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Universal extends home entertainment deal with Warner in Russia
Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) and Warner Home Video (WHV) are to extend their existing home entertainment distribution partnership.Under the deal, Universal Pictures Russia will continue to distribute DVD and launch Blu-ray releases for Warner Bros and New Line in the Russian home entertainment market for a further three-year term.The ...
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First Australia-Iran film My Tehran For Sale will premiere in Adelaide
With the participation of Bahman Ghobadi (A Time For Drunken Horses), the first collaboration between Australia and Iran My Tehran For Sale will make its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) in February.The film is also the first feature produced by Julie Ryan since collaborating with director Rolf ...
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Shooting Stars laureates to present European Film Awards 2008
Eight former laureates of the Berlin film festival's shooting stars award will present the 2008 EFAs in Copenhagen, including Anamaria Marinca, (4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days).The Berlin film festival's Shooting Stars award goes to the best rising European talent of the year.The award was initiated by the European Film ...
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First ever Norway-Spain co-production The Frost completes filming
Co-produced by Spanish Alta Realitat and Norwegian Frost Media, The Frost, is a mystical drama inspired by Henrik Ibsen's play Little Eyof. The first feature by Spain's, Ferran Audi, The Frost has an international cast with Sweden's Lars Noren as a screen writer (Details), and Spain's David Omedes as the ...
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Sony picks up Spanish rights to El Juego Del Ahorcado
Sony Pictures Spain has picked up Spanish distribution rights to renowned director Manuel Gomez Pereira's romantic drama El Juego Del Ahorcado.Based on the novel by Imma Turbau, El Juego tells the story of a young boy and girl, Sandra (Clara Lago)and David (Alvaro Cervantes), who fall in love with each ...
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Expose of the Burmese dictatorship win Amsterdam doc award
Burma VJ - Reporting From a Closed Country has won the VPRO Joris Ivens Award 2008, the main competition at IDFA (the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam).The film, described by jury member Bianca Stigter, as 'a harrowing reminder of the power and the weakness of images,' was directed by Dane, Anders ...
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Frozen River wins Stockholm's Bronze Horse
US director Courtney Hunt left Stockholm with 16lb excess luggage, as her feature debut, Frozen River, was awarded the Bronze Horse - the heavy grand prix - of the 19th Stockholm International Film Festival, which ended on Sunday (Nov 30).The jury chaired over by Finnish veteran producer-director Jorn Donnergave the ...
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Tony Manero takes top prize at Turin Film Festival
Chilean director Pablo Larrain's Tony Manero has won the top prize at the Turin Film Festival.The film also took the Fipresci prize as well as best actor honours forAlfred Castro's portrayal of a 50-year old impersonator of Tony Manero - John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever.Previously seen at Cannes ...
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Tykwer's The International to open 59th Berlin Film Festival
The world premiere of Tom Tykwer's The International, starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts has been named as the opening film of the 2009 Berlinale on February 5.The action thriller also stars Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne, Ulrich Thomsen and Jack McGee.The International will be presented 'out of competition' in ...
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Profile - Pim Hermeling
At the AFM in Santa Monica, several Dutch distributors were heard to grumble about the prices being charged by international sales companies for Benelux rights.Nonetheless, there was little evidence the Dutch buyers were keeping their wallets in their pockets. A-Film and Dutch FilmWorks both made major acquisitions of high-profile titles ...
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In Focus: Erik Van Looy's Flemish hit Loft
With 500,000 admissions already posted and the Christmas holidays still to come, Erik Van Looy's Loft is the runaway local hit of the autumn in Belgium. Four weeks after its release on October 22, it had not only outperformed Quantum Of Solace and left Mamma Mia! The Movie gasping in ...
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Croatian Audio-Visual Center awards $5m across 17 projects
The Croatian Audio-Visual Center has selected 17 feature film projects for financing. In total, 71 film projects were submitted for consideration to the Croatian Audio-Visual Center (HAVC) which is Croatia's official film funding body.The HAVC was established in March this year and under Croatian law is completely independent from government ...
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Spanish-German co-production The Anarchist's Wife to go to Sundance
Marie Noelle and Peter Sehr's The Anarchist's Wife (Die Frau des Anarchisten) has been selected for Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Competition in January.Speaking at a two-day co-production meeting between Catalan and German producers in Berlin, the film's Barcelona-based co-producer Jordi Rediu of Zip Films said that this would be ...
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Dubai International Film Festival to feature 11 world premieres.
The Dubai International film festival will feature eleven world premieres across its programme.The premieres comprise narrative and documentary films, feature length and shorts and works from established feature directors as well as feature debuts.The festival's mandate to present diverse and engaging cinema while highlighting film of Arab origin is strongly ...
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La Graine Et Le Mulet wins European Film Academy Critics' Award 2008
The European Film Academy Critics' Award 2008 - Prix Fipresci has been awarded to Abdellatif Kechiche for La Graine Et Le Mulet (The Secret of the Grain) The announcement was made by the European Film Academy, EFA Productions, and the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI.FIPRESCI's director of the department ...
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Kalatozishvili's Wild Field takes top prize at Marrakech
Mikhail Kalatozishvili's Wild Field won the top prize, l'Etoile d'Or, at the 8th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival. The Shaft , from China's Zhang Chi, earned the Jury Prize.Melissa Leo, the star of Courtney Hunt's Sundance grand jury prize winner Frozen River, took the Best Actress prize: and ...
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Norway opens first all-digital multiplex in the Nordic countries
The first all-digital multiplex in the Nordic countries has been opened in Norway by Oslo Municipal Cinemas.The multiplex is called the Ringen, and is situated in the Grunerlokka borough of Oslo.'The new theatre is a milestone on the way into a new technological era, and a considerable addition to the ...
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Mikhail Kalatozishvili's Wild Field wins best film at Estoril film festival
Russian director Mikhail Kalatozishvili's drama Wild Field has taken the best film award at the Estoril film festival in Portugal. The Studio Barmalei production Wild Field focuses on the life of a doctor struggling to care for a small farming community, which is trying to fight off some outlaws, set ...
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Aan Ja (Over There) receives the Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki
Aan Ja (Over There) by Iranian director Abdolreza Kahani received the Golden Alexander and $47,000 (Euros 37,000) at the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.Romanian production Pescuit Sportiv (Hooked) by Adrian Sitaru was awarded the Special Jury Prize, the Silver Alexander and $28,000 (Euros 22,000).Argentinian Celina Murga was named best director ...
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Italian distribution of Oliver Stone's W. secured by Dall'Angelo Pictures
W., Oliver Stone's biopic of outgoing US president George W. Bush has been picked up by independent Italian distributor Dall'Angelo Pictures. The deal was agreed immediately following the film's Italian premiere on opening night of the 26th Turin Film Festival.It was brokered between QED International's executive vice-president of international distribution, ...