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Foreign productions jump 7% in France
The number of foreign shoots in France increased 7% last year on 2005, according to figures from the French national film commission, Film France. But US productions dropped 6%. British productions were responsible for 24% of the 1,286 shooting days logged, followed by those from the US (19%) and Japan ...
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Opera Jawa triumphs at Singapore's Silver Screen Awards
Opera Jawa , an Indonesian musical filled with gamelan music and Javanese court dances, won best film at the Silver Screen Awards of the 20th Singapore International Film Festival. Director Garin Nugroho was on hand to receive the top honour. Iraqi Kurdistan-born Shawkat Amin Korki took home best director for ...
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TFI International acquires Tavernier's In The Electric Mist
TFI International has acquired In The Electric Mist, the new English-language film from director Bertrand Tavernier.TFM Distrbution will release Mist in France in 2008. TF1 is selling world rights outside the US and English-speaking Canada where Ithaca will handle the film. The pedigree cast includes Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, ...
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Taxi To The Dark Side
Dir. Alex Gibney. US. 108mins.Taxi To The Dark Side is a troubling look into torture practiced by the US military, beginning with the beating and murder in December 2003 of an Afghan taxi driver in the wrong place at the wrong time, and ending with a probe into how torture ...
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John Carpenter in Tribeca: Violent films comes from our fearsome world
As audiences brace themselves for this summer's release of Hostel 2 and America comes to terms with the violence of the recent Virginia Tech murders, the Tribeca Film Festival last night hosted a discussion about violence in films and the impact on society.Panelists all agreed that the real-life violence seen ...
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Klein boards Argentine debut
Nicholas Klein, who co-wrote and produced Wim Wenders' The Million Dollar Hotel and The End Of Violence, is set to co-produce the feature debut of Argentine film-maker Alejandro Chomski. Chomski, who lived in Los Angeles for four years, has directed nine shorts, three of which were acquired by internet movie ...
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Ronning and Sandberg on board for $8m Manus project
Norwegian directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, whose first feature was the Luc Besson-written and produced western comedy, Bandidas (2006), starring Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek, have signed to direct Max Manus, a $8.4m (Euros 6.1m) World War II epic to shoot from February 2008 for Norway's Filmkameratene.Scripted by Thomas ...
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DFFF-backed Flame & Citron moves to Babelsberg Studios
Shooting begins today on the lot of the Babelsberg Studios for Ole Christian Madsen's thriller Flame & Citron (Flammen und Citronen), which has become the first international co-production to receive support from the newly established German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).The story about two gangsters who became the most wanted men ...
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Kinowelt increases year-on-year annual profits and revenues by more than a third
Germany's Kinowelt Group has increased its year-on-year annual profits and revenues by more than a third as business boomed in all of its divisions in 2006. A year ago, managing director Bertil le Claire forecast a 21% growth in turnover to $115m (Euros 95m) for 2006, but the Leipzig-based company ...
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Neil Marshall shooting Rogue's Doomsday in Cape Town and Scotland
Neil Marshall, writer/director of The Descent and Dog Soldiers, has started shooting in Cape Town for Doomsday for Rogue Pictures. The action thriller is about a lethal virus that hits a major country. Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddiq and Adrian Lester star.Crystal Sky Pictures' Steven Paul and Benedict Carver are producing ...
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As predicted, Grindhouse will be split into two releases for UK
As predicted, The Weinstein Company (TWC) has confirmed that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse double bill will be released as two separate movies in the UK.Tarantino's Death Proof will be released via Momentum Pictures/Dimension Films on Sept 21 with Rodriguez's Planet Terror released at a later date to be ...
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Koch Lorber picks up Tribeca competition entry 9 Star Hotel
Koch Lorber Films has picked up Israeli film-maker Ido Haar's documentary 9 Star Hotel from Israeli-based Eden Productions and plans an immediate US release.The Arabic and Hebrew-language film in English subtitles is receiving its North American Premiere in competition at Tribeca and will launch at New York's Film Forum on ...
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Tribeca domestic deal closed on Maccarone's Vivere
here! Films has picked up North American rights to Angelina Maccarone's German drama Vivere at Tribeca and will release in theatres through sister company Regent Releasing.The story centres on three women on the run, each trying to save each other, and in the process, save themselves. Hannelore Elsner, Esther Zimmering, ...
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Summit back at Cannes with Walden, Polanski, Step Up 2
Patrick Wachsberger's Summit International, now embedded in the worldwide production and distribution company Summit Entertainment, has unveiled its Cannes sales slate.The roster includes two Summit productions - a second instalment in the nascent dance franchise Step Up and the teen fight club drama Get Some - as well as third ...
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Losers And Winners the top winner at 14th Hot Docs
German filmmakers Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken's Losers And Winners won the Best International Feature Documentary as the 14th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival wrapped this weekend. The film looks at the impact of globalisation as a German smelting plant is disassembled to be rebuilt in China. The International ...
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Bona Culture branches out from Polybona
Li Chiyan, one of the founding members of Polybona Film Distribution along with Yu Dong, has left the company to form his own distribution outfit, Bona Culture. The new company plans to distribute around ten films a year of which eight will be Chinese-language and two will be foreign films ...
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Fox to launch Norwegian distribution arm
20th Century Fox is continuing its expansion in Scandinavia with the launch of a Norwegian distribution arm, at the same time ending a long-term output agreement with local independent distributor KF.The move follows Fox's launch of a joint distribution venture with Scandinavian distributor SF in Finland earlier this year (Screendaily, ...
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Goodman, Ricci and Sarandon join Speed Racer cast
John Goodman, Christina Ricci and Susan Sarandonhave joined the cast of Larry and Andy Wachowski's action film SpeedRacer which will commence principal photography at the BabelsbergStudios outside of Berlin from June. The German-English co-production between Sechste Babelsberg Filmand London-based Velocity Productions - which is based on the animated1960s cult series ...
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Israeli fund support for Eyal Sivan documentary sparks row
A storm has erupted in Israel after an important fund announced its intention to back a documentary by Eyal Sivan, a fierce opponent of the country's policies.The Paris-based Israeli film-maker's documentary Jaffa is to receive support from the Cinema Project, a division of Tel Aviv's Joshua Rabinovitch Cultural Fund.But the ...
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Film Movement takes North American rights to Tribeca title Fraulein
Film Movement has acquired the North American theatrical and home video rights to Fraulein, which as been screening this week at the Tribeca Film Festival. Andrea Staka's feature is about three modern women from the former Yugoslavia now living in Switzerland who have to come to terms with their pasts.The ...