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Switzerland selects Murer's Vitus as Oscar pick
Switzerland has chosen its foreign-language Oscar candidate,Fredi M. Murer's Vitus. The veteran film-maker'sdrama is about a wunderkind dreaming of flying and having a normal childhood. The seven-person nationaljury said it made its decision based on "the film's quality, itscommercial success in Switzerland (so far 200,000 admissions), itsparticipation in more than ...
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Spring Break shoot to continue in Croatia
Richard Shepard's Spring Break In Bosnia started principal photography on locationsin Sarajevo on Sept 12. Financed by QED International and Intermedia, the film is produced by Mark Johnson and Scott Kroopf and stars Richard Gere, Jesse Eisenberg, Terrence Howard, James Brolin and Diane Kruger. Based on Scott Anderson's article ...
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Myriad closes Italy, Spain, Mexico and Brazil on 10 Items
Myriad Pictures has closed major territory sales on BradSilberling's comedy 10 Items Or Less following the North American deal with THINKFilm concludedjust before Toronto.President of distribution Ann Dubinet announced that rights havegone to Italy (DNC), Spain (Manga), Mexico (Azteca), and Brazil (Imagem).Sales also concluded in Portugal (LNK), Greece (Prooptiki),Iceland (Myndform), ...
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Wexler to receive career achievement award from IDA
Haskell Wexler will receive the 2006 International DocumentaryAssociation's (IDA) Career Achievement Award at the IDA DistinguishedDocumentary Achievement Awards in Los Angeles on Dec 8.Wexler won cinematography Oscars for Who's Afraid of VirginiaWoolf' in 1967 and BoundFor Glory in 1977, andhas been nominated on three other occasions for One Flew Over ...
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MGM takes North America on Pleasure Of Your Company
MGMhas bought North American rights to Michael Ian Black's romantic comedy ThePleasure of Your Company, whichreceived its world premiere in Toronto recently.This is MGM's second acquisition in two weeks as it seeks toexpand its own slate. The company moved in on Werner Herzog's Vietnam POW dramaRescue Dawn shortlybefore Toronto kicked ...
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Leondis signs to direct animated Igor for Exodus, TWC
Animation veteran Tony Leondis is attached to direct Exodus Film Group'sCG-animated feature comedy Igor, which is set to go into production in the first quarter of 2007.The Weinstein Company (TWC) will handle the North American releaseand sold most international rights at Cannes earlier this year.Igorfollows the escapades of a mad ...
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IFP announces prizes as Independent Film Week ends
Scott Teems' I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down and Sean Patrick McCarthy's Pansy tied for the IFP Market EmergingNarrative Screenplay Award as the IFP Market and Independent Film Week ended inNew York today.In other prizes, the Fledgling Fund Award for Emerging Latino Filmmakerswent to Vivien Lesnick Weisman's ...
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Studios roll out big guns for autumn as summer titles fade
Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest will be hoping for an 11thweekend at the top as Buena Vista International (BVI) looks for strong holds inthe picture's second weekend in Italy.Dead Man's Chest now ranks as the fourth biggest international release in historyafter it overtook Harry Potter And The Chamber ...
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Damon, Horwitz, Bleiberg join IFTA executive committee
Several new members have bolstered the Independent Film &Television Alliance (IFTA) executive ranks following the body's annual generalmeeting in Los Angeles [Thursday].Joining the seven-person executive committee are: Mark Damon ofForesight Unlimited as vice chairman; Lewis Horwitz of Horwitz EntertainmentFinancial Services as vice chairman, finance; Ehud Bleiberg of BleibergEntertainment as chairman, ...
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Schreiber joins Love In The Time Of Cholera cast
LievSchreiber has joined the cast of Stone Village Pictures' upcoming GabrielGarcia Marquez adaptation Love In The Time Of Cholera.Schreiberwill play Lotario Thugut, a telegram operator who befriends the lead character Florentinoand teaches him the ways of women.AngieCepeda, Ana Claudia Talancon, Laura Harring and Rubria Negrao also join theexisting cast of ...
