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THINKFilm, Starz begin production on slasher doc
THINKFilm and StarzEntertainment Group (SEG) have begun principal photography on Jeff McQueen'sdocumentary Going To Pieces: The Rise And Fall Of The Slasher Film.Based on Adam Rockoff's bookof the same name, the picture will explore the roots and cultural associationsof the horror genre, with particular reference to slasher films.THINKFilm holds worldwidetheatrical ...
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Lions Gate scores big Catacombs deals
Lions GateInternational has closed a slew of sales at AFM on the horror project Catacombs.Rights were sold to Redbus for the UK, Universum forGermany, Metropolitan for France, Eagle for Italy, Paradiso for Dutch andFrench Benelux, CMC for Taiwan, and LNK for Portugal. As previously announced,the picture has sold to Digital ...
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Flemish fund terminates managing director's contract
The Board of Governors of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF) has terminated the contract of its managing director Luckas vander Taelen. Financial director Hans Everaert and Pierre Drouot (producer of Toto The Hero) will take over the running of the Fund until a new MD is appointed. The reasons for ...
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New incentives reconnect French production
Film shoots in Paris recovered strongly in 2004 with promise of further success this year, according to the Ile de France FilmCommission.Last year, productions shot for 611weeks in the capital and its environs. That figure represents a 25%jump over the previous year.Shooting had fallen intodecline between 2001 and 2003 but ...
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Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
Dir: Mike Newell. US-UK. 2005. 150mins.A solid but mostly uninspired melding of theadventure and fright that have been the benchmarks of the franchise, Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire isneither as singular a film as director Alfonso Cuaron's third instalment nor askid-pleasing as Chris Columbus's first two entries.As Potter's ...
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Phone film first dropped after exhibitor backlash
Italian exhibitors have stopped plans to release a full-length feature film on mobile phone just a week after its theatrical debut in the territory.The 3 Italia mobile network was this week due to offer Sidney Pollack's The Interpreter to customers for around $10.50 (nine euros) for unlimited viewings. The proposal ...
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Zathura
Dir: Jon Favreau. US. 2005. 100mins.Family features can often fall foul to several traps.One is that they end up as showcases for bedazzling special effects thatdominate the storytelling; another is that they rely on rote bodily function humour that may be funny to a six-year-old but is indicativeof lazy and ...
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The Headsman
Dir: Simon Aeby. Aust-Swit-Ger-Lux-Hung-U.K. 2005. 108mins.While its production values are magnificent, The Headsman is an uneven period drama,too concerned with trying to convince the audience that history is repeatingitself and investing little enough effort into its mysteriously lifelessstoryline.As such it is ofprimary interest to history buffs, although even they may ...
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Six films shortlisted for the Prix Louis-Delluc
France's Ile de France FilmCommission has announced a strong increase in local production for 2004, with2005 promising further success.In total, films shot for 611weeks in Paris and its environs, the regionoverseen by the Ile de France Commission, in 2004. That figure represents a 25%jump over the previous year.Shooting had fallen ...
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Israel's Sharanski set to close censorship board
Israel's interior minister Nathan Sharanski has announced that he plans to close the Israeli Film Censorship Board and replace it with a tougher movie ratings system based on age. The board has traditionally imposed outright bans on films thought unsuitable for Israeli audiences. However, Sharanski said he longer sees the ...
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Six films shortlisted for the Prix Louis-Delluc
France's Ile de France FilmCommission has announced a strong increase in local production for 2004, with2005 promising further success.In total, films shot for 611weeks in Paris and its environs, the regionoverseen by the Ile de France Commission, in 2004. That figure represents a 25%jump over the previous year.Shooting had fallen ...
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Viva Zapatero!
Dir/scr: Sabina Guzzanti. It. 2005. 80mins.Sabina Guzzanti'santi-censorship documentary Viva Zapatero! does for Italianprime minister Silvio Berlusconi what Fahrenheit 9/11 did for George Bush: itexposes the ugly subtext that, in the film-maker's view, lies behind theairbrushed public image.Like Michael Moore, Sabina Guzzanti is no shrinking violet, and there is at first ...
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Six films shortlisted for the Prix Louis-Delluc
Six films have been shortlisted for the Prix Louis-Delluc,one of France's top cinematic awards.The contenders are: Philippe Collin's crime drama Aux Abois Philippe Garel's Venice entry Les Amants Reguliers Cannes laureate Cache by Michael Haneke Jacques Audiard's critical darling De Battre Mon ...
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Be With Me
Dir: Eric Khoo. Sing. 2005.90mins.Since it opened Directors Fortnight at Cannes, Be With Me, Eric Khoo'sthird feature has galloped from one event to another (most recently Chicago andTokyo), a festival warhorse that has gathered several favourable reviews aswell as becoming Singapore's submission for best foreign language Oscar.But while it is ...
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Animation master Otomo begins work on live-action sci-fi
Animationauteur Katsuhiro Otomo, whose films, including Akira and Steamboy, have been widelyscreened internationally, has started production of a live-action feature. Basedon the Kodansha comic Mushishi (Mushi Master)by Yuki Urushibara, the eponymous SF fantasy is set around the turn of the 20thcentury in Japan. The"master" of the title has the ability ...
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Cape Town festival to crown glorious year for South Africa
A breakthrough year ofextraordinary achievement for South African cinema will culminate in the CapeTown World Film Festival starting tomorrow, and next week's Sithengi film market .This year, South Africapicked up its first Golden Bear with u-Carmen eKhayelitsha and its first Academy Award nomination for Yesterday.The fourth Cape Town festival, will ...
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Julio Medem to shoot new film next year
Spanish auteur Julio Medem is preparing to shoot his next film, Caotica Ana, in 2006 with backing from local powerhouse Sogecine.The film turns on a young woman fleeing her own fate after a hypnosis session allows her to glimpse parallel experiences she believes are past lives.Caotica Ana (literally, Chaotic Ana) ...
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Huston joins Brosnan, Neeson in Seraphim Falls
Anjelica Hustonhas joined the cast of Icon Productions' American Civil War revenge saga SeraphimFalls.As previouslyannounced Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson will star in the story of an armycolonel at the end of the conflict who resolves to settle a grudge with a manat whatever cost.David Von Ancken is directing based ...
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Strand picks up US rights to Akin's Bridge
Strand Releasinghas picked up all US rights from Bavaria Film International to Fatih Akin's CrossingThe Bridge.The picture,which premiered in official selection at Cannes this year, portrays the musicscene in Istanbul, which Akin has long regarded as his second home.CorazonInternational, the production company founded by Akin, Andreas Thiel and KlausMaeck, produced ...
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IFC Films acquires domestic rights to Duane
IFC Films hasacquired North American rights to Matt Mulhern's drama Duane Hopwood starring David Schwimmer and JaneaneGarofalo.Mulhern directed from his own screenplay about a casinoworker who embarks upon an emotional personal journey after an arrest for drunkdriving jeopardises his visitation rights with his two daughters.Lemore Syvan of Elevation Filmworks produced ...