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Danny Huston, Novakovic, Roberts join Edge Of Darkness
Danny Huston, newcomer Bojana Novakovic and Shawn Roberts have joined Mel Gibson and Robert De Niro in GK Films' thriller Edge Of Darkness, which is due to begin filming in Massachusetts later this month.Based on the BBC mini-series of the same name, Edge Of Darkness will be directed by Martin ...
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars launches in 22 international territories to chase Knight, Mummy
The Dark Knight will soar past $300m this weekend as it bids to reclaim the overseas crown from The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor - however the force may be with an entirely new release. Warner Bros Pictures International's crime epic The Dark Knight stands at $285.9m and ...
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Warner Bros pushes back Harry Potter 6 to July 2009
In a move that highlights the crucial strategic role played by global day-and-date releases, Warner Bros has pushed back Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince from November 21 to July 17 2009.The sixth episode in the studio's highly successful children's fantasy franchise will now open day-and-date domestically and in the ...
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Speculation heats up over Maire replacement in Locarno
Locarno's Frederic Maire has pronounced himself 'very pleased' with how his third outing as the festival's artistic director panned out this year. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com ahead of the announcement of the awards at the weekend, Maire pointed to such highlights as the reaction of the audience to the Amos ...
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NZ's Ruth Harley appointed ashead of Screen Australia
Ruth Harley has stepped down as chief executive of the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) to take the same role at the new super agency in the neighbouring and much bigger country of Australia. She will be on deck at Screen Australia from November 15, taking the reins from Lyn ...
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In Focus: Britta Knoller and Hans-Christian Schmid's Storm
Hans-Christian Schmid could not have wished for better timing to start shooting his latest feature project, the English-language political thriller Storm, about the aftermath of the Balkan war.Just a week earlier, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had been apprehended after 13 years on the run.Storm (working title), which began ...
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Canadian festivals - Telefilm plays the Canada card
In July, Telefilm Canada introduced a new regime for its festival funding. In essence, eligible Canadian film festivals will be required to increase the number of Canadian films they screen in order to qualify for funding.The issue came up at the opening press conference of Montreal's World Film Festival (Wff). ...
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The critical view - Minority report
Can I say The Dark Knight is, in my opinion, not a very good film' I am puzzled and perturbed by the overwhelmingly positive critical response the film has attracted from fellow critics, especially in the US.Let me list my main objections to Christopher Nolan's latest 'masterpiece'.First, it is a ...
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Preview: Haugesund Norwegian International Film Festival
This year we have every reason to spell NORWAY with capital letters,' says Hakon Skogrand, programme director of the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund (August 16-23). 'Local films will open and close the festival, and in total there will be 15 premieres of Norwegian films, including all features, documentaries, ...
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Preview: Montreal World Film Festival
Montreal's World Film Festival (WFF) enters its 32nd year in a state of suspended animation. Is it, as its mercurial president Serge Losique claims, a festival of discoveries' Or is it a repository for films that no-one else has selected'At the opening press conference on August 5, the line-up was ...
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In Focus: Norwegian film
Cold Lunch, Eva Sorhaug's debut feature, will open Critics' Week at the Venice film festival later this month, the first Norwegian film to do so. It will then screen in the Discovery section at the Toronto International Film Festival.Starring Aksel Hennie, Pia Tjelta and Ane Dahl Torp, Cold Lunch juggles ...
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TIFF adds 13 world premieres to Discovery, Vision and Vanguard
The Toronto International Film Festival added a further 13 world premieres to an already impressive line-up, as it completed the slates for the Discovery, Visions and Vanguard programmes. Among the seven Discovery world premieres announced are Brian Goodman's What Doesn't Kill You, starring Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo as Bostonian ...
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Torresblanco to present film keynote speech at Strategic Partners
Frida Torresblanco, the New York-based producing partner of Alfonso Cuaron's Esperanto Films, will present the opening keynote speech at Halifax's Strategic Partners International Co-Production Market (Sept 12-14).Torresblanco's credits include Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, Neils Mueller's The Assassination of Richard Nixon and Sebastian Cordero's Cronicas. Presenting the television keynote speech ...
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Andrzej Wajda begins work on new film Tatarak
Polish auteur Andrzej Wajda began filming this week on a new feature, Tatarak.Producers told ScreenDaily.com that filming began on location in Grudziadz in northern Poland and will continue until the end of September.Wajda and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk have adapted the script from a novel by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz and from ...
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Tropic Thunder to strike in San Sebastian
San Sebastian has announced that Ben Stiller's film Tropic Thunder will be in official selection, out of competition, at this year's festival.Stiller and actor Robert Downey Jr. will be at the Basque festival to present the film, which is being released in Spain by Paramount Pictures Spain on Sept 26.Tropic ...
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Oberli's The Murder Farm to star Jentsch, Bleibtreu
German actress Julia Jentsch, the star of Malgoska Szumowska's Locarno competition film 33 Scenes From Life, is to appear with Monica Bleibtreu in Swiss director Bettina Oberli's next feature The Murder Farm (Tannöd), which begins shooting in the Sauerland and Eifel regions of Germany from September.The $5.6m (Euros 3.8m) co-production ...
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Vue readies $4m eight-screen multiplex in South Wales
UK exhibitor Vue Entertainment will open its new $4m (£2m) Merthyr Tydfil multiplex on Sept 26.The eight-screen, stadium-seating cinema in South Wales will make use of Dolby Digital Surround Sound and digital projectors.The site is also digital 3D enabled and will show 3D animated Fly Me To The Moon from ...
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Max & Co producers declare bankruptcy after megaflop
A dark cloud descended on Swiss cinema at this week's Locarno Film Festival with the news that Lausanne-based producers MAX-LeFilm and Cinemagination have been forced to declare bankruptcy after the flop of their $27.5m (CHF 30m) animation feature Max & Co. Billed as the most expensive Swiss film of all ...
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Heineken to kick off Quantum Of Solace promotions in October
Heineken International will launch a worldwide promotional campaign for the forthcoming James Bond film Quantum Of Solace.The MGM/Columbia release of an EON production will hit cinemas in November 2008.This marks Heineken's fifth consecutive partnership with the Bond franchise.The campaign, featuring new Bond girl Olga Kurylenko, was shot using actual film ...
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NESTA helps Pact with tools for producers working across platforms
UK producers group Pact is working with NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) to help film and TV producers work on convergent or 'multi-platform' projects.The tools the groups have worked on together include legal templates for multiplatform development, and a how-to guide for joint ventures.John McVay, chief ...