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IMAX system to be installed in ZAO multiplex in Ufa, Russia
IMAX Corp. and Ufa,Russia-based exhibitor ZAO Kompaniya Perspektiva have signed an agreement toinstall an IMAX MPX theatre system in ZAO's flagship multimplex. Located in central Russia,Ufa is the fourth Russian city where IMAX cinemas are set to debut by the endof 2006. New facilities are expected to open in Kazan, ...
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Losique calls for inquiry into New FilmFest 'mess'
Responding to the debaclethat was the inaugural Festival International de Film de Montreal, itslong-established rival, the Montreal World Film Festival, is calling for anindependent inquiry into the decision to fund the fledgling event, whichreceived C$2m in government support, most of it from Telefilm Canada and itsQuebec equivalent SODEC.While onlookers might ...
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New Montreal FilmFest apologises for poor audience turnout
Quebec actor Luc Picard'sdirectorial debut L'Audition tookthe top competition prize, the Gold Iris of Montreal, as the inaugural FestivalInternational de Film de Montreal (FIFM) stumbled to a conclusion on Sundaynight. The awards announcementwas accompanied by a 1,000 word apologia from festival brass acknowledging that"this edition did not measure up to ...
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Hot Docs to spotlight Japanese docs at 2006 event
Hot Docs, Canada's majordocumentary film festival, will spotlight contemporary Japanese documentaryfilmmaking as part of its "Made in..." programme at the festival's 2006 edition."Made in ...", which was on hiatus at this year's event, has previously explorednon-fiction production in Taiwan (2003) and South Africa (2004). In a statement, Hot Docsexecutive director ...
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Water
Dir/scr.Deepa Mehta. Can. 2005. 114mins.As intelligent as it isravishing, Deepa Mehta's Water is amoving portrayal of impossible love and possible hope. Fronted by an equally ravishingcombination of Bollywood stars Lisa Ray and John Abraham and cloaked in ahistorical drama set within Indian's widow caste, it tells the story of a ...
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Montreal FilmFest has Pride for closing night
The Closing Night film atthe Festival International de Film de Montreal has been changed but the newfilm still stars Keira Knightley. The fledgling event suffered a major PRset-back this weekend when New Line pulled Tony Scott`s Domino, starring Knightley as the wild child of film actorLaurence Harvey, out of the ...
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit
Dirs: Nick Park, Steve Box.UK. 2005. 85mins.A delirious blend ofwhimsy and wit, the long-awaited Wallace & Gromit feature is sure tocharm all who encounter it. Having already opened in Australia - just ahead ofits Toronto appearance - to substantially better figures than those forAardman's previous feature, the buoyant Chicken Run, ...
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit
Dirs: Nick Park, Steve Box.UK. 2005. 85mins.A delirious blend ofwhimsy and wit, the long-awaited Wallace & Gromit feature is sure tocharm all who encounter it. Having already opened in Australia - just ahead ofits Toronto appearance - to substantially better figures than those forAardman's previous feature, the buoyant Chicken Run, ...
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Canada gives Oscar nod to C.R.A.Z.Y.
Jean-Marc Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y. has been selected as Canada's submission for the foreignlanguage film Oscar category.A smash hit in the provinceof Quebec, where it has earned C$5.4m to date, the French-language title wonthe best Canadian feature prize at the recently wrapped Toronto InternationalFilm Festival.Marc-Andre Grodin stars asZac, the sexually confused and ...
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Toronto's mega-studio won't be so mega
It will be bigbut not as big is was supposed to be: the size and cost of the much-anticipatedToronto mega-studio has been scaled back. As reportedSept. 10 in Screendaily, Toronto Film Studios (TFS) has signed a land leasewith the City of Toronto, a crucial step toward breaking ground on thestate-of-the-art ...
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Cronenberg Maps future with Wagner, Fields
David Cronenberg is plottinga film of Bruce Wagner's original screenplay Maps To TheStars, to be produced by Robert Lantos and his Serendipity Point Films.But whether he will get to Mapsas his next film is uncertain, since there has been movement on hislong-gestating film of Martin Amis' London Fields. Cronenberg told ...
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Soda takes C.R.A.Z.Y. for UK
UK distributor Soda has picked up on Jean-Marc Vallee's Canadian smash C.R.A.Z.Y.Soda co-president EveGabereau signed the all-rights deal on Tuesday in negotiation with Francois Yonof Paris-based Films Distribution on behalf of producer Pierre Even of Montreal's Cirrus Productions. It's the latest majorEuropean territory to fall for the Quebecois coming-of-age tale, ...
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Capote
Dir. Bennett Miller. US. 2005. 110mins.Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers agalvanising and awards-worthy performance in Capote, the superbdramatisation of US novelist Truman Capote at the zenith of his career: the sixyears from 1959 to 1965 that he devoted to his ground-breaking 'non-fiction'novel In Cold Blood.But the real star of the show ...
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FIFM to dole out bounty of prizes
The Festival Internationalde Film de Montreal is preparing to hand out an embarrassment oftrophies when its inaugural edition closes on September 25.The FIFM, topped by Moritzde Hadeln, announced it will present seven audience awards, including four forshort films, and three extra prizes on top of its already announced Iris Awardsfor ...
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Canada's Frieberg gets ready to Throw
Canadian producer CameliaFrieberg is set to become a triple threat, co-writing and directing her firstfeature film, A Stone's Throw. Production of the $1m filmwill be through her Halifax-based Palpable Pictures. Garfield Lindsay Miller, aVictoria-based writer and producer of documentaries, collaborated on thescreenplay. The film will shoot on location in February ...
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Mehta plots Exclusion as Water follow-up
Still riding the strong reaction to her Toronto festivalopener Water, hot Canadian director Deepa Mehta is already preparing hernext project, Exclusion, with Water star John Abraham in thelead. Mehta is looking to shoot in Calcutta and Vancouver next summer.The screenplay, written by Mehta, concerns the little-known Komagata Maruincident of 1914, ...
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Sweeney's American Venus set for November shoot
Vancouver-basedBrightlight Pictures is set for a November shoot on writer-director BruceSweeney's American Venus. The$3.8m production will be produced by Brightlight co-presidents Shawn Williamsonand Steve Hegyes.Telefilm Canada, Corus' Movie Central, Astral's The MovieNetwork and CHUM are backing the project and Montreal-based TVA has picked upall Canadian rights. Hegyes told Screen International ...
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Lelouch heads up jury of New Montreal FilmFest
French auteurClaude Lelouch will head the international jury of inaugural Golden Iriscompetition at the Festival International de Film de Montreal. Lelouch's newdramatic comedy Le Courage D'Aimer will make its international premiere at the event, which launchesits first edition from September 18 to 25.Lelouch will bejoined on the jury by Italian ...