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Warlords conquers more territories including India, Brazil
Hong Kong-based Media Asia Distribution has sealed several more deals on Peter Ho-sun Chan's The Warlords, including the sale of Indian rights to Palador Pictures. The war epic, starring Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro, also went to Rialto for Australia, Imagem for Brazil and Dutch Filmworks for Benelux.Rialto ...
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Ed Gein wins best film award at Sitges
US title Ed Gein, directed by Chuck Parello, walked away the big winner on Saturday from the International Film Festival of Catalunya, better known as Sitges (October 5-14).The horror film about the real-life serial killer who inspired films such as Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence Of The ...
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Imagina sells Chef's Special to 20+ territores.
Nacho G Velilla's debut feature Chef's Special has been sold by Imagina sales to several key territories, including the US, on the back of its success at the Spanish box office. TLA releasing has taken rights to the family comedy for the US, Canada, UK and Ireland; Cine, Video Y ...
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Lanners' Eldorado takes Europa Cinemas Label in Cannes
Belgian director Bouli Lanners' Eldorado has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Directors' Fortnight section in Cannes.This marks Europa Cinemas sixth year giving the prize; last year's winner was Anton Corbijn's Control.The jury was comprised of four exhibitors: Christine Beauchemin-Flot (France); Maeve Cooke (Ireland); Mark ...
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Liberation takes US rights to Just Buried
Liberation Entertainment has picked up US rights from Submarine Entertainment to Chaz Thorne's horror tale Just Buried.The fledgling distributor plans an autumn release for the Trilogy Entertainment and Standing 8 Productions film, which premiered at Toronto last year.Jay Bucharel and Rose Byrne star in the story of a man who ...
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Elad Keidan's Anthem wins Cinefondation top award
The Cannes Cinefondation has awarded Elad Keidan's Anthem with its top prize.The film hails from Israel's Sam Speigel Film & TV School. Each of the contenders for the Cinefondation prize comes from a film school student.This year 17 films from Asia, Europe, North and South America vied in the competition. ...
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Aida Begic's Snow takes Critics Week Grand Prize
Critics Week has crowned Aida Begic's Snow with its Grand Prize.The film is a co-production from Bosnia Herzegovina, Germany, France and Iran and along with the prize also comes with a $8,000 (Euros 5,000) purse given to the director.The ensemble drama about the aftermath of the Balkan war is being ...
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MK2 add sales for 24 City
MK2 has announced sales on Jia Zhang Ke's 24 City .Deals were closed on the official Cannes competition film in the UK with New Wave, Benelux with Cineart, Greece with Seven Group, Korea with With Cinema, Portugal's Atalanta, Ex-Yugoslavia's Megacom and Austria's Stadtkino.MK2 said that negotiations were pending in Brazil ...
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ReviewsChelsea On The Rocks
Dir. Abel Ferrara. US. 2008. 88minsThe Chelsea hotel in New York has a global reputation as the place where artists go to enhance their notoriety. Dylan Thomas slid into alcoholic oblivion from a room at the Chelsea. Sid Vicious’s girlfriend Nany Spungen died there and its ...
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Jupiter picks up French-speaking territories to Yasukuni
Jupiter Communications has picked up all rights for French-speaking territories to Li Ying's documentary Yasukuni, from Hong Kong-based sales agent The Film Library. The controversial film, about the Yasukuni shrine to worship the war dead in Tokyo, was released in Japan on May 3. It was originally scheduled to open ...
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Dvortesevoi's Tulpan triumphs in Un Certain Regard
Sergey Dvortsevoy's debut Tulpan has been awarded the top prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard.The jury, led by Fatih Akin, chose the film from 20 in competition, including six other first films.The film, set in the film-makers' native Kazakhstan, was rapturously received at its screening in Cannes.Screen's review described it ...
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McQueen's Hunger lands in US with IFC Films
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Steve McQueen's Maze Prison drama Hunger starring Michael Fassbender and Liam Cunningham.The film, whichopened Un Certain Regard at Cannes, interprets events during the 1981 hunger strike by incarcerated IRA terrorists led by Bobby Sands. Enda Walsh wrote the screenplay.Laura Hastings-Smith and Robin Gutch ...
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Before The Storm
Dir: Reza Persa. Sweden. 2000. 110 mins.Prod co: Illusion Film. Co-prods: Film i Vast, Felicia Film, Per Holst Film, Norsk Film. Int'l Sales: Nordisk Film International (45) 33 26 68 80. Prods: Peter Hiltunen, Johan Falemark. Scr: Mikael Bengtsson, Parsa. DoP: Eigil Bryld. Ed: Louise Brattberg. Main cast: Per Graffman, ...
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Number of countries represented at Cannes market tops 100
The Cannes Market had increased attendance this year up 2% over last year with a significant jump in the number of countries represented. There were 101 countries at the market as compared to 92 in 2007. For market review click hereNew faces came from Algeria, Burkina Faso, Guatemala, Jordan, Macedonia ...
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Cannes 2008 in pictures
Day 11: Laurent Cantet, Cannes prizewinnersDay 10: includes Wim Wenders, Dennis HopperDay 9: includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emily WatsonDay 8: includes Benicio Del Toro, Sharon StoneDay 7: includes Spike Lee, Julia OrmondDay 6: includes Angelina Jolie, Clint Eastwood, Gwyneth PaltrowDay 5: includes John Woo, Jackie ChanDay 4: includes Steven Spielberg, ...
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New Wave takes on Un Certain Regard winner Tulpan
Robert Beeson and Pam Engel's new UK distribution company New Wave Films has taken on yet another Cannes title: Tulpan.New Wave acquired all UK rights for Tulpan from sales company The Match Factory on Friday night. Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan then won the top prize in Un Certain Regard on Saturday.The ...
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Naomi Kawase unveils ambitious plans for new Japanese festival
Film-maker Naomi Kawase has unveiled plans to launch the Nara International Film Festival.Kawase - whose The Mourning Forest won the Cannes 2007 Grand Prix - is chairing non-profit organisation The Nara International Film Festival Planning Committee and is lobbying for funds for a major event through the federal government's $24.2m ...
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Laurent Cantet's The Class takes Palme d'Or
Laurent Cantet's The Class (Entre Les Murs) has taken this year's Palme d'Or.The film is a Paris classroom drama-documentary based on a novel by Francois Begaudeau, who playsa teacher in the filmworking in a tough Parisian neighbourhood.Screen's four-star review describes it as offering 'a rich microcosm of today's multi-ethnic French ...
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Indiana Jones finds treasure with $269m worldwide opening
Paramount and Lucasfilms' Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull unearthed plenty of box office gold at the weekend, grossing an estimated $143m in the international marketplace and another $126m in North America. Though it did not break any records, Crystal Skull will, if early estimates are confirmed, end up among ...
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Gainsbourg, Yelchin and Common among cast for Terminator Salvation
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anton Yelchin, Kate Connor, Moon Bloodgood andrapper Common have joined the cast of Halcyon Company's sci-fi epicTerminator Salvation: The Future Begins, which started production inAlbuquerque, New Mexico, on May 5.Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the leader of the humanresistance and sworn enemy of the tyrannical Skynet organisation ...