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Intrepid's Cold Light Of Day gets AFM launch from Essential
Essential Entertainment has boarded international rights to the thriller Cold Light Of Day from Intrepid Pictures, riding high following the success of the Rogue Pictures summer release The Strangers.Jere Hausfater will commence pre-sales at AFM next week on the story of a young man thrown into an international conspiracy when ...
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Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival launched in LA in Jan 2009
The first Annual Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival and market will take place from January 28-31, 2009 at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.The event has been established with the support of the Brazilian Consulate in LA and Brazilian film support agency Ancine to bridge the gap between Hollywood, Brazil and the ...
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Natalie Portman steps onto Don Roos film for Incentive
Natalie Portman has replaced Jennifer Lopez in Don Roos' upcoming drama Love And Other Impossible Pursuits, the first film from the $100m Incentive Filmed Entertainment fund launched by Screen Capital International and William Morris Agency at Cannes.Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment will commence international pre-sales at AFM on the under-$15m film ...
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When A Man Comes Home (En Mand Kommer Hjem)
Dir. Thomas Vinterberg. Denmark-Sweden. 2007. 96mins.Thomas Vinterberg's artsy, bittersweet comedy, repped by Celluloid Dreams, is only now making its international bow after a disappointing Danish run a year ago. With Teodora Film set to open Italy in December, this funny Festen bowed to a warm audience at the Rome Film ...
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Queens of Langkasuka tops Thai box office
Nonzee Nimibutr's fantasy action epic Queens of Langkasuka topped the box office charts in Thailand this weekend. The action-packed film has grossed 34.2m baht ($980,000) over five days in Bangkok, boosted by a public holiday on Thursday. The film has a chance to become the first local feature to break ...
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Halcyon Pictures to be re-launched as Unanimous Pictures.
Halcyon Pictures, founded in 2001 by Funny Games producer, Chris Coen, is to be re-launched from today, October 28, as Unanimous Pictures.Halycon Pictures' theatrical releases to date include Tom McCarthy's Oscar-contender, The Visitor , starring Richard Jenkins and Hiam Abbass, Michael Haneke's all-star US remake of his own provocative thriller, ...
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Pathe ups George to post of deputy MD
Ian George has been promoted from marketing and publicity director at UK distribution operation Pathe Distribution to deputy managing director.The move comes as Pathe's UK sales director Alastair Craig is leaving the company to join EVA Entertainment, Pearson Television's animated unit, as director of sales. Craig is being replaced by ...
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Revolver takes UK rights for Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York is British-bound. On the eve of the film's London Film Festival screening, UK distributor Revolver has taken rights for UK and Eire. The deal was negotiated between Joel Kennedy of Revolver and Mark Lindsay of Kimmel International, the international sales agent.Kaufman, who scripted ...
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Nominations for British Independent Film Awards announced
The nominations and jury members for the 11th annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) were announced today at Soho House in London. Hunger and In Bruges received the most nominations. They tied with seven nominations each. Slumdog Millionaire followed with six, Shifty one of the first from the Film London ...
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Troubled Water
Dir: Erik Poppe. Norway-Sweden. 2008. 90 mins.A sensitive, slow-build script, original directorial vision and bravura performances turn what might have been just another high-concept melodrama centring on the death of a child into a highly-charged ride that is both gritty and poetic. Eric Poppe's third film is by no means ...
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Thirty Two Short Films gets reprise release in Canada
Francois Girard's 1993 critical hit Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould will be re-released in Canada as part of the Glenn Gould Foundation's year-round celebration of the life of the late Canadian pianist. Presented under the auspices of the Toronto International Film Festival Group's Film Circuit, a limited run ...
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Andrea Segre wins best new project at Rome's New Cinema Network
Italian filmmaker Andrea Segre has won best new European project at Rome's New Cinema Network, Fabbrica dei progetti, for Shun Lee and the Poet (Shun Lee e il poeta).The prize includes a $37,500 (Euros 30,000) award in production funds.Segre's project delves into the cultural impacts of immigration in Italy. The ...
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South-East Asian projects backed by World Cinema Fund
Three South-East Asian film projects have been backed with a total of Euros 160,000 by the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF).The five-person jury chose three projects from among 108 submitted from a total of 33 countries:Primitive: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand), prod co: ...
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Kohlberg, Kaplan launch Essential Pictures with seven pictures
Essential Entertainment co-founder Jim Kohlberg and producer Neil Kaplan have launched sister company Essential Pictures to develop, package, finance and produce films and have unveiled a maiden slate of seven titles.Essential Pictures is backed by a separate equity pool from the source that partially funds Essential Entertainment and plans to ...
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MRP Matila Röhr Productions and Nordisk Film TV to merge
Finnish leading production house, MRP Matila Röhr Productions, and Nordisk Film TV - the Finnish subsidiary of Danish major, Nordisk Film - will merge their operations under the banner of Matila-Röhr-Nordisk. They will maintain two production lines, feature films and TV programming.'We have long wanted to invest in television drama, ...
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Belgian trio's Rumba wins in Zagreb
Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy' s Rumba won the main prize and $6,250 (Euros 5,000) at the sixth Zagreb Film Festival, which ran from October 18-25. This is the directing trio's second win at Zagreb after Iceberg in 2005. Special mention went to Mexican Rodrigo Pia's The Desert ...
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Berlinale 2009 retrospective dedicated to 70mm
The programme will concentrate on 70mm films which were originally shot on 65mm or 70mm negative film and then printed onto 70mm for the cinema screen. It will be prepared by the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum for Film & Television.Among the classic titles already confirmed for screening are David Lean's ...
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Meyer's Spoils wins funding from NRW
German regional funding body Filmstiftung NRW has awarded $1.1m (DM2.5m) to Spoils, a co-production between Germany's Dazu Film and Belgium's Corsan, which is set to star Alec Baldwin and Linda Fiorentino.The film, to be directed by Nicholas Meyer, is about two US soldiers who make off with a haul of ...
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Trumer named COO, Buet promoted to evp at StudioCanal
Former Paramount Pictures France chairman Camille Trumer has segued to StudioCanal just one week after announcing his departure from the US studio's French arm.Trumer has been appointed chief operating officer of StudioCanal, reporting to president Olivier Courson. Trumer will take up his functions beginning December 1 and will be in ...
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Russia faces dramatic production curbs in wake of credit crunch
Russian market faces contraction in production, Central Partnership's Armen Dishdishyan says largest companies will weather crisis.The global credit crunch has forced a sharp contraction in Russian film production, with up to a quarter of film projects falling victim to the financial meltdown.Armen Dishdishyan, vice president of international sales and co-production ...