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NewsKing’s Of Devil Island, Corridor bookend Gothenburg Film Festival
The 34th Gothenburg International Film Festival (Jan 28 – Feb 7) announces opening and closing films ahead of its full programme announcement on Jan 11.
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Reliance MediaWorks partners with Russian World Studios
India’s Reliance MediaWorks is to partner up with Russian World Studios (RWS) to outsource film restoration, image processing and enhancement work.
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NewsBeyond leads nominees for Sweden's Guldbagge Awards
Other leading nominees include Simple Simon, Sebbe and Pure.
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NewsRotterdam to open with Greek drama Wasted Youth
Greek drama Wasted Youth will open the 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), as a world premiere also in the festival’s Tiger Awards Competition.
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NewsBerlin's Panorama selections include Elite Squad 2, Mothers
The Berlinale’s Panorama section has now unveiled almost half of its 2011 lineup for next month’s festival, including 10 world premieres of new films by such directors as Rosa von Praunheim, Alexander Zeldovich and newcomers Jan Schomburg and Marie Kreutzer.
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NewsSwedish actor Per Oscarsson feared dead in fire
Swedish actor Per Oscarsson is feared dead in a house fire in southwest Sweden, reports say.
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NewsHeisenberg's The Robber leads nominations for Austrian Film Awards
Hausner’s Venice and Roehler’s Jud Suess - Film Ohne Gewissen also have multiple nominations.
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NewsLuc Besson shooting Burmese love story The Lady
UK-France production stars Michelle Yeoh (pictured) as Nobel winner Aung San Suu Kyi.
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NewsNew Catalonia digital studio to kick off with Chameleons shoot
A British investment group, Extraordinary Features, is planning to develop a digital film production studio based in La Bisbal, Spain.
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NewsSwedish Film Institute announces latest round of funding
Jan Troell, Karzan Kader and Jessica Nettelbladt among six feature directors to receive funding.
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NewsUPDATE: Cinema organisations start petition to lift Panahi's sentence
Backers of the movement include Cannes and Locarno festivals. Other festivals including Rotterdam, Sarajevo and Thessaloniki issue statements in support of the Iranian filmmaker.
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NewsGovernment extends Italian tax credit for six months
The Italian government on Wednesday has extended the Italian tax credit for the cinema industry through June 2011, leaving the fate of the tax credit, which offers fiscal advantages to national and international producers, as well as incentives to exhibitors is still up in the air.
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NewsBerlin's Forum Expanded to focus on political thought
The Berlinale’s Forum Expanded, which explores the intersections between art and cinema, will focus on works that “challenge political thought in aesthetic form.”
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Dygra Films to make 3D animation Lost & Found
Spanish animation company Dygra Films is developing a new 3D animation project called Lost & Found, to be directed by the company’s president Manolo Gomez.
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NewsWild Bunch takes on Asterix Chez Les Bretons
The $70m+ film has confirmed Gerard Depardieu reprising his role as Obelix.
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NewsGerman films in Berlin to include Lutter's The Education
The Berlinale has unveiled the first six films to be selected for the Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme.
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NewsImagenation/Hyde Park takes on international rights to Ghost Rider 2
Imagenation Abu Dhabi and Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group have acquired international rights to Columbia Pictures GhostRider—Spirit of Vengeance.
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NewsAntonio Campos wraps Paris shoot for second feature
FilmHaven Entertainment and Borderline Films wrapped five weeks of shooting in Paris last week on Antonio Campos’ second feature, Simon Killer.
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NewsCarlotta takes French rights to Ventana Sur hit Absent
French distributor Carlotta has acquired French rights to Marco Berger’s Argentine drama Absent (Ausente) from Paris-based Rendez-vous Pictures.
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33 projects selected for Rotterdam's Cinemart
Films by Jan Švankmajer, Carlos Reygadas, Alex van Warmerdam, Andrei Zvyagintsev and Sergei Loznitza are amongst the 33 projects to have been selected for Rotterdam’s co-production market Cinemart (Jan 30-Feb 2).