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3DD sells Day After Peace to Deltamac for Hong Kong3DD, which had the world premiere of Jeremy Gilley's documentary The Day After Peace in the Cannes market, has closed the first deal for the film with Deltamac for Hong Kong. The film, about the film-maker's crusade to create a world peace day, also stars Jude Law. 3DD said a number of other territories were in discussions.3DD also closed deals this week for documentary series The Art of the
AdorationDir: Atom Egoyan. Canada. 2008. 100mins.
A-Film on Cannes buying spreeA-Film Distribution has been on a Cannes buying binge. The Benelux Distributor, which is in the market again acquiting aggressively, has picked up a host of Cannes titles, including Milk (Gus van Sant, starring Sean Penn), The Other Man (Richard Eyre, starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney), Mammoth (Lukas Moodysson, starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Michelle Willia
After Dark to screen Sean Ellis' The Broken in HorrorfestAfter Dark has signed a deal with Gaumont International to screen Sean Ellis' The Broken in its upcoming Horrorfest: 8 Films To Die For.The psychological thriller premiered at Sundance earlier in the year and stars Lena Headey, Richard Jenkins, Asier Newman and Melvil Poupaud. Lene Bausager of Left Turn Films produced and Franck Chorot served as executive producer.The Broken centres on a suc
Aida Begic's Snow takes Critics Week Grand PrizeCritics Week has crowned Aida Begic's Snow with its Grand Prize.The film is a co-production from Bosnia Herzegovina, Germany, France and Iran and along with the prize also comes with a $8,000 (Euros 5,000) purse given to the director.The ensemble drama about the aftermath of the Balkan war is being handled by Pyramide International.The SACD (France's equivalent of the writers' guild) gave its prize to Moscow , Belgium by Christophe Van Rompaey.
Arthouse Films and Fortissimo sign first-look and output dealNew York and LA-based Arthouse Films has struck a first-look and output deal with Fortissimo Films, which will represent projects from Arthouse Films, Curiously Bright Entertainment and LM Media. The deal resembles a model Fortissimo has with director Jim Jarmusch. Initial titles include documentaries A Walk Into The Sea: Danny Williams & The Warhol Factory, The Cool School: The Story Of The Ferus Art Gallery and Jean-Michel Basquiat's documentary from Tamra Davis. Arthouse Films has
Ashes Of Time ReduxDir: Wong Kar-wai. Hong Kong. 1994/2008. 93mins.
Babelgum gives $187,500 to six first online fest winnersThe Babelgum Online Film Festival has announced the winners of its inaugural festival. Each winner gets ($31,250) Euros 20,000.The winning films are:Looking For Genius Award: Sotto Il Mio Giardino (Under My Garden) by Andrea Lodovichetti (Italy) Short Film Award: Officer Down by Richard Recco (US) Social/Environment Award: Withou
Bavaria Film International sales blossomBavaria Film International made Cannes sales on Doris Dörrie's Berlinale competition entry, Cherry Blossoms - Hanami was sold to Canada (Mongrel Media), Brazil (Mostra International de Cinema), India (Allience Lumière) and Russia (Maywin Media). Maywin Media also picked up Bavaria's second Berlinale competition entry, Restless by Amos Kollek as well as Let Th
Benedek Fliegauf's Womb wins Krzysztof Kieslowski awardWomb receives Krzysztof Kieslowski award Benedek Fliegauf's cloning project, also in Atelier at Cannes, takes top prize in second annual ScripTeast competition. Benedek Fliegauf's script Womb has received the second annual Krzysztof Kieslowski TVP Award for Best Eastern and Central European Script in Cannes. Special Mention went to The Witness by Polish writers Mitko Panov and Wladyslaw Pasikowski. W
Beta Films buys two new features from National LampoonNational Lampoon has sold National Lampoon's Ratko: The Dictator's Son and National Lampoon's The Legend Of Awesomest Maximus Wallace Leonidas to Beta Films.German-based Beta previously acquired two other National Lampoon films including National Lampoon's Bagboy and handles the films in Germany, Spain, Italy, and Eastern Europe. Beta has just broadened its terri
Buyers wake up to Kim Ki-duk's DreamShowbox has clinched a slew of deals headed up by Kim Ki-duk's Dream, selling to Film Sans Frontiers for France, California Filmes for Brazil, Spentzos for Greece, CP Digital for Russia, Golden Scene for Hong Kong, and Lietuvos Kinas for the Baltics. The film stars top Japanese actor Joe Odagiri as a man who dreams of Korean actress Lee Na-young's character acts out as she sleepwalks.'It's a very poetic, beautiful, and sad film that
Cannes 2008 in picturesDay 11: Laurent Cantet, Cannes prizewinnersDay 10: includes Wim Wenders, Dennis HopperDay 9: includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emily WatsonDay 8: includes Benicio Del Toro, Sharon StoneDay 7: includes Spike Lee, Julia Ormond
Cannes market reviewMaybe it was the dollar exchange rate or the rain that has dampened enthusiasm, but the Cannes market has lacked the hoped-for punch.Certainly hopes that the Marche would mark the end a run of flat markets have not materialised.But this year has not been a failure. Plenty of business was done but it was solid rather than spectacular with more than a hint of the caution that has been running through the specialty acquisitions sector.In fact, some of problems we
CBS Films buys spec script Permission from Karen McCullah LutzCBS Films has purchased the speculative script Permission from Karen McCullah Lutz, whose credits include Legally Blonde and 10 Things I Hate About You.Jaret Entertainment's Seth Jaret will Lutz will produce and Maria Faillace will oversee the comedy about marriage for CBS Films.CBS Films was established in 2007 and plans to develop, produce and ultimately distribute four to six films a year across all genres budgeted at up to $50m
ChangelingDir: Clint Eastwood. US. 2008. 141mins.
Che: Part OneDir: Steven Soderbergh. US/France/Spain. 2008. 137 mins & 131mins.
Chelsea On The RocksDir. Abel Ferrara. US. 2008. 88minsThe Chelsea hotel in New York has a global reputation as the place where artists go to enhance their notoriety. Dylan Thomas slid into alcoholic oblivion from a room at the Chelsea. Sid Vicious's girlfriend Nany Spungen died there and its portals have welcomed everyone from Arthur Miller to Andy Warhol, Charles Bukowski and Vladimir Nabokov. Director Abel Ferrara has also been a resident at the Chelsea and his modest, loosely-assembled
CJ Entertainment sells The Good, The Bad, And The WeirdKorean sales agent CJ Entertainment has reported sales on its Out of Competition film The Good, The Bad, And The Weird, directed by Kim Jee-woon. The film had its first screening yesterday in the market and sold to Splendid for Germany and Benelux. Deals to other Asian territories and the UK are pending.
CJ purrs with deals on Gu Gu, The CatKorean sales company CJ Entertainment has closed a flurry of deals led by its most recent international pick-up, Japanese drama Gu Gu, The Cat, directed by Inudou Isshin (La Maison De Himiko) and starring Koizumi Kyoko (Bayside Shakedown) and Ueno Juri (Josee, The Tiger, And The Fish). The film pre-sold to Edko for Hon
CM Entertainment takes Darabont thriller and rom-comSouth Korean buyer CM Entertainment has snapped up two films from LA-based production and sales company The Film Department - serial killer thriller Law Abiding Citizen and rom-com The Rebound.'A lot of buyers from our territory were interested. Thrillers are the trend in Korea these days, and we snapped up Law Abiding Citizen on that basis, as well as on the script
Council of Europe to host future film policy forum in KrakowThe Council of Europe will host its Film Policy Forum, Shaping Policies For the Cinema Of Tomorrow, in Krakow on Sept 11-13.The gathering will include leading film industry figures as well as politicians from across Europe, discussing how public support for film can be adapted in light of globalisation and digital technologies. Attendees will include Andrzej Wajda (guest of hounour in a panel with Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel), Eurimages president Jacques Toubon, producer
DeltaDir: Kornel Mundruczo.Hungary/ Germany 2008. 110 mins.
Demme replaces Scorsese on Bob Marley docJonathan Demme has replaced Martin Scorsese as director on Tuff Gong Pictures and Shangri-La Entertainment's Bob Marley documentary.The untitled film will be released worldwide on February 6 2010, marking the 65th anniversary of the reggae icon's birth. Fortissimo is handling international sales.The producers are in talks on a North American deal.Scorsese was preparing to direct the authorised biography after he finished work on Shine A Light but had to pull o
Demme replaces Scorsese on Bob Marley documentaryJonathan Demme has replaced Martin Scorsese as director on Tuff Gong Pictures and Shangri-La Entertainment's Bob Marley documentary.The untitled film will be released worldwide on February 6 2010, marking the 65th anniversary of the reggae icon's birth. Fortissimo is handling international sales. Shangri-La is in talks on a North American deal.Scorsese was preparing to direct the authorised biography after he finished work on Shine A Ligh
Diffusion guns for Adam Yauch's basketball docUK distributor Diffusion Pictures has acquired all UK rights to Adam Yauch's Gunnin' For That #1 Spot.The deal was struck with new sales company Oscilloscope Pictures who are handling the US and international rights. Oscilloscope is releasing the film in the US on June 27 and Diffusion will release in the UK in October 2008.The deal was struck between David Fenkel of Oscilloscope and Nick Crossley of Diffusion.
