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Italy sees growth in production but lags behind European admissions
Italy is seeing positive growth in terms of production, budgets and box office trends, yet it still lags behind the other major European territories, particularly in terms of ticket sales. That was the news as Cinecitta Holding presented new research revealing the state of the Italian film market at the ...
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EFA FIPRESCI Award goes to Alain Resnais' Private Fears
The International federation of film critics, FIPRESCI, will give this year's European Film Academy Critics' Award to Alain Resnais' Private Fears In Public Places (Coeurs). FIPRESCI said that Resnais 'treats the characters the way an affectionate puppeteer would treat his creatures. He contemplates their comings and goings with the benevolence ...
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Christopher Doyle to wrap Polish thriller in December
Australian filmmaker Christopher Doyle is scheduled to wrap shooting Dec 10 on Polish-language political thriller Warsaw Dark. The story is based on the 2001 murder, still unresolved, of Jacek Debski, Polish minister of sport and tourism. Doyle began filming Nov 12 on location in Warsaw with a Polish crew of ...
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Hungary's Korda and Colorfront strike strategic partnership
Hungary's Korda Studios and new Budapest-based post-production company Colorfront have signed a partnership agreement to offer Colorfront services to productions based at Korda.Colorfront will have satellite offices and post facilities based at Korda and the companies will be connected by a high-speed fiber-optic network, enabling work such as color-graded digital ...
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Austria's Bohrer takes top post at new European Film Commissions Network
The newly established European Film Commissions Network (EuFCN) appointed Arie Bohrer of Location Austria and the Austrian Film Commission as its first board president Nov 23 in Prague. Delegates from the 55 member commissions representing 18 European countries also appointed Patrick Lamassoure of Film France as general secretary of the ...
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Costa-Gavras to serve as Berlinale jury president
The Greek-French director Costa-Gavras has been named as president of the International Jury for February's Berlin International Film Festival.Costa-Gavras has often seen his films shown at the Berlinale in past years: Music Box, with Armin Mueller-Stahl and Jessica Lange, received the Golden Bear at the 1990 festival, while La Petite ...
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Beta takes on sales for Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo
Beta Film will handle world sales for director Paolo Sorrentino's much awaited film The Divo (Il Divo), Andrea Occhipinti of Italy's Lucky Red confirmed. Sorrentino's film is inspired by the life of Giulio Andreotti, who served as Italian Prime Minister seven times whose name is a symbol for Italian ...
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China's Red Awn wins Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki
Shangjun Cai's Red Awn (Hongse Kangbaiyin) won the Golden Alexander award in the international section of the Thessaloniki Film Festival. (Click here to see review)The best film award is accompanied with a prize of $55,000 (Euros 37,000).The $33,000 (Euros 22,000) Silver Alexander award went to Colombian Spiros Stathoulopoulos' PVC-1.Best director ...
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4 Months wins Stockholm's Bronze Horse
Cristian Mungiu's Palme D'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days has added Stockholm's Bronze Horse to itsimpressive list of honours.The Stockholm International Film Festival jury, led by Tom Kalin praised theRomanian film, which centres on an illegal abortion during the oppressive Ceaucescu dictatorship,for its 'honesty and devastating humanity'Anamaria Marinca's ...
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Central Partnership sells Revenge, Wolfhound to Weinstein Company
Russian sales company Central Partnership has struck a number of deals in the wake of the American Film Market earlier this month. Titles that have lured buyers include thrillers Revenge and fantasy epic Wolfhound, already a substantial box-office hit in Russia. Revenge has been sold to North America/UK/Australia/New Zealand and ...
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Baltic Event selects 12 projects for Tallinn co-production market
Films from Croatia, Romania, Estonia and Armenia are among a dozen projects selected from a record 37 submissions for the Baltic Event's third co-production market which will be held in the Estonian capital of Tallinn from Dec 3-4. This year's lineup features: Barabbas, dir: Aleksei Muradov (Russia), a drama set ...
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Italy's Mediaset launches new free cinema channel
Italy's Mediaset, the nation's most powerful private network owned by Silvio Berlusconi, is launching Iris: a new, free, digital terrestrial channel to be devoted tofilms and cultural programming.The new channel will go on air November 30 will be under the direction of Miriam Pisani who acted previously as vice director ...
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Rotterdam reveals first competitors from Japan, Malaysia,Thailand
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 23-Feb 3) has selected the first three films for its VPRO Tiger Awards Competition. They are genre-bending autobiographical family project Waltz In Starlight by Shingo Wakagi (Japan); Pusan award winner Flower In The Pocket by Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia) about two motherless brothers; and ...
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Medusa makes strides with Bahamas and Come Tu Mi Vuoi
Italian distributor Medusa Film made a solid imprint on the international top 40 this weekend with two films - Matrimonio Alle Bahamas and Come Tu Mi Vuoi - generating more than $7m and accounting for 5.2% of the chart's total revenue. For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, ...
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MEDIA increases EFP funding to $1.73m for 2008
The EU's MEDIA Programme has increased its funding for multi-country promotional group European Film Promotion (EFP). MEDIA will contribute $813,810 (Euros 550,000) for EFP activities in Europe and $924,304 (Euros 624,000) for activities outside of Europe. The total of $1.73m (Euros 1.17m) is greater than 2007's $1.6m (Euros 1.08m). The ...
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Sony Classics to distribute Menzel's King Of England in North America
Sony Pictures Classics will distribute Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England in North America. The deal was signed at AFM, according to the film's Czech producer AQS. The film is the Czech Republic's submission for foreign-language Oscar consideration. 'We are very proud to have as our American distributors ...
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Corsan starts Canadian shoot for Breuls' directorial debut
Director Paul Breuls has started production on The Hessen Affair, a WWII-era thriller starring Billy Zane, Lyne Renee, Michael Bowen and Noah Segan.Corsan, the Belgian company Breuls runs, is producing with Phyllis Laing's Buffalo Gal Pictures co-producing. Corsan is also handling international sales.Nicholas Meyer and Ronald Roose wrote the screenplay, ...
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Berlin's WCF backs films from Armenia, Indonesia, Iran and Israel
Four film projects from Armenia, Indonesia, Iran and Israel have been backed by the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF) with a total of $325,680 (Euros 220,000) at its latest funding session chaired by festival director Dieter Kosslick. The four were selected from 108 submissions from 40 countries.The selected projects include ...
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Swedish Film Institute plans to double specific grants
In a response to 'the rapid technological development, new audience patterns, and the concentration of power in the cinema market,' the Swedish Film Institute has devised a new plan of action to support the promotion and distribution of quality films in the newlandscape. The recent bankruptcies of quality film ...
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Balkan Fund selects four projects for $59,000 funding
The Balkan Fund, a script development initiative created in November 2002 by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, has handed out its latest grants to four new projects. The projects that received $14,789 (Euros 10,000) each are: Mother from writer/director Juraj Lertic and producer Dana Budisavljevic (Croatia) Rio from writers Nicolas ...