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Noyce, Macdonald titles get world premieres at TIFF
Philip Noyce's US-SouthAfrica co-production Catch A Fireand Kevin Macdonald's Uganda-set The Last King Of Scotland are among six world premieres the TorontoInternational Film Festival has added to its line-up as it announced moreselections from the cinema of Africa and the African diaspora. Noyce's political thrilleris based on the real-life story ...
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Knud Rasmussen to open Atlantic Film Festival in Canada
The Journals Of KnudRasmussen, Zacharia Kunuk andNorman Cohn's follow up to Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, will open the 26th Atlantic FilmFestival in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Canada-Denmarkcoproduction -- like Atanarjuat shotprimarily in the langage of arctic aboriginal Inuit people -- is the openingnight film at the Toronto International Film Festival ...
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White Planet, Ghobadi Mozart film added to TIFF world premiere roster
Arctic documentary TheWhite Planet and films commissioned for the 250thanniversary of the birth of Mozart have been added to the line-up of the 31stToronto International Film Festival. The festival is also addingchild-themed programming under its Sprockets brand, including the NorthAmerican premiere of Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker, directed by Geoffrey ...
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Toronto premieres hit another crescendo
The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled anotherraft of world and international and North American premieres, with new filmsfrom Christopher Guest, Marc Forster, Roger Michell and Darren Aronofsky. Also in the mix is a joint world premiere with the VeniceFilm Festival of Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Mozart's opera The MagicFlute.Two ...
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Montreal World Film Fest unveils complete line-up
The Montreal World Film Festival (MWFF) has unveiled thecomplete line-up for its 30th edition, including 13 world premieresand six international premieres in its key World Competition programme.In all, the festival will present 215features, 106 world or international premieres and 58 North American premieres.As in past years, the World Competition has ...
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Bon Cop Bad Cop makes Alliance Atlantis' day
Quebecois action comedy Bon CopBad Cop became the first Quebec-made filmto break into the North American box office Top 20, all of it garnered withinthe province's exhibition circuits in Eastern Canada. Released by Alliance AtlantisVivafilm in the Quebec province August 4, the film pulled in over $1.27m(C$1.43m), the largest ever ...
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Toronto festival 'ratchets up acquisition frenzy'
Seeking to stoke up even more potential acquisitionactivity this September, the Toronto International Film Festival has announced15 world premieres and five international premieres it has identified asbuyer-friendly - that is, with major rights available -- including newfilms from Werner Herzog, Margarethe von Trotta, Hal Hartley, Tarsem Singh,Alek Keshishian, Scott Caan, ...
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IMAX to instal two cinemas in Ukraine
IMAX Corp andKiev-based production company Kinokompaniya 'Triumph' have announced plans tobuild two IMAX cinemas in Ukraine.The first complex is set to open in Kiev in early 2007 and the second to followin an unconfirmed major city in early 2008. The two cinemas will bring to ninethe number of IMAX facilities ...
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Alliance Atlantis shores up MDP with Sherry promotion
Alliance Atlantis' distribution arm Motion PictureDistribution (MPD) has promoted Jim Sherry to the position of executivemanaging director; Sherry was previously president of Canadian theatricaldistribution. The appointment comes in the wake of the sudden departure ofMPD chairman Victor Loewy and president and CEO Patrice Theroux in July. MPD CEO John Bailey ...
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Six more world premieres in TIFF's Discovery
The Toronto International Film Festival has added 13 titles toits Discovery line-up, bringing the total to 20, including eight world premieres.Among the anticipated films being unveiled for the first time are OutOf The Blue, Robert Sarkies' account of NewZealand's most infamous massacre in 199; Ed Stone's remake of GriffinAnd Phoenix ...
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Hot Docs to spotlight Central, Eastern Europe
Central and Eastern European documentary cinema will beshowcased at the 2007 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival aspart of the festival's National Spotlight programme.Films from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia will be considered forinclusion. In addition, Hot Docs will devote its Made In... sidebar ...
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Toronto launches 'envelope-pushing' Vanguard sidebar
The Toronto International Film Festival is launching a newprogramme, Vanguard, with four world premieres to back up the sidebar'sambition to showcase films that are "stylistically bold, structurally playfuland appeal to adventurous, risk-taking audiences." The four world premieres are, from Australia, GeoffreyWright's contemporary adaptation of Macbeth;from France, Chacun Sa Nuit byPascal ...
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Montreal's FNC bags new Trier comedy
Lars von Trier's The Boss Of It All will makes it North American premiere at Montreal'sFestival du Nouveau Cinema, which runs from October 18 to 28. The film will have its worldpremiere at the Copenhagen International Film Festival in September. The Danish-language comedy, which stars such von Trierregulars as Peter ...
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Montreal secures Yamato international premiere
Japanese second worldwar naval epic Yamato: The Last Battle will receive its international premiere at the Montreal World FilmFestival (MWFF).Directed by Junya Sato, produced by Haruki Kadokawa for the Toei Studio, andstarring Takashi Sorimachi and Shido Nakamura, the film recounts the lastmission of the pride of the Japanese fleet during ...
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Dixie Chicks doc gets Toronto gala berth
Dixie Chicks - Shut UpAnd Sing, by filmmakers BarbaraKopple and Cecilia Peck, will screen as a Gala presentation at the upcomingToronto International Film Festival (TIFF).It was one of 23 documentaries unveiled today, 13 of them world premieres,including Kurt Cobain About A Sonby A J Schnack, featuring unreleased audio interview with ...
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Congorama to open 35th Montreal festival
Montreal's Festival duNouveau Cinema will screen a selection of titles from the Cannes festival,including Ken Loach's Palmed'Or-winner TheWind That Shakes The Barley, Pedro Almodovar's Best Screenplay-winner Volver and Philippe Falardeau's Congorama, whichhas been selected to open the Montreal festival. The FNC said it expects both Loach and Almodovar to be ...
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Borat to premiere in Toronto's Midnight Madness
Killersheep and Sacha Baron Cohen are highlights of aseriously upgraded Midnight Madness programme at theupcoming Toronto International Film Festival. The late-night cult-themedsidebar has been graced with five world premieres including the docu-spoof Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make BenefitGlorious Nation Of Kazakhstan, starring the Ali G star Cohen in ...
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Loewy, Theroux out at Alliance Atlantis' MDP
Victor Loewy, the long-time head of Alliance AtlantisCommunication's distribution business, has resigned from his position ofchairman and director of Motion Picture Distribution LP (MPD). Also exiting thecompany is Patrice Theroux, another long-serving senior distribution executive,who leaves his post as president and CEO.MPD is the leading Canadian film distributor, with sub-distributiondeals ...
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Toronto makes song-and-dance about Bollywood
TheToronto International Film Festival will present world premieres from fourIndian filmmakers along with a Gala presentation of Karan Johar's New York City-set Bollywood-Hollywood romancer NeverSay Goodbye whose superstar cast thatincludes both Amitabh Bachchan and Shak Rukh Khan. The premieres include Kabir Khan's multiingual KabulExpress. Starring John Abraham, the film wasshot ...
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Polley, Maddin premieres crown TIFF's Canadian line-up
World premieres of SarahPolley's feature debut Away From Her andGuy Maddin's Brand Upon The Brain!will be among the Canadian offerings at this year's Toronto International FilmFestival. Starring Julie Christie andGordon Pinsent, Polley's highly-anticipated production has been given a covetedGala spot. The Maddin picture, screening as a Special Presentation, istypically idiosyncratic: ...