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Final names of Un Certain Regard jury announced
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the completion of the jury for the Un Certain Regard sidebar.As previously announced, director Fatih Akin will preside over the jury.Joining him are journalists Anupama Chopra and Catherine Mtsitouridze from India and Russia, respectively; film critic Yasser Moheb from Egypt and director of Spain's ...
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TIFFCOM: Japan's Hexagon unveils five-picture slate
Japan's Hexagon Pictures, a distributor that has recently entered production and international sales, unveiled its new line-up of five market premieres at a presentation held during the first day of the TIFFCOM market (Oct 22-24). The slate includes animated feature Chocolate Underground, based on Alex Shearer's children's novel Bootleg, which ...
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Asia PacificFilm Festivalpostponed due to lack of delegates
The 52nd Asia Pacific Film Festival, which was scheduled to run November 18-21 in Jakarta, Indonesia, has been postponed due to a lack of overseas visitors, organisers have announced. The Federation of Motion Pictures Producers of Asia, which organises the event, cited the global economic downturn as the reason for ...
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TIFFCOM: Asia strives for regional, multi-platform content
Asian territories need to work together to create content that can work across national borders and different distribution platforms, said delegates at a TIFFCOM seminar organised by UniJapan and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (TDC). 'Economy-wise, we have Europe, the Americas, and Asia, and we need to try to ...
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Q3 2008 box office: Distributor market shares
INTERNATIONALUniversal 921.1 19.80%WB 601.2 13.00%CTSI 523.3 11.30%Paramount 428.1 9.20%BV 368 7.90%Toho 332.2 7.20%Fox 282.5 6.10%New Line 141.1 3.00%StudioCanal 55.9 1.20%Summit 54.6 1.20%Pathe 38.9 0.80%Weinsteins 36.4 0.80%Shochiku 32.3 0.70%DOMESTICWarner Bros. 784.1 29.70%Sony 499.8 18.90%Universal 460.9 17.50%Paramount 215.9 8.20%Buena Vista 172.8 6.50%Fox 130.1 4.90%Lionsgate 77.1 2.90%Overture 61.2 2.30%MGM 50.6 1.90%Focus 50.4 1.90%Picturehouse ...
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Canada's Evokative picks up Korean drama Crying Fist
Evokative Films has picked up Canadian rights to Ryoo Seung-wan's boxer drama Crying Fist, following negotiations at the recent Asian Film Market in Pusan. Starring Choi Min-sik, Crying Fist premiered in Cannes' Directors Fortnight in 2005 where it won the FIPRESCI award, and also screened at numerous other festivals including ...
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Film-makers need direct relationship with audience, says LFF conference
The creation and nurturing of direct relationships with audiences is critical to the digital future, delegates to the Power To The Pixel conference were told yesterday. The event, which was held as part ofThe Times BFI London Film Festival, was streamed live on ScreenDaily yesterday.Audiences are becoming fragmented as they ...
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Paramount pulls AFI opening night screening of The Soloist
Paramount has pulled world premiere of The Soloist from AFI Fest opening night, due to new 2009 release date for potential awards vehicle. Paramount has pulled its world premiere AFI Fest 2008 opening night screening of The Soloist that was due to screen next week, October 30, citing the new ...
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New York Women In Film & Television honours Linney and Sedgwick
Laura Linney and Kyra Sedgwick will be among the honourees at the New York Women In Film & Television's (NYWIFT) 28th annual Muse Awards on December 9.Linney earned an Academy Award nomination this year for The Savages and won an Emmy for the HBO miniseries John Adams. She has wrapped ...
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TrustNordisk takes on US remake Love at First Hiccup
TrustNordisk will handle international distribution of Love at First Hiccup, the US remake of Danish box-office franchise success, Anya & Victor. Danish sales agency, TrustNordisk, will handle international distribution of Love at First Hiccup, an American $2.4 million re-make of Danish romantic comedy Anya & Victor.'A world in crisis needs ...
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Dardenne's Lorna's Silencewins European Parliament Lux Prize 2008
Lorna's Silence by the Belgian director brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne has won the European Parliament's Lux Cinema Prize.The Prize was first introduced in 2007 with the aim to promote European culture and languages, and to foster the circulation of European films within the EU.'The European Parliament has always recognised ...
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Komandarev takes Grand Prix at Bergen International Film Festival
Stefan Komandarev's The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner has received the Grand Prix in the Cinema Extraordinaire competition at Norway's Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF).The film also took the Special Jury Prize at Warsaw last week, Saturday October 19.Produced by Pallas Film (co-founded by German producer ...
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Pacino screens preview of work-in-progress Salomaybe' at Rome
Al Pacino has screened a seven-minute preview of his in-progress project entitled Salomaybe' during opening day of the Rome Film Festival.Pacino also announced he would like to bring the completed film back to the Rome festival next year. 'It's coming along, and maybe next year we could bring it here,' ...
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Berlinale doubles festival accreditation fee
The Berlinale has introduced a 100% price hike for festival accrediation next year (February 5-15).The fee for the general festival accreditation will increase from $64 (Euros 50) to $ 128 (Euros 100). The charges for the market badge and festival accreditation and EFM Screening Pass will remain stable at the ...
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Summit picks up rights to romcom Kicked, Bitten And Scratched
Summit Entertainment has acquired feature rights to the romantic comedy Kicked, Bitten And Scratched, based on Amy Sutherland's books Kicked Bitten And Scratched: Life And Lessons At The World's Premier School For Exotic Animal Trainers and What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love And Marriage.Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky are ...
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High School Musical ready to rock international marketplace
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International (WDSMPI) will seek to mobilise the tweens this weekend as Disney Channel's smash High School Musical brand makes its first foray into theatres in the form of High School Musical 3: Senior Year.Zac Efron and his posse of all-singing, all-dancing friends step into more ...
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Editorial - New models armies
The crowning, deposing and re-crowning of "content" as "king" has become a ritual over the last few years. Wondering where on earth the industry is heading has given the old cliche a new lease of life. It's possible even to identify camps here: content as king is the mantra of ...
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In focus - Pusan Review - Pushed for space in a crowded scene
Everybody says it, everybody knows it: the autumn festival circuit, which bows out with Rome and London this week, is too crammed. Yet the situation staggers on from year to year, with festivals pointing frantically to their record numbers of world premieres. Even after Venice, Toronto and San Sebastian had ...
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In focus - Asian Film Funds Forum - New approaches needed in Asia
The Asian film business should avoid over-supply and ensure the interests of distributors and investors are aligned, said panellists at a seminar on Asian film funds at Pusan's Asian Film Market.The seminar, co-hosted by Screen International, also examined how film financing has become more difficult due to the credit crunch, ...
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In focus - Asian Film Market - Mixed messages at market
Pusan's Asian Film Market (October 3-6) closed its third edition last week with most delegates agreeing it had been a quiet event, but many saying they had still found it productive. Certainly there was not much footfall at the market, held for the first time on three floors of the ...