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    Indie India - A parallel reality

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Just as the US has film-makers working outside the studio system, India has a whole army of directors and producers attempting to carve a niche away from the vast and all-consuming Bollywood film industry.Theoretically, these film-makers have strong export potential as they are outward-looking, open to alternative financing methods, including ...

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    Indie India - The faces of a new generation

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    RAJNESH DOMALPALLIVanajaRajnesh Domalpalli's first film, Vanaja, won the best debut award at Berlin this year. It has been accepted into 92 film festivals in 38 countries and won 19 awards so far. With world sales picked up by Emerging Pictures, this arthouse film centring on South Indian folk and classical ...

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    Rights options - Material world

    2007-11-15T22:40:10Z

    In an industry where only the select few can afford to snap up the rights to the latest bestseller-to-be at galley stage or bid for the hottest spec screenplay doing the rounds, producers need to be shrewder, quicker off the mark and more esoteric in their thinking when they are ...

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    Disney clamps down on R-rated marketing tactics

    2000-09-13T05:47:00Z

    Responding to a growing political storm in the US surrounding screen sex and violence, Walt Disney has decided to enforce stricter rules for the way that R-rated films released under its Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures and Miramax Films labels are marketed, particularly towards children.Print advertising, trailers and web sites will now ...

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    The art of film-making

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    When UK writer-director Penny Woolcock decided to retell a biblical story in Exodus, set in a near-future version of the English town of Margate, she approached UK artist Antony Gormley through Artangel, who co-produced the film with Channel 4. Woolcock wanted Gormley to create a plague of frogs for the ...

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    Promotional Feature - Encounters - Taking the long view on shorts

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The 13-year-old Encounters Short Film Festival boasts an impressive range of past alumni. UK film-makers including Lynne Ramsay, Damien O'Donnell and Bille Eltringham all had their first shorts screened at Encounters. And the event remains a major talent discovery hotspot on the industry calendar.Held in Bristol, in the south west ...

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    Promotional feature - Films and film-makers to watch

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    DADDir: Daniel MulloyMulloy has impressed with his emotional shorts. His third film, Antonio's Breakfast, was selected for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win a Bafta for best short film.Mulloy's latest film, Dad, is about a sexually active elderly couple and their disgusted son. Produced by Sister ...

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    Documentaries - IDFA - And nothing but the truth ..

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) (November 22 to December 2) in the Netherlands will celebrate its 20th anniversary in some style with five world premieres in its feature competition line-up and what are bound to be some very heated debates.Among the special guests at this year's event, which ...

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    International - Indian winter

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Indian films came up blazing in this weekend's international top 40 with two films - Om Shanti Om and Saawariya - together taking $31.5m and accounting for more than 20% of the chart's total revenue.Eros International's Om Shanti Om was the highest earner over the three-day period, taking $18.2m in ...

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    Analysis: International box-office - Weekend November 9-11

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    ANALYSIS: INTERNATIONAL BOX-OFFICE - WEEKEND NOVEMBER 9-11(Last3-dayweek)Film (origin)gross $ScrsCume $Terr1NewOm Shanti Om (Ind)$18,174,6371048$18,174,637172NewSaawariya (Ind)$13,348,401899$13,348,401123NewLions For Lambs (US)$10,339,5612675$10,339,561444(1)Ratatouille (US)$9,291,2843680$388,577,782305(4)The Heartbreak Kid (US)$8,727,0801762$41,255,273236(3)Stardust (UK-US)$5,798,9932327$83,502,885487(2)Resident Evil: Extinction (Aus-Ger-UK-US)$5,436,3201726$79,517,214398(11)Lust, Caution (Ch-HK-Tai-US)$4,998,295782$27,894,056129(15)30 Days Of Night (US)$4,928,8971227$10,986,7921110(12)The Bourne Ultimatum (US)$4,805,582982$195,736,6062511(5)Saw IV (US)$4,056,8371506$32,823,1922412(13)Sky Of Love (Jap)$4,001,120287$11,875,709113(10)Always - Sunset On Third Street 2 (Jap)$4,000,922382$13,676,716114(9)Elizabeth: The Golden Age (UK-US-Fr)$3,983,481966$14,259,089815(17)Le ...

