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NewsLocarno’s Open Doors launches new initiative
Locarno Film Festival’s co-production lab Open Doors is to launch a new initiative entitled Carte Blanche from this August.
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Other Angle takes on Back To Square One
France’s Other Angle has announced the acquisition of Back To Square One, a comedy produced by Alain Goldman.
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NewsFuture of MEDIA up for discussion in Cannes
The ninth edition of Cannes’ European Rendezvous focuses on MEDIA’s preparations for the new programme
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NewsAdrienn Pal wins at shortened Hungarian Film Week
Agnes Kocsis’ Adrienn Pal named Best Film at 42nd Hungarian Film Week
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NewsRussia's Medvedev to improve system of state support of domestic film industry
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev has proposed a new initiative to improve the current system of subsidising the domestic film industry.At present, all the state funds, provided by the government for the support of the national film industry, are distributed by a special State Film Fund. However many of the films ...
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NewsCannes adds new films from Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulof
Good Bye added to Un Certain Regard; This Is Not A Film will be a Special Screening.
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NewsWe Believed takes seven awards at Italy's Davids
Daniele Luchetti’s Our Life (La Nostra Vita) wins best director; 20 Cigarettes also honoured.
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NewsFilm Factory takes international sales rights to thriller The Path
Spanish outfit Film Factory Entertainment has picked up international sales rights to Miguel Angel Toledo’s hotly anticipated feature debut The Path (La Senda), co-written with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.
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NewsFilm France members have record 25 features in Cannes
Film France, the national film commission which groups together a network of 40 regional commissions, has announced that a record number of films in this year’s Cannes selection have been aided by its members throughout the country.
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NewsAmeur-Zaimeche wins France's Prix Jean Vigo
Costume drama Les Chants de Mandrin, sold by MK2, was produced by Sarrazink Productions.
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NewsBavaria to begin presales on Eddie – The Sleepwalking Cannibal
Bavaria Film International will begin presales on its latest acquisition of writer-director Boris Rodriguez’s Eddie – The Sleepwalking Cannibal at the Marché du Film in Cannes.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
This week’s new features on our brand new, re-designed Screenbase site include Pusher , Lay The Favorite, as well as Cities.
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NewsGalli, Ulfsather take leads in Lackberg adaptations
The Fjallbacka Murders project will star Claudia Galli (pictured) and Richard Ulfsather.
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NewsOdeon/UCI acquires 9 multiplexes in Spain and Italy
European cinema chain acquires nine multiplexes with a total of 92 screens
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NewsTil Schweiger box-office hit among four Beta market premieres
Beta’s Cannes Market titles also include family film The Tigerduck Gang.
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NewsFilmmakers have Niki Lauda’s near fatal crash of 1976 in their sights
Former Formula One racing champion Niki Lauda’s near fatal crash on the Nürburgring in August 1976 is at the heart of two rival film projects.
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Frans J Afman, pioneer of indie financing, dies at 77
Afman, the executive credited with revolutionising independent film financing during his time as an executive at Credit Lyonnais Bank in Holland in the 1980s, has died after a long illness. He was 77.
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NewsAbel Ferrara wraps shoot for 4:44 starring Willem Dafoe
Partners on film are Fabula, Funny Balloons and Wild Bunch.
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NewsEuropaCorp to shift focus to TV and international sales
After a turbulent 12 months, Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp came out fighting on Wednesday [May 4] with the announcement of a four-year strategic action plan it hopes will return it to profit in 2011/12 and puts the accent on increased TV production and international sales.
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NewsParis Cite du Cinema on track for 2012 opening
A decade after Luc Besson first mooted the idea, construction of France’s state-of-the-art film studio complex the Cité du Cinema is on schedule and will be completed in time for a grand opening ahead of Cannes 2012, EuropaCorp project chief Paul Kistner has confirmed.