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Cannes 2008 - Competition/Italy - Andreotti as a lethal “god” in Sorrentino's new film
2008-05-27 10:37:50As explosive as a bomb, as impetuous as a swollen river, Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo (“The Deity”) has arrived on the Croisette, the second Italian film in competition at a winding-down Cannes. Having definitively taken the path of the grotesque and hyperbolic, Sorrentino has broadened the cinematic language he previously experimented in The Family Friend to recount 40...
Institutions - Europe - Martin Moszkowicz new president of EPC
2008-06-04 14:37:18Martin Moszkowicz, of Germany-based production company Constantin Film has been elected the new president of the European Producers Club (EPC). Former President Jean Cazès has been elected vice-president. This is the first time since the EPC's founding by René Cleitman in 1993 that the association has had a non-French President. Yves Marmion, from France's UGC, resumes his duties as...
Distribution - Sweden - A dozen new pick-ups for SF
2008-06-09 12:00:10Rasmus Ramstad, CEO of Scandinavian major Svensk Filmindustri AB (SF), said that his company picked up over a dozen new titles during the Cannes Film Festival. For Scandinavia, SF acquired Terrence Malick's Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt & Sean Penn, and the sci-fi thriller Pandorum from Summit Entertainment. From Focus Features, the company acquired Milk, starring Penn; Sam Mendes's new...
Production - Italy - Avati's new film ready for Venice
2008-06-11 08:07:27Pupi Avati makes no bones about his ambitions to take part in the upcoming Venice Film Festival. “The festival has always brought me luck, I'd like to be selected,” says the director of the recent The Hideout, who has had nine films at Venice, from 1983 (A School Outing) to 2005 (La seconda notte di nozze). His new film, entitled Il papà di Giovanna (“Giovanna's...
Institutions - Denmark - Nielsen named new chairman of Think Tank
2008-06-12 05:00:06Danish Film Institute CEO Henrik Bo Nielsen has been appointed chairman of the European Think Tank on Film and Film Policy, thus replacing Anders Geertsen, during the organisation's first general assembly. Established in 2007 under the Danish initiative, with former DFI CEO Henning Camre as general manager, the European Think Tank has members in Poland, Spain, the UK, and France. Last...
Festivals - Italy - New RomeFilmFest president promises more Italian films
2008-06-14 05:00:11Gian Luigi Rondi officially took over as the new president of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, the association of the RomeFilmFest. The board of founders nominated him yesterday to replace Goffredo Bettini, creator of the festival that in October will have its third edition. Bettini cited his new position as coordinator of Walter Veltroni's Democratic Party as the reason for his resignation....
Industry - UK - New direction for British filmmakers
2008-06-16 05:00:06The Directors Guild of Great Britain (DGGB) has deregistered as a trade union and has become a not-for-profit Community Interest Company. This has been done in order to support the work of its sister charity the Directors Guild Trust. The DGGB will continue its ongoing activities of promoting directors and their work and aiding industry newcomers with an expanded programme of events,...
Production - Sweden - New fund for mainstream features
2008-06-17 05:00:08The Swedish government has approved the creation of a new production fund with a budget of around SEK 100,000 (€10.7m) for the production of mainstream Swedish features. The new production fund administered by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) is raising its budget from the existing SFI Audience-Related Support (ARS), which rewards Swedish films that have attracted big audiences in the...
Industry - Denmark - New Danish archives opened
2008-06-17 05:00:08On June 12, Danish Minister of Culture Brian Mikkelsen opened one of the world's most advanced nitrate film archives in a converted bunker in Hillerød, north of Copenhagen. The first 50 years of Danish film history, consisting of 6,800 titles - from the masterpieces of Carl Dreyer to rare documentary footage - have been distributed across 11,500 separate elements in 24,000 cans. In all, 53...
Production - France - Amalric, Frot and Lopez star in Larrieu brothers' new film
2008-06-27 05:00:04Les Derniers Jours du monde (“The Last Days of the World”), the forthcoming film by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu will have a stellar cast including Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Frot and Spanish actor Sergi López. Shooting will kick off in August. The Larrieu brothers' fifth feature traces the protagonist's sentimental and sensual journey during the last ten days before the...
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