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Government subsidy supports Hou Hsiao-hsien project
Taiwan's award-winning director Hou Hsiao-hsien has raised $450,000 in government subsidies for the production of Nie Yinniang, his long-cherished martial arts film about a female assassin.In the Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.) short story that inspired the film, a 10-year-old girl is kidnapped by a Buddhist nun and arduously trained until ...
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Intermedia signs video deal with Warner Home Video
Internationalmedia's subsidiary Intermedia Film Distribution has signed a 10-year exclusive distribution deal with Warner Home Video (WHV) for titles from its film library.The deal will give WHV the worldwide home video rights and pay-per-view, video-on-demand and television rights in the USA, Canada and Germany.The films include Point Break, G.I. Jane, ...
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Best Actor form guide
Great performances come in waves. Or at least, that is howit feels looking at the prospects for best actor this year. They are thin onthe ground compared to last year when monumental performances by Javier Bardem,Paul Giamatti, Liam Neeson, Christian Bale and Kevin Bacon were excluded fromthe awards shortlist in ...
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Best Actress form guide
It is an unusually rich year for actresses in Hollywoodmovies and some of the most versatile performers in the business arefrontrunners for awards glory. Leading the pack is the indomitable Judi Dench, giving anoutstanding performance in Mrs Henderson Presents. But she is, ironically, competing with several actresses under theage of ...
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Woody Allen prepares 2007 Spanish shoot
Woody Allen is to shoot a film in Spain in 2007 with local producer MediaPro.MediaPro general director Jaume Roures said his company has signed a deal with Allen to back an as-yet unscripted film by the director set in Spain, and likely Barcelona.Roures told Screendaily.com that a contract was ...
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Woody Allen prepares 2007 Barcelona shoot
Woody Allen is to shoot a film in the Barcelona in 2007 with local producer MediaPro.MediaPro general manager Jaume Roures said that his company had signed a deal with Allen to back an as-yet unscripted film by the director set in Barcelona."We signed a contract in which Woody Allen ...
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Best Original Screenplay form guide
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY FRONTRUNNERS1 Woody Allen, MatchPointMaybe Allen needed a change of location to get his mojoback, since his London-set thriller about the randomness of luck is one of hisbest-reviewed in a decade. It features an amoral plot worthy of PatriciaHighsmith and one of the most delicious endings in his 35-film ...
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Best Adapted Screenplay form guide
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY FRONTRUNNERS 1 Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Brokeback MountainSource: short story by E Annie ProulxMcMurtry and Ossana, who together optioned the rights afterthe short story first appeared in The New Yorker in October 1997, faithfully adapted Proulx's impeccably precise shortstory into a feature screenplay, giving voices to ...
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Best Supporting Actress form guide
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 1. Amy Adams, JunebugAdams - who has been seen in small but memorable roles in CatchMe If You Can, among other films - won aspecial acting prize at Sundance this year. She could go all the way to anOscar nomination for her delicious performance as the pregnant, ...
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EC to investigate Pearson, CLT-Ufa merger
The European Commission (EC)'s competition regulators have decided to probe the proposed merger of Pearson Television and CLT-Ufa. The EC has used its merger regulation powers to open a preliminary, one-month review of the $19bn deal that was announced in April (Screendaily, Apr 07) . The companies were notified on ...
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Best Cinematography, Editing, Visual Effects form guide
CINEMATOGRAPHY Dion Beebe, MemoirsOf A GeishaDion Beebe, who earned an Oscar nomination in 2003 forRob Marshall's Chicago, was determinedto capture the reality of 1930s Japan in Marshall's follow-up MemoirsOf A Geisha. Beebe, Marshall and their team travelled to Japan on arecce, but eventually decided to replicate a geisha district ...
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Production Awards form guide
The frontrunners in this year's awards race inproduction, costume design, and make-up are impressing Academies both sides ofthe Atlantic. The sumptuous world of the Geisha in 1930s Japan, theJamestown settlement of 1607, Jerusalem in the 12th Century or London duringthe Blitz. The range of design spectacle and period opulence on ...
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Production form guide
PRODUCTION DESIGN/ ART DIRECTIONWynn Thomas, Cinderella ManRecreating a landmark boxing venue so closely associated with New York City - a municipality that has historically swept away its architectural history - was the challenge for Cinderella Man's production designer Wynn Thomas. So he did what so many film-makers do. He ...
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Best Make-Up, Costume Design form guide
MAKE-UPKate Briscoe and Noriko Watanabe, Memoirs Of A GeishaThere was a lot riding on Kate Briscoe during the shoot of MemoirsOf A Geisha, Rob Marshall's epic adaptation of Arthur Golden's bestseller. The make-up department head was responsible for executing thevision of make-up designer Noriko Watanabe and preserving the integrity of ...
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Star Wars and Harry Potter are 2005 box-office champs
Darth Vader and Harry Potter were the true dark lord andwizard master for 2005's box office.Worldwide George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode III - RevengeOf The Sith was the year's champion with a stunning $848.5m. However,internationally (excluding North America) it was Harry Potter And The GobletOf Fire which finished the year ...
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Cattaneo film will open Berlinale Kinderfilmfest
The Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest will be opened with the international premiere of Peter Cattaneo's new film Opal Dream about a girl whose lively imaginary friends become a real threat to her family in the Australian outback.Other titles confirmed so far for Berlin's children's film sidebar include the world premiere of local ...
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...and dethrones King Kong in North America
The epics were at it again this weekend but this time TheChronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe won out over KingKong.After a closely contested Christmas weekend saw Konghold the lead the four-day New Year weekend saw the great ape pass the crownback to Aslan and friends. ...
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Narnia chronicles New Year international box-office glory
The lion was still roaring as the new year got underway withBuena Vista International's (BVI) The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, TheWitch And The Wardrobe holding onto the international lead. With athree-day weekend of $41.5m and a four-day (including Monday which was aholiday in many territories) of $53.5m.This brings Narnia's ...
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Berlinale Co-Production Market entries leap 25%
Thenumber of entries for this year's Berlinale Co-Production Market (BCM) is up 25%on 2005.Morethan 300 projects from 58 countries have been submitted for the third editionof the market, which runs from February 12-14.BCMproject manager Sonja Heinen said there had been a noticeablerise in entries from Asia and India.She saidshe was ...
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Kong still strong at the international box office
It may have seen The Chronicles Of Narniastealing its thunder but UIP's King Kong was stillroaring loud internationally over the New Year weekend. With an estimated three-daygross (December 30-January 1) of $29m off 6,713 locations in 49 territories thegreat ape saw only a 19% week-on-week drop off. Its cumulative grossinternationally ...