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Little Red Flowers (Kan shang qu hen mei)
Dir. Zhang Yuan. China.2006. 92mins.In the droll Little Red Flowers, eccentric Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuanshapes a comically alive, delicately observed adaptation of theautobiographical novel by Wang Shuo.It plays like a Chinese Zero For Conduct:a sharply etched, emotionally precise account of an incorrigiblefour-year-child's year spent at a kindergarten boarding school.If ...
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Solo Dios Sabe
Dir/scr: Carlos Bolado. Mex-Braz. 2006. 114mins.Former editor Carlos Bolado- best known for his work on Alfonso Arau's Like Water for Chocolate - makes an overlyambitious piece with Solo Dios Sabe which, premiered inthe world dramatic competition at Sundance.Despite a promising start, itultimately proves too overextended for its own good, despite ...
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Klimt
Dir: Raúl Ruiz. Aust-Ger-UK-Fr.2006. 129mins (Director's Cut)/97 mins (short version).There are biopics- and then there are biopics in the style of Raúl Ruiz. Anyone hoping for an easily comprehensible,fact-based ride through the life of Viennese painter Gustav Klimt(1862-1918) will be baffled by the flamboyantly discontinuous approach taken bythe prolific Chilean-born ...
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Rotterdam CineMart reports brisk business on 45 projects
Rotterdam's international co-productionmarket CineMart wrapped its 23rd edition on a high note last night,with general praise for the overall quality of the 45 productions being pitchedto 800 producers, financiers and sales agents at the Dutch city port. Prizes were awarded to three of the projects: Lasya, by Anup Singh took ...
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High-tech competition demonstrates digital potential
ScreenDaily readers are today invited to take part in a unique digital cinema experiment.Three film-makers are creating short movies using digital footage, mobile phones and downloads from web sitesand are editing them live at the Screen International Cinema Next conference at Bafta in London using affordable commercial software and hardware. ...
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Rogue to release Fearless in North America
Rogue Pictures will handlethe North American release of Fearless,which Jet Li has said will be his final martial arts picture, following itsmighty international launch in Asia last weekend.Ronny Yu directed theaccount of martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia's rise to fame and power inturn-of-the-century China. Veteran filmmaker Bill Kong produced.Li's credits ...
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Lightning picks up Conversations With God adaptation
Lightning Entertainment haspicked up international sales rights to Stephen Simon's adaptation of thebestselling book series ConversationsWith God and will commence sales in Berlin next week.Lightning enjoyed strongbusiness with the spiritually themed WhatThe Bleep Do We Know, which grossed more than $11m from selectinternational markets in 2005, and will be looking ...
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Intrepid appoints Fischer, Brown to key roles
Fledgling production andfinancing company Intrepid Pictures has named the two senior executives whowill take charge of finance and development of projects in the recent dealsigned with Universal and Rogue Pictures.Jonathan Fischer will serveas chief financial officer and Katherine Brown as vice president ofdevelopment, Intrepid founders Trevor Macy and Marc Evans ...
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Turney appointed European sales director Fox TV
Steve Turney has beenappointed director of sales for Twentieth Century Fox Television Distributionin Europe, effective immediately.Turney will oversee sales offeatures and scripted television programming to free and basic broadcasterswithin European territories. Based in the company's London office, he will report to vice president of salesYoni Cohen."We are delighted to haveSteve ...
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Moore, McAvoy to star in Foresight's Twist Of Fate
Mandy Moore and James McAvoyare in final talks to star in the thriller TwistOf Fate for Mark Damon's Foresight Unlimited. Jennifer Elster will directfrom a screenplay by Wendy Riss about a love triangle that develops between aworking class girl and an intense young man haunted by a car wreck they ...
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BSkyB shares hit by Vivendi, Kirch sales
Shares in BSkyB remained highly volatile today after two of its key shareholders yesterday sold stakes.At 14:00 BST the shares were trading at £12.07, having closed 6% down at £12.85 overnight. In earlier trading today they had dipped as low as £11.48. The shares were hit when investment bank Lehman ...
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Warner Bros promotes Rowe to svp of corp comms
Twelve-year Warner Brosveteran Scott Rowe has been promoted to senior vice president of corporatecommunications.Rowe will assume greaterresponsibility for the company's internal and external positioning in thebusiness, trade and consumer press.Working with executive vicepresident of corporate communications Sue Fleishman, to whom he will continueto report, Rowe will also share responsibility for ...
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Disney, Walden Media set to shoot Prince Caspian
Confirming what has been anopen secret for several weeks, Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures issued ajoint statement announcing they have begun pre-production on the sequel totheir global smash The Chronicles OfNarnia: The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe.Andrew Adamson reprises hisdirector's role on The Chronicles OfNarnia: Prince Caspian, which ...
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Singapore's I Not Stupid Too has strong opening
Jack Neo's Chinese New Yearoffering I Not Stupid Too has rackedup the biggest six-day opening for a local film in Singapore with $865,611 (S$1.41m), narrowly beating theprevious record of $848,856 (S$1.39m) set by Neo's Liang Po Po The Movie in 1999.Released through UIP, thesocio-comedy opened on 37 prints on Jan ...
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Cillian Murphy launches Dublin Festival programme
Cillian Murphy last night launchedthe programme for the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (JDIFF) whichkicks off on February 17 with the world premiere of Paul Mercier's debutfeature, Studs.Studs will be thefirst in a strong line up of new Irish films being shown at this year's event.They include Anthony Byrne's modern ...
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Police seize£500,000 of pirate DVDs in raid
AUK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a jointoperation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).Morethan 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chroniclesof Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory inBurnt Oak, North-West London and a related facility ...
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No 2
Dir: Toa Fraser. New Zealand. 2006. 93mins.A Fijian matriarch calls her family together for onebig party before she dies in Toa Fraser's agreeable directorial debut which hadits international premiere at the Sundance Film Festival recently before headinginto Berlin's Panorma section.No. 2,named after the house on the street where the film ...
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Police seize£500,000 of pirate DVDs in raid
AUK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a jointoperation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).Morethan 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chroniclesof Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory inBurnt Oak, North-West London and a related facility ...
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Police seize£500,000 of pirate DVDs in raid
AUK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a jointoperation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).Morethan 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chroniclesof Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory inBurnt Oak, North-West London and a related facility ...
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Police seize£500,000 of pirate DVDs in raid
AUK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a jointoperation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).Morethan 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chroniclesof Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory inBurnt Oak, North-West London and a related facility ...