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FILMHEDGE: A MODERN ALTERNATIVE TO MEDIA FINANCE BANKS FilmHedge simplifies the application and funding process to secure up to $10M for qualified film and television products. Media finance is just one click away. APPLY HERE   Official sponsor of the Producers Network The Producers Network is the go-to place for producers seeking to make the most out of their time in Cannes. Launched 16 years ago, the Producers Network welcomes more than 400 producers f...

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Do not heistate to contact me with questions, I will be happy to brainstorm with you. We are the leading network for film and festivals, established in 1995, with 380 000 unique visitors every month, a subscribers base of 161 000 registered users. Furthermore my experience in marketing film (200 film launched wordwide) can be of some assistance. Check the online store for Pro Services for the Film Festival Community. Promote your Festival (Bulletin Board), your Film (Showcase)...

Pushpa 2-The Rule, Review: You can Push-swag Smuggler Superhero Pa to the brink, but he’ll be back in a blink

Pushpa means flower in Hindi. Our protagonist is not a flower, but a fire. Not any ordinary fire, but as he declares, to his nemesis, Shekhawat, “wild fire.”. This ‘flowery wild fire’ learns the skill of swimming and holding his breath underwater for much longer than the average swimmer, instantaneously, when forced to fetch a cricket ball from the bottom of a pond. Apparently illiterate, or, at best, semi-literate, he lives in the Chittoor district of Telangana, so his...

Reinas- (Queens) Switzerland's International Oscar Entry.

Posted By Robin Menken Swiss-Peruvian director Klaudia Reynicke’s quiet family drama is set in 1992, during the economic collapse in Peru, a national curfew and the constant attacks of the far-left terrorist group Sendero Luminoso (The Shining Path). An opening archival television news report features Peru’s minister of the economy announcing that in the next 24 hours, the price of milk will jump from 120,000 Peruvian intis to 330,000, the cost of sugar, now 150,000 intis, will...

Danis Tanović: A Master of Cinema Reflects on the Cairo Film Festival

By Kate Elfatah   The Bosnian-born Oscar-winning director Danis Tanović: A Master of Cinema Reflects on the Cairo International Film Festival and will serve as Jury President for this year’s festival. Meeting with International Press, Tanović shared his creative process, his opinions about the changing film industry and his lifetime love for storytelling. He travels to Cairo through the paved roads of his impressive career including directing "No ...

Award-Winning, Festival Favorite Film Noble Vision Available Now On Digital in the US and Canada

The critically acclaimed feature drama/thriller Noble Vision, based on the best-selling novel by Gen LaGreca, the film’s executive producer and scriptwriter, ​i​s available now to watch on Prime Video, Fandango at Home (Vudu), Hoopla, Roku, Plex and Tubi, as well as on InDemand/cable video on demand in the US and Canada  Official Trailer:      Noble Vision  had its West Coast theatrical premiere on September 10th&nb...

Deaf Lovers has been removed from PÖFF Standing with Ukraine programme, though still playing in competition

The Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF)  has always treated the Ukrainian country with great respect and sympathy. Our festival team has always been together with Ukrainian people who are currently fighting for their independence.Three years in a row we've organised charity auctions for Ukraine at the HÕFF festival. We’ve stopped screening Russian and Belarusian state-funded films already in 2022. We were the first to showcase Ukrainian film projects that had been put ...

CRAZED FRUIT - Kurutta Kajitsu, 1956 An overlooked Japanese Masterpiece:

 CRAZED FRUIT --  Kurutta Kajitsu, 1956. (狂った果実) Spending their summer on a trendy exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for -- winding up in Murder by Motorboat!   A small postwar Japanese Masterpiece -- Perfection! "Kurutta Kajitsu"    (狂った果実 ).  1956, is a landmark of Japanese cinema that has more to say about postwar Japan and mid fifties movie...

Paramount Pictures join forces with Scuderia Ferrari HP to promote the release of Gladiator II

Check out the trailer, very simple, very classic and very smart marketing in my opinion (as a former distributor with Sony and Fox I have alligned many brands to some of the 200hundreds movies I released! My interrogation: how much did Pramount pay for this campaign? Perhaps they traded some free cars in the next Paramount release? Anyway lets have some fun watching this trailer! Bruno Chatelin Paramount Pictures is thrilled to team up with Scuderia Ferrari HP for an exclusive, one-of-a-kind...

