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Ascot Elite picks up five titles including Love In The Time Of Cholera
Leading Swiss independent film distributor Ascot Elite Entertainment has announced the acquisition of the rights to five new titles for its 2007/08 slate. The five new titles acquired are: Mike Newell's Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptation Love In The Time Of Cholera, with John Leguizamo and Hector Elizondo, acquired from Summit; ...
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Poland's Era New Horizons to open with 4 Months, 3 Days
The seventh Era New Horizons film festival in Wroclaw, Poland will open July 19 with Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The festival's opening night will also include a concert by Marianne Faithfull, who will also be in Wroclaw to introduce her film Irina Palm. The ...
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Elisabeth Perlier joins sales team at Bac Films
Former Gemini Films international sales manager Elisabeth Perlier has joined the international sales team at Bac Films. Perlier, who was at Gemini for four years, will be in charge of international sales and French TV sales at Bac in collaboration with Camille Neel. Bac's Silvere Moreau, who has decided to ...
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Yerevan gives awards to War And Peace and Import/Export
Armenian documentary filmmaker Vardan Hovhannisyan was the big winner at this year's Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan, picking up four of the prizes for his film A Story Of People In War And Peace at the awards ceremony preceding the closing film The Banishment by Russia's Andrei Zviagintsev. ...
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Norwegian admissions slip in 2007, but local market share rises
Admissions declined in Norway, but local market share went up during the first six months of 2007, according to statistics published by Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino. Theatres sold 5.1m tickets during the period, down 13% on 2006, still 1.4% better than in 2005. Local fare accounted for 20.6% ...
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Senator to launch US distribution operation with Mandy Lane
Senator Entertainment's first domestic release will be All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, the horror film that made waves at last year's Toronto film festival, after the company bought North American rights from TWC International.The fledgling distributor plans to release the film on more than 1,000 screens in early 2008 ...
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Potter shatters numerous IMAX records
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix: An IMAX 3D Experience broke several giant-format records this past week, including largest worldwide gross ($9.4m), largest domestic 5-day total ($7.3m), largest domestic per screen average ($80,500) and largest single day ($1.9m). It was also the widest-ever opening for IMAX, with 91 ...
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Leslie Moonves to deliver opening keynote at MIPCOM 2007
TV and digital content market MIPCOM 2007 has announced seven industry speakers who will give keynotes at this year's conference. They are CBS Corp's Leslie Moonves, Grupo Televisa's Emilio Azcarraga, UTV Group's Ronnie Screwvala, The Zee Network's Subhash Chandra, NBC/Universal's Ben Silverman, Joost's Mike Volpi, and United Artists' Paula Wagner.Moonves ...
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Marian Quinn's 32A takes debut prize at Galway Film Fleadh
Marian Quinn's 32A picked up the first feature award at last night's closing ceremony at the Galway Film Fleadh. The Janey Pictures' coming of age story, an Irish/German co-production with Flying Moon Filmproduktion backed by the Irish Film Board and the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, looks at the consequences ...
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LA's Danish Film Fest to include post-production expo
Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 La Passion De Jeanne d'Arc - complete with a new score - will open the second-annual Danish Film Fest in Los Angeles, which runs from Oct 4-11. The event combines an appreciation of Danish cinema with a Danish film expo on post-production co-presented by the ...
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Thessaloniki lands European premiere of Sayles' Honeydripper
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival will host the European premiere of John Sayles' new film Honeydripper.The film is currently in the final stages of post production. Starring Danny Glover and Lisa Gay Hamilton, Honeydripper is about the origins of rockand roll in America's deep South. The director himself appears in ...
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Jon Fitzgerald to head new Abu Dhabi film festival
The Middle East International Film Festival is set to announce its director today. Jon Fitzgerald, who co-founded Slamdance, was Director of Festivals at the American Film Institute (AFI) between 1997 and 1999, and later an executive director of Santa Barbara International Film Festival, will head up the inaugural festival, which ...
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Harry Potter weaves a magical international opening for Warner Bros
Warner Bros weaved a magical opening for Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix at the weekend as the fifth episode in the fantasy saga conjured up an estimated $190.3m from 44 territories.Approximately 31m people overseas turned out to see the film, which amassed $330m around the world in ...
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Konchalovsky starts shooting $65m Nutcracker in Budapest
Principal photography starts today in Budapest on $65m fantasy film Nutcracker - The Untold Story. Russian director Andrei Konchalovksy (Runaway Train, Tango & Cash) co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Solimine, inspired by Tchaikovsky's classic ballet. Tim Rice will write lyrics to eight new original songs based on the Tchaikovsky scores. ...
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Croatia's Pula fesival starts Adriatic market programme
The 54th Pula Film Festival (July 12-21), the national Croatian festival, is this year starting a regional programme to present work from the Adriatic region countries: Italy, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania.The programme, July 16-21, will have a pure market character and will be out of competition.In 2008. ...
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Sweden's Film i Vast to host $96m level of international features
Swedish regional film centre, Film i Vast in Trollhattan, will this year co-produce and facilitate local or international features at a total volume of $96m (Euros 70.5m), with Denmark's Zentropa Entertainments accounting for $13.3m (Euros 9.8m) of the business. Film i Vast's own investment reaches $8.3m (Euros 6m).'Zentropa has an ...
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Venice jury to include Campion, Verhoeven and Innaritu
The Venice Film Festival has named a distinguished list of directors to make up the international competition jury for its 64th edition.The jurists are all 'important figures' in Venice's recent history, the Biennale said.The jurors will are:French director Catherine Breillat, who presented Brief Crossing at Venice in 2001 and whose ...
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Jeremy Irons to lead 13th Sarajevo festival jury
Jeremy Irons will be the president of the jury of the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 17-25). The festival has also revealed its Documentary Panorama programme selected by Howard Feinstein, who said: 'The popular Panorama Documentaries, programme launched in 2001, strand covers the whole world except for regional works, with ...
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Robert Young starts Norwegian shoot for Wide Blue Yonder
This week the Norwegian city of Haugesund - home of the Norwegian International Film Festival - was invaded by stars outside the festival season, as UK director Robert Young started principal photography for his new feature, Wide Blue Yonder, with British actors Brian Cox and and James Fox in the ...
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New York Film Academy plans European hub in Florence
New York Film Academy has announced the opening of a new Europeanheadquarters in Florence, Italy.The school will be operative as of January 2008.NYFA has been operative with summer seminars in Florence for threeyears, is opening its official site in conjunction with and at theheadquarters of the Mediateca Regional Toscana (The ...