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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of Diane Arbus
Dir: Steven Shainberg. US. 2006. 122mins.A surprising and seductive curio from Secretary directorSteven Shainberg, Furis one of the season's most unusual films. On the one hand, its high-calibrecast led by Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jrscreams of prestige awards contender, while on the other its unconventionalpacing, largely fictional story about ...
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Resfest to kick off world tour in Chicago
Travelling digital arts andfilm festival Resfest will kick off in Chicago on Oct 19 before travelling to a total of 45 cities onsix continents. The festival, now in its 10th year, has announced dates for citiesincluding Paris (Oct 20-22), Rome (Nov 3-5), Singapore (Nov 10-12), London (Nov 14-19), Montreal (Nov ...
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Cage to receive Chopard career award at 3rd Bahamas film festival
Nicolas Cage will receive the 3rd Annual Bahamas InternationalFilm Festival (BIFF)'s Chopard Award in recognition of his career.The four-day event runs from Dec 7-10 and will screen a selectionof Cage pictures including Wild At Heart, Adaptation, and Face/Off. The actor and Bahamanian resident willalso take part in an on-stage interview.BIFF ...
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Virgin Comics, Kahani World to make feature of Seven Sounds
Richard Branson's Virgin Comics has teamed up with Toronto-basedanimation company Kahani World on the full-length animated adaptation of SecretOf The Seven Sounds.Full production is set to begin in late November and the animatedfeature will be brought to market in the summer of 2007.Based on the epic Indian poem Ramayana, Secret ...
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Michel promoted to head of east coast talent at William Morris Agency
WilliamMorris Agency (WMA) has promoted Randi Michel to head of talent, East Coast.Michel willoversee the growth of the agency's talent operations in New York. BeverlyHills-based Gaby Morgerman heads WMA's worldwide talent operations.'It givesus great pleasure to promote one of WMA's home grown agents,' WMA chiefexecutive officer Jim Wiatt said. 'Randi ...
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Fox revises Prada international weekend to $19.4m
The DevilWears Prada was a biggeroverseas hit at the weekend than originally thought and grossed $19.4maccording to revised figures from Fox International.Thecomedy debuted in three major territories and took $2.7m in France, $2.3m inRussia, and $6.1m in the UK as previously reported. The international runningtotal currently stands at $42.2m.SummitEntertainment/Constantin's murder ...
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Australia's Horniak wins HATCHfest for student short Love Proof
The third annual HATCHfestAudiovisual Arts Festival closed in Bozeman, Montana, with the presentation ofthe Moonlight Basin Outstanding Filmmaker Award to Australia's Maia Horniak forher short film Loveproof.Thefilm festival, which brings in student film-makers from around the world with aview to offering mentorship, education and inspiration, gave Horniak a cashprize of ...
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Google buys video sharing website YouTube for $1.7bn
Google has bought the video sharing website YouTube in a dealbelieved to be worth $1.7bn in stock.The companies will continue to operate independently. YouTubelaunched in February 2005 and swiftly became one of the most popular sites onthe web with an estimated 70million individual visitors each month.The acquisition gives Google an ...
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Brooks starts Definitely, Maybe for Working Title
Working Title Films and Universal Pictures will start principalphotography this week in New York City forromantic comedy Definitely, Maybe. Thefilm stars Ryan Reynolds, Rachel Weisz, Derek Luke, Isla Fisher, ElizabethBanks and Abigail Breslin.Adam Brooks, who previously wrote Wimbledon and co-wrote Bridget Jones: The Edge OfReason, wrote and will direct the ...
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Grierson nominees include Unknown White Male
The 2006 GriersonAwards, The British Documentary Awards, have announced this year's nominees.Most of thenominees are for TV documentaries but the UK Film Council sponsors a cinemadocumentary category. The four nominees in that category are Alex Gibney's Enron: The Smartest GuysIn The Room, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' The Road To ...
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London Film Festival ramps up industry plans
TheTimes BFI London Film Festival, celebrating its 50th event, has launchedseveral new industry initiatives. Whilethe festival is primarily consumer-focused, several UK deals were struck last yearfor films including Man Push Cart, QuoVadis Baby' and Heading South.Thefestival will host a Meet The Buyer session on Oct 24.Industryscreenings, backed by Film London, ...
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EFP backs 11 films to be sold in Pusan
EuropeanFilm Promotion's Film Sales Support is backing European sales agents andproducers for the third year at the Pusan International Film Festival (Oct12-20). The 11films being supported and the affiliated companies are Florian Henckel vonDonnersmarck's The Lives Of Others (BetaCinema); Uli Gaulke's Comrades In Dreams(Flying Moon); Matthias Luthardt's Pingpong(Media Luna); Laila ...
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Loughran to head new US Irish Film office
Following the announcementof its intention to open its first overseas office in Los Angeles (made earlier this year at Cannes) the Irish Film Board has confirmed the appointmentof Jonathan Loughran as VP Irish Film Commission, effective mid-November.The new office will becalled the Irish Film Commission US and will focus on ...
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Margaret von Schiller departs Berlinale Panorama
TheBerlinale's Panorama section has announced personnel changes as part of the restructuringof the past few months that has seen the Panorama Short Film programme mergedwith that of the Official Competition.In apersonal communique, Panorama's director Wieland Speck revealed that Margaretvon Schiller, who had become his successor as Panorama shorts programmer in1992, ...
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Japan's NTV, NTT plan secure web-casting venture
Japanese private broadcaster Nippon Television (NTV) and telecom NTT are planning a joint venture to provide copyright management and security services to companies broadcasting content, including films and TV programmes, over the internet.The partners intend to recruit a wide range of companies, including TV networks and internet service providers, as ...
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Polybona boards Bigfoot's Chinese-language Huilu
China's Beijing Polybona has come on board as co-producer on Huilu, the Chinese-language version ofHong Kong-based Bigfoot Entertainment's psychological thriller Irreversi.The move qualifies the filmas a Hong Kong-China co-production, thus making it eligible for release inmainland China. Huilu wasshot in Hong Kong almost back-to-back with the English-language Irreversi, the directorial ...
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New Wales film agency taps staffers
The newly created FilmAgency for Wales has announced its initial staffing.Pauline Burt will head theagency as chief executive, as previously reported, and she will be joined byBritt Harrison as head of talent and Anneli Jones as talent developmentexecutive. Burt previously worked at London's Mansfield Associates, the Royal Bank of Scotland ...
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Robbie Williams hosts short-film competition
Singer Robbie Williams is workingwith film-makers community Shooting People to encourage emerging film-makers tomake short films to complement his new album Rudebox. Responding to a wide brief,film-makers submitted a variety of treatments using as much or as little fromthe album tracks as they wanted. Williams himself selected and green-lit theseven ...
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Benton and Jeffrey to head new Ingenious Securities
Media infestment group Ingenious has appointed Robert Bentonand Richard Jeffrey as chief executive and head of securities, respectively, ofIngenious Securities. Both had worked at Bridgewell Securities.The new business will launch in 2007 to provide research onthe media sector. The pair have worked closely withIngenious during recent fundraising and the ...
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Vue's Tim Richards gets entrepreneur award
Vue Entertainment chief executiveTim Richards has been named Ernst & Young's UK Entrepreneur Of The Year. Richards left the US exhibition business to found Vue in 1998. The companynow runs 53 cinemas across the UK. "Tim left a successfulcareer to take on the industry giants. He has turned his industry's ...