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IM Internationalmedia appoints Prestel to management board
Sascha R. Prestel is joining IM Internationalmedia's CEO Konstantin Thoeren as a new member of the management board as of March 1, 2008.Prestel, who will be responsible for the areas of finance, investor relations, corporate communications and administration, had previously worked for two years from 2005 to 2007 overseeing the ...
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Romania's Gopo Awards set for Monday night
The second annual Gopo Awards, celebrating the best of Romanian cinema, will take place in Bucharest on Monday night.The gala, presented with the support of the National Film Centre, is organized by Romanian Film Promotion, the organization behind the Transylvania International Film Festival. Cristian Mungiu's Cannes Palme d'Or winner 4 ...
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Bac picks up four for France including Wackness, Wave
French distributor Bac Films has announced the acquisition of four titles scheduled for release in 2008 and 2009. The company has bought Ma Mec A Moi by director Jean-Jacques Zilbermann starring Antoine de Caunes and produced by Agat Films et Cie. The film is the sequel to 1998's romantic comedy ...
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Advance Party trilogy continues with McKinnon's Donkeys shoot
Sigma Films and Zentropa have begun principal photography on Rounding Up Donkeys.After Andrea Arnold's Red Road, this film is the second project in the Advance Party trilogy. Originally entitled Old Dogs, Rounding Up Donkeys marks the feature debut of television and short film director Morag McKinnon and is written by ...
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Arsenal takes on German rights to CSNY Deja Vu
Stefan Paul and Egon Nieser of German distributor Arsenal Film has picked up the music documentary CSNY Deja Vu by Bernard Shakey a.k.a. Neil Young from Fortissimo Films.The documentary, which showed Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on their Freedom of Speech Tour in 2006, was presented at the Berlinale in ...
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Trust picks up Hungarian prize-winner The Investigator
Trust Film Sales of Denmark has confirmed it is handling international sales for Hungarian film The Investigator.Trust CEO Rikke Ennis told ScreenDaily.com that the company is aiming for a major festival release later this year.Attila Gigor's film won five awards at Hungarian Film Week in February, including Best Actor for ...
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Greek feature Pink takes top prize in new !f Istanbul competition
Alexander Voulgaris' Pink (Roz) won the top prize at the!f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival.The festival's new!f Inspired Film Competition comes with a cash prize of $15,000 and showcases new directions in cinema and innovative story-telling.The Greek feature is about a twentysomething Greek man who is afraid of growing up, ...
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Fortissimo adds Konchalovsky's Gloss to line-up
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights outside Russia and France to Andrei Konchalovsky's Gloss, which will receive a gala screening at next month's Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF). Produced by Konchalovsky's Production Center,Glosstakes a satirical look at the current wave of capitalism sweeping through Russia.Since making the film, the ...
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Recep Ivedik leaps into top 10 with $5.1m take
Turkish film Recep Ivedik was the surprise big-hitter in the international arena this weekend, generating $5.1m from just 230 screens in its home territory and catapulting it into the top 10. The top 40 films generated $166m from 48,087 screens from the period of February 22-24. For the full international ...
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New Bond filmto shoot in Tuscany
Marc Forster's new James Bond film will be heading to Tuscany as part of its locations shoot, the latest of a series of international productions to choose the region as set.Quantum of Solace will head to Italy for 15 days from the end of Aprilthrough May 12, picking up where ...
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Bavarian regional fund announces $10.6m in funding
New productions by actor-director Til Schweiger, Christian Ditter and Mike Barker are among 35 film and TV projects allocated over $10.6m (Euros 7.2m) by the Bavarian regional fund FFF Bayern at its latest sitting.The largest amount - $1.25m (Euros 850,000) - went to Schweiger's next feature project, the medieval slapstick ...
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MK2 picks up Berlin doc With Gilbert & George
France's MK2 has announced the acquisition of Julian Cole's documentary With Gilbert & George.The film ran in the Panorama Dokumente section of the recent Berlin Festival. MK2 has taken world rights.A moving portrait, the work traces the lives of award-winning artists Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore from their humble beginnings ...
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The Art Of Crying named Best Danish Film
The Art Of Crying won two honours at the annual Bodil Awards last weekend in Copenhagen. Peter Schønau Fog's powerful drama won Best Danish Film and Jesper Asholt (Mifune) was named Best Actor for his mesmerizing performance of a father with incestuous tendencies. Fog had faced difficulty finding finance for ...
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Early returns point to box-office recovery in Norway
Norwegian cinemas have got off to a flying start in 2008, boosting ticket sales by 27.8% between Jan 1-Feb 21 compared to the same period in 2007, according to statistics published by Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino.Local films drew 1.7m admissions in the whole of 2007. In the first ...
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Jumper remains internationalnumber one with $21.9m tally
The sci-fi adventure Jumper maintained its number one status overseas thanks to a $21.9m estimated gross through Fox International from 4,040 screens in 40 markets that raised the tally to $61.2m.The film opened top in France on an excellent $5.1m from 586, second in Thailand on $1.3m from 170 and ...
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Graine, Cotillard, Amalric win top Cesars
As widely predicted, Abdellatif Kechiche's La Graine Et Le Mulet had a healthy showing at Friday's Cesar Awards taking the Best Picture and Best Director trophies. The film also scored a best newcomer award for actress Hafsia Herzi.Oscar nominee Marion Cotillard was honored with the Best Actress prize for La ...
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Sony Classics picks up I've Loved You So Long for US
UGC International has sold Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long... (Il Y A Longtemps Que Je T'Aime...) to Sony Classics for the US. The film, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius and Laurent Grevill, ran in competition in the recently-wrapped Berlin Film Festival where it earned strong ...
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Screen Opinion: The Red-Stained Carpet
No matter which film walks home from Sunday's Oscar ceremony with the big prize, it will mark another victory for the US-centric studio apparatus otherwise known as Hollywood. Even at the more artistic fringes of the film-making spectrum, the big-six movie conglomerates still exert a gravitational pull on the marketplace ...
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Films Distribution picks up Happy Ever Afters
Films Distribution has acquired Happy Ever Afters by newcomer Stephen Burke. The film is the story of two wedding parties taking place in the same hotel at the same time and the collision of the two in what is being referred to as an Irish My Big Fat Greek Wedding ...
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Pathe announces brisk sales on 16 titles at EFM
Before the European Film Market, Pathe executive vice-president Francois Iverne predicted that the relatively few US titles at EFM this year, owing to the WGA strike, would be good news for Pathe. A just-announced raft of sales on 16 titles would appear to bear him out. Miguel Kohan's homage to ...