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Effective immediately and until October 30, 2008, internationally experienced producers from all over the world can submit film projects to the 6th Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 8-10, 2009). Projects must have secured a minimum of 30% of their required financing and be suited to co-production in order to qualify.The Berlinale Co-Production Market supports the selected projects in searching for production partners. Producers meet on location with potential co-producers, financiers, sales agents and international distributors, as well as with broadcasting and funding representatives. The Berlinale Co-Production Market team coordinates customised meeting schedules for each participant according to his or her wishes.In…

AUSTIN, Texas — Sept. 4, 2008 — The Austin Film Festival (AFF) will honor writer, producer and director Greg Daniels with the 2008 Outstanding Television Writer Award at the 15th Annual Austin Film Festival (Oct. 16-23, 2008). Daniels will receive the award at the Austin Film Festival Awards Luncheon presented by AT&T; on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008 at the Austin Club. AFF co-founder and Executive Director Barbara Morgan said, “We’re thrilled to honor Greg Daniels for his contribution to ground-breaking comedic television on four landmark series all still on the air: ‘Saturday Night Live,’ ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘King of the Hill’…

Stealing America: Vote by Vote rightly addresses an issue that has long been swept under the political rug, the possibility of manipulated elections. Unfortunately, the voice and approach of this address is about as stimulating as the monotone droning of a tenured calculus professor. Math was never one of my favorite subjects, and despite its good intentions and thought-provoking research, Stealing America is not one of my favorite films of 2008.As a documentary, Stealing America presents its audience with a clear direction and a definitive objective, to expose the American public to the alarming vulnerabilities within our electoral system. Evidently,…

Burbank, California, August 19, 2008 -The grand opening event for the new location of Bluth Enterprises INC, was held yesterday July 28, 2008. The new studio not only includes several new editing bays, but also soon provides filmmakers with a small soundstage with Blue & Green Screen, proper for shooting inserts, commercials and professional photography. Depending on the size of the production, Bluth Enterprises offers an internal crew that can meet the needs of a small-based production. For larger features, Bluth Enterprises works with outside resources, offering experienced crews from various aspects of the entertainment business to provide their services…

On Wednesday, August 13, and Thursday, August 14, TripAdvisor will host free outdoor film screenings at the Huntington Beach Pier. On August 13, the 1953 film classic Roman Holiday, starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, will be shown. On August 14, a screening of the 1987 comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles, starring Steve Martin and John Candy, will be held. The movies start at sundown, however, guests are invited to arrive starting at 6 p.m. to secure a great spot. These events are part of TripAdvisor’s Traveling Movie Tour, a free outdoor film festival that is visiting prominent outdoor venues…

The 2007 Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Language Film, The Counterfeiters will be released on DVD and Blu-ray™ High-Def by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on August 5, 2008. Written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Inheritors, All The Queen’s Men), The Counterfeiters was an official selection of the 2007 Telluride Film Festival, the 2007 Berlin Film Festival and the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. This Sony Pictures Classics film will be available for an SLP of $38.96 for Blu-ray High-Def and $28.96 for DVD. Special features on the DVD and Blu-ray will include a director’s commentary, cast and crew interviews and…

The Band’s Visit is by no means a story of epic proportions. It tells the story of a group of Egyptian musical men stranded for one night in a comically dull Israeli town. These men, bound by their love of music, form the Egyptian police’s Alexandria Ceremonial Orchestra, an enterprise whose weighty title far outshines their actual, minimal importance. Their leader, Tawfiq’s (Sasson Gabai) conduct is as crisp and proper as the starched lines of his immaculate robin’s egg blue uniform. His bearing rivals that of a high ranking military official, prompting those around him to mockingly nickname him “The…

Born into a filmmaking family, Italian director Sergio Leone (1929 – 1989) was one of the great personalities of world cinema. Leone entered the business as a teenager, laboring as an assistant director, screenwriter and bit player. While employed as an assistant director on THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII in 1959, Leone found himself thrust into the director’s chair halfway through production when the original director became too ill to continue. It wasn’t long afterward that Leone received his first credited director’s job on the sword-and-sandal opus COLOSSUS OF RHODES in 1961.In 1964, inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s YOJIMBO and the…

New Delhi (PTI) Multi-talented Hollywood actor Will Smith is in love with Bollywood and believes that the future of international cinema lies in a conjugal tie between the world’s two largest entertainment industries.The ‘Independence Day’ actor, whose latest superhero flick ‘Hancock’ is all set to release in India on July 11 is a self confessed Bollywood fan and looks forward to work in an Indian project.”I think a marriage between Bollywood and Hollywood would yield outstanding results,” Will Smith told PTI in an email interview.Smith is currently exploring possibilities of working in an Indian film. “I would love to work…

The indelible image of Anita Ekberg splashing in the Trevi Fountain! For most of us, it’s one of cinema’s most iconic moments. For Elsa (China Zorilla), it’s the dream of a lifetime. In her youth, she was a blonde bombshell herself, a Buenos Aires beauty who made the “ground shake” when she walked by. Now a grandmother, time is running out for her chance to travel to Rome and do her own Anita in the Trevi. When timid widower Fred (Manuel Alexandre) moves in next door, Elsa bursts into his life, determined to teach him how to live with zest…