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E1 Entertainment promote Knowing with Sci Fi UK sponsorship
E1 Entertainment will use niche marketing to promote its latest acquisition Knowing by providing the Sci Fi channel with a five figure sponsorship payment to run film ads during Sci Fi prime time slots. Directed by Alex Proyas (I, Robot), Knowing, although an action-thriller, should attract Sci Fi viewers, because ...
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Lesbian Vampire Killers
Dir. Phil Claydon. UK. 2009. 84 mins. British cinema is littered with the broken dreams of popular television comedians who failed to make the transition to the big screen. BAFTA-winning Gavin & Stacey duo James Corden and Matthew Horne are the latest ones to accept the challenge but their horror ...
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Lucky Red takes Good Machine's Series 7
Italian distribution and production outfit Lucky Red has picked up Good Machine International's Big Brother meats the thriller genre film, Series 7: The Contenders.Written and directed by Daniel Minahan, Series 7 is about six people chosen in a lottery by a TV programme to kill each other for a cash ...
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Lesbian Vampire Killers
Dir. Phil Claydon. UK. 2009. 84 mins. British cinema is littered with the broken dreams of popular television comedians who failed to make the transition to the big screen. BAFTA-winning Gavin & Stacey duo James Corden and Matthew Horne are the latest ones to accept the challenge but their horror ...
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Unmistaken Child, Paranoids get domestic pickups from Oscilloscope
New York’s Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Nati Baratz’s documentary Unmistaken Child and from Visit Films to Gabriel Medina’s Argentinean debut featureThe Paranoids (Los Paranoicos).Unmistaken Child follows a shy and devoted Tibetan disciple in search of the reincarnated form of his beloved Buddhist teacher, ...
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Fox leads international weekend with Marley, Dragonball
Fox International's comedy Marley & Me produced the biggest result of any Hollywood release overseas over a subdued weekend as an estimated $13.9m haul from 2,708 screens in 34 territories raised the running total to $51m.Driving this were nine new launches led by a superb $6.5m number one start in ...
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Witch Mountain scales domestic box office for Disney with $25m
Disney's decision to plunder the live-action back catalogue and revisit its Witch Mountain franchise from the 1970s exceeded expectations with an estimated $25m launch that still wasn't enough to prevent the first year-on-year drop in six weeks as box office slid 16% against the same weekend in 2008.Dwayne Johnson (formerly ...
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For My Father takes Grand Prix in Sofia
The 13th Sofia International Film Festival concluded March 14 with the Grand Prix in the international competition going to For My Father, directed by Dror Zahavi. An Israeli-German co-production, For My Father portrays an accidental meeting of three people in Tel Aviv. The international jury, led by Hungarian director Janos ...
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KOFIC hands out p&a funding to three companies
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced that it will award p&a funds to LA-based Eleven Arts, Belgium's Cineart and Taiwan's Infinity International in its first p&a funding round of 2009. Eleven Arts will receive $10,211 (KW15m) to support the US theatrical release of Noh Young-seok's low-budget road movie Daytime ...
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Roissy sells four more territories for Cesar winner Seraphine
Roissy Films has concluded further sales on Cesar winner Seraphine. The film by Martin Provost has sold to Alcine Terran in Japanas well as Atalanta Filmes in Portugal, Gutek in Poland and With Cinema in South Korea.Roissy Films' Yohann Comte tells ScreenDaily.com that a number of other territories are currently ...
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Cannes Atelier selects 15 projects including Lerman's Moral Sciences
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup of participants for the fifth edition of the Atelier de la Cinefondation program.The scheme was begun in 2005 and is a means to help directors with the financing and completion of their projects.The roster of 15 filmmakers will attend the Cannes Film ...
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Snow and Age Of Stupid win at UK's Birds Eye View Film Festival
As the Birds Eye View Film Festival drew to a close on March 13, Aida Begic's Snow was awarded the festival's Best Feature prize. It tells the story of a Bosnian village populated only by the mothers, daughters, wives and sisters of their murdered Muslim men.Jurors for the Best Feature ...
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Breathless wins big at Deauville Asian festival
South Korea's Breathless was the big winner at the 11th Deauville Festival of Asian Film which wrapped on Sunday evening. Yang Ik-June's film, a feature directorial debut in which he also stars, is a brutal look into domestic violence in South Korea. The film also took the International Critics Prize.In ...
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Indian producer Sippy honoured at Mumbai fest
Veteran Indian film producer G.P. Sippy received a life-time achievement award from the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI) at the third edition of the increasingly important Mumbai International Film Festival (November 23-30). Sippy, who produced India's biggest hit Sholay in 1975, said he had never received a life-time achievement ...
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Lesbian Vampire Killers sells to France, Scandinavia, Benelux, Brazil
London-based sales company AV Pictures has sold Phil Claydon's Lesbian Vampire Killers to a number of new territories. Deals have been signed with La Fabrique de Films for France, Sandrew Metronome for Scandinavia, European Film Partners for Benelux and Imagem Films for Brazil. The comedy horror has already been sold ...
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Jude, Komanderev win best pitch prizes at Sofia Meetings
At the Sofia International Film Festival's sixth Sofia Meetings, atotal of 22 projects werepresented in the Second Films Pitching lineup, the Plus Minus One selection of debut and third features, and the new Sofia Cinelinks Sarajevo programme.At the end of the two days of pitches and one-to-one meetings with potential ...
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Suzanne Noble joins Optimum as head of publicity
Suzanne Noble has joined UK distributor Optimum Releasing as head of publicity. Most recently she worked on a freelance basis for Momentum Pictures and was involved with their The Young Victoria campaign. Prior to that she spent two years as VP, international publicity at The Weinstein Company, where she developed, ...
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Mungiu's Tales From The Golden Ageto open Transilvania
The eighth edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival will open May 29 with the local premiere of Tales From The Golden Age, an omnibus film written and produced by Cristian Mungiu. Wild Bunch is handling international sales on the film, which is tipped for Cannes, where Mungiu won the ...
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Renny Harlin's Finnish biopic Mannerheim delayed due to financing
Finnish Hollywood director Renny Harlin's comeback to local filmmaking, the $12.6m (Euros 10m) Mannerheim, which was scheduled to have its world première in Helsinki on Jan 15 next year, has been delayed and is now expected to open during the autumn 2010.The biopic of Finnish historical legend Carl Gustaf Emil ...
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