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    Senator to bring horror video game Clock Tower to big screen

    2008-04-30T14:53:00Z

    Senator Entertainment will bring the Capcom survival horror video game Clock Tower to the big screen under the direction of Martin Weisz (The Hills Have Eyes 2) from a screenplay by Eric Poppen (Borderland).Principal photography is set to begin in July on the psychological thriller which will be produced by ...

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    Kinowelt International unveils 'long-lost' Lubitsch

    2008-04-30T14:29:00Z

    Kinowelt International will be unveiling a 'long-lost' film by Ernst Lubitsch and the 'Director's Cut' of Percy Adlon's 1987 international hit Bagdad Cafe as market premieres at the forthcoming Marche du Film in Cannes.Made in 1921, Lubitsch's The Loves Of Pharaoh (Das Weib Des Pharao) was his last large-scale production ...

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    Venice adds US reps D'Agnolo Vallan and Di Paola

    2008-04-30T14:09:00Z

    The Biennale has announced Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan and Margherita Di Paola will be the new US programmer and correspondent, respectively,for the 65th Venice Film Festival.Both D'Agnolo Vallan and Di Paola are charged with assisting Venice Film Festival artistic director Marco Mueller in the selection and searching process of American films ...

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    Critics Week adds special screening of Swiss Home

    2008-04-29T16:19:00Z

    Paris-based Memento Films has confirmed that its Swiss black comedy, Home, has been added as a special screening in Critics Week.Directed by Ursula Meier and starring Isabelle Huppert and Olivier Gourmet, the film has been scheduled into the prestigious Sunday night slot which was reserved for Juan Antonio Bayona's The ...

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    Babelsberg posts most successful financial year since privatisation

    2008-04-29T13:01:00Z

    Studio Babelsberg has posted its most successful financial year since the privatisation of the production complex in 1992 thanks, in particular, to such international co-productions as the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer, Bryan Singer's Valkyrie and Tom Tykwer's The International.On the publication of its annual report for 2007 on Tuesday morning ...

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    Blindness to open Cannes Film Festival

    2008-04-29T12:36:00Z

    Fernando Meirelles' Blindness is to open the Cannes Film Festival and will join the Competition line-up, it has been confirmed.The film, about a city hit with a plague causing most of the population to go blind, was adapted by Don McKellar from the novel by Jose Saramago.The cast is led ...

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    Pyramide's Cannes line-up calls for Snow

    2008-04-29T12:33:00Z

    Pyramide International has announced the addition of Critics Week title Snow to its line-up for the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. The film is directed by Aida Bejic and focuses on residents of a small village whose lives are disrupted by visiting businessmen just before a storm hits. Also on the ...

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    Coen brothers' Burn After Reading to open Venice Film Festival

    2008-04-28T12:27:00Z

    Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading will open the 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival as a world premiere.The film's classification as a gala or competition screening will be announced at a later date, the Biennale has said.In either case, the follow-up to the Coen Brother's celebrated No ...

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    Little Girl Blue takes top honours at Plzen

    2008-04-28T07:01:00Z

    An international jury at the 21st Finale Plzen film festival awarded the Golden Kingfisher for Best Film to Alice Nellis' Little Girl Blue. Produced by Jan Sverak, the film tells the story of one fateful day in the life of a middle-aged woman, played by actress and musician Iva Bittova. ...

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    The Edge Of Heaven claims four Lolas

    2008-04-27T14:22:00Z

    Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven (Auf Der Anderen Seite) picked up four Golden Lolas, including for Best Film, at the German Film Awards at the weekend in Berlin.Produced by Akin's own company Corazon International, the film also received the Lolas for Best Direction, Best Screenplay and Best Editing (Andrew ...

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    Francemay openup tax breaks to international productions

    2008-04-25T14:45:00Z

    The French government is considering relaxing its tax breaks to include foreign films. French daily Le Figaro reported Friday that the culture and finance ministries are considering opening up what is known as the credit d'impot system in order to attract international productions.The credit d'impot was originally set up four ...

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    Strong showing for France and Latin America in Directors Fortnight

    2008-04-25T11:02:00Z

    Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte in ParisThe Directors Fortnight line-up was announced Thursday morning in Paris with a robust 20 titles set to screen in between opening film Four Nights With Anna by Jerzy Skolimowski and closing film The Pleasure Of Being Robbed from US film-maker Josh Safdie.The section is heavy on Latin ...

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    Cannes quartet taken on by The Match Factory

    2008-04-25T09:58:00Z

    Martin Blaney in Berlin The Match Factory will be handling international sales for four films selected to the official programme of next month's Cannes Film Festival.After last year's The Edge Of Heaven, Michael Weber's Cologne-based company has another film in this year's Competition: Ari Folman's animated documentary Waltz With Bashir, ...

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    M-Appeal adds five titles to line-up for Cannes market

    2008-04-25T09:42:00Z

    Fledgling Berlin-based company M-Appeal has added another five titles to its sales line-up, which will have their market premieres at the forthcoming Marche du Film in Cannes.M-Appeal will be handling international distribution on the following films:Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi's documentary Suddenly, Last Winter about homophobia in Italy, first shown ...

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    Cannes 2008: The Screen Guide

    2008-04-25T06:47:00Z

    The buzzCannes Buzz: Competition Cannes Buzz: Out of competitionCannes Buzz: Director's fortnightCannes Buzz: Hot picksIn Focus: Searching for a new supply line Blindness to open Cannes Film FestivalHunger to open Un Certain RegardInterview Thierry FremauxThe line-upCannes competitionCompetition/ out of competition/ special screeningsUn Certain RegardDirectors FortnightCritics WeekCinefondation/ shortsCannes 2007Festival and market ...

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    Sarah Marshall hopes 8 territories won't forget this weekend

    2008-04-25T05:36:00Z

    The start of the blockbuster season is almost upon us and with one week to go before Paramount Pictures International (PPI) unleashes Marvel's Iron Man around the globe, the release schedule is predictably subdued.Universal's comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall gets a push this weekend with eight launches through UPI including Russia ...

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    Hamer selected for Un Certain Regard as Norway targets the Croisette

    2008-04-24T17:43:00Z

    Norwegian director Bent Hamer's O'Horten - his return to local film-making after his US feature, Factotum (2005), from Charles Bukowski's novel - will unspool in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, as Hamer's fourth official entry in the festival. The selection coincides with Norway's largest promotional effort on the Côte d'Azur, ...

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    Bavaria Film International picks up Critics' Week title

    2008-04-24T16:57:00Z

    Martin Blaney in Berlin Bavaria Film International has picked up international distribution rights for Emily Atef's second feature film The Stranger In Me (Das Fremde In Ihr), which has been selected for this year's Critics' Week in Cannes.The drama of a young mother who is thrown into emotional turmoil after ...

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    Video-on-demand in Europe sees surge in growth

    2008-04-24T16:43:00Z

    The number of video-on-demand (VoD) services in Europe almost doubled in the 12 months to December 2007. A report published by the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) - Video On Demand In Europe - has found 258 VoD services in operation in the 24 European countries surveyed, compared with 142 at ...

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    New Figgis feature to screen at Tribeca and Cannes

    2008-04-24T15:26:00Z

    Danny Plunkett in LondonLove Live Long , the first feature from Mike Figgis since 2003's Cold Creek Manor, will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28. It will launch internationally in the market at Cannes on May 18.Written and directed by Figgis, the film was shot over seven ...