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International premiere of Ong Bak 2 toopen midnight strand at SXSW
The International premiere of Tony Jaa's martial arts action romp Ong Bak 2 will kick off the South By Southwest festival's inaugural midnight section next month, SXSW Presents Fantastic Fest At Midnight.The line-up of six pictures includes the world premieres of Pierre Laffargue's blaxploitation homage Black starring MC Jean Gab'1, ...
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British Film Institute and Anthony Minghella's family plan tribute
The British Film Institute and Anthony Minghella's family will celebrate his life and work and mark the first anniversary of his death with a movie marathon to be held on his birthplace, the Isle of Wight. The charity tribute will take place over the weekend of March 13 -15 and ...
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Finnish Film Foundation helps fund Harlin's homecoming, Mannerheim
The Finnish Film Foundation (FFF) has awarded $567,000 (Eu450,000) of funding to Finnish director Renny Harlin's come-back to local filmmaking, the $12.6m (Eu10m) Mannerheim, which will be the largest feature film project ever staged in Finland. The bio-pic stars Finnish actor Mikko Nousiainen as Finland's Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. Scripted ...
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DeaPlaneta sells key Spanish titles at Berlin
Spanish sales outfit DeaPlaneta sold several of their leading titles at the Berlin film festival, including Irene Cardona's Spanish-Moroccan romantic comedy Un Novio Para Yasmina and Gracia Querejeta's award winning Seven Billiards Tables. Cardona's comedy about marriages of convenience was sold to Daxar Multimedia for theatrical release in the Middle ...
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Warner Bros steps in for domestic on Edge Of Darkness
Warner Bros has taken North American rights to GK Films' upcoming Mel Gibson thriller Edge Of Darkness, which is currently in post-production.GK had financed the film without a US distributor attached.Martin Campbell directed the story based on the BBC mini-series of the same name. Gibson plays a Boston homicide detective ...
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Paramount extends deal with Montecito, Cold Spring to 2012
Paramount Pictures has extended its agreement with The Montecito Picture Company and Cold Spring Pictures to run through February 2012.The arrangement gives the studio an exclusive first look at Montecito's diverse productions, as well as the non-exclusive opportunity to co-finance films through Montecito's financing facility, Cold Spring Pictures.The Montecito Picture ...
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BBC in talks to launch $280m film fund with MCP
The BBC is discussing partnering with US and UK-based financing house MM Media Capital Partners (MCP) to create a film fund, worth $280m (£200m) plus.The proposed investment will kick in over three years and be used to bankroll the BBC's drive into bigger budget productions. MCP would oversee international sales ...
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Miami Film Festival to open with Valentino: The Last Emperor
Matt Tyrnauer's documentary Valentino: The Last Emperor and Daniel Burman's comedy Empty Nest (El Nido Vacio) bookend the 26th Annual Miami International Film Festival, set to run from March 6-15.All in all the 137 selections represent more than 40 countries offering four world premieres, 22 North American premieres and 18 ...
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Kloiber's TMG extends US deal with Augsberger for three years
Herbert Kloiber's Tele Muenchen Group (TMG) has extended its exclusive US representation deal with Thomas Augsberger's LA-based Eden Rock Media for the next three years.The extension follows a busy Berlin for TMG during which Augsberger acquired German rights to Robert Redford's The Company You Keep and Terry Gilliam's Zero Theorem ...
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Berlin critics jury grid: Milk Of Sorrow tops in lacklustre year
The 59th Berlinale’s competition line-up was undistinguished; as can quickly be seen from Screen International critics’ jury (click here to see full grid), no single film won over the crowd and there were very few ‘excellent’ marks awarded.
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South Australian Film Corp launches producer equity scheme
South Australian Premier Mike Rann has announced the introduction of a producer equity scheme that will give producers of films with investment from the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) cash up front and a bigger share of the rewards from successful films. Under the scheme the SAFC will channel the ...
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NewsTake 12: monetising digital - Justin Marciano of Revolver
Nesta/UKFC digital innovation programme - Part 2: Revolver EntertainmentRevolver Entertainment’s managing director Justin Marciano
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France's Critics Union honours Agnes Varda's Les Plages D'Agnes
France's Critics Union handed out its prizes for 2008 on Monday night with top honours in Paris going to Agnes Varda's Les Plages D'Agnes as the best French film while Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood took the best foreign film award. The Critics group is also the organization ...
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UK's Microwave scheme greenlights two projectsafter Shifty success
Film London Microwave the micro-budget film-making scheme supported by BBC Films, which resulted in the award winning Shifty and Mum & Dad, has greenlit two feature films, Strawberry Fields and Foxglove. Strawberry Fields will be directed by Frances Lea and produced by Liam Beatty. Written by Lea and award-winning playwright ...
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NewsBergman's Images From The Playground to screen at Cannes
Images from the Playground, a compilation film containing previously unseen material from nine of Ingmar Bergman’s behind-the-screens films, fromSawdustand TinseltoPersona,will be screened for the first time, at the Cannes Film Festival this year.The film was produced with the support of World Cinema Foundation, the film preserving ...
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Q & A with Revolver's managing director Justin Marciano
Why did you want to get involved with the programme' Justin: It was an instantly interesting prospect for us. There is only one future and that is digital. We have really tried to experiment ourselves, feel in the dark, off our own backs. For us as a private company, we ...
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$405m cinema chain, Kino City, planned for mid sized Russian cities
Three Russian industry heavyweights, Eduard Pichugin, the CEO of Cinema Invest and founder of Kronwerk Cinema chain, the producer Sergei Selyanov of CTB production company, and the director and businessman Fyodor Bondarchuk will embark on Kino City, a project to build 122 cinemas across Russia. There are currently around 1700 ...
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George Washington takes top honours at Turin
David Gordon Green's George Washington scooped the top prize at this year's Turin Film Festival (November 17-25), marking the first time a US film has won the award since the festival was launched 18 years ago. The 25-year-old US director used non-professional actors for his debut feature, which revolves around ...
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Werc Werk Works to produce, finance Epstein & Freidman's Howl
Elizabeth Redleaf and Christine Walker's Werc Werk Works will produce and fully finance Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Howl starring James Franco.Howl is set to go into production on March 16 in New York City and centres on the obscenity trial into Allen Ginsberg's groundbreaking Beat Generation poem of the ...
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Opinion: Going back to basics
It wasn't just the critics who were gloomy at Berlin this year. Most of those attending the European Film Market (EFM) were facing some hard realities: buyers and sellers were shaking their heads trying to figure out the numbers, which no longer seemed to make sense. The mood was set ...