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Production uncertainty overshadows Pinewood growth
The UK's Pinewood Studios has warned film revenue may be reduced this year because of delayed studio productions.The UK studio has been performing well recently and was further boosted this year by news that it would host the next Bond movie.Current business includes Chris Weitz' His Dark Materials: The Golden ...
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Movie downloads set for strong growth
Online movie downloading is becoming a serious business for Hollywood studios in the US and Western Europe, according to a report from analyst Screen Digest.But the authors warn that the fragmented approach to new media distribution could sall growth.Download to own will not only benefit the studios but also those ...
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Asian Film Market launches mainstream financing event
The Asian Film Market has announced participants and events for its upcoming sophomore edition - including the launch of Co-production PRO, a new international financing event. So far 76 sales companies have signed up for booths, with buyers and sellers including Celluloid Dreams, The Weinstein Company, CJ Entertainment, Showbox, Lotte, ...
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Bernal to star in Moodysson's English-language debut Mammoth
Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal is to star in Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth, the controversial Swedish writer/director's first English language feature.Mammoth is a drama centering on the domestic dynamics of a couple, their child and Filipino nanny. It is in final casting and pre-production.Moodysson, whose previous work includes Fucking Amal (Show ...
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Gone Baby Gone
Dir: Ben Affleck. US. 2007. 114mins.In Gone Baby Gone, an earnest but inexperienced young man plunges headfirst into deep waters, only to discover how much he still has to learn. That description could apply to the film's main character, a headstrong private detective hunting for a missing child, but it ...
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IFP/West absorbs LA Indie Film Fest into programme
Independent Feature Project/West, the non-profit organisation for independent film-makers, is to take over production of the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (LAIFF), the April event which to date has been staged by the LA Film Collaborative (LAFC). It will now be incorporated as an ongoing program of IFP/West.Festival director Richard ...
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De Bruyn's broody Nadine fronts Mannheim-Heidelberg
The international premiere of Erik de Bruyn's Nadine opens this year's competition at the 56th International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg. It is one of 17 features from up and coming directorsfrom17 countries.de Bruyn's drama stars Halina Reijn as a single fortysomething career woman whose reproductive urges are ignited by an encounter with ...
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Far North
Dir: Asif Kapadia France/UK. 89 mins.With this dark tale of a supernaturally-tinged love triangle dark set in the frozen wastes of the Arctic Circle, Asif Kapadia returns to the myth-rooted dreamscape of his 2001 debut, The Warrior, after an uninspiring studio hiatus (Rogue/Focus Features' horror-flop The Return). But as a ...
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The International breaks DFFF $5m cap
Tom Tykwer's action thriller The International, which begins principal photography in Germany from September 15, has become the third project to be awarded more than the $5m (Euros 4m) 'cap' from the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).Originally, the German-UK co-production between Siebente Babelsberg Film and Columbia Pictures' Rose Line Productions ...
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Eros secures $100m credit facility from Citigroup
Indian producer and distributor Eros International has secured a $100m five-year credit facility from Citigroup Global Markets, to support the company's strategy of ramping up acquisitions. Eros International chairman and CEO, Kishore Lulla, said: 'This facility will increase Eros' firepower to create significant value for our shareholders and partners through ...
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The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Les Amours D'Astree et de Celadon)
Dir: Eric Rohmer France /Spain/Italy 2007. 109minsThere are two Eric Rohmers. The more popular is the detached comic observer of modern emotional dilemmas, the maker of the Moral Comedies and Four Seasons series. The other is a sometimes forbidding experimental contriver of historical and literary dramas, such as Perceval le ...
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Help Me Eros (2007)
Dir. Lee Kang Sheng. Taiwan , 2007. 103minsBest known as Tsai Ming Liang's regular lead actor, Lee Kang Sheng's second feature film will cater mainly for the regular followers of Tsai's special brand of cinema - slow, minimalist, obsessive and heavily reliant on such compulsive fixations as sex and food, ...
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The Hunting Party
Dir: Richard Shepard USA 2007. 100mins A textbook study in the dangers of trying to have one's cake and eat it, The Hunting Party mixes earnest sentimentality and black comedy in an unlikely yarn about the search for a Bosnian Serb war criminal by a maverick TV news crew. On ...
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Warner, Videocine launch Mexican production outfit
Warner Bros and Mexico's Videocine have formed a joint production venture, Coyoacan Films, following the success of their first co-production The Second Night (La Segunda Noche).Romantic comedy Second Night grossed $5.2m in Mexico and ranks among the top five all-time Mexican box office hits. Producer-distributor Videocine has a busy development ...
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Atopia snaps up Quebec features
Montreal-based Atopia Distribution has picked up four new Quebec-based titles, including Marc-Andre Forcier's Nemesis, Denis Cote's Elle Veut Le Chaos and Who Is K.K. Downey', the debut feature of actor Darren Curtis. Nemesis, Forcier's 12th feature, will feature Remy Girard, Roy Dupuis and Celine Bonnier in a family drama set ...
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Swedish tribute plans to screen Bergman rarities
Within a month of the director's death, a Bergman tribute plans to gather many of the auteur's key collaborators and screen rare and unseen Bergman works.The one-off Bergman tribute was announced this week in Venice by Jannike Ahlund, the organizer of the annual Bergman Week on Bergman's home island, Faro.Long ...
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Durs A Cuire heads Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema
Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema will open with the world premiere of Guillaume Sylvestre's debut documentary feature Durs A Cuire. Described as a unique, uncompromising and intimate, the film travels behind the scenes at two of Canada's top restaurants to engage with the chefs who made them, Normand Laprise of ...
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Little Film Company takes international rights to The Secrets
The Little Film Company has picked up international rights to Avi Nesher's drama The Secrets, which makes its international premiere in Toronto in the Contemporary World Cinema section on Sept 8.Robbie Little negotiated the deal with Ronna Wallace, who is retaining domestic rights.David Silber produced the story of two Jewish ...
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Gurinder Chadha ready to start Snogging
Production will begin on Sept 17 on Gurinder Chadha's latest feature, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, based on UK author Louise Rennison's best-selling Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson series. Georgia Groome (star of London To Brighton) is to play the lead. Also appearing are Eleanor Tomlinson and Aaron Johnson (who both ...