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Tokyo Film Market to remain virtual for third year

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Tiffcom runs parallel to Tokyo International Film Festival.

Tiffcom, the content market that runs alongside Tokyo International Film Festival, will take place as an online-only event for the third consecutive year from October 25-27.

Organisers confirmed the move today (June 23), which reflects Japan’s cautious reopening of its borders in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, Tokyo International Film Festival has committed to return as a fully physical event from October 24 to November 2.

Tiffcom first went virtual in 2020 due to the pandemic but its decision to remain online for a third year comes as other film markets and festivals return to in-person events.

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Italy’s Fandango strikes more sales on ‘The Hummingbird’ (exclusive)

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Time-jumping drama’s cast includes Nanni Moretti, Berenice Bejo and Pierfrancesco Favino.

Italy’s Fandango Sales has secured further deals for Francesca Archibugi’s The Hummingbird (Il Colibri), selling it to territories including Portugal, Latin America and Austria.

The Hummingbird has sold to Outsider Films in Portugal, Strada Films in Greece, Filmladen in Austria. Fidalgo has acquired the film for Norway and Impacto Cine for Latin America.

The Hummingbird is a time-jumping drama that follows the life of protagonist Marco Carrera (Pierfrancesco Favino) from the 70s into the near future, while analysing the many relationships built up during his life journey.

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Neuchatel Fantastic Film Festival Blurs Borders for Expansive 21st Edition

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After two years of hybrid and online-only editions, the Neuchatel Intl. Fantastic Film Festival will fête its 21st year with a return to a fully on-site event, hosting four world premieres, and more than twice as many international premieres.

Running July 1-9, the Swiss event will world premiere the absurdist “Jaws”-in-France riff “The Year of the Shark,” the Thai creature feature “Leio,” and the Japanese Yakuza thriller “Bad City.” Titles like the Toho-produced Kaiju flick “Shin Ultraman,” “Something in the Dirt” from U.S. horror maestros Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, and Léa Mysius’ “The Five Devils” will mark their international berths at Nifff – the latter as the festival’s opening film.

This blackjack edition will also mark the first year under the direction of Pierre-Yves Walder, a Nifff veteran whose involvement with the lakefront festival dates back some time. After a stint in the press office, years as a programmer,

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Star+ showcases Latin American originals, premieres ‘Santa Evita’ at Conecta Fiction

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Disney’s Latin American streamer talks up original dramas.

The Walt Disney Company’s Latin American streamer Star+ underlined its original production push by premiering the first episode of its Eva Perón miniseries Santa Evita at Spain’s Conecta Fiction & Entertainment this week, and showcasing four more dramas at the TV networking and co-pro event held in Toledo.

Launched last year, entertainment and sports platform Star+ is available in Latin America as a standalone service or, as part of Combo+, a bundled offering with access to Disney+.

Santa Evita, produced by Star Original Productions and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, tells

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Scotland’s screen sector delivers £567.6m to Scottish economy

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The findings come from a Screen Scotland commissioned report examining the 2019 screen sector.

Scotland’s screen sector delivered £567.6m Gva (gross value added) in 2019 to the Scottish economy, according to a new report commissioned by Screen Scotland, the national body that drives the development of the Scottish film and TV industry.

In the same period, the screen sector in Scotland provided 10,280 full-time equivalent jobs.

The report, titled The Economic Value of the Screen Sector in Scotland, was produced by UK accountancy firm Saffery Champness and UK and Canada-based consultancy firm Nordicity, with the aim of giving the first clear picture

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UK-Germany co-pro conference to take place at Filmfest München

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The conference will form the centrepiece of the festival’s industry programme.

The FIlmfest München is traditionally the last opportunity for the German filmmaking community to meet up before the summer break, and this year’s edition has an industry programmed with a pronounced international dimension.

One of this year’s highlights is the two-day Cine CoPro Conference (June 29-30 ), hosted by the Filmfest and the Bavarian regional film fund Fff Bayern, in which around 40 German and UK producers, directors and screenwriters will come together to discuss opportunities for co-production between the two countries.

