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St Jacques' La Mecque
Dir/scr: Coline Serreau. Fr. 2005. 112mins.Comedy writer-director ColineSerreau came a cropper two years ago with 18 Years After, a pointless anduninspired sequel to Three Men And A Baby, her 1985 sleeper smash that definitivelyturned the tide for Hollywood's remake industry. Now Serreauattempts to return to the social comedy that is ...
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Stay
Dir: Marc Forster. US. 2005.103mins.After the mainstream success of his charmingtearjerker Finding Neverland,Monster's Ball director Marc Forstergoes dark and edgy again with Stay, apsychological thriller infatuated with its themes of death, identity, realityand illusion.Forster makes the most ofhis newly earned creative freedom and delivers a stylish, visually inventivefilm that takes ...
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Palm takes North American rights to Machado's City
Palm Pictures has picked upNorth American and Caribbean rights for Sergio Machado's Lower City (Cidade Baixa) from sales outfit Lumina Films.London-based Lumina also hasPalm on board for two of its other projects - Pablo Trapero'sArgentinian road movie Familia Rodante and -- as previously announced-- City of Men, the TV series ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for UK teen comedy Popcorn
London-based sales agent Moviehouse Entertainment has taken on sales of UK teen comedy Popcorn.Darren Paul Fisher (Inbetweeners)is directing with Rebecca Knapp and Daniel M. San producing.Moviehouse's Gary Phillips and Mark Vennisare executive producing with Sheryl Crown of Screen East. The film recentlycompleted shooting in Londonand Hertfordshire. The film stars Jack ...
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Working Title cranks up Sixty Six
WorkingTitle Films started principal photography in London for its coming-of-age comedy Sixty Six. Paul Weiland (Roseanna'sGrave, City Slickers II) is directing from a screenplay by Peter Straughan and Bridget O'Connor. Elizabeth Karlsen, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with NataschaWharton executive producing.UniversalPictures will handle worldwide distribution of Sixty Six, ...
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Asian producers unveil historical epic Battle Of Wisdom
The four co-producers behind pan-Asian historicalepic Battle OfWisdom officially unveiled the production at a press conference in Beijingtoday. Japan'sComstock and South Korea's Boram Entertainment have joined previously announcedpartners Huayi Brothers from mainland China and Hong Kong's Sundream MotionPictures in the $16m film. Directed by Hong Kong director Jacob Cheung, the ...
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UK directors take issue with government's tax proposals
As theclosing date beckons for responses to the UK Government1s proposals forreforming film tax incentives, certain sectors of the industry are claimingthat their voices are not being heard. One lobby group determined to ensure its concerns are addressed is TheDirectors Guild of Great Britain (DGGB), which today (Oct 21), will ...
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Les Destinees Sentimentales
Dir: Olivier Assayas. France. 2000. 180 mins.Prod Co: Arena Films. Int'l Sales: Pathe International. Prod: Bruno Pesery. Scr: Olivier Assayas, Jacques Fieschi based on the novel by Jacques Chardon. DoP: Eric Gautier. Prod des: Katia Wyszkop. Ed: Luc Barnier. Mus: Guillaume Lekeu. Main cast: Emmanuelle Beart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert, ...
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Brief Encounters unveils shorts festival line-up
The 11th Brief Encountersfestival in Bristol has announced a line-up of more than 200 short filmsfor this year's event, which runs November 23-27 at the Watershed Media Centre.The programme includes filmsfrom 25 countries during the five-day event. More than £10,000 will be awardedin prizes. Film highlights include MartinMcDonagh's Six Shooter, ...
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Shoreline, Matador embark on Dark Corners shoot
Shoreline Entertainment and Matador Pictures recently started principalphotography on horror thriller DarkCorners. Shooting started October 11 in London. Ray Gower wrote and is directing the film, which stars Thora Birch as a woman living two lives who is stalked by amonster. Toby Stephens and Christien Anholt also star.Shoreline will handle ...
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The Weather Man
Dir. Gore Verbinski. US. 2005.102mins.TheWeather Man is clearly a transitional work for director Gore Verbinski, a modestly budgeted, comically inflected dramamore alert to writing, character detail and social portrait than the stylisedvisual flamboyance and mannered comic performances of the likes of Pirates Of TheCaribbean.Starring Nicolas Cage as aman attempting to ...
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Doom
Dir: Andrzej Bartkowiak. US. 2005. 101mins.Just as knowing one's own intellectual limitations isits own form of intelligence, so it is wise for a film to have a keen sense ofboundary and mission. Sometimes economy is the smartest choice, as Doom, the surprisingly enjoyable newadaptation of the wildly popular first-person videogame ...
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Doom
Dir: Andrzej Bartkowiak. US. 2005. 101mins.Just as knowing one's own intellectual limitations isits own form of intelligence, so it is wise for a film to have a keen sense ofboundary and mission. Sometimes economy is the smartest choice, as Doom, the surprisingly enjoyable newadaptation of the wildly popular first-person videogame ...
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IMAX to launch first cinema in Brazil
IMAX Corp and Brazilianretail developer Tacla Shopping have signed an agreement to build the South American nation's first IMAX cinema.The new cinema will be part of a 10-cinema multiplex to be installed in the proposed Palladium Shopping Centre in Curitiba, which is anticipated to be the largest shopping mall in ...
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Wallace & Gromit set to soar past $50m
DreamWorks International's Wallace& Gromit has wasted little timein hitting its stride over the past two weeks and should continue its dominancethrough UIP this weekend.None of the major international distributors is firing off a significantvolley, paving the way for the animated feature to bulk up on its $46.8minternational running total.The picture ...
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Wallace & Gromit set to soar past $50m
DreamWorks International's Wallace& Gromit has wasted little timein hitting its stride over the past two weeks and should continue its dominancethrough UIP this weekend.None of the major international distributors is firing off a significantvolley, paving the way for the animated feature to bulk up on its $46.8minternational running total.The picture ...
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Wallace & Gromit set to soar past $50m
DreamWorks International's Wallace& Gromit has wasted little timein hitting its stride over the past two weeks and should continue its dominancethrough UIP this weekend.No particular title is launching in a significant number of markets this weekend, paving the way for the animated feature to bulk up on its $46.8minternational running ...
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Little Fish swims into lead for AFI Awards
Rowan Woods' Little Fish has received the largestnumber of nominations for this year's AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards,announced today in Melbourne, with 13 nods including best film. Look Both Ways and two UK-Australian co-productions, The Proposition and OysterFarmer, were also nominated for best film. Three of the best filmnominees, Little ...
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Bread And Roses
Dir: Ken Loach. UK. 2000. 110 mins.Prod Co: Parallax. Int'l sales: The Sales Company. Prod: Rebecca O'Brien. Exec prod: Ulrich Felsberg. Scr: Paul Laverty. DoP: Barry Ackroyd. Prod des: Martin Johnson. Ed: Jonathan Morris. Mus: George Fenton. Main cast: Pilar Padilla, Elpidia Carrillo, Adrien Brody, George Lopez, Alonso Chavez.The locale ...
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Italians unveil replacement Oscar contender
Followingdays of polemics, Italy has selected Cristina Comencini's drama Don't Tell(La Bestia Nel Cuore)as its candidate for the best foreign language film Oscar. The countryhad previously selected Saverio Costanzo's Middle East drama Private, but the picture was ruledineligible by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, since the filmwas ...