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Equinoxe joins Future Films and Arcadia on Purple America
Jorge Torregrossa's Purple America is now going ahead with a Canadian co-producer, Equinoxe Productions. The $6.3m (Euros 4.5m) production was developed by Spain's Arcadia Films with the help of El Deseo and London-based Future Films. Future's Stephen Margolis has led the financial arrangements. The project is set to go ahead ...
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Lives Of Others producer finds funds and sales agent for comedy
Munich-based Telepool has boarded U-900, the third feature film by The Lives Of Others producer Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, as a sales agent and co-financier. The comedy about a submarine on the run in 1944 Germany is directed by Sven Unterwaldt (7 Zwerge)starring German sitcom star Atze Schroeder, Oliver K. ...
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Greenaway eyes film on 17th century artist Goltzius
Peter Greenaway, whose Rembrandt van Rijn-inspired film Nightwatching un-spooled in competition at Venice and will screen in Toronto, is working on two new projects.Kees Kasander, Greenaway's long time producer, revealed that Greenaway's next film will also be based on an artist's life, although this one lesser known.The film will be ...
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UK and US films open world and international premieres in Oldenburg
UK director Julian Richards' coming of age drama Summer Scars and Stephan Geene's Berlin-set drama After Effect are among the world premieres at this year's Oldenburg International Film Festival which will open with Maggie Peren's comedy Stellungswechsel about a male escort agency on September 12.The festival, which has built up ...
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Gdynia announces 21 competition titles
A bumper crop of 21 titles will compete for the grand prize at the 32nd Polish Film Festival in the seaside town of Gdynia. Palm D'Or laureate Andrzej Wajda's highly anticipated new film Katyn will screen at the opening ceremony Sep 18. Katyn examines the Katyn massacre of 1940, where ...
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Fiennes and Pearce join cast of Iraq drama The Hurt Locker
Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, Jeremy Renner and David Morse have boarded Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, which is currently filming in Jordan.Brian Geraghty and Anthony Mackie also star in the ensemble drama, Bigelow's first feature since 2002's Russian submarine thriller K-19: The Widowmaker.The Hurt Locker follows the ...
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Dinard to open British film festival with It's A Free World
Ken Loach's It's A Free World, which world premiered in Venice and will also screen here in Toronto, has been selected as the opening-night film at the Festival of British Film in Dinard. The closing-night film is L'Heure Zero by Pascal Thomas.The festival, Oct 4-7 in the seaside town in ...
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Bannenberg steps up acquisitions role for Lumiere
Jan Declercq and Alexander Vandeputte of distributor Lumiere are strengthening ties with Esther Bannenberg, and the three will jointly handle Benelux acquisitions for Lumiere.Bannenberg will continue to do outside work with festivals, markets and training bodies through TOTO, but will now have more focus on being an acquisitions executive at ...
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Pyramide takes on salse for Zanasi's Don't Think About It
Pyramide International has acquired world rights, excluding Italy, for Venice Days title Don't Think About It (Non pensarci) - a generational comedy by Italian directorGianni Zanasi.Pyramide confirmed that sales have been completed in Venice with Hopscotch for Australia, Audiovisual for Greece, and Xenix for Switzerland. A Benelux deal has also ...
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TF1 takes on Suso's Tower and Mutum
France's TF1 International has acquired Suso's Tower heading into festival season. The film is in selection at San Sebastian and is directed by Tom Fernandez with Javier Camara, Gonzalo De Castro, Cesar Vea and Jose Luis Alcobendas making up the cast. Produced by Mediapro, the film tells the story of ...
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Disengagement
Dir. Amos Gitai. France / Israel / Germany / Italy , 2007. 115 mins.Amos Gitai's systematic chronicle of modern Israeli history reaches one of its more sensitive and inevitable points in this dramatised version of the recent crisis generated by the unilateral decision, taken by the Sharon government, to dismantle ...
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Charlotte Gainsbourg recovering from brain hemorrhage
Actress Charlotte Gainsbourg underwent surgery overnightWednesday following a brain hemorrhage. News reports said the actress was 'doingvery well' on Thursday.Gainsbourg's agent,Dominique Segall, said in a statement that the actress had taken a fall a fewmonths ago whilst water skiing and underwent surgery for a small hematoma inthe brain.'She is ...
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Goldwyn acquires Lelouch's thriller Roman De Gare
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights for Claude Lelouch's new thriller Roman De Gare, which premiered in Cannes and opened in August in France.Dominique Pinon and Fanny Ardant star in the story of a popular novelist who does unusual research to find new characters. Lelouch wrote, directed and produced. ...
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Norway submits Gone With The Woman for Oscar race
Norwegian director Petter Naess' Gone with the Woman (Tatt av kvinnen), which will have its international premiere here in Toronto, will represent Norway in the race for the foreign-language Oscar.Starring Trond Fausa Aurvag and Marian Saastad Ottesen, the film is adapted from Erlend Loe's 1993 novel. Naess was also up ...
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Denmark's Niels Aden Oplev completes Two Worlds
Danish director Niels Arden Oplev, whose We Shall Overcome (Drømmen) ended No 5 on the local charts from 406,000 admissions in 2006, has completed principal photography for his new feature, Two Worlds (To verdener), from an original screenplay co-written by Steen Bille.The Danish Film Institute has chipped in $1.2 million ...
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The Secret Of The Grain (La Graine Et Le Mulet)
Dir/Scr: Abdellatif Kechiche , France , 2007, 153mins.A cine-verite tour-de-force, Abdellatif Kechiche's follow-up to the award- winning L'Esquive loads an apparently slight story set against the background of France 's first-and-second generation Maghrebi immigrant communities with surprising dramatic weight. There's even less story and even more of the director's trademark ...
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Sweden's TV4 fills gap for Arn: The Knight Templar
Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 replaces Swedish pubcaster SVT as co-producer of Svensk Filmindustri's Arn: The Knight Templar.The $30.3m (Euro 22.8m) adaptation of Jan Guillou's bestselling trilogy of Arn Magnusson lost support from pubcaster SVT because 'the material we have seen does not live up to the quality we expected.'Stepping into ...
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Hungary nominates Palfi's Taxidermia for Oscar race
Gyorgy Palfi's Taxidermia has been chosen for consideration for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar by Hungary's selection committee for the Academy Awards. Palfi's film won out over other recent high-profile Hungarian films, including Janos Szasz's Opium and Krisztina Goda's Children Of Glory. Bela Tarr's Cannes competition title The ...
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Four Minutes and The Edge of Heaven among Germany's Oscar offers
This year's Golden Lola winner Four Minutes by Chris Kraus and Fatih Akin's Cannes competition title The Edge Of Heaven are among seven films submitted for consideration as Germany's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at next year's Academy Awards.Other films nominated include Robert Thalheim's And Along Come ...
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Deauville applauds Affleck's Gone Baby Gone
Based on the novel by Mystic River author Dennis Lehane, Gone Baby Gone tells of two private detectives' attempt to find a young girl abducted in a rough part of Boston.Pre-screening, Casey Affleck joked that brother Ben was 'a pain in the ass' as a director while the director himself ...