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Hubert Bals Fund announces $464,400 for 25 projects in 19 countries
Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) has announced $464,400 (Euros 362,500) in support to 25 film projects across 19 countries.The fund brings feature films and feature-length creative documentaries by filmmakers from developing countries closer to completion.Selected projects in 2008 include new films by acclaimed independent filmmakers Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pablo Larrain, Rodrigo ...
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UK 's F&ME secures deals to exploit catalogue across all media
Leading UK production house, Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME), has struck a series of alliances to ensure the future exploitation of its catalogue across all media. The move follows last month's announcement that their back catalogue would be handled for theatrical and DVD in the UK by indie distribution venture ...
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Cameron's Avatar set for day-date IMAX release in December 2009
James Cameron’s highly-anticipated 3D science fiction fantasy Avatar is scheduled for day-and-date release on IMAX and conventional screens on December 18, 2009. The date was announced jointly today by Twentieth Century Fox and IMAX - although the press release couched its terms by saying the two companies had ‘reached agreement ...
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Sundance, NHK name 12 finalists for International Filmmakers Award
The Sundance Institute and Japanese broadcaster NHK have announced the 12 finalists for the 2009 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award.One recipient each from Europe, Latin America, the US and Japan will be selected by members of an international jury to receive $10,000 and a guarantee from NHK to purchase Japanese TV ...
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Anna Faris to receive rising star tribute at Bahamas festival
Anna Faris will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Chopard Award rising star tribute on December 8.Faris recently starred in the hit Sony comedy The House Bunny and her credits include the Scary Movie series, Smiley Face and Lost In Translation.She will star next spring opposite Seth Rogen in ...
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Magnolia takes US rights to food industry doc Food Inc
Magnolia Pictures has picked up US rights to Participant Media's and River Road Entertainment's feature documentary Food, Inc. The film world premiered at Toronto and is due to screen at the Berlinale, with a US release scheduled for the first half of 2009. Josh Braun of Submarine Entertainment negotiated the ...
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Korea's Studio 2.0 sells film package to Rose Media in Thailand
Korea's Studio 2.0 has sealed a raft of deals led by Rose Media picking up melodrama Heartbreak Library for Thailand. The film stars Lee Dong-wook, whose TV series My Girl has raised his popularity in that country. Rose also snapped up the post-Korean War boys drama Once Upon A Time ...
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Crouching Tiger gets the Oscar nod from Taiwan
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Chinese-language audience and critics' favourite which has been wowing the festival circuit since an out of competition world premiere at Cannes this year has been named the official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award by Taiwan.The nod from Taiwan gives Crouching Tiger ...
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Sarah Polley to direct feature documentary The Stories We Tell
Sarah Polley is setting up her feature documentary debut, The Stories We Tell, one of four projects backed under the inaugural Canadian Film Centre-National Film Board of Canada Feature Documentary Program. The program launches in January 2009. The other filmmakers are veteran Canadian documentary filmmaker John Walker, Shelley Saywell, and ...
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Cole, Headly and Hutton keep up with The Joneses
Gary Cole, Glenne Headly and Lauren Hutton have joined David Duchovny, Demi Moore and Amber Heard on the cast of Echo Lake Productions' drama The Joneses.Moore and Duchovny play a seemingly perfect couple who are the envy of their neighbours and yet harbour a dark secret. Heard and up-and-coming Canadian ...
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Ivan Fila to direct Bella Luna for Eyeworks
Eyeworks Film and TV drama, the aggressive Dutch production outfit behind Oscar winner Antonia's Line, is to partner with Czech auteur Ivan Fila on new romantic comedy, Bella Luna. Fila has scripted and will direct the project, which follows twoelderly movie stars who had a torrid affair many years before ...
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AFM Briefs Nov 7
Trellis Huahn has been appointed to the newly created post of executive vice president of business affairs at Bold Films.Huahn will report directly to Bold Films' president or worldwide distribution Stephanie Denton and will play a key role in production, finance and development negotiations and will oversee all worldwide distribution ...
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Samuel Goldwyn acquires US rights to American Violet
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Uncommon Productions' American Violet starring Alfre Woodard and newcomer Nicole Beharie following its world premiere at Telluride.Director and producer Tim Disney and his screenwriter and Uncommon Productions partner Bill Haney are meeting with international buyers at AFM.Samuel Goldwyn plans a March release ...
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Voltage Pictures takes international on Seagal-starrer The Keeper
Voltage Pictures has boarded international rights to action title The Keeper starring Steven Seagal.Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment holds US video and VOD rights to the story about a Los Angeles police officer who flees South of the border after he is nearly killed by his greedy partner.He finds work ...
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Oliver Hirschbiegel's back with Angel Face at Telepool
Telepool has secured world rights, excluding German speaking territories, to Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel's new project Angel Face (working title).The adaptation of the best-selling book by Spiegel magazine author Andreas Ulrich unites Hirschbiegel with Moritz Bleibtreu, the lead actor in his 2001 psychodrama The Experiment. Principal photography on the German-Italian ...
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French blockbuster Welcome To The Sticks triumphs in Germany, Italy
Defying conventional wisdom that local comedies don't travel, Dany Boon's French mega blockbuster Welcome To The Sticks (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis) is doing a roaring trade in both Germany and Italy. The comedy - released last weekend in Germany by Prokino under the title Wilkommen Bei Den Scht'is - has ...
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Celluloid Dreams sells Let's Make Money to Ad Vitam in France
Early in the market, Paris-based Celluloid Dreams has closed a deal with Ad Vitam in France for Let's Make Money, its timely new feature-documentary about global finance and its woes. The film is directed by Erwin Wagenhofer and produced by Allegro's Helmut Grasser. Filmladen is handling its release in Austria ...
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Strand acquires US rights to Pablo Trapero's Lion's Den
Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to Pablo Trapero's Brazil-Argentina-South Korea co-production Lion's Den, which played in competition at Cannes and has been selected as Argentina's foreign language Oscar submission.The drama follows a college student who is imprisoned after being convicted for murder and discovers she is pregnant while ...
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TVA International wins StudioCanal deal for Canada
Montreal-based TVA International (TVAI) has signed a three year agreement with France's StudioCanal to handle its product across Canada. The exclusive, all-rights deal dramatically expands the Quebec company's position in Canadian feature distribution.The agreement covers more than 40 new features, including such English-language titles as Kathryn Bigelow's The Weight of ...
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Blowtorch recruits Danny Leiner for Corporate Zombie Killers
Fledgling LA-based finance and production company Blowtorch has acquired the horror comedy script The Corporate Zombie Killers and attached Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle's Danny Leiner to develop and direct.The story tells of a group of temps that try to escape a corporate office park after an outbreak ...