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THINKFilm takes Battle In Seattle as Toronto deals continue
THINKFilm has bought US rights to Stuart Townsend's directorial debut Battle In Seattle in a deal believed to be just over $2m.Graham Taylor of Endeavor Independent closed the sale with THINKFilm'sacquisitions executives late on Thursday [Sept 13] after sustainedinterest from at least four buyers.The ensemble drama received its world premiere ...
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Box office summer '08 - preview
The books have barely closed on summer 2007 and already next summer's calendar is filling up fast with strong Hollywood product. While this year distributors benefited from a lack of major sporting events, 2008 presents hurdles such as the Summer Olympics, which start in Beijing on August 8, and the ...
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A match made in Bollywood
A Chinese-language, partially studio-backed film, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, may have just walked off with the top prize from Venice, but these days the US studios seem more intent on learning Hindi than Mandarin Chinese.Over the past few months, the studios have announced a string of local-language production deals in ...
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Festival - Brazil - Rio turns up the heat
Brazilian cinema takes centre stage at the Rio International Film Festival this week. Some 37 features and documentaries and 15 short films will screen in the competitive Premiere Brasil section.Committed to providing a world platform for local film-makers, the festival will open with the world premiere of Jose Padilha's highly ...
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The summer everyone had a hit
The 2007 blockbuster season exceeded the projected numbers in emphatic style. Hollywood top brass were celebrating the first $4bn North American summer before the season officially came to a close over the Labor Day weekend (August 31-September 3), and the international profile looks equally bullish. According to informal figures collated ...
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Screen opinion - liberal profits
Whenever commentators have run out of inspiration during the long march of festival screenings, there's always that lazy column filler about how politics is taking over the cinema. We've heard it about Cannes and Berlin in recent years, based on the success of overtly political polemical documentaries, notably from Michael ...
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Equinoxe buys Canadian rights to Nic Balthazar's Ben X
Montreal-based distributor Equinoxe Films has picked up Canadian distribution rights on Nic Balthazar's directorial debut Ben X. The film, which shared the top prize at the Montreal World Film Festival as well as winning the audience and ecumenical prizes, is being sold internationally by French sales outfit Films Distribution.Inspired by ...
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Rome Film Fest reschedules future to avoid London clash
In a move welcomed by exhausted sales agents, distributors and journalists, the London and Rome film festival dates are to set apart.This year, the events have an almost identical footprint - with Rome's festival running Oct 18 - 27 Oct and London's festival from Oct 17 - Nov 1.When Rome's ...
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Affleck feature pulled from London Film Festival
The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival has pulled Ben Affleck's directoral debut Gone Baby Gone from its programme because of fears of similarities to the case of missing girl Madeleine McCann.'The film is about the abduction of a young girl,' said festival artistic director Sandra Hebron. 'Because of the ...
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The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival boosts its industry profile
At the launch of The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival's full programme, itwas clearthat the festival is looking to a higher industry profile, with the introduction this year of the Production Finance Market (PFM).The event, managed by Angus Finney (formerly joint-managing director ofRenaissance Films), takes place at the Tower ...
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Norwegian WWII hero Max Manus gets $8.4m treatment in war epic
Norwegian actor-director Aksel Hennie is to star in Norwegian directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg's Max Manus, a $8.4m (Euros 6.1m) World War II epic produced by John M Jacobsen and Sveinung Golimo for Filmkameratene.After his 2004 directorial debut, Uno, Hennie returned to acting in Danish director Jesper W Nielsen's ...
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Beirut Film Festival cancelled
This year's Beirut International Film Festival, due to run Oct 3-10, has been cancelled. 'The presidential elections are coming up and this is the most precarious and unstable time for us,' festival director Colette Naufal told Screendaily. 'The limbo now that means it's very difficult to plan - if the ...
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Irish Broadcasting Commission grants $2.8m to five feature projects
The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) announces Eu2.05m funding for five features in the fourth round of its Sound & Vision funding scheme. With a total grant fund of Eu8.7m for independent television producers, the fund is financed by a levy on the Irish television license fee and the scheme ...
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The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival programme announced
This year's Times BFI 51st London Film Festival's programme boasts seven world premieres among films from 43 countries.The event opens on Oct 17 with the UK premiere of David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts, with Wes Anderson's eagerly awaited The Darjeeling Limited closing the festival on ...
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Tokyo Filmex to close with Lee's Secret Sunshine
Tokyo Filmex has announced that Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine will be the closing film of this year's edition (Nov 17-25). Additionally, Lee will serve as the head of the competition jury. The film won the best actress award at Cannes this year for Jeon Do-yeon's performance. Earlier this week, the ...
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Festival review: Venice
Critical wrapMarco Mueller may have been pipped to the post by a fictitious candidate, L.K. Ching, in an informal poll of (mostly Italian) festivalgoersorganised outside Venice's Casino to choose the next festival director(it was 603 for Ching, 601 for Muller). But most international festivalhabitues agreed that Mueller had come up ...
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MegaStar Media opens Vietnam's biggest multiplex
MegaStar Media last night officially opened its first cinema in Ho Chi Minh City, which is also the biggest in Vietnam, as part of its continuous efforts in redefining the country's exhibition landscape. Vietnam's minister of culture, sports and tourism, Hoang Tuan Anh, was among the guests at the gala ...
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Rialto buys Australia and New Zealand on We Are Together
Rialto Distribution has acquired theatrical and home video rights in Australia and New Zealand to Paul Taylor's documentary We Are Together (Thina Simunye).The film chronicles an uplifting episode in the life of South African children from an orphanage. it is a RISE Films production in association with The Channel 4 ...
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Magnolia takes US rights to In Bloom from sister company 2929
2929 Productions has sold Vadim Perelman's drama In Bloom to Magnolia Pictures in the US and TVA Films in Canada.The film got its world premiere at Toronto last Saturday and stars Uma Thurman as a woman haunted by the memory of a high school shooting. Evan Rachel Wood and Eva ...
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Cillian Murphy to join Al Pacino in Room 9's Dali & I
Cillian Murphy will star opposite Al Pacino in Room 9 Entertainment's Dali & I: The Surreal Story, which is set to begin shooting in Spain and New York in early 2008.Andrew Niccol will direct from his rewrite of the speculative script by John Salvati based on Stan Lauryssens' novel Dali ...