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  • Reviews

    The Obscure (Xiaoshuo)

    2007-09-24T16:31:00Z

    Dir. Lu Yue. China 2006. 84 min.Potentiallya powerful soporific for any audience not fluent in Mandarin, Lu Yue's combination of documentary and improvised live action is almost self-defeating in its insistence to stick, for the first hour, to a purely theoretical seminar. As it is, Lu's picture could interest scholars ...

  • News

    Bring It On continues at the top of US box office

    2000-09-04T05:41:00Z

    The Labor Day weekend was another disapppointing one at the North American box office. Estimated figures for the whole four days (Fri-Mon) saw a drop of some 13.5% on the same weekend last year when The Sixth Sense was still atop the charts. It is indicative of the miserable August ...

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    3DD takes on international rights to Meat Loaf doc

    2007-09-24T16:44:00Z

    UK-based 3DD Entertainment is taking on international sales for the full-length documentary Meat Loaf: In Search Of Paradise. 3DD plans to start sales of the feature documentary and one-hour TV version at MIPCOM. Bruce David Klein directed the story about rock icon Meat Loaf on tour. Atlas Media Corp produced ...

  • Reviews

    In the City of Sylvia (En la ciudad de Sylvia)

    2007-09-24T17:21:00Z

    Dir. Jose Luis Guerin. Spain / France, 2007. 90 min.In the City of Sylvia is likely to be defined by some as 'a work of genius' and by others as like 'watching paint dry'. An audience in search of a plot with a beginning middle and end should look elsewhere. ...

  • News

    Ulrich Thomsen and Jack McGee join cast of Tykwer's The International

    2007-09-24T17:31:00Z

    Festen's Ulrich Thomsen, Crash's Jack McGee and Million Dollar Baby's Brian F. O'Byrne have joined the multi-national cast for Tom Tykwer's action thriller The International, headlined by Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. The film started shooting earlier today at the Babelsberg studios outside of Berlin after a week of location ...

  • News

    LFF adds UK premiere of Gavron's Brick Lane

    2007-09-24T17:56:00Z

    The forthcoming London Film Festival has added the UK premiere of Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane. The film will screen as a Film On The Square screening the night of Oct 26. Gavron said: 'I am delighted that the film will be in the London Film Festival. It is a film ...

  • News

    Charles Durning to receive SAG Life Achievement Award

    2007-09-24T18:06:00Z

    Charles Durning will be honoured with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Life Achievement Award for career achievement and huminatarian accomplishment at the 14th annual SAG Awards which will be held on Jan 27 next year.'Charles Durning is the perfect choice for the Life Achievement Award as Screen Actors Guild celebrates ...

  • News

    MGM Channel launches in Bulgaria with Eurocom

    2007-09-24T18:09:00Z

    MGM Networks has signed a deal with Eurocom, the largest cable operator in Sofia, Bulgaria, to launch a local language version of The MGM Channel starting next month. The deal marks MGM's debut in Bulgaria.'MGM Networks has been on a roll across Central and Eastern Europe,' said MGM Networks executive ...

  • News

    Travolta wins supporting actor of the year at Hollywood Awards

    2007-09-24T18:20:00Z

    John Travolta will receive the supporting actor of the year award at the 11th annual Hollywood Awards presentation in Los Angeles on Oct 22.Travolta's selection was determined by his gender-bending performance as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray; the cast of the film will also be on hand at the ceremony to ...

  • News

    Brightman, Hilton head cast of Repo! The Genetic Opera

    2007-09-24T18:34:00Z

    Twisted Pictures' Repo! The Genetic Opera has begun shooting in Toronto this week with an eclectic cast featuring Sarah Brightman, Anthony Head, Paris Hilton, Bill Moseley, Paul Sorvino and Alexa Vega. Lionsgate holds worldwide rights to the film.The film is being produced by Daniel Heffner, Carl Mazzocone, Mark Burg and ...

  • News

    Tropfest@Tribeca took place on Sunday, names The Picnic winner

    2007-09-24T19:23:00Z

    Tropfest@Tribeca, the short festival created as a collaboration between Tribeca Enterprises and Australia's Tropfest, took place on Sunday night at the World Financial Center Plaza in New York City. 7,500 people attended the event which screened 16 films in the competition, all made specifically for the festival and all under ...

  • News

    Screen/HFF World Award shortlist ten including 4 Months, Control

    2007-09-25T00:35:00Z

    Screen International and the Hollywood Film Festival have announced the 10 films which have been shortlisted for this year's Hollywood World Award to be presented at a gala ceremony on Oct 22.The shortlisted films are:4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Romania) Cristian MungiuAlexandra (Russia) Alexander SokurovThe Band's Visit (Israel) Eran ...

  • News

    Merger talks between Ifilm, Pop.com fizzle out

    2000-09-04T10:29:00Z

    On-line film company iFilm.com and long-delayed entertainment web-site Pop.com have reportedly ended their merger talks which were first revealed last week."As you know, we have been in discussions with Pop.com. These discussions have ended and have not resulted in a transaction," said Ifilm CEO Kevin Wendle in an internal e-mail ...

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    Leonsis assembles businessmen backers for Kicking It doc

    2007-09-25T00:51:00Z

    Ted Leonsis, the producer and vice chairman of AOL who coined the term 'filmanthropy', has come up with a new film financing mechanism for his latest film Kicking It. The feature documentary about the power of sports as an agent for change is being financed by a group of businessmen, ...

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    Stutz, Ebrahimi and Figerold join The Film Department

    2007-09-25T00:53:00Z

    Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's The Film Department has hired Dan Stutz as executive vice president, business and legal affairs. Stutz previously worked at Yari Film Group, most recently as senior vice president of business and legal affairs.The Film Department has also hired Sara Ebrahimi as vice president of legal ...

  • News

    Lust, Caution has Oscar-qualifying opening in Taiwan

    2007-09-25T04:49:00Z

    Taiwan's Government Information Office (GIO) is expected to imminently announce Lust, Caution as the country's official bid for best foreign-language film at the Academy Awards. The uncut version of the film opens in Taiwan and Hong Kong tonightahead of its North American opening, which enables it to qualify for the ...

  • News

    Batman sequel to touch down in Hong Kong

    2007-09-25T06:05:00Z

    Hong Kong is set to join London and Chicago as a filming location for Warner Bros' latest Batman flick, The Dark Knight. The Hong Kong Film Services Office (FSO), which provides location support to foreign productions, said the picture is expected to shoot in the territory this November. The Central ...

  • News

    Brick Lane added to LFF schedule after royal snub

    2007-09-25T06:50:00Z

    The annual Royal Film Performance has been cancelled for the first time in more than 60 years.This year's event was to be a screening of Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane in November, due to be attended by Prince Charles. Officials said the decision was a diary clash with an overseas trip ...

  • Reviews

    Gone with the Woman (Tatt av Kvinnen)

    2007-09-25T10:26:00Z

    Dir. Peter Naess. Sweden/Norway 2007. 92 min.Picked by Norway to carry its flag at the Oscars this year, Peter Naess' new screwball romance takes off a vivacious, though rather misogynistic tone, but soon settles down to a pedestrian pace which it follows the rest of the way. Naess, whose irreverent ...

  • News

    You, The Living enters Oscar race for Sweden

    2007-09-25T13:42:00Z

    Swedish director Roy Andersson's You, The Living (Du levanda), which was launched in competition at Cannes, will be Sweden's official candidate for the Academy Award nomination as Best Foreign-Language Feature. The selection, which was announced at a press conference in Stockholm today (Sept 25), was made by the 15-member committee ...