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Rome Film Fest backs film education programme for schools
The Rome Film Fest is backing a new initiative to promote cinema to kids in Rome's public schools by bringing films, actors, directors and film critics to the classroom.To kick off the initiative, entitled Waiting for the festa,actor Sergio Castellito, who portrays King Miraz in Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, ...
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Grande, Grosso makes highest non-US entry in international chart
French comedy Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis enjoyed its second weekend at number one in Screen's International Box Office chart, taking an impressive $29.8m from three territories while keeping new entry 10,000 B.C. at bay. The top 40 international films generated $181.2m from 44,130 screens for the period of March 7-9.For ...
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Progress takes on sales for German kids film Morphus
Progress Film-Verleih will handle world sales on Karola Hattop's new children's film Morphus which is shooting in Berlin until Easter after completing location work near Berchtesgaden and Wernigerode.The story of a young boy's adventure to recover the last composition by Ludwig van Beethoven, which was stolen from him by two ...
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Kari's The Good Heart beats with Paul Dano, Brian Cox
Icelandic director Dagur Kari is gearing up for a late April start of shoot for his next film The Good Heart, which has been pushed back slightly after a planned December 2007 start. The film will shoot for 10 weeks.Paul Dano and Brian Cox are now cast in the leads, ...
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Mungiu's 4 Months dominates Romanian Gopo Awards
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days picked up nine of the 17 awards handed out at the second annual Gopo Awards in Bucharest March 3. The Palm d'Or-winning abortion drama was named Best Film and earned Best Director for Cristian Mungiu, Best Actress for Anamaria Marinca, Best Supporting Actress ...
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Bac takes on sales, French rights to Pablo - The Little Red Fox
Bac Films is set to handle international sales and French theatrical distribution for the animation feature Pablo - The Little Red Fox based on the popular TV series of the same name. Pitching the $ 11.9m (Euros 7.8m) project in development at last week's Cartoon Movie co-production forum, Toons ...
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The Light to launch digital cinemas in Romania
UK-based exhibitor The Light has announced it will open its first two digital cinemas, in Romania, this autumn.Both eight-screen cinemas -- one at Liberty Center in Bucharest and the other at the Tiago Mall in Oradea -- are scheduled to open on Nov 1. The cinemas will offer up to ...
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Prague to host Paramount's $170m GI Joe
Barrandov Studios has signed a contract to host Paramount's $170m GI Joe.The $170m action film would be one of the most expensive ever in the Czech studio's history, between the estimated $150m Casino Royale and the $180m Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And the Wardrobe.Set construction for for ...
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Metrodome strikes UK deal for Fear(s) Of The Dark
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights to French animated feature Fear(s) Of The Dark from Celluloid Dreams.Pierre Menahem of Celluloid Dreams negotiated with Metrodome CEO Peter Urie, general manager-home entertainment Tom Stewart and acquisitions & business affairs manager Kate Edwards.Metrodome plans an autumn 2008 release.Sara Frain, Metrodome general manager-theatrical, ...
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Fortissimo takes on Jordan's Sundance hit Captain Abu Raed
Fortissimo Films has taken worldwide rights (outside the Middle East and North America) on Amin Matalqa's Captain Abu Raed.The film won the World Cinema Audience Award at Sundance and Best Actor for Nadim Sawalha at Dubai.Captain Abu Raed marks the first feature from Jordan to be exported internationally.Fortissimo will give ...
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Spanish producers and distributors forming coalition to tackle piracy
Leading Spanish producer associations FAPAE and Egeda are forming a coalition with the local anti-piracy organisation, FAP (supported bythe Motion Picture Association), the Federation of Spanish distributors (Fedecine), the music producers association Promusicae and representatives from the publishing sector to help build relations with internet service providers and clamp down ...
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Italy loses 254 cinemas since 2003 as multiplexes grow
The Italian exhibitor association Anec has said that 254 cinemas have closed in Italy since 2003, shutting down 306 screens.The Northern Lombard region sustained the most losses at 58 screens. Emiglia-Romagna and Tuscany followed.Traditional downtown cinemas in Florence, Milan, Rome, Naples and Bologna sustained the most closures, but Anec says ...
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Malaysia's Flower In The Pocketwins Fribourg Grand Prix
Malaysian director Liew Seng Tat's feature debut Flower In The Pocket was awarded the Grand Prix - the Regard d'Or - at this year's Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF), the first edition under the new artistic director Eduoard Waintrop.The story about two small boys growing up without their mother and ...
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Cartoon Tributes go to French projects including Persepolis
France was the big winner of this year's Cartoon Movie Tributes awarded to 'companies or personalities that have had a positive or dynamic influence on the European animation feature film industry' which were presented at the Cartoon Movie market in Babelsberg this afternoon.The Best European Director of the Year award ...
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Trust, Bac Films to handle international sales on Cartoon Movie projects
Trust Film Sales and Bac Films are to handle international sales on two projects pitched at this week's Cartoon Movie co-production market in Babelsberg.Trust will be handling international distribution for Valeria Edwina Saunders' Prima Ballerina which is being produced by her company Rambling Rose Animation Studio with Denmark's Zentropa, Hungarian ...
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Pan-European digital cinema pilot project to launch in autumn
France's MK2, Hungary's Szimpla Film, Denmark's Nordisk Film and Belgium's Kinepolis Group are supporting a European 'Cinema on demand' film digitisation project entitled Europe's Finest which is being launched this autumn by Cologne-based reelport to digitise and distribute 30-40 European films.The project, which has been supported by the European Union's ...
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Fifth Sofia Meetingsselects 22 second features for fifth edition
New feature films by Serbia's Dusan Milic, Estonia's Ilmar Raag and Germany's Marc Meyer are among 22 projects being presented at the fifth edition of the Sofia Meetings pitching forum for second feature films from March 13-16.For the first time this year, three of the projects selected for pitching at ...
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Managing director Stephan Schesch takes over Animation X
Managing director Stephan Schesch has taken over control of the Berlin-based production house Animation X Gesellschaft zur Produktion von Animationsfilmen following the exit of the shareholders X-Filme creative pool and David Groenewold's Promedium from the joint venture.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com on the eve of this year's Cartoon Movie co-production market ...
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Eurimages backs new projects from Danis Tanovic, Marco Bellocchio
The Council of Europe's Eurimages co-production fund has backed 10 new features for a total of $5.4m (Euros 3.57m).The supported projects are:3 Sezony V Pekle by Tomas Masin (Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia) EEP by Rita Horst (Netherlands, Belgium) Europolis, The Town of the Delta by Kostadin Bonev (Bulgaria, Austria) Forgotten ...
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French films, led by Ch'Tis, lead the international box office
French films accounted for nearly a quarter of the international top 40 revenue this weekend, spearheaded by a whopping $32.5m opening from top film Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis.The top 40 films generated $188.5m from 45,384 screens for the period of February 29-March 2. For the full international chart, compiled by ...