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Bavaria slides onto Finland's Black Ice
Munich-based Bavaria Films International has picked up all rights outside of Finland and Norway to thriller Black Ice by Finnish director Petri Kotwica. Also in post-production on Bavaria's slate is Shadows (formerly titled Bones) by Macedonian auteur Milcho Manchevski (Before The Rain.)Bavaria is also taking the plunge into animation for ...
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Irish Film Board backs new Glawogger film
The Irish Film Board has committed $404,785 (Euros 300,000) to Michael Glawogger's new feature, Das Vaterspiel, about a man developing a computer game in which players kill their fathers. The investment comes as the Irish Film Board (IFB) moves more aggressively into co-production. The idea is that the body will ...
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Cinexport starts sales for Algerian story Morituri
Cinexport has taken on world sales for Morituri, and Cinexport president Anne-Marie Rombourg-Caraco is handling the project here in Cannes.Okacha Touita's thriller is based on the novel by Yasmina Khadra, set during Algeria's civil war in the 1990s.The cast features Miloud Khetib, Azzedine Bouraghda, Boualem Benani, Ahmed Benaissa, Rachid Fares, ...
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Nu Image to distribute Balkan Beats worldwide
Nu Boyana is today signing a cooperation agreement with Bulgaria's National Film Center on Balkan Beats, a Bulgarian-English language comedy.Balkan Beats will be shot mainly in English with talent from Bulgaria and nearby Balkan countries. Director Zornitsa-Sophia previously wrote and directed the 2004 feature Milla From Mars, which won prizes ...
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Sweden's Triangelfilm files for bankruptcy
Swedish distributor-exhibitor Triangelfilm - co-owner of Swedish cinema circuit, Astoria Cinemas, which is currently under reconstruction - filed Monday (May 21) for bankruptcy in Stockholm.'Everything has an end, and the competition in the quality film market has become increasingly complicated,' explained Triangelfilm/Astoria Cinemas CEO, Mattias Nohrborg. 'Furthermore, a few years ...
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Perlmutter appointed to top post at Canada's NFB
Tom Perlmutter has been appointed to the top position at Canada's National Film Board (NFB). Perlmutter, who joined the NFB in 2001 as the director general of the English programme, was elevated to the position of government film commissioner and chairman of the NFB. The appointment was made by Canadian ...
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Zhang Yimou to head Venice competition jury
Beijing-based director Zhang Yimou will preside over the competition jury -comprised only of directors - of the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival during the Biennale's Jubilee 75th anniversary.Zhang has won the most major awards at Venice including two Golden Lions in 1992 for The Story of Qui Ju ...
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EFP names members of board, adding Simon Perry
During the Cannes Film Festival, European Film Promotion members elected a new board of directors at its general assembly. The six-member board serves for two years.The board is now comprised of:Germany's Christian DorschSpain's Pilar Torre Germany's Renate Rose The Netherlands' Claudia Landsberger Switzerland's Francine Brücher Hungary's Éva Vezer Ireland's Simon ...
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Monsoon and IdtV make first co-production with Nadra
Singapore production company Monsoon Pictures and Dutch filmmakers IdtV Film are joining forces to co-produce $6.5m drama Nadra.The project, which marks the first co-production between Singapore and the Netherlands, tells the true story of a 13-year-old Dutch girl at the centre of a fierce custody battle between her birth parents ...
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Myriad closes more deals on Death Defying Acts
Myriad Pictures has sold the romantic adventure Death Defying Acts starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones to Italy (Eagle), South Korea (Screen) and Brazil (Imagem).Rights also went to Mexico (Gussi), Scandinavia (Nordisk), Russia and The Baltics (Pyramid), Greece (Audiovisual), Israel (Shapira), Portugal (LNK), Eastern Europe (AQS), Indonesia (PT Camila), the ...
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Kimmel closes Japan and Italy on Kaufman's Synecdoche
Kimmel International has closed key deals on its new Cannes films, kicking off with Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York which went to Asmik Ace in Japan and Bim in Italy.Meanwhile Kimmel sales chief Mark Lindsay reported that MovieEye in Japan and Senator in Germany bought Tarsem Singh's political ...
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Shanghai film festival unveils competition line-up
The Shanghai International Film Festival (June 16-24) has announced the competition line-up for this year's Jin Jue Awards. Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Go Master, Doghead from Spanish filmmaker Santi Amodeo and Yoji Yamada's Love And Honour are among 16 films competing for the Jin Jue Awards (see full line-up below). The ...
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Viacom forms joint venture with India's TV18 Group
Viacom and India 's TV18 Group have announced a 50:50 joint venture, Viacom-18, spanning film, television and digital media content. Under the terms of the agreement, which is subject to regulatory approval, Viacom-18 will launch a new Hindi-language general entertainment cable and satellite channel in India within the next year. ...
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Aspect takes rights to Bad Day - WWII
New London-based sales company Aspect Film Limited, run by Hugh Edwards, have taken rights to Jerry G. Angelo and Jonathan Artemis Pierce's action drama feature Bad Day - WWII. Directed by Jerry G. Angelo and starring Christopher Showerman and Basil Hoffman, the film is about US and UK soldiers in ...
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Brett Ratner and Quincy Jones team for Carnaval 3D
Brett Ratner and Quincy Jones are teaming up on the US-Brazil co-production Carnaval 3D: The Magic And The Music.Jones will appear on camera profiling the high and low life surrounding the week-long Rio De Janeiro Carnaval. A portion of the film's profits will go improving the lives of impoverished Brazilian ...
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Arthouse takes on urban graffiti documentary Next
Arthouse Films has taken all North American, Australian, New Zealand, and South African rights (without TV) to feature documentary Next: A Primer on Urban Painting.The film is director Pablo Aravena's first documentary feature and was co-produced by Aravena, Lovestreams & agnes b. and executive produced by Claude Girard and Nadja ...
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Independent books more Hallam Foe deals for Korea and Portugal
Independent has closed a slew of new deals on David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe starring Jamie Bell.Territories sold during Cannes include the US (Magnolia), Korea (Jin Jin Pictures), Portugal (LNK), Benelux (Indies) and Israel (Orlando Films).Buena Vista International will release in the UK in summer 2007, followed by other major territories ...
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Madman buys Imagi's animated Highlander
Madman Entertainment has acquired rights for Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to Imagi International Holdings' Highlander: The Search For Vengeance.The first animated feature in the 20-year-old Highlander franchise, the film is directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri.Starz Media has US and UK rights while Tohokushinsha pre-bought Japanese rights. Hong Kong and ...
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Palme d'Or winner Wajda plans September release for Katyn
Polish director Andrej Wajda will premiere his new film Katyn Sept. 17 at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. 'It's a personal story for me because my father was killed in Katyn,' Wajda told Screen International.Katyn (Post-Mortem) examines the Katyn massacre of 1940, in which Soviet troops killed thousands of ...
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News Corp set to acquire Chris-Craft
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has outbid Viacom to acquire US TV station owner Chris-Craft Industries and its subsidiaries for $5.35bn. News Corp will pay about $85 a share for Chris-Craft, which owns 10 television stations, and its BHC Communications and United Television subsidiaries. However the deal faces major regulatory hurdles ...