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    TrustNordisk to handle Schmid's Hague dramaStorm

    2008-04-11T15:56:00Z

    TrustNordisk will handle international sales for German filmmaker Hans-Christian Schmid's first major international project Storm (Sturm) which sees him reunited with Requiem screenwriter Bernd Lange, this time as co-writers.'The film is about a prosecutor at the war tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia in The Hague who is trying to persuade a witness ...

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    mdc takes on world sales for Kozole'sSlovenian Girl

    2008-04-11T15:55:00Z

    Berlin-based sales agent mdc international will handle world sales for Damjan Kozole's latest feature film Slovenian Girl (Slovenka) which is currently shooting in Slovenia.The film is a co-production between Slovenia's Vertigo/Emotion Film, Croatia's 4 Film, Bosnia's Pro.ba, Serbia's Bas Celic and Germany's Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion.mdc had also distributed two of ...

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    Heymann starts shoot for third Digital Departures film, Starstruck

    2008-04-11T15:51:00Z

    Director Lindy Heymann and producer Andy Stebbing have started principal photography on Starstruck, shooting on location in Liverpool.Leigh Campbell wrote the script about two teenage girls obsessed by a celebrity footballer.The cast features newcomers Kerry Hayes, Nichola Burley and Jamie Doyle.The project is the third and final film to be ...

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    Poland's Tricks secures deals with UK, Germany, France

    2008-04-11T10:35:00Z

    The UK, Germany, France, Israel and Taiwan are among 12 territories who have picked up the rights to Polish filmmaker Andrzej Jakimowski's second feature Tricks which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia last year and a Special Award at the Sao Paulo Film Festival, ...

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    Adrien Brody replaces Liotta in Dario Argento's Giallo

    2008-04-11T10:14:00Z

    Oscar winner Adrien Brody will replace Ray Liotta as the detective character in cult horror-master Dario Argento's up-coming English language film Giallo, which starts shooting in Turin as of mid-May.The casting update was confirmed by Giallo producer Rafael Primorac of LA-based Arramis Films, who told ScreenDaily.com the film had to ...

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    21, Leatherheads kick off overseas campaigns in Europe as Horton hurtles away

    2008-04-11T02:47:00Z

    Fox International's Horton Hears A Who! remains the leading Hollywood export and looks like the one to beat this weekend as executives expect it to cross $100m.The family film has amassed $93.9m and opens in 10 territories including Greece on April 10.The romantic comedy 27 Dresses is doing well on ...

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    Italy winning race for Hollywood shoots

    2008-04-11T00:00:00Z

    Inhabitants of the Tuscan city of Siena are being treated to the sight of Daniel Craig leaping over their Renaissance-era rooftops this spring.The actor is in Tuscany for six weeks with Marc Forster's $230m Quantum Of Solace to shoot the latest international location sequence in the new James Bond production.Top ...

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    Profile: Zentropa co-founder Peter Aalbaek Jensen

    2008-04-11T00:00:00Z

    Last month, Scandinavian major Nordisk Film acquired 50% of the shares in Denmark's Zentropa - backing that will enable the company founded by Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbaek Jensen to expand internationally.After years of Dogme manifestos, irreverence and a rebellious nature, has age finally caught up with the maverick ...

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    EastWest acquires worldwide rights to A Hero's Welcome

    2008-04-10T16:22:00Z

    EastWest Film Distribution has acquired worldwide rights to Berlinale Forum title A Hero's Welcome (Nacht Vor Augen). The film tells the story of a young soldier returning from service with NATO troops in Afghanistan. He is welcomed as a hero by his family and given a medal by the army, ...

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    Fiction Fest names Steve Della Casa artistic director

    2008-04-10T15:51:00Z

    Turin Piedmont Film commission president Steve Della Casa will take the reins as Rome Fiction Fest's artistic director while Raimon Astarita has been named general manager of the Fiction Fest in its second year, the Fest announced from Cannes today.The nominations were long awaited as the first year's artistic director ...

