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Suburban Mayhem goes wild in France
France's Wild Side Films has become the first distributor to jump aboard disturbingcomedy drama Suburban Mayhem outsideits home market of Australia.The film, which stars EmilyBarclay (In My Father's Den) andMichael Dorman as her character's besotted boyfriend, is due for delivery atEaster and will be released locally by Icon. Fortissimo Films ...
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Dir. Kirby Dick. US. 2005. 100minsAlight-hearted but ultimately serious exploration of the cultural chill imposedby the Motion Picture Association Of America's ratingsystem, Kirby Dick's new documentary exposes the process for the sham it is.Financed by US cable network IFC TV anddirect-to-home video distributor NetFlix, This Film Is Not Yet Rated ...
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Art School Confidential
Dir. Terry Zwigoff. US.2006. 102mins.TerryZwigoff's ArtSchool Confidential doesn't achieve the promise of its intriguing premise -how far will an aspiring artist go to achieve recognition' ScreenwriterDaniel Clowes' answer' Far.But his script doesn't work hard enough to merit this cynical if trueconclusion.Audiences will be left wondering what tothink about a movie ...
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Americans in Paris boost inward production
Film production in the Ile De France, whichincludes Paris, was up last year, figures have revealed.Statistics released by the National Film Centre show that on any one dayin 2005, 10 film or TV productions were being shot on the region's boulevards,parks or studios, amounting to 3,363 shoot days.Feature films accounted ...
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Arista's Adept 3 goes to Cinemart
Arista Development has announced that it has entered a new sponsorship and partnership agreement with Cinemart at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Participating writers and directors on Arista's Adept 3 scheme will attend a special series of screenings, workshops, and producers meetings during Cinemart, which runs January 29 through February ...
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Annapolis
Dir. Justin Lin. US. 2006. 103mins.Justin Lin's studio debut, Annapolis is a peculiarly engineered piece of Reagan-style swaggercouched in the form of popular entertainment. It ends with the sound ofmilitary drumbeat - and audiences are likely to feel bludgeoned by what hasgone before.It is capably ifdistractedly made, though it has ...
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Ask The Dust, Man About Town to have world premieres at Santa Barbara
The world premiere of Robert Towne's romance Ask The Dust starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayekwill open the 21st Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), whichruns from Feb 2-12.The festival will close with Jason Reitman's tobacco industrysatire Thank You For Smoking starring Aaron Eckhart and Maria Bello, and the centerpiece ...
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Sass named vp, publicity and promotion, theatrical catalogue, at Warner Home Video
Ronnee Sass has been promoted to the newly-created position ofvice president of publicity and promotion, theatrical catalogue, at Warner HomeVideo (WHV).Formerly executive director of publicity and communications, Sasswillcontinue to create and direct all publicity campaigns for thetheatrical catalogue division's 6,500-plus titles, including new-to-format,made-for-video and catalogue titles.She will also assume responsibility ...
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2006 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards announced
The Sundance Institute andJapan Broadcasting Corporation NHK have announced the winners of the 2006Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards.Now in its 10th year, the awards honour the best in this year'sindependent voices from around the world and supports the work of emerging filmdirectors from four global regions.The winners will each receive a ...
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Weinstein Company reaches $1.2bn in financing
The Weinstein Company (TWC) yesterday announced it had completedits financing jigsaw with a $500m film securitisation facility.Since the company's official launch date on Oct 1, 2005, Bob andHarvey Weinstein say they have raised approximately $1.2bn. The amount includes $490m in equity, $500m from the filmsecuritisation, and more than $200m through ...
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UIP's Munich arrives in 27 countries this weekend
Universal's thriller Munich is the main attraction this weekend as it launches in theinternational marketplace in 27 countries through UIP.The picture goes out in France on Jan 25 on 450 prints, followed aday later in Australia and Germany on 230 and 400 respectively.Steven Spielberg's tale of the Israeli response to ...
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Battle In Heaven to open Film Comment series in NYC
Carlos Reygadas' Mexican drama Battle In Heaven will launch the 6th Annual "FilmComment Selects" series at New York's Walter Reade Theatre in the LincolnCentre, which runs from Feb 15-28.The series of pictures chosen by editorial staff from Film Commentmagazine includes photographer William Eggleston's 1974 soul music documentary StrandedIn Canton, a ...
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V For Vendetta to get simultaneous IMAX version release
WarnerBros will release an IMAX version of action-adventure V For Vendetta simultaneous with the March 17 domestic release ofthe conventional version of the film. StarringNatalie Portman, the film is directed by statement McTeigue and produced by theWachowski Brothers and Joel Silver. In a release, Dan Fellman, president ofdomestic distribution for ...
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Toronto Film Festival appoints three new Canadian programmers
TheToronto International Film Festival has appointed three new Canadianprogrammers. Marguerite Pigott, a film and television consultant and formerdevelopment and production executive at Odeon Films, and Jesse Wente, a filmcritic and producer for CBC Radio, will join Canadian feature selectors StaceyDonen, Steve Gravestock and festival co-director Noah Cowan. AgataSmoluch Del Sorbo ...
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M:I2 gives UIP biggest Oz weekend
Mission: Impossible 2's opening in Australia on June 1, one week after its blockbusting North American debut, grossed $3,675,654 (A$6,395,638) from 366 screens over the four-day weekend. This gives distributor UIP its biggest ever weekend and ranks third-highest in Australian history. This compares to the $3.4m (A$5.9m) brought in ...
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Quinceanera, God Grew Tired Of Us win Sundance
In an unprecedented double coup, Quinceanera, a tender-hearted drama set amongst a Latino community of Los Angeles that is being encroached upon by yuppies, walked home with both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival.Co-directed by Wash Westmoreland, a British filmmaker, and his ...
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Audiard's Beat leads Cesar nominations
JacquesAudiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped leads the nominations for this year's Cesar Awards.Theremake of James Toback's 1978 film Fingers was nominated in 10 categories, including Best Picture and BestDirector. The film's stars Romain Duris and Niels Arestrup scored nods for Best Actorand Best Supporting Actor respectively, while Linh-Dan ...
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It's Klimt vs Klimt for Rotterdam screenings
Two versions of Raul Ruiz's biopic were in circulation at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR) at the weekend. Saturdaymarked the world premiere of the 129 minute director's cut of the film aboutthe Austrian artist. Meanwhile,on Friday, a 97-minute producers' cut was shown to critics and buyers atFriday's industry ...
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Vertigo Films plans public funding for Nick Love's Outlaw
UK production anddistribution company Vertigo Films has announced a unique financing structurefor its next feature, Nick Love's Outlaw. The budget for the film will be less than $5 million.The film's entire budgetwill be funded by the public, through a website withinvestment packages of £10, £50, and £100. In return for ...
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Big Momma's House 2 wins domestic weekend with $28m
Fox's comedy sequel Big Momma's House 2 stole the show at the North American boxoffice over the weekend and opened top on an estimated $28m, almost double thegross of Universal's debutant Nanny McPhee in second place.Last weekend's champion Underworld: Evolution fell two places to third in its secondweekend on $11.1m ...