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Dieter Kosslick extends Berlinale contract till 2013
Dieter Kosslick is staying put at the Berlinale - the festival director confirmed to Screen that his contract as festival director has been extended by another two years until April 30, 2013, four weeks before his 65th birthday. It was originally scheduled to expire in 2011. He also expressed optimism ...
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Uchitel to hunt Lions with Sokolovsky
Russian director Alexey Uchitel's company Rock Films has lined up local filmmaker Vadim Sokolovsky to direct thriller Hunting The Lions. Written by the Ukrainian-born Anastasia Sarkisyan, the film is set among a group of Nazi-style nationalists planning an Oklahoma-style bombing in St. Petersburg. An experienced TV drama director, Sokolovksy previously ...
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Intra's Tobruk lands in UK with Hi-Fliers
Italian sales outfit Intra Movies has closed a UK deal in Berlin with Hi-Fliers on Czech World War Two film, Tobruk. Directed by Vaclav Marhoul, thestoryis about a20-year-old volunteer in the Czech army in North Africa in the autumn of 1941. Showing its increasing appetite for eastern European fare, Intra ...
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Phaidon Press buys Cahiers Du Cinema from Le Monde
French movie institution Cahiers du Cinema has found a new home in Phaidon Press which closed a deal to purchase the venerable film magazine from Le Monde this week. Le Monde bought the title in 1998 and announced last April that intended to sell it as part of a reorganization ...
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Doc Alliance launches online distribution portal
Doc Alliance, the partnership between five leading documentary festivals (CPH: Dox Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, Planete Doc Review and Visions Du Reel) has launched its own online portal. The new website, which goes live on March 1, will make available 250 films to stream or download. This will include ...
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Winter booked for Gate remake by H20, MMC
UK-born actor-director Alex Winter, still best known for playing Bill in the Bill & Ted films, has been confirmed as the director for a remake of the 1987 horror film The Gate which could become the first 3D feature film to be shot completely in Germany later this year. Winter's ...
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Eva Green, Matt Smith to star in Benedek Fliegauf's Womb
Eva Green and Matt Smith, the UK's new Doctor Who, are to star in Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf's first English language feature film Womb which will begin shooting on location at Germany's North Sea coast at the beginning of March.The production by Waltz With Bashir producers Razor Film and Budapest-based ...
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Independents must consolidate, says Ben Waisbren
In a hard-hitting keynote speech at yesterday's Screen International European Film Summit, film financier Ben Waisbren, who is president and CEO of Continental Entertainment Capital, predicted that the independent film business will go through a prolonged period of contraction and restructuring. 'Don't hesitate - consolidate,' he urged.Fewer films will be ...
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Irish arts minister urged to end delay in appointing Irish film board
An opposition senator has today called on the Irish arts minister to end the delay in appointing members of the Irish Film Board. An Irish Labour party senator, Dominic Hannigan, has called on the minister for arts, Martin Cullen, to explain the delay in appointing a new board for the ...
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UK 's Pinewood and Shepperton Studios win Bafta award
Pinewood and Shepperton Studios will receive a Bafta contribution award at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at London's Royal Opera House on Sunday 8 February 2009. The studios, which are behind such classics as The African Queen and Dr Strangelove as well as recent blockbusters Casino Royal and ...
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Tom Tykwer teams up with the Wachowskis
Tom Tykwer is teaming up with the Wachowski brothers on one of two projects he currently has in development. Tykwer said he is working on an adaptation of UK author David Mitchell's 2004 Booker Prize shortlisted novel Cloud Atlas, whose action stretches from the remote South Pacific in the 19 ...
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Slumdog Millionaire triumphs at London Film Critics' Circle Awards
An inaugural NSPCC award for young British performer of the year was presented to Thomas Turgoose for two very different roles; a teenager escaping a bad home life in Somers Town, and a ferocious yob in Eden Lake. Kate Winslet won actress of the year for her performances in The ...
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Rome appoints industry figures to support artistic director
The International Rome Film Festival has appointed three industry professionals to assist artistic director Piera Detassis in selecting films for the event's fourth edition, set to run October 15-23.Theyare journalist, critic, producer and film distributor Fabrizio Grossoli, journalist Alessandra De Luca and Fabia Bettini.Grossoli has previously served on a number ...
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Sweden's SF Bio installs 3D screens
Somewhat delayed, Sweden's leading cinema circuit, SF Bio - which programmes 242 screens all over the country - is ready to enter the digital era, having installed Real D equipment in eight auditoria in Stockholm (3), Gothenburg (2) and another three provincial cities. The premiere will be Disney's Oscar-nominated Bolt, ...
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Local films boost Scandinavian box office
Successful local films played a major part in a strong 2008 at the box office.Norwegian cinema admissions rose 10% in 2008 to reach 11.8 million, strongly helped by local fare which sold 2.7 million tickets - 50% more than in 2007.Local film's market share reached a record 22.5% of the ...
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Lost Times takes Golden Reel in Budapest
The Golden Reel, the main prize of the 40th Hungarian Film Week, was awarded to Lost Times, the debut feature of director Aron Matyassy. The film is a moving portrayal of a small-time criminal's search for justice after his autistic sister is raped. The film stars Jozsef Kadas as the ...
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Hungary and Ireland to sign co-production agreement
Representatives of the Irish Film Board and the Hungarian Motion Picture Public Foundation will sign a co-production agreement in Berlin on Sunday, February 8, which is designed to foster co-productions between the two territories. The deal includes a reciprocal feature whereby producers from the two territories will in effect take ...