Dutch investment group buys Spitfire and merges it with HammerDutch investment group Cyrte Investments has acquired Nigel Sinclair and Guy East's LA-based Spitfire Pictures and merged it with legendary British studio Hammer to form the global entertainment company HS Media.Sinclair and East will run HS Media with Hammer co-chief Simon Oakes. HS Media is backed by $100m in equity and will initially produce six to eight films per year.The partners will aim for a wide range of commercial fare and potential awards contenders with a clea
Dvortesevoi's Tulpan triumphs in Un Certain RegardSergey Dvortsevoy's debut Tulpan has been awarded the top prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard.The jury, led by Fatih Akin, chose the film from 20 in competition, including six other first films.The film, set in the film-makers' native Kazakhstan, was rapturously received at its screening in Cannes.Screen's review described it as 'vivid, intensely enjoyable' and 'immensely charming,' Click here for full review.
Edinburgh Film Festival announces 2008's TrailblazersThe Edinburgh International Film Festival, now in June, has here in Cannes announced its new set of Trailblazers.The initiative, created with Skillset, recognizing up-and-coming talents in the UK.This year's class is:Lol Crawley, cinematographer of Better Things David Bloom, co-writer of Donkey PunchLisa Trnovskii, producer of Mum And
Elad Keidan's Anthem wins Cinefondation top awardThe Cannes Cinefondation has awarded Elad Keidan's Anthem with its top prize.The film hails from Israel's Sam Speigel Film & TV School. Each of the contenders for the Cinefondation prize comes from a film school student.This year 17 films from Asia, Europe, North and South America vied in the competition. The jury was presided over by Hou Hsiao Hsien along with Olivier Assayas, Susanne Bier, Marina Hands and Laurence Kardish.Second prize went to France's Claire Bur
Elephant Eye strikes Korean deal with Mars for Planet B-BoyElephant Eye Films has sold its breakdancing documentary Planet B-Boy to Mars Entertainment for Korea. Mars plans a theatrical release of up to 200 prints in August.Elephant Eye has also sold the film to Indonesia (Queen Films), Taiwan (Cineplex Films), and The Middle East (Prime Pictures). New York-based Elephant Eye said it also expected to close deals before the end of Cannes for the UK, Germany, France, Poland and Scandinavia.
Eleven Arts sells Man, Woman & the Wall to US-UKUS-Japanese sales agent Eleven Arts has sold US and UK rights for Masashi Yamamoto's Man, Woman & The Wall (Kikareta Onna) to TLA Releasing. Eleven Arts is handling the title for Tokyo-based producer Transformer. Billed as an erotic suspense thriller, the film stars famed adult film performer Sora Aoi as a stalked woman who begins a strange relationship with the male neighbour who lives on the other side of a thin wall.Yamamoto is well-known in indie film circles in J
Eros and Lionsgate form joint distribution ventureLionsgate has formed a wide-ranging joint venture with Indian film giant Eros International for the distribution of its own and third-party content in the booming South Asian market.The 50:50 joint venture will distribute Lionsgate library titles and new product across all platforms, including theatrical, home video, new media and TV.In addition, Lionsgate will acquire North American home entertainment rights to 20 titles from Eros, including dramas such as
Essential Entertainment takes world rights on Clive Barker's DreadJere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Clive Barker's Dread, its second collaboration with the horror guru after Book Of Blood. Anthony DiBlasi will direct the psychological thriller from his own adapted screenplay of the short story from Barker's Books Of Blood collection. Production is set to begin in July on the story of three college students who unde
F&ME strikes three-film deal with Finland's MRPThe UK's Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has struck a deal with Finland's MRP Matila Rohr Productions for three feature films over the next two years.The projects are 3D epic Underwater Iceland, psychological thriller The Debt and detective thriller The Priest of Evil.The companies previously worked together on animated title Quest For a Heart, which has now been picked up for sales by TrustNordisk. Rohr will produce Underwater Iceland 3D, an epic 3D docu
Fandango Portobello continues strong Gomorrah salesFandango Portobello sales has closed deals with eight additional territories for Matteo Garrone's competition screener Gomorrah, which has earned $4.9 million (E 3.1 million) at the Italian box office since its release a week ago.Sales have been confirmed with Spain (Alta Classics), Greece (Film Trade), Israel (Orlando), Russia (Maywin Media), Portugal (Eco Films), Colombia (Babilla), Scandinavia (NonStop), and Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay (Alfa). Prior to the G
FilmSharks sells key Latin American titlesBuenos Aires based sales company FilmSharks International has sold Rodrigo Pla's Critic's Week title The Desert Within to Distrimax for the US.Pla's second feature, following last year's Venice and Toronto award winner La Zona, is an anti-religious parable, which swept the main awards in the Mexican section of the Guadalajara film festival in March.FilmSharks has also done deals with Argentinian pr
Fine Cut/Cineclick does roaring sales on LeoneraFine Cut / Cineclick has closed a slew of deals starting with Competition film Leonera, (Lion's Den), to Halcyon for the UK, MFA+ for Germany, Alta Classics for Spain, Ad ZVitam for France, A-Film for Benelux, and AMA for Greece. Fine Cut is currently in discussions with buyers from Italy, Taiwan, and US companies. Midnight Screening thriller The Chaser has also sold to MFA+ for Germany, Hwa J
Fortissimo picks up Woo's next project 1949Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights outside China to the next project to be directed by John Woo, $40m historical epic 1949. Produced by Woo and Terence Chang's Lion Rock Production, the film is set to star Korean actress Seong Hye Gyo and hot Taiwanese actor Chang Chen, who appears in Woo's current production Red Cliff. Further casting is currently being finalised.Scripted by Wang Hui-ling (Lust, Caution), the Chinese-language project is an epic lov
Frontier Of Dawn (La Frontiere De L'Aube)Dir: Philippe Garrel. 2008. France. 108mins.
Gaga steps up to buy Reeker and sequel from CMGEd Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) has closed a two-film deal with Gaga in Japan on Dave Payne's horror titles Reeker and No Man's Land: The Rise Of Reeker.Noeltner brokered the deal with Gaga's senior executive vice president Nick Morumo. LMK also acquired Portuguese rights to Reeker.CM
Gainsbourg, Yelchin and Common among cast for Terminator SalvationCharlotte Gainsbourg, Anton Yelchin, Kate Connor, Moon Bloodgood andrapper Common have joined the cast of Halcyon Company's sci-fi epicTerminator Salvation: The Future Begins, which started production inAlbuquerque, New Mexico, on May 5.Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the leader of the humanresistance and sworn enemy of the tyrannical Skynet organisation andits army of Terminator robots. Previously announced cast membersinclude Sam Wort
Generator drops Cherry Bomb in Belfast in JulyUK production company Generator Entertainment will start a July 7 Belfast shoot for its coming of age drama Cherry Bomb. Two best friends are looking forward to a fun summer until a troubled beauty makes them compete dangerously for her affections. Newcomers Glen Leyburn and Lisa Barros d'Sa will direct from a screenplay by Daragh Carville (Middletown).
Gilliam's Doctor Parnassus sells to UK, Australia and JapanMandate International says it is continuing brisk sales in Cannes for Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, and Mandate president of international Helen Lee-Kim expects all territories to sell out by the end of the market.The biggest deals in Cannes thus far are to the UK (Lionsgate UK), Australia (Hoyts), and Japan (Showgate).Meanwhile, Parnassus is now ready to return to London to shoot miniatures and do post-produ
Goalpost takes on sales for Al-Daradji's Um-HusseinUK-based sales company Goalpost has come on board for world sales of Mohamed Al-Daradji's Um-Hussein.Al-Daradji previously made Oscar submission Ahlaam and War, Love, God and Madness. The project is being backed by the UK Film Council's Develpment Fund, Fond Sud (CNC), Screen Yorkshire's Development Fund, and the Kurdish and Iraqi Ministries of Cultur
Grammer joins Goodman in voice cast of Bunyan & BabeKelsey Grammer has joined John Goodman on the voice cast of Exodus' upcoming animated feature Bunyan & Babe that Tony Bancroft will direct with Jim Rygiel.Following a successful collaboration on Igor, Exodus Film Group will commission Sparx Animation Studios to provide the CG-animation when shoot commences in July.Bunyan & Babe is a modern take on the
Hubert Bals future remains uncertainLong-term funding arrangements for International Film Festival Rotterdam's prestigious Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) remain shrouded in doubt. The Fund supports filmmakers from developing countries. It currently has close to $1.9m (Eu1.2m) a year at its disposal. It has backed several films in official selection in Cannes this year.In 2006, the Dutch Ministry Of Foreign Affairs turned down HBF's application for funding. At the time, this was seen a simply a technical
IFC Films takes North American rights to PVC-1IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Spiros Stathoulopoulos' one-take thriller PVC-1, which premiered at Cannes last year.Merida Urquia, Daniel Paez and Alberto Zornoza star in the story, which is inspired by the real-life terrorist incident in which a rural Colombian woman was killed by a collar bomb locked around her neck.IFC's vice president of acquisitions and production Arianna Bocco negotiated the deal with Alexis
Il DivoDir/scr: Paolo Sorrentino. Italy-France. 2008. 117mins.
