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Cologne's MMC Studios to launch in-house strand
MMC Independent, the production arm of Cologne's MMC Studios, will start developing feature films in-house in addition to serving as a co-producer on third-party projects. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com during this week's Medienforum NRW, MMC Independent production executive Basti Griese explained that MMC Independent's recently expanded team 'intends to become ...
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Edinburgh Film Festival to open with Mackenzie's Hallam Foe
The 61st Edinburgh International Film Festival will open with David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe, which is largely set in the Scottish city. Jamie Bell stars alongside Sophia Myles, Ciaran Hinds and Claire Forlani in the story of a voyeuristic teenage boy who struggles with the aftermath of his mother's suicide and ...
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Moscow to host Emir Kusturica for opening night film Promise Me This
The 29th Moscow International Film Festival (June 21-30) will open with Promise Me This (Zavet), directed by Emir Kusturica, and will close with Claude Lelouch's Roman de gare. Kusturica will travel to Moscow for the opening night as well as a retrospective of his early work. The festival will show ...
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Shanghai film market has slow first edition
Shanghai International Film Festival's (SIFF) film market wrapped yesterday with only a few sales concluded. And although it could have potential, most buyers at the three-day event felt there was a lot to be improved. By the time that festival workers began to dismantle the booths, there were only two ...
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New Anglo-Jamaican co-production treaty unveiled
From Broadcast:The British and Jamaican governments are joining forces to encourage filmmakers from the two countries to work on co-productions. Broadcasting minister Shaun Woodward and Del Crooks, Jamaica's film commissioner, joined together at a specially organised press conference at the BroadcastLive trade show in London today to publicise the deal, ...
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Dolmen strikes deal for 50 Cristaldi classics including Cinema Paradiso
Dolmen Home Library has acquired DVD distribution rights for 50 films from the Cristaldi Film Library, including several Oscar-winning titles produced by the legendary Italian producer Franco Cristaldi. The deal was signed by Cristaldi library heirs Zeuda Araya and Massimo Cristaldo with Dolmen chief Alessandro Usai. Titles in the package ...
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Captivity
Dir: Roland Joffe. US. 2007. 84 minsThe controversy surrounding the marketing of Captivity proves to be more interesting than the film itself. Banned American billboard images considered too intense for public display earned Captivity the kind of notoriety that publicity budgets cannot buy. Anyone seduced by the whiff of scandal ...
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Paramount plans Japanese theatrical unit after UIP office shuts
Following the news that United International Pictures (UIP) Japan will close at the end of 2007, Paramount Pictures International (PPI) has announced that it will start its theatrical distribution buisiness in Japan at the start of 2008. PPI Japan will be combined with the existing Paramount Home Entertainment Japan. Andrew ...
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Transformers
Dir: Michael Bay. US. 2007. 142mins.Director Michael Bay delivers another stylishly shot, escapist movie gumball with Transformers, an orgiastic action extravaganza based on Hasbro's line of convertible kids' action toys. Some likeable characters and early, intriguingly seeded plot strands of clandestine overlap are sacrificed at the altar of expediency and ...
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Locarno to honour actresses in Italian cinema
The 60th Locarno International Film Festival is planning a special programme, Signore & Signore, of 19 films that highlight great actresses in Italian Cinema. The programme is supported by Cinecitta Holding and curated by Piera Detassis.The films stretch from 1941 to today, and all will be shown in Locarno on ...
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Man Of Glass (Uomo Di Vetro)
Dir: Stefano Incerti. It. 2007. 96mins.A worthy addition to the modern canon of Italian mafia films, Man Of Glass tells the true story of Leonardo Vitale, the first Sicilian mafioso to turn state's evidence and reveal the inner workings of the powerful Palermo branch of Cosa Nostra. Like The Hundred ...
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Antonine Films unveils scheme for Scottish shorts
UK production outfit Antonine Films has launched a short film initiative, "8 1/2", designed to nurture new talent based in Scotland. Named after the Federico Fellini classic, the title also represents the running time of each short to be produced under the scheme. Supported by a wide range of Scottish ...
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London UK Film Focus to screen 40 films to about 150 buyers
The London UK Film Focus (LUFF), which runs from June 25-28 at the revamped BFI Southbank, is expected to attract around 150 buyers to London. Around 40 films will be screening. The event, a showcase for British films, is now in its fourth year. LUFF's organisers claim that approximately $2m ...
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Mitulescu's Romanian Way finds US home in Film Movement
Film Movement has picked up domestic rights to Catalin Mitulescu's Romanian drama The Way I Spent The End Of The World, on which Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders served as executive producers.The film takes place in 1989 in the last year of Ceausesu's regime as a seven-year-old boy who vows ...
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Paramount's Fragen moves to head domestic TV distribution at Summit
Alex Fragen has been hired as Summit Entertainment's president of domestic television distribution and will oversee the company's free and pay television, video-on-demand, pay-per-view, and hotel and airline sales.Fragen will also be involved in developing the new media distribution strategy for Summit's Home Entertainment division.He arrives from Paramount, where he ...
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Garelik named senior vp, theatrical distribution, at Overture
Former Nielsen EDI vice president of client services Matt Garelik has joined Overture Films as senior vice president of theatrical distribution.Based in Overture's Beverly Hills offices, Garelik will handle Overture's western distribution, and will work alongside senior vice president of theatrical distribution Greg Forston who handles eastern distribution. Garelik reports ...
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Kate Hudson joins Dane Cook in Lionsgate comedy Bachelor No 2
Kate Hudson will star opposite Dane Cook in Lionsgate's comedy Bachelor No. 2, which is set to begin filming in Boston in August.Cook plays a man who specialises in reuniting women with their ex-boyfriends and ends up falling for his best friend's girlfriend, played by Hudson. Lionsgate has earmarked a ...
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Brillstein-Grey rebrands as Brillstein Entertainment Partners
Brillstein-Grey Entertainment has rebranded itself Brillstein Entertainment Partners, chief executive officer Jon Liebman and partner Cynthia Pett-Dante, who together acquired the company from Brad Grey in July 2005, announced today [June 20].Grey's co-founding partners Bernie Brillstein, Marc Gurvitz and Sandy Wernick will continue to help Liebman and Pett-Dante lead the ...
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Jim Broadbent joins cast of Indiana Jones 4
Jim Broadbent has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones 4, which has begun principal photography and will be released by Paramount on May 22, 2008.It is understood Broadbent will play a mentor figure to Harrison Ford's titular character, along the lines of Dr Marcus Brody played by the ...