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SILVERDOCS fetes The Garden, The English Surgeon
Scott Hamilton Kennedy's The Garden won the SILVERDOCS Sterling US Feature Award and Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble The Water earned a special jury mention.Geoffrey Smith's The English Surgeon won the Sterling World Feature Award and a special mention went to Chao Gan's The Red Race.In the Sterling Short ...
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Wesle's Atrix takes on sales for Kyrgyzstan love story Tengri
Beatrix Wesle's Munich-based sales agent Atrix Films has picked up international rights to Marie Jaoul de Poncheville's Tengri - Blue Heavens, a love story set in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia which has its world premiere at the Munich Film Festival this week.The film will then be screened for buyers at ...
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Justin Long, Fred Willard join Cera in Youth In Revolt
Justin Long and Fred Willard have joined Michael Cera and newcomer Portia Doubleday on the cast of Dimension Film's tale Youth In Revolt.Zach Galifinakis, Ari Graynor, Erik Knudsen, Adhir Kalyan, Jonny Wright, Tricia Mara and Mary Kay Place have also come aboard.The Permut Presentations and Shangri-La Entertainment project is based ...
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Academy welcomes 105 new members including Cotillard, Haneke
The Academy Of Arts & Sciences has welcomed 105 new members into its hallowed ranks representing 'artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.'Among the new members were Oscar winners from 2007 such as Marion Cotillard (best actress), Diablo Cody (best original screenplay), Didier ...
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Ballast, Frozen River win top prizes at Provincetown Film Festival
Ballast director Lance Hammer won the John Schlesinger Award for a first time film-maker as the 10th Provincetown Film Festival came to a close at the weekend.Another Sundance premiere, Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, won the audience award for best feature while Irena Salina's FLOW: For Love Of Water took the ...
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Chapa to star in Gangster for his own Amadeus Pictures
Amadeus Pictures is lining up a July start in Los Angeles for its action adventure Mexican Gangster starring company founder and president Damian Chapa.Mexican Gangster is based on the true story of Johnny Sun, an ex-con who struggles to break free from his former life of crime.Christine Manoukian, Romanian newcomer ...
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Man On Wire, American Teen among winners at Nantucket
FM Strype's Anna Down East won Showtime's Tony Cox Screenplay Competition as the 13th Annual Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) came to a close on Sunday (June 22).Showtime's Tony Cox Award For Screenwriting was presented to Daniel Schechter for Goodbye Baby, while the second annual Adrienne Shelley Excellence In Filmmaking Award ...
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Paramount gets to $1bn in domestic grosses in record time
Paramount Pictures has crossed the $1bn mark in domestic ticket sales in record time just days after its international division PPI achieved the same feat. Paramount becomes the first studio to reach the milestone this year and bettered the old record by three weeks.The studio was the first to reach ...
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Eye Of The Sun takes Taormina honours
Egyptian film maker Ibrahim El Batout's Eye Of The Sun (Ein Shams) won the Golden Tauro for best film atSicily's Taormina Film Festival.The film was part of the festival's main 'Mediterranean' competition section.Eye Of The Sun, El Batout's second film focuses on a taxi driver named Ramadan whose routes through ...
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Karlovy Vary announces competition line-up
The 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) has announced its final line-up.The festival will conclude July 12 with a gala screening of Mamma Mia!, Phyllida Lloyd's adaptation of the musical inspired by the music of Abba.As previously reported, Barry Levinson's What Just Happened' will open the festival July 4.Robert ...
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European Box Office Review: Spain
SURPRISE HITAlex de la Iglesia's $10m English-language thriller The Oxford Murders was released by Warner Bros Spain on January 18 and has notched up $12.5m to date. Warner Bros built on the Spanish director's local following and the strength of the cast led by Elijah Wood and John Hurt.NEW ENTRIESWide ...
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European Box Office Review: Russia and CIS
SURPRISE HITReleased during the New Year holiday, The Irony Of Fate 2 (aka The Irony Of Fate: The Sequel) has become the highest-grossing film (nearly $50m) in the CIS. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Day Watch, Wanted) and starring Night Watch/Day Watch hero Konstantin Khabensky, the film is a ...
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European Box Office Review: Italy
SURPRISE HITItaly has been the most successful European territory for Marc Forster's The Kite Runner. Filmauro released the adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel, about two boys growing up in 1980s Afghanistan, in March and it has grossed $12.4m (EUR8.1m) to date. Filmauro president Aurelio De Laurentiis says the distributor ...
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European Box Office Review: Italy
SURPRISE HITItaly has been the most successful European territory for Marc Forster's The Kite Runner. Filmauro released the adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel, about two boys growing up in 1980s Afghanistan, in March and it has grossed $12.4m (EUR8.1m) to date. Filmauro president Aurelio De Laurentiis says the distributor ...
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European Box Office Review: France
SURPRISE HITWelcome To The Sticks (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis) has become France's all-time biggest local hit and number two overall behind Titanic. The film is directed by local favourite Dany Boon and co-stars the popular Kad Merad. The fish-out-of-water comedy, set in Nord Pas de Calais, built on the healthy ...
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European Box Office Review: United Kingdom
SURPRISE HITSGarth Jennings' quirky comedy Son Of Rambow, follows two children - and aspiring film-makers - as they grow up in 1980s Britain.Optimum Releasing opened the film in the UK on April 4, and it enjoyed a $1.8m (£925,000) opening weekend. It has grossed $8.3m (£4.3m) to date.The UK-France co-production ...
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Russian drama Mukha wins top prize at Shanghai fest
The 11th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) ended with diminished star power, but a strong theme of compassion and humanity on Sunday June 22. Only Asian stars such as Charlie Yeung, Karen Mok, Chang Chen and Fann Wong attended the closing ceremony.Russiandirector Vladimir Kott'sMukha, which depicts a peculiar father-daughter relationship, ...
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Chang, Yeoh launch management outfit Stellar Entertainment
Actress Michelle Yeoh, producer Terence Chang and Taiwanese media veteran David Tang officially unveiled their joint talent management company, Stellar Entertainment, in Hong Kong on Saturday. Based in Hong Kong and Taipei, the company has already signed acting talent including Kelly Lin (Sparrow), Zhang Fengyi (Red Cliff), Brandon Chang (The ...
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Winds Of September wins SIFF's Asian New Talent Awards
Taiwanese filmmaker Lin Shu-yu's Winds Of September was awarded best film at the Asian New Talent Awardsof the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) on Friday night (June 20). The film, produced by Eric Tsang with Hong Kong-based Mei Ah Entertainment and co-produced by Taiwan's Ocean Deep Films, is the ...
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Feng to shoot romantic comedy for Chinese New Year
Beijing-based Huayi Brothers has confirmed that Chinese director Feng Xiaogang is to make a romantic comedy tentatively titled Don't Bother Me (Fei Cheng Wu Rao), rather than his originally planned satire The Nobles. Huayi Brothers will produce the $7.3m (RMB 50m) film that is set to star long-time Feng collaborator ...