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Stars sign up for Future Films' Parasomnia
Future Films signs Karolina Kurkova and Kevin McKidd to ParasomniaBritish star Kevin McKidd (The Last Legion, Trainspotting) and Victoria's Secret model Karolina Kurkova have signed as the leads in Future Films' and MilCoz Films' psychological horror Parasomnia.Written and directed by Modigliani director Mick Davis, Parasomnia tells the story of a ...
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Wide Pictures takes Spanish rights for Two Lovers
New Spanish indie outfit Wide Pictures has taken rights for Spain to James Gray's competition title Two Lovers, but will pass responsibility for distributing the film in Spain to Filmax. The film is being sold by Wild Bunch.Filmax announced yesterday that it has signed a deal with Wide Pictures to ...
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Sony picks up Malice In Wonderland for the UK
Spain's 6Sales has secured leading territories for Simon Fellows' Malice In Wonderland, which is set to go into production with Danny Dyer (Severance) and Mischa Barton in the lead roles.Marina Fuentes of 6Sales has sold the film to Sony UK for the United Kingdom, Quality for all of Latin America, ...
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BBC Films to give UK producers 30% of its actual equity recoupment
BBC Films announced today that it will create a corridor for UK producers to access 30% of the actual equity recoupment that BBC Films receives on a project.The move comes as part of some key changes to the deal terms offered to UK film producers, and has been warmly welcomed ...
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NewsSan Sebastian to honour Japanese film noir, Monicelli
Preparations for this year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18 - 27) got underway as organisers revealed two retrospectives on the works of Italian maestro Mario Monicelli and a dedication to the Japanese film noir genre.
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Filmax International acquires international rights to Invitation Only
Spanish outfit Filmax International has acquired the international sales rights excluding Asia, Germany and Poland and the distribution rights for Spain for the Asian horror production Invitation Only directed by Kevin Ko.Filmax International will present a promo of the film, which is currently in post production, at Cannes and will ...
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Spanish piracy- gearing up for a fight
Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Belarus ... and Spain. Spain' How does a western European country with such a long-established tradition of cinema-going and a rich history of film-making find itself on a watch list of the worst offenders for intellectual property theft, alongside states with virtually no film industries of their own ...
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BFI to unveil two new Mediatheques in the UK
Celebrating the one-year anniversary of its London launch at the new BFI Southbank, the British Film Institute has revealed that it plans to open two new UK mediatheques by December 2008.The first will be at QUAD, Derby's new $20m (£10m) centre for art and film, and the second in Cambridge ...
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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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Video-on-demand - Territory snapshot: Spain - Independent producers search for VoD play
With the leading VoD portals in Spain such as Imagenio and Orange TV striking deals with the US studios to show all their major projects, the smaller Spanish indie films are being squeezed out. But now local producers and distributors are fighting back with their own internet VoD portals.One of ...
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Canada's Strategic Partners market to spotlight South America
Filmmakers and financiers from Brazil, Argentina and Mexico will join international delegates at this year's Strategic Partners Co-Production market in Halifax, Nova Scotia (September 12-14).Run in conjunction with the Atlantic Film Festival, this three-day concentrated market has a strong core attendance from Canada, the US and the UK, as well ...
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Jaime Rosales' Solitary Fragments to get Spanish re-release
Spanish director Jaime Rosales' powerful family drama Solitary Fragments will be re-released in cinemas across Spain today following its best picture and best director awards at last week's Goyas. The film's first theatrical release was in June 2007 when it achieved only 41,000 admissions, but Wanda Films is confident the ...
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Alberto San Juan to star in David Planell's adoption drama La Verguenza
Spanish screenwriter David Planell, a nominee at last week's Goya Awards for Siete Mesas De Billar Frances, will start shooting his first feature as director, La Verguenza, from next week in Madrid.Spain's Avalon Productions is producing the drama. The cast features Alberto San Juan, fresh off the back of his ...
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Spanish director Jaime Rosales takes top honours at Goyas
Jaime Rosales pulled off the surprise of Spain's 23rd Goya awards in Madrid by winning best director and best film for Solitary Fragments (La Solidad).Until those awards were announced, the evening had been dominated by Juan Antonio Bayona's hugely-popular horror The Orphanage and Emilio Martinez-Lazaro's Las 13 Rosas.Bayona's debut feature ...
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Spain's Imagina launches film sales division under Setuain
Spain's leading television distributor Imagina has moved into film sales, handling international rights on films produced by its associated companies, as well as pick ups from other independent production companies.Beatriz Setuain has taken the role as head of the new film distribution division, effective yesterday. She previously worked as an ...
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2008 Preview - Hitting the high notes
The reverberations of the US writers' strike are being felt around the world as a trio of international shoots - Sony's Angels And Demons, Warner Bros' Vietnam drama Pinkville, to be directed by Oliver Stone, and Warner Bros- backed Shantaram, set to star Johnny Depp - have been put on ...
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Spain's Dygra Films reveals five film slate until 2012
Galicia based animation studio Dygra plans a slate of digital 3D projects.Dygra Films will release one film per year starting with Spirit Of The Forest in 2008, a sequel to The Animal Forest (2001), the first European film to be made entirely using CGI, which achieved $2m at the box ...
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Israeli film Foul Gesture claims first international buyers
Israeli revenge drama Foul Gesturehas soldto Barton Films for Spain, Portugal and AndorraTzahi Grad's$0.5m film proved a huge success at the San Sebastian film festival and has been a hit with critics.'We don't have a sales agent attached to the film yet, but [Bilbao based] Barton films have bought the ...
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Warner Bros in Spain to develop and co-produce El Deseo films
Pedro and Agustin Almodovar's El Deseo has further strengthened its partnership with Warner Bros International in Spain by agreeing to develop and co-produce film projects with the studio, including El Patio De Mi Carcel, currently shooting in Madrid.Warner Bros already distribute El Deseo's films in Spain.'Since we are particularly close ...
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Joy Division to open Sheffield Doc/Fest
The 2007 Sheffield Doc/Fest (Nov 7 - 11) is to open with the European premiere of Grant Gee's Joy Division, a documentary about the legendary British post-punk group. The film made its world premiere at Toronto earler this month. Other titles at the event include A Very British Gangster, To ...