Dhai Aakhar: Merely two-and-a-half letters of an alphabet arouse great expectations

Dhai Aakhar: Merely two-and-a-half letters of an alphabet arouse great expectations Dhai means two-and-a-half, and Aakhar means akshar or the letters of the Hindi alphabet. The title is taken from a doha (simple, moralising poetry written in couplet form) by an Indian saint, Kabeer, centuries ago. The line goes ‘Dhai aakhar prem ka/key padhey so Pandit hoye’ (whoever reads the two-and-a half letters of the Devnagari alphabet, that add-up to mean love, will be a true seer). Co-prod...

Vijay 69, Review: VATs 69 in a name?

Vijay 69, Review: VATs 69 in a name? A story that looks very elevating and moralising on paper does not necessarily translate into an engaging film. Vijay 69 is one such film. It seems to have been made to showcase that Anupam Kher, who played an old man’s role in Mahesh Bhatt’s Saaransh (1984), when he was 29, can play such a role, as a 69 year-old at 69. That is a no-brainer. Forty years on, he has done 540 films and started an acting school, besides trying his hand at directio...

The Sabarmati Report, Trailer launch: Express train. Engine Arrival Time in Mumbai: 06 November 2024, Departure: Unknown

The Sabarmati Report, Trailer launch: Express train. Engine Arrival Time in Mumbai: 06 November 2024, Departure: Unknown On 27 February, 2002, one compartment of the Ahmedabad-Varanasi Sabarmati Express train went-up in flames at a railway station in Godhra Junction, killing 59 passengers and injuring 48. Many politicians and media-persons equated this with the 9-11 attacks, on 09 September, 2001, on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, of the USA, and other places, in which 2,997 peopl...

"Waltzing with Brando" closing film of Torino International Film Festival

    "Waltzing with Brando" closing film of Torino International Film Festival      American film director Bill Fishman and leading actor Billy Zane will present the film in world premiere at the Torino Film Festival   "Waltzing with Brando", written and directed by Bill Fishman, will have its world premiere at the 42tff during the awards ceremony on Saturday November 30. Together with the director, the leading act...

John Gore Media has acquired KFilm Ltd, the parent company of Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment...

Pictured Left To Right:  Spencer Pollard, John Gore, Adam Sergeant John Gore Media Ltd, founded by Media Entrepreneur John Gore, today announced that it has acquired KFilm Ltd, the parent company of UK distribution businesses Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment, Platform Entertainment and Icon Film Distribution, plus International Sales business, Kaleidoscope Film Distribution. The deal was negotiated by John Gore’s team, with KFilm CEO, Spencer Pollard, and KFilm CO...

'The Pet-Nup' starring Gregg Sulkin, Halston Sage, Emeraude Toubia: Highland Film Group Launches International Sales

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Pet Friendly Romantic Comedy Stars Gregg Sulkin, Halston Sage, Emeraude Toubia, Jaime Pressly and Annie Gonzalez     Los Angeles, CA (November 4, 2024) – Set to launch sales at the upcoming American Film Market, Highland Film Group is handling international rights to the charming romantic comedy The Pet-Nup on behalf of producers Javier Chapa and Phillip Braun (The Long Game, Rosario) of Mucho Mas Media.   With production set to begin in early 2025 in Arkansas, the fil...

Dedication: starring Daisy Ridley for director Martin Campbell

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Highland Film Group Launching International Sales at the American Film Market, CAA Media Finance repping Domestic Rights Daisy Ridley (the Star Wars franchise, Young Woman and the Sea, Magpie) is set to star in the action-thriller Dedication for director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, GoldenEye), it was announced today. The screenplay is written by Dan Gordon (Lawrence Kasdan’s Wyatt Earp, Norman Jewi...

Highland Film Group announces 'Protector' starring Mila Jovovich from Director Adrian Grünberg

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Highland Film Group Launching Worldwide Sales at the American Film Market on behalf of Aanaxion Studio Milla Jovovich (the billion-dollar Resident Evil franchise) is set to star in the action-thriller Protector, it was announced today. The film is directed by Adrian Grünberg (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo) and is written by Bong-Seeb Mun.   Protector is produced by Kenneth Kim, Bang-Ok Joo, Bong-Seeb Mun for Aanaxion Studio, Ceasar Richbow and Arianne Fraser and D...

