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TrustNordisk takes on US remake Love at First Hiccup
TrustNordisk will handle international distribution of Love at First Hiccup, the US remake of Danish box-office franchise success, Anya & Victor. Danish sales agency, TrustNordisk, will handle international distribution of Love at First Hiccup, an American $2.4 million re-make of Danish romantic comedy Anya & Victor.'A world in crisis needs ...
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Medusa to remake Welcome to the Sticks for Italy
Rome-Italian powerhouse Medusa has bought the remake rights for France's run-away box office success Welcome to the Sticks (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis) a Medusa spokesperson confirmed to Screen Daily.The film will be in development and production in 2009 for a potential 2010 release. Everything about the Italian re-make has yet ...
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The Man Who Loves and Eight/Huit open International Rome Film Festival
Actor Al Pacino provides star presence for the festivities of the International Rome Film Festival, which kicks off its third edition today, October 22, in the Italian capital.Pacino will receive the Gold Marco Aurelio career honours and appear at a sold out panel in front of the local cinema-going community ...
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Strong European representation under EFP's AFM umbrella
28 European sales agents and production companies from 13 countries have registered at European Film Promotion's (EFP) umbrella office in Santa Monica's Loews Hotel for the forthcoming AFM.The companies working out of the European Film Promotion office will include: the UK production houses Zephyr Films, Foundation Films and Reach Up ...
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Czech documentary Rene wins Prix ARTE
The European Film Academy has announced that Rene, by Czech director Helena Trestikova, will receive the 2008 Prix ARTE for documentary film.The recipient of the award is chosen by an independent jury, which this year was made up of Danish producer Karoline Leth, Moscow Film Festival programme director Kirsi Tykkyläinen, ...
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Protti renamed president ofItaly's cinema body with reform agenda
Paolo Protti has been reappointed president of Italy's exhibitor organisation ANEC or the National Association of Cinema Exhibitors for a second three-year term.Protti, who oversees the concerns of the nation's some 3,000 screens, says his aims include restructuring ANEC by merging ANEM (National Association of Multiplex Exhibitors) into ANEC. FICE ...
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Four Nights With Anna is best film at European Cinema Festival
Polish master Jerzy Skolimowski's Polish-French co-production Four Nights With Anna, has won the best film award and $8,000 (Euros 6,000) at the 21st Panorama of European Cinema Festival in Athens.The purse, intended to back the local release of the film, was offered by festival organizer Athens daily, Eleftherotypia.Skolimowski's film received ...
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Yuri's Day wins Grand Prix at Warsaw Film Festival
Russian-German co-production Yuri's Day won top honours at the 24th Warsaw Film Festival.Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz presented the Warsaw Grand Prix at the festival's closing ceremony on October 18. Yuri's Day tells the story of a self-centred opera singer whose son disappears when she takes him to visit her provincial ...
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Steve Jacobs' Disgrace wins $200,000 Black Pearl prize at Abu Dhabi
Steve Jacobs' Disgrace has picked up the $200,000 Black Pearl prize for best narrative film at the Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) in Abu Dhabi.The adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's award-winning novel offers a disturbing insight into the soul of modern South Africa. Click here for review.The $150,000 best documentary ...
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James Newton Howard named Film Composer of the Year at Ghent
James Newton Howard has been names film composer of the year at the World Soundtrack Awards at the 35th Ghent International Film Festival. The prize came for work including Charlie Wilson's War, Michael Clayton and I Am Legend.The best original score honour went to Dario Marianelli for Atonement, while Marc ...
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Interview: Star Media founder Vlad Ryashin
In the latest of her interviews with senior figures in the Russian film industry, Olia Hercules talks to Vlad Ryashin, founder of the Star Media film and TV company and former-director of the largest Ukrainian TV channel, Inter.ScreenDaily: Why did Star-Media, a Russian media company open an office in the ...
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Strong Austrian presence as 2008 Viennale opens
Austrian filmmakers will have an unprecedented presence at this year's Viennale (Vienna International Film Festival).The festival opens today (October 17) with the Golden Palm winner The Class (Entre Les Murs).More than 20 local feature-length and short films have been programmed by festival director Hans Hurch including the world premieres of ...
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Amsterdam Filmmuseum and Thought Equity Motion in $40m project
The Amsterdam Filmmuseum has entered into a partnership with US company, Thought Equity Motion.The move is part of the Netherlands' hugely ambitious 'Images For The Future' project to digitise the country's entire film, radio and TV holdings. The Filmmuseum has around $40m (Euros 30 m) to spend on its digitisation ...
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Pretty Pictures acquires Richard Eyre's The Other Man for France
Richard Eyre's The Other Man has been acquired for France by Pretty Pictures.The deal was concluded between James Velaise of French distribution company Pretty Pictures and Natalie Brenner of Ealing Studios.The Other Man has created good festival buzz, having premiered at Toronto and opened the San Sebastian Film Festival. It ...
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Snow, Rumba and Synecdoche, New York, in Zagreb competition
The Zagreb Film Festival has announced the films in competition for its sixth edition.Entries featured in competition are first or second films by their directors, and fall into three sections: features, documentaries and shorts. The festival runs from October 19-25.Films already receiving attention from the feature competition programme include Charlie ...
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Troell's Everlasting Moments opens Bergen International Film Festival
Swedish Oscar submission opens 9th edition of Bergen festival with 14 films in competition and 130 films screened over seven days. The 9th Bergen International Film Festival opens today (October 15) with Swedish director Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons Eviga Ögonblick).The festival is Norway's largest showcase and runs till ...
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Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen, begins shooting in Germany
Shooting began today (October 15) in Hamburg on Soul Kitchen, Fatih Akin's first feature film since his European Film Award 2007 winning The Edge Of Heaven. The Match Factory will be handling international sales.The film tells the story of beleaguered bar owner Zinos' attempts to keep his restaurant in business. ...
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European promotion network expands to 30 countries
The European-wide network European Film Promotion (EFP) is expanding to 30 countries, with the arrival of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre and the Film Centre Serbia (FCS) as the latest members.The Hamburg-based network of film promotion and export organisations now consists of 29 members from 30 countries across Europe.Welcoming the latest ...
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Fire shuts EuropaCorp's From Paris With Love
A fire on the set of From Paris With Love, a new EuropaCorp production starring John Travolta, has caused the film to shut down. On Sunday night, in the Montfermeil suburb of Paris, several stunt cars were set ablaze and burned through the night in what is being investigated as ...
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Norway has record local opening with Cold Prey II
Mats Stenberg's Cold Prey II (Fritt vilt II) has set an all-time Norwegian record for a local film with 101,564 admissions during its opening weekend.Previously the record for Norwegian opening admissions was Eva Isaksen's Mother's Elling (Mors Elling) which sold 70,952 tickets.'We couldn't even have dreamt of such a figure,' ...