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The Grocer's Son goes to North America with Film Movement
Film Movement has picked up North American rights to Eric Guirado's drama The Grocer's Son.The story centres on a 30-year-old city dweller who is forced to return to Provence to look after his ailing father. Nicolas Cazale and Clotilde Hesme star.'We are so happy to be distributing this incredibly charming ...
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UK web users demand online distribution - but only for free
UK consumers are enthusiastic about online distribution of films - but few are willing to pay.That's the finding of a survey commissioned by media lawyers Wiggin. Entertainment Media Research spoke to 1,608 UK consumers aged 15-54 in January 2008 and found strong interest in online entertainment, particularly films.But 70% want ...
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Rutger Wolfson appointed general director at Rotterdam for four years
The Board of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has appointed Rutger Wolfson to a four-year term as general director of the festival. The post gives him final responsibility for the artistic and business matters of the festival, the CineMart and the Hubert Bals Fund.Wolfson will resign as director of ...
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Reviews
10,000 BC
Directed by Roland Emmerich. US. 2007. 108 mins. Closer in spirit to the kitschy fantasy of One Million Years BC than the grungy realism of Quest For Fire, Roland Emmerich's 10,000 BC is a lumbering and mostly unconvincing prehistoric adventure partially redeemed by some eye-catching effects and cinematography. Interest from ...
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Wolfson doesn't plan dramatic changes at Rotterdam festival
Rutger Wolfson, who was today confirmed as general director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, says he doesn't plan sweeping changes for the event, now entering its 38th year.'I don't think there will be dramatic changes,' he told ScreenDaily.com. 'The reputation for Rotterdam is that it's innovative and that's one ...
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Three leads line up for Bruce Beresford's Mao's Last Dancer
Director Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant, Driving Miss Daisy) has chosen three actors from three different countries to play Li Cunxin in Mao's Last Dancer.Chi Cao, principal dancer at the Birmingham Royal Ballet since 2002 and winner of the gold medal in 1998 at the Varna ballet competitions, will play the ...
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Dragon Hunters opens 10th Cartoon Movie market in Babelsberg
This year's Cartoon Movie co-production forum for European animation feature films will open in Potsdam on Wednesday evening March 5 with an avant-premiere screening of Dragon Hunters.The film's producers Futurikon, Trixter, LuxAnimation and Mac Guff Ligne are also among the nominees for this year's Cartoon Movie Tributes which are awarded ...
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Richard Curtis starts rocking Boat for Universal/Working Title
Universal Pictures and Working Title Films started principal photography yesterday for Richard Curtis' new comedy The Boat That Rocked.Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost and Kenneth Branagh star. Hoffman, Nighy, Ifans and Frost play iconoclastic DJs while Branagh plays a government official out to get the lawbreakers.The ...
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Momentum, Sky partner for DVD/VOD release of Vegas, Baby
Momentum Pictures and Sky have struck a deal to simultaneously release Vegas, Baby on DVD and Sky Box Office and Sky Anytime on PC.The release date is March 31 for Sky and DVD sales, which is two weeks after the DVD rental release.The Sky platforms will the pay-per-view/VOD offering for ...
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EFP backs eight European projects in Guadalajara
European Film Promotion's Film Sales Support initiative is backing a range of European films at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in March for the second year.Eight European films are being supported for promotional campaigns via their sales agents at the festival (March 7-14).The films and their sales companies are: Stephan ...
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Mika Kaurismaki to shoot new Finnish feature in July
Finnish director-producer Mika Kaurismaki will return to local filmmaking to shoot The House of Branching Love (Haarautuvan rakkauden talo), his first feature in Finnish since Zombie and the Ghost Train in 1991.Credited with such films as Helsinki Napoli All Night Long, Rosso, The Clan and The Worthless, Kaurismaki - who ...
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Sarajevo selects five low-budget short projects for City of Film
Sarajevo Film Festival's Talent Campus project Sarajevo City of Film has selected five low-budget short film projects for the new initiative from the Bosnian Government and its Ministry of Culture and Sports. Participants of the first Talent Campus, held during the 13th edition of the festival in August 2007, applied ...
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Neo's Money No Enough 2 starts shooting in Singapore
Singapore's film industry is witnessing a big surge in output with Jack Neo's latest comedy Money No Enough 2 being one of the four local productions that starts filming this month. The new picture marks the debut project of Neo Studios, set up by Neo and former fund manager Philip ...
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Eros International releases Heyy Babyy on Blu-Ray format
India's Eros International has released Hindi comedy Heyy Babyy on Blu-ray, marking the first global release of a Bollywood film on the format. The film is the first of a slate of planned Blu-ray releases by Eros.Heyy Babyy, directed by Sajid Khan and starring Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Ritesh Deshmukh ...
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Joan Chen, Zhao Tao to star in Jia Zhangke's 24 City
Joan Chen and Zhao Tao will star in Jia Zhangke's 24 City, which will begin shooting at the end of March. They will portray female factory workers in the 1980s. Also starring in the film are TV veterans Chen Jianbin and Lu Liping, according to Jia, who is now in ...
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Wachowskis' Speed Racer set for simultaneous IMAX release
Warner Bros has announced that the Wachowski Brothers' Speed Racer will be released on IMAX screens simultaneous with its conventional release May 9, 2008.Produced by Joel Silver, written and directed by The Matrix filmmakers and based on the anime series by Tatsuo Yoshida, the film stars Emile Hirsch as the ...
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THINKFilm takes Sundance critics' favourite Momma's Man
THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to Azazel Jacobs' drama Momma's Man, which premiered at Sundance in January.The film reunites THINKFilm with Half Nelson producers Alex Orlovsky and Hunter Gray and executive producer Paul Mezey and will get its New York premiere at the Museum of Modern Art on Mar ...
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Breakfast With Scot to open 10th Miami Gay & Lesbian festival
The East Coast premiere of Laurie Lynd's comedy Breakfast With Scot and Thomas Gustafson's Were The World Mine bookend the 10th Annual Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, which is set to run from Apr 25-May 4.Avi Nesher's drama The Secrets starring Fanny Ardant is the centerpiece screening. Killer Films ...
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SBS plans digital expansion in Eastern Europe
Mediatrade president Maurizio Costanzo has been appointed head of Veleno (Venom), the new company recently launched as Cross Media Factory by Italian media giant Fininvest, with the aim of seeking synergies between its publishing, internet, film and television arms.Veleno aims to be a 'factory of ideas,' that will draw on ...
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Belgrad & Tolmach named presidents of Columbia Pictures
Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach have each been named president of Columbia Pictures and have extended their contracts to 2011.The executives have been running production at the studio since 2003 and overseen titles such as the Spider-Man franchise, Casino Royale, Superbad, The Da Vinci Code, Hitch, Ghost Rider and many ...