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London Australian Film Festival announces full programme
The London Australian Film Festival returns to the Barbican March 6-16, opening with Unfinished Sky. Peter Duncan's film, about a reclusive farmer who takes in and gradually befriends a female Afghan refugee, saw its world premiere at Toronto last year.The festival will conclude with a gala screening of Richard Roxburgh's ...
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New Bond filmto shoot in Tuscany
Marc Forster's new James Bond film will be heading to Tuscany as part of its locations shoot, the latest of a series of international productions to choose the region as set.Quantum of Solace will head to Italy for 15 days from the end of Aprilthrough May 12, picking up where ...
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Sunshine Cleaning finally lands at Overture in US
Overture Films acquired US rights to Big Beach and Back Lot Pictures' Sundance entry Sunshine Cleaning at the weekend, one month after the festival ended.The approximately $2m deal is Overture's second pick-up from Sundance following Henry Poole Is Here and ended more than a month of negotiations between sales agent ...
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Arthouse Films signs US deal with iTunes
Arthouse Films has a signed a deal to make its films available for purchase and download on iTunes.The deal was negotiated by David Koh and Lilly Bright on behalf of Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment and Mark Kashden on behalf of New Video Group.Films will be available for $9.99 ...
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Film Movement buys domestic rights to Puenzo's XXY
Film Movement has picked up Lucia Puenzo's Argentinean coming-of-age drama XXY from Pyramide International.The Spanish-language film centres on a 15-year-old hermaphrodite living with her family in Uruguay whose life becomes endangered when her secret is exposed. Ines Efron and Martin Piroyansky star.The film won the Critics Week Grand Prize and ...
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Jaap Brujnen takes over as head of Warner Home Video Benelux
Jaap Bruijnen has been promoted to managing director of Warner Home Video Benelux following yesterday's announcement that Ruud Lamers will leave the company at the end of April.Bruijnen, who currently serves as deputy managing director of Benelux, will assume his new role effective May 1.'I take great pride in my ...
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Laguna buys domestic DVD rights to Chapa's thriller Fuego
Los Angeles-based Laguna Productions has picked up exclusive North American DVD rights from Amadeus Pictures to Damian Chapa's English-language spy thriller Fuego.Chapa stars as an incarcerated special forces veteran who signs up for a suicide mission to save the Mexican President's daughter. David Carradine also stars.'We are thrilled to add ...
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Meistrich's NEHST Studios to stage Aspiring Filmmakers Boot Camp
Larry Meistrich's NEHST Studios will stage the Aspiring Filmmakers Boot Camp pitch session in New York from Mar 7-9.The three-day event will cover pitching, producing, financing, distribution and career opportunities and give participants an opportunity to pitch their projects and possibly sign a deal on the spot.'We are working hard ...
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Then She Found Me, American Teen bookend Cleveland
Helen Hunt's feature directorial debut Then She Found Me and Nanette Burstein's hit Sundance documentary American Teen bookend the 32nd Cleveland International Film Festival, which runs from Mar 6-16.John Sayles, whose first film Return Of The Secaucus Seven screened at the fifth Cleveland International Film Festival in 1981, will receive ...
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Harrison's Flowers
Dir: Elie Chouraqui. 2000. France. 126 mins.Prod cos: 7 Films Cinema, Le Studio Canal Plus, France 2 Cinema. Int'l Sales: StudioCanal (33) 1 44 43 98 00. Prod: Chouraqui. Scr: Chouraqui, Didier Le Pecheur, Isabel Ellsen, Michael Katims. DoP: Nicola Pecorini. Prod des: Giantito Burchiellaro. Ed: Jacques Wita, Ailo Auguste, ...
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First Cinema Eye Nonfiction Filmmaking Awards set for March 18
The inaugural Cinema Eye Nonfiction Filmmaking Awards will take place in New York at the IFC Center on Mar 18.The event has been put together by online distributor IndiePixFilms.com, producer A J Schnack and Toronto International Film Festival documentary programmer Thom Powers to celebrate what they call the new wave ...
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Shooting begins on Salvage in Liverpool
Shooting begins today in Liverpool on British horror film Salvage, one of the three features commissioned under the Digital Departures scheme set up to celebrate Liverpool's year as Capital of Culture. All three films will premiere in Liverpool later in the year.Salvage marks the feature directorial debut of Lawrence Gough. ...
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Recep Ivedik leaps into top 10 with $5.1m take
Turkish film Recep Ivedik was the surprise big-hitter in the international arena this weekend, generating $5.1m from just 230 screens in its home territory and catapulting it into the top 10. The top 40 films generated $166m from 48,087 screens from the period of February 22-24. For the full international ...
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Fortissimo adds Konchalovsky's Gloss to line-up
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights outside Russia and France to Andrei Konchalovsky's Gloss, which will receive a gala screening at next month's Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF). Produced by Konchalovsky's Production Center,Glosstakes a satirical look at the current wave of capitalism sweeping through Russia.Since making the film, the ...
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The Investigator (A Nyomozo)
Dir: Attila Gigor. Hungary / Sweden/Ireland 2007. 110 mins.This quirky little thriller brings to mind Patricia Highsmith's Ripley series, where the perverted morality of the ending requires the reader to take sides with the villain. Here, a gruff pathologist (Anger) takes on the role of a contract killer only to ...
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Eros launches free online streaming service
Indian media and entertainment company Eros International has launched an online video-on-demand (VOD) service supported by advertising. Consumers have access to free online content that includes exclusive content from the Eros library of more than 1,300 titles and 5,000 music videos, behind the scenes 'making of' footage, exclusive short form ...
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Magnolia buys worldwide rights to Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
Magnolia Pictures has picked up worldwide rights to Christopher Bell's steroid abuse documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster*. The film, which premiered at Sundance in January, explores the use of steroids among competitive sportsmen and women against the backdrop of America's win-at-all-costs culture.The film features interviews with athletes whose careers have been ...
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Universal strikes four year financing deal with Relativity Capital
Relativity Capital, a brand new investment partnership between Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media and New York-based hedge fund Elliot Associates, has signed a deal with Universal Pictures to co-finance a significant portion of Universal's slate - approximately 45 films - through 2011.This will be the first deal in which Relativity acts ...
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UK mandatory training levy wins support despite concerns
Senior UK industry figures are strongly supporting a new mandatory training levy on producers proposed by Skillset and government, despite criticism from some producers.The Government is in the process of creating an industry training board (ITB), which will be able to impose a compulsory training levy on film-making.UK plans for ...
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FilmIndustry Training Board: the next steps
Thefilm Industry Training Boardwill administer the mandatory levy on behalf of the film industry.An Order to establish a board was submitted to Parliament in November 2007, and in line with parliamentary procedures a debate was not called for.This was required to 'sit' in Parliament for 40 days, and upon completion ...