Imagina sells Chef's Special to 20+ territores.Nacho G Velilla's debut feature Chef's Special has been sold by Imagina sales to several key territories, including the US, on the back of its success at the Spanish box office. TLA releasing has taken rights to the family comedy for the US, Canada, UK and Ireland; Cine, Video Y TV will distribute the film in Mexico; Ringford took Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay; We&Co will distribute the film in French speaking European countries; Cine
Indiana Jones finds treasure with $269m worldwide openingParamount and Lucasfilms' Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull unearthed plenty of box office gold at the weekend, grossing an estimated $143m in the international marketplace and another $126m in North America. Though it did not break any records, Crystal Skull will, if early estimates are confirmed, end up among the industry's all-time top ten openers domestically, internationally and globally.
Indiana Jones is second biggest US Memorial Day hit everIndiana Jones' fourth outing scored the second biggest Memorial Dayholiday weekend launch in North America as Paramount's nostalgicadventure brand rang up $311.1m in worldwide ticket sales.The four-day $151.1m domestic haul has only been bettered over thesame holiday period by last year's $153m launch of Pirates Of TheCaribbean: At World's End, while $160m from international territories(Clickhere fo
Indy raids global marketplace in search of box office goldPromising impressive box office returns from a six-day worldwide opening run, Paramount's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull charges into the global marketplace this weekend, havingstarted its international roll-out on Wednesday (May 21) and arriving in North America early on Thursday (May 22).The much-anticipated sequel - with Harrison Ford returning after 19 years as the title character and Stephen Spielberg back in the direct
Inferno's The Women goes to Entertainment, Constantin, TF1Bill Johnson and Jim Siebel's Inferno Entertainment has reported a strong market and virtually sold out two of its marquee titles, comedy The Women and drama Hachiko: A Dog's Story.Inferno is also in advanced negotiations with a pan-European buyer on its uncast thriller An Unfinished Country, about a medical student who gains residency at a hospital in a violent
Involuntary (De Ofrivilliga)Dir: Ruben Östlund. Sweden. 2008. 98mins.
Jaman.com signs distribution deals with Magnolia, First LookEntertainment website Jaman.com has signed distribution deals with Magnolia Pictures and First Look Studios.Under the terms of the deal, titles from both companies will be available to rent or purchase over the internet.First Look Studios titles include The Contract starring John Cusack and Morgan Freeman, Little Fish with Cate Blanchett and My Date With Dre
Japan's SPO acquires seven-film package from Taiwan's Joint EntertainmentJapanese distributor SPO has acquired a package of seven films from Taiwan 's Joint Entertainment. The titles include Keeping Watch, Exit No. 6, Island Etude, What On Earth Have I Done Wrong'! and The Most Distant Course, which won the Critics' Week Award at Venice last year. The deal also includes two previously reported sales on titles that are being handled by Taiwan 's Three Dots Entertainment - Spider Lilies and My DNA Says I Love You. SPO was one of the first Japanese co
Jinga shows some love for Hiller's gangster storyUK-based sales company Jinga Films has taken world rights to Danny Hiller's thriller Love Me Still.Andrew Howard, Geoff Bell, Alex Reid and Tom Bell star in the story of a violent confrontation between two brothers after one is released from prison to find the other holding his wife hostage.As announced yesterday, Love Me Still will have its market premiere at the London UK Film Focus in Jun
Johnny Mad DogDir: Jean-Stephane Sauvaire. France/Liberia/Belgium. 2008. 93mins.
Jupiter picks up French-speaking territories to YasukuniJupiter Communications has picked up all rights for French-speaking territories to Li Ying's documentary Yasukuni, from Hong Kong-based sales agent The Film Library. The controversial film, about the Yasukuni shrine to worship the war dead in Tokyo, was released in Japan on May 3. It was originally scheduled to open on April 12, but was delayed because local theatres were concerned about security issues.As the film touches on the sensitive subject of Japan 's role in WWII, i
K5 introduces Visitor to Spain, Greece, Middle EastK5 International has confirmed further sales on Tom McCarthy's The Visitor. The film has now gone to Spain (Isaan), Greece (Art Free), and the Middle East (Prime Pictures). Several other deals are imminent in Cannes.The Visitor, his follow-up to The Station Agent, is produced by Groundswell and Participant. It has already taken $3.5m after six weeks' release in t
Kimmel International sells major territories on Motherhood, SynecdocheMark Lindsay's Kimmel International has closed key territories on its slate, led by Killer Films and Ideal Partners' comedy Motherhood starring Uma Thurman and Charlie Kaufman's competition entry Synecdoche, New York.Sales on Motherhood closed with Telepool (Germany), Leone (Italy), Sponge (South Korea), Nordisk (Scandinavia), Paradiso (Benelux), Sun (Latin Ameri
KnittingDir: Yin Lichuan. China. 2008. 100mins.An unlikely menage a trios drifts on the margins of legality while struggling to make a living of sorts in Yin Lichuan's deliberately reticent film. If withholdinginformation rates as an artistic achievement, then Knitting could make a mark in arthouse berths and find its way into the oddfestival. But for most this exhausting film will be a struggle.Daiping (Zhang Yi) lives with Chen Jin (Lu Yulai) when his
Koch Lorber picks up Rohmer's Astree And Celadon for North AmericaKoch Lorber has acquired North American rights from Rezo Films to Eric Rohmer's The Loves Of Astree And Celadon (Les Amours D'Astree Et De Celadon).Richard Lorber plans an autumn release in New York on the story of an illicit affair between a shepherd and a shepherdess.Koch Lorber previously acquired Rohmer's 2004 thriller Triple Agent from Wild Bunch.
Lanners' Eldorado takes Europa Cinemas Label in CannesBelgian director Bouli Lanners' Eldorado has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Directors' Fortnight section in Cannes.This marks Europa Cinemas sixth year giving the prize; last year's winner was Anton Corbijn's Control.The jury was comprised of four exhibitors: Christine Beauchemin-Flot (France); Maeve Cooke (Ireland); Mark Vluggen (The Netherlands) and Svantje Wascher
Laurent Cantet's The Class takes Palme d'OrLaurent Cantet's The Class (Entre Les Murs) has taken this year's Palme d'Or.The film is a Paris classroom drama-documentary based on a novel by Francois Begaudeau, who playsa teacher in the filmworking in a tough Parisian neighbourhood.Screen's four-star review describes it as offering 'a rich microcosm of today's multi-ethnic French population.'Click here to see full review.
Liberation acquires North American rights to Tokyo!Liberation Entertainment has acquired North American rights to triptych Tokyo! in which Michel Gondry, Bong Joon-ho and Leos Carax direct three short films about the Japanese capital. The film played in Un Certain Regard here.The deal was negotiated by Rob Williams for Liberation and Laurent Baudens for sales agent Wild Bunch, and Liberation is planning a theatrical release in 2008. Liberation was launched in 2006 by entrepreneur J
Liberation takes US rights to Just BuriedLiberation Entertainment has picked up US rights from Submarine Entertainment to Chaz Thorne's horror tale Just Buried.The fledgling distributor plans an autumn release for the Trilogy Entertainment and Standing 8 Productions film, which premiered at Toronto last year.Jay Bucharel and Rose Byrne star in the story of a man who inherits his father's funeral home and discovers that the attractive mortician is killing people to keep th
Lionsgate picks up Adam Sachs' satireLionsgate has picked up worldwide rights to Adam Sachs' satiricalscript Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.The story charts the unlikely friendship between an alcoholicmiddle-aged reporter and an outspoken teenage boy who bond whilefinding themselves somehow pitted against a group of fanaticalprotesters.Brooklyn Weaver of Energy Entertainment will produce along with ToddGarner of Broken Road Productions. Sean Robins found the project for Broken
Little Magic conjures up Kikuchi dealNew York-based Little Magic Films has secured a deal to represent the works of best-selling Japanese cult novelist Hideyuki Kikuchi for English-language film and TV live-action adaptations. Little Magic president Kiki Miyake will work with Tokyo-based Japan Digital Contents Trust (JDCT) to handle the rights. Miyake will also serve as executive producer on adaptations of the Kikuchi titles. Often compared to Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft, Kikuchi has published more than 100 vo
LiverpoolDir: Lisandro Alonso. Argentina-Netherlands-France. 84mins
London UK Film Focus to screen 40 filmsThe fifth London UK Film Focus (LUFF), to run June 30-July 3 at the BFI Southbank.More than 40 films to screen include Shadows In The Sun, Abrahams Point, Hush Your Mouth, Love Me Still and Jack Says. The Breakthrough strand returns for a third year to introduce projects from UK film-makers who don't have sales agents yet. Selections for that section include Lesley Manning's
Los BastardosDir: Amat Escalante. Mexico. 2008. 90min.
Lucky Red picks up Italian rights to I Love You Phillip MorrisIncreasingly ambitious Italian production and distribution outfit Lucky Red has announced two of its biggest pick-ups yet.Lucky Red has taken Italian rights to I Love You Phillip Morris, the black comedy starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. 'If the date is not too packed, we are going to go on 14th February, Valentine's Day,' Lucky Red's President Andrea Occhipinti said of release plans for the film, which is on EuropaCorp's slat
Madonna's Filth And Wisdom sells to Germany, Australia, ScandinaviaLA-based Katapult has sold Madonna's Filth And Wisdom to Ascot Elite in Germany, Kojo in Australia, Pan Vision in Scandinavia, Hollywood in Greece and MCF in the former Yugoslavia.Drama The Caller, which premiered in Tribeca last month, has sold to Hollywood in Greece, which also took Death In Love.Australia's Kojo also acquired
Maradona By KusturicaDir: Emir Kusturica. France-Spain. 95mins.
