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Renny Harlin's $15m Mannerheim to shoot in August 2008
Finnish actor Mikko Nousiainen, who starred in local blockbuster The Restless will play Finnish historical legend Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim in a $14.7m (Euros 10m) biopic, which will mark the return to Finland of Finnish/Hollywood director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2: Die Harder).Principal photography for the film has been scheduled ...
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Marrakech to open with Elizabeth and close with The Neighbor
The seventh edition of the Marrakech Film Festival will open with Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age and close with Eddie O'Flaherty's The Neighbor, organisers have announced.The jury will be headed by Milos Forman who will be backed up by Kapur, John Hurt, Pavel Lounguine, Aissa Maiga, Claude Miller, Parker ...
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Polanski's adaptation of The Ghost to start shooting in summer 2008
UK novelist Robert Harris, in Turin to promote his novel The Ghost, provided new details on the film adaptation of the book which Roman Polanski will direct. The pair are working together on the script now.Harris also discussed Pompeii, the $100m epic that was cancelled last September when Polanski pulled ...
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Finnish government boost cinema funding after producers' strike
Apologising that he actually gave them more money than they went to strike for, Finnish culture minister Stefan Wallin has complied with Finnish producers' demands of increasing state funds for film production. As recommended by the Finnish Parliament's education, culture and audit committees, Wallin confirmed that the revenue from the ...
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Francesco Rosi to receive Berlinale tribute and Golden Bear
Veteran Italian director Francesco Rosi is to be honoured with an Homage and an Honorary Golden Bear at February 2008's Berlin International Film Festival. The Homage will present a selection of 13 films documenting Rosi's oeuvre of politically committed cinema over the decades and will include his 1961/62 film Salvatore ...
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Local box-office hit El Greco sweeps Greek State Cinema Awards
Just a day after the wrap of the 48th Thessaloniki Film Festival - where, for the first time, Greek talent garnered the bulk of awards - more Greek films were honored during the Greek State Cinema Awards organized by the Culture Ministry in Thessaloniki. This year's local box office hit, ...
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Italy sees growth in production but lags behind European admissions
Italy is seeing positive growth in terms of production, budgets and box office trends, yet it still lags behind the other major European territories, particularly in terms of ticket sales. That was the news as Cinecitta Holding presented new research revealing the state of the Italian film market at the ...
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EFA FIPRESCI Award goes to Alain Resnais' Private Fears
The International federation of film critics, FIPRESCI, will give this year's European Film Academy Critics' Award to Alain Resnais' Private Fears In Public Places (Coeurs). FIPRESCI said that Resnais 'treats the characters the way an affectionate puppeteer would treat his creatures. He contemplates their comings and goings with the benevolence ...
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Christopher Doyle to wrap Polish thriller in December
Australian filmmaker Christopher Doyle is scheduled to wrap shooting Dec 10 on Polish-language political thriller Warsaw Dark. The story is based on the 2001 murder, still unresolved, of Jacek Debski, Polish minister of sport and tourism. Doyle began filming Nov 12 on location in Warsaw with a Polish crew of ...
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Hungary's Korda and Colorfront strike strategic partnership
Hungary's Korda Studios and new Budapest-based post-production company Colorfront have signed a partnership agreement to offer Colorfront services to productions based at Korda.Colorfront will have satellite offices and post facilities based at Korda and the companies will be connected by a high-speed fiber-optic network, enabling work such as color-graded digital ...
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Austria's Bohrer takes top post at new European Film Commissions Network
The newly established European Film Commissions Network (EuFCN) appointed Arie Bohrer of Location Austria and the Austrian Film Commission as its first board president Nov 23 in Prague. Delegates from the 55 member commissions representing 18 European countries also appointed Patrick Lamassoure of Film France as general secretary of the ...
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Costa-Gavras to serve as Berlinale jury president
The Greek-French director Costa-Gavras has been named as president of the International Jury for February's Berlin International Film Festival.Costa-Gavras has often seen his films shown at the Berlinale in past years: Music Box, with Armin Mueller-Stahl and Jessica Lange, received the Golden Bear at the 1990 festival, while La Petite ...
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Beta takes on sales for Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo
Beta Film will handle world sales for director Paolo Sorrentino's much awaited film The Divo (Il Divo), Andrea Occhipinti of Italy's Lucky Red confirmed. Sorrentino's film is inspired by the life of Giulio Andreotti, who served as Italian Prime Minister seven times whose name is a symbol for Italian ...
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China's Red Awn wins Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki
Shangjun Cai's Red Awn (Hongse Kangbaiyin) won the Golden Alexander award in the international section of the Thessaloniki Film Festival. (Click here to see review)The best film award is accompanied with a prize of $55,000 (Euros 37,000).The $33,000 (Euros 22,000) Silver Alexander award went to Colombian Spiros Stathoulopoulos' PVC-1.Best director ...
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4 Months wins Stockholm's Bronze Horse
Cristian Mungiu's Palme D'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days has added Stockholm's Bronze Horse to itsimpressive list of honours.The Stockholm International Film Festival jury, led by Tom Kalin praised theRomanian film, which centres on an illegal abortion during the oppressive Ceaucescu dictatorship,for its 'honesty and devastating humanity'Anamaria Marinca's ...
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Central Partnership sells Revenge, Wolfhound to Weinstein Company
Russian sales company Central Partnership has struck a number of deals in the wake of the American Film Market earlier this month. Titles that have lured buyers include thrillers Revenge and fantasy epic Wolfhound, already a substantial box-office hit in Russia. Revenge has been sold to North America/UK/Australia/New Zealand and ...
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Baltic Event selects 12 projects for Tallinn co-production market
Films from Croatia, Romania, Estonia and Armenia are among a dozen projects selected from a record 37 submissions for the Baltic Event's third co-production market which will be held in the Estonian capital of Tallinn from Dec 3-4. This year's lineup features: Barabbas, dir: Aleksei Muradov (Russia), a drama set ...
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Italy's Mediaset launches new free cinema channel
Italy's Mediaset, the nation's most powerful private network owned by Silvio Berlusconi, is launching Iris: a new, free, digital terrestrial channel to be devoted tofilms and cultural programming.The new channel will go on air November 30 will be under the direction of Miriam Pisani who acted previously as vice director ...
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Rotterdam reveals first competitors from Japan, Malaysia,Thailand
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 23-Feb 3) has selected the first three films for its VPRO Tiger Awards Competition. They are genre-bending autobiographical family project Waltz In Starlight by Shingo Wakagi (Japan); Pusan award winner Flower In The Pocket by Liew Seng Tat (Malaysia) about two motherless brothers; and ...
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Medusa makes strides with Bahamas and Come Tu Mi Vuoi
Italian distributor Medusa Film made a solid imprint on the international top 40 this weekend with two films - Matrimonio Alle Bahamas and Come Tu Mi Vuoi - generating more than $7m and accounting for 5.2% of the chart's total revenue. For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, ...