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Lien's Bothersome Man takes top honours at The Hamptons
Jens Lien's Norwegian comedy-horror movie The Bothersome Man won the Golden Starfish for bestnarrative feature at the 14th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival,while Georgi Lazarevski's Voyage In G Major won corresponding documentary honours.The Bothersome Man also won the Kodak Award For Best Cinematography for JohnChristian Rosenlund.The Zicherman Family Foundation Award ...
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Henson's Fraggle Rock headed for the big screen
The Jim Henson Company is developing a full-length feature basedon its 1980s television show Fraggle Rock.The story will follow the adventures of Fraggle Rockresidents Gobo, Wembley, Mokey, Boober and Red as they venture outside theirhome and encounter new creatures.Ahmet Zappa is writing the screenplay and will serve as executive produceralongside ...
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Frank Stirling leaves Boeing for digital cinema unit at Panorama Labs
Frank Stirling has been named president of Panorama Labs' digital cinemastrategic business unit.Effective immediately, Stirling becomes responsible for managing day-to-dayoperations, including overseeing development of a digital cinema projector fortheatrical exhibition. He will be based in Los Angeles.Stirling previously served as executive director of Boeing DigitalCinema, where he deployed 31 operational ...
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Bigelow enters The Hurt Locker for Voltage Pictures
Kathryn Bigelow has begun pre-production on Iraq-set action drama TheHurt Locker, whichVoltage Pictures will commence selling at AFM next month.The Hurt Locker follows the exploits of an elite bomb disposal unit and is basedon a screenplay Bigelow co-wrote with war reporter Mark Boal.Greg Shapiro is producing and principal photography is ...
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Prada struts past $100m after stylish $19m weekend
Fox International's The Devil Wears Prada swept past $100m on the back of anestimated $19m weekend overseas haul.The comedy now stands at $104m thanks to strong holds in theEuropean markets and a $617,000 number one debut in Sweden on 66 screens.Prada added$3.4m from 606 in its second weekend in Germany ...
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Hawaii fest gets underway with Asia-focused line-up
The 26th HawaiiInternational Film Festival (HIFF) opened over the weekend with a screening of AlejandroGonzalez Inarritu's Babeland a programme that has a strong emphasis on Asianfilms. The line-upincludes special focuses on South-East Asia, a celebration of the FilipinoCentennial in Hawaii,and a look at new Vietnamese cinema. HIFF is alsopresenting Japanese ...
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Brokaw's Avenue to merge with e-commerce firm
Cary Brokaw's Avenue Entertainment Group, the production outfit behind The Player, Short Cuts and Drugstore Cowboy, has signed a letter of intent to merge with SolutionsAmerica Inc, an e-commerce company which specialises in facilitating digital business processes for the entertainment industry.In a statement Brokaw said that the merger was intended ...
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Isabella wins best film at Bangkok World film fest
Pang Ho Cheung's Isabella from Hong Kong was awarded best film at the 4th World Film Festival of Bangkok onSunday night (October 22).The jury reached thedecision unanimously for the film's multiple merits which include "the powerfulperformance of both its lead actors, the dynamic direction as well as theimpressive cinematography and ...
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Berlinale gets cooking with new culinary cinema sidebar
Berlinale festivaldirector Dieter Kosslick is introducing a new film programme of features,documentaries and shorts entitled Look & Cook - Culinary Cinema at the 2007festival. Held at the Wintergartenvariete theatre ten minutes away from Potsdamer Platz, the programme will includescreenings complemented by discussions and tastings as top German chefs will beinvited ...
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Dutch distributor A-Film expands into Belgium
Dutch independentdistributor A-Film has plans to open a new office in Antwerp. The A-Film catalogue, including 1800 titles, willbe expanded to the Belgium market. General director Pim Hermeling appointed AnnSchepens as booker for theatrical sales.The first theatricalreleases include Mel Gibson's Apocalypto,Roger Michell's Venus, MichelGondry's Be Kind Rewind and PeterDuncan's Unfinished ...