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    MipTV market concludes on note of media and telecoms

    2008-04-10T15:19:00Z

    A chilly, rainy MipTV market wound down Thursday following keynote speeches focusing on media and the telecom companies and social networking. France Telecom Group's chairman and CEO, Didier Lombard, on Wednesday told attendees he never expected to be addressing a group of content makers. But, he said, 'I do truly ...

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    Quentin Tarantino to give Cinema Masterclass at Cannes

    2008-04-10T13:22:00Z

    Quentin Tarantino, who once declared having 'devoted his life to cinema, his favourite obsession', is to give the Cinema Masterclass at the coming Festival de Cannes, May 14-25.The announcement adds to mounting excitement about this year's event. As previously reported Jim Jarmusch will receive the Carrosse d'Or statue from France's ...

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    Colin Farrell, Paz Vega and Christopher Leejoin Tanovic'sTriage

    2008-04-10T12:25:00Z

    Colin Farrell, Paz Vega and Christopher Lee will star in Danis Tanovic's upcoming project Triage.The film is produced by ASAP Films and Parallel Films in co-production with Aramid Entertainment, Tornasol Films/Freeform and the Irish Film Board and Hanway Films.Hanway Films have world sales rights and will start selling the film ...

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    Haneke, Gorris backed by German incentive scheme

    2008-04-09T16:24:00Z

    New features by Michael Haneke, Marleen Gorris and Jaco van Dormael are among seven international co-productions awarded over $8.5m (Euros 5.4m) by the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) incentive scheme in the first quarter of 2008.Another $3.6m (Euros 2.3m) in incentives was paid out to nine German films, including Anno ...

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    French comedies dominate international weekend

    2008-04-09T15:53:00Z

    French cinema enjoyed yet another impressive weekend in the international arena as two comedies accounted for 12.7% of the international top 40 revenue. New entry Disco was the highest entry in the chart this weekend, coming in at number two with an $8.7m take from Belgium, France and Switzerland. The ...

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    L: Change The World to kick off Far East Film

    2008-04-09T11:30:00Z

    The international premiere of Hideo Nakata's fantasy thriller L: Change The World will kick off the Far East Film Festival April 18 in Udine. The 10th edition of the festival will close April 26 with Johnnie To's musical comedy Sparrow.This year's festival will host an industry event in collaboration with ...

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    goEast 2008 launches project market and DVD label

    2008-04-09T08:23:00Z

    An East-West project market is being held at Wiesbaden's goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film (April 9-15), which will open Wednesday evening with Nikita Mikhalkov's Oscar-nominated film 12.The one-day event this coming weekend is being hosted by goEast in cooperation with the Robert Bosch Foundation and will ...

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    Saetre leaves Bonne Pioche for solo march

    2008-04-09T00:00:00Z

    Linda Saetre, who headed the New York-based sales arm of Bonne Pioche and led the company's 2006 Oscar campaign for March Of The Penguins, has launched her new company Saetre Film.Saetre will continue to co-produce with Bonne Pioche and serve as their salesperson for documentaries and TV programmes on a ...

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    MGM launches hi-def channel in Israel

    2008-04-08T23:25:00Z

    MGM Networks will launch a high definition version of Israel's The MGM Channel this spring that will be simulcast with the existing standard definition channel.Starting this month, the service will begin broadcasting as part of the HD basic tier of Israeli DTH platform, YES.Over the coming months, it will ramp ...

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    Film Source takes on ancient evil tale, The Seer

    2008-04-08T23:20:00Z

    Florida-based The Film Source Company has picked up worldwide rights to Nuragic Films' Italian English-language horror film The Seer.Luigi Desole directed the tale of cult members who search for a missing element that will awaken an ancient evil.The Seer was shot in Sardinia and is based on a screenplay by ...