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International weekend preview
The major European territoriessee audiences spoilt for choice this week with a variety of new openers,although last week's international chart leader, French smash Les Bronzes 3:Amis Pour La Vie, may prove hard to shiftfrom the throne.In the UK the weekend heralds the arrival of schoolhalf-term holidays and as a result ...
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Wanda Visions prepares new slate of films
Spain's Wanda Vision, co-producer of Panorama opening title Family Law, is preparing a new slate offilms including two features set in Africa.Documentarian-turned-fiction-filmmaker GerardoOlivares is preparing his follow-up to BerlinaleSpecial screener The Great Match (El Gran Final) for Wanda. The road movie about Africanemigrants to Europe is called Tenere after the ...
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Hugh Grant to receive honorary Cesar on Feb 25
British actor Hugh Grant is set to receive an honorary Cesar from theAcademie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema. The Cesars, France's equivalent tothe Oscar, will be handed out at the upcoming ceremony on February 25.French actress Carole Bouquet, who will preside over the ceremony, willpresent Grant with the award.Grant's ...
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Memento Films announces sales on Tavernier's Aurore
Parisian production, sales and distribution house MementoFilms has announced sales of Nils Tavernier's Aurore to Japan's Gaga and Agora in Switzerland.The film is a fairy tale, complete with a kingdom and alovelorn princess, based in the world of dance. Tavernier's previous effort was2000's Tous Pres Des Etoiles,about dancers at the ...
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Such Is Life (Asi Es La Vida)
Dir: Arturo Ripstein. Mexico-France-Spain. 2000. 98mins.Prod Co: Filmania, Gardenia, Foprocine, Wanda Vision, DMVB Films, Seceuncia 13. Int'l Sales: World Sales. Prods: Laura Imperiale, Jorge Sanchez, Alvaro Garnica. Assoc prods: Jose Maria Morales, Thierry Forte. Scr: Paz Alicia Garciadiego inspired by Seneca's Medea. DoP: Guillermo Granillo. Prod des: Claudio Contreras. Ed: ...
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EU-funded film workshops to go on summer road show
An Italian developmentcompany is to start holding a series of EU-funded workshops and seminars acrossEurope this year as part of adevelopment training programme aimed at European producers.The first of the week-longresidential MAIA workshops, which are funded by the Media Programme, will kickoff in Italy in June and will focus oncreative ...
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Famke Janssen to star in Juraj Jakubisko's Bathory
Famke Janssen is toplay the notorious Countess Bathory in Juraj Jakubisko's $12.6 million epic, Bathory.The 17thCentury Hungarian countess was nicknamed "the blood countess" for her penchantfor bathing in virgins' blood. TheCzech/Slovak/Hungarian/UK co-production has already started second-unitphotography, with principal photography set to begin next month.Bathory is one offive new projects with ...
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Grupo Pi sells US rights to The Uninvited Guest
Spanish sales consortium Grupo Pi has closed aUS theatricalsale on thriller The Uninvited Guest to D Street Media Group.The film, which will premiere next month at the Philadelphia FilmFestival prior to an initial seven-screen release in New York and Los Angeles, will mark thefirst US release for D Street ...
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White Palms (Feher Tenyer)
Dir: Szabolcs Hajdu. Hungary. 2006. 100mins.Szabolcs Hajdu's film casts a jaundicedeye over the world of sports prodigies. A grim and disenchanted portrait of howone young gymnast is almost ruined by a gruelling training programme and theinsatiable expectations of his parents, the film almost runs out of steam inthe second half, ...
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Taxidermy (Taxidermia)
Dir: Gyorgy Palfi.Hungary/Austria/France. 2005. 90 mins.Gyorgy Palfi's second feature, whichcollected a slew of awards including best film at the recent Hungarian FilmWeek, is likely to be as much of a talking point as his first film Hukkle,albeit for very different reasons. Spanning three generations of one family,this horror film will ...
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Celluloid Dreams secures rights to Sundance smash
Celluloid Dreams has picked up worldwide rights to Sundancesmash Quinceanera.The film, about two Latino teenagers in Los Angeles, won both the Grand Jury Prize and theAudience Award at Sundance.Celluloid Dreams has picked up worldwide rights to Sundancesmash Quinceanera.The film, about two Latino teenagers in Los Angeles, won both ...
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Nicole Kidman to narrate Simon Wiesenthal doc
Nicole Kidman will narrate a documentary about SimonWiesenthal that is scheduled to open this autumn to mark the first anniversaryof the Nazi hunter's death.Funded by a grant from the US-based Simon Wiesenthal Centreboard members Roland and Dawn Arnall, directorRichard Trank and his crew will trawl the globe for interviewswith long ...
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Korea's iHQ to branch into English-language filmmaking
Korea's iHQ is set to branch into English-languagefilmmaking with documentary-style comedy horror American Zombie to be directed by Korean-American filmmaker GraceLee.iHQ willco-produce with LA-based LeeLee Films, headed byIn-Ah Lee, whose credits include Wim Wenders' Don't ComeKnocking and Land Of Plenty.The film will be iHQ's firstproduction shot entirely in the USas ...
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Canal Plus loses appeal against fine
Canal Plus has lost its appeal against a $1.5m (FFr10m) fine imposed by the highest French court for unfair competition practices against rival Television Par Satellite (TPS) with regard to pay-per-view rights.The judgement followed a complaint filed by TPS last year that Canal Plus was preventing French film producers from ...
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Trier hits 50 and decides to 'narrow down'
Lars Von Trier is to downsize. Themercurial Dane yesterday issued another of his 'statements.' The subject thistime was his own 'Revitality.' 'In my fiftieth year Ifeel I have earned the privilege of narrowing down,' he declared.'In conjunction with the departure of VibekeWindelov, who has been my producer for ten years, ...
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Franka Potente to star in Arclight Film's Romulus, My Father
Franka Potente,who is showcasing her directorial debut DiggingFor Belladonna in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme, has joined the cast of Arclight Film's Australia-set drama Romulus, My Father.The German star will appear opposite Eric Bana in the adaptation of philosopher RaimondGaita's award-winning memoir about the strong bondwith his Yugoslavian emigre father ...
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Michael Caine and Demi Moore to reteam for Flawless
Michael Caine and Demi Moore are set to star in the London-set 1960s diamondheist thriller Flawless for SantaMonica-based Pierce/Williams Entertainment and London'sFuture Films.Il Postinodirector Michael Radford is ready to begin shooting on March 27 in London andLuxembourg froma screenplay by first-timer Edward Anderson loosely based on real events.Caine will play ...
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Chic and Why Not team for Audiard's crime saga
Marco Cherqui's Paris-basedproduction house Chic Films is teaming up with Why Not Productions on the nextproject from director Jacques Audiard, whose The Beat That MyHeart Skipped was the hit of Berlinlast year.The film is called TheProphet. Currently putting the final touches on the script, based on anoriginal idea from writers ...
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Duvall, Spacek, Freeman to star in drama Get Low
Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, andMorgan Freeman are attached to star in Depression-era drama Get Low, directed by Aaron Schneider,who won an Oscar in 2004 for his short TwoSoldiers. The story is set in 1930s Tennessee,when a man with a shady past (Duvall) tries to find redemption throughwitnessing his own funeral ...
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Upstart Montreal Festival collapses after just one year
The Festival International de Film de Montreal (FIFM) hasthrown in the towel. Ending months of speculation, the FIFM's administration, Regroupement pour un festival decinema a Montreal, issued a press release at 5pm Montreal time on FridayFebruary 10 confirming that it will not present a second edition. Soon after, FIFM programming ...