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Argentina to sign co-production deals with China, France others
Argentina's film institute INCAA announced at the Mar del Plata Film Festival yesterday that new co-production agreements were due to be signed with China, Israel, France, Germany and Switzerland in the coming weeks.'We are very hopeful about the future. We signed a similar agreement with Spain four years ago, and ...
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Ambitious Hong Kong ready to scale new heights
This year's multi-faceted Hong Kong film season stretches to nearly a month of world-class events under the Entertainment Expo banner.Each distinct event is looking to stretch its brand to new limits. Three events - Filmart, co-production market HAF and the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) - all kick off ...
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Apted, Dahl, Gibney, Burns films among Tribeca world premieres
The 2007 Tribeca Film Festival has announced this year's world narrative and world documentary features and Spotlight selections.Eighteen narrative features and 16 documentaries from 25 countries - including 10 world premieres - will vie for combined unrestricted cash prizes during the festival, set to run in New York City from ...
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Dimension to produce biker gang pic Hell Ride
Dimension Films will produce the biker gang revenge story Hell Ride starring Larry Bishop, who will direct from his own screenplay.Michael Steinberg and Shana Stein of Steinberg & Stein Production will produce the Quentin Tarantino presentation alongside Bishop, with production set to begin in spring 2007.Hell Ride centres on The ...
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Feeney moves to Hong Kong as vp, production, for Imagi
Computer graphics expert Brett Feeney has joined Imagi International Holdings as vice president of production based in Hong Kong.Feeney will be responsible for managing the company's animation production line and its 400+ artists, animators, and technical staff. His arrival coincides with the release of Imagi's first major theatrical film, TMNT: ...
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Benigni lines up Pinocchio as next project
Roberto Benigni, the Oscar-winning actor-director of Life Is Beautiful, has announced that his next project will be a live-action version of Pinocchio. His actress wife, Nicoletta Braschi, who starred opposite him in Life Is Beautiful, is also expected to star in the new film.Benigni, who said he had wanted to ...
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International distributors, exhibitors call for cheaper digital options
After an upbeat presentation by Paramount Pictures International Andrew Cripps on the opening day of ShoWest, the tone darkened somewhat as attendees heard a somber warning about the cost of digital conversion.Speaking on a panel entitled Digital Cinema - The Way Forward, Warner Bros International Cinemas Millard Ochs called for ...
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Sisters
Dir: Douglas Buck. US. 2007. 92 mins.When will filmmakers ever learn how risky it is to re-make a classic, especially when it's in the same language' Does it take a special form of hubristic death-wish to deliberately invite comparisons between your film and that of an acknowledged master of horror ...
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Universal Pictures Germany to distribute Egoli Tossell quartet
Universal Pictures International (UPI) Germany is to handle distribution in all German-speaking territories for another three Egoli Tossell Film projects in addition to Michael Hoffman's $17m Tolstoy drama The Last Station, starring Anthony Hopkins and Meryl Streep.The three new acquisitions by UPI are:* Mostly Martha director Sandra Nettelbeck's next feature, ...
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Bavaria Film International takes on Doris Doerrie's new film
Bavaria Film International will handle international sales for Doris Doerrie's new feature film Kirschblueten (literally Cherry Blossoms) which began shooting on location in Tokyo today (March 13).The project (previously known as Hanami) reunites Doerrie with Munich-based Olga-Film, who produced her international breakthrough hit Men (Maenner) more than 20 years ago. ...
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Argentinian co-productions go global, new deals announced
Argentina's film institute (INCAA) announced at Mar del Plata Film Festival new co-production agreements with China, Israel, France, Germany and Switzerland to be signed in the next weeks. 'We are very hopeful about the future. We have signed a similar agreement with Spain four years ago, and now more than ...
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LoveFilm to offer sponsored and burnable feature downloads
European online DVD rental and movie download company LoveFilm.com has today announced two new digital downloading initiatives. The company is starting the world's first advertiser-sponsored free downloads of feature films and is also launching the UK's first download-to-burn service for feature films. The first advertiser on board for the sponsored ...
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Hayley Atwell joins Jarrold's Brideshead Revisited cast
HanWay Films has announced that UK actress Hayley Atwell has been cast as Julia Flyte in the new adaptation of Brideshead Revisited.She joins previously announced castmembers Ben Whishaw and Matthew Goode in Julian Jarrold's forthcoming adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh classic, adapted by Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock. The project ...
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Italian exhibitors pull controversial Death Of A President
Gabriel Range's Death Of A President has already hit a nerve in Italy, where ahead of its March 16th opening 30% of planned exhibitors have backed out of showing the film and 600 out of 2,000 promotional posters have disappeared in Rome. Andrea Occhipinti, president of the film's Italian distributor ...
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Pirate DVD eBay trader busted in London
The Federation Against Copyright Theft Internet Investigations Team led police to a 22-year-old man in Canning Town, East London, who was taken in for questioning regarding the sale of counterfeit DVDs on eBay.It is believed that the illegal trader was making thousands of pounds a month selling blackmarket TV and ...
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Heather Graham romantic comedy starts shooting in Belfast
Principal photography has begun in Belfast on the Heather Graham-starring romantic comedy Buy Borrow Steal, which is being directed by UK director Eric Styles (Relative Values) for Doris Kirch's Blue Angel Films Ltd. Based on a script by Camilla Leslie, which won the Best Screenplay Prize at the Hamptons Film ...
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Playtone and Walden to shoot City Of Ember in Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission (NIFTC) has announced that Hollywood production City Of Ember will shoot in the region this summer. Playtone Productions and Walden Media are producing the children's fantasy sci-fi adventure adapted from American writer Jeanne DuPrau's book. Monster House director Gil Kenan will direct from ...
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UK Film Council P&A Fund backs films including The Lives Of Others
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has supported a number of new features in its latest round of Lottery funding. The specialised, foreign and arthouse films backed in this round are: $ 482,769 (£250,000) to Lionsgate UK for The Lives Of Others $197,458 (£102,231) to Metrodome for Days ...
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Knocked Up
Dir/scr: Judd Apatow. US, 2007. 126 mins. In 2005, Judd Apatow scored big with the surprise hit, The 40-Year Old Virgin, which, with its novel combination of gross-out elements and old-fashioned, recognisably human emotion, earned critical plaudits and went on to do some $177m box-office world-wide. With his new film, ...
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Viacom files $1bn lawsuit against Google, YouTube
Viacom has filed a lawsuit suing Google and its hugely popular online video subsidiary YouTube for $1bn yesterday [March 13] for making available close to 160,000 unauthorised clips of Viacom material.In papers filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the plaintiff claimed that the ...