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Prague to host Paramount's $170m GI Joe
Barrandov Studios has signed a contract to host Paramount's $170m GI Joe.The $170m action film would be one of the most expensive ever in the Czech studio's history, between the estimated $150m Casino Royale and the $180m Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And the Wardrobe.Set construction for for ...
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Metrodome strikes UK deal for Fear(s) Of The Dark
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights to French animated feature Fear(s) Of The Dark from Celluloid Dreams.Pierre Menahem of Celluloid Dreams negotiated with Metrodome CEO Peter Urie, general manager-home entertainment Tom Stewart and acquisitions & business affairs manager Kate Edwards.Metrodome plans an autumn 2008 release.Sara Frain, Metrodome general manager-theatrical, ...
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Fortissimo takes on Jordan's Sundance hit Captain Abu Raed
Fortissimo Films has taken worldwide rights (outside the Middle East and North America) on Amin Matalqa's Captain Abu Raed.The film won the World Cinema Audience Award at Sundance and Best Actor for Nadim Sawalha at Dubai.Captain Abu Raed marks the first feature from Jordan to be exported internationally.Fortissimo will give ...
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Spanish producers and distributors forming coalition to tackle piracy
Leading Spanish producer associations FAPAE and Egeda are forming a coalition with the local anti-piracy organisation, FAP (supported bythe Motion Picture Association), the Federation of Spanish distributors (Fedecine), the music producers association Promusicae and representatives from the publishing sector to help build relations with internet service providers and clamp down ...
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Italy loses 254 cinemas since 2003 as multiplexes grow
The Italian exhibitor association Anec has said that 254 cinemas have closed in Italy since 2003, shutting down 306 screens.The Northern Lombard region sustained the most losses at 58 screens. Emiglia-Romagna and Tuscany followed.Traditional downtown cinemas in Florence, Milan, Rome, Naples and Bologna sustained the most closures, but Anec says ...
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Malaysia's Flower In The Pocketwins Fribourg Grand Prix
Malaysian director Liew Seng Tat's feature debut Flower In The Pocket was awarded the Grand Prix - the Regard d'Or - at this year's Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF), the first edition under the new artistic director Eduoard Waintrop.The story about two small boys growing up without their mother and ...
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Cartoon Tributes go to French projects including Persepolis
France was the big winner of this year's Cartoon Movie Tributes awarded to 'companies or personalities that have had a positive or dynamic influence on the European animation feature film industry' which were presented at the Cartoon Movie market in Babelsberg this afternoon.The Best European Director of the Year award ...
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Trust, Bac Films to handle international sales on Cartoon Movie projects
Trust Film Sales and Bac Films are to handle international sales on two projects pitched at this week's Cartoon Movie co-production market in Babelsberg.Trust will be handling international distribution for Valeria Edwina Saunders' Prima Ballerina which is being produced by her company Rambling Rose Animation Studio with Denmark's Zentropa, Hungarian ...
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Pan-European digital cinema pilot project to launch in autumn
France's MK2, Hungary's Szimpla Film, Denmark's Nordisk Film and Belgium's Kinepolis Group are supporting a European 'Cinema on demand' film digitisation project entitled Europe's Finest which is being launched this autumn by Cologne-based reelport to digitise and distribute 30-40 European films.The project, which has been supported by the European Union's ...
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Fifth Sofia Meetingsselects 22 second features for fifth edition
New feature films by Serbia's Dusan Milic, Estonia's Ilmar Raag and Germany's Marc Meyer are among 22 projects being presented at the fifth edition of the Sofia Meetings pitching forum for second feature films from March 13-16.For the first time this year, three of the projects selected for pitching at ...
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Managing director Stephan Schesch takes over Animation X
Managing director Stephan Schesch has taken over control of the Berlin-based production house Animation X Gesellschaft zur Produktion von Animationsfilmen following the exit of the shareholders X-Filme creative pool and David Groenewold's Promedium from the joint venture.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com on the eve of this year's Cartoon Movie co-production market ...
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Eurimages backs new projects from Danis Tanovic, Marco Bellocchio
The Council of Europe's Eurimages co-production fund has backed 10 new features for a total of $5.4m (Euros 3.57m).The supported projects are:3 Sezony V Pekle by Tomas Masin (Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia) EEP by Rita Horst (Netherlands, Belgium) Europolis, The Town of the Delta by Kostadin Bonev (Bulgaria, Austria) Forgotten ...
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French films, led by Ch'Tis, lead the international box office
French films accounted for nearly a quarter of the international top 40 revenue this weekend, spearheaded by a whopping $32.5m opening from top film Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis.The top 40 films generated $188.5m from 45,384 screens for the period of February 29-March 2. For the full international chart, compiled by ...
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Wilco Wolfers confirmed as managing director of A-Film
Confirming recent reports in Screen, Wilco Wolfers has been appointed managing director of Netherlands-based A-Film Distribution.He succeeds Pim Hermeling, whose departure was announced last week when his shares were transferred to investment company W2Media.Wolfers is currently managing director of Warner Bros Netherlands and will take up the new post as ...
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Mika Kaurismaki to shoot new Finnish feature in July
Finnish director-producer Mika Kaurismaki will return to local filmmaking to shoot The House of Branching Love (Haarautuvan rakkauden talo), his first feature in Finnish since Zombie and the Ghost Train in 1991.Credited with such films as Helsinki Napoli All Night Long, Rosso, The Clan and The Worthless, Kaurismaki - who ...
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Sarajevo selects five low-budget short projects for City of Film
Sarajevo Film Festival's Talent Campus project Sarajevo City of Film has selected five low-budget short film projects for the new initiative from the Bosnian Government and its Ministry of Culture and Sports. Participants of the first Talent Campus, held during the 13th edition of the festival in August 2007, applied ...
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EFP backs eight European projects in Guadalajara
European Film Promotion's Film Sales Support initiative is backing a range of European films at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in March for the second year.Eight European films are being supported for promotional campaigns via their sales agents at the festival (March 7-14).The films and their sales companies are: Stephan ...
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Dragon Hunters opens 10th Cartoon Movie market in Babelsberg
This year's Cartoon Movie co-production forum for European animation feature films will open in Potsdam on Wednesday evening March 5 with an avant-premiere screening of Dragon Hunters.The film's producers Futurikon, Trixter, LuxAnimation and Mac Guff Ligne are also among the nominees for this year's Cartoon Movie Tributes which are awarded ...
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Wolfson doesn't plan dramatic changes at Rotterdam festival
Rutger Wolfson, who was today confirmed as general director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, says he doesn't plan sweeping changes for the event, now entering its 38th year.'I don't think there will be dramatic changes,' he told ScreenDaily.com. 'The reputation for Rotterdam is that it's innovative and that's one ...
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Rutger Wolfson appointed general director at Rotterdam for four years
The Board of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has appointed Rutger Wolfson to a four-year term as general director of the festival. The post gives him final responsibility for the artistic and business matters of the festival, the CineMart and the Hubert Bals Fund.Wolfson will resign as director of ...