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Cannes to open with Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights
The 60th Cannes Film Festival will open May 16 with Wong Kar-wai's first English-language project, My Blueberry Nights, which will play in competition. Singer Norah Jones makes her big-screen debut as a lovelorn woman on a soul-searching journey across America.The other films selected for competition areCatherine Breillat's An Old Mistress ...
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Fischer Christensen follows A Soap With Everyone's Dancing
Producer Meta Louise Foldager has raised $3.26m (Euros 2.4m) in financing for Pernille Fischer Christensen's Everybody's Dancing (Drenge og piger danser). The film is Fischer Christensen's follow-up to debut A Soap (En Soap), which won the 2006 Berlinale's Silver Bear and Best Debut awards as well as best film at ...
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Danish WWII thriller Flame & Citron wrapping Prague shoot
Production on Danish WWII thriller Flame & Citron is scheduled to wrap Saturday in Prague before moving on to Germany and Denmark, producer Lars Bredo Rahbek told ScreenDaily.com. Director Ole Christian Madsen (En Kærlighedshistorie) started filming March 19 in Prague, using a retro-fitted warehouse as a studio. Other studio spaces ...
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Films Distribution takes on Lamorisse's Crin Blanc and Ballon Rouge
France 's Films Distribution has acquired world rights to Albert Lamorisse's Crin Blanc and its heralded companion piece Ballon Rouge. The first film won the short film grand prize in 1952 at Cannes and was followed by Ballon Rouge which won the short film Palme d'Or in 1956 and the ...
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Reprise scores another win at Istanbul Film Festival
Young Norwegian director Joachim Trier adds to the prizes for his debut picture Reprise, which won the Golden Tulip for best feature film in the international competition at the 26th Istanbul Film Festival. The jury also added a special prize for Tom Di Cillo's colourful foray into the fringes of ...
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French Film and literature forum gives adaptation award to Duypeyron
The sixth-annual Monaco Film & Literary Forum gave its prize for the book best suited to a cinematic adaptation going to Francois Dupeyron for Le Grand Soir. The prize for the best completed adaptation was given to Claude Berri's recent release Ensemble C'est Tout, from the book of the same ...
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Madrid plans to launch new film festival in March 2008
The Spanish capital is planning a 2008 launch for its first international film festival, Filma Madrid, backed by a private foundation of Spanish actors, directors and other industry professionals. The $1.76m (Euros 1.3m) event, which will run from March 28 to April 5, 2008, will limit its programme to 20 ...
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Karlovy Vary includes Sverak's Empties in early competition titles
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has announced the first competition films for its 42nd edition this summer, including titles from three recent Crystal Globe winners. From the Czech Republic comes Empties, the latest film from Jan Sverak. The director won the Crystal Globe in 1995 for The Ride and ...
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Directors Fortnight to include Morel's Apres Lui
Although the official selection will not be unveiled for a few days, Cannes Directors Fortnight has announced that Gael Morel's Apres Lui has secured a berth. The film will be a world premiere on May 21 and stars Catherine Deneuve, Thomas Dumerchez, Guy Marchand, Elodie Bouchez, Elli Medeiros and Luis ...
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The Unknown and The Caiman lead Silver Ribbons nominees
Giuseppe Tornatore's The Unknown (La Sconosciuta) and Nanni Moretti's The Caiman (Il Caimano) have tied as top contenders with seven nominations each for the Nastri D'Argento (Silver Ribbons), Italy's oldest film awards, voted by the national film journalist's union SNGCI. The Wedding Director (Il Regista dei Matrimoni) directed by Marco ...
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MK2 gets deep with Jacques Cousteau catalogue
France's MK2 has acquired the rights to the Jacques Cousteau catalogue for a period of ten years, the company has announced. Comprised of 111 documentaries and three narrative features, including Oscar and Cannes Palme d'Or winner, The Silent World, the library of titles was acquired from Europe Images International. MK2 ...
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SPTI promotes Noemi Weisse for French and Portuguese territories
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has promoted Noemie Weisse to senior vice president, sales, for French-language territories, Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa. Weisse, who heads distribution sales for the region from the company's Paris office, will continue to lead the company's distribution sales activities related to TV broadcasters. She also takes ...
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Gael Garcia Bernal to serve as Cannes Critics Week ambassador
Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal will act as ambassador to Critics Week in Cannes this year. Organizers announced the news on Thursday and said that the Babel star will unveil his first directorial effort, Deficit, during the fortnight. Bernal is well-known in Cannes having come to the festival several times ...
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Celluloid Dreams and HanWay Films: the power of two
There is a temptation to see the merger between Hengameh Panahi's Celluloid Dreams and Jeremy Thomas' HanWay as a commentary on the scary state of today's arthouse business. But the real issue is what it says about the digital future.The most obvious conclusion to draw from the merger of two ...
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Sony signs VOD deal with VirginMega in France for TVs and PCs
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has struck a new video-on-demand (VOD) deal with France's VirginMega.The deal will cover content online at virginmega.fr and subscribers to the Alice IPTV platform and Mes Videos a la Carte service. Viewers will get 48 hours of unlimited viewing on either platform, with downloaded films ...
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Debuts dominate Crossing Europe Linz's European Competition
Debut features dominate the lineup for the European Competition at the fourth edition of Linz's Crossing Europe Film Festival (24-29 April) which will open on April 24 with the world premiere of the music documentary Attwenger Adventure by Markus Kaiser-Muhlecker and the Austrian premieres of Marcus J. Carney's The End ...
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French first-quarter box office drops 3% compared to strong 2006
France's box office took a 3% hit in the first three months of 2007 compared with last year. The total number of admissions came to 51.2m versus 52.8m in 2006 for the period of January through March, according to figures announced Wednesday by France's National Cinema Federation (FNCF). It should ...
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Sony rebrands A+ as Animax and plans mobile, VOD offerings
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has rebranded its A+ Channel as Animax. The dedicated anime channel is available in Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. SPTI also noted that it is in advanced negotiations to launch the channel in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain and France. Animax is already ...
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Universal offers downloads to own in Germany through T-Com
Universal Pictures International Entertainment, NBC Universal International Television Distribution have signed agreements for new download-to-own offerings and renewed VOD offerings through Germany's T-Com and it's T-Online VOD, T-Home and IPTV service.This makes T-Com the first retailer offering studio content as secure download-to-burn in Germany. The service will launch in the ...
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Tyldum replaces Hennie as director of Fallen Angels
Norwegian director Morten Tyldum will replace Aksel Hennie as director of Fallen Angels, the second theatrical production for SF Norge's $12.9m (Euros 9.8m) Varg Veum detective series, Norway 's largest film project to date. Tyldum's 2003 feature debut, Buddy, won the Amanda - the national film prize - for best ...