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Cannes Un Certain Regard line-up includes Tokyo! triptych
The 2008 Cannes Un Certain Regard line up includes films from such directors as Michel Gondry, James Toback and Abel Ferrara. It also includes a film by American indie director Kelly Reichardt, who previously made Old Joy, which made its way to Cannes general manager Thierry Fremaux unsolicited and via ...
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Cannes unveils competition line-up of 19 titles
CompetitionLaurent Cantet - Entre Les Murs (France)Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Three Monkeys (Turkey-France-Italy)Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne - Le Silence De Lorna (Belgium-France-Italy-Germany)Arnaud Desplechin - A Christmas Story (France)Clint Eastwood - Changeling (US)Atom Egoyan - Adoration (Canada)Ari Folman - Waltz With Bashir ( Israel-France-Germany )Philippe Garrel - La Frontiere De L'Aube ...
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Telepool takes on sales for German box-office hit Summer
Telepool will handle world sales for Mike Marzuk's Summer (Sommer) which has gone straight to the top of the German box-office chart on its first four days of release with over 230,000 admissions from 407 screens.The Walt Disney release of the SamFilm production had the weekend's best screen average of ...
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Morales steps down as Miromar CEO, Heizmann to take over
Michel Morales has stepped down from his post as CEO of the Ludwigsburg-based production house Miromar Entertainment to concentrate on the creative aspects of filmmaking and will be succeeded by Peter Heizmann.Morales, who co-produced the Heather Graham romantic comedy Buy Borrow Steal (known as Miss Conception in the US), has ...
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Sarajevo's CineLink adds Austria to regional co-production market
The 14th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has announced the selections for CineLink, its regional co-production market created in co-operation with Rotterdam's CineMart. The market will take place from Aug 20-23 and the 15 projects will be divided in two groups: CineLink and CineLink+.CineLink includes 12 projects that will participate ...
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Redpath steps up to become director of Berlinale's Generation
Maryanne Redpath has been appointed the new director of the Berlinale's children's and youth film section Generation.Dieter Kosslick announced the appointment, which takes effect May 1.Redpath is currently co-director of Generation and has worked for the festival since 1993.Florian Weghorn, who has been with Generation since 2002, will now be ...
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Special People wins Germany's Britspotting prize
Justin Edgar's Special People won the best feature audience award at Britspotting, the British & Irish Film Festival in Germany. The film wins a post-production/editing prize worth $22,200 (Euros 14,000).Dominic Coleman, Sasha Hardway, Robyn Frampton, David Proud and Jason Maza star in the story of four kids in wheelchairs who ...
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The Match Factory to handle Petzold's new feature Jerichow
The Match Factory will handle international sales on Christian Petzold's new feature Jerichow which begins shooting in the east German town of Wittenberge, the Prignitz region and along the Elbe from today. It is the sales agent's second Petzold film after his 2007 competition film Yella and marks the director's ...
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Citizen Havel, Everything Is Relativein firstDoc Alliance showcase
Pavel Koutecky and Miroslav Janek's Citizen Havel and Danish filmmaker Mikala Krogh's Everything Is Relative are among five creative theatrical documentaries to be showcased by a new venture called Doc Alliance created by five leading European documentary film festivals.Doc Alliance's first lineup is: Citizen Havel by Pavel Koutecky and Miroslav ...
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Twelve titles to compete for Plzen's Golden Kingfisher
The 21st Finale festival of Czech films begins April 21 in Plzen, Czech Republic. The annual event is a competitive and comprehensive overview of Czech feature-length films released in the past year.Twelve titles will compete for the Golden Kingfisher for Best Feature Film, including the French-UK-Czech co-production La Vie En ...
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Egg wins international competition at Istanbul festival
The top honors in the international competition of this year's Istanbul Film Festival have gone to Egg (Yumurta) by local film-maker Semih Kaplanoglu, the story of a poet returning to his mother's home in the country after her death.Kaplanoglu's picture, which opened last year in Cannes' DirectorsFortnight, is the third ...
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Ufa Cinema debuts with Mein Kampf
New producer-distributor Ufa Cinema, launched at the end of last year by the RTL Group and Freemantle Media through its German subsidiary UFA, has boarded its first project: Urs Odermatt's Mein Kampf.The film begins shooting in Vienna next Tuesday (April 22).Ufa Cinema will co-produce the film - based on the ...
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Swiss Film Prize to move in 2009
Nextyear'sSwiss Film Prize is to move from January's Solothurn Film Days to a new venue at Lucerne's Culture and Conference Centre (KKL) on March 7 in a gala ceremony.The eventwill beorganised by national broadcaster SRG SSR with the partners Swiss Films, the Federal Office of Culture (BAK) and the Swiss ...
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The Girl By The Lake dominates Donatellos
First-time director Andrea Molaioli's The Girl By The Lake was the surprise winner of Italy's David of Donatello awards taking home 10 statuettes in principal categories including best film, director, first film and screenplay.The thriller - adapted by screenwriter Sandro Petraglia (Best Of Youth)and backed by local film giant ...
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Universal and BT launch Picturebox service on BT Vision
Universal Pictures and British Telecommunications will launch the PictureBox subscription-on-demand service on BT Vision in the UK.The PictureBox service will launch on May 5 and provide a broad selection of current and library features from NBC Universal and other suppliers such as The Bourne Ultimatum, Knocked Up and Atonement.The agreement ...
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TF1's Patrick Binet in police custody, French press reports
According to press reports, TF1 International chief Patrick Binet has been taken into custody by police following the discovery of a dead body in Binet's Parisian residence.For the moment, details are sketchy but some French media report that the victim was a man in his 40s and may have succumbed ...
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Antonia's Line team back with My Father's Notebook
Marleen Gorris and Hans de Weers, the director/producer team behind Oscar winner Antonia's Line, are reuniting on a new feature, My Father's Notebook. The film, based on the bestseller by Kader Abdolah, is set at the time of the revolution in Iran and then in Holland a generation later. It ...
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Universal International unveils first Blu-Ray slate of 29 titles
Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) plans to release 29 titles on the Blu-Ray format for the first time.The first release will be TV series Heroes Season 2 on Aug 26. Heroes Season 1 will also be available on the same day on Blu-Ray.Further Blu-Ray releases later in 2008 will be ...
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Isabelle Dubar takes distribution post at France's CTV
France's CTV International has appointed Isabelle Dubar to the post of head of distribution.Dubar will handle acquisitions for the company as well as supervising theatrical releases. She will also create a new label specifically aimed at promoting independent film. The label will handle 6-8 films per year. In ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina gets second international festival
The first Banja Luka International Film Festival (BLIFF), only the second international film festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina after Sarajevo and the first in Republika Srpska (the Serbian entity within the country), will take place from May 2-9.The inaugural event will present over a hundred films in seven programmes, including ...