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Tribeca and Rome festivals announce collaboration
TheTribeca Film Festival (TFF) and the Rome FilmFestival have officially announced their collaboration.Duringits first edition, Rome, which runs Oct 13-21,will screen a selection of films that were shown at Tribecaearlier this year. The names of the films will be announced in coming weeks.Tribeca will screen several of Rome's films during ...
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Metrodome launches children's DVD label
UK-based distributor Metrodome's home entertainment division has launched a new labelfor children's entertainment. The budget label MiniMetro will focus on distributing children's films andTV programmes to UK retailers. The label launches inSeptember, following on a separate launch of another home entertainment label,In2Film. That division will seek to exploit library titles ...
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Peep Show team to shoot feature Magicians
The team behind the UK TV hit Peep Show is gearing up to shoot its first feature, Magicians, which will start principalphotography in the UK on Aug 20. The comedy is about a double act of magicians whofall out and become rivals years later. It will shoot on location ...
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Shochiku promotes Matsumoto to head film division
Japanese studio Shochikuannounced today several changes in the top management of its motion picturedivision. Chiefly, Teruki Matsumoto has been promotedto managing director of the filmed entertainment division. In the position Matsumotowill oversee all production, development and distribution of feature films. He will report directly to Shochiku president Junichi Sakomoto,who himself ...
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FilmFour backs Irish comedy Garage
FilmFour is on board for Irish film-makers LennyAbrahamson and Mark O'Halloran's follow-up to theiraward-winning comedy Adam & Paul.O'Halloran wrote and Abrahmsonwill direct Garage, about asmall-town misfit. The new film will star Pat Shorttand Anne Marie Duff. The project willshoot for six weeks starting Aug 14 in Ireland. The filmmakerswill again ...
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Japanese box office poised to beat 2005 numbers
When the list of the top tenreleases for the first half of 2006 was widely reported in the Japanese medialast month, it was clear that the trend toward homegrown hits was alive andwell, with seven of the slots occupied by Japanese films.A barrage of local andHollywood summer movies has altered ...
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Albert drops out of Locarno jury over Fraeulein involvement
Austrian filmmaker-producerBarbara Albert has stepped down from Locarno FilmFestival's International Jury "to prevent any discussion about theindependence of the jury" after a local newspaper suspected a cover-up bythe festival about Albert's involvement in the screenplay for Andrea Staka's Das Fraeulein, the only Swiss film in this year's OfficialCompetition.In an official ...
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Vue to launch Adventure Film Festival
Vue Cinemas is organizing a UK nationwidedigitally projected film festival. The Adventure Film Festival will run Sept11-23 with a five-night programme at 55 Vue Cinemas around the UK. The themed nights will be Endurance, Storm Force, Ocean Adventure, HighAltitude and On-The-Edge. Selected sites will hold a one-day festival combiningfilms from ...
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Toronto premieres hit another crescendo
The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled anotherraft of world and international and North American premieres, with new filmsfrom Christopher Guest, Marc Forster, Roger Michell and Darren Aronofsky. Also in the mix is a joint world premiere with the VeniceFilm Festival of Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Mozart's opera The MagicFlute.Two ...
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Sarah Goodwin joins UK sales company Independent Film Sales
Sarah Goodwin has joinedLondon-based Independent Film Sales (IFS) as salesand marketing manager.Goodwin previously held a similarpost at Vine International Pictures, where she worked on projects fromdirectors such as Peter Greenaway, Alan Rudolph andTerry Jones. The sales company's slate includesPaul Andrew Williams' London To Brighton, David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe and Marc ...
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Rushes Soho Shorts gives top prize to Tom Harper's Cubs
The eighth Rushes SohoShorts Film Festival wrapped in London on Aug 4. The festival's winners were the AscentMedia short film award for Tom Harper's Cubs;the Vue animation award for Run Wrake'sRabbit; the ARRI newcomer award toJonathan Hopkins for Goodbye Mr Snuggles;the Sony Media music video award for TheDenial Twist for ...
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San Sebastian plans Emigrants retrospective
The 54th SanSebastian International Film Festival (Sept 21-30) will offer a programmedevoted to films about emigrants.Theretrospective will screen about 30 films on the topic in a range of genres andstyles. The classictitles include Louis Malle's Alamo Bay;Elia Kazan's America, America; Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged; Goran Paskaljevic's SomeoneElse's America; Luchino Visconti's RoccoAnd ...
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London's 50th festival to open with Last King Of Scotland
The Times BFI London FilmFestival will open its 50th edition on Oct 18 with the Europeanpremiere of Kevin Macdonald's The LastKing Of Scotland.Based onthe award-winning novel by Giles Foden adapted byPeter Morgan and Jeremy Brock, the film stars Forest Whitaker as UgandanPresident Idi Amin and JamesMcAvoy as a Scottish doctor ...
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Icon launches home entertainment division
UK distributor Icon has created a home entertainment division, which willbe headed by Ian Dawson. Dawsonhad been HMV's head of DVD & related products and he will start at Icon inOctober 2006, reporting to Icon CEO Martin Bigham. "This last year has seen thebuild up of a fantastic slate of ...
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Swiss grants go to projects from Indonesia and Malaysia
Two projects from Indonesia and one from Malaysia were selected from the 11 South-East Asian filmprojects presented at this year's Open Doors in Locarno to receive development and production grantssponsored by the Swiss Foreign Ministry's Agency for Development andCooperation (DEZA).The decision on the winnersof two grants of $40,874 (CHF 50,000) ...
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The Lives Of Others director to host special screening for Attenborough
Florian Henckel von Donnsermarck is planning a private preview in London of his multiple award-winning debut feature The Lives Of Othersfor Richard Attenborough. "We're going to hold aspecial screening in England before the film premieres because I know that hedoesn't really like to go to premieres," von Donnersmarksaid. The young ...
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The Departed and La Sconosciuta could be headed for Rome
GiuseppeTornatore's La Sconosciuta and Martin Scorsese'sThe Departed could be among thetitles that will screen at the first edition of the Rome Film Festival (Oct13-21).Accordingto industry gossip - but without any confirmation from Rome organisers - titlesthat could be heading to Rome also include Ridley Scott's A Good Year and Mira ...
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Sony crosses $1bn at domestic box office
Powered by the successesof The Da Vinci Code, Click, and the current number one picture TalladegaNights, Sony Pictures Entertainmenthas crossed $1bn at the domestic box office for the fifth consecutive year.The result gives thestudio unique distinction of being the only one in Hollywood to gross more than$6bn since 2002.Sony is ...
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Craft winners announced for 2006 Hollywood Film Awards
Organisers at the 10th Annual Hollywood Film Festival haveannounced the line-up of crafts winners set to receive awards at the Hollywood AwardsGala on Oct 23.Vilmos Zsigmond will receive the Hollywood Cinematographer of theYear Award, Joel Cox will collect the Hollywood Editor of the Year Award, andGustavo Santaolalla will get the ...
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IFTA top brass renew contracts until 2009
Jean Prewitt will continueas president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles-based IndependentFilm and Television Alliance (IFTA) and Jonathan Wolf will continue asexecutive vice president of IFTA and managing director of the AFM.Both executives have signed new three-year contracts that will run through 2009following a unanimous decision by the ...