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Mikado takes Italian rights for Hottest State and Retribution
Arthouse distributor Mikado Film has taken Italiandistribution rights to Venice titles The Hottest State and Retribution (Sakebi).Directedby Ethan Hawke, The Hottest State,which is screening in the Horizons competition, is about a young actor from Texas who tries to make it in Manhattan while struggling with arelationship with a singer-songwriter.StarringMark Webber, ...
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Mike Eschmann stars shooting $4.9m Tell
Swissdirector Mike Eschmann, whose last comedy Achtung, Fertig, Charlie! is the most successfullocal film of the past 25 years, begins shooting his next feature Tell, a parody of the Swissnational hero Wilhelm Tell, in the Bernese Alps from today (Aug 7).The$4.9m (Euros 3.8m) Swiss-German co-production between Lucerne-based ZodiacPictures, Impuls Home ...
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Carla's List has buying buzz ahead of Locarno premiere
Swissdirector Marcel Schuepbach's documentary Carla's List about the work of Carla Del Ponte, the prosecutor ofthe International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), wascreating a buzz among international buyers ahead of its world premiere at theweekend in Locarno's Piazza Grande open-air prorgamme, according to the film'ssales agent Wide Management. ...
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Greek Film Centre sparks controversy with Haifa withdrawal
In a move that has surprisedmany, the state-funded Greek Film Centre, which gives Greek film-makers fundsavailable for development, co-production and promotion, has decided to withdrawthe Greek films from the upcoming Haifa International Film Festival (Oct 7-14)in Israel.The films already invited byHaifa's artistic director Pnina Blayer were the Pandelis Voulgaris' The ...
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Locarno pays tribute to late Daniel Schmid
TheSwiss filmmaking community is in mourning after the news at the weekend of thedeath of one of its internationally best-known filmmakers Daniel Schmid at theage of 64 from cancer. TheLocarno Film Festival, which awarded Schmid an Honorary Leopard in 1999 inrecognition of his work, reacted to the news by programming ...
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Parker's I Really Hate My Job starts London shoot
DirectorOliver Parker has started shooting comedy I Really Hate My Job in London. Neve Campbell, Shirley Henderson,Alexandra Maria Lara, Anna Maxwell Martin and Oana Pellea star. Thefilm is shooting on location and at Three Mills Studios. Producers are 3DDProductions' Andrew Higgie and Dominic Saville with Matthew Justice and AlanGreenspan. The ...
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Dubai opens submissions for new Arab competition
The Dubai International Film Festival hasopened submissions for its new Arab Film Competition, which is open tofeatures, shorts and documentaries. Eligible films must be made by a director ofArab nationality or origin and have a subject or storyline of centered on theArab world, Arab history or Arab culture."The Competition serves ...
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Brian De Palma to talk at Edinburgh
The Edinburgh InternationalFilm Festival has added another A-lister to itsscheduled attendees. Brian De Palma will participate in one of the festival'sReel Life Q&A interviews to talk about the legacy of the New AmericanCinema.EIFF is presenting aretrospective devoted to "other voices" of the new American cinema of the1970s.Other Reel Life intervieweesat ...
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IMAX to instal two cinemas in Ukraine
IMAX Corp andKiev-based production company Kinokompaniya 'Triumph' have announced plans tobuild two IMAX cinemas in Ukraine.The first complex is set to open in Kiev in early 2007 and the second to followin an unconfirmed major city in early 2008. The two cinemas will bring to ninethe number of IMAX facilities ...
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Alliance Atlantis shores up MDP with Sherry promotion
Alliance Atlantis' distribution arm Motion PictureDistribution (MPD) has promoted Jim Sherry to the position of executivemanaging director; Sherry was previously president of Canadian theatricaldistribution. The appointment comes in the wake of the sudden departure ofMPD chairman Victor Loewy and president and CEO Patrice Theroux in July. MPD CEO John Bailey ...
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Pirates plunders its biggest overseas weekend yet
Buena Vista International's(BVI) Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest took more in its fifth weekend than any other as theadventure romp stormed towards $400m.Fired up by a huge French debut, the picture added an estimated $57m from 8,500screens in 47 countries for a $392m international tally and now ranks ...
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Talladega Nights roars past the finish line
Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of RickyBobby took the chequered flag at theweekend with a superb $47m estimated haul that kept box office ahead of thesame period last year by 17%.Sony executives were surprised by the power of the debut, despite very strongreviews, another star role for the popular Will Ferrell, ...
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Rome selects 12 film-makers for production market
The inaugural Rome Film Festhas announced the 12 participants for its New Cinema Network, a co-productionforum along the lines of Rotterdam'sCineMart.The 12 participants, who allhave made their debut feature film already, are:Santiago Amigorena, FranceDave McKean, UKMatthias Luthardt, GermanySantiago Tabernero, Spain Inaki Arteta, Spain Luciano Melchionna, ItalyGiorgio ...
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Mission: Impossible III crosses $250m internationally
Mission: Impossible III passed the $250m mark at the international boxoffice yesterday (Aug 3). The action blockbuster, which was first out of thegates this summer season, received the boost to reach the mark after receivingits belated opening in Japan on July 8. Traditionally one of starTom Cruise's strongest territories, Japan ...
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John Hurt to lead Edinburgh's Powell jury
The Edinburgh International Film Festival(EIFF), which holds its 60th event from Aug 14-27, has announced thejury for this year's Michael Powell Award. Actor John Hurt will chair the jury, whichwill also include Danish director Lone Scherfig,Irish novelist John Banville, Scottish directorMichael Caton-Jones and American-born musicianChrissie Hynde. This year's eligible films ...
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San Sebastian's Spanish selections include The Backwoods
Spain's premiere festival, San Sebastian, has unveiled a raft of new Spanish directorialtalent in its first line-up announcement. Filmax's 1970s-set$5.6m Spanish thriller Backwoods,with Gary Oldman, Virginie Ledoyen, Paddy Considine and Aitana Sanchey-Gijon, directed byBasque first-timer Koldo Serra,is perhaps the most splashy debut but will play outside competition in the Zabaltegi/New ...
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Pirates sets course for $350m
Pirates Of The Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest launches in fourterritories this weekend, headed by France on Aug 2.Buena Vista International (BVI) top brass were expecting strong results giventhat The Curse Of The Black Pearltook $7.1m from 646 screens in its first week there in August 2003. The film is off to ...
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Bavaria boards new films by Randau and Thalheim
Secondfeature films by award-winning filmmakers Felix Randauand Robert Thalheim have been picked up at productionstage for world sales by Bavaria Film International.Randau's tragicomedy Die Anruferin is about a young womanlonging for human warmth and devotion who calls total strangers on the phone.Valerie Koch (from Stefan Krohmer's They've Got Knut)and Esther ...
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Barsky named special counsel at MPAA
Simon Barsky,executive vice president and general counsel to the MPAA and its internationalcounterpart the MPA, is winding down his duties following 28 years of service.Effective Aug 14 Brasky became special counsel to chairman and chief executiveofficer Dan Glickman and president and chief operating officer Bob Pisano, andwill become an independent ...
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Six more world premieres in TIFF's Discovery
The Toronto International Film Festival has added 13 titles toits Discovery line-up, bringing the total to 20, including eight world premieres.Among the anticipated films being unveiled for the first time are OutOf The Blue, Robert Sarkies' account of NewZealand's most infamous massacre in 199; Ed Stone's remake of GriffinAnd Phoenix ...