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Bulgarian studio expands facilities
UFO International Productions has announced the opening of a new stage facility in Sofia, Bulgaria.The Bulgarian Film and Television Centre (BFTC) claims to be the largest studio in the Balkans, with nearly double the stage capacity of any other studio in Bulgaria.Sofia is already home to Nu Boyana Studios. Nu ...
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Giuseppe Tornatore back to Sicilian roots for Baaria
Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and Medusa Film CEOGiampaolo Letta unveiled the first details of Tornatore's $30.7m (Euro 20m) film Baaria that has been tightly under wraps since the project's inceptiona year ago.Producing partners for Baaria are Italy's Medusa Film and Franco-Tunisian entrepreneur Tarak Ben Ammar's French based Quinta Communications and ...
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Kinowelt CEO Bertil le Claire to leave at end of month
The Kinowelt Group's CEO Bertil le Claire has announced his plans to leave the company at the end of May. His duties will be overseen by Romain Bessi, Directeur General of the group's new owner StudioCanal, until a successor has been appointed.Le Claire joined Kinowelt in 1998 as the managing ...
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Wild Bunch takes on sales for James Toback's Tyson
Wild Bunch will handle international sales on James Toback's Tyson. The documentary, which looks at the prize fighter's life in and out of the ring, is running in competition in the Un Certain Regard sidebar.The film begins with Tyson's earliest memories of growing up in Brooklyn and traces his rise ...
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NewsSan Sebastian to honour Japanese film noir, Monicelli
Preparations for this year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18 - 27) got underway as organisers revealed two retrospectives on the works of Italian maestro Mario Monicelli and a dedication to the Japanese film noir genre.
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Bavaria picks up international for Daniel Burman's Argentine hit
Bavaria Film International has taken on international distribution for Argentinean director Daniel Burman's current box-office hit Empty Nest (El Nido Vacio).All About My Mother's Cecilia Roth and Oscar Martinez star as a married couple in their prime suddenly confronted with the 'empty nest syndrome' the moment their youngest child leaves ...
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Eurimages backs 10 films with $6m
At its 110th meeting, May 4-6 in Amsterdam, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund made its latest funding awards.The European co-production support includes 10 feature films for a total of almost $6m (Euros 3.875m)The films are: Besa - Srdjan Karanovic (Serbia, Slovenia, Hungary, France) Bon ...
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Fred Kogel to step down as Constantin CEO, Burgener will succeed
Leading German producer-distributor Constantin Film has announced that its current CEO Fred Kogel has extended his contract until the end of the year, but will then be succeeded in this position by the group's present supervisory board chairman Bernhard Burgener.Kogel had replaced Bernd Eichinger as CEO in April 2003 and ...
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Caruso, Conte plan $60m epic feature on life of William Tell
Veteran US producers Fred Caruso (Blue Velvet) and D. Constantine Conte (48 Hours) have unveiled plans to produce the $60m medieval epic feature The Adventures Of William Tell, based on the life of the legendary national hero of Switzerland.A single-purpose company Tell Productions Ltd. has acquired the film rights to ...
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Pre-Cannes, Waltz With Bashir sold to France, UK and Germany
A week ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir has been sold by The Match Factory to France (Le Pacte), the UK (Curzon Artificial Eye) and Germany (Pandora Filmverleih).'We are very excited about the fact that this unique animated documentary ...
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Abel Ferrara finishing juvenile crime project Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Rome-based sales company and producer Minerva Pictures Group will be in Cannes with a new project from Abel Ferrara, Napoli, Napoli, Napoli.Currently in post-production, the film - which is destined for a theatrical release - interweaves documentary with narrative footage by combining interviews with three female inmates with scripted scenes ...
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Pete Travis starts shoot for Endgame starring William Hurt
Fresh off Vantage Point for Sony, director Pete Travis has started principal photography on his next feature, another political thriller entitled Endgame. The project is shooting in the UK and South Africa.Penny Wolf is pre-selling the film in Cannes on behalf of Target Entertainment.Endgame's cast features William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, ...
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European Film Export Association lines up 16 arbitrators
The European Film Export Association (EFEA) has named their arbitrators - 16 in all- whose role will be to assist in resolving problems that crop up between exporters and distributors - the association's president Jacques-Eric Strauss, and vice president Adrianna Chiesa told ScreenDaily.The 16 arbitrators completed a training session in ...
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Toho, Toeiboost Japanese films at international box office
While Iron Man kick-started the summer season with a tremendous bang after taking nearly $100m across 56 territories in its opening weekend, a slew of Japanese films still managed to account for 7.7% of the total revenue of international films.The top 39 films generated $183.5m from 37,648 screens for the ...
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Locarno to honour US indie icon Christine Vachon
US producer and Killer Films co-founder Christine Vachon (Boys Don't Cry, I'm Not There) will be this year's recipient of Locarno's Raimondo Rezzonico Prize to highlight the work of major independent film producers.Commenting on the decision to select Vachon for this honour at the festival's 61st edition, artistic director Frederic ...
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Fortissimo takes on Madonna-produced I Am Because We Are
Fortissimo Films has acquired the documentary I Am Because We Are, which is produced, written and narrated by Madonna.The deal, for all rights outside of North America, was brokered between Fortissimo's Senior Vice President, Sales & Acquisitions Winnie Lau and Creative Artists Agency (CAA), which represents the film.I Am Because ...
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Bavaria takes on sales for Critics Week title Moscow, Belgium
Bavaria Film International is handling international distribution on Christophe van Rompaey's feature debut Moscow, Belgium (Aanrijding In Moscou) which has been selected for this year's Critics' Week sidebar in Cannes.Produced by A Private View, the Flemish romantic comedy about a woman (played by actress-director Barbara Sarafian) whose life is full ...
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Filmax International acquires international rights to Invitation Only
Spanish outfit Filmax International has acquired the international sales rights excluding Asia, Germany and Poland and the distribution rights for Spain for the Asian horror production Invitation Only directed by Kevin Ko.Filmax International will present a promo of the film, which is currently in post production, at Cannes and will ...
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Ninja Assassin gets extra $2.7m from DFFF
James McTeigue's martial arts action film Ninja Assassin has become the first project this year to be awarded support from the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) over and above the prescribed 'cap' of Euros 4m.An advisory committee, which is convened when applications are made for support over $6.1m (Euros 4m) ...
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Thierry Potok takes over management of Germany's VIP
Former Studio Babelsberg boss Thierry Potok has taken over the management of the German private media fund VIP Medienfonds from Peter H. Riedel 'with immediate effect.'Riedel had come to VIP last September as a successor to Dirk Specht, but his contract had from the outset been only temporary in nature ...