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Screenwriters' festival launches fourth pitching competition
The International Screenwriters' Festival has launched the fourth edition of its successful pitching competition.Its 4Talent-backed 2009event-Son of the Pitch -allows individuals to pitch their concept for a film or TV drama of any genre to a panel of leading industry professionals live on stage.The competition will run until October 31with ...
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Balkan Script Development Fund announces project selection.
Twelve projects from nine countries have been earmarked for the 6th Balkan Fund, Thessaloniki International Film Festival's Script Development Fund. The 49th edition of the festival will take place from Nov. 14-23. The fund provides seed money for script development and caters to feature film projects coming from the region. ...
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Balkan Script Development Fund announces project selection.
Twelve projects from nine countries have been earmarked for the 6th Balkan Fund, Thessaloniki International Film Festival's Script Development Fund. The 49th edition of the festival will take place from Nov. 14-23. The fund provides seed money for script development and caters to feature film projects coming from the region. ...
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Reviews
Igor
Dir: Tony Leondis. US. 2008. 86 mins.Sweet-natured but saddled with strained wisecracking humour and over-busy plotting, children's animated feature Igor never quite manages to shake off a feeling of familiarity that extends from the story's archly hip tone to the misunderstood, lovable main character of a hunchback trying to escape ...
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Let It Rain (Parlez moi de la pluie)
Dir. Agnes Jaoui, France. 2008. 100minsAgnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri cast a typically perceptive eye over the discreet charms of the bourgeoisie in Let It Rain (Parlez Moi De La Pluie). This ambitious ensemble piece is not as instantly appealing as their previous collaboration on 2004's Comme Une Image (Look ...
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Wall-E to close Tokyo film festival
Pixar's Wall-E will be the closing film of this year's Tokyo International Film Festival (Oct 18-26). Wall-E opens theatrically in Japan on December 20th as the last major territory for the $290m international hit. As previously reported, John Woo's Red Cliff will be TIFF's opening film.TIFF has also announced the ...
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German incentive programme to pay outall $86.4m annual budget.
The German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) incentive programme will pay out all of its $86.4m (Euros 61m) annual budget this year. According to the DFFF, a total of $62m (Euros 43.7m) had been allocated to the end of August, generating a German spend of Euros 261m in the local economy. ...
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RAI Trade picks up Taviani duo, Mikado trio
RAI Trade, the film sales division of the Italy's state-owned RAI broadcast giant, has picked up a trio of new features from producer-distributor Mikado and added the next two pictures from the Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio.The three from Mikado - Domenica, The Dervish (Il Dervisco) and The Third Act ...
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Russia's Central Partnership partners with Paramount
In a groundbreaking deal that highlights the increasing lure of Russia for the US majors, Paramount Pictures International (PPI) is to partner with Russian major, Central Partnership.The exclusive agreement, which comes into force on January 1st 2009, will see Central Partnership releasing Paramount titles theatrically in the former USSR, excluding ...
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Screen Australia considers industry support package
Screen Australia is considering giving bonuses to producers of small to medium budget features that perform well at the box office. No details are available on the budget levels of eligible films, the criteria for success or the extent of the reward. However, the proposal clearly indicates that the new ...
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ReviewsOne Week
Dir/Scr: Michael McGowan. Canada. 2008. 94mins.Canadian filmmaker Michael McGowan’s second feature after Saint Ralph, One Week marks another dispiriting example of a director using sickness and physical deterioration in rationalising dishonest and narcissistic behaviour.Coming on the heels of Amy Redford’s Sundance entry The Guitar, One Week ...
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Hanks to receive gala tribute at Film Society Of Lincoln Center
Tom Hanks is next in line to receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center's gala tribute and will be guest of honour at a special event on April 27, 2009.Hanks becomes the 36th recipient and follows in the footsteps of Jane Fonda, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Shirley Maclaine, Federico Fellini, ...
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Disney starts production of first Russian-produced movie
Disney has started production on its first Russian-produced feature film, Vadim Sokolovsky's family fantasyThe Book Of Masters.Walt Disney Company CIS, founded in 2006, is working with Nikita Mikhalkov's production companyThree T Studio on the project, which has begun shooting in the Belarus capital Minsk before it moves to Moscow'sMosfilm Studio ...
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Rockwell, Roberts to star in The Winning Season for Gigi, Plum
New York-based Gigi Productions and Plum Pictures have attached Sam Rockwell, Emma Roberts and Rob Corddry to star in the comedy The Winning Season, set to begin shooting in October in the New York region.James Strouse will direct The Winning Season from his original screenplay about a washed-up divorcee basketball ...
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San Francisco Film Society launches $25,000 doc award
The San Francisco Film Society has launched a new $25,000 Golden Gate Award for investigative documentaries to be presented at the Film Society's San Francisco International Film Festival next spring.Society top brass will also introduce an annual week-long theatrical run of a leading non-fiction film beginning this autumn with Secrecy ...
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Tomorrow picks up Shadow Magic
Tomorrow Film Corp has taken international rights to Shadow Magic, Ann Hu's China-set period drama which had its world premiere in the World Cinema section at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. Sony Pictures Classics has domestic rights to the film in which Jared Harris plays an English entrepreneur who travels ...
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London Film Festival boosts industry credentials
The Times BFI London Film Festival has expanded its industry programme with a series of events aimed at the international film business.They include the third Production Finance Market, bringing together international financiers and producers. This year, the market will run over two days from October 20th-21st.The three-day innovation event Power ...