McQueen's Hunger lands in US with IFC FilmsIFC Films has acquired US rights to Steve McQueen's Maze Prison drama Hunger starring Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham.The film, whichopened Un Certain Regard at Cannes, interprets events during the 1981 hunger strike by incarcerated IRA terrorists led by Bobby Sands. Enda Walsh wrote the screenplay.Laura Hastings-Smith and Robin Gutch of Blast! Films produced for Film4 in association with Northern Ireland Screen, the Broadcasting Commission Of Ireland and
Medavoy's Phoenix to make film of Grisham's Playing For PizzaMike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures will adapt John Grisham's sports romance Playing For Pizza about a washed-up American football star who joins a team of semi-pros in Italy.Medavoy, whose credits include Zodiac, Holes and the in-production Shanghai, will produce with colleagues Arnie Messer and David Thwaites.Grisham is represented by longtime editor-ag
Memento makes further deals on The ClassMemento continues their selling spree with Laurent Cantet's competition film The Class going to Israel (United King), Korea (Jin Jin) and Switzerland (Filmcoopi). The company is in negotiations with the US, Taiwan, Austria and Australia. Ursula Meier's Home has gone to the UK (Soda), India (Alliance), Italy (Teodora), Portugal (Atalanta) and Greece (Rosebud) with offers from the US, Japan and Spain. Un Certain Regard title Wendy And Lucy has sol
Memento on top of The ClassLaurent Cantet's competition film, The Class, is doing brisk business for Memento Films International which is handling sales. Deals have thus far concluded in Italy (Mikado), Benelux (Cineart), Spain (Golem), Greece (Ama), Brazil (Imovision) and Ex-Yugoslavia (Megacom). Offers have come in from the US, Japan, Australia, Switzerland, Israel, Scandinavia and Argentina, according to Memento. The film has its official screening on Saturday.
Met Film student shoots Kenya-based NduguAman Sahota, a student at London's Met Film School, has just finished the Kenya-based shoot for her short film Ndugu (Brother). Fellow students Judy Tjin, Michael Ghelfi and Ricardo Nunes assisted with the shoot.Kenya-born Aman wrote, directed, shot and co-produced the film about two friends from different tribes. She wrote the project long before the recent election. Two local farmers, Njenga Stanley Kang'ua and Mwangi
Metrodome rushes in for Korea's The ChaserUK distributor Metrodome, which earlier this week struck a deal with backer Media Pro, has taken all UK rights to Korean crime thriller The Chaser. The deal was brokered between Metrodome's general manager - home entertainment Tom Stewart and CEO Peter Urie with and EJ Cho Cho of Fine Cut. Metrodome will release the film later in 2008.The film has already sold more than 4m tickets in Korea and Warner Bros is planning the English-la
Metrodome takes all UK rights to Danish hit Flame & CitronUK distributor Metrodome continues its Cannes deals by taking all UK rights to Flame & Citron from The Match Factory.Ole Christian Madsen directs the film, based on a true story. Mads Mikkelsen and Thure Lindhart star. The film is one of Denmark's largest productions ever, budgeted at Euros 8m, and has already been a box-office hit there, with more than 640,000 admissions.The story follows two World War II resistance fig
Metrodome takes UK rights to The Chaser from Fine CutUK distributor Metrodome, which earlier this week struck a deal with backer Media Pro, has taken all UK rights to Korean crime thriller The Chaser. The deal was brokered between Metrodome's general manager - home entertainment Tom Stewart and CEO Peter Urie with and EJ Cho Cho of Fine Cut. Metrodome will release the film later in 2008.The film has already sold more than 4m tickets in Korea and Warner Bros is planning the English-lan
MK2 add sales for 24 CityMK2 has announced sales on Jia Zhang Ke's 24 City .Deals were closed on the official Cannes competition film in the UK with New Wave, Benelux with Cineart, Greece with Seven Group, Korea with With Cinema, Portugal's Atalanta, Ex-Yugoslavia's Megacom and Austria's Stadtkino.MK2 said that negotiations were pending in Brazil and Russia. The generational drama stars Joan Chen, Lu Liping and Zhao Tao.
MK2 finds sales rhythm with RumbaMK2 has announced its mid-market sales with comedy Rumba , from directors Adel, Gordon and Romy selling to the UK (Sound and Media), Benelux (Cineart), Germany and Switzerland (X Verleih), Portugal (Pantheon), Japan (Shibata Organisation), Korea (Mars Ent) and Poland (Vivarto). The film is in Critics' Week. The $25m The True Story Of Puss 'N Boots by Pascal Herold, Jerome Deschamps and Macha Makaieff sold to Spain (Wide), Korea (Yejilm Ent), Israel (Shoval), Portugal (VC Med
Morena Films announce two new filmsSpanish outfit Morena Films will shoot two comedies later this year, Bon Appetit and Neon Flesh.David Pinillos' $4.7m debut film Bon Appetit, about three young cooks who share their passion for cooking in a Swiss avant garde restaurant, stars two exciting young actors, Unax Ugalde, from competition title Che and Nora Tschirner (Rabbit
Moviehouse strikes El Cantante deals; picks up three new filmsMoviehouse has now sold Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony starrer El Cantante to the UK (Revelation), France (Opening), Australia (Force), Spain (Isaan), Scandinavia (NonStop), and Benelux (Three Lines), and is in active negotiations Japan, Italy and Germany.The project was previously handled by Voltage and has been with Moviehouse since AFM.In other North American deals, Moviehouse has sold Toni Harman's supernatural horror film
Moxie Makers narrows Big Pitch to six finalistsLow-budget UK studio Moxie Makers has announced the final six feature projects in its Big Pitch competition which comes with a $500,000 prize.The projects are Red Sleigh Down from writers Ian Gilbertson and Stephen Atherton; Different Shades Of Graham from Brad Watson, Keith Lynch, David T Lynch (writer/directors) and Simon Thomas (producer); Til Jihad Do Us Part
Music Box Films takes US rights to Mouret's Shall We KissNew US distributor Music Box Films has acquired all US rights from TF1 to Emmanuel Mouret's romantic comedy Shall We Kiss and plans a late summer release.Mouret wrote, directed and co-stars in the film, which stars Virginie Ledoyen, Julie Gayet, Michael Cohen, Frederique Bel and Stefano Accorsi. Music Box partner William Schopf brokered the deal with TF1's Dimitri Stephanides.Music Box' slate includes Guillaume Canet's
My MagicDir: Eric Khoo. Singapore, 2008. 75 min.Eric Khoo's films are an acquired taste, and he hasn't moved much past the festival circuit since 12 Storeys emerged internationally in 1997. Exposing My Magic to the noise and attention of the Cannes competition doesn't particularly benefit either this film or the festival, although needless to say Singapore is delighted to have its first film in Competition. Hidden in one of the Cannes' more obscure corners (a singl
Naomi Kawase unveils ambitious plans for new Japanese festivalFilm-maker Naomi Kawase has unveiled plans to launch the Nara International Film Festival.Kawase - whose The Mourning Forest won the Cannes 2007 Grand Prix - is chairing non-profit organisation The Nara International Film Festival Planning Committee and is lobbying for funds for a major event through the federal government's $24.2m (Y2.5b) 'Regional Business Stimulation Initiative' which commenced this year.The festival aims to launch an annual e
Network takes all UK rights to 4 Cannes titles including Soi CowboyUK-based distributor Network has taken all UK rights to four new titles in Cannes.They are Afterschool, Rumba, Soi Cowboy, and (as reported separately) Tony Manero.Antonio Campos' Afterschool, in Un Certain Regard, was sold by The Coproduction Office. The film is about a young American student who captures the tragic death of two classmates on camera.
New Wave takes on Un Certain Regard winner TulpanRobert Beeson and Pam Engel's new UK distribution company New Wave Films has taken on yet another Cannes title: Tulpan.New Wave acquired all UK rights for Tulpan from sales company The Match Factory on Friday night. Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan then won the top prize in Un Certain Regard on Saturday.The film is a co-production of Germany, Switzerland, K
New Yorker gives home to 3 MonkeysNew Yorker Films has acquired US rights to Nuri Bilge Ceylan's competition title 3 Monkeys from Pyramide International.Sales have also been completed on the well-reviewed film to the UK (New Wave Cinema), Canada (Mongrel Media), Italy (Bim), Columbia (Cine Columbia), Benelux (Imagine), Greece (Rosebud), Portugal (Atalanta), Italy (BIM), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), CIS/Baltics (Maywin), India (Alliance Lumiere), Indonesia/Singapore/Malaysia/Vietnam (Suraya Filem), Ex-Yugosl
New Zealand introduces 40 per cent grant for its own filmsFeature films with significant New Zealand content got a big boost in the country's 2008 budget today with the government pledging to give back 40 per cent of what is spent in NZ on production from July 1 this year. Expenditure must exceed $3.93m (NZ$5m) to qualify for the new Screen Production Incentive Fund (SPIF) and a cap of $4.7m (NZ$6m) applies to the grant. This means that as a film's budget climbs higher than $11.79m (NZ$15m) the grant gets progressively less as a percentage of th
Number of countries represented at Cannes market tops 100The Cannes Market had increased attendance this year up 2% over last year with a significant jump in the number of countries represented. There were 101 countries at the market as compared to 92 in 2007. For market review click hereNew faces came from Algeria, Burkina Faso, Guatemala, Jordan, Macedonia and Palestine. Seventy more screenings were held this year as compared to last for a record of 1,604 with 36% bei
O' HortenDir: Bent Hamer. 2008. Norway. 90mins.
