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Von Trotta plans biopic of medieval visionary Hildegard von Bingen
Hildegard von Bingen, one of the most important women of the medieval age, will be the subject of veteran German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta's next feature film. The project will go into production at locations in Hessen and Bavaria from late summer after many years of research and preparation. Hildegard ...
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Trap, Victim and Ragtime among competitors at goEast festival
Srdan Golubovic's thriller The Trap, Kirill Serebrennikov's black comedy Playing The Victim and the world premiere of Pulat Ahmatov's Ragtime..., a depiction of everday life for two young Russian women in a small frontier town, are among 10 feature films and six documentaries selected for the main competition of the ...
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Hoyts tries for record-breaking screen at $30m Auckland multiplex
A new Hoyts 10-screen multiplex cinema in Auckland, New Zealand, may house the world's largest 35mm cinema screen.The $30m Hoyts Sylvia Park, in Auckland's Mt Wellington, will open March 29 with a large 30.67-meters-wide and 13-meters-tall screen. The company has appliced with Guiness World Records to see if the screen ...
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Franco-German co-productions backed with $974,850 by FFA/CNC
New feature films by Jaco van Dormael and Martin Provost have received a total of $974,850 (Euros 730,000) backing by the German-French Funding Commission which is administered by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and France's CNC to promote co-production between the two countries. $467,393 (Euros 350,000) was awarded to ...
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India's UTV launches world cinema distribution venture
Mumbai-based entertainment giant UTV plans to bring world cinema to the Indian market through a joint venture with local distributor Palador Pictures, UTV Palador, which encompasses arthouse theatres, a DVD label and a movie channel. Unveiled at the FICCI-Frames conference in Mumbai on Tuesday, UTV Palador plans to release more ...
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Forever Lulu
Dir: John Kaye. US. 1999. 95 mins.Prod co: Green Moon. Co-prod: Tani Cohen. Int'l Sales: Nu Image/Millennium Films, tel: (1) 310 246 0240. Exec prods: Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, Willi Baer. Prods: John Thompson, Boaz Davidson, Diane Sillen, Abra Edelman. Scr: Kaye. DoP: Brad Milsap. Prod des: Stephen ...
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Cusack, Hayes join voice cast of TWC's Igor
John Cusack and Sean Hayes have joined the voice cast of Exodus Film Group's CG-animated comedy Igor, which The Weinstein Company (TWC) is scheduled to release in North America on Oct 24, 2008.Cusack will voice the title character of Igor, a mad scientist's assistant who secretly harbours dreams of becoming ...
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Clement leaves Sony to join PHE promotions department
George Clement has joined Paramount Home Entertainment (PHE) as executive director of promotions.Clement, who previously served as director of international promotions and licensing at Sony Pictures Consumer Marketing, will be responsible for developing and building promotional partnerships for the entire portfolio of PHE product.He will report to PHE executive vice ...
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Hitman starts Bulgarian shoot for Fox and EuropaCorp
Twentieth Century Fox and EuropaCorp started principal photography Tuesday on thriller Hitman directed by Xavier Gens. Timothy Olyphant stars with Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Ulrich Thomsen and Michael Offei. Skip Woods wrote the screenplay based on the video game franchise of the same name, about a professional assassin who gets ...
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Irish fund backs Kisses, Alarm, Eden and Hunger
The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has backed four feature projects from the third round of its Sound & Vision Fund. The four projects will share a total of $1.7m (Euros 1.285m) between them from the BCI fund's $12m (Euros 9m) allocation to independent producers of television programming to be ...
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The 4th Regiment takes prize at Guadalajara co-production meetings
The third Iberoamerican Co-production Meetings organized by the 22th Guadalajara International Film Festival wrapped here Tuesday. The Mexican project The 4th Regiment (La 4a compania) produced by Tita Lombardo's Spanda Films to be directed by newcomer Amir Galvan Cervera was awarded the main prize offered by the Spanish public TV(RTVE). ...
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Odeon takes over Munich production company Hofmann & Voges
The restructured film and TV group Odeon Film has taken over Munich-based production company Hofmann & Voges Entertainment, which will continue to operate as a separate entity under the new owner's roof. The purchase price (in single-digit millions) was largely paid for with shares in Odeon, thus making Mischa Hofmann ...
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Premiere Fund backs Paul Andrew Williams' The Cottage
The UK Council's Premiere Fund has come on board with Lottery funding for Paul Andrew Williams' The Cottage. Williams, who became a talent to watch with his 2006 low-budget thriller London To Brighton, also wrote the script. The story follows two brothers who kidnap an underworld figure and then 'stumble ...
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Pascale Ferran to head jury for Cannes Un Certain Regard
The Cannes Film Festival has announced that director Pascale Ferran will head up the jury for the Un Certain Regard sidebar at this year's event, which runs May 16-27. Ferran has been to the festival before, having been selected with her 1990 short film Le Baiser followed by La Sentinelle ...
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UK's Albion launches with aims to produce Christian features
Albion Productions has launched as a UK production company dedicated to only making Christian feature films. Albion is set up as an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) company and is seeking investors for its first production, Darkness Into Light. The company said 10% of the film's profits will go to Christian ...
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Egeda launches Spanish VOD site
Spanish rights society Egeda has launched Filmotech.com, A VOD service offering Spanish and European titles at a price lower than DVD rental costs.Run by Egeda Digital, the site currently offers around 250 live-action features, shorts, documentaries and animated movies which either never received DVD distribution or can no longer be ...
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Big Brother no longer hangs over Helkon
Endemol Entertainment, the Dutch TV production giant responsible for the worldwide Big Brother phenomenon, has sold its 25% stake in Helkon Media, setting the German producer-distributor free to pursue its own international expansion.Endemol said the move was part of a "strategic reorientation" of its activities that would focus the group ...
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Borderland
Dir: Zev Berman. US. 2007. 104mins. A solidly professional exercise in the horror/thriller genre, Borderland will not disappoint those that like their suspense and gore laid on in equal measure, and nice and thick. Still, it doesn't rise significantly above other examples of the genre, and a commercial release in ...
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As You Like It
Dir: Kenneth Branagh UK-US. 2006. 127mins. Kenneth Branagh's fifth Shakespeare adaptation (after Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet and Love's Labour's Lost), As You Like It is a curiously undercharged affair. Handsomely and fluidly shot and intelligently performed, it nonetheless lacks spark. What should be a playful and magical ...
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Tribeca Film Institute announces 2007 festival programmes
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) unveiled the 2007 festival prgrammes yesterday [March 28], which include the Tribeca Film Fellows programme, a gala screening of films by young New York film-makers entitled 'Our City, My Story', and an on-stage discussion with documentarian Albert Maysles.The third Tribeca Film Fellows Programme invites 20 ...