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Kinowelt International to handle sales of Bioskop Film library
On the eve of this year's Cannes Film Festival, Leipzig-based Kinowelt International has concluded an agreement with the Munich production house Bioskop Film to handle the marketing of its film library, including such German cinema classics as Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta's The Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum, Reinhard ...
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San Sebastian to feature Henry King retrospective
The San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 20-29) will feature a retrospective of the works by American cinema pioneer Henry King at its upcoming 55th edition.The festival will also offer a contemporary retrospective devoted to the new Nordic cinema with a selection of films made in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark ...
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Nordisk picks up three features including The Art Of Negative Thinking
Having sold Norwegian director Joachim Trier's award-winning Reprise to 20 countries, Nordisk Film International Sales has picked up another three Norwegian features, launching one - Bard Breien's debut drama, The Art of Negative Thinking - in the Cannes Market. 'There is currently a lot of focus on Norwegian cinema,' explained ...
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Tarantino on board for Venice's Spaghetti Westerns retrospective
The Venice Film Festival will feature a retrospective of Spaghetti Westerns as part of the Secret History of Italian Cinema 4 sidebar, the biennale said Friday. The sidebar - in it's forth edition has spawned parallel initiatives like the Secret History of Asian Cinema (2005) and Secret History of Russian ...
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Fandango, RAI start shoot for Calm Chaos starring Nanni Moretti
Principal shooting of Calm Chaos (Caos Calmo) has begun in Rome this week. Produced by Fandango and RAI Cinema the picture is directed by Antonello Grimaldi and stars Nanni Moretti who also adapted the screenplay from the award-winning book by Sandro Veronesi. Calm Chaos marks a rare turn for Moretti ...
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NonStop picks up Irish titles Ghostwood and Speed Dating
Stockholm-based international sales agent, NonStop Films, is increasingly focusing on English-language product, and has picked up two Irish features to top its slate for the upcoming Cannes Market, including Justin O'Brien's Ghostwood and Tony Herbert's Speed Dating. 'We may be a Scandinavian company, but we are supplying a market which ...
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Rome to premiere Coppola's Youth Without Youth
Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth has been confirmed for a world premiere at the secondRome Film Festival, which runs Oct 18-27. 'It is both an honor and a great pleasure to debut Youth Without Youth at the Rome Film Festival. I have worked in Italy extensively, both in Sicily ...
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Memento to handle sales on Assayas' competitor Boarding Gate
France 's Memento Films has acquired Olivier Assayas' Cannes competition entry Boarding Gate starring Asia Argento and Michael Madsen. The company will handle international sales on the thriller which is being released in France by ARP Selection on Aug 22. Memento is also handling world sales on Jia Zhang Ke's ...
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European films grew EU market share by 27.6% in 2006
Market share for European films in the European Union was up to 27.6% in 2006 compared to 24.9% in 2005, according to the European Audiovisual Observatory. Analysis based on the results of films released in the 25 countries of the EU found that the increase was largely led by French ...
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European film production up 5.8% in 2006 to 862 features
European film production was up 5.8% in 2006, according to new research from The European Audiovisual Observatory. The body estimated that around 862 feature films were produced in 25 member states of the European Union, up by 47 from 2005. Germany was the main gainer - it recorded its highest ...
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Pilger's Bush-probing documentary rides with Coach 14
Nascent sales outfit Coach 14 has taken on international sales on a new hot button documentary from John Pilger entitled The War On Democracy. The film,which is sure to spark controversy, examines the 'brutal reality of theBush notion of 'spreading democracy'' and the idea that the USpresident is actually conducting ...
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Industry moves
Lakeshore adds DeckterJonathan Deckter, former Arclight Films president of international sales and Morgan Creek International vice-president, has been appointed senior vice-president of international sales at Lakeshore Entertainment. He will work alongside Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard Rose, who is promoted to the same position. Meanwhile Rob Burke is promoted to executive ...
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Editorial opinion: festivals' right to choose
The one that got away is a favourite subject at every film festival. Selectors put their necks on the line at each event, picking their favourites for competition and it's only human to reward their efforts with invective about the ones they missed.One of the joys of the season for ...
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Geike promoted to president for Warner Bros Germany & Austria
Willi Geike has been promoted to president and managing director of Warner Bros Entertainment Germany and Austria.In his expanded role the 24-year company veteran will assume general oversight of all the studio's businesses in the two German-speaking territories.The remit covers theatrical and home video production, marketing and distribution, television distribution, ...
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ContentFilm takes on sales for Toby Wilkins' horror-thriller Splinter
ContentFilm International has taken on international rights to Splinter, which it will launch in Cannes. Toby Wilkins will make his feature debut with the horror-thriller screenplay written by Ian Shorr and Kai Barry. Ted Kroeber and Kai Barry will produce the project, which will shoot this summer. Casting will be ...
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The Lives Of Others star Gedeck to play Clara Schumann
Martina Gedeck, the female lead in the Oscar-winning German film The Lives Of Others, has been cast as the pianist and composer Clara Schumann in Helma Sanders-Brahms long-gestating biopic Clara which will commence principal photography in Hungary at the end of May. The $6.4m (Euros 4.7m) German-French-Hungarian co-production by Integral ...
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Venice to celebrate 75th with tribute to Kluge
The Venice Film Festival will celebrate its Jubilee in 2007 - 75 years since it's founding - on August 6, 1932 on the Lido of Venice.As the world's oldest film festival, Venice will mark the jubilee with an event dedicated to Alexander Kluge, the German director (also 75 years old), ...
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Films from Reygadas and Aguilera top Bac's Cannes slate
Continuing its move into international sales, Bac Films is coming to Cannes this year with Silent Light in competition, La Influencia in the Fortnight and a stream of new offerings. The sales arm of Bac Films will be selling Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light; a love story set in Mexico. Reygadas' ...
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Constantin signs first-look deal with Little Shark
Germany's leading producer-distributor Constantin Film, who took six Lolas home last weekend for Tom Tykwer's Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer, has concluded a three-year first-look deal with the Cologne-based production outfit of Sonke Wortmann and Tom Spiess. The aim of the collaboration is the development, production and exploitation ...
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Government greenlights new Palazzo del Cinema for Venice
Venice will finally get a new Palazzo del Cinema. The project - a long standing and contentious issue - finally got the rubber stamp today when Italy's culture minister Francesco Rutelli signed an agreement with Venice's Mayor Massimo Cacciari and the President of the Veneto Region Giancarlo Galan ratifying the ...