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Venice opens competition with warm welcome for Wright's Atonement
The 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival kicked off Wednesday with UK director Joe Wright's Ian McEwan adaptation Atonement, which was well received in its world premiere. All eyes were on British actress Keira Knightley as she sauntered down the red carpet flanked by British co-stars James McAvoy and ...
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Universal and Studio Canal create French DVD joint venture
Universal Pictures International Entertainment and Studio Canal are creating a joint venture to handle home entertainment titles in France.From January 2008, the joint venture will combine the sales, marketing and distribution (via ODS) businesses of all titles for Studio Canal and Universal Pictures France. The new entity will be named ...
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Soenke Wortmann comes to the rescue of Constantin's Pope Joan
German director Soenke Wortmann has come to the rescue of Constantin Film's planned adaptation of the Donna Cross bestseller Pope Joan after the previously attached director Volker Schloendorff was fired amidst much controversy last month.Franka Potente is still expected to take the title lead role in the international project which ...
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Kinowelt takes on sales, distribution and co-production of animated title
Kinowelt International has picked up international rights (except for France and Italy) on Tony Loeser and Jesper Moeller's animated feature film A Case For Friends...How It All Began which has now begun production at Loeser's MotionWorks' studio in Halle. Kinowelt's theatrical and home entertainment divisions will release the film in ...
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Jean-Claude Carriere to take center stage at Copenhagen
French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, who has worked on Belle Du Jour, The Tin Drum, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, will receive the Copenhagen International Film Festival's Life Achievement Award in September. 'Screenwriters always end up in the shadow of the director, but we would like to do our bit ...
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Sogepaq takes on international sales of Bernal's Deficit
Spain 's Sogepaq has taken on international sales, outside Mexico and North America, for actor Gael Garcia Bernal's directorial debut Deficit. Bernal's Mexico-based production outfit Canana Films produced Deficit, which had its world premiere during Cannes Critics Week. The film will also screen in Toronto's Vanguard section, where Sogepaq will ...
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Venice sellers say market is healthy
As the 64th Venice Film Fest opens tonight with Joe Wright's Atonement, thoughts are on expansion and stability. While the Italian industry will have to wait to see if artistic director Marco Mueller and Biennale President Davide Croff will be reinstated for a second mandate - all festivalgoers are wondering ...
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Sarajevo's CineLink gives out record $68,000 funding
In addition to expanding its selection to projects with some financing in place, the Sarajevo Film Festival's co-production market CineLink has secured record funding of $68,150 (Euros 50,000) in its fifth edition. In addition to the long-term partner Hubert Bals Fund, the Goteborg International Film Festival and France's CNC have ...
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EastWest picks up San Sebastian title The Bird Can't Fly
Vienna/London-based sales agent EastWest Filmdistribution has picked up world rights to Dutch film-maker Threes Anna's The Bird Can't Fly, which will have its world premiere in the Zabaltegi - New Directors competition section at next month's San Sebastian International Film Festival. Anna's feature debut stars American actress Barbara Hershey as ...
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Fortissimo takes on Schnabel's Lou Reed film Berlin
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide sales rights, excluding North America, to Julian Schnabel's Berlin, a concert film featuring Lou Reed. Waterboy's Jon Kilik produced with Tom Sarig and Reed. Executive producers are LM Media Gmbh, Stanley Buchthal and Maja Hoffmann. Berlin will world premiere at this week's Venice International Film ...
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San Sebastian unveils full competition and Horizontes programme
The 55th San Sebastian International Film Festival has unveiled the full line-up for its Official Selection and Horizontes Programme. The festival runs Sept 20-29. As previously reported, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises will open the event in competition. The remaining 15 films in Official Selection are: Battle For Haditha, dir. Nick ...
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Celluloidveteran Tanja Meissner joins Memento Films
Former Celluloid Dreams sales executive Tanja Meissner has joined Paris-based producer/distributor Memento Films. Meissner will act as head of world sales and acquisitions for the company.Her first markets will be Venice and Toronto. Memento has recently acquired Philippe Aractingi's Under The Bombs which traces the story of a Shiite woman ...
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EVA picks up international sales on Antonio Vivaldi, Un Prince A Venise
Germany's Entertainment Value Associates (EVA) has secured international distribution rights to Jean-Louis Guillermou's biopic Antonio Vivaldi, Un Prince A Venise which will have its gala world premiere tonight in Paris ' in the presence of a VIP audience including French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The French-Italian co-production by Dream Film, M.A.D. ...
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Verhoeven plans $27m adaptation of Dexter's The Paperboy
Paul Verhoeven will direct the big-screen adaptation of Pete Dexter's novel The Paperboy, which former cinematographer Jan de Bont will produce. The Dutch collaborators will reunite for this $27m (Euros 20m) drama about three people being influenced by the execution of a presumed killer. Shooting is scheduled in a couple ...
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Celluloid Dreams on board for Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django
Celluloid Dreams has taken on Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django, which will have its world premiere in competition at Venice before screening in Toronto's Midnight Madness section. Celluloid has acquired worldwide rights outside of Asia, which Sedic International is handling. Producers are T. Nakazawa of Sedic International; Geneon Entertainment; Sony ...
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A Man's Fear Of God takes best feature prize at Sarajevo
Ozer Kiziltan's Turkish-German production A Man's Fear Of God (Takva) won the Heart of Sarajevo award for the best feature film at the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 17-25).The jury, presided by Jeremy Irons and including Frederic Maire, Ozgu Namal, Andrea Staka and Meinholf Zurhorst, gave the $34,160 (Euros 25,000) ...
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Sarajevo set to joinEuropean film fund network
The Film Foundation Sarajevo could become one of the members of Cine Regio, the European network of regional film funds, by the beginning of October. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily during Sarajevo's CineLink market, Cine Regio's general secretary Charlotte Appelgren said that meetings had been held with representatives of the Sarajevo ...
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Fremaux gets new general manager title at Cannes
Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux has been named general manager of the festival, organizers announced Monday. The appointment was made by the Cannes board of directors on July 19 based on a proposal by Cannes president Gilles Jacob.Fremaux officially took up his new functions on August 9, while continuing to ...
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Kinowelt unveils production slate
Neue Kinowelt Filmproduktion (NKF), the recently founded production arm of Germany's Kinowelt Group, has unveiled an ambitious slate of projects.They include new German language features by Esther Gronenborn, Til Schweiger, Michael Schorr and Hendrik Handloegten spanning all genres from arthouse to the mainstream.According to Kinowelt's Bertil le Claire, NKF aims ...
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The Living and the Dead (Zivi I Mirtvi)
Dir: Kristijan Milic. Bosnia-Herzegovina/Croatia, 2007. 90 mins.The winner of theGrand Prixat The 54th Pula Film Festival,garnering seven awards in total (including best picture and director), The Living and the Dead is a striking examination of war-fever, unadulterated and Balkan-style. Kristijan Milic's debut film will strike a familiar chordwith its own ...