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Paul Allen's Vulcan to make film on life of George Washington
Paul G Allen's Vulcan Productions has signed Nicholas Meyer to write a screenplay about the life of George Washington.Nick Wechsler is attached to produce with Richard Hutton and Michael Caldwell on behalf of Vulcan.'Washington was the indispensible man, the physical embodiment of America's revolutionary ideals and identity,' Allen said. 'As ...
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Fiennes to direct River Road's Coriolanus in Serbia
River Road Entertainment will film a modern-day version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus in Serbia. Ralph Fiennes will direct and play the lead in the film and was part of a USAID group that evaluated Serbia as a location for shooting this film in July.The film is a tragedy based on the ...
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Regent buys Mendoza's Serbis for US from Fortissimo
Regent Releasing has acquired North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Filipino film-maker Brillante Mendoza's drama Serbis, which will get its North American premiere here.Serbis follows the exploits of a Filipino family that runs a dilapidated porn theatre and was the first Filipino film to play in competition in Cannes ...
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Production begins on The Butterfly Effect: Revelation
Production has begun in Detroit on BenderSpink, FilmEngine and After Dark Films' sci-fi thriller The Butterfly Effect: Revelation.Chris Carmack stars as a young man who travels back in time to track down the killer of an old love and winds up unleashing a serial killer on an unsuspecting world. Rachel ...
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Paramount Vantage picks up sales rights to Jordan's Ondine
Paramount Vantage has boarded international sales on Neil Jordan's fantasy romance Ondine starring Colin Farrell, Stephen Rea and Alicja Bachleda and will commence pre-sales here.The film is currently shooting in Ireland and stars Farrell as a fisherman who catches a woman from the sea whom his daughter believes is a ...
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Goldwyn acquires US rights to Rachel Samuels' Dark Streets
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Rachel Samuels' stage adaptation Dark Streets, which won a special jury prize at CineVegas earlier this year.Gabriel Mann, Bijou Phillips, Izabella Miko, Elias Koteas and Toledo star in the tale of a 1930s playboy and nightclub owner caught in a love triangle ...
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Toronto reviews
Gala PresentationsBurn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)Dean Spanley (Toa Fraser)The Duchess (Saul Dibb)Fifty Dead Men Walking (Kari Skogland)La Fille De Monaco (Anne Fontaine)The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (Jodie Markell)Nothing But The Truth (Rod Lurie)One Week (Michael McGowan)The Other Man (Richard Eyre)Passchendaele (Paul Gross)Pride And Glory (Gavin O'Connor)Rachel Getting ...
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Toronto International Film Festival news and reviews
The latest news and reviews from Screen's team at the Toronto International Film Festival.Updated daily Toronto StoriesUpdated daily Toronto Reviews Updated daily Toronto Sales
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Kerala film festival announces dates, makes call for entries
The organisers of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) have announced that this year's edition will be held December 12-19 in Trivandrum, Kerala. The festival is also calling for entries for sections including the Competition Section, which will screen films produced and co-produced in Asia, Africa and Latin America ...
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Der Baader Meinhof Complex and The Wave among German Oscar picks
Uli Edel's Der Baader Meinhof Komplex and Dennis Gansel's school drama The Wave are among five films submitted for consideration as Germany's entry for the Best Foreign Language Feature Film Oscar.The Constantin Film production of Edel's chronicle of the Red Army Faction terrorist group, starring Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck and ...
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Hidden Fortress kicks off Korea's Chungmuro fest
The 2nd Chungmuro International Film Festival in Seoul opened last night with some of South Korea's biggest stars in attendance and the screening of Japanese director Shinji Higuchi's Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess. Local stars that climbed the red carpet included Jang Dong-gun, Ha Ji-won and Kim Jung-eun. Asian stars ...
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Ploning selected as Philippines entry to foreign-language Oscar
An indie film by a first time director beat out other titles as the Philippines' entry to the best foreign-language category of the Academy Awards. Ploning emerged as the final choice by a selection committee of the Film Academy of the Philippines. The modestly budgeted pic is the initial production ...
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As industry leaves Venice for Toronto, Italian titles still strong
As a week of screenings at the Venice Film Festival winds up and the industry moves to Toronto, Italian titles are likely to be a focal point of year’s traditional festival migration.That is because seven Italian films will be on this year’s Toronto roster compared to three last year, across ...
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EFP's Film Sales Support promotes 42 European films in Toronto
European Film Promotion is working with the Toronto International Film Festival for the 12th year.The MEDIA-backed Film Sales Support initiative is now in its fourth year supporting European sales agents and producers with films in Toronto's official market.This year, Toronto's programme includes about 120 European films -- of which 42 ...
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North American premieres of Lake Tahoe, Desert Within at AFI FEST
The world premiere of Danny Ledonne's Playing Columbine and the North American premieres of Margarita Jimeno's Gogol Bordello Non-Stop, Rodrigo Pla's The Desert Within and Fernando Eimbcke's Lake Tahoe are among the first 15 titles announced for the AFI FEST 2008, set to run in Los Angeles from October 30-November ...
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Lisa Wilson moves from Hyde Park to Graham King's GK Films
Lisa Wilson has segued from Hyde Park International to a new role as president of international distribution at Graham King's GK Films.Wilson will commence work spearheading the company's worldwide sales operations on September 22 and will begin talking to international buyers about the Emily Blunt costume drama The Young Victoria, ...
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David Glasser joins Weinsteins as president of international
David Glasser has left Syndicate Films International to join The Weinstein Company (TWC) as president of international, filling the slot vacated by Glen Basner who departed the company recently after a three-year stint.Glasser joins and will oversee the recently promoted duo of Michael Rothstein, executive vice president of international sales ...
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Karina to head Pusan's New Currents Award jury
The 13th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has announced its juries for the New Currents Award and Wide Angle awards. French actress Anna Karina, star of Nouvelle Vague films such as Bande à Part and Alphaville, will head the New Currents jury for Asian feature films.Other members of the jury ...