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Memento partners with ID and acquires Angosto
France 's Memento Films has joined with ID Distribution to create a partnership which will see the two companies work together on acquisitions, international sales, production and French distribution. Memento principals Emilie Georges and Alexandre Mallet-Guy and ID Distribution's Isabelle Dubar have combined their teams and are planning to 'take ...
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Paul Schrader to serve as jury president for Berlinale Competition
US writer-director Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Mishima) will head up the seven-person International Jury deciding on the Golden Bear and Silver Bears at next month's Berlinale (Feb 8-18). The other members of the jury are: Palestinian actress-writer-director Hiam Abbass, whose recent acting credits include The Syrian Bride, Paradise Now and ...
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Fortissimo on board for Annie Leibovitz documentary
Fortissimo Films has taken all rights outside North America for Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens, directed by the photographer's sister Barbara Leibovitz. The documentary feature follows Annie Leibovitz's career for more than 30 years. Interviews in the film include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tina Brown, Graydon Carter, Rosanne Cash, Hillary Rodham ...
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First Berlinale Panorama titles unveiled
New films by Hal Hartley (Fay Grim), Eytan Fox (The Bubble), Korea's Hong Sangsoo (Woman On The Beach), actress Julie Delpy (Two Days in Paris) and actor Antonio Banderas (Summer Rain) are among the titles so far confirmed for more than half of the programme for this year's Panorama at ...
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Italian producer Carlo Ponti dies aged 94
Prolific Italian producer Carlo Ponti, whose career influenced the rise of major European film movements such as neorealism and the French new wave died on Wednesday in Geneva of pulmonary complications. He was 94 years old. Born near Milan in 1912, Ponti studied law before becoming a film producer in ...
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Goya's Ghosts to get gala in Goteborg
The Goya's Ghosts team - the Oscar-winning duo of director Milos Forman and producer Saul Zaentz, scriptwriter Jean-Claude Carriere and lead actor Stellan Skarsgard - will be on hand for the gala performance of the film, one of 450 titles on show at the 30th Goteborg (Gothenburg) International Film Festival, ...
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37 projects selected for Berlinale Co-Production Market
New feature film projects by Joe Dante, Reza Bagher, Wang Chao, Srdjan Koljevic, Sarah Polley and Luigi Falorni are among a total of 37 projects selected from 25 countries to be presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market (Feb 11-13) which is now in its fourth year. This year's Official Projects ...
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Gaumont hires Cecile Gaget for international division
French major Gaumont has announced the arrival of Cecile Gaget who will join the International division as executive vice-president international sales. Gaget was formerly head of international sales at Rezo Films and also spent 4 years at TF1 International. 'Gaumont is speeding up its international operations and Cecile, thanks to ...
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Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose to open Berlinale
The world premiere of Olivier Dahan's Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose will open this year's Berlinale on Feb 8 as part of the Competition section of films vying for the Golden Bear and Silver Bears. Writer-director Olivier Dahan, whose last film was 2004's Crimson Rivers II, has assembled ...
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Thykier to leave Freud's to produce with Matthew Vaughn
Kris Thykier will leave Freud Communications at the end of February to john Matthew Vaughn as a partner in production company MARV. Thykier, who had been Freud's vice chairman, will now be a full-time producer. He will continue to serve as a non-executive director of Freud's and will oversee the ...
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Beta Cinema picks up controversial Hitler comedy
Beta Cinema has picked up the international sales rights to Dani Levy's hotly debated new comedy Mein Fuehrer - The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler which X Verleih is opening with 250 prints in German cinemas on Jan 11. The Y Filme production has already aroused considerable interest internationally ...
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EFP selects 25 actors for 10th Shooting Stars in Berlin
European Film Promotion has announced the 25 young European actors who will be part of the 10th Shooting Stars programme. The programme, backed by the EU's MEDIA Programme, kicks off during next month's Berlinale. The selected actors will hold a press conference, meet with international media, interview with casting directors ...
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Big-spending Dubai and Rome festivals under fire from Berlinale
New kids on the film festival block such as those in Rome and Dubai have been criticised by Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick for 'buying stars with big money' and 'running through Hollywood with a cheque book.' Speaking in an interview with the Berlin-based media journal Promedia, Kosslick observed: 'I ...
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MediaPro, Grupo Arbol launch new sales company Imagina
Spain boasts a new international sales outfit, Imagina International Sales, handling feature films and television content. Imagina is a holding created by producer and rights broker MediaPro and TV producer Grupo Arbol, and has stakes in other key film and TV producers in Spain including Globomedia, Mercuri, Ovideo and Media ...
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TF1 to launch Female Agents and Shall We Kiss'
TF1 International will bring two brand new films to the Unifrance Rendez-Vous which gets underway this weekend in Paris. After having worked successfully with his last film, Arsene Lupin, TF1 International is selling Jean-Paul Salome's latest, Female Agents. Starring Sophie Marceau, Laura Smet, Julie Depardieu, Maya Sansa, Moritz Bleibtreu and ...
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Dutch box office recovers with 9% rise in admissions
The Dutch box-office business has recovered in 2006 after a devastating 2005 with an increase 9% in admissions and an increase of 14% in box-office takings. Total box-office gross revenues amounted to $200.0m (Euros 154.5 m), compared to $176.2m (Euros 135.5m) in 2005. The total admissions climbed from 20.6m to ...
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Falkenberg, Kidz and Darkness vie for Swedish prizes
Three Swedish features drew a tie with four nominations each for the Guldbagge (Golden Bug), the Swedish local film awards. The Swedish Film Institute announced that of the 11 films which will be considered for this year's awards, these three took the lead for nominations: Jesper Ganslandt's Falkenberg Farewell, Ylva ...
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Davis and Kelliher depart Beyond for new UK sales company
London-based production company Head Gear Films has launched a new international sales company, Bankside Films. The company has been co-founded with Hilary Davis and Stephen Kelliher, who previously headed rival sales outfit Beyond Films. Davis will be co-managing director and Kelliher will serve as director of sales & marketing. Antonio ...
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New players at the table
If the story of 2006 was realignment, reorganisation and box-office recovery, 2007 should be about attracting new investment. After a year of recovery at the box office, there is suddenly a feelgood factor about film again. Some of it may be exaggerated, of course, just as the 2005 slump was ...
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StudioCanal sets slate for Unifrance Rendez Vous
As French sales companies get ready for the annual Unifrance Rendez Vous this coming weekend, StudioCanal has announced its line up for the industry screenings event.From Pierre Jolivet comes the romantic comedy Je Crois Que Je L'Aime. Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Bonnaire star in a film about a man who ...