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    Beta Cinema closes about 40 deals at Cannes market

    2008-05-27T17:55:00Z

    Munich-based sales agent Beta Cinema has concluded around 40 deals at this year's Cannes market, including US pickups for the family entertainment film The Three Investigators And The Secret Of Skeleton Island, Veit Helmer's quirky comedy Absurdistan and Jo Baier's TV drama Stauffenberg. For more Cannes sales click hereFlorian Baxmeyer's ...

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    Coproduction Office picks up Delta sales

    2008-05-27T09:24:00Z

    The Coproduction Office has announced further sales on its major titles coming out of the Cannes market.Competition feature Delta by Kornel Mundruczo - which won the FIPRESCI prize, sold to Lumiere and Filmmuseum in Benelux, France's Le Pacte, Look Know! in Switzerland, Silenzio in Spain, Seven Films in Greece, Bulgaria's ...

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    Aida Begic's Snow takes Critics Week Grand Prize

    2008-05-24T08:42:00Z

    Critics Week has crowned Aida Begic's Snow with its Grand Prize.The film is a co-production from Bosnia Herzegovina, Germany, France and Iran and along with the prize also comes with a $8,000 (Euros 5,000) purse given to the director.The ensemble drama about the aftermath of the Balkan war is being ...

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    Elad Keidan's Anthem wins Cinefondation top award

    2008-05-24T08:39:00Z

    The Cannes Cinefondation has awarded Elad Keidan's Anthem with its top prize.The film hails from Israel's Sam Speigel Film & TV School. Each of the contenders for the Cinefondation prize comes from a film school student.This year 17 films from Asia, Europe, North and South America vied in the competition. ...

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    Lanners' Eldorado takes Europa Cinemas Label in Cannes

    2008-05-23T19:12:00Z

    Belgian director Bouli Lanners' Eldorado has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Directors' Fortnight section in Cannes.This marks Europa Cinemas sixth year giving the prize; last year's winner was Anton Corbijn's Control.The jury was comprised of four exhibitors: Christine Beauchemin-Flot (France); Maeve Cooke (Ireland); Mark ...

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    Imagina sells Chef's Special to 20+ territores.

    2008-05-23T19:03:00Z

    Nacho G Velilla's debut feature Chef's Special has been sold by Imagina sales to several key territories, including the US, on the back of its success at the Spanish box office. TLA releasing has taken rights to the family comedy for the US, Canada, UK and Ireland; Cine, Video Y ...

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    Fandango Portobello continues strong Gomorrah sales

    2008-05-23T12:15:00Z

    Fandango Portobello sales has closed deals with eight additional territories for Matteo Garrone's competition screener Gomorrah, which has earned $4.9 million (E 3.1 million) at the Italian box office since its release a week ago.Sales have been confirmed with Spain (Alta Classics), Greece (Film Trade), Israel (Orlando), Russia (Maywin Media), ...

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    Goalpost takes on sales for Al-Daradji's Um-Hussein

    2008-05-23T10:49:00Z

    UK-based sales company Goalpost has come on board for world sales of Mohamed Al-Daradji's Um-Hussein.Al-Daradji previously made Oscar submission Ahlaam and War, Love, God and Madness. The project is being backed by the UK Film Council's Develpment Fund, Fond Sud (CNC), Screen Yorkshire's Development Fund, and the Kurdish and Iraqi ...

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    TrustNordisk racks up sales for projects including Mammoth, Dark Floors

    2008-05-23T10:40:00Z

    At its first Cannes as a joint operation, TrustNordisk has reported multiple sales on its Cannes slate. Deals closed include Dark Floors to Japan (Presidio Corporation) and Germany (MIG), Go With Peace Jamil to Portugal (Pantheon), The Green Butchers to Hungary (Cirko), and Heaven's Heart and Just Another Love Story ...

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    XDC announces studio backing for 8,000 digital screens plan

    2008-05-23T06:43:00Z

    The rollout of digital cinema in Europe has taken a big step forward with news that digital cinema equipment and services company XDC has signed agreements with four studios fordeployment of8,000 digital screens.The non-exclusive agreements with Warner Bros, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox and Disney offer exhibitors across Europe an alternative ...