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2022 film festivals and markets: latest dates, postponements and cancellations

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Bookmark this page for all the latest festival date changes.

To help keep track of the changing schedule, Screen is keeping this page updated with the latest film festival and market dates, postponements and cancellations.

Festivals taking place online or as hybrid events due to Covid-19 are noted. If not specified, the festival is currently set as a physical event.

To submit details of a change to your festival dates/status, please contact us here with the name, dates, and website for the event, and if it is running online, physically, or both.

Ongoing

Transilvania International Film Festival, Romania – June 17-26, in-person

CineEurope,

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‘Lamya’s Poem’ Trailer Details Rumi-Inspired Syrian Refugee Tale (Exclusive)

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Long-awaited animated feature “Lamya’s Poem” has unveiled its first trailer.

Alex Kronemer’s Rumi-inspired film about a Syrian refugee girl named Lamya was one of the hot competition titles at the 2021 Annecy Film Festival, and went on to play at festivals in Vancouver, Zurich and Prague.

The film is an inspiring and timely tale about a 12-year-old Syrian refugee who flees the violence of her country, and looks to a gifted book of poetry by the famous 13th-century poet, Rumi, as a source of strength. As the perils of her journey mount, the book becomes a magical gateway where she meets Rumi when he was a boy and also a refugee fleeing the violence of his time. In a shared dreamworld, they battle the monsters that follow them from their real world situations, and Lamya must help young Rumi find his calling and write the poem that, 800 years later,

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Nifff Tackles LGBTQ+ Representation With Scream Q***r Retrospective

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Heading into his first edition at the helm of the Neuchatel Intl. Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff), artistic director Pierre-Yves Walder looked to land his white whale, setting his sights on a retrospective idea he’d dreamed up many years before.

“In concrete terms, I’ve wanted to do this ever since I first applied to the festival,” Walder says of Scream Q***r, a pet project that reflects on Lgbtiq+ representation through the lens of the fantastic. “I wanted to explore social elements through genre, which has always been a mirror for society, a place to express certain unmentionable ideas in abstract, using metaphor to explore subjects off limits in more direct approaches.”

Showcasing 15 films curated by Walder and his team and another four selected by The xx singer Oliver Sim, this year’s centerpiece retrospective brings together camp items like “Nightmare on Elm Street II,” cult classics like the Wachowski

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Thailand scraps tax on foreign actors to boost international production

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Law on taxing performers has been the subject of a long campaign.

Foreign actors will soon be exempt from taxation for work in Thailand following a move by the government to boost international production in the country.

The Thai cabinet passed the law on Tuesday (June 22) with the new measure valid for five years and expected to come into effect within the next three months.

All employees in Thailand are subject to a withholding tax, which varies by occupation and nationality: 5 for Thai performers and 10 for foreign performers. The tax is based on where the work is performed, not where they are paid.

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White Pine Pictures’ Andrew Munger Relaunches Ultramagnetic Productions (Exclusive)

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White Pine Pictures executive Andrew Munger has re-launched his outfit Ultramagnetic Productions with a slate of drama and documentary projects.

Munger first operated Ultramagnetic Productions from 1997 to 2004, producing non-fiction projects including “Walmart Nation,” “Campaign: The Making of a Candidate,” “Xanadu: In Search of Domestic Perfection” and “Make Some Noise!” for networks such as the CBC, Discovery, History and Life/Slice. He shuttered the company in 2005 to run television production at World Vision, Canada’s largest non-profit organization, before moving to Toronto’s White Pine Pictures in 2014.

After eight years, Munger is stepping down from his role as director of unscripted development at White Pine in order to restart Ultramagnetic.

However, he will continue as an executive producer on several key White Pine feature documentaries, including “Buffy Sainte Marie: Carry It On” (Bell/PBS) and “The Con: Churchill and Roosevelt Secret American War” (Super Channel/Wnet/Arte/Beyond Rights). The latter

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Dogwoof Grows Sales and Business Affairs Teams as Doc Specialist Expands In Production (Exclusive)

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London-based documentary specialist Dogwoof has restructured its business affairs and sales teams as it continues to expand into production.

