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Venice Days premieres include Aprahamian's Broken Lines
Czech director Bohdan Slama's A Country Teacher (VenkovskyUcitel) will have its international premiere at this year's Venice Dayssidebar, which is heavy on European and Eastern European films in thisyear's edition.A Country Teacher, sold by Wild Bunch, tells the story of a brilliantprofessor who moves to the Bohemian countryside in order ...
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Naked Of Defenses picks up top prize at Japan's Pia fest
Japanese director Masahide Ichii's Naked Of Defenses won the Grand Prix at the 30th edition of the Pia Film Festival (PFF), which ran from July 19 to 25 in Tokyo's Shibuya district. A total of 15 films, both feature-length and shorts, were selected to screen in competition from 601 submissions ...
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Melbourne fest's financing market and fund to continue
The government of the Australian state of Victoria brought a smile to the faces of filmmakers attending the opening of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) tonight, by pledging $2.3m (A$2.4m) to extend the life of the festival's investment fund and financing market. 'We were not certain that funding would ...
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Hong Kong's Media Asia takes back Infernal rights
Hong Kong's Media Asia has announced that it has retrieved rights to seven films it had previously licensed to UK-US distributor Tartan Group, including its hugely successful Infernal Affairs trilogy. In a legal notice, the Hong Kong company said that, as of July 4, it has terminated all licence agreements ...
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Darren Aronofsky on board to remake Robocop for MGM
MGM has confirmed the rumour circulating Hollywood last week that Darren Aronofsky will direct and David Self will write its RoboCop remake, which is being fast-tracked for a 2010 release.Phoenix Pictures' Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brad Fischer and David Thwaites will produce and MGM's executive vice president of production Cale ...
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Morgan Spurlock signs with CAA for representation
Morgan Spurlock has signed with CAA for representation in all areas.Spurlock's second feature Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden opened in limited release earlier in the year and follows his 2004 Oscar nominated Super Size Me.He is managed by The Arlook Group and attorney John Sloss of Sloss, ...
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The Bat lands in major markets including UK, Italy
The Dark Knight will have to contend with the first wave of launches for Fox International's The X-Files: I Want To Believe this weekend but should have the muscle to come out on top.The comic book adaptation could sweep past $100m this weekend through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) as ...
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New York DocuWeek announces first annual lineup of films
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon), War Child and Flow are among a 14-film lineup that will screen at the International Documentary Association's (IDA) inaugural New York showcase DocuWeek.The event is inspired by DocuWeek's successful and ongoing run in Los Angeles and will give documentaries a chance to qualify for the Oscars. Academy ...
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In The Animation Vanguard: John H Williams on Space Chimps
Space Chimps, which opened in the US through Twentieth Century Fox last weekend, taking $7.4m, is the second CG-animated film financed independently by Vanguard Animation.An initiative of Shrek producer John H Williams and his Vanguard Films, the unit was founded to make a modestly budgeted ($40m), high-quality CG film every ...
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Home Entertainment: A bolt from the Blu'
When Toshiba announced in February it would stop developing high-definition DVD players, it marked the end of a format battle that looked like it might rival the VHS vs Betamax videotape war of the 1970s and 1980s.Toshiba's announcement cleared the way for Sony's Blu-ray to take the next generation of ...
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Profile:UK director Tom Hooper
In terms of scale, Tom Hooper may never top his recent feat of directing the nine-hour HBO mini-series John Adams.The historical epic shot for 110 days on a budget of $110m, with more than 200 speaking parts. 'It's like my Lord Of The Rings, except I don't have to do ...
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US distribution - Seismic shift in specialty landscape
Some independent players see it as a 'healthy correction', others as a 'turning point'. One company chief recently suggested, in a Los Angeles Film Festival speech whose words have ricocheted around the indie community, 'the sky really is falling'.However you describe it, what has happened to the US independent industry ...
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In Focus:A hero's welcome
Modern Hollywood has had a thing for spandex tights and alter egos ever since Christopher Reeve launched into the Manhattan skyline in Warner Bros' 1978 hit Superman.While subsequent superhero adventures have met with varying degrees of success, there is a level of accomplishment and ambition in recent years that suggests ...
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Screen opinion: The future is unwritten
A journalist on one of those pretentious radio programmes that podcasts have brought back into the mainstream was this week interviewing a pointy-headed intellectual about the nature of inevitability.The intrepid hack, clearly out of his depth, threw in what he imagined would be a trump card - that old maxim ...
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here! acquires North American rights to Yen Tan's Ciao
here! Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Ciao, a gay-themed drama directed by Yen Tan which won the jury prize for best feature at the recent Philadelphia International Gay And Lesbian Film Festival.here! sister company Regent Releasing will distribute the film in theatres later in 2008.The film follows ...
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Borman, Graves license movie rights to The Seven Sins
Producers Moritz Borman and Peter Graves will produce a film based on The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending, a book by Jon Land which is inspired by the life of Fabrizio Boccardi.Borman will produce and Graves will executive produce the film and have acquired rights to two sequels (subject to ...
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Palador lines up October release for Tokyo Sonata
India's Palador Pictures is planning to release Tokyo Sonata by Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa in October this year. Palador picked up theaward-winning titlefrom Fortissimo Films at this year's Cannes. The Best Film Award in the Asian & Arab category bagged by Tokyo Sonata at the recently concluded Osian's-Cinefan film festival ...
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Online video viewing in Europe doubles since 2006
The number of Europeans regularly watching online video has doubled since 2006, according to new data from JupiterResearch.The new report finds that 28% of Europeans now regularly watch online video, making it the most popular online media activity.Even with time spent on online video up 50%, TV is not being ...
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Sarajevo competition to include Blaz Kutin world premiere
The 14th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has announced its feature and short films competition. The 10 features competing include one world premiere - Slovenian Blaz Kutin's We've Never Been To Venice -plus seven international premieres.The Focus programme will feature the most awarded films from the region: Romanian Radu Muntean's ...
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Korean film exportsup by37% in first half of 2008
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) hasreported local box office and export figures for the first half of the year, which show that film exports bounced up by 37% to $10.2m, after steep declines since 2005. Sales to North America shot up by 1,740% from $154,500 to $2.84m, mostly due to ...