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Vancouver's Anagram scores output deal with Maple Pictures
Vancouver-based production house Anagram Pictures and Toronto-based distributor Maple Pictures have established a multi-year, multi-picture output deal as part of Telefilm Canada's Slate Development Pilot Programme. The first two pictures in the slate are ecological thriller The Thaw and sci-fi thriller Falling Awake. Anagram made a critical if not a ...
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Bac takes on sales, French rights to Pablo - The Little Red Fox
Bac Films is set to handle international sales and French theatrical distribution for the animation feature Pablo - The Little Red Fox based on the popular TV series of the same name. Pitching the $ 11.9m (Euros 7.8m) project in development at last week's Cartoon Movie co-production forum, Toons ...
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Mungiu's 4 Months dominates Romanian Gopo Awards
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days picked up nine of the 17 awards handed out at the second annual Gopo Awards in Bucharest March 3. The Palm d'Or-winning abortion drama was named Best Film and earned Best Director for Cristian Mungiu, Best Actress for Anamaria Marinca, Best Supporting Actress ...
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Sheffield's Sensoria music/film festival adds industry day
Sensoria, the UK's new music and film festival to be held in Sheffield, has announced that A Life In the Death Of Joe Meek will be its opening night film, with an introduction by musician Richard Hawley.Other films in the programme are The Old Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology Of ...
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Don't Look Down (No Mires Para Abajo)
Dir: Eliseo Subiela. Argentina, 2008. 85 mins.Once the darling of art cinema circles and festival programmers, veteran Argentine filmmaker Eliseo Subiela (Last Images Of The Shipwreck, The Dark Side of the Heart) could be looking at a comeback with this erotic romp, which doesn't take itself as seriously as some ...
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Duncan Jones wraps shoot on Moon starring Sam Rockwell
Sci-fi feature Moon has just wrapped principal photography at the UK's Shepperton Studios.The film, which marks the feature directorial debut of Duncan Jones (formerly known as Zowie Bowie), stars Sam Rockwell. Moon is being made through London-based production outfit Liberty Films. The producers are Stuart Fenegan, Nicky Moss and Trudie ...
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Picturehouse readies Liverpool's first digital 3D cinema at FACT
Liverpool, England gets its first digital 3D cinema at Picturehouse at FACT.Picturehouse Cinemas is making the Liverpool location its first in a planned rollout of digital 3D cinemas. The 2K digital cinema projector will be using Real-D technology. 'REAL-D 3D goes leaps and bounds beyond the early 3D technology,' said ...
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The Oxford Murders
Dir. Alex de la Iglesia, Spain/UK/France, 2008, 110 mins.Serving up archaic symbols, sinister cloaked figures, philosophical asides and murder most foul, Alex de la Iglesia's The Oxford Murders promises a heady blend of maths and murder. But despite able direction, an intense, unsettling score and some competent acting, this screen ...
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Tribeca 2008 unveils narrative & documentary competition lineups
The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival's world narrative and documentary competition entries and the Encounters line-up have been annoaunced ahead of next month's event, set to run from Apr 23-May 4.Twelve narrative features and 12 documentaries from 18 countries will compete for combined unrestricted cash prizes amounting to $100,000, including prizes ...
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Samuel Goldwyn Films brings Paris to the US
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Cedric Klapisch's latest ensemble Paris from StudioCanal.The film, which had its US premiere at Rendezvous With French Cinema in New York recently, features a group of intertwined stories set of course in Paris. The star-studded cast included Juliette Binoche, Klapisch's regular collaborator ...
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Peace Arch acquires worldwide rights to A Lobster Tale
Toronto-based Peace Arch Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to family film A Lobster Tale starring Colm Meaney as a struggling lobster fisherman in Maine whose life is turned upside down when he discovers a strange moss with magical healing powers.Peace Arch Home Entertainment will release the film on DVD ...
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Fenady named president, physical production, at Universal Pictures
Andrew Fenady has been named president, physical production, at Universal Pictures replacing longtime head of physical production James Brubaker who chose not to renew his contract and will move into a senior advisory role with the company.Fenady will report to Jimmy Horowitz, co-president of production and executive vice president for ...
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MPAA's Glickman, NATO's Fithian sound the drum for theatrical film
If every silver lining has its cloud, neither Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Chairman Dan Glickman nor National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) President John Fithian felt compelled to mention current or future impediments to the health of film exhibition in their annual addresses at the ShoWest exhibition convention.Last ...
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Wellness, They Killed Sister Dororthy win SXSW top prizes
Jake Mahaffy's Wellness won the narrative feature and Daniel Junge's They Killed Sister Dorothy took the documentary grand jury prizes at the 2008 SXSW festival.Andrew T Betzer's Small Apartment and David Garrett's Walord shared the Reel Shorts jury award.Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's Madame Tulti-Putli won the animated section and ...
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Never Back Down
Dir: Jeff Wadlow. US. 2008. 113 mins.Fight Club meets The Karate Kid in Never Back Down, a generic, violent underdog story that pays a lot of lip service to non-violence when its characters aren't busy kicking and punching the tar out of each other. Though the film tries to capitalise ...
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ITV acquires Walt Disney's 1999 slate
UK commercial broadcasting network ITV has secured Walt Disney Co's 1999 theatrical slate.The network has partnered with BVI-TV, the international distribution division of Walt Disney Television International, to secure the US studio's line-up. Titles under the deal include Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis; Runaway Bride, with Richard Gere and Julia ...
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UKFC, NESTA launch $1m scheme to update film's business models
The UK Film Council is working with the National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts (NESTA) to start a new $1m (£500,000) initiative to help British independent film companies take better advantage of new technologies.NESTA and the UKFC are now scouting for film companies who want to learn more ...
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21
Dir: Robert Luketic. US. 2008. 122 mins.21 is a highly-fictionalised super-slick movie version of the non-fiction bestseller Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich which has just the right doses of MTV flash, pretty young stars and beat-the-system wish fulfillment to make it work at the box office as a ...
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Kari's The Good Heart beats with Paul Dano, Brian Cox
Icelandic director Dagur Kari is gearing up for a late April start of shoot for his next film The Good Heart, which has been pushed back slightly after a planned December 2007 start. The film will shoot for 10 weeks.Paul Dano and Brian Cox are now cast in the leads, ...
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Progress takes on sales for German kids film Morphus
Progress Film-Verleih will handle world sales on Karola Hattop's new children's film Morphus which is shooting in Berlin until Easter after completing location work near Berchtesgaden and Wernigerode.The story of a young boy's adventure to recover the last composition by Ludwig van Beethoven, which was stolen from him by two ...