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    Mipcom attendance up 10% as mobile content plays bigger role

    2007-10-12T12:32:00Z

    The annual Mipcom TV market drew to an official close Friday following a week that saw big increases in attendance.Numbers for buyers and exhibitors on site were up 10% to 4,237 and 1,801 respectively. The event continues to focus on traditional TV programming but the impact of digital and mobile ...

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    Eight new Polish films to be screened at Warsaw's third CentEast

    2007-10-12T11:24:00Z

    Veteran Polish film director Andrzej Wajda's Katyn, actor-director Jerzy Stuhr's Twist Of Fate and Dariusz Jablonski's feature debut Strawberry Wine are among eight new Polish films being shown as part of the Warsaw's International Film Festival's third CentEast Market (Oct 17-21) showcasing the best of Central and Eastern European cinema ...

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    As Band's Visit is axed from Oscar race, Beaufort is putforward

    2007-10-12T10:50:00Z

    The Israeli Film Academy is in an uproar over the 2008 Oscars, as the country's expected contender was disqualified and a replacement has now been submitted.Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit, which has been voted hands down by the Academy as the best Israeli film of the year, has been disqualified ...

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    Exhibitors to debate digital change at Bucharest conference

    2007-10-12T08:07:00Z

    More than 400 European exhibitors will debate the future of cinema at the12th annual conference of the Europa Cinemas networkin Bucharest, Romania, on November 15 - 18.The annual event will againturn its main focus on the impact of digital technologies on the theatrical business.There will also be sessions on renewing ...

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    Paramount strikes European d-cinema deal with Arts Alliance Media

    2007-10-11T14:46:00Z

    Digital cinema company Arts Alliance Media has signed a non-exclusive long-term deal with Paramount for digital cinema deployment in Europe.Under the pact, Paramount Pictures International has committed to supply its films in digital format to AAM DCI-compliant screens in the UK and Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal, the ...

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    Peur(s) du Noir selected as Rome's surprise film

    2007-10-11T14:36:00Z

    The Rome Film Fest has announced the world premiere of Peur(s) du Noir - a collective animation film featuring the work of six top comic book and graphic art talents. The film focuses on childhood nightmares and adult phobias.Celluloid Dreams is handling sales. The six episodes are designed by ...

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    John Cale to star in Aguero's Salamandra

    2007-10-11T14:08:00Z

    Music legend John Cale is appearing opposite Argentinean actress Dolores Fonzi (El Aura) in Pablo Aguero's feature debut Salamandra which begins principal photography in a remote community in Patagonia from today (Oct 11).The Euros 1m mother-son drama about a six-year old boy taken by his mother on a hitch-hiking trip ...

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    Israeli film Foul Gesture claims first international buyers

    2007-10-11T11:52:00Z

    Israeli revenge drama Foul Gesturehas soldto Barton Films for Spain, Portugal and AndorraTzahi Grad's$0.5m film proved a huge success at the San Sebastian film festival and has been a hit with critics.'We don't have a sales agent attached to the film yet, but [Bilbao based] Barton films have bought the ...

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    IDFA to open with wartime project Operation Homecoming

    2007-10-10T15:36:00Z

    The 20th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) will open Nov 22 with Richard Robbins' Operation Homecoming: Writing The Wartime Experience. This film is based on letters, poems, essays and diary fragments of American soldiers serving in Iraq (via a National Endowment for the Arts programme), set against universal themes ...

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    Russian hit Apocalypse Code enters international top 10

    2007-10-10T14:49:00Z

    Russian action hit Apocalypse Code was the highest non-US entry into the international top 40 this weekend, taking $3.6m from 697 screens. For the full chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here. The film, directed by Vadim Shmelev, just made the top 10 and enjoyed a $5,167 screen average from ...

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    Bals Fund backs new digital films from Wang Bing, Paz Encina

    2007-10-10T14:13:00Z

    The Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam has selected four new film projects to receive funding from its digital production category.The four projects will receive grants for low-budget digital productions.They are: Wang Bing's The Journey of Crude Oil (China), about the oil industry in the Gobi desert; ...

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    Odeon Sky Filmworks strikes UK deal for REC with Filmax

    2007-10-10T14:02:00Z

    Odeon Sky Filmworks has taken the UK rights to Filmax's REC. The deal was negotiated during the Toronto International Film Festival between Filmax CEO Carlos Fernandez, managing director Carles Rojano, and head of international Vicente Canales and Tony Miller head of Odeon Sky Filmworks. The Spanish-language supernatural horror film is ...

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    Match Factory seals raft of deals for Wang'sThousand Years

    2007-10-10T04:00:00Z

    The Match Factory has sealed a number of deals for Wayne Wang's San Sebastian Golden Shell winner A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and the companion piece The Princess Of Nebraska with rights going to France (Diaphana), Spain (Karma Films), Switzerland (Cineworx), and Argentina (Primer Plano).A Thousand Years Of Good ...

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    Huard takes top post at Universal Pictures in France

    2007-10-09T16:38:00Z

    Stephane Huard has been appointed Managing Director of Universal Pictures International's new operating company in France. David Kosse, president of Universal Pictures International, made the announcement today. Huard joins UPI from Stage Entertainment France, where he was MD since January 2006. From 2001 to 2006, he was also MD of ...

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    Abu Dhabi festival to include talks with Weinstein and Haggis

    2007-10-09T14:53:00Z

    Harvey Weinstein and director Paul Haggis have joined the line-up of industry executives attending Abu Dhabi's inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (Oct 14-19).After several weeks of negotiation, Weinstein has agreed to open the festival's Film Financing Circle (FFC) with a speech on international co-productions, while Haggis will teach a ...

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    Golden Lola winner and Perfume actress join Daldry's The Reader

    2007-10-09T11:27:00Z

    Golden Lola winner Hannah Herzsprung and Perfume's Karoline Herfurth have joined the cast of Stephen Daldry's The Reader, which has been shooting in Berlin and Goerlitz since the end of September. Herzsprung, who is one of the Rising Stars at this month's Hamptons International Film Festival, was named Best Newcomer ...

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    EFA documentary nominees include Forever and The Monastery

    2007-10-09T11:14:00Z

    The European Film Academy has announced the 10 nominees for the Prix Arte award for best documentary. The documentary jury, comprised of Switzerland's Francine Brucher, Israel 's David Fisher and Germany's Philip Groning, will convene in Berlin to screen the nominees and select the winner. The award will be presented ...

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    Fog's The Art Of Crying takes Nordic Council Film Prize

    2007-10-09T11:03:00Z

    Danish director Peter Schonau Fog's feature debut, The Art of Crying (Kunsten at græde i kor), will be awarded the Nordic Council's Film Prize at a ceremony during the council's session in Oslo on Oct 31. Scandinavia 's largest film award - it comes with $65,000 (Euros 47,000) - will ...

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    Telepool adds seven new titles to line-up ahead of AFM

    2007-10-08T15:44:00Z

    Telepool has added seven new titles to its line-up ahead of this year's American Film Market. Four market premieres will be Maggie Peren's male escort agency comedy Special Escort (Stellungswechsel) which was released this week on more than 250 prints in Germany by 20th Century Fox; Marcus H. Rosenmueller's new ...

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    NatFilm and Copenhagen plan to merge for new festival

    2007-10-08T15:22:00Z

    Denmark 's two leading film festivals, NatFilm and the Copenhagen International Film Festival, are busy in negotiations about merging the two events. The fifth Copenhagen International Film Festival recently ended, and NatFilm will host its 19th edition in March 2008. After that, the events will merge into one festival, which ...