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Dreamachine handles Broomfield's improvised Iraqi war drama
Fledgling financing and sales house Dreamachine has acquired international rights to Nick Broomfield's drama Battle For Haditha, currently shooting in Jordan.The London, Paris and Toronto-based venture,created through the merger of HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams last month, will commence pre-sales in Cannes.Battle For Haditha re-enacts the aftermath of an Iraqi ...
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Cannes Classics to include Wajda's presentation of Kanal
The Cannes Film Festival today announced its program for the Cannes Classics sidebar which aids in the rediscovery of great works via restored prints and theatrical or DVD releases.This year, the section is presented under the patronage of Andrzej Wajda who will introduce a restored copy of Kanal, winner of ...
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Upbeat Babelsberg steps up production plans
Germany's Babelsberg Studios aims to intensify its involvement as a co-producer on national, European and international productions. On the publication of its annual report for 2006, the publicly-listed Studio Babelsberg AG announced that it would 'invest in promising film productions and thereby use the potential of additional sources of revenue ...
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Spider-Man 3 makes record-breaking opening
Spider-Man 3 grossed a sensational estimated $29.15m in its first day in 16 international territories on May 1, eclipsing the opening day results of the first two episodes in the same territories. Ten of the territories (eight Asian, seven European and Egypt) generated record opening or single day marks, ...
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New German sales agent to launch in Cannes with So Long, My Heart
New German sales agent to launch in Cannes with So Long, My Heart!The Munich-based Avalon Entertainment Group has launched a sales arm that will be attending the Cannes Market with its first acquisition, So Long, My Heart! (Wir Werden Uns Wiederseh'n), the second feature by the directorial duo of Stefan ...
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Italian exhibitors say recent report 'gives wrong idea of market'
The Italian exhibitors body (Anec) has a bone to pick with Italy's National Statistical Institute (Istat) over the conclusions of a recent report analyzing 'cultural consumer trends' that indicates the nation's cinema-going public is diminishing.The report, released late last week, looked at all forms of entertainment from television to museums ...
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Producer Ahrenberg plans US remake of Sophie's World
Translated into 54 languages, and selling 35 million copies worldwide,Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder's novel, Sophie's World, which wasfilmed to limited success by Norwegian director Erik Gustavson in 1999,will now become a bigger-budget English-language project.Swedish producer Staffan Ahrenberg, who worked on Phillip Noyce's TheQuiet American (2002) and executive-produced Zandalee and Johnny ...
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German regional fund backs 18 projects with $6.8m
The fifth outing of The Wild Soccer Bunch franchise, an adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks and a TV remake of the classic The Bridge are among 18 projects awarded a total of $6.8m (Euros 5m) by the Munich-based regional fund FFF Bayern in its latest round of funding. The ...
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Sweden's Jonsson starts shoot for debut feature King Of Ping-Pong
After 14 shorts and several awards, Swedish director Jens Jonsson has started principal photography for his first feature, King of Ping-Pong, in Norbotten,northern Sweden.Scripted by Jonsson with Hans Gunnarsson, the story is about the relationshipbetween an obese table tennis champion and his younger brother. Jan Blomgren is producing for Sweden's ...
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No Mercy For The Rude takes audience prize at Udine
Udine's Far East Film Festival wrapped its ninth edition Saturdayas organizers lauded the growth and appeal of a once niche festivalthat has edged its way to become Europe's most complete sampling ofAsian cinema.The non-competitive festival announced audience award -winnersSaturday night. South Korean noir title No Mercy For The Rude directedby ...
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Debut feature wins Golden Kingfisher in Plzen
Coming-of-age drama Pusinky (Dolls) won the grand prize at the 20th Film Festival Finale Plzen on Saturday. Karin Babinska's debut feature, Dolls is a coming-of-age story about three young women on a road-trip holiday. The film is produced by Cineart TV Prague. International sales are being handled by Telexport Prague. ...
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TF1 International unveils Cannes slate
TF1 International has unveiled its slate for the upcoming Cannes Film Market. Among the official selections, TF1 is handling Directors Fortnight closer Mutum by Sandra Kogut.The company has also announced three new films.- Ca$h, directed by Babylon A.D. screenwriter Eric Besnard, stars Jean Reno, Jean Dujardin and ...
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TFI International acquires Tavernier's In The Electric Mist
TFI International has acquired In The Electric Mist, the new English-language film from director Bertrand Tavernier.TFM Distrbution will release Mist in France in 2008. TF1 is selling world rights outside the US and English-speaking Canada where Ithaca will handle the film.The pedigree cast includes Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter ...
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Fortissimo on board for Bela Tarr's Cannes title The Man From London
Fortissimo Films has taken on worldwide rights outside of Germany, France and Hungary to Bela Tarr's The Man From London, from TT Filmmuhely, 13 Production, Black Forest Films, Von Vietinghoff and Cinema Soleil.The film will premiere in Competition in Cannes. It marks Tarr's first feature in seven years, after 2000's ...
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DFFF-backed Flame & Citron moves to Babelsberg Studios
Shooting begins today on the lot of the Babelsberg Studios for Ole Christian Madsen's thriller Flame & Citron (Flammen und Citronen), which has become the first international co-production to receive support from the newly established German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).The story about two gangsters who became the most wanted men ...
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Ossard to produce Chomet's first live-action feature
French producer Claudie Ossard plans to work with animator Sylvain Chomet (Belleville Rendez-Vous) on Chomet's first full-length live action feature.The pair previously collaborated on one of the segments of portmanteau project Paris je t'aime. Ossard, producer of past hits including Amelie and Delicatessen, spoke about the new project at a ...
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Newspaper veteran named new CEO of Danish Film Institute
The Danish Film Institute has announced that Henrik Bo Nielsen will take over as the new CEO of the instutute, as Henning Camre steps down from the post in June.Camre had strengthened the Danish industry's profile internationally, as well as backing local hits, in his decade at the job.Nielsen previously ...
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Israeli fund support for Eyal Sivan documentary sparks row
A storm has erupted in Israel after an important fund announced its intention to back a documentary by Eyal Sivan, a fierce opponent of the country's policies.The Paris-based Israeli film-maker's documentary Jaffa is to receive support from the Cinema Project, a division of Tel Aviv's Joshua Rabinovitch Cultural Fund.But the ...
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Neil Marshall shooting Rogue's Doomsday in Cape Town and Scotland
Neil Marshall, writer/director of The Descent and Dog Soldiers, has started shooting in Cape Town for Doomsday for Rogue Pictures. The action thriller is about a lethal virus that hits a major country. Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddiq and Adrian Lester star.Crystal Sky Pictures' Steven Paul and Benedict Carver are producing ...
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Kinowelt increases year-on-year annual profits and revenues by more than a third
Germany's Kinowelt Group has increased its year-on-year annual profits and revenues by more than a third as business boomed in all of its divisions in 2006. A year ago, managing director Bertil le Claire forecast a 21% growth in turnover to $115m (Euros 95m) for 2006, but the Leipzig-based company ...