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Scanbox unveils slate despite takeover
Sales operation, Scanbox International continues to demonstrate rude health despite the troubles of its parent Denmark's Scanbox Entertainment, once the largest independent distributor in the Nordic region and now in the process of being sold to Germany's VCL Film + Medien after suffering through three years of losses.Restructuring notwithstanding, the ...
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Börje Hansson named head of production with Svensk Filmindustri
Swedish producer Börje Hansson has been named head of production with Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri.Since 2005 Hansson has been drama chief with Metronome Film & TV. He has more than 40 features and numerous television series to his credit, including The Beck Crime Series, which has been very successful in ...
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Germany's UFA Cinema unveils 11-film production slate
Germany's UFA Cinema has unveiled an 11-picture production slate encompassing bestseller adaptations, family entertainment and political cinema, with the first project going before the camera in spring 2009.The company's executive managers Wolf Bauer, Thomas Peter Friedl, Nico Hofmann and Jürgen Schuster have selected 11 projects from more than 60 in ...
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UK's Metrodome continues restructure after Media Pro takeover
UK distributor Metrodome continues to restructure staff following Media Pro's acquisition of a 61.4% share in the company.James Brown takes on the newly created role of head of acquisitions, where he will work alongside Kate Edwards, who has been promoted and will be running the business affairs department. Brown formerly ...
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Filminute targets 10m viewers benchmark in third edition
Filminute, the worldwide multiplatform film festival devoted to one-minute films, is aiming to reach 10m viewers for its third edition. The festival, which begins September 1 and runs throughout the month, will feature a short-list of 25 films from 16 countries. A jury, including Academy Award-winning writer-director Paul Haggis, will ...
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Pasolini's Redwave plans films with Taylor, Donnellan & Ormerod
Uberto Pasolini, who unveiled Machan, his first film as director, in Venice earlier this week, has revealed further details of projects he is developing through his company Redwave Films.The Full Monty producer is riding ahead with director Alan Taylor, withwhom he worked on Palookaville and The Emperor's New Clothes, on ...
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Urman leaves troubled THINKFilm to head up Senator in US
Mark Urman is leaving beleaguered THINKFilm to start work as president of Marco Weber's Senator Entertainment on October 1.The development follows Weber's recent acquisition of all shares in US-based company Senator Entertainment and his severing of ties with former German-based parent company Senator Entertainment AG.Meanwhile Urman's departure from THINKFilm casts ...
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Maximum takes international on Fleck and Boden's Sugar
Maximum Films International (MFI) has picked up international sales rights on Sundance US dramatic competitor Sugar, the follow-up film from the production team behind Half Nelson. The HBO Films production screens in Toronto in Contemporary World Cinema.Written and directed by Ryan Fleck and Anne Boden and produced by Paul Mezey, ...
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Wild Bunch Holland plans take shape
Former-A Film boss Pim Hermeling has revealed details of the distribution operation he is setting up in the Netherlands with Wild Bunch.Speaking in Venice, he said the new venture marked the latest step in Wild Bunch's long march toward setting up a pan-European distribution network and follows on from alliances ...
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Piedmont finalises $20.5m film fund
Italy's Piedmont region, the Turin Piedmont Film Commission and LA based Endgame Entertainment have finalised terms for a$20.5m (Euros 14m) film fund.The plans were announced by Turin Piedmont Film Commission president Steve Della Casa at the Venice Film Festival.Annually, the fund will support productions by providing closing costs for qualifying ...
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Warner's The Dark Knight crosses $500m at domestic box office
Summer fizzled out as the Labor Day weekend saw Warner Bros' The Dark Knight finally cross $500m at the domestic box office in its seventh weekend in release.DreamWorks-Paramount's comedy Tropic Thunder stayed atop the charts despite a concerted challenge from the sci-fi adventure Babylon AD.Tropic Thunder added an estimated $11.5m ...
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Adriana Chiesa embarks on Indian Dream
Italy's Adriana Chiesa Enterprises has acquired worldwide sales rights to Francesco Ranieri Martinotti's Branchie - An Indian Dream, starring local rock idol Gianluca Grignani.Based on Niccolo Ammaniti's novel, Branchie is a surreal tale about a young man who escapes to Delhi to build the city's biggest aquarium and undergoes spiritual ...
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Dark Knight leads international box office with $19m from 62 territories
The Dark Knight maintained its number one status overseas as the Warner Bros Pictures International release added $19m from 6,580 screens in 62 territories to raise the tally to $416.7m.The superhero adaptation stayed top in its second weekend in Germany as $4.4m from 955 screens boosted the running score to ...
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CMG takes on 3D CGI animated feature Zambezia
Cinema Management Group (CMG) president Edward Noeltner has picked up international rights ahead of Toronto to the 3D CGI animated feature Zambezia.South African-based animation house Triggerfish Animation's family tale takes place on the edge of a spectacular waterfall in the Zambezi River Valley where the eponymous bird comes under attack ...
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Feedback: readers' views
Juliusz Kossakowski, Executive Producer, of Wind Fish Motion Pictures comments on Screen Opinion (see right for full article). Email michael.gubbins@emap.com to add your view.Yeah, but there is an infinite combination of notes to music and therefore the angle of attack should not be on creation but on the aesthetics of ...
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Venice Film Festival reviews
Click to see full reviewCompetitionAchilles And The Tortoise (Takeshi Kitano)L'Autre (Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic)Birdwatchers(Marco Bechis)The Burning Plain (Guillermo Arriaga) Giovanni's Father (Pupi Avati)The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)Il Seme Della Discordia (Pappi Corsicato) Inju, The Beast In The Shadow (Barbet Scroeder)Inland (Tariq Teguia)Jerichow (Christian Petzold)A Perfect Day (Ferzan Ozpetek)Milk (Semih ...
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Tokyo Project Gathering unveils line-up of 34 projects
The organisers of the fourth Tokyo Project Gathering (TPG) have unveiled the 34 projects that will take part in this year's edition (Oct 21-24). Organised by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the Japan Institute of Development and Promotion for Picture, and UniJapan, the financing and co-production market ...
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Taiwan selects Cape No. 7 as foreign-language Oscar entry
Wei Te-sheng's Cape No. 7 has received official notice that it is Taiwan's submission in the category of best foreign-language film at the upcoming Academy Awards. The character comedy and love story, set on Taiwan's southern coast, revolves around the forming of a local warm-up band to support a touring ...
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Disaster Movie
Dirs: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer. US. 2008. 87mins.Spoof film-makers Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer hit rock bottom in the creatively bankrupt Disaster Movie, a poorly staged, entirely laugh-free big screen exercise that, despite its name, is not really a genre spoof at all, but rather merely an excuse to poke ...
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