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Animaker plans Finland's highest-budget feature
Following Help! I'm a Fish and The Ugly Duckling And Me!,Danish director Michael Hegner stays in animal kingdom for his next feature, The Way To The Stars.Staged by Finnish productionhouse Animaker, and co-directed by Finnish director Kari Juusonen, the $7.7m(Euros 6.1m) CGI-animated feature - the most expensive productionever in Finland ...
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Shooting Dogs wins $100,000 top prize at Heartland Film Festival
MichaelCaton-Jones' Shooting Dogs won the$100,000 grand prize for best dramatic feature and Matt Ruskin's The Hip HopProject received the inaugural $25,000award for best documentary feature at the Heartland Film Festival.Shade won the $10,000 Vision Award for best short film, whileproducer Debra Martin Chase, whose credits include The Sisterhood Of TheTraveling ...
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Prada struts past $100m after stylish $19m weekend
Fox International's The Devil Wears Prada swept past $100m on the back of anestimated $19m weekend overseas haul.The comedy now stands at $104m thanks to strong holds in theEuropean markets and a $617,000 number one debut in Sweden on 66 screens.Prada added$3.4m from 606 in its second weekend in Germany ...
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TWC options remake rights to Thai thriller 13
The Weinstein Company (TWC) hasacquired remake rights to Thai psychological thriller 13 from Sahamongkolfilm, in a deal that also includes NorthAmerican rights to the original film. The $1.2m film, which openedtwo weeks ago in Thailand, is the second feature from 26-year-old director ChukiatSakweerakul following Evil (Pisaj). Based on a Thai ...
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Dutch distributor A-Film expands into Belgium
Dutch independentdistributor A-Film has plans to open a new office in Antwerp. The A-Film catalogue, including 1800 titles, willbe expanded to the Belgium market. General director Pim Hermeling appointed AnnSchepens as booker for theatrical sales.The first theatricalreleases include Mel Gibson's Apocalypto,Roger Michell's Venus, MichelGondry's Be Kind Rewind and PeterDuncan's Unfinished ...
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IFC takes US rights to Von Trier's Boss Of It All
IFCEntertainment's prolific acquisitions streak continued this week as the companyannounced it had taken all US rights to Lars Von Trier's Danish comedy Bossof It All.Thefilm was produced by Vibeke Windelov, Meta Foldagers and Von Trier's ZentropaEntertainment and will open through IFC First Take in spring 2007. IFC Filmspreviously handled Von ...
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Hawaii fest gets underway with Asia-focused line-up
The 26th HawaiiInternational Film Festival (HIFF) opened over the weekend with a screening of AlejandroGonzalez Inarritu's Babeland a programme that has a strong emphasis on Asianfilms. The line-upincludes special focuses on South-East Asia, a celebration of the FilipinoCentennial in Hawaii,and a look at new Vietnamese cinema. HIFF is alsopresenting Japanese ...
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Screenwriting guru Field to receive honour from Big Break Awards
Syd Field will collect Final Draft's 2006 Hall Of FameAward at the 7th Annual Big Break! Awards in Hollywood on Oct 26.Winners of the Big Break! International Screenwriting Contest willalso be announced at the event.The Hall of Fame Award recognises entertainment industry luminarieswho foster the art of scriptwriting and nurture ...
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Isabella wins best film at Bangkok World film fest
Pang Ho Cheung's Isabella from Hong Kong was awarded best film at the 4th World Film Festival of Bangkok onSunday night (October 22).The jury reached thedecision unanimously for the film's multiple merits which include "the powerfulperformance of both its lead actors, the dynamic direction as well as theimpressive cinematography and ...
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Henson's Fraggle Rock headed for the big screen
The Jim Henson Company is developing a full-length feature basedon its 1980s television show Fraggle Rock.The story will follow the adventures of Fraggle Rockresidents Gobo, Wembley, Mokey, Boober and Red as they venture outside theirhome and encounter new creatures.Ahmet Zappa is writing the screenplay and will serve as executive produceralongside ...
