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New soundstage complex breaks ground in New Mexico
Albuquerque Studios has moved ahead with plans to build NewMexico's first major soundstage complex.Pacifica Ventures, which will own and operate the new complex andalso operates Culver Studios in Los Angeles, reported that construction hasbegun on the $74m, 28-acre film and television production facility at Mesa DelSol.Phase One, which is scheduled ...
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Mehta's Water gets Canada's vote for Oscar
Deepa Mehta's Water has been selected as Canada's entry for the foreign-languageOscar at the 79th Academy Awards. Starring H.T.J. Sarala, LisaRay, John Abraham and Seema Biswas and produced by David Hamilton, the film wasdistributed in the US by Fox Searchlight Pictures and in Canada by MongrelMedia. Celluloid Dreams was the ...
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King And The Clown selected as Korea's Oscar entry
The Korean Film Council(KOFIC) has announced Lee Joon-ik's KingAnd The Clown as Korea's official entry for best foreign-language film inthe 79th Academy Awards. The sleeper hit, which brokelocal box office records earlier this year, was up against Kim Ki-duk's Time and Bong Joon-ho's The Host - which in turn broke ...
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North West Vision plans October conference in Liverpool
Regional screen agency NorthWest Vision will host a free conference in Liverpool for film-makers in the Northwest of England. The Film Focus conference,at Liverpool's FACT on Oct12, will look at the opportunities and challenges for feature film-makers inthe region. Panelists will include film-makers Carl Hunter, Juliet Mckeown, andJohn Maxwell; Steve ...
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Fox launches faith-based US home entertainment label
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has launched the labelFoxFaith, which plans to take at least six pictures specifically targeted atChristian film-goers into limited theatrical release each year.The roster kicks off on Oct 6 with Love's Abiding Joy, the fourth instalment in the LoveComes Softly seriesbased on Janette Oke's bestselling books ...
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Metrodome's wider losses in line with expectations
UK distributor Metrodome reportedfinancial results for the first half of 2006, with pretax losses widening to $840,337(£445,000) against a loss of $389,010 (£206,000) last year. Turnover fell 11% from$3.13m (£1.66m) to $2.79 (£1.48m) year-on-year. The loss was in line with expectations duringthe period the company described as a time of ...
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Skillset awards $188,800 to Slingshot's digital training
Slingshot, the new UK-based digitalfilm production and distribution company, has won a$188,804 (£100,000) grant from Skillset for its new development scheme forwriters, directors and producers. Slingshot's "Training andDevelopment into Greenlight" is a programme devoted to digital film-making andthe Slingshot model of production, with an eye to developing projects as partof ...
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Korean train office launches first-run cinema scheme
Korea's office of railroads,Korail, has announced it is to screen films that are on release in itshigh-speed KTX trains starting December. The cinema train patent belonging toKorail is the first in the world.TheKTX trains, similar to France's TGV, run at 300km perhourKorailsigned a memorandum of understanding with Cinewood Entertainment today ...
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Princess team sets up new Danish production company
Danish producer SaritaChristensen and director Anders Morgenthaler, the team behind this year's Cannesanimation title Princess, have brokenaway from Zentropa to establish their own company to deliver cutting-edgeentertainment for kids and families. The new production company's name will be Copenhagen/Bombay."There wasn't enoughspace for all the talent at Zentropa in one company ...
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Revolver takes UK rights to Wright's contemporary Macbeth
Revolver Entertainment has taken UK rights toGeoffrey Wright's new adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in contemporary Melbourne.The deal was signed with sales company Arclight after Macbeth's recent world premiere in theVanguard section at the Toronto International Film Festival. It comes on theeve of its 30-screen release in Australian cinemas tomorrow ...
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New international film festival launched in Dallas with AFI
The inaugural AFI Dallas International Film Festival will run inTexas from Mar 22-Apr 1 2007.Approximately 150 features and shorts will screen at the event andco-sponsor Target has endowed $25,000 cash grants for the best narrative anddocumentary entries."The AFI Dallas International Film Festival is a result ofDallas's love of film and ...
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Athens festival opens tonight with Volver
The 12th AthensInternational Film Festival, otherwise known as Opening Nights Conn-X, kicksoff tonight with the gala presentation of Pedro Almodovar's Volver.Volverwill be joined in the Premieres section with Brian De Palma's The BlackDahlia, Michael Mann's Miami Vice,Jason Reitman's Thank You For Smoking,Aki Kaurismaki's Lights In The Dusk, GelaBabluani's 13 (Tzameti), ...
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Miller's follow-up to Capote lands at Vantage
Bennett Miller has teamed up with Paramount Vantage to develop TheImmortalist, the Oscarnominated director's follow-up to Capote.It is understood the drama centres on several characters involvedin life extension research. "It's not a science-fiction film," Millersaid. "It's a drama set in the very real world of those pursuing'biological immortality'."It's a pursuit ...
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Spurlock confirmed, panels lined up for SXSW 2007
Morgan Spurlock will discuss his career in one of several liveevents planned for the 2007 South by Southwest (SXSW) film conference andfestival.Panel highlights include an assessment of non-profit initiativesdesigned to help film-makers; the impact of emerging technologies on cinema;and depicting on-screen sex.Among the speakers lined up for the event are ...
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Australia mulls 40% tax rebate for producers
The Australian government ismulling a 40% tax rebate for producers, as a means to boost local production, aproposal which has secured the backing of the Film Finance CorporationAustralia (FFC).The government is currentlyreviewing its direct and indirect support of the film industry and the FFC madeits submission public this week thereby ...
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Estevez's Bobby to open LA's AFI FEST
The US premiere of Emilio Estevez's ensemble drama Bobby will open AFI Fest 2006 on Nov 1.Festival organisers also unveiled 13 world premieres, among themChad Lowe's comedy Beautiful Ohio starring William Hurt, Rita Wilson and Julianna Margulies; DavidCunningham's thriller After; and David Stenn's documentary Girl 27, about a former dancer ...
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Stefanac named director of AFI Digital Content Lab
Journalist, author and interactive media and web design pioneerSuzanne Stefanac has been appointed director of the American Film Institute'sDigital Content Lab (DCL).The DCL has worked with many leading entertainment companies andcreated more than 75 interactive prototypes since its inception nine years ago.Stefanac's team includes newly appointed production manager LisaOsborne and ...
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Smythe-Bishop appointed senior vp, publicity & promotions, at MPD
SusanSmythe-Bishop has been appointed senior vice president, publicity and promotionat Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution (MPD). A 14-yearveteran in the publicity and promotion offices of the Canadian releasingcompany, Smythe-Bishop will nowoversee all publicity and promotion strategies for all theatrical releases inEnglish Canada. 'Susan hasbeen integral in the growth of ...
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Tokyo to open with Flags, close with Murder
The Tokyo International FilmFestival (TIFF) has announced its full line-up for the 19th edition which willclose with veteran director Kon Ichikawa's MurderOf The Inugami Clan. TIFF and Kadokawa chairmanTsugihiko Kadokawa announced Ichikawa and director Milos Forman as recipients of the AkiraKurosawa Award, which carries a prize of $100,000.As previously announced, ...
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Gang to star in Lee Myung-se's M
Korea's Core Studio has announced that Gang Dong-won will star in M, the next project from Lee Myung-se,director of Duelist and Nowhere To Hide.Selected for the upcomingPPP, M is a mystic melodrama about awriter who is suffering from constant dejà vu as he falls for a mysteriousgirl. The film is ...