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Ullmann woos Blanchett for star-studded Ibsen adaptation
Norway's great film diva, the 64 year-oldactress-turned-filmmaker Liv Ullmann, is in talks with a bevy of top Hollywoodacting talents, including Cate Blanchett, Kevin Spacey and John Cusack, with aview to casting them in yet another big screen version of A Doll's House, her countryman Henrik Ibsen's classic dissection ofmarriage.Dinamo Story, ...
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No-One Sleeps
Dir: Jochen Hick. Germany. 2000. 108 mins.Prod co: Galeria Alaska. Int'l sales: Media Luna. Prod: Hick. Scr: Hick. DoP: Thomas M Harting, Michael Maley. Ed: Helga Scharf. Mus: James Hardway. Main cast: Tom Wlaschiha, Irit Levi, Jim Thalman, Richard Conti.A cross between William Friedkin's 1980 Cruising and Michael Crichton's 1978 ...
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Toronto mega-studio plans are back on track
Toronto's on-again, off-again bid to build astate-of-the-art purpose-built studio on its disused port area is back on track.Three months after the last Portlands deal fell apart,the city's corporate proxy, Toronto Economic Development Corp. (TEDCO), hasannounced a new Request for Expressions of Interest (RFI) toward theconstruction of a facility up to ...
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Danny Deckchair
Dir: Jeff Balsmeyer. Australia. 2003. 100mins.Welsh actor Rhys Ifans created the abiding comic movie image of 1999 as Spike in Roger Michell's Notting Hill: the shaggy, skinny flatmate-from-Hell merrily posed in his underpants for photographers outside Hugh Grant's London pad. Unpredictably Ifans emerges here as a glamorously handsome Australian ...
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American Wedding
Dir: Jesse Dylan. US. 2003. 96mins.The enthusiastic raunchiness of its gags aside, the third instalment of the American Pie franchise feels like the return of a favourite TV sitcom: the characters are enjoyably familiar and while the set up has changed a little the comedy still has energy to spare. ...
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Venice: full competition line-up
Venezia 60 - In CompetitionBuongiorno, Notte dir Marco Bellocchio,Segreti Di Stato, dir Paolo Benvenuti,Le Cerf-Volant, dir Randa Chahal Sabbag, Raja, dir Jacques Doillon,Twentynine Palms, dir Bruno Dumont,Alila, dir Amos Gitai, 21 Grams, dir Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Imagining Argentina, dir Christopher Hampton, A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baram-Nan Gajok), dir Im Sangsoo, ...
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Venice's last-minute Lido line-up
Venice has unveiled its competition line-up for the festival's 60th edition (Aug 27-Sep 6), including widely anticipated films from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Michael Winterbottom, Takeshi Kitano, Christopher Hampton and Bruno Dumont - although most of the hotly awaited US titles will screen out of competition"It was a particularly difficult year," ...
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T3 looks to storm key European markets
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines will again be the one to watch this weekend as openings in the key UK, Germany and Spain markets look set to push the sci-fi epic past $100m.Directed by Jonathan Mostow, the third instalment in the hit series has grossed $92m at the international ...
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Cinecitta targets UK producers with London office
In a continuing drive to raise its international profile, Rome's Cinecitta Studios is opening a new office in London, after opening branches in New York and Los Angeles.The office will be headed by Joshua Andrews, fomerly head of worldwide sales at Icon Entertainment and head of production at Odyssey Entertainment.Andrews ...
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Warner Bros' Engagement stirs French debate
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's next film, A Very Long Engagement, is stirring up controversy in France even before the first images have been shot. The film is to be produced by a new outfit, 2003 Productions, which was set up and is run by Warner Bros France president Francis Boespflug and is ...
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Austrian Film Institute backs five co-productions
Five international co-productions are among the projects awarded over Euros 2m in production support from the Austrian Film Institute (OFI) in its latest round of funding.Production backing was allocated to Jessica Hausner's thriller Hotel, to be co-produced by Coop99 Filmproduktion with Germany's Essential Filmproduktion; Wolfram Paulus's coming of age tale ...
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Girl band musical storms Argentinian box office
A musical starring local all-girl band Bandana has become this year's box office sensation in Argentina. Bandana: Vivir Intentando has attracted 778,000 admissions, posting a per screen average of 30,000. Co producers Patagonik Film Group and RGB Productions are hoping to reach the one million mark in a few weeks. ...
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Famous Players, Alliance invest in Canadian chain
Viacom's Famous Players Theatres and Alliance Atlantis Communications have taken a combined 21% stake in Galaxy Cinemas, the newest player in the Canadian exhibition market.The joint venture, announced Thursday, calls for the construction of 21 state-of-the-art multiplexes over the next 30 months, all of them in smaller markets with population ...
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Insomnia director readies Ibsen adaptation
Erik Skjoldbjaerg, who made his international breakthrough with his debut feature Insomnia (1997), will return to his native Norway to direct an updated screen version of Henrik Ibsen's 1882 play An Enemy Of The People. To be produced by the recently restructured Norwegian arm of Nordic major Nordisk Film, producers ...
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UK's Optimum acquires Thousand Months, Since Otar Left
Optimum Releasing have acquired UK rights to A Thousand Months and Since Otar Left from Fortissimo and Celluloid Dreams respectively. Faouzi Bensaidi's A Thousand Months, selected for Un Certain Regard at this year's Cannes Film Festival, tells the story of Amina and her son Mehdi who live in the heart ...
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Copenhagen fest completes jury
The first edition of the Copenhagen International Film Festival (Aug 13-20) has filled the remaining two seats of its five man jury, who will be presided over by Theo Angelopoulos. Joining Denmark's Bille August and Sweden's Jan Troell are German writer-director Jutta Brückner and Belgian actress-turned filmmaker Marion Hänsel. Together ...
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Campion's Cut to premiere at Toronto
Jane Campion's In The Cut will makes its world premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival along with North American premieres of Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 and Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men. The latter two films are premiering at Venice. Toronto will present all three films at Gala screenings.In The ...
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France helps propel English box office haul
Working Title's Johnny English continued to demonstrate Rowan Atkinson's audience-pulling power in Europe last week when it launched in France through Mars Distribution, it's final European territory.The only international territory not handled by distribution giant UIP, France saw 428,079 admissions taken in its first full week on release from 557 ...
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Montreal secures Elephant for North America premiere
Gus Van Sant's Palme d'or winner Elephant will have its North American premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival. The festival announced a selection of titles from its various programmes including some Official Competition titles and some of those screening Out of Competition, including Italian filmmaker Gabriele Salvatore's Io Non ...
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Arclight, Spice Factory launch Oz film fund
Sydney-based sales agent Arclight Films International and prolific UK production company Spice Factory are to launch an Australian film fund. The news was revealed by Arclight managing director Gary Hamilton and Spice Factory joint director Michael Cowan on July 31 during the final outing of a two-city road show that ...