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RESFEST kicks of global tour in New York this week
The 9th RESFEST touring festival willkick off its global tour of 35 plus cities with a launch at New York City'sTribeca Performing Arts Center from September 15-18. This year's RESFEST willoffer the world premiere of Doug Pray's graffiti documentary Infamy aswell as retrospectives devoted to musician Beck, the label XL ...
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Corraface named president of Thessaloniki festival
Greek-French actor George Corraface(Giorgos Chorafas) has been named president of the Thessaloniki InternationalFilm Festival.The post has been vacant forfive months following film-maker Pandelis Vougaris' resignation as president inMay, just one month after he was appointed to takeover from fellow film makerTheo Angelopoulos.Corraface will work closelywith artistic director Despina Mouzaki.Corraface's nomination ...
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Meadows cranks up This Is England
Shane Meadows will startshooting his fifth feature, tentatively titled This is England, onlocation in Nottingham and Grimsby starting on Wednesday. The dark comedy is a coming-of-age story set in northern England duringsummer 1983, when an 11-year-old boy, Shaun, mourns the loss of his father andfalls in with a group of ...
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Nayar's The Thread unspools in India, UK
Supernatural thriller The Thread has started shooting inIndia this week, where it will continue through the rest of September beforemoving to the UK. Mahesh Mathai (Bhopal Express) is directingfrom a script by Randall Fontana, based on a story by Harris W. Freedman.Deepak Nayar, who previously produced Bride and Prejudice and ...
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New Zealand boosts production with $10m fund
New Zealand's prime minister Helen Clark has put aside $10.8m (NZ$22m) for a feature film production fund, a huge commitment for a country with a population of less than four million people. It is envisaged that the fund will assist about 10 films at the rate of two or three ...
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Sweeney's American Venus set for November shoot
Vancouver-basedBrightlight Pictures is set for a November shoot on writer-director BruceSweeney's American Venus. The$3.8m production will be produced by Brightlight co-presidents Shawn Williamsonand Steve Hegyes.Telefilm Canada, Corus' Movie Central, Astral's The MovieNetwork and CHUM are backing the project and Montreal-based TVA has picked upall Canadian rights. Hegyes told Screen International ...
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KWA takes on international sales for Galan's Editor
Spanish sales outfit KevinWilliams Associates (KWA) has picked up international rights on a handful ofnew Spanish and Latin American films including San Sebastian special screener Pablo G.del Amo: Editor Of Illusions. The documentary from DiegoGalan, the former director of the Donostia- San Sebastian International FilmFestival, tracks the career of one ...
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Bauer Martinez to herd Lau's Flock into Louisiana
Andrew Lau's The Flock, which had been due to go intoproduction in New Orleans later this autumn, may still shoot in Louisiana inspite of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Philippe Martinez, CEOof Bauer Martinez Studios (BMS), told ScreenDaily.com that the plan nowis to see if it will be feasible ...
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Webber's Young Hannibal lines up for Prague shoot
PeterWebber's Behind The Mask: Young Hannibal is to start shooting on October10th in Prague. Dinoand Martha De Laurentiis, Tarak Ben Ammar of Quinta Communications and Britishco-producers Chris Curling and Phil Robertson of Zephyr Films will produce thefilm with Petr Moravec of Czech production company, Etic Films.Bestselling novelist Thomas Harris has ...
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Breakfast On Pluto
Dir: Neil Jordan. Ire-UK. 2005. 135mins.Neil Jordan comes over all Almodovar in BreakfastOn Pluto, a sprawling, picaresque account of a young transvestite's epicodyssey in search of his mother. Jordan has a patchy record with broad comicmaterial (High Spirits, We're No Angels etc) and this reunionwith Butcher Boy writer Patrick McCabe ...
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Video Island acquires Scandinavia's Brafilm
UK online DVD rental serviceVideo Island is to acquire Brafilm, a company Video Island says is the largestplayer in Scandinavia. The deal follows on from theUK acquisitions of DVDs365 in June 2005 and ScreenSelect.co.uk in August 2004.It forms part of VideoIsland's plans to become the number one online rental operator ...
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Roban joins Stone Village as COO, head of business affairs
Michael Roban (pictured) has joined Los Angeles-based StoneVillage Pictures as head of business affairs and chief operating officer.Roban will oversee production financing and all business and legalaffairs for the company, as well as heading up all business affairs for thecompany's literary management arm Intellectual Property Group.Reporting to Stone Village chiefs ...
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Intermedia, Kadokawa extend co-production pact
Intermedia Film EquitiesUSA and Kadokawa Pictures USA have extended their agreement and signed amulti-picture deal to develop, finance and produce up to six Intermedia picturesto be made in 2006 and 2007.The new deal is a significant step in Intermedia Film Equities USAparent company Internationalmedia's foray into genre production.The expanded deal ...
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Searchlight smokes, Paramount fumes in rights duel
Thank You For Smoking producer and the head of Room 9 Entertainment DavidO Sacks has declared that Fox Searchlight Pictures is the sole owner of thefilm and that, while negotiations had taken place with Paramount Classics, nodeal had been closed with that studio.Paramount Classics co-headDavid Dinerstein said that he stood ...
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Fantastic Factory ready for chopsocky action
Spanish mini-studio The Filmax Group is developing an "Asian-style action movie" for its Fantastic Factory genre film division, according to Factory co-producer and director Brian Yuzna. "The money we would usually put into effects we'll put into stunts," Yuzna said. Filmax plans to bring in Asian talent to further develop ...
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Schrader commits to Adam Resurrected
Paul Schrader has signed onto direct the Holocaust epic Adam Resurrected for Ehud Bleiberg'sfledgling Los Angeles-based Bleiberg Entertainment.Bleiberg will commencecasting immediately and is eyeing a summer 2006 start date in Germany, Romania and Israel.Noah Stollman adapted thescreenplay from Yoram Kaniuk's novel about a former circus entertainer andHolocaust survivor who inhabits ...
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Hot Venice doc Zapatero goes Wild
French sales and financingoutfit Wild Bunch has taken world rights to Viva Zapatero!Thedocumentary, which tackles Italian censorship in relation to prime minister andmedia magnate Silvio Berlusconi, generated serious buzz following its surpriseunveiling at Venice.Directed by Sabina Guzzanti,the film will be distributed by Lucky Red in Italy which negotiated the deal ...
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HDNet lines up Hartley, Soderbergh
HDNet Films, the 2929Entertainment digital production arm headed up by Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente,has greenlit seven low-budget projects to add to its already packed slate.With three pictures playingat Toronto led by Bubble, the first of six Steven Soderberghprojects announced earlier this year, HDNet is wasting little time ramping upbarely ...
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Arclight picks up Hindi Carmen
Arclight Films todayannounced that it has picked up world sales rights to Chamki, ShyamBenegal's Hindi film adaptation of Carmen."We have been activelylooking at projects out of India and believe that this film has the potential ofbeing a truly global film," said Gary Hamilton, managing director of Arclight."Shyam Benegal is a ...
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Mayhem lands at Fortissimo
Fortissimo Films has pickedup worldwide rights outside Australia/NZ to black comedy Suburban Mayhem,directed by Australia's Paul Goldman (Australian Rules), andproduced by Lea Churchill Brown with The Piano's Jan Chapman executiveproducing. Icon will distribute in Australia/NZ.The film, about a murderousteenager, starts shooting in Sydney and Newcastle on August 26, starring NZ ...