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Wide Management picks up five projects at European Film Market
With five new acquisitions, Wide Management is gearing up for a busy EFM. First up was Panorama selection Shelter from director Marco Simon Puccioni, starring Maria De Medeiros, Antonia Liskova and Mounir Ouadi. The film traces the story of an Italian couple who return from vacation to find that a ...
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New Turin fund provides $648,125 for doc productions in 2007
The Turin Film Commission and the Northern Italian Turin-Piedmont Region have joined forces to set up the Piemonte Doc Film Fund by earmarking $648,125 (Euros 500,000) for documentary projects that are shot in the area or that employ local professionals for post-production work. The fund aims to promote about 20 ...
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A-List Nutcracker musical marches into Budapest
Pre-production on The Nutcracker is scheduled to begin Mar 5 at Stern Film Studios in Budapest. Russia's Andrei Konchalovsky, who previously made Siberiada, Romance For Lovers, and House Of Fools, will direct the musical, based on the story made famous by Tchaikovsky's ballet, which will feature lyrics by Tim Rice. ...
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Dutch Film Fund explains details for $16.8m Matching Fund
As the Rotterdam film festival continues, local film-makers are seeing several signs of encouragement from the Dutch Film Fund. The fund has announced $1.26m (Euros 975,000) backing in three art-house features as well as unveiling details for its groundbreaking $16.8m (Euros 13m) Matching Fund. Dutch Film Fund director Toine Berbers ...
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Universal unveils regional film-buying network across its labels
Universal Pictures and Focus Features are consolidating their worldwide acquisitions operations to support NBC Universal's global theatrical distribution network.Universal Pictures chairman Marc Shmuger, co-chairman David Linde, and Focus Features and Rogue Pictures chairman James Schamus will oversee the restructured division along with Universal executive vice president Michael Joe and Focus ...
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Cinemavault adds three European premieres to Berlin slate
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International has boarded a number of new projects for the European Film Market in Berlin, among them the schizophrenia drama Canvas starring Marcia Gay Harden.Joe Pantoliano and newcomer Devon Gearhart also star in Joseph Greco's film, which will receive its European premiere in Berlin and centres on ...
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Berlinale Cameras to be awarded to Mina, Meszaros and KINO publishers
The Berlinale Camera awards will be presented at this year's festival as part of the Berlinale Special section to Hungary's Marta Meszaros, the Italian documentary filmmaker Gianni Mina, and Dorothea Moritz and Ron Holloway, publishers of KINO German Film. Announcing this year's programme at a press conference on Tuesday morning ...
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Rome aims to lure 300 buyers to second Business Street event
The Rome Festival's industry event Business Street is looking to target buyers and sellers yet more aggressively. Speaking in Rotterdam, Sylvain Auzou, who runs Business Street with Diamara Parodi, has explained just how the market will be expanded further. The second festival is to run from October 18-27 (just a ...
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Klimt finally gets UK release
Raoul Ruiz's film Klimt, about the fin de siecle Austrian painter, is to be released in the UK in the summer by Soda Pictures. Two versions of the film are in circulation - a 129 minute director's cut and a shorter producer's version. After consulting with exhibitors, Soda has decided ...
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Bavaria Film International to handle Israel's Beaufort
Bavaria Film International has taken on international sales for Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar's powerful anti-war statement Beaufort which will have its world premiere in the forthcoming Berlinale's Competition.Produced by Metro Communications in cooperation with United King Films and Movie Plus, Beaufort was adapted by Cedar from the novel of the ...
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Coach 14 takes Heros and Shotgun to Berlin
New French sales house Coach 14 has acquired two films heading into Berlin. The first, Heros, is a $2.6m (Euros 2m) psycho drama in the styleof Fabrice du Welz's Calvairesays Coach 14 co-founder Pape Boye.Directedby first-timer Bruno Merle, the film stars Michael Youn, Patrick Chesnais andElodie Bouchez. Heros marks adeparture ...
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Soren Kragh-Jacobsen plans political thriller for Nimbus
Danish director Soren Kragh-Jacobsen will start shooting political thriller Det som ingen ved (literal translation: What No One Knows) on Feb 19. The eight-week shoot will take place in Denmark and Sweden. The project will star Anders W. Berthelsen, who starred in the director's Mifune as well as in another ...
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Negativ lines up shoots for Country Teacher and Protektor
Reflecting the recent upswing in Czech producers' fortunes, Prague-based independent production outfit Negativ has revealed further details of a bulging development slate. Negativ representatives have been in Rotterdam this week attending CineMart with new project Country Teacher by Bohdan Slama. The $1.7m feature, already supported by Pallas Film in German, ...
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Gabriele Muccino's brother Silvio set to direct first feature
Silvio Muccino, brother of Pursuit of Happyness director Gabriele, will direct his first feature film entitled Talk to Me About Love (Parlami d'Amore) based on a book of the same name that he co-wrote with Carla Vangelista. Talk to Me About Love is a romance focusing on four intersecting stories ...
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Colin Farrell heads to Belgium for In Bruges shoot
UK playwright Martin McDonagh, who won an Oscar for is short Six Shooter, will start shooting his feature debut In Bruges on Feb 5 in the Belgian city. The cast for the project -- Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Clemence Poesy, Jeremie Renier, Jordan Prentice and Thekla Reuten -- is gathering ...
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Hungarian Film Week kicks off with competition title Noah's Ark
Ulrich Gregor will chair the feature film jury of the 38th Hungarian Film Week (HFW), which begins today. Gregor is a film critic and the co-founder and chairman of Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek. The jury also includes Ellis Driessen, head of Holland Film Meeting and the Netherlands Production Platform; Screen ...
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P.O.V. to broadcast Israeli Sundance doc Hot House
P.O.V., the long-running strand for non-fiction films on US public television (PBS), has picked up broadcast rights to Shimon Dotan's Israeli documentary Hot House following its recent world premiere at Sundance.The film played in the World Cinema Competition: Documentary programme and examines the lives of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.P.O.V. ...
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Hand Picked duo tune into Vivaldi life-story
Hand Picked Films' Michel Shane and Anthony Romano and financier Carlos Melcer have boarded the musical biopic Vivaldi, which is set to star Joseph Fiennes.Shane and Romano, whose executive producer credits include I, Robot and Catch Me If You Can, will produce alongside Boris Damast and Andrea Kikot of Mechaniks, ...
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Berlinale boasts 10% more German titles in programme
This year's Berlinale will again serve as platform for films 'made in Germany', with the number of German films (including German majority co-productions) screening in the festival's various sections increasing by 10% over 2005 to 60 films. Unlike last year when there were four German films in the Competition section, ...
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Wide gets on board for controversial Belgian feature Ex Drummer
In one of the first pick-ups of this year's Rotterdam Tiger competition, French outfit Wide Management is to handle international sales on Koen Mortier's Ex Drummer. The news was confirmed on Sunday in Rotterdam, just prior to the film's world premiere. All territories are open, except for Benelux, which is ...