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Michael London launches Groundswell Productions
Producer MichaelLondon has teamed up with two new equity-based film funds, Lexington FilmFunding and Crescendo Independent Film Fund to establish GroundswellProductions, an independent financing and production company that aims to makefive films a year under the $20 million range. The new entity has access to $55million and aims over the ...
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Nordisk racks up sales for action-adventure feature
Danish based sales outfit Nordisk has been racking up sales at Berlin's European Film Market. As the market in the Martin Gropius-Bau closes its doors, the company has confirmeddeals on action-adventure The LostTreasure of the Knights Templar to Medallion Media for Japan,A-Film for the Benelux,Ukrainian DVD Company for CIS, D-production ...
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Universal Pictures signs production agreement with Aronofsky and Watson
UniversalPictures has entered into a first look production arrangement withdirector/writer Darren Aronofsky and his producer Eric Watson and theircompany Protozoa Pictures. The duo will also develop and produce feature filmsfor Universal's sister companies Focus Features and Rogue Pictures. Aronofsky credits include PI and Requiem For A Dream. He is currently ...
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Kenneth Maidment memorial today
Kenneth L. Maidment, a former VPof Columbia Pictures and the former president of the British Film ProducersAssociation (the predecessor to Pact), passed away on February 1 at Frimley Park Hospital in the UK.The memorial service will be held at St. Mary's in Weybridgetoday (February 17) at noon, followedby a private ...
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M.Night Shyamalan named ShoWest Director of the Year
M. Night Shyamalan has beenmade ShoWest Director of the Year it was announced byMitch Neuhauser, co-managing director of the eventthat will be held in Las Vegas, March13-16. Shyamalanwill be presented with the award on the closing night ceremony at Bally's andParis Las Vegas.Shyamalan's next feature is Ladyin the Water, ...
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Invisible Waves roll from Berlin to Bangkok festival opening
Pen-ek Ratanaruang's highly-anticipated noir thriller Invisible Waves kicks off the 4thBangkok International Film Festival today. The Thai director, along with actor AsanoTadanobu, cinematographer Christopher Doyle and co-producer MingmongkolSonakul,are expected to reach the Thai capital in time for the red-carpet opening nightafter premiering the film in Berlin three days ago. The ...
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The Comedy Of Power (L'Ivresse Du Pouvoir)
Dir: Claude Chabrol. Fr. 2006. 110mins.A sleek, hand-tooled, extremely sophisticatedpackage, A Comedy OfPower is a very grown-up entertainment that artfully walks a line betweenmoral comedy and political thriller. A deluxe cast of French actors, headed byIsabelle Huppert in winningly brittle form, bring distinction to a complexdrama about corruption and intrigue.It ...
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Offside (Sweden, 2006)
Dir: Jafar Pahani. Iran. 2006. 88mins.Destined to be referred to as a Farsi Bend It Like Beckham, Jafar Panahi's football story Offside is his most approachable filmsince The White Balloon, which puthim on the map in 1995.Essentially a realistcomedy, this digital ensemble piece is also bitterly outspoken about thetreatment of ...
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Bangkok International Film Festival honours Fortissimo Films
The Bangkok International Film Festival is to award Wouter Barendrecht and Michael J.Werner, co-chairmen of Fortissimo Films, with a Golden Kinnareefor their contribution to Asian Cinema at the black tie Awards Gala to be held onFebruary 24th .Wouter Barendrechtfounded Fortissimo Film Sales in 1991 with the specific aim of developing,selling ...
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Brock Norman Brock joins Vertigo Films
Brock Norman Brock has joinedVertigo Films to help produce and develop the UKproduction and distribution company's new slate. Brock was formerly acting head ofthe Premiere Fund at the UK Film Council, where he worked on films including Gosford Park, Young Adam, and Valiant.Before joining the UKFC, he was the head ...
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American Psycho to open Fantasy Filmfest
Mary Harron's American Psycho, starring Christian Bale, will be the opening film at this year's Fantasy Filmfest in Germany.The peripatetic festival for genre and thriller titles, held from July 26 to August 23, will tour through Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin. James Wong's darkly comic Final Destination closes ...