Ocean FlameDir: Liu Fendou. Hong Kong. 2008. 130minThis over-stylized tale of mad love Hong Kong-style, featuring gangsters and copious sex and nudity, plays like a more modest but no less ambitious companion piece of sorts to last year's steamy Lust, Caution. Tailored for a western audience, its visual compositions and hints of surrealism should bring it a receptive response atfestivals although its long running time will limit prospects on the art house ci
Palermo ShootingDir: Wim Wenders. Germany-Italy-France. 2008. 124 mins.Wim Wenders muses on love, death and his perennial bugbear, the 'Crisis of the Image' in The Palermo Shooting, a metaphysical thriller cum philosophical essay that marks another step on the downwards slope for this once-vital film-maker. Unwisely cast, leadenly written and ultimately farcical in its earnestness, The Palermo Shooting is a glossy travelogue-thriller with metaphysical pretentions, an
Palm Tree sells Moffat's Seven Crosses To ThailandPalm Tree Entertainment has sold Robbie Moffat's Seven Crosses to Sahamongkolfilm in Thailand.Also, three Japanese buyers -- Medalion, 9 Miles and Take-Shobo -- have each bid on a catalogue of Moffat titles including Dark Side Of Heaven, Winter Warrior, Bonehunter and Axe Raiders. As previously reported Palm Tree is now handling sales on its first fil
Parking (Ting Che)Dir: Chung Mong-hong. Taiwan, 2008. 112 min.A man is rushing back home to his wife but a double-parked car blocks his way. He searches in vain for the driver and encounters a variety of persons who cannot or do not want to help him. When he finally gets home the next morning, he is a different person - not only because he is adorned with a gigantic black eye, but because he has learned to see the world differently.Moving confidently from one episode to th
Paul Bateman Davis-Miller named svp at Peace ArchPaul Bateman Davis-Miller has been appointed to the newly created post of senior vice president of US distribution and development at Peace Arch Entertainment.Davis-Miller will be based at the company's Marina Del Rey offices in California and reports to Peace Arch Entertainment Group president and COO John Flock in Los Angeles and president of US distribution Mark Balsam in New York.He joined Peace Arch Entertainment in 2005 as senior vice president of domestic sales and
PorchLight sells War Child to France, Turkey, RomaniaPorchLight Entertainment has sold Christian Karim Chrobog's Tribeca audience award winner War Child to Pretty Pictures in France and Belgium, D Productions in Turkey and MPI in Romania.The documentary follows former child soldier turned hip hop star Emmanuel Jal as he returns to his native Sudan.Red Ant acquired Australian rights to Running The Sahara, Secre
Private Lessons (Eleve Libre)Dir: Joachim Lafosse. Belgium-France. 2008. 105mins.Reunited with the same co-writer, the same crew and many of the same themes he explored in his 2006 Venice competion entry Private Property (Nue Propriete), buzzy Belgian auteur Joaquim Lafosse crafts another original, disturbing work which fails however to scale the same dramatic heights as that impressively tight chamber piece.Once again, volatile male adolescence and adult irresponsibility
Relativity Media looks to tie up international partners in CannesRelativity Media chief Ryan Kavanaugh is attempting to step into the void left by the demise of New Line International and is closing long-term partnerships in major territories here.The network will channel a high-octane slate of commercial fare that currently features new work from Lasse Hallstrom, Keanu Reeves, Jet Li and Tobey Maguire.Mandate International will service the deals and handle sales in remaining key territories on most of the initial 16 projects and has c
SanguepazzoDir: Marco Tullio Giordana. Italy-France. 2008. 148mins .A grandly-mounted but turgid prestige piece, Wild Blood attempts to give tragic heft to the lives of two of Italian cinema's more disreputable figures. Writer-director Marco Tullio Giordana won considerable kudos in 2003 with The Best Of Youth, but Wild Blood is a creakily traditional, anonymous World War II drama. Its story of right-wing figures laid low may garner some moderate international
Screen Gems promotes Glenn Gainor to head of physical productionScreen Gems has promoted Glenn Gainor to head of physical production as it ramps up production to approximately eight titles a year.Gainor will report to Gary Martin, the president of production administration for Columbia Pictures, and will oversee all Screen Gems films from pre-production onwards.He recently oversaw production on Screen Gems' upcoming Lakeview Terrace starring Samuel L Jackson and
Shoreline takes on sales for Your Name HereMorris Ruskin's LA sales company Shoreline Entertainment has boarded Your Name Here starring Bill Pullman, Taryn Manning, Traci Lords and M Emmet Walsh.Pullman plays a sci-fi author who has a stroke and wakes up in one of his novels. The film will premiere at CineVegas next month.Shoreline's Ruskin, Brandon Paine and Sam Eigen brokered the deal with Mark Burman, Eric Ricart and Wali Razaqi.Shoreline financed the acquisi
SILVERDOCS announces 2008 programmeJames Marsh's Man On Wire, Karim Chrobog's War Child and Yung Chang's Up The Yangtze are among the anticipated highlights of the SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, set to run in the Washington DC area from June 16 to 23.As previously announced, Adrian Wills' All Together Now and JohnWalter's Theatre Of War bookend the festival, which will screen 108films from 63 countries culled from 1,861 submissions.T
Snow (Snijeg)Dir: Aida Begic. Bosnia and Herzegovina-Germany-France. 2008. 99mins.
Soothsayer sees Emilia Fox; AV Pictures to handle salesProducers Paul Cowan and Chris Wheeldon of Territorial Film Developments (TFD) have cast Emilia Fox (Flashbacks of a Fool) as the lead in Richard Blanshard's supernatural thriller Soothsayer.The project will shoot this summer. The cast also includes Tehya Hadley, Thekla Reuten, Kate Atkinson and John Standing.Barry Langley wrote the script about a mysterious visitor to an English country manor, where forces hope to take over the mind of an innocent 7-year-old.Cow
Spall and Broadbent join Sheen in The Damned UnitedTimothy Spall and Jim Broadbent have joined the cast of Tom Hooper's The Damned United, which starts principal photography on Sunday May 25. As reported Michael Sheen takes the lead role as legendary football manager Brian Clough, and Spall will play his right hand man Peter Taylor while Broadbent plays Sam Longson.Backers are BBC Films, Columbia Pictures and Screen Yorkshire. Sony Pictures Entertainment has worldwide rights.The project has been developed by A
Spike Lee shoots for Michael Jordan documentaryInveterate sports fan Spike Lee is hatching a new feature documentaryabout basketball legend Michael Jordan. The project should be ready intime for next year's Cannes Festival.Lee's Jordan project is the latest in a line of high-profile auteurdriven sports docs, following on from James Toback's Tyson, about boxerMike Tysson, and Hand Of God, Emir Kusturica's film about DiegoMaradona.Lee announced the Michael Jordan project in Cannes after apress conference to promote his
Summit Entertainment to remake 1986 hit HighlanderSummit Entertainment will remake the 1986 sci-fi thriller Highlander and has hired Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway to adapt the story of battling immortals who pursue a mysterious prize.Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery starred in the original. Peter Davis, one of the original producers, who also produce the new version after Summit acquired rights from Davis/Panzer Productions.Summit holds worldwide rights b
Sundance Channel picks up US TV rights to Madonna Malawi docSundance Channel has acquired US television rights to I Am Because We Are, Madonna's documentary about the impact of the AIDS pandemic on Malawi.Senior vice president of acquisitions, scheduling and programme planning Christian Vesper negotiated the deal with CAA.Madonna is featured in the film which was directed by Nathan Rissman.
SurveillanceDir:Jennifer Lynch. US. 2008. 98mins.
Synecdoche, New YorkDir/scr: Charlie Kaufman. US. 2008. 124mins.
Telepool picks up The VolcanoMunich-based Telepool has acquired international rights to The Volcano, a joint production from the producers of teamWorx (Nico Hofmann) and RTL. Budgeted at $14m (9m Euros), the two-parter is the second joint project from RTL and teamWorx after Storm Tide, which attracted 11 million TV viewers in early 2006. Uwe Janson is to direct. The cast includes Yvonne Catterfeld, Katja Riemann and Katharina Wackernagel, Heiner Lauterbach and
Terence Davies back at the BFITerence Davies is again BFI-bound. The revered British director made his first features (including The Trilogy, Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes) under the auspices of the British Film Institute's now defunct production arm. Now, his latest film, Of Time And The City, screening in official selection in C
TF1, Moviemax Italia land on Planet 51HandMade Films International has closed out two further major territories on animated film Planet 51, with TF1 picking up France and Moviemax Italia taking Italy. The only major territories yet to be sold are Germany and Japan.Deals were negotiated by Carl Clifton of HFI, Moviemax Italia's Guglielemo Marchetti and Fabio Spinella, and Sara May for TF1.The Ilion Studios' CGI animation, budgeted at around $60m, is due for completion i
The Class (Entre Les Murs)Dir: Laurent Cantet. France. 2008. 128mins.
The Headless Woman (La Mujer Sin Cabeza)Dir/scr: Lucrecia Martel. Argentina-Spain-France-Italy. 2008. 87mins.
