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Transsiberian co-producer Universum boards Lippel's Dream
Universum Film, co-producer/distrubutor of Brad Anderson's thriller Transsiberian, has boarded its first German-language project, Lars Buechel's Lippel's Dream (Lippels Traum) which begins shooting in Morocco's Ouarzazate today.The co-production between Ulrich Limmer's Collina Film, Universum Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk, B.A. Produktion, and Buechel's own production outfit element e, is based on Paul ...
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Tom Stern teams up with Russian director Pavel Lungin
Director Pavel Lungin is in the midst of filming on Ivan The Terrible And The Metropolitan Philip (working title) about Russia's first czar, Ivan IV.Russian Film Business Today reports that American cinematographer Tom Stern is DOP of the film. Stern is known for his work on American Beauty, Mystic River ...
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Croatia makes $9.2m awards to film
Croatia's Ministry of Culture and Croation National Television have finally announced $9.2m in awards after seven months.The funding includes support for 10 features with between them take $6.4m of the $9.2m total.The features are:In The Wonderland (U Zemlji Cudesa)(director: Dejan Sorak, production companu: Interfilm.) $893,617 Children's Kingdom (Djecje Carstvo) (Branko ...
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Finnish Film Foundation backs seven features
The Finnish Film Foundation has allocated $2.9m (Eu1.9m) production support for seven new features, including four local films, a co-production with Estonia and two Scandinavia ventures.Produced by Riina Hyytiä for Dionysos Films, Johanna Vuoksenmaa's One Foot Under (toinen jalka haudasta) is the story of a 35-year-old man told he has ...
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Quiet Chaos dominates Donatello nominations
Rome-Domenico Procacci's Fandango-produced Quite Chaos starring NanniMoretti and directed by Antonello Grimaldi leads the race for the David of Donatello awards, with eighteen nominations.Quiet Chaos, which was presented at Berlin and features a cameo with Roman Polanski has performed well at the local box office earning $8.8m (Euros 5.2m) in ...
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Unifrance's Menegoz defends bodyagainst damning report
A report commissioned by the foreign affairs ministry has sent shockwaves through the French film industry since it was first leaked to French daily Le Figaro last week.The report, commissioned in October 2007 and handled by theMedia Consulting Group, examined Unifrance's missions over the period of 2005-2007 and found that ...
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High school Die Welle opens strong for Constantin with $3.5m
Germany's Die Welle was the highest non-US entry into the international top 40 this weekend with a $3.5m take, falling just shy of the top 10.The top 40 films generated $188.2m across 46,679 screens for the period of March 14-16.For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.Die ...
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French hit Ch'tis to run at London's Cine Lumiere
Pathe UK is releasing French hit Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis exclusively at London's Cine Lumiere from April 1-24.The comedy, which has clocked up a mammoth $103.5m after three weeks on release, proved a surprise hit at the French box office after taking more than 5m admissions in its first week ...
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On-demand market could hit $1.1bn in 2012
On-demand media could generate revenues of $1.1bn by 2012 in the US and Europe, according to a new report from Screen Digest.That will include $665m of new revenue and the rest replacement for DVD spending.Screen Digest noted that the on-demand market 'has the potential not only to revolutionise how consumers ...
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Nu Boyana expands with new city streets sets
Outside sets re-creating streets of London, Paris and Berlin are being planned next year to join the 2.5 kilometres of New York streets currently in construction at Sofia's Nu Boyana Film Studios.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com on the studio lot at the weekend, Nu Boyana's CEO and Chairman David Varod said ...
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Croatia joins EU's MEDIA Programme
Croatia has become the first candidate country to join the European Union's (EU) MEDIA 2007 programme - the support programme for the region's audiovisual industry.European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding, on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding that allows Croatia to participate in the programme with Ambassador ...
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Negativ wins record Czech government backing for Alois Nebel
A new project from producer Pavel Strnad (Something Like Happiness, Year Of The Devil) has received a record $946,000 (CZK 15m) in financing from the Czech state film fund for a new project, comic book adaptation Alois Nebel.The move may signal a change in the way the state funding body ...
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Industry objects to European Commission's online content plans
Key elements of the European Commission's (EC) proposals to promote content online have come under fire from a host of industry representatives and associations across Europe.The strength of objections became clear as responses to a public consultation on the Commission's proposals were published.The UK Film Council criticised the Commission's overall ...
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Melikyan's Mermaid wins Grand Prix at Sofia
Anna Melikyan's quirky coming of age tale Mermaid (Rusalka), which was the opening film of the Berlinale's Panorama last month, was the winner of this year's Grand Prix at the Sofia International Film Festival, the second time in three years that the top prize went to a Russian filmmaker (Alexei ...
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New production venture sets up in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Anapa
Russian holding company AFK Sistema and Russian World Studios (RWS) have announced a joint venture for film production with facilities in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Anapa.'The establishment of two RWS film studios in St. Petersburg and Anapa and the growth of the Moscow film studio will enlarge the release of ...
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Sundance winner Durakovo opens Nyon's doc festival Visions du Reel
Nino Kirtadze's Durakovo: Village Of Fools, winner of the World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary at this year's Sundance Film Festival, will open the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival 'Visions du Reel' held from April 17-23.An international jury of US producer Claire Aguilar, Swiss cinematographer Severine Barde, Tunisian filmmaker Nourid Bouzid ...
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French production- Cinema Sans Frontieres
France produces 200-plus films a year, more than any other country in Europe. Its output has long been dominated by light-hearted fare, targeted at the local market.However, with the local box office falling in 2007 and exports booming, this is gradually changing as a new breed of French film-makers and ...
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Hyyti to leave Finland's FS Film Oy; Toiviainen promoted to MD
Lasse Hyyti is leaving his post as managing director of Finnish distributor FS Film Oy.The company's current VP of marketing and head of theatrical distribution, Antti Toiviainen, will be promoted to Managing Director as of April 16.Hyyti, who has been with FS Film for eight years, will pursue a career ...
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MK2 blasts off with nWave's 3D Fly Me To The Moon
Ben Stassen of nWave Pictures has sold another major territory on animated feature Fly Me To The Moon, which made history in Berlin last month as the first 3D film to screen as part of the European Film Market.The latest deal Stassen has concluded on the film post-Berlin is with ...
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Caramel to kick off Istanbul's 200-film programme
The 27th International Istanbul Film Festival (April 5-20) will open with Nadine Labaki's Cannes hit Caramel. The festival, sponsored by AKBANK, has programmed 200 films in 20 sections, playing at six venues.Twelve international films are competing for the Golden Tulip: Ben X, Darling, The Wave, Be Kind Rewind, Egg, My ...