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Harrison starts Unstoppable shoot in Portugal and Spain
UK writer/director Richard Harrison started shooting yesterday in Portugal for his debut feature Unstoppable.The film is now shooting in Praia da Bordeira in Portugal, and will move to Andalucia on Aug 10 and wrap on Aug 31.The Portuguese government and Andalucian Film Commission have helped with location scouting and filming ...
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Wild Child (2007)
Dir Nick Moore, UK, 2008, 98 mins.Hannah Montana meets St Trinians in Wild Child, Working Title's oddly-unconvincing stab at the Clueless end of the teen market - a project broad-based enough to make tween competitor Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging feel arthouse.Working Title's legendary professionalism seems to haveshifted down a ...
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Mark Of An Angel (L'Empreinte de l'ange)
Dir. Safy Nebbou. 2008. France. 95 min.The payoff is slow in coming but packs a punch in Mark Of An Angel, a tense drama that gives two of France's finest actresses roles to sink their teeth into. Catherine Frot - opposite Sandrine Bonnaire - plays a woman who finds herself ...
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French illegal downloads equal to box-office admissions
Illegal downloading of films in France has reached 450,000 per day according to a report by anti-piracy association ALPA.The figure represents the same level as box-office entries, the report said. Speaking to wire service Agence France Presse, Frederic Delacroix, the director of ALPA, said, 'We are facing a major phenomenon ...
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Regent signs two-year deal with horror man De Coteau
Regent Studios has signed a two-year deal with horror film-maker David DeCoteau's Rapid Heart Pictures that includes ten films and two TV series.DeCoteau is currently in development with Regent on Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit And The Pendulum as well as two further films in The Brotherhood vampire franchise that ...
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Anita Nelving named managing director of CineVegas
Anita Nelving has been appointed managing director at the CineVegas Film Festival and will oversee all festival departments and its year-round schedule of events.Nelving begins work on September 2 and will also be responsible for approving budgetary decisions and overseeing the festival's relationships with other arts organisations and Las Vegas ...
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Media Most cuts deal with Gazprom
Embattled Russian media giant Media Most Group has reached what it described as an "amicable agreement" with its chief creditor, state gas giant Gazprom. While details are not yet available the deal would also involve bringing on board an unnamed foreign investor according to a spokeswoman for the group.The agreement, ...
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Break-Up Artist wraps for Legacy, Double Edge and Triumphant
Production has wrapped on Legacy Filmworks, Double Edge Entertainment and Triumphant Pictures' romantic comedy The Break-Up Artist.Amanda Crew, who stars opposite James Marsden in Summit Entertainment's upcoming release Sex Drive, plays a businesswoman who runs a break-up service and falls in love with a client.Legacy Filmworks' Deboragh Gabler produced and ...
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Ghent to honour Harold Lloyd with exibition, screenings
The 35th Ghent International Film Festival will honour the late silent film star Harold Lloyd with an exhibition of personal photos and memorabilia and a screening of newly restored versions of Safety Last!, The Freshman, Speedy and Welcome Danger.The exhibition will feature photos, sheet music, scripts and costumes and has ...
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Montreal unveils competition titles, full line-up
The Montreal World Film Festival announced its full line-up, including 20 films in its official competition alongside festival opener Christophe Barratier's period drama Paris 36 announced yesterday. In all, MWFF festival president Serge Losique and vice-president Danielle Cauchard unwrapped 234 feature films, 105 of which are world or international premieres.Competition ...
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Usen chief launches production and acquisitions outfit
Yasuhide Uno, CEO of Japanesebroadband giant and Gaga Communications parent Usen Inc, has set up a new independent production and acquisitions company.Uno has personally invested 100% of the $2.31m (Y250m) start-up capital in the company, dubbed U's Films Inc. The new outfit is completely independent of the Usen group.Former Gaga ...
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Hong Sang-soo starts shooting low-budget HD film
Korean auteur director Hong Sang-soo has commenced shooting his ninth film, which is a high-definition (HD) project with a budget of less than $100,000, according to his production house Jeonwonsa. The film stars Kim Tae-woo, who was previously in Hong's Woman Is The Future Of Man and Woman On The ...
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Weber steps down as CEO of Senator parent to take LA head job
As of Sept 1, Marco Weber will acquire all shares in Los Angeles-based Senator Entertainment Inc. and step down as chief creative officer of the German parent company Senator Entertainment AG.Weber, who is currently CEO and President of Senator Entertainment Inc., will then focus solely on production of English-language films ...
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Charles McDonald to leave Premier to run own PR business
Film publicity legend Charles McDonald plans to step down as joint CEO of London-headquartered Premier PR at the end of October.He will leave Premier and handle a number of his own key clients independently, likely his most active Premier clientssuch as BBC Films, Optimum Releasing, European Film Awards and Europa ...
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Bavaria takes on Toronto world premiere Krabat
Bavaria Film International has picked up international distribution rights for Marco Kreuzpaintner's $15.5m (Euros 10m) fantasy film Krabat which will have its world premiere in the official selection of the forthcoming Toronto International Film Festival.Set in the 17th century, the story of Krabat, an orphan boy who is apprenticed to ...
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KOFIC awards p&a cash to Dutch, Hong Kong distributors
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced that its second P&A Fund for Korean Films Abroad will be awarded to Stichting Nederlands Filmmuseum and Hong Kong's Golden Scene to distribute five films in total, including Secret Sunshine and The Chaser. A committee of five jury members selected Stichting Nederlands Filmmuseum ...
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Forward, Slingshot start shooting UK school horror Tormented
Teen horror film Tormented has started shooting in Birmingham, UK.New UK production company Forward Films makes its feature debut with the film, being produced as the fourth feature from digital studio Slingshot.The project is also backed by BBC Films and Screen West Midlands. Pathe International will handle international sales and ...
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Amores Perros takes top prize at Flanders
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu's Amores Perros took the Grand Prize of the Flemish Community at the 27th Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent.Other prize winners included Lukas Moodysson's Together, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Faithless. A big local winner was Pleure Pas Germaine, directed by Alain de Halleux, which took three ...
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Vladivostok festival to host new Coproduction & Financing Forum
Vladivostok, Russia'sPacific Meridian International Film Festival of Asian-Pacific countries is staging a Coproduction & Film Financing Forum and the Generation Campus for young film-makers as part of its first Eurasia International Film Summit (Sept 14-17).[The name is not to be confused with Kazakhstan's Eurasia film festival also in September.]The financing ...
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Fitzgerald, Arriaga expected to attend fifth Eurasia festival
The fifth Eurasia International Film Festival hopes to welcome guests including Jack Nicholson, Antonio Banderas, Michael Fitzgerald, and Guillermo Arriaga to Astana, Kazakhstan from Sept 7-13.Other invitees include Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Armand Assante, Sean Penn, Fred Ross, Bruce Beresford, Lucrecia Martel, Nae Caranfil, Johnny To, Jia Zhangke, Fatih ...