The Pleasure Of Being RobbedDir: Josh Safdie. US. 2008. 68mins.A glance at the multi-tasking names in the credits is enough to show just how homemade New York film-maker Josh Safdie's debut film is. And at just 68 minutes, it challenges the definition of full-length feature. But it would be a shame to hold either limitation against it, as The Pleasure Of Being Robbed is a charming indie title, suffused with the spirit of the French New Wave of the early sixties and possessed of a quirky like
The Rest Of The Night (Il Resto Della Notte)Dir/scr: Francesco Munzi. Italy. 2008. 103mins.Frederico Munzi lives up to the promise he showed in his debut Saimir with this dark multi-linear drama-thriller set amongst Italy's new immigrant underclass. It's a timely theme given the ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration by the country's recently elected centre-right government. But this gritty, issue-raising film is also a good advertisement for Munzi's growing maturity as a director and screenwriter.
The Stranger In Me (Das Fremde In Mir)Dir: Emily Atef. Germany. 2008. 99mins.One of the most powerful surviving social taboos - a mother's rejection of her new-born baby - is turned into a small but resonant drama in Emily Atef's second feature, which was one of the highlights of this year's Critic's Week in Cannes. With a subject (and budget) that might have made for a worthy TV drama, The Stranger In Me is lifted by a finely-structured script of surprising thematic depth, a sure feel for cinematic c
TLA picks up North American rights to Gutterballs, Chef's SpecialTLA Releasing has picked up a slew of titles including North American rights on the 80s slasher movie Gutterballs.Ryan Nicholson's feature will be released through TLA's Danger After Dark label.TLA's vice president of acquisitions Jennifer Arndt-Johns finalised the deal at Cannes with DC Medias president David Cholewa.The company has also acquired North American and UK rights from Imagina International Sales to Nacho G
Toei tastes success with Flavour Of HappinessJapanese seller Toei has closed a slate of deals including Flavour Of Happiness to Zootrope Films for France and Emphasis for Hong Kong. The film stars Tatsuya Fuji (Bright Future) as an aging Chinese chef and Miki Nakatani (Memories of Matsuko) as the office lady who frequents his small restaurant and eventually becomes his apprentice.
Tony Manero dances along with five more deals for Funny BalloonsParis-based sales company Funny Balloons has struck five more deals on Pablo Larrain's Directors' Fortnight title Tony Manero.The film has sold in Cannes to the UK (Network), Italy (Ripley's Film), Australia/New Zealand (Vendetta) and Brazil (Imovision). As previously reported, Sophie Dulac Distribution pre-bought French rights.The Chile/Brazil co-production is about a serial killer in 1978 Santiago who loves disco. Tony Manero mar
Tropical Storm stirs for Iceland hit AstropiaAstropia, the biggest box-office hit in Iceland last year beating all the Hollywood blockbusters, is now being handled for world sales by Amsterdam-based sales outfit Tropical Storm Entertainment.Julius Kemp and Ingvar Thordarson of the The Icelandic Film Company produced the project. Its last Cannes market screening is today at 1730 in Palais B. The adventure comedy is directed by first-timer Gunnar B Gudmundsson and stars former Miss Iceland
TrustNordisk racks up sales for projects including Mammoth, Dark FloorsAt its first Cannes as a joint operation, TrustNordisk has reported multiple sales on its Cannes slate. Deals closed include Dark Floors to Japan (Presidio Corporation) and Germany (MIG), Go With Peace Jamil to Portugal (Pantheon), The Green Butchers to Hungary (Cirko), and Heaven's
TulpanDir: Sergei Dvortsevoi. Germany-Switzerland-Kazakhstan-Russia-Poland. 2008. 100 mins.
Two LoversDir: James Gray. US. 2008. 100mins.
Typhoon whips up pre-salesJapan's Nippon Television Network Corp. (NTV) has done a raft of pre-sales on Takashi Kaneshiro starrer K-20 and typhoon disaster film 252. K-20 sold to Tiberius for Germany, Festive Film for Singapore, and M Pictures for Thailand. Based on the original story by Kitamura Soh, K-20 featured Kaneshiro as a legendary phantom thief with 20 faces. Matsu Takako and Nakamura Toru also star.The film is being directed by Sato Sh
UK's New Wave continues Cannes deals with Egoyan's AdorationPam Engel and Robert Beeson's new UK distribution company New Wave Films continues a busy Cannes by acquiring UK rights to Atom Egoyan's Competition entry Adoration.Charlotte Mickie at Maximum Films International is selling the film. Sony Pictures Classics has already taken rights for the US and several other territories.The Canadian production is about an adolescent boy who reinvents himself online but draws the attention of the au
UK's New Wave moves into 24 CityRobert Beeson and Pam Engel's new UK distribution company New Wave Films has acquired Cannes Competition entry 24 City directed by Jia Zhangke.The film is sold by MK2. Beeson and Engel set up New Wave earlier this year after being long-time art-house distributors at Artificial Eye.'We are very pleased to be able to release the new film from a director whose first three films we distributed originally, and to renew a relationship wi
VersaillesDir: Pierre Schoeller. 2008. France. 113min.
Visual Factory seals deals on MathildeUK-based sales company Visual Factory has taken on world sales for Nina Mimica's Mathilde, and English-language pan-European co-production starring Jeremy Irons.Buyers lining up include Australia (Vendetta), Benelux (Films de l'Elysee), India (UTV), Hungary (Best Hollywood), and Greece (Videorama). Jeremy Irons plays a British UN officer in Croatia who falls for a local young girl, changing his neutral perspective. Kusturica regula
Voltage does big business on 100 Feet, Love N DancingVoltage Pictures has closed numerous territory sales on the thriller 100 Feet starring Famke Janssen, which is now completed, and romance Love N' Dancing with Amy Smart and Tom Malloy.Rights to 100 Feet went to Universum for German-speaking Europe, Antena Tres (Spain), Quality (Mexico), Ukraine DVD (CIS), Culture Makers (South Korea), Flashstar (Brazil), Dutch Fi
Warlords conquers more territories including India, BrazilHong Kong-based Media Asia Distribution has sealed several more deals on Peter Ho-sun Chan's The Warlords, including the sale of Indian rights to Palador Pictures. The war epic, starring Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro, also went to Rialto for Australia, Imagem for Brazil and Dutch Filmworks for Benelux.Rialto also acquired Australian rights to Dante Lam's action title The Sniper and Soi Cheang's The Assassins. Palador has also acquired 20 library titles
Warner Bros takes Spanish rights to How To Lose FriendsWarner Bros has acquired Spanish rights to Robert Weide's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People from Intandem.The comedy, based on Toby Young's book of the same name, stars Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst and Jeff Bridges. MGM has struck a deal for North America and Paramount for the UK. Both will releases will kick off Oct 3.London-based Intandem Films structured the finance for the film and handles sales duties.
Warner Bros, Overbrook to remake Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tisWarner Bros Pictures has acquired remake rights from Pathe to the French blockbuster Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis (aka Welcome To The Shticks) for Will Smith and his Overbrook Entertainment to produce. Pathe International will handle the sales rights to the film.James Lassiter, Smith and Ken Stovitz will produce for Overbrook with Agnes Mentre; Lynn Harris is overseeing for Warner Bros.The film
WCF to fund restoration of Bergman's private archivesThe World Cinema Foundation and the Ingmar Bergman Foundation are supporting a joint project to preserve, restore and reveal rare behind-the-scenes footage from Bergman's archive.Martin Scorsese's WCF will fund the restoration, editing, and commentary of more than 14 hours of behind-the-scenes footage for a total of 18 Ingmar Bergman titles. In addition to footage of his work, there are also scenes of his private life.The titles include S
Wendy And LucyDir: Kelly Reichardt. US. 2008. 80mins.
Wide Management adopts Les EnfantsLoic Magneron's Wide Management has acquired Les Enfants De Don Quixotte (Acte 1). The film is a special Critics' Week selection directed by Ronan Denec, Augustin Legrand and Jean-Baptiste Legrand and co-produced by Mathieu Kassovitz. The company has also had continued success with Sandrine Bonnaire's Her Name Is Sabine which has sold to Viv
Wide Management catches Gold FeverWide Management has acquired a new film by Marc Barrat entitled Gold Fever for international sales. Produced by Mat Films' Richard Magnien, the film will be released by Rezo Films in France. Set in French Guyana, the story follows Rod who returns to his native country, accompanied by Gonz, his childhood friend. In Cayenne, they begin an investigation into Rod's past that leads them right into the heart of the virgin forest and the camps of the illegal gold prospectors. Barrat
Wild Bunch Concert finds right pitch for the WeinsteinsWild Bunch has sold Radu Mihaileanu's The Concert to The Weinstein Company. The deal marks the third time that a French film has been pre-sold to the US for over $1mn, noted Wild Bunch's Vincent Maraval. The $21m Concert focuses on a former conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra who was sacked during the communist era for refusing to fire the Jewish players. Still working in the orchestra's theater as a janitor, he stumbles upon a faxed invitation for th
XDC announces studio backing for 8,000 digital screens planThe rollout of digital cinema in Europe has taken a big step forward with news that digital cinema equipment and services company XDC has signed agreements with four studios fordeployment of8,000 digital screens.The non-exclusive agreements with Warner Bros, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox and Disney offer exhibitors across Europe an alternative to the single existing large-scale, studio-backed scheme from Arts Alliance Media.Until now, Europe has been stuck in a rut with exhib
Zentropa launches Young Europeans production schemeDanish powerhouse Zentropa has launched a new pan-European production initiative.Zentropa's partners are Young Europeans - as the initiative is called - aims to make eight films over a two year period. Budgets of each film will be in the $2.5m (1.5m Euros) range. The partners include IDTV in Holland, Slot Machine in France, uj Budapest in HBungary, Ripple World Pictures in Ireland, heimatfilm in Germany, STI Studio in Poland and Sigma Film in Scotland. The rights will be
Zentropa plans new features with Per FlyZentropa producer Ib Tardini is plotting two new features with Per Fly (the director of The Inheritance and Manslaughter). First off is $4m drama The Woman That Dreamed About A Man (working title.)Reflecting Zentropa's new-found European focus, it will shoot in Berlin, Paris and Warsaw. It tells the story of a woman who dreams about a man


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Foster's Daily Democrat Joins the List!