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Flanders Fest awards top prize to Ten Canoes
The Flanders InternationalFilm Festival closed its 33rd edition with its top award going to Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer and PeterDjigirr. The grand prize for bestfilm came with a $25,116 (Euros 20,000) award to help with distribution costsin Flanders and Brussels. Producer Jan Harlan chairedthe jury, which also included ...
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UK's AAM adds downloads-to-own from Sony
Following on their VOD deal announced in August, Arts Alliance Media (AAM) and Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) have struck anagreement for downloads-to-own. Starting today, AAM's partner sites LoveFilm and AOL UK will offer UK-only downloads-to-own of select Sony Pictures films.The initial 40 films onoffer include The Da Vinci Code, ...
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EFA documentary nominees Groening and Hopkins
The European Film Academy hasannounced the nominees for this year's Prix Arte for documentary film. The eight nominees are:37 Uses For A Dead Sheep by BenHopkins (UK)Into Great Silence (Die Grosse Stille)by Philip Groening (Germany)Dreaming By Numbers by Anna Bucchetti(The Netherlands)Grandmother's House (La Casa De MiAbuela) by Adan Aliaga (Spain)Maradona, ...
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Germany's FFA backs next Glawogger film
New feature films fromAustria's Michael Glawogger, theatre/film director Leander Hausmann and the directorialduo Marcus Mittermeier and Jan Henrik Stahlberg are among seven projectsawarded a total of $2.8m (Euros 2.25m) production support by the German FederalFilm Board (FFA).Glawogger received $313,937(Euros 250,000) for Contact High, thesequel to his comedy Nacktschnecken, which will ...
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TWC options remake rights to Thai thriller 13
The Weinstein Company (TWC) hasacquired remake rights to Thai psychological thriller 13 from Sahamongkolfilm, in a deal that also includes NorthAmerican rights to the original film. The $1.2m film, which openedtwo weeks ago in Thailand, is the second feature from 26-year-old director ChukiatSakweerakul following Evil (Pisaj). Based on a Thai ...
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Perhaps Love leads the pack in Golden Horse race
Thenominations for the 43rd Golden Horse Awards for Chinese-language cinema wereannounced today in Taipei. Titles competing for Best Feature Film arePatrick Tam's After This Our Exile, Ning Hao's Crazy Stone, Johnnie To's Exiled, Peter Chan's Perhaps Love and Su Chao-pin's Silk.MusicalPerhapsLove dominates the race to thefinishing line with 12 nominations ...
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Donner, Juonifilmi on board for The Border
Oscar-winning Finnishproducer Jorn Donner will return to filmmaking after a six-year hiatus, asproducer of Lauri Torhonen's The Border, which marks the first feature from productioncompany Juonifilmi. Scripted by Aleksi Bardy, The Border is based on the real-lifestory of Donner's father, which Donner told Torhonen as they collaborated onthe 1986 film ...
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Jobs go as BBC creates new media arm
UK public broadcaster the BBC is slashing more than 200 jobs as it launches BBC Technology, a commercially-driven operation providing IT services to the BBC and external companies.The job losses will come from existing technology and operations subsidiary BBC Resources, part of which will be brought into the main organisation. ...
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Telefilm Canada overhauls film funding regime
Canada's principal public sector film funder, TelefilmCanada, has announced a much-anticipated overhaul of its methods of investment- and re-investment - in the nation's indigenous production and distributionindustry. The changes affect the $71m (C$81m) Canadian Feature FilmFund (CFFF) as it is applied in both English-lanuage and French-languagesectors in the 2007-2008 allotment.The ...
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IFC takes US rights to Von Trier's Boss Of It All
IFCEntertainment's prolific acquisitions streak continued this week as the companyannounced it had taken all US rights to Lars Von Trier's Danish comedy Bossof It All.Thefilm was produced by Vibeke Windelov, Meta Foldagers and Von Trier's ZentropaEntertainment and will open through IFC First Take in spring 2007. IFC Filmspreviously handled Von ...