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Regent takes US rights to Spottiswoode's Shake Hands With The Devil
Regent Releasing has picked up US rights from Halifax Film to RogerSpottiswoode's drama Shake Hands With The Devil and will release inthe summer.Roy Dupuis stars as Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, a Canadianformer United Nations military officer who alerted the world toongoing atrocities in the war between African Hutu and Tutsi tribes.Deborah ...
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International - Change hits the top 10
Four new entries debuted in Screen's international chart this week, the highest of which was StudioCanal's Change Of Plans, from director Daniele Thompson, at number eight. Starring Welcome To The Sticks' Dany Boon, the comedy opened in France, Belgium and French-speaking Switzerland, taking $5.9m from 550 screens for the week's ...
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Liew Seng Tat aims higher with second feature
Malaysian writer/director Liew Seng Tat enjoyed a festival hit with his debut feature, Flower In The Pocket, which won the New Currents award and audience award at Pusan 2007 and a Tiger award at Rotterdam 2008.With his second feature, In What City Does It Live', he wants to make sure ...
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Andrew Bujalski: 'Mumblecore doesn't mean much for me'
If Andrew Bujalski never heard the word 'mumblecore' again, he'd be quite happy. 'I'm tired of hearing about it,' he explains from Austin, Texas, days after his latest film, Beeswax, had its world premiere in Berlin. 'I'm tired of the reduction inherent in it. It's designed to take a lot ...
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Minority report: training in Australia
Minority training in AustraliaIndigenous Australians now comprise just 3% of the country's population and until the Australian Film Commission (AFC) stepped in to create a dedicated indigenous branch in 1993, they had virtually never had the chance to tell their own stories on screen.This year, the focus on indigenous film-makers ...
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Awards - Oscar winners - Millionaire's playground
When we started out we had no stars, no power or muscle to do what we wanted. But what we had was a script that had mad love and a genius director ... and we had partners in Film4, Pathe and Fox Searchlight."Celador chief Christian Colson's words after hoisting aloft ...
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Opinion: UnderstandingIndia beyond Slumdog
The triumph of Slumdog Millionaire this week at the Academy Awards as well as its enormous success at the domestic and the global box office has directed the world's attention to India, its talent - such as composer and music star AR Rahman - energy, locations and the narrowing gap ...
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Watchmen watch: reaching beyond the fan boys through online innovations
The arrival of Watchmen was always going to generate buzz. On March 6 the film will hit more than 6,000 screens worldwide, with all the major markets opening within the month (the last to open, Japan, is only three weeks behind North America). With a launch of this magnitude in ...
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Mitchell Lichtenstein cries Happy Tears
Mitchell Lichtenstein, whose debut Teeth was a cult favourite on the 2007 festival circuit, unveiled his second film, Happy Tears, in competition at Berlin recently. The story of two very different sisters (played by Parker Posey and Demi Moore) who find themselves looking after their father (Rip Torn) as he ...
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How will film festivals survive the funding crunch'
A snapshot is emerging of an international festival landscape in dramatic flux, as festivals of all sizes are being forced to look anew at how they operate.Last autumn the Jackson Hole Film Festival in Wyoming announced it was shutting down after barely five years of existence, a victim of the ...
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Training - Opinion - 'It took time but the field opened up'
For a country where a husband's infidelity is almost tacitly agreed in a marriage contract, it is surprising that machismo has very little place in the French film business. Women have been running companies, working as producers, editors, screenwriters and directors for years in what appears to be one of ...
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Minority report: how training is opening up the film industry
Film is such a powerful and important medium and it has a huge impact on society. It can't be healthy to have such an imbalance and I can't actually believe it's still as extreme as it is,' says Rachel Millward, founder of UK organisation Birds Eye View (BEV), which supports ...
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Kirill Mikhanovsky - your man in Havana
An urban thriller set in contemporary Havana, Fuga Mortis is the story of an adolescent hustler who tries to save his sister from the streets, and discovers his best option is to kill one of his grandfather's ageing comrades. The project's director and writer, Kirill Mikhanovsky, received the Screen International ...
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Minority report: training in the US
Minority training in the USOne of the hottest US initiatives supporting women and minority film-makers is the Tribeca Film Institute's Tribeca All Access (TAA), a project-based, meetings-driven programme held during the Tribeca Film Festival in April, and now in its sixth year. Programme manager Tamir Muhammad says the 2009 TAA ...
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Content Republicto handleonline release of The Republic Of Love
Digital distribution company Content Republichas struck a dealwith The Works International to distribute Deepa Mehta's The Republic Of Love online in European territories including Benelux, Germany, Italy and France.Content Republic will release The Republic Of Love this spring as part of its recently announced deal with Babelgum as well as ...
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Boon's Welcome To TheSticksmakes him highest paid actor in Europe
Welcome To The Sticks director and star Dany Boon has become the highest paid actor in the history of European cinema, according to French daily Le Figaro.The film, which sold nearly 21 million tickets in France alone, has already earned Boon $33m (Euros 26m). Boon directed, starred in and co-wrote ...
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Finalists for the Cartoon Movie Tributes 2009 announced
Irish animator Tomm Moore who directed Berlinale offering Brendan and The Secret Of Kells, French distributor Bac Films and the production team behind Niko & The Way To The Stars are among the finalists nominated for this year's Cartoon Movie Tributes. Cartoon Movie Tributes rewards companies and personalities who have ...
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Meszáros wraps production on historical drama The Hope
Hungarian auteur Márta Meszáros has concluded production on historical drama The Hope. The film's protagonists are two pioneering politicians, Anna Kethly and Golda Meir, whose lives intersected in 1956. Eniko Eszenyi plays Kethly while Polish actress Beata Fudalej portrays Meir. Other cast include Erno Fekete, Zsuzsa Czinkoczi, and Gyorgi Cserhalmi). ...
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Zentropa gives birth to new animation outfit
Denmark's Zentropa has launched a new animation company, Rambuk, to be headed by director Stefan Fjeldmark.Most recently Fjeldmark has been working with Denmark's Fine and Mellow Productions in a non-animation role. Commenting on the appointment, Zentropa CEO, Peter Aalbaek Jensen described Fjeldmark as having 'a rare ability to combine his ...
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Public funding for cinema in Italy cut by 23% for 2009
Arts funding in Italy for 2009 has been drastically reduced, with cinema hit by a reduction of $26.7m (Euros 20.9m), sparking a move by the arts community to change Italy's laws governing funding for cinema and the arts. The budget for Italy's single arts fund, the FUS, has been reduced ...