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Myriad greenlights Aussie horror tale
Santa Monica-based Myriad Pictures will produce, finance and handle worldwide sales for the horror film Drive The Night, its latest project under its deal with comic book publisher Studio 407.Bill Bennett wrote and will direct the tale of a couple that gets lost on a haunted road in the Outback. ...
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Chungmuro fest partners with Cannes Directors' Fortnight
Korea's 2nd Chungmuro International Film Festival In Seoul (CHIFFS) has announced an inaugural competition section angled at 'classics of the future', as well as a special retrospective partnered with Cannes ' Directors Fortnight celebrating 40 years of the sidebar's films. With a five-person jury to include The Deer Hunter director ...
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Asia Pacific Screen Awards establishes an academy
Encouraging dialogue, collaboration and business relationships between filmmakers is the underlying aim of the establishment of The Academy of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs). The next step in the development of the awards was announced in Brisbane today by Queensland Premier Anna Bligh.'The APSAs bring the best filmmakers from ...
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The Monkey's Mask
Dir: Samantha Lang. Australia. 2000. 91 mins.Prod co: Arena Film. International sales: Studio Canal (33-1) 4443 9800. Prods: Robert Connolly, John Maynard. Scr: Anne Kennedy, based on the verse novel by Dorothy Porter. DoP: Garry Philips. Prod des: Michael Philips. Ed: Dany Cooper. Mus: Andrew Kotatko. Main cast: Susie Porter, ...
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Fortissimo to debut Dance Subaru! at Cannes
Fortissimo Films has boarded pan-Asian co-production Dance Subaru! as sales agent outside of Asia, and will be introducing the film at this year's Cannes film festival.Several Asian powerhouses are joining forces on the film (see related articles below), including Japan's Avex Entertainment, Korea's SM Entertainment, Singapore's MediaCorp Raintree Pictures and ...
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Feng Xiaogang puts Nobles project on hold
Leading Chinese director Feng Xiaogang (Assembly, The Banquet) has put his new project The Nobles on hold to an indefinite date, producer Huayi Brothers Pictures has confirmed. Huayi's spokesperson said the project, which was originally scheduled to start shooting in April and was aiming for a Christmas release, needs more ...
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The Foot Fist Way
Dir: Jody Hill. US. 2008. 87 mins.Ascendant US funnyman Danny McBride stars in this comedy about a small-town martial arts instructor - an amiable but meandering tale that wears out both its threadbare premise and welcome long before the end of its running time. The Foot Fist Way (the title ...
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Sex And The City
Dir: Michael Patrick King. US. 2008. 140mins.Four years after the series finale of HBO's iconic Sex And The City, the eagerly-awaited film version arrives with much of the spirit and humour intact, a juicily melodramatic plotline and more over-the-top fashion than is decent for one movie. Fans of the series, ...
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Abel Ferrara finishing juvenile crime project Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Rome-based sales company and producer Minerva Pictures Group will be in Cannes with a new project from Abel Ferrara, Napoli, Napoli, Napoli.Currently in post-production, the film - which is destined for a theatrical release - interweaves documentary with narrative footage by combining interviews with three female inmates with scripted scenes ...
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Simon West to direct Let It Ride for Intandem
Producer Mace Neufeld and director Simon West will reunite for the new heist thriller Let It Ride. The pair previously worked together on The General's Daughter for Paramount in 1999.The $22m thriller is out to cast now, with a waiver in place for any potential SAG strike.Let It Ride will ...
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Simon Rexworthy promoted to acqusitions at Sky Movies
British Sky Broadcasting has promoted Simon Rexworthy to controller of acquisitions for Sky Movies and Sky Box Office.He takes over for Lisa MacDonald.Rexworthy will now oversee all of Sky's film acquisition and rights negotiations, including overseeing the development of VOD and PPV movie services.He continues as Financial Controller for Movies ...
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Andy Weltman takes UK production exec post in LA
Andy Weltman has been appointed production executive by British Film Commissioner Colin Brown.Weltman will be based in the UK Film Council US office in Los Angeles, and he will be responsible for building relationships with US film-makers hoping to shoot in the UK.Colin Brown said: 'I'm delighted that Andy has ...
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Pre-Cannes, Waltz With Bashir sold to France, UK and Germany
A week ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir has been sold by The Match Factory to France (Le Pacte), the UK (Curzon Artificial Eye) and Germany (Pandora Filmverleih).'We are very excited about the fact that this unique animated documentary ...
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Caruso, Conte plan $60m epic feature on life of William Tell
Veteran US producers Fred Caruso (Blue Velvet) and D. Constantine Conte (48 Hours) have unveiled plans to produce the $60m medieval epic feature The Adventures Of William Tell, based on the life of the legendary national hero of Switzerland.A single-purpose company Tell Productions Ltd. has acquired the film rights to ...
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Sheridan Group closes Dublin IMAX
Dublin's 370-seat IMAX cinema, operated by the Belfast-based Sheridan Group, was closed down at short notice on Sunday (October 8).The large-format cinema in Dublin's city centre opened June 4, 1998 with what was then claimed to be the biggest cinema screen in Europe. It forms part of a linear on-street ...
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Fred Kogel to step down as Constantin CEO, Burgener will succeed
Leading German producer-distributor Constantin Film has announced that its current CEO Fred Kogel has extended his contract until the end of the year, but will then be succeeded in this position by the group's present supervisory board chairman Bernhard Burgener.Kogel had replaced Bernd Eichinger as CEO in April 2003 and ...
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Eurimages backs 10 films with $6m
At its 110th meeting, May 4-6 in Amsterdam, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund made its latest funding awards.The European co-production support includes 10 feature films for a total of almost $6m (Euros 3.875m)The films are: Besa - Srdjan Karanovic (Serbia, Slovenia, Hungary, France) Bon ...
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Bavaria picks up international for Daniel Burman's Argentine hit
Bavaria Film International has taken on international distribution for Argentinean director Daniel Burman's current box-office hit Empty Nest (El Nido Vacio).All About My Mother's Cecilia Roth and Oscar Martinez star as a married couple in their prime suddenly confronted with the 'empty nest syndrome' the moment their youngest child leaves ...
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Penny Wolf launches new Film Consultancy Partners
UK-based sales veteran Penny Wolf is launching her new outfit The Film Consultancy Partners at Cannes this week.The London-based company is a boutique film consultancy working in international film distribution, marketing and financing.'I think there are so many sales companies in the UK so I didn't want to be another ...
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Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko starts shooting May 18
UK-based sales company Velvet Octopus will be launching sales in Cannes for S. Darko, billed as the sequel to the 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko. Fox has already taken North American rights.Daviegh Chase reprises her role as Donnie's younger sister. The cast for S. Darko also includes Ed Westwick (Son ...