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Analysis - Shaping the future
Who controls the future of creative content is the big question posed at the 2008 Media Summit in London.The high-level conference, organised by Screen International, Broadcast and Q magazine, brings some of the biggest thinkers in the film, television and new media businesses to talk about the changing entertainment language.They ...
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Fox takes out MGM/UA's Lions For Lambs in 46 territories
Ratatouille's five-week reign would appear to be at an end as the film begins to wind down and Fox International launches the anti-war film Lions For Lambs in approximately 46 territories.Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International's Ratatouille has amassed $377.5m and executives will expect solid holdover business to propel the ...
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Taipei Film & TV Project Promotion unveils line-up
The Golden Horse Organising Committee has announced the 17 feature films and television series selected for the third edition of the Taipei Film & TV Project Promotion (TFTPP). The event takes place December 4-6 as part of the 5th Taiwan International Film & TV Expo (TIFTE). Modeled on other project ...
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Korea's CJ CGV, Lotte join forces for d-cinema
Leading Korean exhibitors CJ CGV and Lotte Cinema are setting up a 50:50 joint venture called D-cinema Korea to increase the use of digital projection in theatres. Although digital cinema has been available in Korean theatres since 2005, only 107 (or about 5%) of the 1,980 screens in South Korea ...
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Melbourne Premiere Fund awards docs, Bran Nue Dae
The big-screen adaptation of successful musical Bran Nue Dae and four feature-length documentaries have received the first $324,800 (A$350,000) from the Melbourne International Film Festival's $1.3m (A$1.4m) Premiere Fund. One of the documentaries is about US celebrity commentator Dominic Dunne and will include footage of him covering music producer Phil ...
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Reviews
The Photograph
Dir: Nan Triveni Achnas. Indonesia/France. 2007. 98min.Sentiment can be a good thing but laying it on as thick as Nan Triveni Achnas does in The Photograph risks exhausting the patience of even the staunchest soap opera fan. A weepie about the country girl in the big city who has to ...
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The Mist
Dir: Frank Darabont. US. 2007. 127mins. Frank Darabont and Dimension Films go back to the Stephen King well for The Mist, an enjoyably old school horror outing - with sci-fi undertones and some CG beasties - based on a vintage yarn by the mega-selling author. Though it probably won't match ...
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Park Kwang-su to step down as head of Asian Film Market
Asian Film Market head Park Kwang-su is to step down from his position before the next edition. Press officer Janice Chung confirmed, 'Mr. Park has always said he would only stay a couple years to start the market up. We haven't fixed an exit date yet. He still has to ...
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Arts Alliance Media's Vizumi adds Metrodome content
UK distributor Metrodome has become the latest content partner for Arts Alliance Media's Vizumi Network. AAM will offer Metrodome titles for download to own for $20 (£9.99) and download to rent for $6 (£2.99) at Vizumi's own site and partner sites Tiscali, LoveFilm, and Empire magazine. Films available at the ...
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Sandrew Metronome gets out of Swedish production
The Swedish branch of pan-Scandinavian distributor Sandrew Metronome will dismantle its local production department, ending more than 80 years of Swedish film history.Ironically the decision coincides with the Swedish premiere of the company's latest - and last - feature, Leif Lindblom's Sun Storm (Solstorm), which went straight to number two ...
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Grant and Meaden's Shipwreck starts post on Just Ines
UK-based Shipwreck Film, which has just finished its debut feature Coffee Sex You, is now in post on its next project, Just Ines. Writer/director Marcel Grant's Just Ines stars Daniel Weyman and Caroline Ducey and was shot in the South of France in the UK during four weeks. Post will ...
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Frears comes on as patron for Met Film School
Stephen Frears has come on board as the first patron of the Met Film School, based at Ealing Studios in London. Frears will serve as an ambassador for the school as well as participating in debates, conversations and advice sessions with school directors about the school's future. Frears said: 'Alexander ...
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Fries Film Group acquires worldwide on Surviving Evil
Fries Film Group has acquired worldwide rights to Terence Daw's upcoming horror film Surviving Evil.The UK/South African co-production is set to begin shooting in February 2008 and centres on a group of documentary film-makers marooned on a deserted island in the Philippines where they encounter a fearsome creature.Daw wrote the ...
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Aviva My Love wins audience choice award at NY Israel Film Festival
Shemi Zarhin's Aviva My Love won the 22nd Israel Film Festival in New York's (IFF) Panavision Audience Choice Award for best film on November 8.The film-makers receive one month's use of the $60,000 35mm Panavision camera package to use on their next film within two years.Aviva My Love won six ...
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Sony finalises multi-territory deal on sci-fi thriller District 9
Sony Pictures Entertainment has finalised its deal for the Peter Jackson-produced sci-fi District 9, taking North American rights and 'a significant number of foreign territories, including all English speaking territories'.Sony began negotiations with the film's financier and worldwide sales agent QED International during the recent AFM in Santa Monica.Jackson will ...
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The Hundred Steps (I Centro Passi)
Dir: Marco Tullio Giordana. Italy. 2000. 105 mins.Prod co: Titti Film. Co-prod: Rai Cinema. Backer: Tele +. Int'l sales:Istituto Luce (39) 06 729921. Prod: Fabrizio Mosca. Scr: Claudio Fava, Monica Zapelli, Marco Tullio Giordana. DoP: Roberto Forza. Prod des: Franco Ceraolo. Ed: Roberto Missiroli. Main cast: Luigi Lo Cascio (Peppino ...
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Mueller tipped to stay at Venice Film Festival for another four years
Marco Mueller will remain at the helm of the Venice Film Festival for a second four-year mandate, Italy's culture minister Francesco Rutelli said Friday as he hailed Mueller's work as 'excellent.' Rutelli has also indicated that Paolo Baratta, a former banker, government minister and previous Biennale president will return ...
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Screen WM sets up new $8m film production fund
Screen WM, the UK's regional screen agency for the West Midlands, has gotten increased an $8m (£4m) for production funding of film and digital media over the next four years. The new Media Produciton Fund is open to film and digital projects from across the UK, and an emphasis will ...
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Russian cinema triumphs at Cottbus Festival
Russian cinema was the big winner at this year's FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema (Nov 6-11) with Vera Storosheva's Travelling With Pets taking home five of the total 13 prizes. The Grand Prix winner at this year's Moscow Film Festival was awarded the Special Prize for Best ...
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Russian cinema triumphs at Cottbus Festival
Russian cinema was the big winner at this year's FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema (Nov 6-11) with Vera Storosheva's Travelling With Pets taking home five of the total 13 prizes. The Grand Prix winner at this year's Moscow Film Festival was awarded the Special Prize for Best ...