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Marcus Vigneron Coudroy joins Shyer's Eloise in Paris
Young 11-year-old French actor Marcus Vigneron Coudroy has joined the cast of Charles Shyer's new live-action feature Eloise In Paris, based on Kay Thompson's classic Eloise books.As previously reported, the cast also includes Uma Thurman and Australian newcomer Jordana Beatty.Vigneron Coudroy was selected from an extensive casting process in London ...
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Irusta takes senior VP role at NBC Universal Global Networks
Martin Irusta has been appointed senior Vice President, Programming & Acquisitions, Global Networks, an international division of NBC Universal.Irusta will be based in London and takes the post immediately.The newly created role was announced by Roma Khanna, President, Global Networks & Digital Initiatives, to whom he will report. Irusta will ...
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Enid Blyton's schoolgirl heroines get big-screen treatment with UFA Cinema
Enid Blyton is set to be given the big-screen treatment by Germany's new player UFA Cinema with a feature film based on the bestselling children's author's St Clare's books from the 1940s. Known in Germany as Hanni & Nanni, Blyton's original stories about the O'Sullivan twin sisters' adventures at their ...
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K5 takes on world sales for Yu's Ping Pong Playa
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 International has taken on world sales rights to Jessica Yu's Ping Pong Playa.The film premiered at Toronto.Oscar winner Yu wrote and directed the comedy, about an Asian-American suburbanite who unexpectedly has to take over his family's ping-pong dynasty. Jimmy Tsai, Elizabeth Sung and Rodger ...
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THINKFILM Intl takes on sales for Down And Dirty Pictures, Radford's Mula
UK-based sales company THINKFilm International, the sister company to Capitol Films, has taken on two new projects for its Cannes sales slate. The company has taken on international rights to Michael Radford's La Mula and Ken Bowser's Down and Dirty Pictures. La Mula stars Spanish rising talents Oscar Jaenada and ...
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Herbig, Wortmann and Davaa receive support from Bavarian fund
New films by leading German comedian Michael Bully Herbig, Soenke Wortmann, and Oscar-nominated documentary film-maker Byambasuren Davaa (The Story Of The Weeping Camel and The Cave of The Yellow Dog) are among 25 film and TV projects supported with $9.4m (Euros 6.1m) by Bavaria's FFF Bayern regional fund at its ...
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Theatre networkclaims 2007 record for non-national European film
Europa Cinemas' figures reveal that 2007 was a record year for European films screened by its members beyond their national borders.They accounted for 39% of the films shown at the network's cinemas, up 3% on 2006.European film as a whole took 63% of admissions.Florian Henckel Von Donnsersmarck's phenomenal The Lives ...
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Venice to honour Italian master Ermanno Olmi
Venice is to honour one of Italy's most adventurous auteurs with a Golden Lion for his lifetime's work.Olmi has had a long and successful relationship with Venice dating back to the 1950s. Hewon the Golden Lion in 1988 for The Legend Of The Holy Drinker.His best-known film probably remains The ...
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European Commission starts consultation on film policy
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on a possible future global programme for the audiovisual industries, including film.The aim is to develop a new programme, 'MEDIA MUNDIS', that will represent a commitment to effective multilateralism and engage with global partnersThe aim of the consultation is to gather information ...
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MMC joins H20 as co-producer of Stephen Frears' feature
Cologne-based MMC Independent has become a co-producer with Andras Hamori's H20 Motion Pictures on Stephen Frears' latest feature project Cheri which is currently shooting in France and will be moving to Germany at the end of May.A co-production contract will be officially signed by Hamori and Magic Media Company's (MMC) ...
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Bulgarian studio expands facilities
UFO International Productions has announced the opening of a new stage facility in Sofia, Bulgaria.The Bulgarian Film and Television Centre (BFTC) claims to be the largest studio in the Balkans, with nearly double the stage capacity of any other studio in Bulgaria.Sofia is already home to Nu Boyana Studios. Nu ...
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Giuseppe Tornatore back to Sicilian roots for Baaria
Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and Medusa Film CEOGiampaolo Letta unveiled the first details of Tornatore's $30.7m (Euro 20m) film Baaria that has been tightly under wraps since the project's inceptiona year ago.Producing partners for Baaria are Italy's Medusa Film and Franco-Tunisian entrepreneur Tarak Ben Ammar's French based Quinta Communications and ...
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Kinowelt CEO Bertil le Claire to leave at end of month
The Kinowelt Group's CEO Bertil le Claire has announced his plans to leave the company at the end of May. His duties will be overseen by Romain Bessi, Directeur General of the group's new owner StudioCanal, until a successor has been appointed.Le Claire joined Kinowelt in 1998 as the managing ...
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Wild Bunch takes on sales for James Toback's Tyson
Wild Bunch will handle international sales on James Toback's Tyson. The documentary, which looks at the prize fighter's life in and out of the ring, is running in competition in the Un Certain Regard sidebar.The film begins with Tyson's earliest memories of growing up in Brooklyn and traces his rise ...
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Bavaria picks up international for Daniel Burman's Argentine hit
Bavaria Film International has taken on international distribution for Argentinean director Daniel Burman's current box-office hit Empty Nest (El Nido Vacio).All About My Mother's Cecilia Roth and Oscar Martinez star as a married couple in their prime suddenly confronted with the 'empty nest syndrome' the moment their youngest child leaves ...
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Eurimages backs 10 films with $6m
At its 110th meeting, May 4-6 in Amsterdam, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund made its latest funding awards.The European co-production support includes 10 feature films for a total of almost $6m (Euros 3.875m)The films are: Besa - Srdjan Karanovic (Serbia, Slovenia, Hungary, France) Bon ...
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Fred Kogel to step down as Constantin CEO, Burgener will succeed
Leading German producer-distributor Constantin Film has announced that its current CEO Fred Kogel has extended his contract until the end of the year, but will then be succeeded in this position by the group's present supervisory board chairman Bernhard Burgener.Kogel had replaced Bernd Eichinger as CEO in April 2003 and ...
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Caruso, Conte plan $60m epic feature on life of William Tell
Veteran US producers Fred Caruso (Blue Velvet) and D. Constantine Conte (48 Hours) have unveiled plans to produce the $60m medieval epic feature The Adventures Of William Tell, based on the life of the legendary national hero of Switzerland.A single-purpose company Tell Productions Ltd. has acquired the film rights to ...
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Pre-Cannes, Waltz With Bashir sold to France, UK and Germany
A week ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir has been sold by The Match Factory to France (Le Pacte), the UK (Curzon Artificial Eye) and Germany (Pandora Filmverleih).'We are very excited about the fact that this unique animated documentary ...
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Abel Ferrara finishing juvenile crime project Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Rome-based sales company and producer Minerva Pictures Group will be in Cannes with a new project from Abel Ferrara, Napoli, Napoli, Napoli.Currently in post-production, the film - which is destined for a theatrical release - interweaves documentary with narrative footage by combining interviews with three female inmates with scripted scenes ...