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European Commission prolongs state aid rules for film until 2013
Following a public consultation, the European Commission has officially prolonged current state aid assessment criteria for cinema in Europe until 31 December 2012 The Commission uses the criteria to approve Europe 's national, regional and local film support schemes under the EU's state aid rules. Extending the current rules provides ...
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European Commission prolongs film support state aid rules until end 2012
The European Commission has officially prolonged current state aid assessment criteria for cinema in Europe until 31 December 2012. The Commission uses the criteria to approve Europe's national, regional and local film support schemes under the EU's state aid rules. Extending the current rules provides much needed certainty for the ...
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Russia and CIS box office up 46.9% year on year
Russia and CIS box office grossed $830m in 2008, a 46.9% year on year rise from 2007's $565m, according to Russian Film Business Today. The main reasons behind the increase are a significant rise in admissions combined with a considerable hike in ticket prices. Admissions for 2008 totalled a record ...
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Two new awards for Edinburgh international film festival in 2009
The Edinburgh international film festival has announced the introduction of two new significant international awards; best new international feature award and best international short film at this year's festival. The film festival prides itself on its focus on the discovery and recognition of British film, and the Michael Powell award ...
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Fassbender, West and Kurylenko to headline Neil Marshall's Centurion
Pathe and Celador have confirmed casting on Neil Marshall's Roman era Centurion with Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds, Hunger), Dominic West (300) and Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) to headline the film. Shooting begins next month on February 22. The script is written and will be directed by Marshall, whose The ...
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Elle Driver to take London River and Samson & Delilah to EFM
After a successful Sundance, French sales house Elle Driver is revving up for the European Film Market with new titles from Rachid Bouchareb and Warwick Thornton. Bouchareb's latest, London River, has its world premiere in competition at Berlin. It is his first film since the Oscar-nominated Days Of Glory which ...
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Berlinale Official Selection 2009
The 59th edition of the Berlin International film festival has confirmed the complete lineup for its 2009 official selection.Please click highlighted titles to see Screen review.BERLINALE OFFICIAL SELECTIONIN COMPETITION All The Others (Ger) - Dir: Maren Ade Cheri (UK-Ger) - Dir: Stephen Frears Darbareye Elly (About Elly) (Iran) - Asghar ...
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The Match Factory to present five world premieres at EFM
Cologne-based sales agent The Match Factory will handle international sales on four new films invited to screen in Berlinale's Competition. The films are: Uruguayan filmmaker Adrian Biniez's comedy Gigante, starring Horacio Camandulle, Leonor Svarcas; The Milk Of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada), from Barcelona-based Peruvian director Claudia Llosa; Veteran Greek director ...
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Films by Loncraine, Scherfig and Guggenheim complete Berlinale programme
Richard Loncraine's 1950s-set My One And Only, starring Renee Zellweger, Kevin Bacon, and Logan Lerman, will screen as a world premiere in Competition, while Scherfig's An Education, with Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard and Dominic Cooper, will be coming direct from Sundance for a gala presentation at the Friedrichstadtpalast in the ...
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Tesela Producciones reveals new slate of projects
Spanish outfit Tesela Producciones will produce local director Achero Manas new family drama Franny & Joe (working title) and Argentinian director Adolfo Aristarain's political project Timote.Both projects are currently at the script stage. Manas is currently on the third version of his script for Franny & Joe about a father ...
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High Point Films picks up Dutch hit Winter In Wartime for EFM
Winter In Wartime, the biggest Dutch box-office hit of recent months, has been picked up for international sales by London-based High Point Films. The first market screenings of the film are planned for Berlin next month. The film is proving a minor box-office phenomenon in the Netherlands and attracted over ...
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Happy New Year bags four Swiss Film Prize nominations
Christoph Schaub's Happy New Year garnered four nominations for the 2009 Swiss Film Prize QUARTZ in the categories of best fiction film, best screenplay, best actor and best film score. The five episodes intertwine the fates of people of a disparate group of people during Zurich's New Year's Eve celebrations. ...
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Bavaria Film International adds six Berlinale world premieres to EFM sales slate
Bavaria Film International has added six of the forthcoming Berlinale's world premieres to its sales slate for the upcoming European Film Market (EFM). The six titles are: Maren Ade's competition film Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) about a couple during a holiday on Sardinia and their futile attempt to be as ...
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Nordic Film Market lines up 200 delegates as Gothenburg film festival kicks off
200 international film professionals have registered for the 10th Nordic Film Market - the business arm of Sweden's Gothenburg International Film Festival. Project manager Cia Edström has prepared a showcase of 19 fresh Nordic productions open to foreign distributors, sales agents and festival programmers. Among the most recent are Nils ...
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Film Europe picks up five films for EFM
SPI International’s new sales arm, Film Europe, has picked up five completed films premiering atBerlin next month.
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New distributor enters Russian film market despite credit crunch
Eugene Beginin, UIP Russia's former general director, has set up the new distribution company, Profit Cinema International, a title he might find hard to live up to in today's economic climate. Beginin's initial plan was to create a holding with the classic structure of a troika, combining a production company ...
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French Cesar nominations announced
Nominations for France's equivalent to the Oscars were announced Friday morning in Paris with Public Enemy Number One(Mesrine)at the top of the heap, and Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale (Un Conte De Noel)and Remi Bezancon's Le Premier Jour Du Reste De Ta Vie tying with nine nods each. Cannes Palme ...
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Sweden's TV 4 takes first steps into theatrical distribution
Sweden's leading commercial broadcaster, TV4, will enter theatrical distribution with its production of Karin Svärd's drama-documentary, The Way Home-A Film About The Sin, The Guilt And The Shots In Knutby (Vägen Hem - En Film Om Synden, Skulden Och SkottenI Knutby). The film will be premièred on 35 digital screens ...
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Interview: Oliver Hirschbiegel
The Northern Ireland 'Troubles' of the 1970s are a long way from Oliver Hirschbiegel's hugely successful drama Downfall about the last days of Adolf Hitler, but the German director sees many similarities.'I've always been interested in the human condition and how this brings forth extreme confrontation,' he explains.Hirschbiegel came to ...