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Cannes drafts in Yang, Iosseliani for sidebar duty
The Cannes FilmFestival has made two announcements regarding sidebars at the upcoming eventwhich runs from May 11-22.Taiwanesedirector Edward Yang has been named to preside over the Cinefondation jury andthe short film jury while Georgian filmmaker Otar Iosseliani will act as patronof the 44th Critics' Week.Yang won the bestdirector prize at ...
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De Laurentiis's Decameron begins Italian shoot
Shooting starts today (April 13) on the Dino De Laurentiisproduced $38m period comedy, Decameron.Writtenand directed by David Leland (Band of Brothers), theItalian-British-French movie stars Hayden Christensen, Mischa Barton (TheO.C) and Tim Roth. Decameron is inspired by Italian author Boccaccio's 14thcentury collection of stories about a group of unmarried nobles who ...
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El Dorado takes on sales for Malaga pair
Newly-formed El Dorado International has picked upinternational rights on two films competing in next week's Spanish FilmFestival of Malaga (April 22-30), Jose Antonio Vitoria's Vorvik andXavier Berraondo's Working Class.TheMadrid-based sales outfit, newly created by former Aurum international salesdirector Mocha Aguilar, will screen both films to international buyers atMalaga's three-day Market ...
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Russian, Polish directors take top Wiesbaden prizes
Women filmmakers were the main winners at this year'sgoEast Festival of Central and East European Film in Wiesbaden when the awardswere presented on Tuesday evening (April 12).The International Jury, headed by Polish director Robert Glinski,its best film prize to veteran Russian director Kira Muratova's modern farce TheTuner (Nastrojscik), while the ...
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Infernal Affairs' Lau to direct major pan-Asian feature
South Koreanproduction company iFilm, which scored a hit with the Korean-HK co-production Windstrucklast year, has unveiled a major new pan-Asian feature that brings together HongKong director Andrew Lau of Infernal Affairs and Jeon Ji-hyun, the lead actressfrom Windstruck and My Sassy Girl.Titled Daisy, thefilm is billed as a "romantic noir" ...
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Icon drafts in Hamilton as UK president
Alex Hamilton has joined Icon Film Distribution in the UK as president,reporting to newly-appointed CEO Martin Bigham. Hamilton, who most recently served as director of sales and businessdevelopment at fellow UK distributor Momentum Pictures, will start with thecompany next week. "I'm delighted to be joining Icon and very much look ...
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Limited releases chalk up success at UK box office
Adventurestory Sahara might have claimed the lead at the UK box officeover the weekend, but a string of titles on limited release chalked up notablesuccesses. MomentumPictures had a second powerful weekend for Downfall (Der Untergang). TheGerman film slipped a mere 1% week-on-week ahead of an aggressive expansionfrom Friday (Apr 15) ...
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Atlantic Film Festival reacts with fury to Montreal move
Canada's Atlantic FilmFestival (AFF) has reacted with fury to news that the newly-minted FestivalInternational de Films de Montreal (FIFM) has shifted its launch dates to Sept18-25, overlapping the Halifax, Nova Scotia-based event's run of Sept 15-24. The change in FIFM dates isa black eye for Telefilm Canada, the federal film ...
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Constantin, Impact team for US-based venture
Bernd Eichinger's distribution and production group Constantin Film has set up a Los Angeles-based joint venture with Anglo-US production group Impact Pictures.The deal with Jeremy Bolt and Paul Anderson's London and Los Angeles-based Impact Pictures sees the creation of an as-yet-unnamed production company that will be 51% owned by Constantin. ...
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Universal's production chiefs ready for in-house producer role
Universal Pictures vicechairmen of worldwide productionMary Parent and Scott Stuber will segue into producer roles at the end of 2005as part of their seven-year deal with the studio.Under the terms of their contracts Parent and Stuber agreed to serve the firsttwo years as vice chairmen of worldwide production and the ...
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Parent, Stuber move into producing roles at Universal
Universal Pictures vicechairmen of worldwide productionMary Parent and Scott Stuber will segue into producer roles at the end of 2005as part of their seven-year deal with the studio.Under the terms of their contracts Parent and Stuber agreed to serve the firsttwo years as vice chairmen of worldwide production and the ...
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Parent, Stuber move into producing roles at Universal
Universal Pictures vicechairmen of worldwide productionMary Parent and Scott Stuber will segue into producer roles at the end of 2005as part of their seven-year deal with the studio.Under the terms of their contracts Parent and Stuber agreed to serve the firsttwo years as vice chairmen of worldwide production and the ...
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Parent, Stuber move into producing roles at Universal
Universal Pictures vicechairmen of worldwide productionMary Parent and Scott Stuber will segue into producer roles at the end of 2005as part of their seven-year deal with the studio.Under the terms of their contracts Parent and Stuber agreed to serve the firsttwo years as vice chairmen of worldwide production and the ...
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RiverRun Fest to honour Cliff Robertson
CliffRobertson, who won the Oscar in 1969 for his portrayal of a mentally challengedman in Charley, will receive the 2005Master of Cinema Award at the 7th annual RiverRun International Film Festival, which runs from Apr21-24 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.Among theline-up of 52 features and more than 80 shorts are world ...
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Gorris smelling of Rosa for Bold Films
Marleen Gorris has signed to direct the sexually-charged drama Rosa for Bold Films as part of the fledgling Los Angeles-based production company's growing slate.Principal photography is scheduled to begin on Rosa on June 7 in Florence, Italy. Bold Films principal Edward Bass and debut screenwriter Athena Stensland are producing, and ...
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Veteran Hollywood talent agent Dontanville leaves William Morris
Steve Dontanville, one ofHollywood's leading talent agents whose clients include Reese Witherspoon andAnne Hathaway, is leaving William Morris Agency (WMA) to take six months offand then change direction after 27 years as an agent. Dontanville came to WMA in2000 from ICM where he worked for 17 years. His current client ...
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LA PR co MPRM rehires Carpenter, Lopez
Former mPRm staff membersAriel Carpenter and Jennifer Lopez have returned to the Los Angeles-basedpublic relations company as vice president of the emerging media and technology(EMT) practice and senior account executive of the film practice respectively. Carpenter will beresponsible for new business development for the EMT practice as well asdeveloping and ...
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Woods quits as Irish Film Board chief
MarkWoods has resigned as chief executive of the Irish Film Board after 18 monthsin the job. Woodsis moving back to Sydney, Australia, to head a significantly smallerorganisation, the national locations office Ausfilm. Woods lived in Sydney for 12 years before returning toIreland, where he was born, to join the Irish ...
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House Of D
Dir/scr: David Duchovny.US. 2004. 97mins.Cloying when it means tobe heartfelt, simplistic when it aims to be nostalgic, House Of Dconcerns a troubled artist who must come to terms with his past if he everhopes to get a handle on his life. In his feature writing and directorial debut,actor David Duchovny ...
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FilmFour road movie revs up in US
FilmFour's low-budget wing FilmFour Lab stepped into the US this week, starting production in Buffalo, New York on an untitled comedy love story that marks the feature debut of director Joel Hopkins.The road-movie, based on Hopkins' award-winning short Jorge, stars newcomer Tunde Adebimpe, British and French actors James Wilby and ...