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- Production - UK - Temple all set to Fake! it
British filmmaker Julien Temple has signed up to direct $15 million art heist film Fake! for Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME). Working off a script by Michael Kalesniko, based on the biography of art fake Elmyr de Hory, written by hoax biographer Clifford…
- Distribution - Norway - Kinofest to boost admissions
As snowflakes have started to fall on Norwegian ground, kids will no doubt flock into cinemas this Saturday to watch Walt Disney’s A Christmas Carol and several Norwegian family films, for only half the price thanks to the special Kinofest (Cinema Day)…
- Releases - UK - 1 Day in police controversy
The British independent film community is up in arms after reports that West Midlands Police have advised cinemas in Birmingham not to screen Penny Woolcock’s film 1 Day, due for a November 6 release. The film is a musical look at two rival gangs of black…
- Lux Prize - Europe - Three finalist films to screen in EU Parliament
The screening of the three films contending for this year’s LUX Prize - Eastern Plays (Bulgaria/Sweden), Storm (Germany/Denmark/The Netherlands) and Welcome (France) - started last Tuesday at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels. MEPs…
- Production - Italy - Matteo Rovere to make second film from Gli Sfiorati
The second film by Matteo Rovere, the 26-year-old director of Bad Girls (in competition at the 2008 Rome Film Festival) will be based on Gli Sfiorati, the 1990 novel by Sandro Veronesi. Set in Rome in the 1980s, the novel centres on blond, 17-year-old…
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