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Serbian distributors square up to TV pirates
Following the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's distributors plan to take legal action against local broadcasters for airing films such as The Matrix and American Beauty only weeks after their theatrical release.Companies such as Belgrade-based Tuck, which handles Warner and Columbia TriStar product in Serbia, and Vans, which handles films ...
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Rousselet launches Vendome Pictures with $115m credit facility
Longtime French producer Philippe Rousselet has formed Vendome Pictures to develop, produce and finance roughly 15 features over the next five years in the $10-40m range.Vendome is backed by a $115m revolving credit facility funded by a consortium of banks led by CIT and RBS Greenwich Capital, a mezzanine facility ...
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Wysocki to receive 2008 Sundance screenwriting fellowship
Sundance Institute Feature Film Programme has announced that Jonathan Wysocki will receive the 2008 Lynn Auerbach Screenwriting Fellowship with his project All Fall Down.Wysocki developed All Fall Down in June at Sundance Institute's 2008 Screenwriters Lab. The story takes a satirical look at the post-9/11 zeitgeist and explores the fallout ...
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Slumdog, Striped Pyjamas win Audience Choice Awards at Chicago
Danny Boyle's UK-US adventure romance Slumdog Millionaire and Mark Herman's UK-US Holocaust tale The Boy In The Striped Pajamas were awarded the 44th Chicago International Film Festival's Audience Choice AwardsAudiences chose the winners after more than 170 films from more than 45 countries screened at the festival.The festival ran from ...
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Emily Atef's The Stranger In Me wins top prize at Sao Paulo
Emily Atef's The Stranger in Me, a drama about a mother who suffers from post-natal depression and becomes a threat to her child, won the best film award at the 32nd Sao Paulo International Film Festival. The jury presided by UK director Hugh Hudson made an exception at the festival ...
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Bond smashes UK opening record, takes $38.6m from three markets
Sony Pictures Releasing International chiefs were toasting a weekend rich in rewards last night as the division crossed $1bn in receipts for the year-to-date and the new James Bond release Quantum Of Solace dominated the overseas chart with a whopping $38.6m estimated gross from 2,123 screens in the UK, France ...
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Hemdale's John Daly dies at 71 after long battle with cancer
The British-born producer John Daly who made 13 Oscar winning films including Platoon and The Last Emperor has died. He was 71.Daly, who was chairman of Film and Music Entertainment Inc, died on Friday morning [October 31] at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from cancer, said his daughter Jenny ...
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MSNBC takes North American TV on documentary Witch Hunt
MSNBC Films has acquired North American television rights from Submarine Entertainment to Dana Nachman and Don Hardy's documentary Witch Hunt, which gets its US premiere at AFI FEST on November 2.Witch Hunt chronicles the story of eight parents in Bakersfield, California, who were falsely accused and convicted of child molestation ...
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High School Musical 3 leads lacklustre weekend at domestic box office
High School Musical 3: Senior Year stayed top of the class for Buena Vista in its second weekend as an estimated $15m raised the running total to $61.8m.The family musical was one of the few highlights of a muted weekend that saw overall box office take $75.2m and drop approximately ...
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Imagenation Abu Dhabi strikes $250m financing deal with Hyde Park
Ambitious Middle Eastern producer Imagenation Abu Dhabi has closed a $250m financing deal with Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment to develop, produce and distribute up to 20 films over seven years.The deal will cover broad Hollywood entertainment and the parties expect to announce the first titles within the next several ...
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Italy's Lantia strikes alliance with Elle U
Rome-based producer-distributor Lantia has formed a financial and strategic alliance with Italian multimedia group Elle U Multimedia (EUM) that will enable it to beef up theatrical acquisitions and secure a domestic video outlet for its eclectic fare.The two companies will use their combined buying power to purchase films, which they ...
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Two of a Kind Productions signs on Frances Fisher and Dominique Swain
Frances Fisher (Titanic, The Kingdom) and Dominique Swain (Lolita) have signed on to Two of a Kind Productions' paranormal thriller Dead Whisper, set to begin production in November in Louisiana. New Orleans native Oley Sassone will direct and John Kersey will produce. Showcase Entertainment will distribute Dead Whisper.Written by Jennifer ...
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Opium War and Resolution 819 win best film awards at Rome International Film Festival
Siddiq Barmak's Afghanistan set Opium War has won The Golden Marco Aurelio Critics' award for Best Film, while Giacomo Battiato's Resolution 819 earned the festival's Golden Marco Aurelio Audience award for Best Film. Both of these prizes are accompanied by $96,400 (Euros 75,000) in prize money from BNL - Gruppo ...
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Rome InternationalFilm Festival confirms future dates and market ambitions
As the third edition of theRome International Film Festival wrapped, Rome's President Gian Luigi Rondi outlined some of his plans for future editions. Those plans included dates for Rome's next three editions: October 15-25 2009; October 25-November 4 2010; and 2011 is likely to be October 26-November 6. Citing Venice ...
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Cavina and Gossetti to leave theRome International Film Festival
Teresa Cavina and Giorgio Gossetti, co-curators of theRome International Film Festival's Cinema 2008 section will not renew their mandate for next year's festival. Both have cited uncertainty about the direction of future editions following changes in the local government's political hierarchy, which may impact the festival.Their roles in developing the ...
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The Man Who Loved Yngve wins best feature at the Nordic Film Days
Norwegian director Stian Kristiansen's debut, The Man Who Loved Yngve, won the NDR-Prize for best feature at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, Germany. The event is the festival circuit's largest showcase for Nordic and Baltic films.Kristiansen and his lead actors, Rolf Kristian Larsen and Ole Christoffer Ertvag, received the ...
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Critic'sfavourite Snow to have UK premiere at Bird's Eye View Festival
The UK's Bird's Eye View Festival, devoted to women's film-making, will feature the UK premiere of Aida Begic's Snow, which won theCannes 2008 Critics' Week Grand Prize for Best Film.The event will run from March 5 to March 13 2009 at London film venues including the Institute of Contemporary Arts ...
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Berlinale expands eastwards with new venue for 2009
The Berlinale will include Europe's largest revue theatre, the Friedrichstadtpalast, as one of its screening venues at the 2009 festival.The Berlinale plans to programme four to six screenings each day at the venue, from the Competition or Berlinale Special sections.The venue will be known as the FriedrichstadtFilmpalast during the festival ...