. The distribution partnership is Real D's largest international deal to date. The rollout of 500 systems will start immediately and continue for the next two ...
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As Europa acquires Roissy, market operations could merge in 2008
As Luc Besson's EuropaCorp agreed to acquire sales company Roissy Films and its 500-title strong catalog, Roissy's president and owner Raphael Berdugo calls the deal 'a very logical' step, The deal, which values the catalog at about $40m, is set to be finalised in early 2008 and ensures Roissy's ability ...
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Rome's Business Street includes focus on local films
Italian sellers are hoping that the second edition of Rome's Business Street (Oct 18-21) will prove a successful launchpad for a slew of local titles.Sales outfit Adrianna Chiesa Enterprises is going to present the first market screenings including a Mafia drama, war documentary, 3-D animation and black comedy. Chiesa says ...
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Copenhagen children's festival Buster moves back to September
As part of the recent merger of the Copenhagen International Film Festival and NATFilm, the CIFF festival for Children and Youth, entitled Buster, has been moved back to September. In recent years, the festival had moved to March to make the most of festival resources, but the changed landscape in ...
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Denmark's Nordisk buys 50% of Swedish producer S/S Fladen
Copenhagen-based distributor Nordisk Film has formed a strategic partnership with Swedish production company S/S Fladen, acquiring 50% of the company. The deal is the latest in a string of alliances struck by Nordisk over the last two years after similar cooperations with Tre Vänner, Illusion Film, Hep Film and Bob ...
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Van Dormeal's Mr Nobody ready to move to Germany
Jaco van Dormeal's Mr Nobody, which has already shot in Belgium and Canada, will continue its six-month shoot moving later this month to Germany. The English-language project stars Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham, and Rhys Ifans. Van Dormeal also wrote the screenplay, about a man living ...
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Rithy Panh's Paper takes documentary prize at EFAs
The European Film Academy has announced that Rithy Panh's Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers (Le Papier Ne Peut Pas Envelopper La Braise), a French production, is the winner of the 2007 Prix Arte for best documentary. This year's jury for the Prix Arte was comprised of Francine Brucher, David Fisher ...
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Singh's The Fall takes best film prize at Sitges
The Sitges film festival has awarded its Best Film prize to The Fall by Indian-born director Tarsem Singh. This is the story of a stuntman who ends up in hospital, where he recounts a long tale to a young girl. That wasn't the festival's only winner, as Rec won a ...
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Weinstein keynote gives strong start to Abu Dhabi festival
Abu Dhabi 's inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) got off to an extravagant start on Sunday evening with a ceremony that included an Academy Awards-style opening number choreographed by Broadway veteran Otis Sallid. A lavish party at the opulent festival centre, Emirates Palace, followed the screening of opening ...
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Schrader to take lifetime achievement award in Stockholm
The Stockholm International Film Festival will honour director Paul Schrader with this year's lifetime achievement award. The US director and screenwriter will attend the festival to pick up his Bronze Horse in person. The festival will have a special section devoted to Schrader's past work, and will also screen his ...
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Swedish Film Institute gives $2.5m to films including Fares' Leo
The Swedish Film Institute will provide $2.5m (Euros 1.8m) production support for eight new features, including a film by Josef Fares.Separately, the Finnish Film Foundation will contribute $409,000 (Euros 310,000) to the funding of two movies, both instigated before the Finnish producers' strike effective on Sept 14.Fares, whose Zozo won ...
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Ruins allowed in Acropolis as Greece entices foreign shoots
This weekend saw the first film production in history given a permit to shoot inside the famed Acropolis in Athens. My Life In Ruins, produced by Playtone, stars Nia Vardalos of My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame as a guide leading tourists through Greek archeological sites. The team shot in ...
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Rai Cinema, under D'Amico, ramps up co-productions
Rai Cinema's new chief Caterina D'Amico says the film production arm will place a special emphasis on co-productions and to illustrate the point, Rai Cinema has just signed on as 25% partner of Spike Lee's $45m project Miracle at St. Anna, which begins shooting Monday at Cinecitta studios before moving ...
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Mannheim selects 54 projects including Holland's Christine
New film projects from Poland's Agnieszka Holland, Belgium's Geoffrey Enthoven, and the UK's Chris Forster are among 54 projects being pitched to potential partners at the Mannheim Meetings which begin on Sunday (Oct 14). Almost half (26) of the projects being pitched in one-to-one meetings are from Western Europe, including ...
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Wild Bunch picks up German animation The Three Robbers
Wild Bunch has picked up international distribution for Hayo Freitag's The Three Robbers (Die Drei Raeuber), the first animation feature by Animation X, the animation arm of the Berlin production house X-Filme creative pool and David Groenewold's Promedium. Based on Tomi Unguerer's 1961 classic about three robbers who walk the ...