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German fund managment group buys sales company Atlas
Further changes are afoot in the German world sales scene after the decision by the film financing and fund management group Entertainment Value Associates (EVA) to acquire a majority interest in the Munich-based family-run sales company Atlas International Film through its subsidiary EVA Finance. The sales outfit with a catalogue ...
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Dotzert to oversee Senator's German-language projects
Senator Entertainment has appointed Dirk Dotzert tooversee the coordination of German language projects being offered tothe group's theatrical distribution and production arms.Dotzert, who had previously worked as a freelance consultant, will workclosely with Anatol Nitschke of Senator Film Verleih and ChristophMueller of Senator Film Produktion on the initial assessment andmonitoring ...
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Gross starts shooting $20m WWI epic Passchendaele
Actor-director-screenwriter Paul Gross has begun shooting his WWI drama Passchendaele in Calgary, Alberta. Produced by Niv Fichman of Rhombus Media, Frank Siracusa of Whizbang Films and Francis Damberger of the Damberger Film and Cattle Company, the $20m, 45-day production will follow the exploits of Canadian soldiers leading up to one ...
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The Nanny Diaries
Dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, US, 105 minutes, colour, 35 mm.In The Nanny Diaries, adapted from the best-selling picaresque roman a clef about tending to the offspring of New York's elite, Scarlett Johansson plays a would-be anthropology student immersed in a foreign culture as a nanny to a ...
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Scott Bailey gets lead role in Jabor's Copacabana
Scott Bailey has been cast as the lead in Roberto Jabor's English-speaking, US-Brazil co-production Copacabana, Of Love And Shadows.Bailey, whose credits include The Guiding Guide, the upcoming Seducing Spirits, and TV series Saints & Sinners, joins Peter Paige, Gabriel Canella, Emily Holmes and Maite Proenca in the key cast.The $5m ...
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Me You Them opens well on home ground
As expected, Richard Lenormand has been appointed chairman and CEO of StudioCanal to replace Vincent Grimond who has resigned following his appointment as senior executive vice president, operations and finance, at Universal Studios Group. The board of directors at StudioCanal unanimously appointed Lenormand. The 38 year-old was most recently senior ...
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Palm picks up US rights to Canadian hit The Rocket
Palm Pictures has acquired US rights to the biographical ice hockey film The Rocket: The Legend Of Rocket Richard.The film won nine awards at the 2007 Genie Awards including best director for Charles Biname and best actor for Roy Dupuis.Palm Pictures plans for a late autumn theatrical release followed by ...
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Eva Mendes boards The Spirit for Odd Lot, Lionsgate
Eva Mendes has joined Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L Jackson and Gabriel Macht in Odd Lot Entertainment and Lionsgate's live-action comic book adaptation The Spirit.Production is set to begin in October in New Mexico and will take place entirely at Albuquerque Studios.The fantasy thriller tells the tale of a rookie cop ...
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Bavaria picks up international rights to $20m Mann adaptation
Bavaria Film International has picked up international distribution rights for Heinrich Breloer's lavish adaptation of Thomas Mann's Nobel Prize-winning novel Buddenbrooks which is currently shooting on location in the historical Hanseatic city of Luebeck. The $20m (Euros 15m) production by Bavaria Film and Colonia Media Filmproduktion of Die Buddenbrooks ...
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Warner Bros enters Hindi-language film production
Warner Bros has announced its long-anticipated move into local production in India by boarding action comedy Made In China, to be directed by Nikhil Advani and star action hero Akshay Kumar. Indian production houses Ramesh Sippy Productions and Orion Pictures, founded by Advani and Mukesh Talreja, will produce the film ...
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Pusan unveils slate of 27 projects to receive ACF backing
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has announced the 27 projects that will receive backing from its recently-established Asian Cinema Fund (ACF). The fund provides support for Asian documentaries and independent feature films in all stages of production to the total amount of $840,000, with matching funds and/or services provided ...
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Yang named as PIFF Asian Filmmaker of the Year
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has named the recently deceased Taiwanese director Edward Yang as Asian Filmmaker of the Year. The festival also announced that the Korean Cinema Award will go to Sabrina Baracetti of the Udine Far East Film Festival and Jean Francois Rauger of the Cinematheque Francaise. ...
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Korea's nTorino scores $2m pre-sale to Japan
Korean investor nTorino Corp has announced the $2m pre-sale of the film Sookmyung (original title) to Japan's Formula Entertainment. The film features pan-Asian stars Kwon Sang-woo (Once Upon A Time In High School), Song Seung-hun (Make It Big) and Ji Sung (Blood Rain) in a story of four friends who ...
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Special People
Dir/scr: Justin Edgar. UK. 2007. 78mins.Few films successfully negotiate the tricky expansion from short to feature but Special People is a happy exception. Justin Edgar's adaptation of his 12 minute 2005 short builds on the original material without diluting any of its sharp humour and also provides a deeper sense ...
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It's Hard To Be Nice (Tesko Je Biti Fin)
Dir/scr: Srdan Vuletic. Bosnia Herzegovina-Slovenia-Serbia-Germany-UK. 2007. 102mins.Local Balkan audiences will respond cheerfully to the familiar characters and scenes in Srdan Vuletic's lively sophomore effort, but international sales agents Fortissimo Films will have a tougher time selling this well-intentioned film to international markets. The story of a cab driver striving to ...
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The Original Kings Of Comedy
Dir: Spike Lee. US. 2000. 115 mins.Prod cos: MTV Films, Latham Entertainment, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. US dist: Paramount Pictures. Int'l distributin: UIP. Prods: Walter Latham, David Gale, Spike Lee. Exec prod: Van Toffler. Co-prod: Butch Robinson. DoP: Malik Sayeed. Ed: Barry Alexander Brown. Exec music prod: ...
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Toronto announces full festival line-up
World premieres from Lord Richard Attenborough, Renny Harlin, Gillian Armstrong, Alain Comeau, Wayne Wang and Michael Moore are among the highlights as the Toronto International Film Festival unveiled its complete line-up in advance of its September 6 opening. Also announced were new films from Kenneth Branagh, Paul Schrader, Sidney Lumet, ...
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Duska selected as Dutch foreign language film Oscar submission
Jos Stelling’s dark comedy Duska has been selected as the Netherlands’ best foreign language submission for the 2008 Academy Awards.The film is the first Eyeworks Egmond Film and Television production since the merger with the Eyeworks Group and centres on a lost film critic, a beautiful cinema cashier, and a ...
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Ryan, Bening et al start shooting Jagged/Inferno's The Women
Principal photography has begun in Boston, Massachusetts, on Jagged Films and Inferno Distribution's comedy The Women.The film will shoot on location in and around Boston and New York City through mid-October and is being distributed in North America by Picturehouse.The story centres on two well-appointed New York women whose friendship ...
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Transformers to hit IMAX screens eight weeks after release
Michael Bay's summer hit Transformers is to be distributed in IMAX cinemas, according to the giant-screen company and DreamWorks/Paramount. Having already grossed more than $300m domestically and $350m internationally since its release, the film will be digitally remastered for release on more than 80 IMAX screens worldwide September 21. Asked ...