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When The Sky Falls
Dir: John MacKenzie. UK-Ireland. 2000. 107 mins.Prod cos: Irish Screen, Sky Pictures, Irish Film Board, Redeemable Features. Int'l Sales: Icon Entertainment International. UK dist: 20th Century Fox. Prods: Nigel Warren-Green, Michael Wearing. Exec prods: Kevin Menton, Peter Newman, Mary Louise Queally. Scr: Michael Sheridan, Ronan Gallagher and Colum McCann. DoP: ...
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Silent Hill
Dir: Christophe Gans. Can-Fr. 2006. 127 mins.Apparently designed to appeal both to fanboys and to a slightly older, mixed-gender crowd, videogame adaptation Silent Hill comes offas an atmospheric but disappointingly dull horror thriller. Interest fromhorror and game aficionados should be strong enough for the Sony-distributed chiller, produced by Samuel Hadidaand ...
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New head named for Greek Film Centre
Film producer George Papalios has been appointed tolead the state-subsidised Greek Film Centre (GFC), replacing novelist and screenwriter ThanassisValtinos.The GFCplays a key role in the Greek industry making funds available for development,co-production and promotion.Papalios isa businessman and producer who during the 70s and early 80s personally financeda number of important ...
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Mezzogiorno bags lead role in Newell's Cholera
Italy'sGiovanna Mezzogiorno (pictured) has joined Javier Bardem on the cast of Stone VillagePictures' Love In The Time Of Cholera,adapted from the bestselling novel by Gabriel Marcia Marquez.StoneVillage Pictures will fully finance and assume all international rights to the$35-40m project, which is set to begin in Brazil on August 15.SummitEntertainment is ...
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Mackiewicz leaves First Look to join Media 8
LizMackiewicz is leaving First Look Studios and will start work at Media 8Entertainment on May 1 as senior vice president of worldwide distribution.Mackiewicz(pictured), who previously served at First Look Studios as senior vicepresident of worldwide sales and distribution, will represents the company'sslate of titles at Cannes next month.Thatslate includes the ...
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Estate of late Disney animator endows $5m to LA film school
Theestate of Disney animation artist John C Hench has made a $5m endowment gift tocreate the John C Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts at theUniversity of Southern California's (USC) School of Cinema-Television.Theendowment will support several key initiatives including funding faculty andstudent assistant positions, updating technology, underwritingartists-in-residence, hosting symposia, ...
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Mertes named head of documentaries at Sundance
AmericanDocumentary Inc executive director and PBSexecutive producer Cara Mertes has been named director of the SundanceInstitute's Documentary Film Program.Merteswill oversee all of the Documentary Film Program's projects, including theSundance Documentary Fund, the annual Documentary Edit and Story Laboratory,the annual Documentary Composers Laboratory, the House of Docs programming, andyear-round support for ...
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Swiss hand out $3.6m reward for local film successes
Zurich-basedproduction house Dschoint Ventschr and distributor Frenetic Films were theleading beneficiaries when Switzerland's Federal Office for Culture (BAK) paidout $3.6m (4.6m Swiss Francs) "reference" funding to producers,distributors and exhibitors of successful Swiss films in 2005.DschointVentschr received $217,000 (276,000 Swiss Francs) for seven releases, includingSamir's Snow White, which was the second ...
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Dombivli-Fast wins top jury prize at LA Indian fest
NishikantKamat's Dombivli-Fast won the grandjury prize for best feature and Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal's BombayCalling took corresponding documentaryhonours as the 4th Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles closed at the weekend.PrakashKovelamudi's Belly Full Of Dreams wonthe audience award for best feature and Ali Kazimi's Runaway Grooms won the award ...
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Zucker named president of distribution at SPRI
MarkZucker has been promoted to president of distribution at Sony PicturesReleasing International (SPRI).Zucker,who previously served as senior executive vice president, will continue tomanage the international distribution of all titles in the Sony fold, includingColumbia Pictures, Revolution Studios, TriStar, Screen Gems, and Sony PicturesClassics.Basedin Los Angeles, he reports directly to Columbia ...
