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EFP selects 21 producers for Cannes Producers on the Move
The Hamburg-based, pan-European promotional organisation European Film Promotion (EFP) has selected 21 aspiring European producers for its Producers On The Move networking initiative to take place during the Cannes Film Festival next month. Since being launched in 2000, Producers On The Move has enabled over 120 up-and-coming European producers to ...
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Ben Hopkins starts shoot in Turkey for The Market
Simon Magus and The Nine Lives Of Alex Katz director Ben Hopkins started shooting in Turkey today for his third fiction feature, The Market. The project is the first co-production between Kazakhstan, Turkey, Germany and the UK. The Market will be shot in the Turkish language.Producers are Roshanak Behesht Nedjad ...
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The Bothersome Man racks up more prizes in Norway's Canon awards
Norwegian director Jens Lien's The Bothersome Man added four prizes to its string of 20 national and international kudos, when the Norwegian film industry handed out the Canon awards at the the Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival, which ended yesterday.Decided by the business organizations - actors' prizes are voted by ...
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Cannes Critics Week to close with Miniucchi's Expired
The 46th Cannes Critics Week will kick off with Bruno Merle's Heros, starring Michael Youn, Patrick Chesnais and Elodie Bouchez and close with Expired from Cecilia Miniucchi and starring Samantha Morton and Jason Patric.The Critics Week line up was announced Thursday morning in Paris with seven titles in the main ...
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'It would be good if there was a new leadership'
In a move which took even her staff by surprise, Sandra Den Hamer today confirmed that she will be leaving her position as director of the Rotterdam International Festival to take over as director of Amsterdam's Filmmuseum.'For me as well, it was quite sudden,' Den Hamer told ScreenDaily.com of her ...
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Sandra Den Hamer leaves Rotterdam International Film Festival
Sandra Den Hamer is to step down as director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Den Hamer, who has been involved with the event for more than two decades, will start work as director of Amsterdam's Filmmuseum from September 1.The Board of the Rotterdam Film Festival will start exploratory talks ...
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Black Book star Carice van Houten moves on to Dorothy Mills
Dutch actress Carice van Houten is playing the lead role in a new psychological thriller by Agnes Merlet, with a working title of Dorothy Mills. The French-Irish coproduction will be Merlet's first feature since her 1997 award-winning biography Artemisia. The film will shoot in Ireland this summer. Van Houten is ...
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Dygra teams with Fantastic Films to market animated movies
Spanish animation producer Dygra Films has signed an agreement with the LA-based distributor Fantastic Films International to exclusively market its titles worldwide.The deal begins with the upcoming feature, The Spirit Of The Forest, sequel to Dygra's 2001 hit, The Living Forest. 'This agreement is a large leap in the ...
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Marco Tullio Giordana starts shooting Crazy Blood
Principal shooting has started for Marco Tullio Giordana's current project entitled Crazy Blood (Sangue Pazzo), a co-production between Angelo Barbagallo's Bibi Films and the French company Paradis Films with the collaboration of Rai Cinema and Rai Fiction. With Crazy Blood, Tullio Giordana revisits the political/social genre for which he is ...
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Sarajevo CineLink includes new projects from Kocsis and Zalica
The 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 17-25) has announced new plans for this year's regional co-production market CineLink, created in co-operation with Rotterdam's CineMart. For 2007, 15 out of 60 submitted new projects will participate and will be divided in two groups, CineLink and CineLink+. CineLink includes 10 projects that ...
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William Baldwin joins Jentsch and Jacob for in Bob's Not Gay
William Baldwin has joined German star Julia Jentsch (Sophie Scholl) and French actress Irene Jacob to headline Jane Spencer's low budget romantic comedy Bob's Not Gay which will begin shooting in the Romanian capital of Bucharest from the second half of May. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com during this week's Bucharest ...
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Gold in the vaults
With the growth of digital delivery, film archives are a potential goldmine for US studios and other rights-holders. Denis Seguin looks at the promise of digital, while Screen correspondents (see links, right) explore the distribution opportunities for major public rights-holders...In 1955, RKO Pictures licensed the television rights to its 740-film ...
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New Summit studio launches with over $1bn in funding
Rob Friedman, the former vice chairman and COO of Paramount Pictures, and Patrick Wachsberger, the head of Summit Entertainment LP, have unveiled their long-in-the-works production and distribution company which has immediate access to $1bn in funds from a financing deal led by Merrill Lynch and a consortium of investors.The company, ...
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Dutch-German filmmaker Laurens Straub dies aged 62
Acclaimed Dutch-German writer and producer Laurens Straub died April 19 of cancer in Berlin. He was 62.Straub was born in the Netherlands in 1944 and moved to Germany in 1963, where he enrolled in the actor's school in Munich. After a couple of film roles, he focussed on writing and ...
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Iceland admissions up 27% in first-quarter of 2007
Three international releases - Borat, Night at the Museum and 300, assisted by Icelandic director Bjorn Br Bjornsson's thriller, Cold Trail - contributed to a 27% increase of admissions in Iceland during the first quarter of 2007, according to figures from SMAIS Iceland, the local MPA partner. Ticket sales rose ...
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Restructured Central takes on MGM, Weinstein releases
Films from MGM and The Weinstein Company will be released in Germany by the new Senator Entertainment distribution subsidiary Central Film Verleih GmbH. The new distribution outfit will be managed by Peter Sundarp and Peter Heinzemann and originates from the Berlin-based 'booking & billing' service agency Central Film Vertriebs GmbH, ...
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'A rich year' for Cannes 60th anniversary. promise organisers
The Cannes Film Festival announced this year's line-up at a press conference in Par with, as expected, Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights set to open the 60th edition. The film will screen in competition alongside 21 other films from confirmed talents, as well as some new faces and one debut ...
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Polley, Bellocchio, Sissako recruited for main Cannes jury
Cannes 2007 Main jury Stephen Frears (president) Maggie Cheung Toni Collette Maria De Medeiros Sarah Polley Marco Bellocchio Orhan Pamuk Michel Piccoli Abderrahmane Sissako Cannes 2007 Cinefondation and Shorts jury Jia Zhang-ke (president) Niki Karimi Deborah Nadoolman Landis J.M.G. Le Clezio Dominik Moll Un Certain Regard juryPascale Ferran (president)Jasmine TrincaCristi ...
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Cannes: midnight, special screenings, tributes, classics, cinefondation
Cannes 2007 line-ups Midnight Screenings, out of competition Go Go Tales by Abel Ferrara U2 3D by Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington Boarding Gate by Olivier Assayas Special Screenings, out of competition 11th Hour by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners The War by Lynn Novick and Ken Burns He ...
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Cannes: Un Certain Regard programme
Films selected for Un Certain Regard:Calle Santa Fe by Carmen CastilloMunyurangabo by Lee Isaac Chung Night Train by Diao Yinan El Bano Del Papa by Enrique Fernandez and Cesar CharloneBikur Hatizmoret by Eran KolirinMister Lonely by Harmony Korine Magnus by Kadri Kousaar Mang Shan by Li YangMio Fratello E Figlio ...