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Beta Cinema takes on world sales for three new German productions
Beta Cinema has taken on world sales for new films featuring the award-winning German actresses Hannah Herzsprung, Nina Hoss and Julia Jentsch.Herzsprung, who came to wider recognition through her performance in another Beta title Four Minutes and received a Silver Lola for her role in Alain Gsponer's Life Actually last ...
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Mischa Barton joins casts of Joffe's Russian drama
Mischa Barton has joined the cast of Roland Joffe's coming-of-age drama Finding t.A.T.u, which will start shooting in Moscow later this month. The musical drama is based on Russian writer A. Mitrofanov's novel t.A.T.u come back. The story follows a friendless American teenager who escapes her lonely life in Moscow ...
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Spike Lee decamps to Italy for Miracle Of St Anna
Spike Lee will shoot a film in Tuscany based on James McBride's 2003 book Miracle at St. Anna, the story of an Italian orphan who befriends a black American soldier in Italy during World War II.The project - which is in scripting stage - is the first film produced by ...
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Turner to serve as president of jury at Flanders
Kathleen Turner will serve as president of the jury at the 34th Annual Flanders International Film Festival, set to run in Ghent, Belgium, from Oct 9-20.Turner, who served as a juror at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004, is best known for film roles in Body Heat, Romancing The Stone ...
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Pathe picks up buzz titles from Cannes
Pathe has acquired rights to a quartet of buzz features from Cannes. Deals have been sealed for UK and French rights to Focus Features International's Blindness; UK rights to 2929 International's What Just Happened' and Fortissimo's Mama's Boy; and UK and French rights to Edko Films' Blood: The Last Vampire, ...
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EastWest sells Fashion Victims to Austria and Germany
EastWest Filmdistribution finalised deals in Cannes for its comedy Fashion Victims with Germany (Filmlichter) and Austria (Poool Filmverleih). EastWest managing director Alexander Wieser negotiated both deals. German director Ingo Rasper makes his feature debut with the story of a man whose life falls apart when his son comes ouf of ...
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Fortissimo Cannes deals led by Live! and Pleasure Factory
Fortissimo Film Sales had a strong Cannes, with hot sellers including Tim Hamilton's comedy Mama's Boy, reality TV satire Live!, the Martin Scorsese Rolling Stones project Shine A Light, Singapore red-light story The Pleasure Factory and Bela Tarr's Competition Title The Man From London. Fortissimo co-chairman Wouter Barendrecht said: 'We ...
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Amour Fou partners split to form two production outfits
Six years after founding Vienna-based Amour Fou Filmproduktion, partners Gabriele Kranzelbinder and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu have decided amicably to part and set up two separate production companies. As part of the restructuring, Kranzelbinder has launched Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production (KGP), which will acquire Amour Fou's shares in the sales company Autlook Film ...
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Dreamachine sells all territories on Persepolis
New sales company Dreamachine reported a successful Cannes, including worldwide sales on all territories for Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parronaud's animated coming of age story Persepolis, which shared the jury prize. Another hot seller was Naomi Kawase's competition drama The Mourning Forest, which won the Grand Prix. Deals for Persepolis ...
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International buyers up 25%for second Madrid Screenings
The second edition of the Spanish Film Screenings of Madrid expects to attract 131 international film buyers this weekend - about 25 percent more than last year. And the growing interest is reflected not only in the number but also the stature of the buyers, according to the Spanish Producers' ...
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Telepool sells A Crude Awakening to UK's Dogwoof
Telepool has closed an all-rights deal for the UK with Dogwoof Pictures for the feature documentary A Crude Awakening by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack of Swiss-based Lava Productions. The film about how humans are sucking dry our most valuable, non-renewable resource - oil - was released by Columbus Film ...
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Trinidad & Tobago starts new film tax incentive with rebate up to 30%
Trinidad & Tobago, the twin island nation in the Carribean, has today unveiled its first tax incentives for film, TV and advertising shoots. The new rebates system ranges from 12.5% for productions of expenditures up to $500,000, 15% for productions from $500,000 to $1m, or 30% rebates for productions spending ...
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Locarno juries to include Diego Lerman and Jia Zhangke
The Locarno International Film Festival will be celebrating its 60th anniversary this year by dedicating its Retrospective, entitled Back In Locarno, to those filmmakers whose careers were significantly advanced by the initial exposure at the Swiss festival. Among those directors expected to attend screenings in the Retrospective are Marco Bellocchio, ...
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Controversial Spanish film law approved by ministers
Spain's controversial new film law took a major step forward on Friday after being approved by the Council of Ministers.The legislation, now expected to come into force by the end of the year after being pushed through Parliament as a matter of urgency, is intended to improve distribution and boost ...
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Finnish Film Foundation backs new Lordi film Dark Floors
Dark Floors - Finnish director Pete Riski's horror project to star 2006 European Song Contest winners Lordi - will receive $405,000 (Euros 300,000) state funding from the Finnish Film Foundation. Currently shooting at Uleaborg in Northern Finland, starring Mr Lordi, Amen the unstoppable mummy, Awa the vampire countess, Ox the ...
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Trust closes its new local Danish distribution arm
Zentropa has pulled the plug on its recently launched Danish distribution outfit, Trust Film Distribution. The division, set up late last year, is now being disbanded. Jimmy Bredow and Maja Giese, who oversaw the distribution arm's activities, will be leaving the company. 'I looked into it (Danish distribution) for the ...
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Universal Italy makes first local film deal for distribution
US majors are lining up to distribute and produce local films in Italy following a slow but consistent trend internationally. Two films from the Rome-based Cattleya production outfit start shooting this month with Hollywood players on board. (Chocolate Lessons) Lezioni di Cioccolato will be Universal Italy's first foray into distributing ...
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Germany 's Odeon expands with genre production label
The publicly listed German film and TV group Odeon Film is expanding its feature film activities by setting up the Hanover-based Waterfall Productions (WFP) with producers Peter Rommel and Thomas Haberle to specialise in the production of quality genre feature films with budgets between $3.4m-$4.7m (Euros 2.5m-3.5m) for the international ...
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Ring of truth
The Austrian auteur tells Vladan Petkovic why blurring the line between fact and fiction is the hallmark of his work. Austria's Ulrich Seidl is a film-maker best known for his documentaries such as Loss Is To Be Expected and Animal Love, as well as the Venice prize-winner Dog Days, the ...
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DVD: specialty forces
The specialty DVD market has thrived in recent years. But with the market under pressure Denis Seguin looks at how niche distributors are making their product stand out. Consider the sophisticated bachelor pad circa 2003, art-dressed to impress a visitor: on the coffee table, an issue of The New Yorker ...