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Lewis, Doby-Flewellyn set up Filmbankers International
Former Union Bank of California entertainment loan executives Harold Lewis and Brenda Doby-Flewellyn have set up the financing, sales and distribution company FilmBankers International.The Beverly Hills-based company is lining up co-financing for the $30m Bob Marley reggae biopic No Woman, No Cry, one of 30 projects the principals say they ...
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Rubin leaves Universal for evp job at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Robert W Rubin has joined Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) as executive vice president.Rubin reports to SPHE president David Bishop and will work on global strategy and business development and spearhead SPHE's faith-based and family entertainment initiatives.Prior to SPHE, Rubin held several senior executive positions at Universal Pictures including stints ...
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Kerner signs multi-year production deal with Walden Media
Producer Jordan Kerner has signed a multi-year first look deal with Walden Media, with whom he collaborated on the 2006 family film Charlotte's Web.Kerner, recently appointed dean of the North Carolina School of the Arts' School Of Filmmaking, will divide his time between Los Angeles and Winston-Salem.His credits include Snow ...
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Turkey's Eurasia fest to close with Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Turkey's 3rd International Eurasia Film Festival, which will be held concurrently with the 44th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (Oct 19-28), has selected Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age, starring Cate Blanchett, as the closing film and also unveiled its competition line-up. Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, which won the top ...
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Nine films nominated for Nordic prize
Nine films have been nominated for the $65,000 (Eu47,000) Nordic Film Prize - Scandinavia's largest film award - with winners announced at the Nordic Council's session on Oct 31. The prize money is equally shared among a film's director, scriptwriter and producer; last year it went to Swedish director ...
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Cayzer appointed as Ausfilm chairman
Ausfilm, the organisation that markets Australia's filmmaking talent to the world, has appointed a new chairman. Martin Cayzer, managing director of Panavision Australia, will chair Ausfilm for a two-year term. It should be a lively term, as the country is on track for a record level of foreign film and ...
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The Kingdom
Dir. Peter Berg. US, 110 mins.The Kingdom , about terror against Americans in Saudi Arabia, will confirm some of the worst American prejudices about the Middle East - that most Arabs there hate the US, and that America could eliminate threats there if bureaucrats got out of the way and ...
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Dir: Wayne Wang. US. 2007. 83mins.After a series of Hollywood assignments, the eclectic and unpredictable Wayne Wang has fashioned an old fashioned classical piece in A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, written by the highly regarded Chinese writer Yiyun Li, who adapted her own short story. The minor key and ...
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A Gentle Breeze in the Village (Tennen Kokekko)
Dir. Nobuhiro Yamashita. Japan , 2007. 121 min.Rarely has a title fit so perfectly the picture bearing it. Cute, corny and inoffensive, with just a pinch of salt to suggest the flavour of the old Yamashita, whose reputation lies mostly with tongue-in-cheek deadpan Jarmusch-like satires such as The Ramblers and ...
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The Princess of Nebraska
Dir: Wayne Wang. US. 2007. 77mins.Wayne Wang's The Princess of Nebraska is a stylistically audacious companion piece to the director's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, adapted from the same collection of short stories by expatriate Chinese writer Yiyun Li. Like Blue in the Face, the improvisational variant of his ...
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In Bloom
Dir: Vadim Perelman. US. 2007. 90 mins.Four years after his directorial debut The House Of Sand And Fog, Vadim Perelman returns with In Bloom, an adaptation of Laura Kasischke's novel The Life Before Her Eyes which is an even more ambitious challenge than its predecessor. But some books are just ...
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The Queen producer in running for top BBC Films job
UK media reports have tipped Christine Langan, the producer of The Queen, to be the new head of BBC Films, in a newly created position of 'editor'. However, BBC sources refuse to confirm the appointment. 'There will be new positions but I can't confirm what they are,' a BBC spokesperson ...
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Columbia gives Brazilian series theatrical outing
Columbia TriStar Brazil is lining up a 55-print release from September 15 for The Dog's Will (Auto Da Compadecida), a feature film derived from the Brazilian mini-series of the same name broadcast by Rede Globo last year.Although made-for-TV, the mini-series' producers - Rede Globo's film arm, Globo Films - considered ...
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Trumbo
Dir: Peter Askin. US. 2007. 96mins.Peter Askin's endearing and sometimes strangely compromised documentary portrait Trumbo, a meditation on the life and times of the radical American screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, is an alternately rich and often bewildering mixture of theatre, family memoir and hot wired historical document.The film's portrait of an ...
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Poor Boy's Game
Dir. Clement Virgo. Canada , 2007. 102 Mins.Racial tension in an unusual setting and a quiet, authoritative voice pack a surprising punch in Poor Boy's Game, a new film from Afro-Canadian filmmaker Clement Virgo. Though framed around a grudge match in the boxing ring, the film has a considerably broader ...
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The Babysitters
Dir. David Ross. US. 2007. 90mins.First time director David Ross negotiates a precarious line between exploitation and provocation with The Babysitters, the story of a bright and industrious teenager who fronts a high school escort service for bored suburban men. It inverts the story of Risky Business, moving away from ...
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Dainipponjin
Dir. Hitoshi Matsumoto. Japan, 2007.With similar credentials to those Takeshi Kitano had before he made movies, but determined to take a different approach for his debut, Hitoshi Matsumoto looks set to establish a reputation as a quirky, bizarre type of humourist. His first film should qualify with equal ease for ...