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Berney to be keynote speaker at LA Filmmaker Forum
Picturehouse Films president Bob Berney will be the keynote speaker at the third-annual Filmmaker Forum in Los Angeles, which runs from Oct 19- 21.The Forum kicks off with an advance screening of Marc Forster's The Kite Runner and will include panel discussions covering such diverse topics as production, financing, distribution, ...
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De Laurentiis, Muti, Storaro, Muccini get LA honours
Dino De Laurentiis, actress Ornella Muti, cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and Gabriele Muccino will each receive the Cinema Italian Style Award at the upcoming 4th Annual Cinema Italian Style Festival in Los Angeles, which runs from Oct 10-21.The 12-day event features the US premieres of festival opener Daniele Luchetti's My Brother ...
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Disney's Ratatouille could be the weekend's top earner with opening in Germany
Ratatouille could become the weekend's top earner after Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (WDSMPI) opened it in Germany and Austria on Oct 4.The Pixar hit has grossed $230.5m so far and is expected to cross $300m by the end of its run, buoyed by the German-speaking debuts and upcoming ...
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MIFED expands with related events
Mifed is to defend its claim to be the autumn's leading film sales market by improving its technical facilities and creating a network of linked events."The need for human contact will mean that there is always a need for film markets. But at a time when deals are increasingly done ...
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Universal picks up NA rights to Midnight Eagle
Universal Pictures has acquired North American rights to Japanese thriller Midnight Eagle, which is produced by a production consortium headed by Universal Pictures Japan. Co-producer, distributor and world sales agent Shochiku made the announcement following the film's world premiere in Los Angeles on October 2 at Universal Studios. Teruki Matsumoto, ...
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PUSAN: Huayi Brothers to produce $20m D-Project
Chinese producer-distributor Huayi Brothers will be commencing sales on a $20m suspense thriller, to be directed by Hong Kong 's Tsui Hark, at Pusan 's Asian Film Market next week. The project, which has the working title D-Project, is based on the real-life Tang Dynasty magistrate Di Renjie (aka Judge ...
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PUSAN: Busan City breaks ground on $35m post facility
Marking the second day of the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), Busan Metropolitan City has broken ground for the Busan Post-Production Facility - to be built in the Centum City complex in Haeundae. The facility will house a film lab and studios for digital intermediate, editing, computer graphics, sound recording ...
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PUSAN: TBS slate headed by two world premieres
Japan's Tokyo Broadcast System (TBS) has unveiled its Pusan slate which is headed by two world premieres screening at the event - Natsuki Imai's Sky Of Love and Miike Takashi's Crows: Episode 0. Sky Of Love will premiere in Pusan's Asian Film Market on October 8 and 9 before it ...
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PUSAN: Asia Pacific Actors Network launches at PIFF
The Asia Pacific Actors Network (APAN) saw its launch today (Oct 5) at the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF). Headed by veteran Korean actors Ahn Sung-ki, Kang Soo-yeon and Park Joong-hoon, APAN is creating a film development fund to provide pre-production costs to up-and-coming directors, with funds from producer/distributor M&FC, ...
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Eros signs string of new media deals in SE-Asia
India 's Eros International, which has a library of around 1,300 films, has signed multiple content licensing deals with leading telcos and on-demand service providers in South-East Asia. Among the deals, Eros will be the exclusive Bollywood content provider to Mauritius Telecom's video-on-demand (VoD) service, carried on its IPTV platform, ...
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The Seeker: The Dark is Rising
Dir: David L Cunningham. US. 2007. 102 mins.Hollywood 's latest take on a cherished fantasy novel series has a modern American teen hero battling ancient evil forces in a Christmassy British setting. That mix of elements should lead to a respectable theatrical showing and a decent video performance for The ...
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Telefilm renews $2m theatrical documentary fund
Telefilm Canada has announced the renewal of the Theatrical Documentary Pilot Program. Designed to assist the production and post-production of feature-length documentaries intended for Canadian theatrical release, the $1.875m initiative is co-financed by the National Film Board of Canada and the Rogers Group of Funds, a foundation underwritten by Canada's ...
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Sigur Ros Heima
Dir: Dean DeBois. Iceland 2007. 97 mins.The haunting music of Reykjavik-formed band Sigur Ros and the breathtaking beauty of the Icelandic landscape are showcased to impressive effect in the concert film Sigur Ros Heima. Taking its title from the Icelandic for 'At Home' or 'Homeland', the film follows the four-member ...
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Paddy Considine, Royston Tan set for Encounters screenings
Singapore's controversial director Royston Tan will head up the Spotlight on Singapore event at this year's Encounters Short Film Festival in the UK.With a record number of entries from more countries than ever before in its 13 year run, the festival has selected shorts from as far as Belarus, Ecuador ...
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Firstmovies launches with on-line marketing tool
A new UK film industry marketing company launches this week, aiming to provide distributors with market research about their films via the internet. Called Firstmovies.com, the service has been set up by Chris Ward, managing director of youth marketing agency Beatwax Communications. Film Council deputy chairman Stewart Till has been ...
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Loose Change Final Cut to launch online Nov 11
MercuryMedia is at Mipcom with Loose Change Final Cut, the followup to Loose Change 2, which was made famous by a Vanity Fair profile last year.Dylan Avery's film is an independent investigation of the events surrounding September 11. The Final Cut version includes new material since the first one was ...
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Features
Editorial - Screen says - Cracking the crunch
There's something appealing about business terminology that reduces complex economic movements to physical actions. The prime example at the moment is the 'credit crunch' - which hopefully will not end up in a global crash. It gives the sense of a natural order which has reached a finite point of ...
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UK film finance - In sickness or in health'
'No news is good news' might be the motto of the UK film industry this year. The UK has been condemned to live in interesting times of late, with its entire financing system ripped up and replaced over the last few years.But since the beginning of the year, the territory ...
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United states - Short wars
When it comes to short films, most festivals have traditionally relaxed their insistence on world or national premieres, happy to offer maximum exposure to new film-makers and not lay claim to them as they often do with feature directors.That open-door policy is fast changing. Perhaps responding to the deluge of ...
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Gavin Hood: New world order
From the outset, Gavin Hood stresses that Rendition, his follow-up to 2006's best foreign-language Oscar winner Tsotsi, is not 'politically preachy'. While that may be so, the subject matter is inevitably political and makes for a harrowing two hours that raises fundamental ethical dilemmas about the times we live in.Rendition ...