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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Dir: Sidney Lumet, 2007 , US , 123mins.Sidney Lumet is back on familiar territory with this caper gone awry. This time it's a plot by two desperate adult brothers, Andy and Hank (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke), to rob their parents' suburban jewellery store, which ends up killing their ...
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Disengagement
Dir. Amos Gitai. France / Israel / Germany / Italy , 2007. 115 mins.Amos Gitai's systematic chronicle of modern Israeli history reaches one of its more sensitive and inevitable points in this dramatised version of the recent crisis generated by the unilateral decision, taken by the Sharon government, to dismantle ...
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AFI FEST line-up include world premiere of Public Enemy doc
AFI FEST 2007 has unveiled 15 official selections for November including the world premieres of documentaries Public Enemy: Welcome To The Terrodome and 1,000 Journals. Robert Patton-Spruill's Public Enemy: Welcome To The Terrodome charts the 20-year history of the hip hop legends, while Andrea Kreuzhage's 1,000 Journals examines a ...
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Andi Isaacs takes production job at Summit Entertainment
Andi Isaacs has joined Summit Entertainment as senior vice president of physical production and will oversee all aspects of in-house productions for the fledgling studio. She reports to chief operating officer Bob Hayward. Isaacs recently served as a production executive for Walt Disney Pictures from 2004-06 and before that ...
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Travolta to receive Santa Barbara's Douglas award
John Travolta will receive the Kirk Douglas Award For Excellence In Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) on Nov 15. Douglas himself with present the honour to Travolta, whose film roles include this summer's North American hit Hairspray, Pulp Fiction, Urban Cowboy, Grease, and Saturday Night ...
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Hollywood Film Festival to honour Affleck and Hampton
Casey Affleck will receive the Hollywood Breakthrough Actor of the Year Award, and Christopher Hampton the Hollywood Screenwriter Of The Year Award at the upcoming Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards in Los Angeles on Oct 22. Brad Bird's Ratatouille will receive the Hollywood Animation Of The Year Award and ...
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Goldwyn acquires Lelouch's thriller Roman De Gare
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights for Claude Lelouch's new thriller Roman De Gare, which premiered in Cannes and opened in August in France.Dominique Pinon and Fanny Ardant star in the story of a popular novelist who does unusual research to find new characters. Lelouch wrote, directed and produced. ...
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Bart Walker joins Cinetic Media as partner
Bart Walker has joined Cinetic Media as a partner as the company announced it was expanding to allow film-makers and financiers to 'take greater control' of the film-making process.Walker joins Cinetic founder John Sloss and Robert Nathan on the partnership, at the same time as the company announced it has ...
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Jeff Daniels turns Traitor in Toronto
Overture Films' spy thriller Traitor, which begins filming in Toronto with writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff gets added boost from Jeff Daniels who joins Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce in the cast.Neal McDonough, Archie Panjabi, Alyy Kahn and Said Taghmaoui also star in the tale of a rogue operative who helps terrorists, ...
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Margot At The Wedding
Director/Scr: Noah Baumbach US . 2007. 91minsBaumbach's ambitious follow-up to the much admired The Squid And The Whale (2005) has echoes of Rohmer and vintage Woody Allen in its depiction of the affairs of the heart but lacks the laser-like precision, economy and easy approachability of his earlier hit. A ...
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The Brave One
Dir: Neil Jordan. US. 2007. 122 mins.Jodie Foster delivers a performance far superior to her material in Neil Jordan's self-consciously provocative and largely absurd vigilante drama - which has its world premiere as a Special Presentation in Toronto. Attempting to hit the same hot buttons as other audacious studio movies ...
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The Brothers Solomon
Dir: Bob Odenkirk. US. 2007. 94mins.Coming only three months after another mainstream R-rated comedy revolving around an impending birth, The Brothers Solomon will likely enjoy neither the critical accolades nor the bountiful box-office that greeted the arrival of this summer's Knocked Up. Though not without its screwball charm and occasionally ...
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Maximum and Fortissimo strike Canadian-Asian partnership
Robert Lantos' new Toronto-based distribution and sales company Maximum Films has created an unusual partnership with Hong Kong-based Fortissimo Films whereby Maximum will distribute Fortissimo's films in Canada and Fortissimo will represent the sale of Maximum's projects in Asia. The deal, for an initial term of two years, was unveiled ...
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Cirrus dives into Surfing In Newfoundland
Fresh from its latest Quebec smash Nitro, Montreal-based Cirrus Communications is setting up its next film, Surfing In Newfoundland.Quebecois filmmaker Eric Tessier (Sur Le Seuil) will make his English-language debut, directing the screenplay by Newfoundland writer Andrew Youngblood based on his own experiences surfing the frigid north Atlantic waters. With ...
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Canada's Triptych readies High Life with Garry Yates
Toronto-based Triptych Media, co-producers of TIFF Closing Night title Emotional Arithmetic, is readying its next feature, High Life, with director Garry Yates (Seven Times Lucky).Triptych's Robin Cass is setting the project up as an Ontario-Manitoba coproduction with plans to begin principal photography later this autumn. Based on the darkly comic ...
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Tom Green, Crispin Glover chill out with comedy Freezer Burn
Tom Green and Crispin Glover have joined Film Bridge International and Panacea Entertainment's action comedy Freezer Burn.Principal photography is set to begin in October in Alberta, Canada, with Grant Harvey directing and Film Bridge's Ellen Wander producing alongside Panacea president and executive producer Josh Miller.Santa Monica-based Film Bridge is overseeing ...
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Graham King takes on pitch from Brave One writer Mort
Graham King's GK Films has acquired a murder mystery pitch from Cynthia Mort, one of the screenwriters on the Jodie Foster crime drama The Brave One that gets its world premiere today.King will produce the project, which is styled as a fast paced morality tale 'in keeping with what was ...
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Bartkowiak signs to direct Hyde Park's Street Fighter
Andrzej Bartkowiak has signed to direct the live action feature film of video game Street Fighter for Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and games publisher Capcom Co Ltd. The film based on Capcom's Street Fighter game property will begin production pre-strike in early 2008 in Asia and North America, and ...
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Summit takes North American rights to Penelope
Summit Entertainment has taken North American rights to Mark Palansky's fantasy drama Penelope starring Christina Ricci, James McAvoy and Reese Witherspoon.The film slots into Summit's nascent domestic distribution pipeline and looks likely to be a 2008 release. The first film to go is expected to be the thriller P2 in ...
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THINKFilm takes North America for My Brother Is An Only Child
THINKFilm has acquired North American rights to Daniele Luchetti's Italian-French hit My Brother Is An Only Child (Mio Fratello E Figlio Unico).The comedy caper is playing in the festival here after screening in Cannes last May and will open in North America in March 2008.THINKFilm International's head of sales Eve ...