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Van Dormeal's Mr Nobody ready to move to Germany
Jaco van Dormeal's Mr Nobody, which has already shot in Belgium and Canada, will continue its six-month shoot moving later this month to Germany. The English-language project stars Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham, and Rhys Ifans. Van Dormeal also wrote the screenplay, about a man living ...
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Rithy Panh's Paper takes documentary prize at EFAs
The European Film Academy has announced that Rithy Panh's Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers (Le Papier Ne Peut Pas Envelopper La Braise), a French production, is the winner of the 2007 Prix Arte for best documentary. This year's jury for the Prix Arte was comprised of Francine Brucher, David Fisher ...
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Singh's The Fall takes best film prize at Sitges
The Sitges film festival has awarded its Best Film prize to The Fall by Indian-born director Tarsem Singh. This is the story of a stuntman who ends up in hospital, where he recounts a long tale to a young girl. That wasn't the festival's only winner, as Rec won a ...
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Weinstein keynote gives strong start to Abu Dhabi festival
Abu Dhabi 's inaugural Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) got off to an extravagant start on Sunday evening with a ceremony that included an Academy Awards-style opening number choreographed by Broadway veteran Otis Sallid. A lavish party at the opulent festival centre, Emirates Palace, followed the screening of opening ...
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Schrader to take lifetime achievement award in Stockholm
The Stockholm International Film Festival will honour director Paul Schrader with this year's lifetime achievement award. The US director and screenwriter will attend the festival to pick up his Bronze Horse in person. The festival will have a special section devoted to Schrader's past work, and will also screen his ...
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Swedish Film Institute gives $2.5m to films including Fares' Leo
The Swedish Film Institute will provide $2.5m (Euros 1.8m) production support for eight new features, including a film by Josef Fares.Separately, the Finnish Film Foundation will contribute $409,000 (Euros 310,000) to the funding of two movies, both instigated before the Finnish producers' strike effective on Sept 14.Fares, whose Zozo won ...
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Ruins allowed in Acropolis as Greece entices foreign shoots
This weekend saw the first film production in history given a permit to shoot inside the famed Acropolis in Athens. My Life In Ruins, produced by Playtone, stars Nia Vardalos of My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame as a guide leading tourists through Greek archeological sites. The team shot in ...
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Rai Cinema, under D'Amico, ramps up co-productions
Rai Cinema's new chief Caterina D'Amico says the film production arm will place a special emphasis on co-productions and to illustrate the point, Rai Cinema has just signed on as 25% partner of Spike Lee's $45m project Miracle at St. Anna, which begins shooting Monday at Cinecitta studios before moving ...
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Mannheim selects 54 projects including Holland's Christine
New film projects from Poland's Agnieszka Holland, Belgium's Geoffrey Enthoven, and the UK's Chris Forster are among 54 projects being pitched to potential partners at the Mannheim Meetings which begin on Sunday (Oct 14). Almost half (26) of the projects being pitched in one-to-one meetings are from Western Europe, including ...
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Wild Bunch picks up German animation The Three Robbers
Wild Bunch has picked up international distribution for Hayo Freitag's The Three Robbers (Die Drei Raeuber), the first animation feature by Animation X, the animation arm of the Berlin production house X-Filme creative pool and David Groenewold's Promedium. Based on Tomi Unguerer's 1961 classic about three robbers who walk the ...
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Mipcom attendance up 10% as mobile content plays bigger role
The annual Mipcom TV market drew to an official close Friday following a week that saw big increases in attendance.Numbers for buyers and exhibitors on site were up 10% to 4,237 and 1,801 respectively. The event continues to focus on traditional TV programming but the impact of digital and mobile ...
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Eight new Polish films to be screened at Warsaw's third CentEast
Veteran Polish film director Andrzej Wajda's Katyn, actor-director Jerzy Stuhr's Twist Of Fate and Dariusz Jablonski's feature debut Strawberry Wine are among eight new Polish films being shown as part of the Warsaw's International Film Festival's third CentEast Market (Oct 17-21) showcasing the best of Central and Eastern European cinema ...
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As Band's Visit is axed from Oscar race, Beaufort is putforward
The Israeli Film Academy is in an uproar over the 2008 Oscars, as the country's expected contender was disqualified and a replacement has now been submitted.Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit, which has been voted hands down by the Academy as the best Israeli film of the year, has been disqualified ...
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Exhibitors to debate digital change at Bucharest conference
More than 400 European exhibitors will debate the future of cinema at the12th annual conference of the Europa Cinemas networkin Bucharest, Romania, on November 15 - 18.The annual event will againturn its main focus on the impact of digital technologies on the theatrical business.There will also be sessions on renewing ...
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Paramount strikes European d-cinema deal with Arts Alliance Media
Digital cinema company Arts Alliance Media has signed a non-exclusive long-term deal with Paramount for digital cinema deployment in Europe.Under the pact, Paramount Pictures International has committed to supply its films in digital format to AAM DCI-compliant screens in the UK and Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal, the ...
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Peur(s) du Noir selected as Rome's surprise film
The Rome Film Fest has announced the world premiere of Peur(s) du Noir - a collective animation film featuring the work of six top comic book and graphic art talents. The film focuses on childhood nightmares and adult phobias.Celluloid Dreams is handling sales. The six episodes are designed by ...
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John Cale to star in Aguero's Salamandra
Music legend John Cale is appearing opposite Argentinean actress Dolores Fonzi (El Aura) in Pablo Aguero's feature debut Salamandra which begins principal photography in a remote community in Patagonia from today (Oct 11).The Euros 1m mother-son drama about a six-year old boy taken by his mother on a hitch-hiking trip ...
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Israeli film Foul Gesture claims first international buyers
Israeli revenge drama Foul Gesturehas soldto Barton Films for Spain, Portugal and AndorraTzahi Grad's$0.5m film proved a huge success at the San Sebastian film festival and has been a hit with critics.'We don't have a sales agent attached to the film yet, but [Bilbao based] Barton films have bought the ...
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IDFA to open with wartime project Operation Homecoming
The 20th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) will open Nov 22 with Richard Robbins' Operation Homecoming: Writing The Wartime Experience. This film is based on letters, poems, essays and diary fragments of American soldiers serving in Iraq (via a National Endowment for the Arts programme), set against universal themes ...
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Russian hit Apocalypse Code enters international top 10
Russian action hit Apocalypse Code was the highest non-US entry into the international top 40 this weekend, taking $3.6m from 697 screens. For the full chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here. The film, directed by Vadim Shmelev, just made the top 10 and enjoyed a $5,167 screen average from ...