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The Class among seven shortlisted for Louis Delluc Prize
Seven films have been shortlisted for France's Louis Delluc Prize, one of the local industry's most prestigious awards. Among the titles is Laurent Cantet's The Class which is also France's entry for the foreign-language Oscar and was this year's Palme d'Or winner in Cannes. The other films rounding out ...
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Filmax to produce horror Exorcismus, following success of [REC]
Filmax is to produce horror film Exorcismus with Luis De La Madrid directing and The Devil's Backbone writer David Munoz working on the script.Currently at the pre-production stage, the film will explore the popular horror theme of exorcism, focusing on a young girl, Suzy, whose erratic behaviour forces her family ...
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The Class among seven films shortlisted for Louis Delluc Prize
Seven films have been short listed for France's Louis Delluc Prize, one of the local industry's most prestigious awards. Among the titles is Laurent Cantet's The Class which is also France's entry for the foreign-language Oscar and was this year's Palme d'Or winner in Cannes.The other films rounding out the ...
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Pindorama wins best film prize at Brazilian Film Festival Of Toronto
Pindorama - The True Story of the Seven Dwarves, a documentary about a family of so-called little people who run a circus, won the prize for best film at the 2nd Brazilian Film Festival of Toronto last night. Directed by Roberto Berliner, Lula Queiroga and Leo Crivellare, the film will ...
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MacLachlan, Styler join Me Without You cast
Kyle MacLachlan, Trudie Styler, Oliver Milburn and Allan Corduner have joined Anna Friel and Michelle Williams in the cast of Sandra Goldbacher's Me Without You.The story of two women's relationship is being bankrolled by Alliance Atlantis and Kinowelt's UK joint venture Momentum Pictures, erstwhile funding body British Screen and the ...
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Mannheim Meetings co-production market selects 50 film projects
The Mannheim Meetings has selected 50 projects from Europe, Canada, Latin America, and Africa for this year's edition of the co-production market for arthouse films, which runs from November 12 to 16. Almost half of the selected projects are from Western Europe including UK film-maker David Andrew Ward's wry thriller ...
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New Year's Day release for Russia's most expensive film
Russia's most expensive film, the $36.5m Inhabited Island, will be released on January 1.The New Year's Day opening comes against a background of financial difficulties which have led to other local films being delayed.'None of our projects were put on hold. We only have a couple of films in the ...
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Savage to star with Ge You in Chinese drama Gasp
US actor John Savage (The Thin Red Line) is joining Chinese star Ge You (The Banquet) in the cast of Chinese comedy drama Gasp, which is being directed by scriptwriter-turned-director Zhen Zhong. Hong Kong actress Kelly Lin, Taiwanese actor Chen Bolin and China's Liu Hua will also star in the ...
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Richard Jenkins joins Tatum, Seyfried in Relativity's Dear John
Richard Jenkins, attracting Oscar buzz for his performance in The Visitor, has joined Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried on the cast of Relativity Media's romance Dear John.Lasse Hallstrom has started principal photography in South Carolina on the project based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks, whose work has spawned the ...
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First Independent takes US rights to Aselton's Gigantic
Gary Rubin's First Independent Pictures has acquired US rights to Killer Films and Epoch Films' offbeat comedy Gigantic.Matt Aselton directed the film starring Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel as a mattress shop worker and his foul-mouthed girlfriend who try to adopt a baby. John Goodman, Ed Asner and Jane Alexander ...
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Maya to produce American Tragic to star America Ferrara
Maya Entertainment has boarded the drama American Tragic starring America Ferrera, Melissa Leo and newcomer Ryan O'Nan.Ryan Piers Williams will direct from his own screenplay about a disillusioned veteran who goes on a road trip in search of happiness. June Diane Raphael also stars. Production is set to begin in ...
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O'Shaugnessy, Bond launch production & sales outfit Mission Pictures
American Cinema International president Chevonne O'Shaughnessy and Promenade Pictures president and COO Cindy Bond have launched the faith-based production, marketing and sales company Mission Pictures.The partners plan to release six to eight films a year and have been talking to AFM buyers about the initial slate, headed by the CGI ...
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Wall-E, Panda, Bashir among 14 films on animated feature Oscar shortlist
Fourteen features will vie for the animated feature Oscar when the 81st Academy Awards are announced on February 22.The contenders are Bolt, Delgo, Dr Seuss' Horton Hears A Who!, Dragon Hunters, Fly Me To The Moon, Igor, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, $9.99, The Sky Crawlers, Sword Of ...
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Film Agency for Wales apppoints two new execs
Two executives have joined the Film Agency for WalesBBC Wales Producer Kate Crowther has been appointed production executive while Eve White, joins as Exhibition and Education Executive. Crowther produced two series of the BAFTA Cymru nominated drama Belonging and has since produced award-winning short films for network television and developed ...
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Tulpan wins highest accolade at Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Kazakhstan director Sergei Dvortsevoy's debut drama Tulpan continued its run of worldwide accolades by winning the best feature film award at the second Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) onQueensland'sGold Coast in Australia.Producer Karl Baumgartner, representing the big team of producers on the film, accepted the award.The film tells the charming ...
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UTV in talks for broadband, DTH partnerships
Leading Indian content and animation producer United Television (UTV) is in talks with a raft of local broadband players as it readies to scale up its broadband streaming service and launch four niche channels for DTH telecast.UTV is discussing plans for the move, which is expected to cost $11m, with ...
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German Federal Film Fund pays out $72.5mon 91 projects
Germany's incentive programme German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) has been so popular with local and international producers that only $ 3.8m (Euros 3m) are now left to pay out for the final two months of 2008.According to the Berlin-based fund, $72.5m (Euros 57m) of its 2008 $76.4m (Euros 60m) budget ...
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Paris Hilton, Charlotte Rampling join cast of new Solondz picture
Charlotte Rampling, Allison Janney, Ciaran Hinds and Paris Hilton have joined the cast of Werc Werk Works' upcoming Todd Solondz companion piece to his dark comedy Happiness.The 'part-sequel, par variation' to the 1998 release will also star Shirley Henderson, Renee Taylor, Michael Lerner, Michael Kenneth Williams, Chane't Johnson, Paul Reubens, ...
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here! takes on domestic rights to Lemhagen's Patrik, Age 1.5
here! Films has acquired North American rights from Svensk Filmindustri to Swedish director Ella Lemhagen's Patrik, Age 1.5.here! sister company Regent Releasing plans a limited release next summer on the adaptation of Michael Druker's stage play about a gay married couple who accidentally adopts a homophobic teenager.Patrik, Age 1.5 premiered ...
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Arthouse picks up worldwide rights to Cajori's Chuck Close
Arthouse Films has picked up worldwide rights to the late Marion Cajori's documentary Chuck Close and will release in early 2009.Arthouse will distribute through its output deals with Mongrel Media in Canada, Revolver Entertainment in the UK and Ireland, Madman Entertainment in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and on ...