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    Metrodome takes all UK rights to Danish hit Flame & Citron

    2008-05-22T19:43:00Z

    UK distributor Metrodome continues its Cannes deals by taking all UK rights to Flame & Citron from The Match Factory.Ole Christian Madsen directs the film, based on a true story. Mads Mikkelsen and Thure Lindhart star. The film is one of Denmark's largest productions ever, budgeted at Euros 8m, and ...

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    Council of Europe to host future film policy forum in Krakow

    2008-05-22T11:47:00Z

    The Council of Europe will host its Film Policy Forum, Shaping Policies For the Cinema Of Tomorrow, in Krakow on Sept 11-13.The gathering will include leading film industry figures as well as politicians from across Europe, discussing how public support for film can be adapted in light of globalisation and ...

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    New Yorker gives home to 3 Monkeys

    2008-05-22T07:32:00Z

    New Yorker Films has acquired US rights to Nuri Bilge Ceylan's competition title 3 Monkeys from Pyramide International.Sales have also been completed on the well-reviewed film to the UK (New Wave Cinema), Canada (Mongrel Media), Italy (Bim), Columbia (Cine Columbia), Benelux (Imagine), Greece (Rosebud), Portugal (Atalanta), Italy (BIM), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), ...

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    Benedek Fliegauf's Womb wins Krzysztof Kieslowski award

    2008-05-22T07:22:00Z

    Womb receives Krzysztof Kieslowski award Benedek Fliegauf's cloning project, also in Atelier at Cannes, takes top prize in second annual ScripTeast competition. Benedek Fliegauf's script Womb has received the second annual Krzysztof Kieslowski TVP Award for Best Eastern and Central European Script in Cannes. Special Mention went to ...

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    Zentropa plans new features with Per Fly

    2008-05-22T06:40:21Z

    Zentropa producer Ib Tardini is plotting two new features with Per Fly (the director of The Inheritance and Manslaughter). First off is $4m drama The Woman That Dreamed About A Man (working title.)Reflecting Zentropa's new-found European focus, it will shoot in Berlin, Paris and Warsaw. It tells the story of ...

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    Bavaria Film International sales blossom

    2008-05-22T06:30:00Z

    Bavaria Film International made Cannes sales on Doris Dörrie's Berlinale competition entry, Cherry Blossoms - Hanami was sold to Canada (Mongrel Media), Brazil (Mostra International de Cinema), India (Allience Lumière) and Russia (Maywin Media). Maywin Media also picked up Bavaria's second Berlinale competition entry, Restless by Amos Kollek as ...

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    Hubert Bals future remains uncertain

    2008-05-21T16:59:00Z

    Long-term funding arrangements for International Film Festival Rotterdam's prestigious Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) remain shrouded in doubt. The Fund supports filmmakers from developing countries. It currently has close to $1.9m (Eu1.2m) a year at its disposal. It has backed several films in official selection in Cannes this year.In 2006, the ...

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    WCF to fund restoration of Bergman's private archives

    2008-05-21T13:33:00Z

    The World Cinema Foundation and the Ingmar Bergman Foundation are supporting a joint project to preserve, restore and reveal rare behind-the-scenes footage from Bergman's archive.Martin Scorsese's WCF will fund the restoration, editing, and commentary of more than 14 hours of behind-the-scenes footage for a total of 18 Ingmar Bergman titles. ...

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    Telepool picks up The Volcano

    2008-05-21T06:40:00Z

    Munich-based Telepool has acquired international rights to The Volcano, a joint production from the producers of teamWorx (Nico Hofmann) and RTL. Budgeted at $14m (9m Euros), the two-parter is the second joint project from RTL and teamWorx after Storm Tide, which attracted 11 million TV viewers in early 2006. Uwe ...

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    A-Film on Cannes buying spree

    2008-05-21T06:36:00Z

    A-Film Distribution has been on a Cannes buying binge. The Benelux Distributor, which is in the market again acquiting aggressively, has picked up a host of Cannes titles, including Milk (Gus van Sant, starring Sean Penn), The Other Man (Richard Eyre, starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney), Mammoth (Lukas Moodysson, ...