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Brandenburg gives second state guarantee to Mr Nobody
Jaco van Dormael's latest feature Mr Nobody, based on his own original screenplay, is the second film after Kevin Spacey's Beyond The Sea to be awarded a state guarantee by the Land of Brandenburg. Brandenburg will guarantee up to 80% of the $7.1m (Euros 5:25 m) loan from Commerzbank, which ...
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AV Pictures strikes UK deal for The Tournament with Entertainment
AV Pictures has sold UK rights to action thriller The Tournament to Entertainment Film Distributors. The film, starring Robert Carlyle, Ving Rhames and Kelly Hu, is about a fight between the world's greatest assassins. AV likens it to 'a grown-up Battle Royale.' First-time feature director Scott Mann will start shooting ...
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Transformers expands to 18 new territories; set to cross $100m
Paramount/PPI's Transformers has already amassed $53.5m since opening last weekend and stands a good chance of crossing $100m over the next several days in international markets. The effects-heavy tale of warring robots touches down in 18 new territories this weekend including Russia, Spain and Sweden on July 4. PPI stablemate ...
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Editorial opinion: chasing the tale
Story doesn't get the credit it deserves in most contemporary discussions of cinema. Or, come to it, in the industry's own categories of merit.It wasn't always so: between 1940 and 1956, a best story Oscar ran alongside that for best original screenplay; then, in 1957, it was quietly retired, and ...
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Catherine Breillat: blood and guts
When she suffered a cerebral haemorrhage while making her latest film, French director Catherine Breillat convinced her producer she would be all right - as long as she sat down. Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte reports. She may be loved by international arthouse audiences, but French director Catherine Breillat is not beloved at ...
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Robert Thalheim: Auschwitz story
A young German director draws on his memories of Auschwitz for a contemporary film about life in the shadow of evil. Martin Blaney reports. It was Alain Resnais' 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour that provided the inspiration for Robert Thalheim's And Along Come Tourists.Resnais' juxtaposition of the catastrophic impact of ...
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German Fund exceeds cap again for Bryan Singer's Valkyrie
The United Artists' production of Bryan Singer's WWII drama Valkyrie - which begins shooting in Berlin and Babelsberg from July 18 - is the second international film after Speed Racer to be granted support from the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) greater thaan the cap of $5.4m (Euros 4m). The ...
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France's CNC creates fund to back experimental new media projects
France 's film center the CNC has announced the creation of a new fund designed to aid in the development of experimental projects for new media. Submissions are currently being solicited from French and European Union nationals and residents and/or French production companies. The projects must be destined for at ...
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Eurimages backs new films fromMoodysson, Dardennes
At its latest meeting July 1-3, the board of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund has agreed to back 12 new feature films with a total of $6m(Euros 4.38m). The selections include new films from Lukas Moodysson, The Chorus director Christophe Barratier and from Palme d'Or winners the Dardenne brothers. ...
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Valerio Zingarelli joins Babelgum as new CEO
New Internet TV platform Babelgum has appointed Valerio Zingarelli as its new CEO. Zingarelli succeeds Babelgum co-founder Erik Lumer, who will now focus on strategic product development. Zingarelli previously worked at Vodafone, where he was global director of networks and service platforms, and he also served as an independent board ...
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Yereven to host 12 projects at first regional co-production forum
Nine features and three documentary projects from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Serbia, Russia and Turkey are to be pitched to potential co-producers and financiers at the Directors Across Borders' (DAB) first Regional Co-Production Forum (July 10-12) during next week's Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan. The low-budget projects include the ...
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Chandra and Screwvala line up for MIPCOM's India Day
TV and digital content market MIPCOM will have a spotlight on India at its next event, to be held October 8-12 in Cannes. India Day is planned for October 8, organised with The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and will examine the growth and potential of ...
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Jean-Jacques Bernard takes over as president of Critics Syndicate
France's Critics Syndicate, which notably runs the Critics Week sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival, has elected Jean-Jacques Bernard to the post of president. Bernard replaces Gerard Lenne who held the post for six years Bernard is a journalist and critic who has worked for TV network France 2, Premiere ...
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Arab film festivals launch guild to share expertise
Directors from key Middle Eastern film festivals have agreed to form an Arab Film Festival Guild, aimed at increasing cooperation and sharing expertise in the region, and promoting the Arab film industry internationally.The final plans for the Guild were discussed at a meeting held during Morocco's Rabat Film Festival attended ...
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Corneau's Second Wind to open Rome Film Fest competition
Second Wind (Le Deuxieme souffle) directed by Alain Corneau will open the Rome Film Fest's competition section on the Fest's opening day, the Rome Film Festival announced Tuesday. The film is based on a book by the same name by Jose Giovanni. In a statement, the Rome Film Fest called ...
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Oliver Stone's Iranian biopic gets blocked by government
The 'not making of' Oliver Stone's latest film would make a good script in itself. In 2006, the US director approached Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's people, hoping to make a film about the Iranian president's rise to power. Unsurprisingly, he was turned down - albeit a year later, via the media, and ...
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Spike Lee's Italian project St. Anna to boast $45m budget
Director Spike Lee and the Italian On My Own Production have announced new details on Lee's new Tuscany-set film project.The film will have a $45m budget, is to be produced 50% by On My Own - the new independent production company launched by ex-Mikado founders and owners Roberto Cicutto and ...
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Buena Vista partner on fifth outing of Wild Soccer Bunch
The German outpost of Buena Vista International will also distribute the fifth film of The Wild Soccer Bunch franchise which begins shooting today at locations in Saarland and Munich. With the working title of DWK5 - Die Wilden Kerle: Hinterm Horizont, the SamFilm production by Joachim Masannek sees the cast ...
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German sales company Cine-International to close its doors
Munich-based world sales company Cine-International Filmvertrieb has announced that it will be shutting down operations as of tomorrow (Wednesday). Rumours had been circulating within the film industry in Germany that the company was having problems, and speculation was fuelled further when Cine-International did not attend the MIP-TV in April or ...
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Tornatore's The Unknown wins best director in Moscow
The ten-day 29th Moscow International Film Festival ended on Saturday, with Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore winning the festival's Best Director award for his film The Unknown (La Sconosciuta). The film stars Russian actress Ksenia Rappoport as a young Ukrainian woman in today's Italy working as domestic help and trying to ...