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After strike, Hellstedt's Land Under Water gets Finnish backing
The Finnish Film Foundation has backed the first local feature film project after the producers' strike, chipping in $739,000 (Euros 500,000) production funding for Finnish director Lenka Hellstedt's Land Under Water (Maata meren alla). Current box-office figures suggest the importance of domestic product in the cinemas: last weekend, three Finnish ...
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Labadie to kick start new distribution company with Le Cahier
After being unexpectedly ousted last month from Bac Films, a company he founded 21 years ago, Jean Labadie is back with a new independent distribution company. Le Pacte will release its first film in February - Hana Makhmalbaf's Le Cahier - and carry on through the year with a total ...
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Beart and Lieifers to host 20th EFAs on Dec 1
The 20th European Film Awards, to be held Dec 1 in Berlin, will be hosted by French actress Emmanuelle Beart and German actor Jan Josef Liefers. EFA president Wim Wenders will deliver opening remarks to the 1,400 guests at Berlin 's Arena. Other guests will include Jeanne Moreau and Liv ...
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Angelopoulos dusts off first English film with Willem Dafoe
Theo Angelopoulos starts shooting today in the northern Russian city of Nizni Novgorod his new film, The Dust of Time, the second part of the trilogy undertaken three years ago with The Weeping Meadow. The impressive international cast includes Irene Jacob taking the role as Eleni, played in The Weeping ...
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NonStop sells Gnomes and Trolls to Turkey and China
NonStop Sales has sold further territories on its animated family feature Gnomes and Trolls. The project has gone to China (HGC Entertainment) and Turkey (A Arti). NonStop previously did a deal for CIS (Ukranian Rights Management). White Shark's 3D animated project is in production now, with executive producers Joel Cohen ...
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AAM strikes virtual print fee deal for entire CGR chain in France
Arts Alliance Media has signed a digital cinema virtual print fee agreement for 400 screens in France. The deal with Circuit George Raymond (CGR), one of France's largest chains, is an exclusive deal for AAM to deploy digital distribution services on all of the chain's 400 screens throughout France. The ...
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Gaumont eyes acquisition of animation house Alphanim
French major Gaumont is currently negotiating to acquire French animation house Alphanim, the company said in a statement. Alphanim was founded by Christian Davin in 1997 and boasts more than 700 hours of programming. Its catalog notably includes series Galactik Football, Robot Boy and Delta State. In 2007, Alphanim expects ...
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Clooney to come to Dubai for Michael Clayton festival opener
The Dubai International Film Festival will open this year with Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton starring George Clooney. Clooney will attend the gala opening, which marks the film's Middle East premiere. 'Mr. Clooney's return to the region means we have come full circle, from Dubai as a backdrop for the film ...
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Costa Gavras returns to Greece for 2008 shoot of Eden Is West
Forty years after the Oscar-winning Z, the poignant account of the political turmoil in Greece during the 1960s, Costa Gavras is set to return to his native country to direct his next film structured as a French-Greek co-production. The project was announced today at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival where ...
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Pathe's hot AFM sellers include The Duchess and Eden Lake
In addition to the recently announced sales for Walter Salles' Linha De Passe, Pathe International has announced a slew of further sales done at the recent AFM. Saul Dibb's The Duchess, which Pathe launched in Toronto, sold to Benelux (Cineart), Poland (Best Film), Greece and the Balkans (Audiovisuals), Portugal (Lusomundo), ...
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Switzerland to lead European Audiovisual Observatory in 2008
The European Audiovisual Observatory has announced that Switzerland will hold the group's presidency in 2008.The Strasbourg-based Observatory, which is part of the Council of Europe, elected Switzerland its president as the executive council on Nov 9.The country is represented on the executive council by Frederic Riehl, deputy director of the ...
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After record 2007, Babelsberg eyes more European projects in 2008
The looming threat of Hollywood actors and directors going on strike from mid-2008 has prompted Germany's Babelsberg Studios to concentrate more on enticing European and German feature film projects to shoot on its sound stages next year. Speaking on Berlin's InfoRadio on Thursday afternoon, Studio Babelsberg's President and CEO Carl ...
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Telepool takes on teamWorx's Mogadishu Welcome
Germany-based sales company Telepool has added Mogadishu Welcome to its sales slate.The deal was done with teamWorx Television & Film before the project started principal photography in Casablanca.Roland Suso Richter will direct the Degeto Film/SWR 90-minute feature, intended for TV. Telepool will handle world sales excluding the co-production territories, France ...
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Estonia's Black Nights unveils full competition line-up
The Black Nights Film Festival has unveiled the program for its eleventh edition, to be held Nov 15-Dec 9 in Tallinn, Estonia.This year's event features 205 films from more than 60 countries. Among the 11 titles in the Estonian Feature Film Competition are 186 Kilometers, from Andres Maimik and Autumn ...
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Schuermann steps down as CEO of Intermedia USA
Martin Schuermann has now stepped from his post as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Los Angeles-based Intermedia Film Equities USA to return to 'hands-on' production. In July, Schuermann had cited 'personal reasons' for leaving his other post as CEO of the IM Internationalmedia Group which he had held ...
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Stockholm kicks off tonight with Josef Fares' Leo
As the world première of Swedish director Josef Fares' Leo opens the 18th Stockholm International Film Festival tonight - the first time a Swedish feature launches the fest - local audiences are facing an 11-day programme of more than 170 features, adding seminars, lectures, Face2Face discussions and workshops, all dedicated ...
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Eros' Om Shanti Om tops Ratatouille in international chart
Indian films came up blazing in this weekend's international top 40 with two films - Om Shanti Om and Saawariya - collectively taking $31.5m and accounting for more than 20% of the chart's total revenue. For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.Eros International's Om Shanti Om ...
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Goteborg Fund selects six projects from developing countries
The Goteborg International Film Festival Fund has named the latest projects it is backing, with cooperation from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA. The fund, set up in 1998, supports film-makers working in countries in transition. The following six projects were selected from around 100 applications to receive development ...
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Norway's Kill Buljo sells to 26 territories for Imagination Worldwide
Norwegian directors Tommy Wirkola and Stig Frode Henriksen's $163,700 (Eu112,600) project Kill Buljo-The Movie has sold to 26 territories following the AFM, including the US, the UK, Australia (The Weinstein Company). The US-based sales agent Imagination Worldwide has also licensed the film to Brazil (Europa Filmes), Japan (New Select), Germany ...
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VIP fund's former CEO sentenced to six years in prison
Andreas Schmid, the former CEO of the German private media fund VIP Medienfonds, was sentenced to six years imprisonment for tax evasion by a Munich court on Tuesday morning (Nov 13). VIP's managing director Andreas Grosch, who had suddenly exited his post from the beleaguered fund in June 2006, was ...