This weekend, Team Guinta was honored to receive the endorsement of Foster's Daily Democrat. This marks the 25th straight week of endorsement releases, dating all the way back to the first week in March.
In their endorsement, there were several reasons offered for their support of Frank Guinta's candidacy, two of which are highlighted below:
"Guinta's campaign is not one of protest. It is one of ideas. It is one of sum and substance."
"The political left and right in Congress are at loggerheads because they have pledged allegiance to the party; not to the cause of good government. While Guinta is a conservative to our liking, he has a temperament suited to the job that welcomes those with other views into the room for an intelligent conversation."
Frank Guinta released the following statement:
"I am honored to receive this endorsement and believe it was given because our team has always sought to distinguish ourselves from the competition by running a campaign focused on finding the better solution; not the right or left solution. As Mayor, I worked with a board comprised primarily of democrats to pass tax cuts, reduce spending and balance budgets. This is the same mind set I brought to Washington, when I worked with a Democrat Senate and President to pass three pieces of legislation I authored. And I always looked for pragmatic solutions without betraying our core principles. As your next Representative, I will continue the fight to put your interests ahead of all others."

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We go to the movies for lots of reasons: to experience emotions we don't normally face on a day to day basis; to interact, if indirectly, with characters who are usually outside or just barely within our frame of personal reference; to laugh; to cry; to be frightened; to be pushed to the edge of our seat. But one of the main reasons we park our behinds in the often uncomfortable confines of the local Cineplex is to see something we'd never see in real life: zombies amassing against the last holdouts of humanity; boy wizards working out their destiny among the magic they are supposed to master; the end of the world as envisioned via earthquake, flood, alien invasion, or any combination of natural and unnatural disasters; and, of course, monsters. Those mythical, made up creatures that only the skilled hand of a talented F/X artist can bring to the fore without much effort (but via a boatload of imagination and innovation).
With the release of Luc Besson's latest live action extravaganza, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, on DVD and Blu-ray 13th August, the appearance of a similarly styled fantastical being got us thinking about our favorite onscreen beasties. Some of the choices are fairly obvious, as they come from history, mythology, or legend. Others are a little more obtuse and obscure. All represent the main purpose behind a motion picture - that is, to provide the audience with an experience they won't soon forget. Indeed, all ten choices here (including a couple relatively new ones) argue for a vision that few filmmakers are capable of capturing. Clearly, all the directors here have a way with spectacle and scope. The way these monsters make their presence known is just confirmation of their overall skill and talent. Oh, and by the way, we tried to stay within certain four legged limitations here. No King Kongs. No Godzillas (though we should have included Mothra, perhaps). Anyway, on to number 10:
In this latest film from French director (among other things) Luc Besson, we are introduced to a female adventurer who is in Egypt trying to gain access to a mummy. When she returns to France, she is then faced with dealing with the aforementioned creature, hatched from an egg before quickly causing chaos. As unusual as it is to have a woman protagonist in the Indiana Jones roles, Besson makes the most of modern technology, turning Adele's labors into the stuff of legend. As weird cinematic hybrids go, this one is definitely unusual, and highly enjoyable.
They are the light penetrating the darkness, the only hope for humans in a realm overflowing with fairies, goblins, and evil demons. Before Ridley Scott went all overcranked action sequence on us, he was a visionary filmmaker who overloaded his cinematic canvases with as much amazing imagery as possible. When Mia Sara is battling a bedeviled Tim Curry for the fate of her world, the threatened unicorn adds a heartbreaking element that explains why people love Scott's scenarios. It's just too bad that the director moved away from such mesmerizing work. This remains the real Ridley for many of us.
Talk about your sobering last act denouements. Our hero, having saved his son and a few others from the grocery store prison overrun by insane people and oversized bug creatures, heads down the road, looking for help. All he finds is his dead wife, a landscape riddled with cobwebs, and a monster the size of a mountain slowly lumbering its way toward a date with the rest of humanity - all of which makes our lead's final act completely understandable. When faced with a beast like that, what hope does he or anyone have? Well, now that you mention it…
Among the many amazing moments in Steven Spielberg's quintessential post-modern blockbuster is our initial introduction to this ferocious killing machine. As he did with Jaws, the director teases us at first before unleashing a combination of practical effects and CG dinosaur on a group of stranded visitors. The second we see the beast, we are terrified. The next, as it is moving around in ways we'd never seen before in a standard Summer popcorn movie guaranteed that we'd remember this monster love after the credits rolled and the lights came up. She remains the star in a franchise starter full of them.
The mythical creatures in Frank Herbert's epic saga are both sacred and profane. They live within Arrakis' rich spice reserves and are worshipped by the indigenous Freman as direct manifestations of God. So it makes sense that Paul Atreides, the Messianic 'Kwisatz Haderach,' would be able to control them. Laugh all you want at David Lynch's interpretation of the source, but the moment the sandworms make their appearance in the film, it's beyond memorable. Besides, just the notion of giant sightless slugs being ridden by human beings across an enigmatic desert vista is the stuff of pure sci-fi.
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Alaskan Weather Cooperated for An Amazing Adventure: Radiance of the Seas Cruise Review by klemeci
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Alaskan Weather Cooperated for An Amazing Adventure
Destination: Alaska
Embarkation: Seward
1st time on Radiance and it was in great shape. The crew was great, most were quite helpful and we had the best dining and dining options ever. The ships officers however were flat, you'd see the Captain and he was a wallflower, not engaging or anything of the sort. We had a meet & greet with the Captain and his staff and watched him greet two tables and then leave without a word to anyone. Once he left, all of his staff left so it pointless to have the meet & greet without the staff there! This wasn't our first rodeo so we knew what to expect and the Radiance officers didn't deliver on that. Well, at least there wasn't ship drama, sinking or fires for them to handle, right?
Embarkation - When we arrived by private transfer (Alaska Tours & Transfers) at 2:30 there was not a line, and we were in the line for suite guests. It was a nightmare however, none of the More guests were getting processed through and we were first in line for over 18 minutes before we asked if we could get in the regular line (which we could and got a open spot in less than a minute). So much for having a special line for suite guests, it was definitely a dis-service in Seward on this trip). Very unorganized on this day.
Disembarkation - Wow, a real nightmare. We waited in Chops with the suite guests and since we were staying in Vancouver overnight we weren't in a hurry. Royal Caribbean offered a service to those flying out that day to take checked luggage, get it to the airport and have it checked for their flights so they would not have to deal with it through customs or anything. Well something went wrong quickly, because we were about 50 minutes late of the posted times leaving the ship when it was announced that the luggage transfer service was cancelled and people had to pick up their luggage and get it the airport themselves. Wow - talk about last minute changes, people were ready to BURST. It was blamed on Canadian Customs which was probably true, but Wow !!!! The way it was communicated though was harsh and it set people off, truly I'm surprised there wasn't a fight people were that tuned up about the delays and changes. The concierge called our number to get off the ship and escorted us to the platform and we were out of there. I found an available porter (thankfully!) and he helped us grab our seven bags, get us through customs and to a taxi in no time. Highly recommend a porter if you can find one!! Less
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GS 1060 has the best balcony, it is HUGE. You can fit probably 20 people on it. There is a table, two chairs and a foot stool, along with two padded lounge chairs. Also, the entire balcony is covered so if it's raining you can still use it. The room is very nicely redone. There was a funky smell in the bathroom we could not get rid of, we poured water down the floor drain several times but that didn't stop the odor, we used our bathroom spray but it always came back. Not a huge deal but it wasn't pleasant. The location is amazing, first in the hallway on deck 10 right off the Centrum. We didn't get a lot of noise unless there was a party in the Centrum with music, and those normally ended by 10:30pm. We didn't get elevator noise, and very little noise from the deck above (Windjammer area by Boardwalk Hot Dog).Read All Grand Suite (GS) Reviews >>
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MYSTERY surrounds the death of a young man who was stabbed multiple times in inner Melbourne.
A passing council worker found the man in distress in Fitzroy about 5am Sunday (AEDT), police said.
The worker gave the man first aid and called 000 but paramedics were unable to revive the young man.
Detective Sergeant Allan Birch said police are still trying to establish what happened to the man.
"It would appear he had a number of stabbing injuries," he told reporters.
"We don't know what happened ... we don't know exactly how the injuries were inflicted."
Police were initially unable to identify the man, but now say he is a 21-year-old from Werribee.
The man was found in Johnston Street near the intersection of Fitzroy Street.
