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Cloverfield's Matt Reeves to direct Let The Right One In remake
Cloverfield director Matt Reeves (pictured) will write and direct the English-language adaptation of Tomas Alfredson's acclaimed Swedish contemporary vampire feature Let The Right One In for Overture Films and London-based Hammer Films.Let The Right One In will be the first in a new two-film co-production, financing and distribution deal between ...
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Focus names five winners in Africa First programme
Focus Features CEO James Schamus announced late today [September 24] the five winners in Focus' Africa First Programme designed to support emerging film-makers of African nationality and residence.Earlier this year Focus offered participating film-makers the chance to win financing for production and/or post-production on their narrative short films made in ...
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San Sebastian deals for Still Walking and Pandora's Box
Golem Distribucion has acquired the Spanish theatrical rights to Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Still Walking (Aruitemo, Aruitemo). The deal was done with Celluloid Dreams at the San Sebastian film festival. The film had its international premiere at Toronto.Still Walking is a family drama about grown-up siblings returning to their family ...
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The Mermaid is Russian submission for Oscar
Russia has submitted The Mermaid (Rusalka) by Anna Melikyan for nomination for the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. It was selected from eight films by the Russian Federation's Oscars National Selection Committee.The Mermaid has already received international recognition, winning the FIPRESCI Prize at the 58th Berlin International ...
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NewsOlivier Pere named as Locarno artistic director from 2009
Olivier Père has been named as the next artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, succeeding Frederic Maire, and will take up his post from September 1, 2009.Père has been artistic director of the Cannes’ Directors Fortnight since 2004. His replacement will be chosen by France’s Societe des Realisateurs des ...
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UK admissions per screen in decline
After a good run at the box office during September and October, admissions in the UK are back on track to reach at least 142 million by the year end - the highest level since 1973 according to the Cinema Advertising Association admissions monitor. But due to the huge growth ...
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Denmark's Nimbus Film on the defensive as jobs are cut
Leading Danish film company Nimbus Film is taking steps to respond to today's tougher financial climate in the film industry. Around a third of Nimbus staff will be cut from the company's Filmbyen offices, according to film magazine EKKO.As former CEO, Jørgen Ramskov, who will in future head up the ...
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Norteadocompletes hat trick at San Sebastian's Films In Progress
Mexican director Rigoberto Perezcano has won all three awards in the Films In Progress section of the San Sebastian film festival for his debut feature Norteado.The Industry award will allow Perezcano to complete post production on the film, in particular to establish a English subtitled 35mm copy. It is supported ...
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Arthouse acquires worldwide rights to Beautiful Losers
Arthouse Films has acquired worldwide rights to the documentary Beautiful Losers directed by Aaron Rose and co-directed by Joshua Leonard.Arthouse will partner on the distribution strategy with Sidetrack Films, which has already opened the film in conjunction with Nike Sportswear in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.Arthouse plans to ...
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UKagencies seize 8,000 counterfeit DVDs and arrest 17
Four UK law enforcement agencies joined forces earlier this week to target illegal immigrants also suspected of producing and selling counterfeit DVDs. The agencies seized 8,000 counterfeit DVDs, including current cinema release Tropic Thunder and the yet to be released Death Race.17 Chinese nationals were arrested on suspicion of immigration ...
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Regent continues Fortissimo ties with domestic deal for $9.99
Regent Releasing has picked up North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Tatia Rosenthal's comedy $9.99 following its world premiere at Toronto.Regent plans a limited spring 2009 release on the film, which uses stop-motion animation to portray the existence of apartment residents in Sydney searching for the meaning of life.The ...
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Robert Fisher promoted to evp at Warner Bros Pictures
Robert A Fisher has been promoted from senior vice president of financial investments at Warner Bros Pictures to executive vice president.Fisher held the post of senior vice president since 1994 and will continue to spearhead the studio's film financing activities and work with government agencies on policies that promote film ...
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Screen opinion: Balancing finance, talent and distribution
In film, we have buckets of creative talent but scarcely any business capacity,' Patrick McKenna, chairman of Ingenious Media Group, told a meeting at Bafta in London this week. This relatively brief aside, specifically about the UK, came during a generally upbeat talk about the prospects for the British creative ...
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In focus: Taking stock of the Wall Street shock
The US financial crisis may have come as a shock to much of the world, but in Hollywood it almost seemed like the inevitable culmination of a continuing trend. That is because the relationship between Wall Street and the Hollywood film-finance business - one that was hot and heavy just ...
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Jupiter invests in Japanese movie channel
Japan's Jupiter Programming is taking a 9.9% stake in local movie channel Nihon Eiga Broadcasting Corp, which is part-owned by Sony and Fuji TV.Jupiter, a supplier of programming to cable and satellite television, is also acquiring a 15% stake in Mitsui-owned children's channel Kids Station. The company plans to take ...
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Profile: Music Box Films
At the end of summer 2007, William Schopf, Ed Arentz and Brian Andreotti had a drink in the bar of a dazzling Chicago Loop skyscraper for a low-key launch of their new distribution concern.In the film business, timing is everything - and their timing seemed fairly perverse, pouring start-up money ...
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In Focus: Epoch and Killer join forces for Gigantic
Gigantic, which saw its world premiere in Toronto recently, represents the first co-production between Epoch Films run by Mindy Goldberg and Killer Films run by Christine Vachon.Epoch Films is a prosperous 19-year-old commercials production company which was created by Goldberg in 1989 as a place where talented young directors could ...
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Belgium - Jungle fever
How do you shoot an epic Apocalypse Now-style drama in the Far East on a budget of $5.1m (EUR3.5m)' That was the challenge Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz set himself with Vinyan, the follow-up to his critical hit, Calvaire.The new film, shot in English and starring Emmanuelle Beart and Rufus ...