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Clubland wins top prize at Australian Writers Guild Awards
Clubland written by Keith Thompson won the top prize, for 'Outstanding Australian Script', at this year's Australian Writers Guild Awards (the Awgies) which took place on Friday night. The film also shared the award in the original feature film category along with another story about family - Tony Ayres' The ...
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Wild Bunch boosts strong Toronto slate with addition of $22m Terra
Wild Bunch has acquired worldwide rights outside English-speaking territories to the $22 million animated project Terra, which will screen in a gala world premiere at Toronto. The film is directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas and has a voice cast including Luke Wilson, Evan Rachel Wood, Danny Glover, Dennis Quaid, Rosanna Arquette, ...
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Ang Lee plans safer edit of Lust, Caution for Chinese audiences
Since its Venice world premiere, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution has created whatFocus boss James Schamus is calling 'a tidal wave of interest' across Asia.The Asian response has been largely positive. Lee's steamy espionagethriller will be given a major Asian release later in the autumn. However,controversy is already dogging the film ...
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Shrek narrowly beats Bourne to top international box office
In a narrow victory DreamWorks/Paramount's Shrek The Third wrestled the overseas crown from The Bourne Ultimatum and raised its international running total by an estimated $17.2m to $436m.The weekend result struck a blow for the more traditional staggered release pattern in a season where the more spectacular opening grossesgenerated by ...
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Babelgum recruits Spike Lee to judge new online shorts festival
New Internet TV platform Babelgum has announced plans to launch a new online film festival for films up to 45 minutes long.At a press conference in Venice, Babelgum CEO Valerio Zingarelli also announced that Spike Lee will serve as an honorary judge of the Babelgum Online Film Festival. Zingarelli $20,000 ...
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Stopping Power forced to stop $40m shoot over financing issues
Principal photography on Jan de Bont's $40m action thriller Stopping Power has had to be suspended after the default of a key equity investor in the film made it impossible for the Internationalmedia Group to close the required financing. The investor's breach has led to the IM Internationalmedia wholly-ownd subsidiary ...
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Venice's new Palazzo should be ready for 2011 festival
Italy's culture minister Francesco Rutelli, Biennale President Davide Croff, Venetian mayor Massimo Cacciari and regional president Giancarlo Galan revealed further plans today for Venice's new Palazzo. The project has been in the works since 2004 but today Croft noted that the current project should be completed in time for the ...
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De Palma's Redacted won't get Bubble-style release
HDNet Films, which pioneered day and date multi-platform releasing with Steven Soderbergh's Bubble, has decided to give Brian De Palma's controversial new digital feature Redacted a more traditional release.The film, produced for HDNet Films, received its world premiere in Venice this week. It tells of the rape and murder of ...
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Met Film Post acquires Chris Atkins' S2S Post
UK-based Met Film Post has acquired indie post-production company S2S Post, which has worked on more than 30 features since its creation six years ago.S2S founder Chris Atkins will step down from running the company to concentrate on the feature film production side of S2S. He recently directed his first ...
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EMI plans September DVD release of Chelsea football documentary
EMI continues its recent foray into feature documentary releases with the Sept 24 DVD launch of Blue Revolution.EMI Catalogue will handle the Bombo Sports and Entertainment production.The film traces the past three years in the life of Chelsea Football Club, including interviews with players and management (including Jose Mourinho, John ...
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UKFC supports release of In The Hands Of The Gods with $300,000
The UK Film Council has announced the latest funding recipients from its Prints & Advertising Fund, which supports the release of specialised films. The awards are: $303,363 (£150,000) to Lionsgate UK for In The Hands Of The Gods$294,262 (£145,500) to Artificial Eye for Lady Chatterley$252,600 (£125,000) to Optimum Releasing ...
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Former Sina exec launches China's first fund for docs
Former Sina.com executive Ben Chiang has launched CNEX, the first private fund for documentaries in China. The Beijing-based outfit aims to become a fully-fledged film production, sales and distribution outfit, focusing on documentaries produced in the Greater China region. The first three films on the CNEX slate are: Du Haibin's ...
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Norwegian animation Elias to launch in local versions
Norwegian directors Espen Fyksen and Lise I Osvoll's fully-animated Elias and the Royal Yacht, which has taken 230,000 admissions locally, will be launched in Sweden on Sept 28 - in a local version, with a star cast, and backed by strong marketing and merchandising campaigns. Denmark and Finland will follow. ...
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London agency ICM changes name to Independent
Leading London-based talent agency ICM is changing its name to Independent Talent Group, or Independent. The change follows 2002's management buyout from ICM Inc.The change reflects 'the group's true independence from ICM Inc. in the USA and is also to obviate confusion in the marketplace,' the company said. Independent represents ...
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EFA People's Choice nominees include The Queen and Black Book
The European Film Academy has announced the nominees for this year's People's Choice Award.Film fans across Europe vote for the winner online from Sept 1 to Oct 31. Past winners include Volver, Amelie, The Full Monty and Good Bye, Lenin!. The winner will be announced at the European Film Awards ...
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Deauville festival opens tonight with Cahill's King Of California
The 33rd Deauville Festival of American Cinema, running in the French town Aug 31-Sept 9, will open with King of California, which stars Michael Douglas stars a newly-released mental patient juggling his obsession for hidden gold with his relationship with his teenage daughter (Evan Rachel Wood). The film is directed ...
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Film Sales Company takes on Argentinian drama
Andrew Herwitz' New York-based Film Sales Company is moving intoproduction with the remake of Jorge Gaggero's Argentinian dramaLive-In Maid.Herwitz picked up English-language remake rights to the portrait ofthe relationship between a grand dame and her live-in maid.Rodrigo Garcia is attached to write and direct the project, which isexpected to begin ...
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Shrek's staggered release keeps revenues rolling
Paramount Pictures International (PPI) bucked the summer trend by notreleasing DreamWorks/Paramount's Shrek The Third day-and-date with the US, and has enjoyed the consequences as the tentpole continues togenerate revenues throughout the summer.The animated hit has already done most of its business but PPIexecutives are anticipating a robust boost to the ...
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In focus - The search for a new audience
The idea of a 'digital revolution' for film can sometimes seem ridiculously overblown. For all the talk of paradigm-shifting technologies and the long tail, the traditional box office has been happily breaking records around the globe.In the UK and France, the July box office reached new highs for the modern ...
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Festival buzz - Toronto International Film Festival
GALA PRESENTATIONSCleaner (US)Dir: Renny HarlinHarlin brings one of the more gung-ho US films to this year's festival. Samuel L Jackson stars as a former police officer who unwittingly covers up evidence of a murder. Ed Harris and Eva Mendes also star. Sony is releasing domestically.Int'l sales: Nu Image/Millennium Films, (1) ...