On Sunday morning a small lane way was draped with a tarpaulin as crime scene examiners combed the area.
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Barbara Hatch, founder of the Veterans Heritage Project, which seeks to connect students with veterans, was the recipient of the Copper Sword Award on Feb. 9. Presented annually, the Copper Sword is the highest honor the AZVHOF awards to a civilian with ties to Arizona who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to help further the initiatives of veterans, patriotism and humanitarianism. It is quite a tribute this year as Arizona celebrates its centennial.
The AVHOF Society consists of individuals who have been inducted into the Arizona Veterans Hall, their immediate family members, and the leadership of the Arizona Department of Veterans Services (ADVS) and the Unified Arizona Veterans (UAV). The Copper Sword is awarded based on the vote of the entire organization.
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NRL head of football Todd Greenberg has announced a `groundbreaking' finals double header next Saturday at Allianz Stadium and denied the League had again caved in to the demands of the AFL.
Greenberg confirmed on Triple M on Saturday that after the Sydney Swans were slotted in for their AFL semi-final at ANZ Stadium on September 14, South Sydney will kick off the 2013 finals series at the Olympic Park venue on Friday night.
Next Saturday Cronulla and minor premiers Sydney Roosters will host their elimination and qualifying finals at Allianz Stadium as the Swans play across town.
Canterbury will host their qualifying final at ANZ Stadium on the Sunday.
The NRL was forced to move the round 25 match between the Bulldogs and Penrith at ANZ Stadium back 24 hours after the AFL grand final re-match between the Swans and Hawthorn was given preference, leaving rugby league officials red-faced.
But Greenberg denied the NRL had been bullied into scheduling the double header by the AFL.
"I think we can be pretty clear that the NRL has not been forced into the move," Greenberg said.
"I think at the end of the day everyone has got a great result.
"I would suggest both sports are happy with the outcome.
"This is a groundbreaking double header and hopefully we can fill Allianz Stadium.
"I think it is a wonderful move ... an innovation thing.
"It's great not just for the broadcasters but the fans.
"It will be a fantastic weekend of finals."
However the move is a change from last year's finals schedule when minor premiers Canterbury played on the Friday night and second placed Melbourne played on the Saturday night.
Roosters captain Anthony Minichiello said he was looking forward to the night.
"That would be fantastic, a double header ... we will look to pack that out," Minichiello said.
Under-siege over his role in an alleged assault case concerning Ben Barba, Greenberg would not comment on the matter currently under the investigation of the NRL integrity unit.
"It would be inappropriate for to comment," Greenberg said.
"I will talk when all the issues are resolved."
Greenberg did say the NRL would investigate a banner unfurled by South Sydney's official supporter group `The Burrow' at Friday night's match against the Roosters that referred to their arch rivals as `scum'.
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Willie Randolph said the Wilpons hired him "to win games and not because of the color of my skin." Randolph downplayed comments attributed him that criticism of him was racially motivated and the team's network, SNY, deliberately portrays in unflattering positions.
"I'm not upset with anyone," Randolph said about the network. Regarding race, Randolph said his comments were "tongue in cheek."
Randolph said he hasn't spoken with the Wilpons since Sunday, and when asked if there was anything he would change about himself said, "not at all … there's no reason to."


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Painter Of Silence by Georgina Harding is published in hardback by Bloomsbury, priced £14.99. Available now.
Georgina Harding's third novel is set in Romania in the early Fifties.
Working as a nurse, Safta comes face to face with a man from her past.
Augustin and Safta grew up together in a manor in the countryside - she the daughter of the house, he the son of the cook.
There are things that Augustin needs to share with Safta about his experiences during the Second World War, but he was born deaf and is mute.
He turns to the form of communication he and his childhood friend relied on years earlier and slowly starts to draw his memories.
This is an unassuming novel that is beautifully written, but the very considered way the story is told also makes it rather slow-paced and lacking in intrigue at times.
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Bags, bags, bags — I just cannot get enough of them! As so wonderfully explained in The Devil Wears Prada, a handbag, "is merely a piece of iconography used to express individual identity," and boy is that right! Probably the most versatile and universally loved accessory, handbags come in every shape and size under the sun. From subtle patent neutrals to vibrant snakeskin prints, there should be a space for a handbag in every Fashionistas heart. If there isn't, then I don't mind taking that extra bag!
You couldn't miss this Fashionista on campus today if you tried. Not only did I fall head-over-heels with her lightly checkered blue pants, but I was also impressed at how she looked so effortlessly put together overall. Her accessories were beautifully synchronized, and her slouchy tan leather bag complimented her Franco Sarto sandals perfectly. Even the dull gold buckles found on this Fashionista's handbag were exactly the same tone as those on her shoes — coordination at its finest!
Originally, it was the classy simplicity of her sandals that drew me to this Fashionista. However, as I proceeded to approach her, subtle details became apparent, like the lightly embossed snakeskin on the cream straps. Details like this, as well as, the intricate seam stitching on her handbag and the harmony between bag, shoe and watch, really show that an outfit has gone the extra mile. Finally, her kate spade watch added that additional sophisticated edge that could take this already charming outfit from a lecture hall to lunch on Rodeo Drive.
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WIGTON shrugged off any lingering relegation fears to confirm their North One West status for another season after seeing off a depleted Kirkby Lonsdale at Lowmoor Road.
Gregg Smith, Will Miller and Matthew Atkinson all touched down to give the home side a commanding lead before tries from Ed Towers and skipper Matt Hughes reduced the arrears before half-time.
Richard Moffatt and Stuart Creighton both made the scoresheet for Wigton, either side of Sam Chesney-Benson crossing the line, as the hosts ran out comfortable winners.
Jack Akrigg started at ten in place of the injured Dave Barton while Alan Robinson replaced Stuart Storey at seven as Sam Latu moved to 12 and Josh Maddocks started on the right wing.
With only two minutes on the clock, Miller cut through the Kirkby defence before feeding full-back Smith to score under the posts, with David Hanabury converting.
Moments later, Wigton doubled their advantage as inside centre Miller again dissected the visiting defensive unit to score under the posts, with Hanabury adding a further two points.
Kirkby did enjoy a spell of pressure inside home territory but failed to score, with fly-half Akrigg picking up an injury after 17 minutes which prevented any further involvement in the game.
The Kirkby scrum was the more dominant of the two, allowing the Underley Park outfit time on the ball in the opposition half, although once again they failed to capitalise.
The away side were made to pay as number eight Atkinson crossed the line for Wigton's third try of the afternoon to extend the lead to 21 points.
Wigton flanker Elliot Armstrong received a yellow card as Kirkby took full advantage of their numerical superiority as Towers registered Kirkby's first points of the clash.
And shortly before the break, Hughes crashed over the line after taking possession ten metres out as Kirkby reduced the deficit to 11 points, trailing 21-10 at half-time.
Early in the second period Kirkby were penalised for not rolling away from a tackle as Hanabury successfully kicked the resulting to penalty as Wigton seized control of proceedings.
Kirkby were displaying an uncharacteristic lack of cohesion in the backs division, epitomised by centre Moffatt intercepting a pass outside the Kikrby twenty two to score.
Kirkby refused to buckle and managed to pin Wigton in their own twenty two, with a series of scrums driving the pack towards the line as Chesney-Benson touched down.
However, Wigton had the final say as flanker Creighton scored the hosts' fifth try of the match, with Hanabury's conversion completing the scoring.
After slipping to sixth with this defeat, John Pickthall's side will bid to reclaim fifth place in North West One when they entertain Wilmslow in their final home game of the season on Saturday.
The game also signals Simon Dowker's retirement following a long and distinguished rugby career with the Underley Park faithful set to bid farewell to a player held in very high esteem.
Kirkby Lonsdale: Ryan Holmes, Dan Armistead, Tim Groves, Matt Hughes (c), Simon Dowker, Sam Chesney-Benson, Alan Robinson, Craig Galbraith, Ben Walker, Jack Akrigg, Martyn Knapton, Sam Latu, Tom Pickthall, Josh Maddocks, Ed Towers. Replacements: Jack Konczynski, Tom Capstick


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4 The EBITDA margin before special items is calculated by dividing EBITDA before special items by sales.
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7 Gross cash flow = income after income taxes, plus income taxes, plus financial result, minus income taxes paid or accrued, plus depreciation, amortization and impairment losses, minus impairment loss reversals, plus/minus changes in pension provisions, minus gains/plus losses on retirements of noncurrent assets, minus gains from the remeasurement of already held assets in step acquisitions. The change in pension provisions includes the elimination of non-cash components of EBIT. It also contains benefit payments during the year. For details see Combined Management Report, Chapter 16.5 "Liquidity and Capital Expenditures of the Bayer Group."
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12 Portfolio-adjusted in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol
13 Volatile organic compounds (VOC) excluding methane
14 Ozone-depleting substances (ODS) in CFC-11 equivalents
15 1 petajoule = 1015 joules
16 Energy efficiency: quotient of total energy consumption and manufactured sales volume. For MaterialScience, only manufactured sales volumes that also form the basis for calculating MaterialScience-specific emissions are taken into account.
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NEW YORK -- Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has undergone an aortic valve replacement procedure at a hospital in New York.
New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan released a statement saying the 91-year-old ex-diplomat was "resting comfortably" following the procedure on Tuesday.
The hospital declined to release any other information.
Kissinger served under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the 1970s. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977.