Former Western Edge Pictures executive Will Kane will join the company as head of business affairs, working closely with CEO Anna Godas and head of acquisitions and distribution Oli Harbottle to grow Dogwoof’s production and financing arms.

Meanwhile, Cleo Veger has been promoted to head of sales, and former Tvf International sales and acquisitions executive Katie Bench has joined as new senior sales executive.

Veger joined in 2014 and moved to the role of sales executive in 2017, and then sales manager in 2019. She will head an expanded sales team across all sales and pre-sales as well as festivals. Bench, who specialized in sales for Latin America, Iberia and Benelux at Tvf, will oversee TV sales in a number of territories. Both executives will be attending this week’s Sheffield DocFest and taking meetings at MeetMarket.

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First trailer for Karlovy Vary competition title ‘Silence 6-9’ (exclusive)

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Christos Passalis directs and stars in the project.

Screen can reveal the first trailer for Christos Passalis’ Silence 6-9, which will have its world premiere in the main competition at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Passalis stars alongside Angeliki Papoulia as a man and woman who meet one evening in a half-abandoned town surrounded by antennas. In this strange, dreamlike world the two solitary souls gradually start to develop feelings for one another.

The project is produced by Greece’s Homemade Films and co-produced by Ert, Asterisk Post. Producer is Maria Drankaki and co-producers are Vicky Miha,

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Post your questions for Dougray Scott

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Got something you’d like to ask the Mission: Impossible and Deep Impact actor? Send it our way and we’ll put it to him

There’s aren’t many actors who can put “hand picked by Tom Cruise” on their CV. Scottish actor Dougray Scott was personally cast by Tc to play rogue Impossible Missions Force agent and chief bad guy in 2000’s Mission: Impossible II – famous for that Cruise/Scott motorbike fighting scene. It’s a role that propelled the Twin Town and Deep Impact actor to international fame, even if it did mean he lost the role of Wolverine for 2000’s X-Men (to Hugh Jackman) after filming on MI2 overran. Scott was also apparently in the running to take over Bond in 2006’s Casino Royale, but was pipped to the post by Daniel Craig.

But let’s not worry about all that. This is a safe, happy

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Filmfest München heads reveal the discoveries they hope to launch at this year’s event

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The German festival is running from June 23 to July 2.

Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage will launch Filmfest München in an opening gala at the German city’s Isar Philharmonic concert hall today

The Filmfest is screening 120 films from 52 countries, including 35 world premieres. Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher will be presented with this year’s CineMerit Award, while there will be a homage to German filmmaker Doris Dörrie with the premiere of her latest film The Pool.

Festival director Diana Iljine and artistic director Christoph Gröner talk to Screen about this year’s event and the Filmfest’s significance as a launchpad for international careers of German films.

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Rambo: First Blood review – Stallone’s 80s hero ripe for devotees of old-school action

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Fans of movie explosions get another chance to spend time with the character that inspired Ronald Reagan

Forty years on, here’s a rerelease of the first movie in the Rambo series from 1982: the watchable if entirely preposterous exploitation-action picture in which star and co-writer Sylvester Stallone makes his first appearance as John Rambo, the decorated Green Beret, Vietnam veteran and commando übermensch in a permanent rage at the way he and his fellow soldiers were let down. It climaxes with an entirely bizarre speech from Rambo on the subject of his Ptsd, delivered in Stallone’s unintelligible slurred drone: “Igghh sawfff bodyghhh partghhs everyghrhwhere…!”

This was actually the film that came before the one that made Rambo a real movie icon, Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), where he has to go back to Vietnam for a fantasy replay of the war on the grounds that he is searching

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‘Murder at Yellowstone City’ Review: A Well-Crafted Mix of Traditional Western and Murder Mystery Elements

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The first tip-off is the title: “Murder at Yellowstone City” is not your standard-issue shoot-’em-up. Rather, director Richard Gray’s well-crafted and handsomely mounted indie is as much a solidly constructed mystery as it is it a conventionally satisfying oater, with much to recommend to fans of either genre who rarely get to sample such a mix. Indeed, outside of Henry Hathaway’s “Five Card Stud” (1968) and the lamentably short-lived 2003 TV series “Peacemakers,” it’s hard to recall many other scenarios that suggest what might have resulted had Zane Grey and Agatha Christie bellied up to the bar and swapped ideas.

