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EFEA launches arbitration service for settling export disputes
Jacques-Eric Strauss, president of the European Film Export Association (EFEA), has officially launched the body's international arbitration procedure.The service - offered to all European international distribution companies, regardless of whether they are EFEA members - will help settle business disputes relating to film exports.The arbitrators are industry professionals selected for ...
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Film Italia to be folded into Cinecitta Holding
Italian promotional body Film Italia will be fused with Cinecitta Holding, the parent company of Cinecitta Studios, after a unanimous vote by its board last night.But the impending change has sent a chill through the film community that has come to rely on the streamlined and efficient organisation of Film ...
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Amos Gitai to receive this year's Locarno Leopard of Honour
The Leopard of Honour at this year's Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16) will be awarded to Amos Gitai whose latest film One Day, You Will Understand was shown at this year's Berlinale.Commenting on the choice of the Israeli filmmaker, artistic director Frederic Maire said in a statement: 'Amos Gitai ...
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New European TV database should draw in film rights owners
A new European TV database being launched tomorrow (Wednesday) at MIPTV will provide a significant tool for the film industry, offering benefits for distributors and rights owners, according to the European Audiovisual Observatory.MAVISE (Marche Audiovisuel Europe), as the database is known, was established by the Observatory at the request of ...
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Pretty Pictures takes on French rights to Bacon's Arena
Paris-based Pretty Pictures has acquired all French-language rights to Adam Low's Bacon's Arena, a BBC-backed documentary about artist Francis Bacon.The project was sold by London-based Wavelength Pictures. The package includes DVD bonuses for a special release during the centenary of Bacon's birth in 2009. There are major exhibitions planned in ...
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Lakeshore, TF1 team up to adapt eco-terrorism bestseller
Lakeshore Entertainment and France's TFI International are jointly adapting Jean-Christophe Rufin's best-selling eco-terrorism bestseller Le Parfum D'Adam.Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi will develop and produce with TF1 International's Patrick Binet. Lakeshore and TF1 International will jointly handle international distribution and TF1 International will take French rights.The story follows an ...
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Jarmusch to receive directing honour at Cannes
Director Jim Jarmusch is set to receive this year's Carrosse d'Or statue from France's Societe des Realisateurs de Films (SRF).The prize will be awarded on May 17 during the 40th anniversary of Directors Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.The prize, created by the SRF in 2002, is an homage given ...
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Elisabeth Murdoch calls for 'creativity without borders' at MipTV
Elisabeth Murdoch officially opened the MipTV market on Monday evening in a keynote address that sang the praises of 'creativity without borders.'The media scion, who runs the UK's Shine Group, spoke of her background as a struggling buyer at the conference straight through to her days as a producer and ...
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Orange to launch online and mobile film service
As the MipTV market got underway in earnest on Monday, France Telecom's Orange announced the launch of the Orange Cinema Series set to be available by subscription to all Orange TV, Internet and mobile customers. The service will be launched in France in the fourth quarter of 2008. The service ...
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German VOD market grows with ProSiebenSat.1-Disney deal
Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 Group and Disney-ABC International Television have closed their first deal for Subscription Video-on-Demand (SVoD) feature films for ProSiebenSat.1's video online store maxdome, licensing such library titles as Toy Story 2, Armageddon and Pearl Harbor, the first dealof its kind in Germany.In addition, they concluded a transactional VoD agreement ...
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Tele München launches international sales arm with Sea Wolf
Herbert Kloiber's Tele Muenchen Group (TMG) has launched its own as-yet-unnamed international sales arm with the TV two-parter The Sea Wolf based on the classic Jack London novel as its first title.The position of Head of International Sales at the new venture has been taken by Carlos Hertel who had ...
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Once star Marketa Irglova in talks for horror role
Czech musician and star of Once, Marketa Irglova, is in talks to appear in an upcoming project from veteran director Juraj Herz.Irglova, who co-wrote and performed Once's Oscar-winning song 'Falling Slowly' with Glen Hansard, is in negotiations to play a main supporting role in psychological horror Darkness.Produced by Prague-based Film ...
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Revanche takes grand prix at Austria's Diagonale
Goetz Spielmann's rural drama of guilt and revenge Revanche was awarded the Diagonale Grand Prix for Best Austrian Feature Film 2007/2008 at this year's showcase of Austrian filmmaking in Graz at the weekend.In addition, the film's DoP Martin Gschlacht received the award for best cinematography in a feature film. Revanche ...
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Mermaid wins best narrative feature in Dallas
Anna Melikyan's Mermaid won an unrestricted $25,000 cash prize for the Target Ten Filmmaker Award for Best Narrative Feature as the AFI Dallas International Film festival came to a close at the weekend.The Russian film was previously shown in the US at the Sundance Film Festival and then at the ...
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Horton hears nearly $100m overseas for Fox
As expected, Fox International's Horton Hears A Who! dominated the Hollywood overseas pack thanks to a three-day haul that delivered an estimated $11.7m from 5,783 screens and raised the tally to $91.5m.The animated family release is several days away from crossing the $100m threshold and owes much of its weekend ...
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Meurer, Curling to produce Stephen Fry's Handel biopic
Egoli Tossell Film Halle, the joint venture production company established by Berlin-based Egoli Tossell Film and the UK's Zepyhr Films initially to produce Michael Hoffman's $20.5m (Euros 13m) The Last Station, has other projects in the pipeline to be shot in Central Germany and particularly in the Land of Saxony-Anhalt. ...
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EC eyes plans to expand MEDIA to non-European countries
The European Commission (EC) today took the first step toward building a possible audiovisual cooperation programme with countries outside the European Union (EU).The MEDIA programme - the EC's support scheme for the audiovisual industry -published a call for proposals for cooperation projects with so-called 'third' countries, which could involve links ...
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Warner Bros takes on pirate comedy, Berlin Wall romance
Warner Bros. Pictures Germany has added Sven Taddicken's pirate comedy Zwoelf Meter Ohne Kopf, Peter Timm's tragicomic romance transcending the Berlin Wall Liebe Mauer, and Kai Wessel's Hildegard Knef biopic Hilde to its 2009 distribution lineup.Based on a screenplay by Matthias Pacht, Taddicken's tale of 15th-century North Sea pirates will ...
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Wim Wenders heads down new Road with company name change
Wim Wenders has changed the name of his Berlin-based production company Wenders Images to Neue Road Movies whose first project will be The Palermo Shooting which is currently in post-production and be tipped for a premiere in Cannes.In a press statement, it was stressed that there is neither a business ...
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Summerheat:the battle of the 2008 blockbusters
Hollywood's powerhouse summer of 2007 launched some of the biggest worldwide hits in cinema history. The indications are the 2008 blockbuster season may write itself into the record books too.If last year's summer was distinguished by lucrative third episodes of killer franchises such as Spider-Man, Pirates Of The Caribbean and ...