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Italian films lead the 16 selections for Venice Days sidebar
Thirteen films and three documentaries - hailing from France, Spain, Russia, Canada, Germany, Italy, UK, Lebanon, United States, Poland, Mexico make up the programme for this year's Venice Days sidebar, announced Tuesday. Italy tops the entries this year with three features and two documentaries to include political satirist Sabrina Guzzanti's ...
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Potter rockets past $350m in overseas grosses
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix consolidated its gains from last weekend's memorable launch and seized an estimated $100.8m to cross $350m overseas after less than two weeks.Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) fifth entry in the children's fantasy series drew approximately 14m admissions from 13,000 prints in 58 ...
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Constantin Film parts company with Schloendorff on Pope Joan
Leading German producer-distributor Constantin Film has fired the Oscar-winning director Volker Schloendorff from the adaptation of the Donna Cross bestseller Pope Joan.In a letter to Schloendorff, Martin Moszkowicz, member of the Constantin board, wrote that 'it is unfortunately no longer possible for us to make the film together. I have ...
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Giffoni winners include Mid Road Gang and Keith
Two thousand children cast their votes for winning films at the Giffoni Film Festival, the Southern Italian film festival dedicated to children and young people's cinema which wrapped its 37th edition Saturday.Led by Claudio Gubitosi, the festival brought in a record number of young jurors from several countries to vote ...
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Universal's Wanted finishes Czech leg of shoot
Timur Bekmambetov wrapped production on Universal's Wanted in the Czech Republic on Saturday. The crew now moves on to Chicago, where they will shoot Aug 7-17. Czech press reported Bekmambetov as saying the budget of the film was $50m. The film is the first in production and distribution deal between ...
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Jonas Cuaron's Ano Una among Venice Critics Week selections
Ano Una, the first film by Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron's son Jonas Cuaron, will close Critics Week at the upcoming Venice Film Festival (Aug 29-Sept 8).The film is the story of a summer romance between a Mexican teenager and an older American woman.The Critics Week will open with two films ...
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Soderbergh gears up for Spanish shoot for two Che features
Shooting starts Wednesday in Spain on Steven Soderbergh's two Spanish-language films about Ernesto 'Che' Guevera, El Argentino and Guerrilla. The much anticipated films will shoot consecutively for nine weeks in Spain on locations in Madrid, Castilla La Mancha and Andalusia before moving on to Puerto Rico. Benicio del Toro stars ...
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Harry Potter's own book launch poses only real competition to ever-rising Phoenix
Every fan of the franchise knows it's not in Harry Potter's nature to be a bully, but the film version of his exploits is a different beast entirely and has been swatting rivals like flies since it was released around the world last week.The fifth episode in the fantasy series, ...
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EC approves Belgian Tax Shelter system
There were sighs of relief in the Belgian production community withthe official announcement today (Thursday) that the EuropeanCommission has renewed its approval of the Belgian Tax Shelter system.Earlier this summer, the Commission had sent back proposals for therenewal, expressing concern about the lack of 'cultural' documentationin the proposals. Those concerns ...
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Senator Film to release next Wenders' Palermo Shooting
Senator Film will release Wim Wenders' next feature film The Palermo Shooting, which begins shooting in Dusseldorf from September 17 before moving to Sicily.This is the second time Wenders and Senator have worked together after the director's internationally feted documentary Buena Vista Social Club took more than $7.5m (Euros 5.4m) ...
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Arts festival may pave way for cinemas in Saudi Arabia
Speculation that Saudi Arabia is gradually moving towards opening cinemas will intensify following the second Festival of Visual Arts in Jeddah, which ends on Friday. The four-day festival, organized by local audio and visual productions company Ruwaad Media, includes 28 short films and documentaries from Saudi and other Gulf countries, ...
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Fox Home Entertainment targets emerging markets in re-shuffle
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) top brass have implemented a corporate restructure to accommodate emerging markets.Gary Ferguson will now focus on China, Russia and Brazil in his newly expanded role as senior vice president of emerging markets.He will also supervise Fox's worldwide licensee operation and play a key role ...
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Trust takes on sales of Szumowska's 33 Scenes Of Life
Denmark's Trust Film Sales will handle international sales of Polish director Malgosia Szumowska's 33 Scenes of Life, currently shooting at Krakow, Poland. Denmark's Zentropa Entertainments is co-producing. 'I worked with Szumowska on Visions of Europe-25 Countries 1 Film, where she delivered the Polish entry, and we agreed we would continue ...
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Tykwer eyes Babelsberg Studios for thriller The International
A day before shooting begins on the Tom Cruise World War II drama Valkyrie, local press reports have revealed that Babelsberg Studios is set to host its third Hollywood production this year with the shooting of Tom Tykwer's action thriller The International, starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, from September.According ...
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Ascot Elite picks up five titles including Love In The Time Of Cholera
Leading Swiss independent film distributor Ascot Elite Entertainment has announced the acquisition of the rights to five new titles for its 2007/08 slate. The five new titles acquired are: Mike Newell's Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptation Love In The Time Of Cholera, with John Leguizamo and Hector Elizondo, acquired from Summit; ...
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Poland's Era New Horizons to open with 4 Months, 3 Days
The seventh Era New Horizons film festival in Wroclaw, Poland will open July 19 with Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The festival's opening night will also include a concert by Marianne Faithfull, who will also be in Wroclaw to introduce her film Irina Palm. The ...
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Elisabeth Perlier joins sales team at Bac Films
Former Gemini Films international sales manager Elisabeth Perlier has joined the international sales team at Bac Films. Perlier, who was at Gemini for four years, will be in charge of international sales and French TV sales at Bac in collaboration with Camille Neel. Bac's Silvere Moreau, who has decided to ...
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Yerevan gives awards to War And Peace and Import/Export
Armenian documentary filmmaker Vardan Hovhannisyan was the big winner at this year's Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan, picking up four of the prizes for his film A Story Of People In War And Peace at the awards ceremony preceding the closing film The Banishment by Russia's Andrei Zviagintsev. ...
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Norwegian admissions slip in 2007, but local market share rises
Admissions declined in Norway, but local market share went up during the first six months of 2007, according to statistics published by Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino. Theatres sold 5.1m tickets during the period, down 13% on 2006, still 1.4% better than in 2005. Local fare accounted for 20.6% ...
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Senator to launch US distribution operation with Mandy Lane
Senator Entertainment's first domestic release will be All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, the horror film that made waves at last year's Toronto film festival, after the company bought North American rights from TWC International.The fledgling distributor plans to release the film on more than 1,000 screens in early 2008 ...