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Inaugural Conch winners include Boom and De Lane Lea
UK Post& Services held its inaugural Conch Awards in London tonightto recognise the audio industry.The best UK soundfacility award was shared by Boom and De Lane Lea.The bestfilm soundtrack winners were Kinky Boots andWallace & Gromit: Curse Of The Were Rabbit."We arethrilled by the success of tonight's awards and for ...
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Feng enlists Korean expertise for war epic
Chinese director FengXiaogang, whose latest film The Banquetis currently topping the box office across Asia, is working with crew membersfrom Korea's MK Pictures on his upcoming war epic, tentatively entitled The Assembly. Speaking at a Korean press conferencefor The Banquet, Feng said he was a fanof Kang Jegyu's blockbuster war ...
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Filmstiftung NRW backs Loach and Spottiswoode
International co-productionslead the line-up of new feature film projects backed in the latest $3.8m (Euros3m) funding round from Duesseldorf-based Filmstiftung NRW International.The regional public fund hasawarded backing to Ken Loach's next project TheseTimes, which is being written by his regular collaborator Paul Laverty andwill be co-produced by The Wind ThatShakes ...
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Cinematography legend Sven Nykvist dies in Sweden
Swedishfilm-maker Sven Nykvist, a legendary cinematographer who worked on many IngmarBergman classics, died Wednesday in Stockholm. He was 83 and being treated fora form of dementia. The Stockholm International Film Festival announced that its forthcoming 17th event would be dedicated to Nykvist.Nykvistwon two Oscars, for Bergman's 1973 Cries And Whispers ...
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Gomes, Bier and Kaurismaki films added to Oscar longlist
Several more territorieshave come forward with their submissions for best foreign-language Oscar. Brazil's entry for consideration is Marcelo Gomes' debut Movies, Aspirin and Vultures (Cinema, aspirinas e urubus), while Finland's is Aki Kaurismaki's Lights In The Dusk (Laitakaupungin valot) and Denmark's is SusanneBier's After The Wedding (Efter Brylluppet). Movies, Aspirin ...
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Newcastle plans fourth Northern Lights festival
The fourth Northern LightsFilm Festival (Nov 16-23), which is held in Newcastle and surrounding towns and celebrates Nordic andBaltic film, will host more than 80 screenings.The festival will show filmsfrom 12 Northern European countries as well as retrospectives and specialscreenings, workshops, and more. The festival's third andexpanded Industry Summit will ...
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AFM, AFI FEST tout record attendance figures for Nov events
Organisers at the upcoming AFM and AFI Fest are predicting recordattendances ahead of the partner events set to take place in November.AFM and AFI Fest established a strategic alliance in 2004, and topbrass from both camps are calling it the largest annual gathering of industryprofessionals in North America.AFM chiefs said ...
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Digital Watermarking Alliance formed to promote content protection
Twelve companies including Cinea and Philips Electronics haveformed the Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) to promote content protectionwithin the industry.'Digital watermarking is enjoying a steady resurgence ofinterest now that the media industry is finding more and more applications forit throughout the content lifecycle - from creation through toproduction, packaging, distribution, and ...
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Austria submits You Bet Your Life for Oscar consideration
Antonin Svoboda'sdirectorial debut You Bet Your Life(Spiele Leben) has been submittedas Austria's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 2007Oscars.Starring Georg Friedrichand Brigitte Minichmayr, You Bet Your Life is the story of a gambler who quite literally begins to gamble his lifeaway and was shown at last ...
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Black Book to be opened by Sony Classics
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American, Australian,New Zealand and Indian rights to Paul Verhoeven's WWII thriller Black Book.Black Bookis based on true events involving the Dutch Underground and in particular thestory of a Jewish girl who falls for a Gestapo officer while seeking revengefor her family's murders. Carice ...