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Beta Film coproducing and selling animation projects
Beta Film is serving as a sales agent and co-producer on two animation feature films - Moonbeam Bear and Princess Lillifee - which are currently in production. Based on the books by Rolf Faenger and Ulrike Moeltgen which have been published in nine countries, the 3D animation film Moonbeam Bear ...
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Hamburg's Douglas Sirk Award goes to David Cronenberg
Canadian director David Cronenberg will receive the Douglas Sirk Award at this year's Filmfest Hamburg, running Sept 27 to Oct 4. Festival opens with best-selling author Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's directorial debut Odette Toulemonde. The award in recognition of Cronenberg's 'outstanding contribution to cinema' will be presented to the director on the ...
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Exodus
Dir: Penny Woolcock UK 2007. 110 mins.As much community project as feature film, Exodus transplants the Biblical story of Moses and the children of Israel to the depressed British seaside resort of Margate, in a dystopian future where racist politicians hold sway and asylum seekers are fenced inside a refugee ...
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Mr Woodcock
Dir: Craig Gillespie US . 2007. 89mins.Former pupils of sadistic PE teachers will be a key audience for Mr Woodcock, an intermittently chuckle-worthy comedy with Billy Bob Thornton as the bullying, track-suited title character. Having reportedly sat on the shelf for a year, with some scenes re-shot, it's unlikely that ...
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The Sweet and the Bitter (Il Dolce e l'Amaro)
Dir: Andrea Porporati Italy 2007. 99 mins.The Italian Mafia film comes of age with The Sweet and the Bitter, a Sicilian Goodfellas that offers a refreshingly unheroic, sometimes darkly comic take on the grubby reality behind the rituals and myths of Cosa Nostra. Like another recent title, Stefano Incerti's L'Uomo ...
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UK trade minister calls for private investment in film
UK Trade Minister, Lord Jones of Birmingham is calling on private investors to take a longer term view of film production.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com at the IBC convention in Amsterdam, the minister said: 'I would love to see private investment in film production applied with a longer term perspective. 'In Germany ...
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Hong Kong's Mei Ah steps up film, TV production
Encouraged by the new crop of pay-TV channels about to hit Hong Kong, local producer Mei Ah Entertainment is expanding its film production slate and ploughing an additional $13m-$26m (HK$100m-HK$200m) into television production.According to Mei Ah managing director Patrick Tong, the company will produce another 11 features by the end ...
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Tokyo Project Gathering unveils 38 projects
The organisers of the third Tokyo Project Gathering (TPG) have unveiled the 38 projects that will take part in this year's edition (Oct 21-24). The financing and co-production market will take place at Tokyo's Roppongi Hills complex at the same time as the TIFFCOM contents market and the Tokyo International ...
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Cillian Murphy to join Al Pacino in Room 9's Dali & I
Cillian Murphy will star opposite Al Pacino in Room 9 Entertainment's Dali & I: The Surreal Story, which is set to begin shooting in Spain and New York in early 2008.Andrew Niccol will direct from his rewrite of the speculative script by John Salvati based on Stan Lauryssens' novel Dali ...
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Magnolia takes US rights to In Bloom from sister company 2929
2929 Productions has sold Vadim Perelman's drama In Bloom to Magnolia Pictures in the US and TVA Films in Canada.The film got its world premiere at Toronto last Saturday and stars Uma Thurman as a woman haunted by the memory of a high school shooting. Evan Rachel Wood and Eva ...
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Rialto buys Australia and New Zealand on We Are Together
Rialto Distribution has acquired theatrical and home video rights in Australia and New Zealand to Paul Taylor's documentary We Are Together (Thina Simunye).The film chronicles an uplifting episode in the life of South African children from an orphanage. it is a RISE Films production in association with The Channel 4 ...
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MegaStar Media opens Vietnam's biggest multiplex
MegaStar Media last night officially opened its first cinema in Ho Chi Minh City, which is also the biggest in Vietnam, as part of its continuous efforts in redefining the country's exhibition landscape. Vietnam's minister of culture, sports and tourism, Hoang Tuan Anh, was among the guests at the gala ...
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Festival review: Venice
Critical wrapMarco Mueller may have been pipped to the post by a fictitious candidate, L.K. Ching, in an informal poll of (mostly Italian) festivalgoersorganised outside Venice's Casino to choose the next festival director(it was 603 for Ching, 601 for Muller). But most international festivalhabitues agreed that Mueller had come up ...
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Tokyo Filmex to close with Lee's Secret Sunshine
Tokyo Filmex has announced that Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine will be the closing film of this year's edition (Nov 17-25). Additionally, Lee will serve as the head of the competition jury. The film won the best actress award at Cannes this year for Jeon Do-yeon's performance. Earlier this week, the ...
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Run, Fat Boy, Run
Dir: David Schwimmer UK . 2007. 101minsSimon Pegg is fast becoming Britain 's king of comedy. He seems to have found the secret of reaching levels of box-office success denied to fellow British television graduates like Mitchell and Webb (Magicians (2007)) and Ant and Dec (Alien Autopsy (2006)). Run, Fat ...
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Don't Think About It (Non Pensarci)
Dir: Gianni Zanasi Italy 2007. 108 mins.The real surprise of the 2007 Venice Days sidebar on the Lido , Don't Think About It is that rarest of things: an exportable Italian comedy that features neither Roberto Benigni nor Nanni Moretti. Directed with an admirable lightness of touch by Gianni Zanasi ...
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The Stone Angel
Dir. Kari Skogland Canada , 2007. 115 minutes.The Stone Angel is a perfectly respectable, solidly-made film which, beyond the expert performance by the always reliable Ellen Burstyn, has unfortunately little to recommend it for consideration for theatrical release beyond its home territory. Adapted by director Skogland from a beloved Canadian ...
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Sandrews strikes gold with Detector
Following the lack of government funding in 1999 and 2000, only a few Norwegian films have been released so far this year. But the August 25 opening of Pal Jackman's Detector has been received enthusiastically by local audiences pulling in a three-day opening weekend gross of $208,939 (NKr1,842,841) from 31 ...
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The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival programme announced
This year's Times BFI 51st London Film Festival's programme boasts seven world premieres among films from 43 countries.The event opens on Oct 17 with the UK premiere of David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts, with Wes Anderson's eagerly awaited The Darjeeling Limited closing the festival on ...
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Irish Broadcasting Commission grants $2.8m to five feature projects
The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) announces Eu2.05m funding for five features in the fourth round of its Sound & Vision funding scheme. With a total grant fund of Eu8.7m for independent television producers, the fund is financed by a levy on the Irish television license fee and the scheme ...