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Berlin boosts film funding coffers
The BerlinSenate has increased its backing for Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB) this year by Euros 1.5m to bringthe regional fund's overall budget for film funding and location marketing toEuros 17.9m."We canreally use these additional funds as the run of film producers onBerlin-Brandenburg continues undiminished," noted MBB managing directorKirsten Niehuus who pointed ...
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France's TFI renews film deal with BVITV
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) and France'sleading private terrestrial broadcaster TF1 renewed multi-year agreements forvarious genres at this week's international television market, Mipcom.The deals consist of drama series, first-run and library features andkids programming.Announced by BVITC's Philippe Maigret and TF1's Laurent Storch,the renewal will give TF1 access to such high-profile ...
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Durupty named as CNC deputy chief
Anne Durupty has been named to the post of deputygeneralmanager of France's film body the CNC.Recently tippedas head of the organisation, Durupty is a highlyeducated civil servant who has recently served as a communications director forthe Direction of Media Development. She waspreviously general manager of broadcast watchdog the CSA and ...
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Kinowelt takes German rights to Hood's Tsotsi
Kinowelthas acquired all German rights for Gavin Hood's gangster drama Tsotsi which wonthe People's Choice Award at last month's Toronto International Film festivaland the Michael Powell Award and the Audience Award in Edinburgh in August.Kinoweltplans to release the film in German cinemas in early 2006, but will have itsGerman premiere ...
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UGC signs on for Boorman's Memoirs Of Hadrian
Rome-basedproduction outfit Movieweb has signed a co-production deal with France's UGC onJohn Boorman's new film, Memoirs ofHadrian.TheEuros 21m movie is adapted from Margherite Yourcenar's historical novel of the same title, a fictionalautobiography of the Roman emperor written as a series of letters to hisnephew, Marcus Aurelius.Spanishactress Paz Vega is currently ...
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Djurkovic wins Sheffield Doc fest's Jerwood prize
The12th Sheffield International Documentary Festival (October 10-16) has awardedits top prize, the Jerwood First Cuts DocumentaryAward, to Sasha Maja Djurkovic's Last MenStanding. Djurkovic is a student at the National Film and Television School, and she topped theshortlist of 12 projects to win a cash prize of £3,500 towards her next ...
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Prime
Dir/scr: Ben Younger. US. 2005. 105mins.It's doubtful that Prime, Ben Younger's bittersweet comedyabout the age-gap love affair between an older woman and a younger man, willgenerate as much interest as the recent nuptials of DemiMoore and Ashton Kutcher.Neither as broadly comic noras sophomorically crude as Meet The Parents, it mines ...
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The Quiet
Dir: Jamie Babbit. US. 2005. 91mins.Put DesperateHousewives on a double dose of Benzedrine and you have a roughapproximation of Jamie Babbit's The Quiet, an overheated and lurid, if beautifully mounted,American indie melodrama that verges on guilty pleasureterritory for all the wrong reasons.While Desperate Housewives, with its drooling tales of adultery ...
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Trust The Man
Dir/scr. Bart Freundlich. US, 2005. 103 mins.An enjoyable and high-spirited romp, Trust The Manis one of the brightest and most uplifting US indiecomedies of late. A screwball romantic comedy, it may not be to all tastes, andthose averse to plot loopholes are advised to stay clear. But Bart Freundlich's fourth ...
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Nanny McPhee
Dir: Kirk Jones. UK 2005. 98minsEmma Thompson makes her long-awaited return toactress-screenwriter mode (her first since Sense& Sensibility, for which she won several major awards) with Nanny McPhee,a family film based on the Nurse Mathilda children's books.Also appearing in this taleof seven motherless children, their hapless father (Firth) and theirastonishingly ...
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Sean Farnel leaves TIFF for Hot Docs
Sean Farnel, documentaryprogrammer at the Toronto International Film Festival, has been appointed tothe newly-created post of director of programming at Hot Docs, the CanadianInternational Documentary Festival. As well as leading the programming team, Farnelwill be charged with refining the event's slate of professional developmentindustry programming.Farnel told Screendaily:"It's an organic step ...
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Sony to back first Hindi film with Leela Bhansali
Sony PicturesReleasing India is teaming up with Sanjay Leela Bhansali to co-produce Sony'sfirst Indian feature Saawariya (Beloved)in Hindi."India hasa rich and a prolific film history," Michael Lynton, chairman and chiefexecutive officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), said."We at Sony Picturesrecognise the potential and importance of the Indian market and welcome ...
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Eisner to revisit Creature From The Black Lagoon
Breck Eisner hassigned to direct Universal Pictures' remake of the horror classic CreatureFrom The Black Lagoon.Gary Ross willproduce through his Larger Than Life production company and has written a draftscreenplay, which may not end up as the final version.Ross' fatherArthur A Ross wrote the screenplay to the 1954 original, in ...
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US vote opens doors to China
Last November's agreement to further open China to the US entertainment industry is set to come into force after this week's vote in Congress to normalise trade relations between the two countries. The normalisation bill was passed in the House of Representatives on Wednesday (May 24), and is likely to ...
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Tree crosses 600,000 admissions in Iran
Majid Majid'sfeature The Willow Treehas passed 600,000 admissions to become the highest grossing drama of all timein Iran.Majidi's earlierrelease The Color Of Paradise totalled 250,000 admissions in Iran. The director's other filmsinclude Children Of Heaven and Baran.The WillowTree, which is beingsold to international buyers through GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI),tells of ...
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Glitzy Gardener opens London festival
The 49th Times bfi London Film Festival opened amid torrential rain on Wednesday night (Oct 19) witha gala screening of Fernando Meirelles' TheConstant Gardener. The director was in attendance along with stars Ralph Fiennes,Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, and author John Le Carre, who wrote the novel onwhich the film is ...
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Benigni's Tiger takes pole position in Italy
As expected, The Tiger and The Snow, the new filmfrom Italy's top grossing comic Roberto Benigni, landed at number one at thelocal box office on its opening weekend, earning $3,740,934 for Rai Cinemalabel 01 Distribution.However, with noother major pictures opening over the weekend, some local analysts felt thefilm underperformed - ...
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St Jacques' La Mecque
Dir/scr: Coline Serreau. Fr. 2005. 112mins.Comedy writer-director ColineSerreau came a cropper two years ago with 18 Years After, a pointless anduninspired sequel to Three Men And A Baby, her 1985 sleeper smash that definitivelyturned the tide for Hollywood's remake industry. Now Serreauattempts to return to the social comedy that is ...
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Stay
Dir: Marc Forster. US. 2005.103mins.After the mainstream success of his charmingtearjerker Finding Neverland,Monster's Ball director Marc Forstergoes dark and edgy again with Stay, apsychological thriller infatuated with its themes of death, identity, realityand illusion.Forster makes the most ofhis newly earned creative freedom and delivers a stylish, visually inventivefilm that takes ...
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Palm takes North American rights to Machado's City
Palm Pictures has picked upNorth American and Caribbean rights for Sergio Machado's Lower City (Cidade Baixa) from sales outfit Lumina Films.London-based Lumina also hasPalm on board for two of its other projects - Pablo Trapero'sArgentinian road movie Familia Rodante and -- as previously announced-- City of Men, the TV series ...