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All Americas articles – Page 305
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Before The Rains
Dir: Santosh Sivan US/India. 2007. 98minsA bittersweet journey from blinkered loyalty to rueful independence, Before The Rains captures the crumbling of British rule in 1930s India through a doomed love affair and its tragic consequences. In its more obvious moments it strays perilously close to the conventions of romantic fiction ...
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A Jihad For Love
Dir: Parvez Sharma USA/UK/France/Germany/Australia. 2007. 81minsFilmed over six years in twelve countries, A Jihad For Love compiles personal stories that illuminate the bitter struggles of lesbians andgay men to reconcile their homosexuality with their Muslim faith. The film presents itself as a modest first step in attempting to foster a ...
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Blood Brothers (Tian Tang Kou)
Dir: Alexi Tan, Taiwan/China/Hong Kong, 2007. 95minsThe closing film at the Venice film festival, Blood Brothers is a dark gangster fable set in 1930s Shanghai - and a stylish but hollow debut for John Woo protege Alexi Tan. For all the film's lush cinematography, spot-on period detail and all-star Asian ...
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Battle in Seattle
Director/Scr: Stuart Townsend. US, Canada. 2007. 100minsA labour of love for actor turned director Stuart Townsend, Battle In Seattle is an uneven but ultimately impassioned recreation of the riots at the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle . Documentary footage and fictional drama scenes make for initially uneasy bedfellows ...
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Across The Universe
Dir: Julie Taymor USA 2007. 129mins.The post-Chicago boom in screen musicals takes a novel twist with Across The Universe, a concept album-style love story set against the social upheavals of the 1960s and largely told through the songs of The Beatles. This ambitious Julie Taymor project veers between the soaring, ...
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Harry Potter now biggest franchise ever
The combined worldwide box office of the five Harry Potter films to date currently exceeds $4.47bn, overtaking box office totals of all 22 James Bond films and the six Star Wars films. Each of the first five Harry Potter films is among the top 20 worldwide releases in history. 'It ...
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Regent hires Proud Mary Entertainment's Aloe for acquisitions
Proud Mary Entertainment president Mary Aloe has been hired by Regent Releasing to source acquisitions for its existing $50m P&A fund. The fund was established through Merrill Lynch to provide strategic print and advertising support for Regent's slate. Aloe is in Toronto to help find the initial slate. 'We are ...
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China Clipper to fly with China's Hengdian, Canada's Long Tale
Vancouver-based Long Tale Entertainment has signed with Chinese production colossus Hengdian Studios for the $30m Canada-China co-production China Clipper.Long Tale's Harry Sutherland put the package together with US MoviePlus, the LA-arm of worldwide film finance entity set up by Stuart Little producer Steve Waterman and Chris Brough, founder of Vancouver's ...
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Veneziano to leave GreeneStreet to head new partner Icon
Ariel Veneziano is leaving GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI) to head Icon Entertainment International (IEI) as part of a strategic alliance between IEI and GreeneStreet Films (GSF).Effective Sept 17, the Los Angeles-based Veneziano will acquire rights to select GSF films and library titles as IEI bulks up sales on third party ...
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Fortissimo strikes multi-picture library deal with Jaman.com
Online film community Jaman.com has signed a multi-picture deal with Fortissimo Films, marking the latter's first internet VOD deal in North America.Under the agreement, Jaman will make available library titles such as Clara Law's Autumn Moon, Sergei Bodrov's Bear Kiss, Alex Van Warmerdam's The Dress, the Pang brothers' Bangkok Dangerous ...
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Polanksi drops out of Summit's Pompeii due to schedule conflict
Roman Polanski has left the forthcoming production of the epic drama Pompeii due to scheduling conflicts.The director pulled out after Summit International indicated it may have to postpone principal photography in Europe next summer due to concerns over a possible industry strike.Summit International is selling worldwide rights and is searching ...
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DHX corrals Chris Noonan's Zebras
Chris Noonan, director of Miss Potter and Babe, is preparing to shoot his next film, the $16m (A$20m) Australia-South Africa co-production Zebras.The original screenplay by David Williamson (The Year Of Living Dangerously, Phar Lap) is based on an Apartheid-era true story of Paul Krieje, an Afrikaaner who coached a Soweto ...
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Seema Biswas set for Deepa Mehta's Stella
Bandit Queen star Seema Biswas has signed for a lead role in Deepa Mehta's Stella, a $4m comedy set to shoot in New Delhi immediately following production of the recently announced Heaven On Earth.In a departure from form, Mehta will co-direct with her brother Dilip Mehta, production on many of ...
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DeMille, Saltman and Beck join Image Entertainment
California-based Image Entertainment has hired three new industry executives: Steven DeMille, Steve Saltman and J. Beck.DeMille will serve as senior VP, marketing. He comes from First Look Home Entertainment.Saltman has been named senior VP, domestic TV sales and he most recently worked at DEJ Productions.Finally, Beck has been hired by ...
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Lumina takes international rights to Heavy Metal In Baghdad
London-based Lumina picked up international sales rights yesterday in Toronto to Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi's documentary Heavy Metal In Baghdad, screening in Reel To Reel here. The film, which has had a strong response from audiences and buyers, is the story of two journalists attempting to track down the ...
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Arthouse, Red Envelope take Wagstaff and Mapplethorpe doc
Arthouse Films and Red Envelope Entertainment will jointly release the documentary Black White + Gray: A Portrait Of Sam Wagstaff And RobertMapplethorpe.James Crump's film premiered at Tribeca and will open theatrically in Los Angeles and New York at the end of the year followed by DVD release in 2008 on ...
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Sagansky named co-chairman of Peace Arch
Jeffrey Sagansky has been elected co-chairman of Peace Arch Entertainment Group, effective Sept 1, 2007.Sagansky will serve alongside Peace Arch's former chairman Drew Craig, currently co-chairman, in executing the company's business model.He previously served as chief executive officer of CBS Entertainment, co-president of Sony Pictures Entertainment, president of TriStar Pictures, ...
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Santoro may climb Old Mountain for Buena Onda Americas
Latin American specialists Buena Onda Americas, in Toronto as a partner with Canana on Cochochi, is in pre-production on The Old Mountain, a $2.7m Brazilian story to shoot in 2008.Producers are talking to actor Rodrigo Santoro about coming on board and Fernando Meirelles may executive produce; Ondamax will handle sales.The ...
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Podell promoted in acquisitions for Weinstein Company
Michal Podell has been promoted to senior vice president of acquisitions and business and legal affairs at The Weinstein Company.Podell, who formerly served as vice president of international business and legal affairs, is based in New York and will report to acquisitions heads Michelle Krumm and Maeva Gatineau and executive ...