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Stuck, Looking For Palladin among films at Monaco Charity fest
Stuart Gordon's horror-thriller Stuck starring Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea and Andrzej Krakowski's comedy Looking For Palladin with Ben Gazzara and Talia Shire are among competition entries in the 2008 Monaco Charity Film Festival.Overall nine world premieres will screen at the Mediterranean event, set to run from May 13 to ...
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Arri Media Worldsales picks up music drama Hanna's Words
Arri Media Worldsales will handle international distribution for Andreas Struck's third feature Hanna's Words which began principal photography in Cologne this week. Based on a screenplay by Dagmar Gabler (Porno!Melo!Drama!), the music drama centring on a Nu Jazz trumpeter stars up-and-coming German actors Stefan Rudolf and Paula Kalenberg, Russia's Chulpan ...
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Telepool takes on Mikkelsen mystery The Door
Telepool will handle world sales for Anno Saul's mystery thriller The Door (Die Tuer) based on Akif Pirincci's 2001 novel Die Damalstuer.The film began shooting in Berlin last week. The co-production between Wueste Film and Senator Film Produktion stars the internationally known Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen - who worked ...
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Celluloid Dreams takes world rights to Kuras doc The Betrayal
Celluloid Dreams has acquired worldwide rights excluding North America to award-winning film-maker Ellen Kuras' The Betrayal. The film, which ran in the documentary competition at Sundance, recently took the top prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.The epic odyssey follows a family from war-torn Laos to New York over the ...
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Minister Trond Giske kicks off new Norwegian Film Institute
The new Norwegian Film Institute - formed from the merger of the former institute, the Norwegian Film Fund, and Norwegian Film Development, and the brainchild of culture minister Trond Giske - was set rolling Monday (March 31), after a few last-minute decisions.News reports Friday suggested that the new institution, which ...
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Glowinsky promoted to deputy MD at Pathe Production
Pathe Production France has announced the appointment of Leonard Glowinski to the post of deputy managing director, business affairs.Glowinski joined Pathe's financial management team in 1999. Following that he was named director of business affairs for Pathe France in charge of international productions.Whilst holding that post, he was involved in ...
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Dutch FilmWorks starts international distribution division
Benelux-based Dutch FilmWorks has launched a new division, House Of Knowledge International, which will handle international cross-platform distribution, licensing, and production.Dutch FilmWorks CEO Willem Pruijssers made the announcement. The non-international House Of Knowledge was started in 2002 and worked on a number of DVD projects in mind, body and spirit ...
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IMAX signs three separate deals in Russia
IMAX Corp. has signed three separate deals with Russian firms to install large-format digital projection systems in three cities: Sochi, Nizinhy Novogorod and in Siberia's Novosibirsk. All three cinemas, the first of their kind in the nation, are expected to be installed between 2009 and 2011.The Sochi facility will be ...
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Senator picks up Splice, Superhero Movie, Young@Heart
German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment has added the science fiction thriller Splice, blockbuster parody Superhero Movie and the documentary Young@Heart to its 2008-2009 distribution lineup.Senator acquired the German, US and Spanish rights to genre specialist Vincenzo Natali's Splice which will star Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley and be produced by Steve ...
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Italian box-office down from banner 2007 but local films fare well
Italy's first-quarter box office results show that while over all box office is lagging in respect to the same period last year, local product has remained strong.The data is important to the local industry, since 2007 saw local films boom, and aid significantly in bringing box office numbers to levels ...
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Constantinextends Eichinger's contract until 2014
Constantin Film and producer Bernd Eichinger have agreed a year in advance to extend their exclusive production contract by another five years until March 31, 2014. The arrangement guarantees that Eichinger, who wrote and produced Uli Edel's Der Baader Meinhof Komplex for Constantin last year, will produce exclusively for Germany's ...
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Madsen's $10m epic Flame & Citron opens as a hit in Denmark
More than 100,000 Danes invaded the cinemas this weekend to watch Ole Christian Madsen's war epic Flame & Citron. In its first three days of release, the two-hour-plus project welcomed more than 101,101 cinemagoers.The figures makes the film a contender to be the most popular Danish film at the 2008 ...
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AAM, DigiScreen, Pillar, Royal Opera House strike digital deal
Arts Alliance Media is working with Montreal-based DigiScreen Corporation, The Pillar Group and the Royal Opera House-owned TV and DVD production company Opus Arte to bring ballets, operas and dance from the Royal Opera House and other performing arts companies to cinemas across Europe.The HD content, both pre-recorded and live, ...
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Warner Bros Germany checks into The Last Station
Warner Bros. Pictures Germany will distribute Michael Hoffman's The Last Station which begins shooting from April 7 at locations in Brandenburg as a production of Egoli Tossell Halle, a production-specific outfit set up by Berlin-based Egoli Tossell Film and the UK-based Zephyr Films run by Chris Curling.The drama of Count ...
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Fortissimo takes on Tribeca world premiere Chevolution
Fortissimo Films has acquired all rights outside North America for the documentary Chevolution.Netflix's Red Envelope Entertainment financed the film.Trisha Ziff and Luis Lopez directed the documentary about Alberto Korda's iconic photograph of Che Guevara. The film's interviewees include Gael Garcia Bernal, Antonio Banderas, Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine ...
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Cannes Atelier to welcome Lou Ye, Benedek Fliegauf
The fourth Cannes Atelier of the Cinefondation will welcome 15 projects from 14 countries. The selections include the new films from Milky Way director Benedek Fliegauf and Summer Palace director Lou Ye.Now in its fifth edition, L'Atelier seeks to help directors with financing and project completion.The directors and producers will ...
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Strong documentary presence at Diagonale showcase of Austrian cinema
Documentaries are once again out in force at this year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film (April 1-6) which opens in Graz on Tuesday evening with the world premiere of Othmar Schmiderer's Back To Africa.Poool Filmverleih will release the film, which follows five artists of Andre Heller's 'Afrika Afrika' musical ...
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European Commissionfights on for broadband despite setbacks
The European Commission (EC) is confident that it will achieve its targets for broadband uptake across the European Union (EU), despite the disappointing figures published and what would appear to be a waning commitment from Member States.EU-wide access to high speed internet services is widely regarded as essential if digital ...
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CNC reports that investment in French films crosses $1.89bn
France's national film board, the CNC, has concluded that 2007 was a globally healthy year for French cinema. In total 228 films were produced with the CNC's stamp of approval. The figure does not match 2005's historic 240 but is higher than the average 213 over the past six years. ...
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Rebranded Instinctive boards 13 Semesters, The Disposables
The Berlin-based international film production and finance company Instinctive Film - previously known as Invicta Entertainment - is boarding its first local German-language film, Frieder Wittich's coming-of-age student comedy 13 Semesters. The film begins shooting in Darmstadt next Monday (March 31).Instinctive Film will co-produce the debut feature with Munich-based Claussen-Woebke+Putz ...