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Das Fraulein wins best film at Sarajevo festival
Andrea Staka's Das Fraulein has added the Heart ofSarajevo Award for best film at the 12th Sarajevo FilmFestival to its Golden Leopard win at Locarno.Marija Skaricic was also named best actress award for her part in the tale of three women from the former Yugoslavia dealing with their past, present ...
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London To Brighton wins new director's award at Edinburgh
Paul Andrew Williams won the Skillset New Directors Award for London To Brighton announced at the closing weekend of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Accepting the cash prize of £1,500, writer-director Williams admitted that the film had cost £80,000 and thanked the UK Film Council who had stepped in to ...
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Promising Romanian director killed in road crash
The Romanian film industry was in shock this weekend on hearing the news that director Cristian Nemescu, one of its most promising young filmmakers, had been killed in a traffic accident in Bucharest early on Friday morning.A graduate of the Romanian National Academy of Drama, 27-year-old Nemescu had directed several ...
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$2.6m donated to 9/11 charities from opening gross of World Trade Center
FourSeptember 11 charities will receive $2.6m as a portion of the first five days'gross of Paramount's drama World Trade Center.Aspreviously reported, 50% of the donation will go to the World Trade CenterMemorial Foundation, which was set up to fund construction of two reflectingpools located on the site of the Twin ...
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HATCHfest names ten student film-makers on shortlist for 2006 festival
Ten student film-makerfinalists from around the world have been selected for the upcoming HatchAudiovisual Arts Festival, HATCHfest, which will run Oct 3 to 8 in Bozeman,Montana. The festival, whose mission is to provide mentorship, education,inspiration and recognition, honours the young film-makers who are dubbed"Groundbreakers" with various awards for best director, ...
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US football drama Invincible leads domestic box office
Buena Vista's true life American football drama Invincible trampled the competition at the weekendas it opened top with an estimated $17m in ticket sales.Mark Wahlberg stars as Vince Papale, the 30-year-old barman whoearned a place on the 1976 Philadelphia Eagles after responding to an open recruitingcall. Ericson Core's picture impressed ...
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Foldes, Meyerink named heads of educational outreach at Breckenridge
The 26th annual Breckenridge Film Festival, whichtakes place Sept 7 to 10 in Breckenridge, Colorado, has appointed film-makersLawrence David Foldes and Victoria Paige Meyerink directors of the festival's new educational outreachprogramme.As part of the programme, Foldes and Meyerink will presenttwo full-day seminars during the festival entitled 'Independent Filmmaking InToday's ...
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Dead Man's Chest continues to fill with international grosses
Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest set another record for Buena VistaInternational (BVI) as it remained the international box office champion for aneighth consecutive weekend Ð the longest run at the top in the company'shistory.Meanwhile Cars ranked third in the international market behind Universal/UIP's MiamiVice, giving BVIexecutives plenty to ...
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Edmonds named to head Weinstein/Johnson co-venture
TraceyEdmonds has been appointed president of Our Stories Films, the African-Americancomedy studio announced by the Weinstein Company (TWC) and BET founder Robert LJohnson's RLJ companies in July.Edmondswill oversee studio operations and the overall vision, sourcing and shepherdingof projects from development to production. She is expected to announce a teamof executives ...
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Video-on-demand service prepares Asia Pacific launch
Singapore-based video-on-demand company Anytime is set to launch an on-demand entertainment portal that allows consumers access to internet-delivered programming in the Asia Pacific region.Anytime TV is an Intel Viiv technology-based digital entertainment platform, which can transfer Hollywood movie content from the PC to the TV at home.Intel Capital, the venture ...
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World premiere of Fur will open Rome festival
The opening film of the inaugural Rome Film Festival is to be Steven Shainberg's Diane Arbus biopic Fur.Its star Nicole Kidman will present the film at a grand opening gala on October 13th in the Santa Cecilia Hall at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. Fur is an adaptation of Patricia ...
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Tanovic lines up first feature shot in his Bosnian homeland
Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land) is planning his firstBosnian-shot film.The project is an adaptation of Croatianjournalist Ivica Djikic'sdebut novel Circus Columbia. Speaking after presenting his secondfeature Hell at the Sarajevo FilmFestival, Tanovic explained that fellow Bosnian directorDino Mustafic (whose feature debut Remake appeared in 2003) had intended ...
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Tanovic lines up first feature set in his Bosnian homeland
Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land) is planning his firstBosnian-set film.The project is an adaptation of Croatianjournalist Ivica Djikic'sdebut novel Circus Columbia. Speaking after presenting his secondfeature Hell at the Sarajevo FilmFestival, Tanovic explained that fellow Bosnian directorDino Mustafic (whose feature debut Remake appeared in 2003) had intended ...
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Romero to start Diary Of The Dead in October
Nicolas Chartier's LA-basedsales agency Voltage Pictures has acquired worldwide sales rights to George ARomero's Diary Of The Dead, thelatest film in Romero's Dead series,which is scheduled to begin shooting on Oct 11, 2006.The film has been written byRomero and is being produced by Romero-Grunwald Productions and Artfire Films,the latter of ...
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Hood takes best British short prize at Edinburgh
Dictynna Hood won the Kodak and UK Film Council-sponsored best British short film award at this year's Edinburgh Festival, jointly by Kodak and the UK Film CouncilMain award winnersUK Film Council Kodak Award for Best British Short FilmThe Other Man (Dictynna Hood)McLaren/ BBC Film Network Award for New British Animation ...
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BVI set for eighth straight weekend lead with Pirates
Buena Vista Internationalshould rule the international box office seas for the eighth consecutiveweekend with Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. The adventure sequel has only two small openings- Greece and Lebanon, which both opened today (Thursday) - but itshould easily stay top bearing in mind its seventh weekend take ...
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Irish Film Board gets $3m boost
Ireland'sMinister for Arts, Sport & Tourism, John O'Donoghue,has given supplementary capital funding of $3m (Euros 2.3m) to the Irish FilmBoard. The additional money is intended to facilitate an increase in film andtelevision production in the last quarter of 2006 and the first half of 2007.The move is part of a ...
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World's Fastest Indian sweeps New Zealand awards
The World's Fastest Indian drove away with sevenprizes at the 2006 Air New Zealand Screen Awards. RogerDonaldson's film stars Anthony Hopkins as the motorcycle legend Burt Munro.They won awards for best director and actor respectively, while the film tookbest picture, editing, sound, production design and screenplay (also byDonaldson).ChrisGraham's Sione's Wedding, ...
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Holland, Broomfield to compete in San Sebastian
Lars von Trier,John Boorman, Tom DiCilloand Agnieszka Holland are among the directors set toscreen films in the official selection of the upcoming Donostia-SanSebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30). Von Trier'snew Dogme comedy TheBoss Of It All (DirektoerenFor Det Hele), about anactor whose principles are put to the test when he ...
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Rush Hour 3 starts six week shoot in Paris
Brett Ratner'sRush Hour 3 has begun shooting in Paris, marking continued interest from American filmmakersin the capital city.The third installment of the action comedy stars Chris Tucker andJackie Chan along with French actor Yvan Attal, director Roman Polanski and a French actress ofrenown whose name has yet to be revealed.Rush ...