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Oscar nominees Dreamgirls, Blood Diamond hit major territories
Dreamgirls, the recipient of eight Oscar nominations on Tuesday, gets its first major international push this weekend.Paramount/PPI executives will be looking to convert the recognition into healthy overseas returns when it opens the hit musical in Italy, Mexico and Spain on Jan 26.Meanwhile the family film Charlotte's Web opens in ...
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Iranian cinema: Staying power
Iran's film industry is unusual internationally and unique in the Middle East. Production levels - 80 features plus 36 feature documentaries and children's films in 2006 - are the highest in the region. Around 60% of films are released theatrically, and homegrown product makes up 94% of local box office. ...
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Gaumont co-CEO Franck Chorot steps down
Gaumont co-CEO Franck Chorot will step down from his post as of February 1, the French major has announced.Chorot will continue to work with the world's oldest film company as an in-house producer as well as working on co-productions set up with other companies in France and abroad.Following a stint ...
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Bavaria takes worldwide rights to Menzel's King Of England
Bavaria Film International has picked up worldwide rights to Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England, an adaptation from the novel of the same title by Czech author Bohumil Hrabal. The film will screen in the main competition at Berlin.'We are delighted to work cooperate with Jiri Menzel,' Bavaria ...
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Nanni Moretti accepts Turin post for second time
Palme d'Or winning Italian director Nanni Moretti is officially back on board as director of the Turin Film Festival, announcing his intention to maintain the festival's focus on new directors and experimental cinema for its 25th edition this year. Moretti's appointment, announced at a press conference Thursday in Turin, comes ...
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EFP plans new Picture Europe! programme to kick off in April
European Film Promotion is introducing a new European film event in the capitals of Berlin, Madrid and London. Picture Europe! The Best of European Cinema will begin in April, coming to London at the Curzon Cinema in Soho from June 8-14. A premiere party will take place to launch the ...
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Bruce McDonald, Jiri Menzel, Paulo Caldas films picked up pre-Berlin
International distribution rights to films by Bruce McDonald, Jiri Menzel and Paulo Caldas are among the latest titles picked up by German sales agents ahead of this year's Berlinale and European Film Market (EFM). Bavaria Film International will handle international sales for McDonald's The Tracey Fragments, which will be the ...
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Five world premieres confirmed forBerlinale Special section
New films by the Taviani brothers, Doris Doerrie, Fernando Perez and Timur Bekmambetov are among nine titles now confirmed for the Berlinale Special section of the festival's official programme.This year, five world premieres have been selected for this section which presents recent works by contemporary filmmakers whose films the Berlinale ...
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Rotterdam director bemoans lack of local films in festival
Where have the Dutch films gone' With 44 world premieres, the 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam is showcasing a wealth of new work, but the line-up is notably light on local movies. Speaking today to ScreenDaily.com, festival director Sandra Den Hamer has bemoaned the absence of strong Dutch features available ...
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The Lives Of Otherspicked for Berlinale's German Cinema showcase
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar-nominated Stasi drama The Lives Of Others is one of 17 titles selected by programmer Heinz Badewitz to screen in the European Film Market's German Cinema showcase.The 2007 line-up, which is targeted primarily at accredited distributors, buyers, journalists and programmers from festivals and cultural institutions, also ...
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Vitus takes Best Film at 10th Swiss Film Awards
Vitus was named Best Film at this year's Swiss Film Awards which were presented for the tenth time on Wednesday evening in a gala ceremony at the Solothurn Film Days.The drama about a child piano prodigy and his grandfather was praised by the jury as 'a film full of tenderness ...
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Banderas to direct two new projects as Death's Other Kingdom stalls
Antonio Banderas has two new projects in mind to direct in Spain following his Malaga-set drama Summer Rain, screening in both Sundance and Berlin. Banderas said he is moving forward on a long-gestating project about Boabdil, the last Caliph of the Kingdom of Granada, envisioned as a Spain-France-Morocco co-production through ...
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Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund refused funding
'Stormy weather is expected,' Festival director Sandra Den Hamer warned yesterday at the opening of the International Film Festival of Rotterdam. The cause of the disquiet is the growing uncertainty that surrounds Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund, which supports filmmaking in developing countries. The Fund, named after festival founder Hubert Bals ...
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Laura Mana to direct La Roldana
Laura Mana has signed on to direct ambitious 17th century biopic La Roldana for Spain's Maestranza Films.Seville native Paz Vega (Spanglish, 10 Items Or Less) has expressed interest in taking the lead role of the talented sculptress in the vibrant 17th century setting of Seville who defied her family's wishes ...
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Canet awarded prize for best French thriller
The 2007 Jacques-Deray Prize for the best French thriller has beenawarded to Guillaume Canet's Ne Le Dis A Personne. The award is givenby the Lumiere Institute and was created in 2005 in memory of Deray whowas vice-president of the Lumiere Institute.Canet's second feature was adapted from the book by HarlanCoben ...
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Jeanada to star in Michael Radford's La Mula
Up-and-coming Spanish actor Oscar Jaenada has been tapped for the lead in Michael Radford's new Spanish-language feature La Mula.Jaenada will star alongside Maria Valverde (Melissa P) in the Spanish Civil War-set bittersweet comedy about a soldier who discovers a mule in the middle of a battlefield and decides to keep ...
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Berlinale's new short film programme names 16 competitors
The Berlinale's new Short Film Competition has selected 16 films from 12 countries for this year's line-up. The new shorts programme intends to focus more attention on the short format following the merging of the Competition and Panorama short film programmes. A three-woman international jury of the producers Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima ...
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Ex Drummer stirs controversy among Belgian exhibitors
In advance of its world premiere in the Tiger Competition in Rotterdam this weekend, Koen Mortier's Ex Drummer is provoking controversy in Belgium. One leading arthouse exhibitor, Studio Skoop in Ghent, has refused to show the film, which features scenes of graphic violence, rape and self mutilation. Industry sources have ...
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Bruce McDonald's new film opens Berlinale's Panorama main programme
Bruce McDonald's The Tracey Fragments, which explores a 15-year-old girl's fragmented emotional world, will be the opening film of the Berlinale Panorama's main programme, while the Panorama Special sub-section will open with Japanese master director Yoji Yamada's Love And Honor, the third and final instalment of his samurai trilogy.In addition, ...
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Potsdam animation festival to present 41 films
The Cartoon Movie 2007 business forum will present 500 participants with a selection of 41 features with an overall budget of almost $391m (Euros300m) in an attempt to boost finance and distribution for European animated films.In its ninth year, the festival convenes at Germany's Babelsberg Studio from March 7-9 and ...