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Chic gears up to shoot Laffargue's Dakar-set Black
French production outfit Chic Films has given a green light to a new film from director Pierre Laffargue set in present day Dakar and starring French rapper MC Jean Gab'1, Carole Karemera, Francois Levantal and Anton Yakovlev.The $4.1m (Euros 3.2m) Black is set to start shooting in Paris in late ...
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Antena 3 on board for Woody Allen's Spanish project
Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 has boarded the new Woody Allen film to shoot in Barcelona this summer with star Penelope Cruz.The network announced its participation in the film just days after Allen unveiled that Cruz would have a role.Through its production department Ensueno Films, Antena 3 will co-produce with Mediapro ...
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Lights In The Dusk and Frozen City top Finland 's Jussis
Concluding his losers' trilogy, Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's Lights In The Dusk turned up as a winner, cashing in on three out of six nominations for the Jussis - Finland's national film prizes - winning Best Film, Best Cinematography (Timo Salminen) and Best Set Design (Markku Patila). The previous instalments ...
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Berlin to host first conference of Mediterranean Euromed Programme
Producers, directors and institutions from the Mediterranean countries will be meeting with representatives from Eurimages, CNC, the World Cinema Fund and Europa Cinemas, among others, at the first regional conference of the Euromed Audiovisual II Programme being staged during the Berlinale from Feb 10-11. The conference will take stock of ...
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Red Road takes new Bergman prize at Goteborg
UK director Andrea Arnold's Red Road won the first Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award - which comes with a week's stay at the Bergman Week 2007 at Fårö, an engraved stone from Bergman's own beach, and a DVD set with 30 Bergman films - at the 30th Goteborg International Film ...
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Cruz to star in Woody Allen film
Confirming months of rumours, Penelope Cruz looks set to star in the Woody Allen film scheduled to shoot this summer in Spain.The untitled $18m (Euros 15m) comedy-drama will film all summer in Barcelona with Cruz speaking both Spanish and English in the film, which will be a co-production between Barcelona's ...
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Smith brings Happyness to SPRI at international box office
The Pursuit Of Happyness ended the weekend as the number one overseas attraction in a highly successful week for Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).The rags-to-riches drama stars Academy Award nominee Will Smith and grossed an estimated $16m to raise the tally to $71m.The result was buoyed by impressive debuts in ...
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Berlinale needs further expansion, says director
On the eve of this year's Berlinale, festival director Dieter Kosslick has suggested that the festival expand further to meet the growing demand for tickets from the general public in addition to the professional visitors.Speaking to Deutschlandradio Kultur at the weekend, Kosslick said: 'The Berlinale must become bigger because the ...
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Rotterdam awards include first tied Tiger
Four films won VPRO Tiger Awards at this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam, including for the first time a tie.The clear winners were Love Conquers All, by Malaysian director Tan Chui Mui and The Unpolished (Die Unerzogenen) by Germany's Pia Marais.The jury, under chairman Piers Handling, Director of the ...
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Belgrade's Beograd re-opens seven cinemas today
After two and a half months of employee strikes over unpaid salaries, poor conditions of work, terrible state of the cinemas and frozen status at the National Agency for Privatization, leading Serbian exhibitor, state-owned Beograd Film has decided to re-open seven of its 14 theaters in the key city Belgrade ...
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Walter Salles and John Waters lined up for Berlinale Talent Campus
Last year's Golden Bear winner Jasmila Zbanic, directors Walter Salles and John Waters, producer Kees Kasander, and actors Sarah Polley and Gael Garcia Bernal are among 120 international experts speaking at the Berlinale Talent Campus which celebrates its fifth anniversary between Feb 10-15. The programme of discussions, lectures, and workshops ...
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Berlin buzz - updated with reviews
Reviewed films appear in blue - click to go to review.WORLD PREMIERESIN COMPETITIONAngel (Fr-Belg-UK) (CLOSING FILM)Dir: Francois OzonBerlinale regular and arthouse favourite Ozon makes his English-language debut with Angel, starring Romola Garai, Sam Neill and Charlotte Rampling. Celluloid Dreams did brisk business during Cannes for most key territories on the ...
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Int'l Box Office Preview: the march rolls on for big US trio
Ben Stiller, Will Smith and Beyonce are all in action this weekend as the race to dominate the international arena heats up.Fox International's Night At The Museum starring Stiller has swept all before it in the overseas arena for several weeks and must still be the one to beat.The family ...
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Walak promoted to head Momentum's acquisitions team
Following the sudden suspension of Xavier Marchand in January, Momentum Pictures has also announced changes to its acquisitions team ahead of Berlin. Richard Napper, the company's acting managing director, has promoted Robert Walak as the new head of acquisitions, with Louis Tisne serving as acquisitions manager and Nadia Ward named ...
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Principal photography to begin on Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment
Oscar-nominated Swedish director Jan Troell will start principal photography for his new feature, Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment, in three weeks - and although he usually takes his time, the $6.2m (Euros 4.8m) is scheduled for a world premiere at next year's Goteborg International Film Festival. Finnish-Swedish actress Maria Heiskanan, who ...
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Filmstiftung NRW backs international co-productions with $14.6m
International co-productions by Israel's Amos Gitai, New Zealand's Armagan Ballantyne and Germany's Max Faerberboeck are among 25 projects supported with a total of $14.6m (Euros 11.2m) by Filmstiftung NRW this week.The Dusseldorf-based regional fund awarded $521,000 (Euros 400,000) to Gitai's Disengagement, which will be produced by Pandora Filmproduktion with France's ...
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CineMart awards go to projects from Sweden, France and Philippines
As Rotterdam CineMart closed yesterday, the two Arte France Cinema Awards went to CineMart projects A Rational Solution, which Jorgen Bergmark is developing with Sweden 's Hepp Film, and Les Pieds Nus Sur Les Limaces, which Fabienne Berthaud is developing with France 's Agat Films & Cie. Each producer got ...
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Global box office down slightly this week, as Germany and Japan slip
Global box office takings took a slight dip of 2.9% this week in comparison to the same week last year and fell by less than 1% from last week, according to the Screen International Screen Index.The marginal decrease was led by year-on-year falls in major territories such as Germany, Japan, ...
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Von Trier makes devil's pact with Anders Thomas Jensen on Antichrist
Lars von Trier recently took an unusual step to finish the script for his new horror film Antichrist. He phoned archrival and prolific writer/director Anders Thomas Jensen for help. Jensen has worked as a co-writer with Susanne Bier and Lone Scherfig and directed three projects himself: Flickering Lights, The Green ...
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Rezo takes on Berlin competitor Desert Dream
Rezo Films International has acquired worldwide rights to Berlin competition film Desert Dream. The South Korean-Mongol co-production is from Chinese director Zhang Lu and is set in a small village on the border of China and Mongolia. As the village becomes more and more desolate, the film tells the story ...