Only gradually does it emerge that Thomas Jane’s Thaddeus Murphy is the sagebrush sleuth of the piece, as his character — prodded by Anna Camp as Alice, his astute wife and partner — demonstrates surprising pathological skills while attempting to prove the innocence of a suspected killer. Surprising, that is,

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Tokyo Film Market to Stay in Online Mode for Third Year

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Tiffcom, the affiliated market of Tokyo International Film Festival, will remain as an online only event for the third year. It will run for three days, Oct. 25-27, 2022, in parallel with the early part of the film festival.

The Tokyo market’s decision to stay as an exclusively virtual event comes at a time when film and TV markets and festivals in other countries are returning to in-person meetings after the Covid-19 pandemic. And it reflects Japan’s caution in reopening the country to foreign visitors.

In recent weeks, Japan said that it will again welcome foreign tourists. But these are currently restricted to organized tour groups, not individual travelers, and visitors must wear masks at all times in public.

The Tokyo festival is planning to hold physical events in the Hibiya-Ginza-Yurakucho-Marunouchi area where it moved last year after years being centered in the Roppongi district.

Contacted by Variety, the

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Discover+ Will Release Alex Holder's Explosive Documentary About The January 6 Insurrection

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Discovery+ has secured the streaming rights to Alex Holder's documentary series "Unprecedented," which chronicles the January 6 insurrection and includes footage of Donald Trump, his family, and his staffers. The highly-anticipated three-part series is said to be streaming this summer (no date has been announced yet), so if you're looking to tune into what might be the big documentary event of the year, you probably don't want to miss it. Now is the perfect time to become friends with someone who is willing to share their Discovery+ password. Don't say we didn't warn you.

According to a Discovery+ spokesperson via Variety, the series will...

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They/Them Teaser: Kevin Bacon Returns To The Summer Camp Slasher Genre

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You can take the boy out of the camp slasher, but you can't take the camp slasher out of the boy. Kevin Bacon was a young star on the rise when he booked a sweet gig in a little low-budget horror movie about a bunch of h***y camp counselors setting up for camping season on the traditionally unlucky date of Friday the 13th. The rest is history! Bacon found mainstream success shortly thereafter, but to his credit hasn't shied away from horror in the years since, appearing in stuff like "Tremors," "Hollow Man," and "Stir of Echoes." But now he's going back to camp in this...

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Buzz Lightyear The Man Is Now A Toy Again, Thanks To Hot Toys' Lightyear Figure

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When audiences were first introduced to Buzz Lightyear in "Toy Story," he was a toy spaceman based on the star of a hit sci-fi movie in-universe. "Lightyear" is that movie. If that's too much ridiculousness to process, just pretend that Buzz Lightyear is Han Solo and Andy got a Han Solo action figure for his birthday after seeing "Star Wars" and it became his favorite new movie. Does that make sense? Movie gods, I sure hope it does.

Of course, as "Lightyear" is a Disney movie ripe for merchandising, there's no way they weren't going to make toys based...

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Titanic Is Coming Back To Theaters Valentine's Day 2023, So Prepare Your Door Arguments Now

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It looks like "Titanic" is the latest film to get the big-screen 3D remaster treatment. We've heard that "Jaws" will be hitting IMAX screens this September in a post-converted 3D experience and "Et" will also be re-released, although not in 3D.

Deadline reports that the aim is for "Titanic" to hit screens next Valentine's day in celebration of the film's 25th anniversary. Not so coincidentally, this is just a couple of months after the release of James Cameron's "Avatar" sequel, which will be utilizing much of the same projection tech.

This "Titanic" re-release will screen in 3D 4K Hdr and high frame rate (Hfr). In...

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