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Paramount Australia picks up its first local project, The Final Winter
Paramount Pictures Australia has acquired Australian rights to the low-budget drama The Final Winter, its first local pick-up since UIP split into Paramount and Universal at the beginning of the year. The film is directed by Jane Forrest and Brian Andrews and written by Matt Nable, who also plays the ...
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Norwegian government shakes up film policy
Norway 's state film bodies will see radical change in 2008 after a government decision today. 'We have clearly defined and ambitious goals for our film policy,' said Norwegian culture minister Trond Giske, as the Norwegian Parliament - Stortinget - passed his Pathfinder of the Norwegian Film Offensive, a ministry ...
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Arts Alliance hires Gwendal Auffret to run new Paris office
Digital film services company Arts Alliance Media has expanded by opening a new office in Paris, which will be the headquarters of the company's digital cinema operations in Southern Europe.The new office will cover France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.Gwendal Auffret will head the new office. He had been CEO of ...
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BFI says funding issues will cause job losses but no catastrophe
Amanda Nevill, director of the British Film Institute (BFI), has responded to recent speculation in UK newspapers that the BFI is on the verge of a major withdrawal of the services and resources it offers to the research and teaching community. Nevill's remarks come in the wake of the BFI's ...
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Sundance Institute names four projects for Documentary Lab
Women in the Nepalese army, the enduring torment caused by Hurricane Katrina, the role of music in Tibetan heritage, and the relationship between moderate Islam and jihad are under the spotlight in the four projects chosen for the Sundance Institute's fourth annual Documentary Editing and Story Laboratory.The annual editing and ...
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Tornatore's Unknown is best film at Italy's Donatello awards
Giuseppe Tornatore's noir film The Unknown picked up five top prizes at 51st edition of the David of Donatello awards, Italy's top film honors.The Unknown received awards in five principal categories including best film, best director, best cinematography, as well as best music for Ennio Morricone's score as well as ...
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Singapore, Malaysia join forces for Neo's Ah Long Ltd
Singapore 's MediaCorp Raintree Pictures and Scorpio East Pictures are collaborating with Malaysia 's Double Vision in Ah Long Ltd, the first co-production between the neighbouring countries in recent years. Jack Neo is directing the $779,000 (S$1.2m) production which is currently being filmed around the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. ...
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Silver Surfer coasts into 32 territories for Fox
Things get interesting overseas this weekend as three films will attempt to overthrow Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End.Buena Vista International's (BVI) adventure has ruled the waves for the past three weekends and has the wind in its sails after crossing $500m in a record 20 days.BVI will look ...
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Finishing The Game to open 30th New York Asian American festival
Justin Lin's Bruce Lee mockumentary Finishing The Game and Gina Kim's drama Never Forever bookend the 30th New York Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF), which runs from Jul 19-28.Chen Shi-Zheng's drama Dark Matter starring Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, and Liu Ye is the centerpiece presentation. Twenty-five features will play ...
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Vuletic to open Sarajevo Film Festival
Bosnian director Srdjan Vuletic's It's Hard To Be Nice will open the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (August 17-25).It is his second feature, after the Rotterdam, Brussels and Sofia prize-winner Summer In The Golden Valley in 2004. Screenings of Sam Garbarski's Irina Palm and Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven have ...
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Korea's SK Telecom to enter film investment, distribution
SK Telecom (SKT), one of Korea's leading telcos, has announced that it plans to enter film investment and distribution next year at the earliest. The company has already invested in production/talent management company iHQ and The Host producer Chungeorahm, which recently announced that it is restarting distribution. This development has ...
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European film business training: Film Business Academy, UK
Europe is getting serious about film business training. Richard Brass speaks to graduates from some of the key courses.Nina Roman is one of the students in the inaugural year of the Film Business Academy's MSc in management (film business stream), which ends in July. The experience of being one of ...
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European film business training: Screen Academy Wales, UK
Europe is getting serious about film business training. Richard Brass speaks to graduates from some of the key courses.When he started an MA in film producing and business management at Screen Academy Wales in September 2005, Ed Casey was sceptical about how beneficial the business-focused parts of the course would ...
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European film business training: Media Business School, Spain
Europe is getting serious about film business training. Richard Brass speaks to graduates from some of the key courses.A solid business training should be an essential part of any film-maker's education, says Alex Marshall, who completed the six-month Mega course at the Media Business School in Spain in 1999. He ...
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European film business training: Ateliers Du Cinema Europeen (ACE), France
Europe is getting serious about film business training. Richard Brass speaks to graduates from some of the key courses.Well established in the industry and working at the time on a comedy with Italian stars Enrico Lo Verso and Monica Bellucci, the Serbia-born, French-based producer Cedomir Kolar signed up with the ...
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Major studio complex planned for Poland
The Polish Film Institute hasannounced plans to build a modern, 10-stage studio complex by 2009. Film City, as the project is being called, will be built on a 476-hectare military airbase in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicou, about 80 kilometers south of Warsaw. Hangars will be converted into 10 stages, the ...
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Atonement to open Venice Film Festival
UK director Joe Wright's adaptation of Ian McEwan's award-winning novel Atonement will open the Venice Film Festival's 64th edition.As Wright's second directorial effort (after Pride & Prejudice) the selection underscores Venice Film Festival director Marco Mueller's focus on risk and innovation for the 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival.The ...
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Specialist to get outing at London Jewish fest
The Specialist, a US documentary that follows the 1961 Jerusalem trial of Nazi henchman Adolf Eichmann, will get a UK theatrical screening at next month's London Jewish Film Festival.The film uses a montage of original footing from the trial to contrast the apparently ordinary Eichmann with his horrific crimes. It ...
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Evening
Dir. Lajos Koltai. US. 2007. 117mins.In Evening, director Lajos Koltai makes his English-language feature debut with an earnest adaptation of Susan Minot's successful novel about a dying woman looking back at the love of her youth. With a dream-team cast of actresses - Vanessa Redgrave, Clare Danes, Meryl Streep, Natascha ...
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Shanghai International Film Festival opens with Eye In The Sky
International stars including Sharon Stone, Michelle Rodriguez and Maggie Cheung graced the red carpet at the opening of the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival on Saturday night (June 16), which kicked off with a screening of Hong Kong action thriller Eye In The Sky. The director and star of the ...