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Egg wins international competition at Istanbul festival
The top honors in the international competition of this year's Istanbul Film Festival have gone to Egg (Yumurta) by local film-maker Semih Kaplanoglu, the story of a poet returning to his mother's home in the country after her death.Kaplanoglu's picture, which opened last year in Cannes' DirectorsFortnight, is the third ...
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Horton leads international box office by a whisper over 21
Horton Hears A Who is making hay while the sun shines. Two weeks before Iron Man launches across the globe the Fox International children's tale continued to dominate overseas as an estimated $9.7m from approximately 5,300 screens in 52 markets raised the tally to $117.7m.The film is easily the biggest ...
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Jackie, Jet Li and Sarah Marshall storm domestic box office
The long awaited on-screen union of Jackie Chan and Jet Li reaped rewards for Liosgate and The Weinsten Company as The Forbidden Kingdom leapt to number one thanks to an estimated $20.9m three-day gross.The martial arts adventure takes place in modern-day America and a mythical past in China where a ...
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Toronto's Stardust Pictures preps $10m comedy Wing Man
Toronto-based Stardust Pictures has completed financing on its first feature, the $10m comedy Wing Man that will shoot in Toronto in the late summer.Harland Williams will direct and Stardust's Justin L Levine and Howard Kerbel will produceStardust recently acquired Canadian rights to Jamie Kennedy's documentary Heckler and will release on ...
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Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate team for premium TV, VOD service
Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate will jointly launch a premium TV channel and Video On Demand (VOD) service in autumn 2009 featuring new and library film titles and original programming from the studios.The new venture will have access to Paramount and Paramount Vantage titles released theatrically on or after January 1 ...
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Icarus buys North American rights to Bitomsky's Dust
Boutique North American distributor Icarus Films has acquired German film-makerHartmut Bitomsky's documentary Dust.Bitomsky's film explores the omniscient particles in a manner that attempts to offer new insight into our bodies, the environment and the cosmos.The film premiered in Venice and screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Philadelphia ...
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Thailand's GTH has phobia for Cannes market
Leading Thai producer-distributor GMM Tai Hub (GTH) will debut a new portmanteau film 4bia (pronounced as 'phobia') at the Cannes Film Market. The new picture is directed by four horror gurus: Parkpoom Wongpoom and Banjong Pisanthanakun (the duo directors behind Shutter and Alone), Paween Purijitpanya (Body) and veteran filmmaker Yongyoot ...
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Lachlan Murdoch rises at News Corp
Rupert Murdoch's eldest son, Lachlan Murdoch, has been appointed deputy COO at News Corp, making him the company's third highest ranking executive behind his father and president and COO Peter Chernin. The 29-year-old is currently in charge of News Corp's US print and publishing operations, and has been chairman and ...
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Citizen Havel, Everything Is Relativein firstDoc Alliance showcase
Pavel Koutecky and Miroslav Janek's Citizen Havel and Danish filmmaker Mikala Krogh's Everything Is Relative are among five creative theatrical documentaries to be showcased by a new venture called Doc Alliance created by five leading European documentary film festivals.Doc Alliance's first lineup is: Citizen Havel by Pavel Koutecky and Miroslav ...
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Edinburgh programmes 22 docs, with gala for Man On Wire
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced that its programme will include 22 documentary features this year.There will be three galas for Chris Waitt's A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures, James Marsh's Man On Wire and Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure.In addition, festival's Document section will show 19 ...
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The Match Factory to handle Petzold's new feature Jerichow
The Match Factory will handle international sales on Christian Petzold's new feature Jerichow which begins shooting in the east German town of Wittenberge, the Prignitz region and along the Elbe from today. It is the sales agent's second Petzold film after his 2007 competition film Yella and marks the director's ...
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Special People wins Germany's Britspotting prize
Justin Edgar's Special People won the best feature audience award at Britspotting, the British & Irish Film Festival in Germany. The film wins a post-production/editing prize worth $22,200 (Euros 14,000).Dominic Coleman, Sasha Hardway, Robyn Frampton, David Proud and Jason Maza star in the story of four kids in wheelchairs who ...
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Ruby Blue, Kill Kill win top prizes at London International fest
At the London Independent Film Festival, Jan Dunn's Ruby Blue won best UK feature and Gareth Roberts' Kill Kill Faster Faster won best international feature.For the UK award, sponsored by Prime Focus London, writer/director Dunn and her producer Elaine Wickham won post-production finance worth about $100,000.Julian Richards was named best ...
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Redpath steps up to become director of Berlinale's Generation
Maryanne Redpath has been appointed the new director of the Berlinale's children's and youth film section Generation.Dieter Kosslick announced the appointment, which takes effect May 1.Redpath is currently co-director of Generation and has worked for the festival since 1993.Florian Weghorn, who has been with Generation since 2002, will now be ...
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Korean admissions drop by 10% in first quarter
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced first quarter figures that show an estimated 10% drop in admissions year-on-year. South Korea saw 35.58 million admissions to the tune of $233.13m (KW231.2bn) from Jan 1- March 31, 2008. KOFIC's report notes that, considering the fact that the number of releases for ...
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ReviewsThe Children Of Huang Shi
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode, 2008, China/Australia/Germany, 125 minutes.The Children of Huang Shi is the epic tale of a journalist seeking adventure who leads an orphanage of Chinese boys to safety from Japanese invaders in the late 1930’s. Yet the real test of endurance is on the shoulders of an audience challenged ...
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Pathology
Dir. Marc Schoelermann, US, 2008, 93 minutesPathology is a cut-em-up thriller that follows a young physician into a snarl of medical residents who make sure that they always have a steady supply of freshly-killed bodies to examine, no matter what it takes. If your taste runs to sawed-open chests and ...
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Sarajevo's CineLink adds Austria to regional co-production market
The 14th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has announced the selections for CineLink, its regional co-production market created in co-operation with Rotterdam's CineMart. The market will take place from Aug 20-23 and the 15 projects will be divided in two groups: CineLink and CineLink+.CineLink includes 12 projects that will participate ...
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The Crimson Rivers (Les Rivieres Pourpres)
Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz. France. 105mins.Prod cos: Legende Entreprises, Gaumont, TF1 Productions in association with StudioCanal. Int'l sales: Gaumont, tel: (33) 1 46 43 2000. Domestic dist: GBVI. Exec prod: Alain Goldman. Scr: Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Christophe Grange, based on Grange's novel. DoP: Thierry Arbogast. Ed: Maryline Monthieu. Prod des: Thierry ...
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Princess Ka'iulani wraps in Hawaii and moves to UK shoot
Princess Ka'iulani, formerly titled Barbarian Princess, has ended the four-week Hawaiian leg of its shoot. The production will now move to shoot for 10 days in Norfolk, England by the end of April.Matador Pictures and Island Film Group's project is based on the true story of a Hawaiian princess who ...