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London Mayor to make filming in capital easier
London 's Mayor Boris Johnson has pledged new legislation to make filming in the capital easier and greater investment in grassroots film-making across the capital. The promises have been set out as part of a new set of priorities for Film London, the capital's film and media agency.At a summit ...
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The Other End of The Line
Dir James Dodson. US. 2008. 106 mins Indian-American joint venture The Other End Of The Line demonstrates the pitfalls of creative globalisation even as it makes globalisation a backdrop for its frothy romantic comedy. Produced by Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park and Bollywood giant Adlabs, this piece of cross-cultural cuteness will ...
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Pearce joins cast of Oz drama Animal Kingdom
Guy Pearce (Memento) will play a troubled police officer in Animal Kingdom, written and to be directed by short filmmaker and former Australian film magazine editor David Michod. Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton and Jackie Weaver are also on board the debut drama which goes into production for Australian distributor Madman ...
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Medusa to remake Welcome to the Sticks for Italy
Rome-Italian powerhouse Medusa has bought the remake rights for France's run-away box office success Welcome to the Sticks (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis) a Medusa spokesperson confirmed to Screen Daily.The film will be in development and production in 2009 for a potential 2010 release. Everything about the Italian re-make has yet ...
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Stockholm International Film Festival dedicated to Sydney Pollack
The 19th edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival has unveiled its 2008 programme, screening more than 170 films from 40 countries.'And we are keeping up the momentum,' explained festival director Git Scheynius at today's (Oct 22) press conference in Stockholm; 'no less than a third of the entries are ...
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Slingshot and Pathe announce low budget multi-picture pact
Pathe and Slingshot have signed a deal which will see Pathe distribute a slate of four films produced by Slingshot, and co-financed with BBC Films and Screen West Midlands.The deal provides guaranteed UK theatrical distribution and international sales representation for no less than 4 titles, which will be selected from ...
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Telepool lines upfive market premieres at AFM
The Munich-based sales agent Telepool will screen Lilly The Witch - The Dragon and The Magic Book by Stefan Ruzowitzky at AFM, his first film since the Oscar winning The Counterfeiters.The $12m family entertainment film combining live action and CGI will be released by Walt Disney theatrically in Germany, Austria, ...
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Fipresci to award prize at the Dubai International Film Festival
The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) today announced that it will launch an annual international critics prize awarded by Fipresci, the International Federation of Film Critics.The award will be given to the best feature film in DIFF's Muhr Awards for Excellence in Arab Cinema and is the first time it ...
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Joe Dante ready to enter the 3D Hole
Joe Dante will commence shooting the 3D supernatural thriller The Hole starring Teri Polo, Chris Massoglia and Haley Bennett for Bold Films and Benderspink in Vancouver on December 2. Bold Films International will commence pre-sales at AFM next month on the story of two brothers and their neighbour who ...
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What Lies Beneath resurfaces above
What Lies Beneath returned to the top of the UK chart last weekend after the previous week's chart topper Dinosaur dropped a hefty 62%. The supernatural thriller starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer was the only film to make more than $1.5m (£1m) over the weekend (Nov 3-5) and has ...
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Third-quarter international box office barely moves from 2007 figures
Cinema may indeed be recession proof but the third-quarter figures for international markets do not suggest a rush to the multiplex escapism. Global box office for Q3 generated approximately $7.28bn in ticket sales compared with 2007. That translated into roughly a 0.5% revenue decline and a drop in admissions ...
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The Cave opens Utrecht on young, local note
Martin Koolhoven's The Cave (De Grot) is to open this year's Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht.This is the second year running that the festival, this year celebrating its 21st edition, has chosen a film by a young local director to kick off proceedings. Last time out, the festival opened with ...
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France's Le Sabre readies English-language slate
French high-end TV production outfit Le Sabre is preparing four English-language film projects, including Cheri, to star Jessica Lange, and a $16m ice age epic The Mammoth Hunters. The company is part of the Expand group, which has just been taken over by StudioCanal (see Screendaily, June 18).Lange herself initiated ...
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PACT, Equity draw lines in payment negotiations
UK producers body PACT yesterday appeared to be sticking to its line that it would not agree to profit sharing for actors, despite claims from performer's union Equity that it had "dropped its objections in principle" to additional payments for its members.The assertion was made by Andy Prodger, Equity's assistant ...
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Kinowelt shares go into freefall on Neuer Markt
No end seems to be in sight for the downward slide of troubled German media concern Kinowelt Medien's shares, which went into freefall yesterday (June 19) on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt. By the close of business, shares in the company stood 25.37% down on the previous day at Euros2.50.The business news ...
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Gershon, Nielsen, Sevigny to star in Demonlover
Gladiator's Connie Nielsen, American indie muse Chloe Sevigny and Showgirls star Gina Gershon are to join the cast of Demonlover, a French-produced thriller to be directed by festival favourite Olivier Assayas.Producer Edouard Weil, co-founder of up-and-coming production company Elisabeth Films, confirmed that the trio of US actresses will begin shooting ...
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Overseas cinema triumphs at Newport festival
Foreign-language features dominated the prize-giving ceremony at the Newport International Film Festival, with the best feature award going to Japanese director Masato Harada's haunting horror-romance, Inugami.Together, by Swedish director Lukas Moodyson, took the runner-up jury award in the feature competition. A special mention went to the French film Girls Can't ...
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Apocalypse Now takes centre stage at Taormina
Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux will screen at the Taormina Film Festival on July 4 in the Sicilian town's spectacular 7,000 seater Greek amphitheatre. Other high-profile titles at the non-competitive festival, which runs June 29-July 7, include Ivan Reitman's Evolution and Michael Apted's Enigma. On July 4, the ...
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Germany's Brainpool expands overseas web
German comedy powerhouse Brainpool TV has taken another step in its strategy of establishing an international network of companies, acquiring 50% of French light entertainment outfit Show Devant Productions (SDP).Together with its Swiss subsidiary Gregoire Furrer Productions (GFP), Brainpool paid $2.6m for the stake in SDP. Half of this is ...
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Indie Get Over It takes on studio heavyweights
Although still led by seasonal behemoths Pearl Harbor and The Mummy Returns the UK box office is coming under attack from strong releases from independent distributors such as Momentum's Get Over It. Taking advantage of audiences looking for an alternative to the summer blockbusters, both major and independent distributors are ...