H IS FOR HAWK begins Principal Photography and announces Lionsgate acquires rights for UK and Ireland

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Principal photography starts today on the feature drama H Is For Hawk, it was announced today by Protagonist Pictures’ CCO George Hamilton. The film stars two-time Emmy and Golden Globe winner Claire Foy (“The Crown,” 2024 BAFTA nominee for All of Us Strangers, Women Talking) and BAFTA and Academy Award nominee Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruges, Paddington 2)   Protagonist Pictures already secured a slew of international deals, including Lionsgate, wh...

BEHIND THE LINES Makes World Market Premiere at AFM and Shows First-Look Footage to the International Marketplace

  New documentary from Sypher Studios, directed by John B. Benitz and narrated by Annette Bening, featuring a star-studded cast including Laura Dern, Michael C. Hall, Paul Walter Hauser, Common, DeWanda Wise, Gary Cole, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. delves into the heart of humanity via a global journey through wars via personal correspondences spanning two and half centuries   The official trailer release - First Look Footage Ever Click here for key art and other press assets...

Film historian Lalit Mohan Joshi’s poignant film ‘‘Angwal’’explores the vibrant yet often overlooked culture of Kumaoni poetry.

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 Film historian Lalit Mohan Joshi’s poignant film ‘‘Angwal’’explores the vibrant yet often overlooked culture of Kumaoni poetry © film critic Lalit Rao (FIPRESCI) dated 05/11/2024  “Angwal,” which translates to “embrace,” is a documentary directed by Lalit Mohan Joshi that explores the vibrant yet often overlooked culture of Kumaoni poetry. A BBC journalist based in the UK and founder of the South Asian Cinema Foundation, J...

SCURRY Scares Up Global Distribution

Film Mode Entertainment and Sparke Films Announce the AFM Market Premiere Screening, a Full House of Distribution News and Audience Choice Awards for Horror Film, SCURRY Starring Jamie Costa (Kenobi: A Star Wars Story, Bring Him To Me) and Emalia (Paper Dolls)   Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment and Luke Sparke’s Sparke Films announce the AFM market premiere screening and a full house of sales and distribution news with multiple awards for the horror film, Scurry. Th...

Navras Katha Collage, Review: It might get a few ‘awards’, for….

Navras Katha Collage, Review: It might get a few ‘awards’, for…. Comedian Jerry Lewis, in the top league during the 50s and 60s, made a breakthrough movie in 1965, called The Family Jewels. Breakthrough, because he played seven roles in the film, all brothers, besides co-writing and directing it. I have been unlucky not to have seen this reportedly hilarious experiment, but I came close when I saw an Indian, Hindustani film, Naya Din, Nayi Raat (NDNR). Nine years after The ...

25 000 euro award by ATM Virtual will be handed out to one of the genre film titles at European Genre Forum in Tallinn

  The 10th edition of the European Genre Forum, the only European training programme for up and coming genre filmmakers, will present its eight projects from eight production countries during the final lab in Tallinn. For the first time, one of the projects will receive an award of 25,000 euros, consisting of one day rental of an LED stage, preceded by one day of pre-lighting for the production of a selected film.  The award, presented by a virtual production studio ATM VIRTUAL,...

Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3: Grotesque? Yes. Burlesque: Yes. Statuesque? Yes. Humouresque: No. Maze: Yes. Amazing: No

Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3: Grotesque? Yes. Burlesque: Yes. Statuesque? Yes. Humouresque: No. Maze: Yes. Amazing: No Bhool Bhulaiya literally means a maze or labyrinth, in Hindustani language. This one refers to the Adventures of a Fake Ghostbuster and his Pygmy Partner, who collapses at the slightest sign of danger. They are as fake as the royal family they are summoned to, to perform the task of busting the ghost of a princess, who was imprisoned in a large room, with heavy padlocks, 200 years ago. ...

An Amélie-inspired film by Swedish Filmmaker to Open TRIFF24

The Tryon International Film Festival 2024 (TRIFF24) is kicking off its 10th anniversary of its weekend-long festival of independent films and filmmaking on November 22, 2024 in Tryon, NC, with Swedish film Just Like Me. The film takes the audience on a journey between laughter and tears in this heartwarming story by UCLA film student, Andreas Thelander.     Andreas Thelander is an award-winning film director from Sweden who completed UCLA's intensive 4-year master’s p...

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