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Del Borgo joins executive exodus from Stream
Giglio Del Borgo has quit his position as commercial director at Italian pay-TV platform Stream, one of several recent resignations that have raised questions about the fate of the News Corp and Telecom Italia-owned company.Stream chief Riccardo Catalani stepped down last week barely six months into the top job, making ...
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PUSAN: Lim's Untold Beauty takes a walk on Wild Side
France's Wild Side Films has taken on the French rights to Singapore new writer-director Roy Lim's Untold Beauty, the debut project of two start-up production housesfrom Singapore, Rebel Productions and Shooting Gallery MotionPictures. The acquisition marks thefirst pre-sale ever of an independent Singapore film to a major territory. "We are ...
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PUSAN: Keyeast strikes investment deal with CJ
Korean media contents firmKeyeast has announced a production investment deal with major distributor CJEntertainment for three films, including Park Chan-wook's I'm A Cyborg, But It's OK.According to the deal, Keyeastis to invest a total of $530,000 in three films in which CJ Entertainment isthe main financier. Profits including those from ...
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PUSAN: Tong to direct horror comedy for Singapore's Innoform
Singapore writer-director Kelvin Tong, whose Love Story is playing here at Pusan, will next shoot MenIn White, a horror comedy co-financed by Singapore video distributor InnoForm Media and Tong'sproduction company Boku Films.The $500,000 picture, which willbe shot on HD, follows a group of four men who die on the same ...
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PUSAN: Tilly joins glittering Asian cast in Silver Valley
US actress Jennifer Tilly has joined Chinese actress Hao Lei (Summer Palace) and Hong Kong star Aaron Kwok in the cast of period drama Silver Valley, which is currently shooting in China's Shanxi province.Directed by California-basedfilmmaker Christina Yao, the $10m film is co-produced by Taiwanese producerPeggy Chiao's Arc Light Films, ...
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Small screen trends go even smaller at 2006 Mipcom
The buzzwords at this year's Mipcom television market (Oct8-12 in Cannes) were clearly heard in every conference, at every cocktail andaround every corner in the Palais: multi-platform, content and digital. While with each Mip event in the past few years theseterms have gained in popularity, never before have they been ...
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Warsaw jury goes euphoric for Vyrypaev's debut
Russian dramatist Ivan Vyrypaev's feature film debut Euphoria was the winner of the Grand Prix inthe New Films, New Directors competition at this year's Warsaw InternationalFilmFest. Announcing the winner at the awards ceremony on Saturdayevening, jury president Petr Zelenka said that the choice of the drama about alove triangle on ...
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PUSAN: Taewon unveils Resurrection at Asian Film Market
Korea's Taewon Entertainment took advantage of the firstday of the Asian Film Market to promote its upcoming project Three Kingdoms - Resurrection Of The Dragon.MaggieQ has joined Andy Lau in the cast of the epic actioner, which Taewon isco-producing with Hong Kong's Visualizer Film Production.Recently featured in Mission: Impossible3, Q ...
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PUSAN: Cha joins cast of Studio 2.0's Highway Star
Korea's Studio 2.0 has announced that Cha Tae-hyun (My Sassy Girl) will head the cast of comedy drama Highway Star. Co-directed by Kim Sang-Chanand Kim Tae-Hyun, the film is a remake of Japanese film Sharan-Q No Enka No Hanamichi, directed by Yojiro Takita, about anaspiring rock singer who signs the ...
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My Friend And His Wife (Naeui Chingu, Geueui Anae)
Dir/scr: Shin Dong-il. S Korea. 2006. 116mins.After the hospitable reception for Host And Guest, his two-hander debut, lastyear, writer-director Shin Dong-il extends hishorizons to a full trio of characters with MyFriend And His Wife, an often fascinating if ultimately overlongexploration of an unusual relationship between two men and a woman.The ...
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Scorsese talks budgets and restorations in Rome
As his latest film The Departed screened at the inaugural Rome FilmFest, Martin Scorsese denied talk that the film would be his last big-budgetproject. Scorsesesaid that although his next film, the Japanese-themed Silence based on the book by Shusako Endo will have a lowerbudget, he wouldn't rule again directing films ...
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Sellers predict Rome can help wrap-up autumn deals
As sales companies and buyers go terrace hopping in Rome thequestion on everyone's mind is will Rome's inaugural Business Street (Oct14-16) catch on' Turnout atop Hotel Bernini's terrazza - one of the ViaVeneto hubs for the 160 buyers and 50 sales companies at the market was full ofindustry regulars who ...
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Dasepo's Naughty Girls (Dasepo Sonyo)
Dir. Lee Jyong. S Kor 2006. 103mins.Going to see Lee Jyong's latestventure on the strength of his previous work Untold Scandal, a highly stylised periodrelocation of Dangerous Liaisons, is a serious mistake. Dasepo's Naughty Girls, a high-school romp, is a world away from thebeautifully-shot historical pageant which toured the world ...
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German films claim top prizes at Sitges
Two German films, Hans-Christian Schmid's Requiem and Martin Weisz's Butterfly-AGrimm Love Story (Rohtenburg), split most of the top prizes at the 39th edition of thegenre International Film Festival of Catalunya (Oct 6-15), better known as Sitges.Requiem, the story of a woman's dramatic spiral downward,took home the official fantastic competition's best ...
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Nightmare Detective (Akumu Tantei)
Dir/scr: Shinya Tsukamoto. Jap. 2006. 107mins.By now a brand name whose body of work has its ownband of dedicated and faithful followers, Shinya Tsukamoto sticks to form with Nightmare Detective, a brutal, violent,and nerve-racking slasher feature that blurs allborders between fantasy and reality. Assailing the audience from the start withblazes ...
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Traces Of Love (Gaeulro)
Dir. Kim Dai-seung. S Kor. 2006. 112mins.A perfect choice to promote South Korea's natural beauty, Pusan's official opener is an easily watchablebut unabashed sentimental melodrama, swimming in a sea of decorous tears andclassical music warhorses. Traces Of Love revolves around a real-life 1995 disaster in Seoul, when a departmentstore collapsed ...
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The Prestige
Dir: Christopher Nolan. US. 2006. 128mins.Sometime superheroes Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale play obsessively feudingVictorian magicians in The Prestige,a classy thriller, with a Gothic sci-fi twist, from writer-director ChristopherNolan. Coming off last year's comic book blockbuster Batman Begins, Nolan this time turns intricate literary materialinto an atmospheric and intriguing - ...
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The Prestige
Dir: Christopher Nolan. US. 2006. 128mins.Sometime superheroes Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale play obsessively feudingVictorian magicians in The Prestige,a classy thriller, with a Gothic sci-fi twist, from writer-director ChristopherNolan. Coming off last year's comic book blockbuster Batman Begins, Nolan this time turns intricate literary materialinto an atmospheric and intriguing - ...
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Hoax
Dir: Lasse Hallstrom. US. 2006. 115mins.As struttingly confident asits main character, true-life literary fraudster Clifford Irving, The Hoax is far and away Lasse Hallstrom's best Americanfilm yet. Featuring a Richard Gere who has finallycast off his mid-term career doldrums to reveal himself as an actor ofMachiavellian charisma and authority, it ...
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The Grudge 2
Dir: Takashi Shimizu. 2006. 102mins.The hairy ghost andher bug-eyed little boy work overtime in TheGrudge 2, Japanese director Takashi Shimizu's busy but less effectivesequel to his hit American remake of his franchise-starting J-horror chiller Ju-On.Thoughoriginal star Sarah Michelle Gellar makes only a brief appearance this timeout, the sequel has already ...