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Pretty Pictures buys French rights to Clubbed from AV
Pretty Pictures has acquired all French-speaking rights to Neil Thompson's Clubbed from AV Pictures.AV has also sold the film for include Australasia (21st Century Pictures), Benelux (European Film Partners), Middle East (Falcon Films), Poland (Vision) and Turkey (Horizon International).The story, set in 1980s clubland, stars Colin Salmon, Mel Raido an ...
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BAFTA to host four-day Arab cinema event
BAFTA is holding a four day event this weekend at its Piccadilly headquarters in recognition of Arab cinema's contribution to the film industry.Bafta Goes to the Arab World (July 11-14) combines screenings, talks and networking events, which aim to highlight emerging talent from the region and foster links between the ...
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Jean Charles de Menezes drama gearing up for August shoot
Jean Charles, the drama about Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian electrician killed by British police three years ago, will be filmed in London and Paulinia, a city of Sao Paulo State.With Stephen Frears as executive producer, the co-production between Luke Schiller's UK-based Mango Films and Brazil's TV Zero is ...
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Film Center Serbia shares $2.7m between nine projects
The Film Center Serbia, whose board is now headed by Emir Kusturica, has chosen nine projects to co-finance. Seven projects selected for financing of production are feature films and one feature documentary, while one is a feature in post-production.FEATURE FILMSWhite, White World (Beli, Beli Svet), written by Milena Markovic and ...
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Match Factory to sell Somali supermodel film Desert Flower
The Match Factory will be handling international sales on Sherry Hormann's adaptation of Waris Dirie's bestselling autobiography Desert Flower.The film is currently shooting in Berlin before being due to wrap in New York next week.Structured as a $17.4m (Euros 11m) European co-production by the 'single purpose' company Desert Flower Filmproductions ...
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Dardennes, Salles plan trips to November Thessaloniki festival
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Terence Davies, Walter Salles, Gustavo Santaolalla, Lita Stantic are among the top names set to be present at the upcoming Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Nov 14-23).The principal tribute of the 49th edition of the Greekfestival, headed by Despina Mouzaki, will be dedicated to two-time Cannes Golden ...
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Abdellatif Kechiche to lead debut film jury in Venice
Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche will preside over the International Jury for the Luigi De Laurentiis Prize for a debut film at the 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival, the Biennale said.Kechiche himself won the first feature prize at Venice in 2000 for his film Blame it on Voltaire. In ...
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Mikado puts increased attention on 'original' commerical films
Italy's Mikado Film goes into the 2008 and early 2009 distribution season with a series of titles that reflect the company's auteur tradition - but which includes an increased investment in what CEO Alessandro Usai calls 'original' commercial films, as well as select Italian films aimed at un-tested markets here.Mikado's ...
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Ischia unveils heavy hitters for co-production roundtable
Italy's Ischia Global Film and Music Festival will host a Global Production Summit in the sixth edition of the event, which runs July 13-20 on the island of Ischia near the Southern city of Naples.The summit will take place on July 18 with Producer Mark Canton (Spiderwick Chronicles, 300) to ...
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Sarajevo Panorama Documentaries include Waltz With Bashir
The 14th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has announced the documentary Panorama programme. 'Provocation, access, aesthetics, and the success of their synthesis are the chief selection criteria,' says programmer Howard Feinstein. The selection includes a double feature of 'Experimental American Leftie Films' and Cannes Palme D'Or nominee Waltz With Bashir.Panorama ...
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German box office slips 50% from first quarter to second quarter
Admissions to German cinemas fell by 50% in the second quarter compared to the first three months of 2008, according to figures prepared by EDI Nielsen.Exhibitors posted $188.4m (Euros 119.3m) box-office revenues from 19m admissions between April and the end of June. The half-year total is $565.8m (Euros 358.1m) - ...
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Brizzi to shoot third feature Ex later this month
Director Fausto Brizzi will begin shooting his third feature, Ex, on July 15, his producer Federica Lucisano of Italian International Film (IIF) confirmed.A successful screenwriter-turned director, Brizzi became a local phenomenon when his debut feature Night Before Finals (Notte prima degli esami) earned $16m and became the top-grossing Italian debut ...
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New US, Spanish buyers line up for Locarno
Four weeks ahead of the opening of this year's Locarno filmfestival on August 6, its Industry Office has reported that buyers from the US, Spain and South Korea are among 10 companies coming to the Swiss festival for the first time this year.LA-based distributor-producer-sales outfit Eleven Arts will be represented ...
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Germany fails to keep up Q1 momentum
Admissions to German cinemas fell by 50% in the second quarter compared to the first three months of 2008, according to figures prepared by EDI Nielsen.Exhibitors posted $ 188.4m (Euros 119.3m) box-office revenues from 19m admissions between April and the end of June.The half-year total is $ 565.8m (Euros 358.1m) ...
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Karlovy Vary and Locarno premieres unveiled at Previews in Cologne
World premieres at this week's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and Locarno's forthcoming Piazza Grande open-air programme are among 23 films being presented at the German Films Previews in Cologne from July 10-13.Tom Schreiber's Dr Aleman, which has been invited to Karlovy Vary's international competition, will have its market premiere ...
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New Polish partners board Agnieszka Holland's 15.7m War My Love!
Polish Television and Polish Telecommunications have boarded SPI Film Studio's upcoming production War My Love!, directed by Agnieszka Holland.The project was pitched at last year's Mannheim Meetings as Christine, a drama based on the life of Krystyna Skarbek, a woman Winston Churchill described as the most outstanding British spy of ...
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European Commission firms up plans for global film cooperation
The details of how a global film cooperation programme might work have become clearer following a recent public hearing on the international film industry in Brussels.The hearing is the latest step in a series of public consultations and studies that will help define the new MEDIA MUNDUS programme and offered ...
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Karlovy Vary kicks off with De Niro lined up for Crystal Globe
Robert De Niro will this evening receive a Crystal Globe forOutstanding Contribution to World Cinema at the 43rd Karlovy Vary InternationalFilm Festival, which opens today.The actor will be on hand for the opening screening of his latest film, What Just Happened'Before the festival, De Niro told the local daily Hospodarske ...
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Jan-Pelgrom de Haas takes CEO post at Kinowelt Group
Jan-Pelgrom de Haas has been appointed as CEO of the Kinowelt Group with immediate effect as the successor to Bertil Le Claire who stepped down from this post at the end of May.Commenting on the choice of de Haas, Kinowelt's founders Michael and Rainer Koelmel said that the 45-year-old media ...
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Zbanic, Belvaux, Radford films backed by Eurimages
At its 111th meeting (June 29-July 1), the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund has announced its latest funding round of $6.7m (Euros 4.275m) to 12 feature co-productions.The backed films are:The Flowers of Kirkuk - Fariborz Kamkari (Italy, France, Switzerland) Na Putu - Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia ...