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Korea's UP sells Frozen Flower to Germany and Japan
Korea's United Pictures (UP) has sold director Yu Ha's upcoming period piece A Frozen Flower to Splendid for Germany and the Benelux, and to KNTV for Japan - for a cumulative total of $1.5m at the AFM. The Japan deal was said to have been for more than $1m.Lee Tae ...
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14 projects to be pitched at Cottbus East-West co-production market
New films from Romania, Slovenia, Austria and Bulgaria are among 14 projects from 13 countries selected for presentation at this year's Connecting Cottbus East-West co-production market. The projects include Romanian filmmaker Gabriel Achim's black comedy Adalbert's Dream; first-time writer/director Martin Turk's A Gram Of Love; Alexander Hahn's 1970s drama Stopover; ...
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Men's Group takes best feature at Australia's Inside Film Awards
Men's Group , a little-seen drama about a group of troubled men who meet regularly to talk through their problems, has won best feature at Australia's annual IF (Inside Film) Awards. The producer, John L. Simpson and director Michael Joy, also won the prize for best script, and Grant Dodwell ...
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Thessaloniki opens with The Wrestler
The 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival opens today with Daren Aronofsky's The Wrestler as the opening gala film, which will be introduced by its star Evan Rachel Wood.The festival features two world premieres as well as six international and three European premieres.The festival's international jury is headed by: Canadian ...
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Oslo Film Festival to open with Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous opens the 10th anniversary edition of the Oslo International Film Festival, which runs November 16-26.Highlights at this year's event include festival favourites such as Edward Yang's A One And A Two, Karyn Kusama's Girlfight, Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count On Me, Jerzy Stuhr's The Big Animal ...
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Cottbus gives boost to German-Russian film relations
Relations between the German and Russian film industries have been given a boost at this week's FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of European Cinema.At the opening ceremony, Germany's Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier voiced his support for a German-Russian co-production treaty, saying that negotiations should be brought to a swift conclusion.He ...
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Screen opinion: animated film rises above the waves
Those whom the gods of film wish to destroy, they first declare the next big thing. Nowhere is that fact clearer than in the declaration of 'waves' - a supposed shift in audience taste.Just think back to a couple of years ago and you will recall that we were on ...
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NewsBusiness review: American Film Market
Film buyers are not easily impressed. They like to bemoan the lack of inspiring new product at markets. Their plaintive cries have been particularly loud this year and to be fair the familiar gripes that echoed through the corridors of the Loews and Le Merigot hotels at last week’s AFM ...
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Profile: Arclight Films
Gary Hamilton's Australian-US company Arclight Films is no stranger to the circuit but buyers may have detected a change in tone over recent months. Hamilton was at the AFM in Santa Monica this week with the first fruits of his new direction away from being primarily a financing and sales ...
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United States - The matchmaker
Script-to-screen project development organisation DreamAgo began life four years ago in Switzerland and still holds its core event, an annual screenwriting workshop, in a chateau in the quiet town of Sierre, close to the Swiss borders with France and Italy.But the non-profit group has always had an international mandate and ...
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United Kingdom - Plugging UK film into the digital network
In an effort to help UK film companies navigate their way through the brave new world of digital, the UK Film Council (Ukfc) has teamed up with the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) to create Take 12. It is a digital innovation programme designed to encourage ...
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Interview:Hamish Mykura, head of docs at UK's Channel 4
'Each year at Sheffield people come here prepared to bury documentaries and at the end of each year I think documentaries are in healthier shape than ever,' says Hamish Mykura, head of documentaries at Channel 4 and head of digital channel More4. 'Docs did definitely take a bit of a ...
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Profile: Ole Bornedal
Director Ole Bornedal is enjoying something of a comeback. After the success of his debut film Nightwatch in 1994, Bornedal went to Hollywood to remake the thriller with Ewan McGregor for Miramax. But the film disappointed on its release and Bornedal decided to focus on theatre work at home in ...
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Interview: Aamir Khan
When the Indian film industry selected Hindi film Stars On Earth (Taare Zameen Par) as its official entry for best foreign film for this year's Academy Awards, it was a triple celebration for Aamir Khan. A Bollywood superstar, Khan has produced, directed and acted in this drama about a dyslexic ...
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In Focus: Australia opens for film business (Part 2)
For the last few years the best Australian films have been personal and dark, limiting audience appeal, while those that have aspired to hit the mainstream have tended to miss the mark at the box office. But there is a palpable sense of excitement about a new crop of films ...
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Production - Buzz projects - In from the outback
BALIBODir: Robert Connolly. Scr: Connolly, David WilliamsonNow in post-production, the buzz from this project centres around fine performances from Anthony LaPaglia and Oscar Isaac. The drama is about the disappearance of five Western journalists in East Timor in 1975. Producer John Maynard describes Balibo as both a political thriller - ...
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Production - The names to watch
Many of Australia's most promising directors do not get enough opportunity to practise their craft on the big screen unless they head for Hollywood, as Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford) and Rowan Woods (The Boys, Little Fish, Winged Creatures) have both recently ...
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Promotional feature - Standing tall
The Encounters Short Film Festival, held November 18-23 in the UK town of Bristol, is a leading international short film event and a key hub for talent discovery. It has previously screened the first shorts from directors such as Lynne Ramsay and Simon Beaufoy."Encounters is the highlight of the shorts ...
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International - Bond's push pays off
Quantum of Solace firmly defended its position at the top of Screen's international chart, grossing $107.3m over the November 7-9 weekend, after expanding to over 10,000 engagements in 60 territories. Quantum held onto the top spot for the second week in France, Sweden and the UK, where it added $15.1m ...
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Italy - Home-Grown Heroes
For the past two years, Italy has been able to celebrate its national cinema on several fronts. Last year was a record year for local films, which grossed 31% of the overall box office, while 2008 has been a year of artistic recognition, with Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo and Matteo ...