Posted by: Riikka

18 Jan 2008

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The Other Boleyn Girl will premiere at the 58th Annual Berlin International Film Festival, which will run between February 7-17 2008. Check out the Berlinare official site for further details and future announcements regarding the exact premiere date.

Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman were added to a star-filled Berlin Film Festival lineup on Friday that already includes the Rolling Stones, Martin Scorsese and Madonna.

The Berlinale, the first major European festival of the new year, rounded out its 26-film main programme with the final eight selections after it earlier picked Scorsese’s documentary on veteran British rock bank the Rolling Stones as its opener.

Festival director Dieter Kosslick has packed the “out of competition” section of the main programme with a formidable collection of Hollywood stars.

Fireflies in the Garden, starring Roberts as well as The Other Boleyn Girl with Portman, Johansson and Eric Bana, will be making their world premiere in Berlin, considered one of the world’s top festivals.

Also added to the competition is French-German co-production I’ve Loved You So Long starring Kristin Scott Thomas.

The closing film of the festival, which runs from Feb. 7-17, is Be Kind Rewind featuring Mia Farrow and Danny Glover.

Organisers have already said that Oscar-winning director Scorsese and the Rolling Stones will make an appearance.

Shine A Light draws on footage from two Stones concerts at the Beacon Theatre in New York in late 2006, which include guest appearances by Jack White of the White Stripes, Christina Aguilera, and Buddy Guy.

Among other entrants picked earlier is a film based on the biography of a child soldier during Eritrea’s independence struggle, Heart of Fire, which tells the story of a girl who says she was abandoned to a guerrilla group and trained to kill. Also showcasing will be Happy-Go-Lucky by Britain’s Oscar-nominated director Mike Leigh, and Elegy, a U.S. production based on a Philip Roth novel and starring Penelope Cruz and Dennis Hopper.

The festival will include the directorial debut of U.S. pop star Madonna, who is expected to attend. Her film Filth and Wisdom is part of the Panorama avant garde section.

Source: Reuters

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