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All Middle East articles – Page 184
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Rome has mixed reactions for Coppola's Youth Without Youth
Francis Ford Coppola's return to film-making was met with mixed reactions, as the Rome Film Fest Saturday presented the world premiere of his Youth Without Youth, based on a novella by Mircea Eliade.The packed press screening Saturday morning was followed by absolutesilence before a moderate applause slowly broke out, indicating ...
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Youth Without Youth
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola. Rom/Fr/It. 2007. 124minsTen years after the polished, anonymous professionalism of The Rainmaker, Francis Ford Coppola returns with an epic, magic realist tale of miraculous rejuvenation. Anyone who hoped that life might imitate art will be sorely disappointed by Youth Without Youth. This is an amateur production ...
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Eurimages funds new features from Haneke, Noe, Ceylan
Eurimages, the Council of Europe's film fund, has come on board to support 11 feature films for a total of $6.2m (Euros 4.38m) at its last meeting which ended Oct 16. The co-productions supported are: Aeblet & Ormen by Josef Fares & Anders Morgenthaler (Denmark, Sweden) Appelsinpiken by Eva Dahr ...
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Wild Bunch takes a stake in Italian distributor Bim
Confirming rumors that have been rumbling in industry circles for some time, French sales, distribution and financing outfit Wild Bunch has taken a stake in Italy 's Bim Distribuzione. Financial terms were not disclosed. The move reinforces Wild Bunch's ambition to be present in distribution over multiple European territories. Wild ...
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Wajda's Katyn to have international premiere at 2008 Berlinale
Veteran Polish director Andrzej Wajda' Katyn (aka Post Mortem) is set to have its international premiere at next February's Berlinale, Screen Daily.com learnt during this week's Warsaw Filmfest.The $5.8m (PLN 15m) Polish-French co-production by Akson Studio with Margaret Menegoz's Les Films du Losange as minority partner had received its world ...
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Al Shaibani and Al Muhairi take Emirates awards in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi's Middle East International Film Festival (Oct 14-19) today announced the winners of its competition for Emirati filmmakers. Hani Al Shaibani, whose second feature Jumaa and the Sea screens at the festival, and Fadel Al Muhairi, who participated in the festival's pitching programme with his Gulf-based period action-adventure project ...
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Theoren named CEO at IM Internationalmedia, replacing Schuermann
Veteran producer Konstantin Thoeren is to be appointed as CEO of IM Internationalmedia to join CFO Sascha Konzack who had been managing the company alone since the resignation of Martin Schuermann from the post of CEO in July. Thoeren has a more than 30-year track record as an independent producer ...
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Rome rolls out red carpet for Corneau's The Second Wind
The second edition of the Rome Film Fest kicks off tonight with Alain Corneau's The Second Wind (Le deuxieme souffle), playing in competition.The remake of the 1966 Jean-Pierre Melville crime noir stars Italian starlet Monica Bellucci and French actor Daniel Auteuil. Bellucci will inaugurate the Fest's red carpet, perhaps with ...
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Croff ousted at Venice Biennale after four years
Italian Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli will not be renewing the mandate of David Croff, the Minister declared at a Biennale Foundation summit meeting last night.Croff has acted as President of the Venice's Biennale and worked alongside Cinema artistic director Marco Mueller for four years.The President of the Biennale is in ...
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Branco's new Portugal festival score two world premieres
The first European Film Festival in Estoril, Portugal (Nov 8-17) has attracted some high-profile names thanks to Portugal's best-known producer, Paulo Branco, serving as festival director. Pedro Almodovar (whose career is celebrated with a full retrospective) will be giving a masterclass as will fashion designer Emmanuel Ungaro, director Werner Schroeter ...
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Love Marriage and Keep Smiling take pitch prize in Abu Dhabi
The inaugural Middle East International Film Festival's Film Financing Circle (FFC) came to an end Wednesday night with an awards ceremony for the finalists of its pitching programme, the InCircle Pearl.Audience favourite Soman Chainani's Love Marriage, a comedy about two weddings that threaten to tear apart an Indian family in ...
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Celluloid adds Bobby Allen and welcomes back Menahem
Celluloid Dreams has announced the appointment of Bobby Allen to the post of vice-president acquisitions, production and sales. Further, former Celluloid executive Pierre Menahem will rejoin the company as director of international sales. Allen was most recently head of production for MTV Films and has held senior executive positions in ...
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StudioCanal taps van Lier as new head of international sales
Former Intermedia and Summit executive Harold van Lier has been appointed head of international sales at StudioCanal. The company made the announcement Tuesday evening in Paris. Van Lier officially took his post on October 1 and replaces Muriel Sauzay who left to become deputy managing director of Pathe Distribution (France) ...
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The Counterfeiters takes grand prize in Ghent
The 34th Ghent International Film Festival has given its grand prize for best film to The Counterfeiters by Stefan Ruzowitzky. The award comes with $28,421 (Euros 20,000) to support the film's release in at least five cinemas in Flanders and Brussels. Kathleen Turner led the international jury, and she was ...
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International box-office: Italy's SMS beats Resident Evil and Stardust
Indian films made a significant dent in this weekend's international chart, taking more than $6.7m from 1,255 screens and accounting for 5.5% of the revenue from the top 40 films. For the full chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here. Dramatic thriller Bhool Bhulaiyaa entered in at number six with ...
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Real D signs 500-system deal with Odeon and UCI
Real D has signed another huge deal, partnering with Odeon and UCI for the installation of 500 digital 3-D systems across the UK and Europe. The distribution partnership is Real D's largest international deal to date. The rollout of 500 systems will start immediately and continue for the next two ...
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As Europa acquires Roissy, market operations could merge in 2008
As Luc Besson's EuropaCorp agreed to acquire sales company Roissy Films and its 500-title strong catalog, Roissy's president and owner Raphael Berdugo calls the deal 'a very logical' step, The deal, which values the catalog at about $40m, is set to be finalised in early 2008 and ensures Roissy's ability ...
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Rome's Business Street includes focus on local films
Italian sellers are hoping that the second edition of Rome's Business Street (Oct 18-21) will prove a successful launchpad for a slew of local titles.Sales outfit Adrianna Chiesa Enterprises is going to present the first market screenings including a Mafia drama, war documentary, 3-D animation and black comedy. Chiesa says ...
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Copenhagen children's festival Buster moves back to September
As part of the recent merger of the Copenhagen International Film Festival and NATFilm, the CIFF festival for Children and Youth, entitled Buster, has been moved back to September. In recent years, the festival had moved to March to make the most of festival resources, but the changed landscape in ...
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Denmark's Nordisk buys 50% of Swedish producer S/S Fladen
Copenhagen-based distributor Nordisk Film has formed a strategic partnership with Swedish production company S/S Fladen, acquiring 50% of the company. The deal is the latest in a string of alliances struck by Nordisk over the last two years after similar cooperations with Tre Vänner, Illusion Film, Hep Film and Bob ...