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Bigelow enters The Hurt Locker for Voltage Pictures
Kathryn Bigelow has begun pre-production on Iraq-set action drama TheHurt Locker, whichVoltage Pictures will commence selling at AFM next month.The Hurt Locker follows the exploits of an elite bomb disposal unit and is basedon a screenplay Bigelow co-wrote with war reporter Mark Boal.Greg Shapiro is producing and principal photography is ...
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Frank Stirling leaves Boeing for digital cinema unit at Panorama Labs
Frank Stirling has been named president of Panorama Labs' digital cinemastrategic business unit.Effective immediately, Stirling becomes responsible for managing day-to-dayoperations, including overseeing development of a digital cinema projector fortheatrical exhibition. He will be based in Los Angeles.Stirling previously served as executive director of Boeing DigitalCinema, where he deployed 31 operational ...
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Lien's Bothersome Man takes top honours at The Hamptons
Jens Lien's Norwegian comedy-horror movie The Bothersome Man won the Golden Starfish for bestnarrative feature at the 14th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival,while Georgi Lazarevski's Voyage In G Major won corresponding documentary honours.The Bothersome Man also won the Kodak Award For Best Cinematography for JohnChristian Rosenlund.The Zicherman Family Foundation Award ...
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Brazil's Two Sons wins music-themed Turks & Caicos festival
Thefirst annual Turks & Caicos International Film Festival closed at theweekend [21] as Breno Silveira's Brazilian drama Two Sons Of Francisco was named best feature and The Hip Hop Project, on which Queen Latifah and Bruce Willis served asexecutive producers, won best documentary honours.MarkBecker was named best director for Romantico, ...
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Telefilm Canada overhauls film funding regime
Canada's principal public sector film funder, TelefilmCanada, has announced a much-anticipated overhaul of its methods of investment- and re-investment - in the nation's indigenous production and distributionindustry. The changes affect the $71m (C$81m) Canadian Feature FilmFund (CFFF) as it is applied in both English-lanuage and French-languagesectors in the 2007-2008 allotment.The ...
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Fireworks from Iran wins Gold Hugo at Chicago Film Festival
Asghar Farhadi's Iranian drama Fireworks Wednesday won the Gold Hugo for bestfilm at this year's Chicago International Film Festival.The Silver Hugo Special Jury Prize went to Rachid Bouchareb'sAlgerian foreign-language Oscar submission Days Of Glory, and the Silver Hugo was awarded toGyorgy Palfi's Hungarian drama Taxidermia.The Gold Hugo award for best ...
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MPAA teams up with City Of New York to crack down on piracy
TheMotion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has teamed up with the city of NewYork to crack down on piracy through new legislation and noise abatement laws.Thecity will introduce legislation to criminalise illegal recording of copyrightedworks and will coordinate with the MPAA to use nuisance abatement laws to shutdown piracy operations ...
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Perhaps Love leads the pack in Golden Horse race
Thenominations for the 43rd Golden Horse Awards for Chinese-language cinema wereannounced today in Taipei. Titles competing for Best Feature Film arePatrick Tam's After This Our Exile, Ning Hao's Crazy Stone, Johnnie To's Exiled, Peter Chan's Perhaps Love and Su Chao-pin's Silk.MusicalPerhapsLove dominates the race to thefinishing line with 12 nominations ...
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Gothams honour Winslet, Norton, unveil nominations list
KateWinslet and Edward Norton will receive 2006 Gotham Tributes at the upcoming16th Annual Gotham Awards in New York on Nov 29.TheGotham Awards will also honour multiple filmmakers with its first annual WorldCinema Tribute. This year, the tribute will be presented to the Mexican trio ofAlfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro and ...
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The Prestige opens top for Buena Vista in North America
Christopher Nolan's period mystery The Prestige starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackmanbeat out Clint Eastwood's wartime saga Flags Of Our Fathers at the domestic box office over theweekend.The Prestige is an intrigue-laden tale about rival magicians and opened numberone domestically through Buena Vista on an estimated $14.8m.Flags Of Our Fathers, ...