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Arclight grabs worldwide rights to India-set Rajapur
Arclight Films has picked up worldwide rights to Nanda Anand's romanticepic Return To Rajapur andwill commence sales at Cannes.The US-India co-production, a story of love and destinywhich takes place in a Northern India desert city, makes its world premiere atTribeca on Apr 26.Lynn Collins, Kelli Garner, Justin Theroux, Manoj Bajpai, ...
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Cannes competition entry faces Chinese censor
LouYe's Summer Palace, the sole Chinese film incompetition at Cannes this year, will be screened for the China Film Bureaulater this week in what should be an interesting test case of the country'scurrent censorship environment.Thefilm was approved at script stage and filmed through official channels, butaccording to Chinese regulations, the ...
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Capital festivals benefit from Film London fund
A dozen London film festivals areto benefit from Film London's Audience Development Fund over the next sixmonths.They are:Black FilmmakersMagazine International Film Festival (September 8-16) £5,000Bird's Eye View(March to September) £7,500 Fashion In Film Festival (May 12-21) £4,000Short Film Summer School (July 12-15) £3,000 African Film Festival (May 30 - June ...
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Baranski and Runge compete for Karlovy Vary grand prize
Andrzej Baranski'sSeveral People, Little Time and BjornRunge's Mouth To Mouth will compete for the grand prize at the 41stKarlovy Vary International Film Festival. Several People, LittleTime, an intimate psychological drama inspired by the relationship betweenthe Polish poet Miron Bialoszewskiand a blind woman. It stars Krystyna Janda who won the best ...
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Innsbruck festival honours Tunisian director
TheInnsbruck International Film Festival (May 23-28) will be celebrating its 15thyear with a retrospective and exhibition dedicated to the Tunisian directorNacer Khemir, whose latest film Bab' Azizwill open the festival on May 23.TheInternational Competition of seven titles:Cinema,Aspirins And Vultures by Marcelo Gomez (Brazil)GrainIn Ear by Zhang Lu (China/South Korea)NineEmotions by ...
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MD Herrmann leaves Senator in management shake-up
BenjaminHerrmann, managing director of Senator Entertainment's production anddistribution divisions, is leaving the company "by mutual agreement"on April 30 as part of the group's ongoing management restructuring.Herrmannhad headed up Senator Film Produktion and Senator Film Verleih since 2000 andbeen responsible for such productions as The Miracle Of Bern, TheExperiment, Lammbock and ...
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Border Post unites former Yugoslav states
Croatian director Rajko Grlic has scored a highly significant hit throughout the former Yugoslavian states with Border Post (Karaula).Grlicwas one of the most important representatives of the Prague film school whoenjoyed a series of successes with You Only Love Once (1981)and In The Jaws Of Life (1984), and made influential ...
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Da VInci Code backer pulls out of film business
InvictaCapital is to quit the UK film business, says managing director Niall Bamford.TheLondon-based company, one of the powerhouses behind the sale andleaseback-driven production boom in the UK in recent years, is estimated tohave raised over $2.2bn (£1.25bn) for the film industry in the last five years.Recentprojects the company has backed ...
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Da Vinci Code backer pulls out of film business
InvictaCapital is to quit the UK film business, says managing director Niall Bamford.TheLondon-based company, one of the powerhouses behind the sale andleaseback-driven production boom in the UK in recent years, is estimated tohave raised over $2.2bn (£1.25bn) for the film industry in the last five years.Recentprojects the company has backed ...
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Pitt and Blanchett among UIP stars for Cannes
JamieFoxx, Beyonce Knowles, Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett are among the starsconfirmed to attend Cannes next month.UIP, which is distributing their films in certain territories, has eight films at Cannes which include Paramount specialty arm's Babel, being sold by Summit Entertainment internationally, and An InconvenientTruth; excerptsfrom Paramount's World Trade Center; ...