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    Critical Mass - Movie myths

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    You have probably received one of those witty circular e-mails about the ridiculous things that happen only in movies. They do the rounds of the internet on a regular basis, morphing as recipients add their own candidates.The best cliches from the one that dropped into my inbox last week were:- ...

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    CMG closes multiple territories on No Man's Land: Reeker 2

    2007-11-16T00:08:00Z

    Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group (CMG) closed multiple territory sales at AFM on Dave Payne's horror sequel No Man's Land: Reeker 2.Rights went to Germany (Capelight Pictures), Brazil (Flashstar Films), Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines (Suraya Films), Indonesia (P T Rapi Films), and Central America (Passatiempo).Deals closed prior to ...

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    Rogen, Banks to star in Kevin Smith's next film for TWC, Dimension

    2007-11-16T08:00:00Z

    Seth Rogen, riding high on the success of this year's sleeper summer hit Knocked Up, will star for The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Dimension Films in Kevin Smith's Zack & Miri Make A Porno.Elizabeth Banks, who along with Rogen appeared in The 40 Year Old Virgin, stars in the story ...

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    Truly Indie takes US rights to Fighting For Life

    2007-11-16T00:18:00Z

    Truly Indie has picked up US rights to Terry Sanders' documentary Fighting For Life, which focuses on the work of military doctors in Iraq.Sanders tracks the careers of students at Uniformed Services University, the de facto West Point of military medicine, as well as a veteran who strives to deal ...

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    Dutton's Corner, Winfrey's Morrie surprise Emmys

    2000-09-13T07:44:00Z

    A change in the voting procedures in the major categories for the Emmy Awards resulted in several surprise winners over the weekend, among them multiple trophies for Charles Dutton's explicit mini-series The Corner and for the Oprah Winfrey-produced TV movie Tuesdays With Morrie. British stand-up comedian Eddie Izzard also won ...

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    Magnolia takes Roxburgh's Romulus, My Father to US

    2007-11-16T00:22:00Z

    Magnolia Pictures has acquired all US rights from Arclight Films to the hit Australian drama Romulus, My Father starring Eric Bana and Franke Potente.Magnolia will offer the film on its new HDNet Ultra Video On Demand platform, which grants subscribers access to films up to three weeks before their theatrical ...

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    Shearer, Braun to receive honours from IDA

    2007-11-16T00:29:00Z

    Jocelyn Shearer will receive the International Documentary Association's 2007 IDA Preservation and Scholarship Award on behalf of National Geographic Digital Motion and Darfur Now director Ted Braun will receive the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.Shearer and Braun will be feted during the 23rd Annual IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award ...

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    American Gangster goes international in UK, France, Germany

    2007-11-16T00:32:00Z

    Universal's crime saga American Gangster will make an aggressive foray into the international market this weekend, launching through UPI in 11 territories including France, Switzerland and French-speaking Switzerland on November 14.The film debuts a day later in Germany and German-speaking Switzerland, and opens in the UK on November 16.The US ...

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    Kristen Stewart gets lead role in Hardwicke's Twilight for Summit

    2007-11-16T01:01:00Z

    Kristen Stewart will star as Bella Swan in Summit Entertainment's upcoming romantic thriller Twilight to be directed by Catherine Hardwicke.Production is set to begin in February 2008 on the story of a 17-year-old girl who moves to a small town in the state of Washington where she gets caught in ...

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    Kounelias promoted in New Line marketing restructure

    2007-11-16T02:07:00Z

    Christina Kounelias has been promoted to executive vice president of marketing at New Line and will report to the studio's domestic marketing chief Chris Carlisle.In the newly created position Kounelias will work closely with Carlisle to oversee a newly created marketing department infrastructure and continue to oversee the studio's publicity, ...