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The Great Match (La Gran Final)
Dir: Gerardo Olivares. Sp-Ger.2006. 88mins.A surprisingly enjoyable ethno-romp, The Great Match is both a celebration ofthe global reach of football mania and a sly send-up of worthy anthropologicalepics like Himalaya. The threeinterleaved stories - about tribal soccer fans in remote parts of the globe whoare desperate to see the 2002 ...
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Family Law (Derecho De Familia)
Dir: Daniel Burman. Arg-It-Fr-Sp.2005. 100mins.Cinema would be a less interesting place if directorsdidn't mine their obsessions, but this is the third time in six years thatDaniel Burman has cast Daniel Hendlerin a comedy-drama about a young Argentinian Jewishman called Ariel who is oppressed by the suspicion that he is not ...
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Elementary Particles heads NonStop Entertainment's Berlin acquisitions
Swedish distributor, NonStop Entertainmentbought a slate of films from the Berlin Film Festival. Leading the line-up is Oskar Roehler's, The Elementary Particles, the tale oftwo half-brothers struggling against sexual frustration and self-destruction. Particles, was sold to 23 countriesstraight after its Berlinale premiere and is one ofthe favourites to win a ...
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Korean filmmakers and farmers stage protest against screen quota
Korean filmmakers havejoined with rice farmers to protest the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA)in a mass rally entitled Candlelight Culture-fest "Rice and Cinema" to Maintainthe Screen Quota and Block the FTA. - US trade pressure for FTA negotiationsdemanding the halving of the screen quota and the opening of the rice ...
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The Swedish box office falls to the lowest level in six years
The Swedish homeentertainment market significantly outperformed theatrical revenues in 2005,latest figures reveal. Despite a strong finish inDecember, with a notable increase in admissions and box office, figuresreleased last week by the Swedish Film Institute show 2005 was the worst yearfor Swedish cinemas since 1999. Box office figures dropped 11.8% from ...
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Opal Dream
Dir: Peter Cattaneo. Aus-UK. 2005. 88mins.A sentimental fable about imagination and wonder, Opal Dream should strike a nerve withkids who understand its fragile emotional terrain and how they can create a fantasyworld to improve on their everyday existence.Following the misfire thatwas Lucky Break, Peter Cattaneo's new feature marks something of ...
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Berlinale 2006 prize-winners
BERLINALE2006 PRIZE-WINNERSGoldenBear for Best Film Grbavica(Jasmila Zbanic) SilverBear Jury Grand Prix En Soap(Pernille Fischer Christensen) and Offside (JafarPanahi)SilverBear Best DirectorMichaelWinterbottom and Mat Whitecross (The Road to Guantanamo)SilverBear Best ActressSandraHueller (Requiem)SilverBear Best ActorMoritzBleibtreu (The Elementary Particles)SilverBear Outstanding Artistic ContributionJuergenVogel as producer, writer and main actor (The Free ...
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Bosnian war drama takes Golden Bear at Berlin
Sarajevofilmmaker Jasmila Zbanic's won year's Golden Bear for her moving feature debut Grbavicaabout the traumas of war as a mother and daughter try to come to terms with thelegacy of the Bosnian conflict. Theco-production between Austria's Coop99 Filmproduktion, Bosnia's DeblokadaFilmproduction, Germany's Noirfilm Filmproduktion and Croatia's Jadran Filmalso received the Ecumenical ...
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Bosnian war drama takes Golden Bear at Berlin
Sarajevofilmmaker Jasmila Zbanic's won year's Golden Bear for her moving feature debut Grbavicaabout the traumas of war as a mother and daughter try to come to terms with thelegacy of the Bosnian conflict.Theco-production between Austria's Coop99 Filmproduktion, Bosnia's DeblokadaFilmproduction, Germany's Noirfilm Filmproduktion and Croatia's Jadran Filmalso received the Ecumenical Jury's ...