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Nanni Moretti appointed Turin artistic director
Italian director Nanni Moretti has been named artistic director of the Turin Film Festival, the Italian festival dedicated to cutting edge film. The announcement confirms 2007 will be an interesting year for Italian festivals after the appearance of the Rome Film Festival altered the established balance between the Turin and ...
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Rotterdam to screen first feature shot on mobile phone
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 24 january - February 4) is to premiere a 70-minute feature shot on mobile phone.Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad In Afghanistan was filmed by Dutch filmmaker Cyrus Frisch using Sharp 902 and 903 mobile phone camera.It is the ...
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German tax credit approved by Europe
Germany'sState Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann has received the green light from theEuropean Commission in Brussels for the new film production incentive scheme tocome into effect as planned on January 1, 2007.Commentingon the Commission's swift processing of the German proposal, Neumann said:'This is a great negotiated success. The path is ...
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German home entertainment company takes over media fund
One of Germany's leading home entertainment companies VCL Film + Medien has taken over the Munich-based media fund Equity Pictures Medienfonds.Throughthe acquisition by its recently established subsidiary, Allied Film Management,VCL will be expanding its activities from the core operations of homeentertainment to include the management of film funds.It will be ...
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Five first features nominated for Bergman awards
Five features by newcomers have been nominated for the International Ingmar Bergman Debut Award, which will be given for the first time at Sweden's Gothenberg Film Festival 2007.They include UK director Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Norwegian director Joachim Trier's Reprise, which have already helped themselves to several international prizes."The ...
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Walt Disney Studios posts record year
Walt Disney Studiosreported yesterday that the company had generated a record $3.26bn in revenues as of Dec 27.Buena Vista Pictures Distribution passed the $1bn mark for the 10thtime, more than any other studio, while Buena Vista International (BVI)achieved the feat for the 12th consecutive year.The result was driven by the ...
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Night At The Museum and Eragon face off
Night At The Museum will push Fox International stablemate Eragon all the way for the overseas crown this weekend whenit launches in a raft of major territories.The comedy is set to open in the UK on Dec 29 on 745 screens, Australia on Dec26 on 365, Germany on Dec 28 ...
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Berlinale selects first six titles for Perspektive Deutsches Kino
New films by BastianGuenther, Ben von Grafenstein, and Julia von Heinz are among six titlesconfirmed so far for the Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar whichshowcases young and up-and-coming German filmmakers with fresh ideas,approaches and talent.Among the films selected isBastian Guenther's feature debut Autopilotswhich is comprised of four interwoven episodes taking ...
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Slovenian producers face government funding problems
Slovenian producers arefacing a bleak future at home following radical changes in the film supportpolicies at the country's Ministry of Culture.The new harsher climate wasushered in with the dismissal of the Slovenian Film Fund's director IreneOstrouska with immediate effect for allegedly not coming up to the Ministry'sexpectations.In addition, funding hasbeen ...
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Freedom Writers
Dir/scr: Richard LaGravenese. US. 2006. 122 minutes.Set against a backdrop of interracial, mutually destructive gang warfare, Freedom Writers is a passionately pitched if decidedly formulaic story of idealistic uplift, inspired by a true story in which Long Beach teenagers put their angst to paper in the charged years following the ...
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Focus duo leave company to form production outfit
Daniel Yu, chiefoperating officer of Andy Lau's Hong Kong-based Focus Films, and marketing anddistribution chief Lorna Tee, have left the company to form their ownproduction outfit. From Jan 1, 2007their roles are being filled by Simon Li, a director of Focus Films Limited,and marketing executive Sharon Cheng. Details of Yu ...
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Chinese fine Sohu and Shanghai store for copyright infringement
Chinese courts madetwo separate judgements against copyright infringers over the Christmasholidays, reflecting the increasing pressure that the country is under tocombat its high levels of piracy. On December 27, aBeijing court ruled that Beijing Sohu Internet Information Service Co, asubsidiary of NASDAQ-listed web portal Sohu.com, was guilty of copyrightinfringement when ...
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X-Men
Dir: Bryan Singer. US. 1999. 96 mins.Prod co: 20th Century Fox, Marvel Entertainment Group, The Donners' Company/Bad Hat Harry. Dist: Fox. Prods: Lauren Shuler Donner, Ralph Winter. Exec prods: Avi Arad, Stan Lee, Richard Donner, Tom DeSanto. Scr: David Hayter. DoP: Newton Thomas Sigel. Prod des: John Myhre. Ed: Steven ...
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Sohu and Shanghai store fined for copyright infringement
Chinese courts have made two separate judgements against copyright infringers over the holiday period, reflecting the increasing pressure that the country is under to combat its high levels of piracy. On December 27, a Beijing court ruled that Beijing Sohu Internet Information Service Co, a subsidiary of NASDAQ-listed web portal ...
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Factory Girl
Dir: George Hickenlooper. US. 2006. 90mins.Sienna Miller does more than effectively capture doomed but beautiful 1960s pop art icon Edie Sedgwick with Factory Girl, George Hickenlooper's portrait of the Andy Warhol-anointed superstar that also conveys the elegant grunginess of the era.In the US, where Factory Girl enjoys a one-week Oscar-qualifying ...
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Moretti steps down as Turin artistic director after two days
Italian film-maker Nanni Moretti has renounced his appointment asartistic director of the Turin Film Festival just two days after hisnomination was made public.Moretti's nomination to top the Turin fest - which is dedicated tocutting edge fare and young directors - was hailed as a positivereaction to pressures created by the ...
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Moretti steps down as Turin artistic director after two days
Italian film-maker Nanni Moretti has renounced his appointment asartistic director of the Turin Film Festival just two days after hisnomination was made public.Moretti's nomination to top the Turin event- which is dedicated tocutting-edge fare and young directors - was hailed as a positivereaction to pressures created by the splash of ...
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Artificial Eye founder Andi Engel dies
Andi Engel, founder of UK distribution company Artificial Eye, died in Lubeck, Germany on Dec 26.Engel was born in Berlin in 1942. He and wife Pam Engel set up Artificial Eye in London in the mid-1970s and the company became the UK's leading distributor of arthouse and foreign-language films. Act ...
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Museum stays top in North America to cross $100m
Ben Stiller's cast iron holiday season credentials held firm as Fox's family film Night At The Museum stayed top and crossed $100m in its second weekend.The film added an estimated $46.7m for $125.8m and dominates the world stage following this weekend's superb $47.3m overseas haul.Sony's The Pursuit Of Happyness stayed ...
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Museum rules the waves with superb $47.3m haul
The family film Night At The Museum kicks off 2007 as the international champion after a formidable $47.3m three-day estimated haul raised the overseas tally to $58.1m after two weekends.The Fox International release has grossed close to $51m in a week following last weekend's limited launch in Asia and is ...