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Deception
Dir: Marcel Langenegger. US. 2008. 107 mins.The spirit of Joe Eszterhas and Adrian Lyne is revived to disappointing results in Deception, a slick, cat-and-mouse thriller that unfolds with sharply-diminishing plausibility. Polished production values and star names will have a limited effect in trying to counteract the old-hat nature of the ...
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Germany's MediaFonds 1 launches 'back-end' fund
European film projects in need of urgent gap finance have a new source of cash to turn to following the establishment of "back-end", a fund being created by Munich-based MediaFonds 1.The new fund, which starts life with a pot worth $5m-$8m, aims to provide 30%-40% of budgets for films which ...
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Cannes unveils competition line-up of 19 titles
CompetitionLaurent Cantet - Entre Les Murs (France)Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Three Monkeys (Turkey-France-Italy)Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne - Le Silence De Lorna (Belgium-France-Italy-Germany)Arnaud Desplechin - A Christmas Story (France)Clint Eastwood - Changeling (US)Atom Egoyan - Adoration (Canada)Ari Folman - Waltz With Bashir ( Israel-France-Germany )Philippe Garrel - La Frontiere De L'Aube ...
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Cannes Un Certain Regard line-up includes Tokyo! triptych
The 2008 Cannes Un Certain Regard line up includes films from such directors as Michel Gondry, James Toback and Abel Ferrara. It also includes a film by American indie director Kelly Reichardt, who previously made Old Joy, which made its way to Cannes general manager Thierry Fremaux unsolicited and via ...
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Film Consultancy, High Point team for McGuckian's Inconceivable
Penny Wolf's The Film Consultancy Partners and Carey Fitzgerald's High Point Media Group have joined forces to handle international sales for Mary McGuckian's Inconceivable, the third film in the director's 'amorality trilogy.'The film, previously known as Art In Las Vegas, is a UK-Canadian co-production between the UK's Pembridge Pictures, Canada's ...
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Cannes line-up includes last-minute surprises including Che and Eastwood's Changeling
Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob and general manager Thierry Fremaux announced the official line up for the 61st edition this morning in Paris.Among the surprises were the last minute additions of Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Steven Soderbergh's two Che Guevara films The Argentine and Guerilla, although in press documents ...
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Summer Book (Tatil Kitabi)
Dir:Seyfi Teoman. Turkey , 2008. 92 mins.Winner of Best Film in the national section at Istanbul, Seyfi Teoman's small-scale but poetic evocation of summer in a small provincial Turkish town will elicit a warm response both from festival programmers and Turkish communities abroad. The quiet, peaceful beauty of its landscape ...
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Japan rides high at international box office, led by Detective Conan
Japanese animated sequels came up trumps this weekend with two entries from Toho entering the top 15 and generating a combined $6.5m in their home territory. The top 40 international films generated $110.9m across 38,186 screens for the period of April 18-20.For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, ...
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Assembly takes top honours at Beijing Student Film Festival
Feng Xiaogang's The Assembly was the biggest winner at the 15th Beijing Student Film Festival, which wrapped yesterday in Beijing. The film won best picture, best director, and best actor for Zhang Hanyu's performance. The best actress award went to Miao Pu for Sino-Japan co-production Crossing Over.The festival also gave ...
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Cannes unveils shorts competition, Cinefondation selections
Short Films in Competition Jerrycan, dir: Julius Avery (Australia)El Deseo, dir: Marie Benito (Mexico)Megatron, dir: Marian Crisan (Romania)411-Z, dir: Daniel Erdelyi (Hungary)De Moins En Moins, dir: Melanie Laurent (France)My Rabbit Hoppy, dir: Anthony Lucas (Australia)Buen Viaje, dir: Javier Palleiro, Guillermo Rocamora (Uruguay)Smafuglar, dir: Runar Runarsson (Iceland)Love You More, dir: Sam ...
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Chang, Yeoh to establish Asian talent management outfit
Producer Terence Chang and actress Michelle Yeoh will jointly establish a talent agency based in Hong Kong and Taipei, which is scheduled to begin operation in June. The yet-to-be-named company has so far signed with three actors including Kelly Lin Xilei (After This Our Exile), Chang told Screendaily.Kelly Lin is ...
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ContentFilm strikes $40m loan with JPMorgan Chase
ContentFilm has signed a deal with JPMorgan Chase for a $40m long-term debt facility.JPMorgan Chase will structure and arrange the five-year senior secured revolving credit facility.ContentFilm noted that it had drawn down $27.5m of its existing $32m loan facility (including the CBC acquisition). The new $10-$15m of liquidity in the ...
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French film fest throws spotlight on thrillers
The resurgence of the traditional French thriller will be celebrated at this year's French Film Festival in Scotland and the UK with a series of screenings including Frederic Schoendoerffer's Scenes De Crimes and Eric Rochant's Total Western.Other films in the series include Claude Chabrol's Au Coeur Du Mensonge, Cannes Quinzaine ...
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Beta Cinema lining up two market premieres for Cannes
German sales company Beta Cinema will have two market premiere screenings at next month's Marche du Film during the Cannes Film Festival.Beta will be presenting Thomas Roth's biopic Falco - Quit Living On Dreams, about the larger-than-life Austrian pop star whose international hit Rock Me Amadeus became the first German ...
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Swedish Film Institute backs 10 new features
Signing for $9.3m (Euros 5.8m) production funding, the Swedish Film Institute has set 10 features, five documentaries and seven shorts rolling, including Jorgen Bergmark's A Rational Solution, which won the ARTE France Cinema Award for Jens Jonsson's script at Rotterdam's CineMart, and the new, un-titled film by Mans Herngren.A Rational ...
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UK's New Wave adds Unrelated, Tricks, Quiet Chaos
New Wave Films, the new UK distributor set up by Artificial Eye veterans Pam Engel and Robert Beeson in February 2008, has acquired three new films for its initial slate.The new acquisitions are Unrelated, Tricks and Quiet Chaos.Joanna Hogg's Unrelated from the UK won the Fipresci prize at the 2007 ...
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Moxie Makers shortlists eight projects for $500,000 prize
The Big Pitch, a new competition from UK-based micro studio Moxie Makers, has short listed eight projects to compete for a feature film production prize worth up to $500,000 (£250,000). The scheme, supported by Skillset, was launched through Ipso Facto Films, (which manages Moxie Makers) in December 2007 at the ...
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Lionsgate UK launches local production initiative with three projects
Lionsgate UK has confirmed plans to increase investment in UK films, intending to develop, co-produce and co-finance at least two British features per year.The initiative kicks off with three UK features set to shoot in 2009: Stiff by Dan Mazer, Emily-Jane Secret Mum as a co-production with Elton John and ...
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EuropaCorp hires Montironi, Degove on international sales staff
EuropaCorp has restructured its sales team and brought in two new international sales directors, the company said in a statement Wednesday evening. Marie-Laure Montironi joined Europa this month while Pascal Degove will take up his new post as of May.Montironi is an industry veteran who was instrumental in the development ...
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Delphis does aggressive business on Arthy's Fighter
Montreal sales house Delphis Films has wrapped a number of international deals on Natasha Arthy's Fighter. The film, which premiered in the Berlinale 14+ competition and will screen at Tribeca, has sold to more than a dozen countries, including Momentum for the UK, Europacorp for France, Hopscotch for Australia, VCL ...