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Sogepaq takes on sales for San Sebastian contender
Making its fourth third-party pick-up in two weeks, Spanish distribution house Sogepaq has taken worldwide rights on San Sebastian competition title Take My Eyes (Te Doy Mis Ojos).One of the most anticipated new Spanish films of the season, Take My Eyes offers a heartwrenchingly realistic take on domestic abuse. Laia ...
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Huppert signs up for erotic adaptation
Isabelle Huppert is to star in Ma Mere, an adaptation of the erotic novel by Georges Bataille which to be directed by Christophe Honore Ma Mere is produced Paolo Branco and his company Gemini Films. Shooting begins on the film, for which budget details were unavailable, in October in the ...
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Austria unveils co-production market plans
Next year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema (March 13-21, 2004) is to become the latest in a line of international film festivals launching a CineMart-style co-production market and Film Market/Industry Office under the new management of Miroljub Vuckovic and Tillmann Fuchs. Introducing the new concept for the Graz-based festival, ...
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San Sebastian opens on realistic note
Spain's leading film festival, the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-28), kicks off today with award-winning Cuban director Fernando Perez's dialogue-free fictionalised documentary Suite Havana - one of several bold programming selections sure to set tongues wagging at this year's edition.Yet the real controversy looks likely to surround Sunday's ...
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South Korea fully opens up to Japanese film
South Korea's Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced the complete opening of the Korean market to Japanese live-action films, effective from January 1, 2004. This marks the last stage of the incremental dismantling of a ban on Japanese popular culture, that was enacted shortly after Korean independence in ...
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UK's ICA plans Sheffield premiere for Five Obstructions
ICA Projects is to release The Five Obstructions, the latest work from Danish directors Jorgen Leth and Lars von Trier, following a UK premiere at next month's Sheffield International Documentary Festival.ICA will open the film in November, aiming for a publicity boost from Leth attending Sheffield and giving a masterclass. ...
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Valladolid fest to open with Dogville
Following its tradition of attracting high-profile independent premieres for Spain, the 48th annual Valladolid International Film Week (Oct 24-Nov 1) will open with Lars von Trier's Dogville and close with Woody Allen's Anything Else.Four Spanish productions have also been unveiled for the official competition: Santi Amodeo's Astronautas, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde's La ...
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Zein named as chair of UK producers body Pact.
Tiger Aspect Productions managing director Andrew Zein is to replace Eileen Gallagher as chair of UK producers association, Pact. Margaret Matheson, managing director Bard Entertainment will continue as vice chair of film for a second year.Eileen Gallagher, managing director of Shed Productions and current chair of Pact said: "I've thoroughly ...
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Filmax launches Galician animation studio
Spain's growing mini-studio The Filmax Group has joined with post-production laboratory Filmtel and a Galician capital risk fund to launch animation producer Bren Entertainment. The new outfit, which describes itself as an 'animation factory', will service both Filmax-originated projects as well as those from other producers from both Spain and ...
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Company, Invasions screen at Aspen Filmfest
A retrospective of 1970sAmerican cinema, a focus on women directors and the latest films from DenysArcand and Robert Altman are among the highlights of the 25th Aspen Filmfest,which runs from Sept 30-Oct 5.The Colorado event openswith Altman's ballet ensemble The Company and will close with Alejandro Agresti'saward-winning Spanish-language relationship drama ...
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Barbarian Invasions gets Canada's Oscar vote
Denys Arcand's TheBarbarian Invasions will beCanada's submission to Best Foreign Language Film category of the AcademyAwards. The decision was announcedWednesday by Telefilm Canada, which oversees the 24-person selection committee.It's a been stellar week for Arcand: on Sunday he accepted the C$30,000Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto ...
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Scorsese's The Blues gets Montreal world premiere
Filmmaker MartinScorsese's new film series, The Blues, will makes its world premiere at the 32nd MontrealInternational Festival of New Cinema and New Media (FCMM), Oct 9 -19. Produced by Scorsese,directed by noted filmmakers from Wim Wenders to Clint Eastwood, the seriesfeatures seven distinct films meant to capture the essence of ...
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Phoenix gets film rights to UK kids' book Skellig
Mike Medavoy and Arnie Messer's Phoenix Pictures hasacquired film rights to UK author David Almond's award-winningchildren's novella Skellig.Annabel Jankel, whoco-directed the 1988 thriller D.O.A.,is attached to direct and produce, while Irena Brignull, whose TV writingcredits include Come Together, isin line to adapt the screenplay.Phoenix executive consultantAnne Rodman brought the project ...
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ADV acquires domestic rights to Korea's animated Mari
Houston-based ADV Films, a producer-distributor of Japaneseanimation in North America, has acquired North American rights to LeeSeong-Kang's award-winning Korean digital animated feature, My BeautifulGirl, Mari.The film won best feature at the 2002 Annecy InternationalAnimated Film festival and is a magic-realist tale of a boy who takes refugefrom his family's troubles ...
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Cinecitta, Air Hollywood team to create European aviation-themed facility
Cinecitta Studios in Romeand Los Angeles-based aviation standing sets and prop rental company AirHollywood have teamed up to create what they claim is Europe's largestaviation-themed facility.Proposed sets that willresult from the partnership and serve expected market needs include an airportterminal concourse, state-of-the-art airplane mock-ups and a business jet.The move complementsCinecitta's ...
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UK politicians press for continued tax relief
An all-party parliamentary committee charged with reviewing public funding for British cinema has urged the UK Government to continue offering tax relief as "absolutely essential for the health of the industry." However, those tax-driven incentives should "evolve" to encourage both the production and distribution of British films. The current Section ...
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ARGENTINA
Alejandro Agresti's Valentin opened fifth this past weekend, scoring a good launch for the local title and taking the second highest per screen average after The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which pushed Bruce Almighty off the top. The Jim Carrey comedy had played in the number one slot for four ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! named as German Oscar contender
Wolfgang Becker's tragicomedy Good Bye, Lenin! has been selected by Germany's nine-person national jury as its candidate for the Foreign Language Oscar category.Since opening in German cinemas in February, the X-Filme creative pool production has attracted over 6.2m admissions, won 10 "Lolas" and prizes at festivals in Berlin, Budapest, and ...
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Nikkatsu forced to sell studio to clear debt
Japan's oldest film production company Nikkatsu is selling its studio - one of the largest and most active in Japan - for $72.7m (Y8bn). The buyer is Maru, a real estate management company owned by Masaya Nakamura, the president of Nikkatsu's corporate parent Namco.The sale will enable Nikkatsu to raise ...
