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Palm picks up worldwide rights to Sun Dogs
PalmPictures has acquired worldwide rights to Andrea Stewart's documentary SunDogs, about the Jamaican dog sledteam that enters the 2006 UK Dog Sledding Championships in Scotland.PalmPictures will finance the project, which is currently filming in Jamaica and isexpected to be completed by the end of the year. A late 2006 theatrical ...
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Oscar winner Hoffman joins Linney in Searchlight's Savages
Freshfrom his best actor Oscar triumph for Capote, Philip Seymour Hoffman has signedto star opposite Laura Linney in Fox Searchlight's comedy The Savages.TamaraJenkins will direct from her screenplay and production is set to kick off inApril in New York City.Hoffmanand Linney will play adult siblings who become entrusted with the ...
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TriPictures helps Gaul to the Games
Spain'sTriPictures has boarded the $93m (Euros 78m) French-language Asterix At TheOlympic Games, set to shoot entirely in Spain beginning nextJune.The film will shoot in high definition for20 weeks at the new Alicante-based City of Light studio complex.The new Asterix isa co-production between Thomas Langmann's La Petite Reine, Pathe RennProductions and ...
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Horgan to take MD role at UIP following restructure
John Horgan will serve as managing director of UIP following its restructuring at the end of the year, the company announced. Horgan, who is currently the senior VP of operations based in UIP's London headquarters, will take his new post from January 1, 2007. He has worked at UIP since ...
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Crash goes back on the road
Surprise Oscar-winner Crashis to be re-released in cinemas across the UKand Irelandthis weekend on approximately 70 screens.The film has already been released on DVD in the territories but Ian George, head of distribution at the film's distributor Pathe, said the best-film win justifies the move. "We thought it's worth giving ...
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UK to recognise film societies on March 11
TheBritish Federation of Film Societies (BFFS) will hold its national Film Societyof the Year Awards ceremony at the National Film Theatre in Londonon March 11. AnthonyMinghella will present the awards, now in their 60thyear. "Iam delighted to be involved with the BFFS in recognising the superbcontribution made by film societies ...
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Korean film King and the Clown rules the box office
Sleeperhit King and the Clown became Korea's biggesthit of all time with a tally of 11.8 million admissions yesterday (March 5), toppingprevious record-holder Taegukgiwith 11.7 million. Afterhaving its premiere at the Berlin market, internationalsales agent CJ Entertainment has decided to co-distribute the film directly in Japan with Kadokawa Herald Pictures, ...
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Wild Bunch enjoys brisk business for its Berlin slate
Following the recent EFM at the Berlin Film Festival, French sales, finance and distribution outfit Wild Bunch has announced a slew of sales on its varied slate. Oscar-winner Luc Jacquet's follow up to March Of The Penguins, TheFox And The Child, which Wild Bunch announced in Sundance, sold in nearly30 ...
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78th Annual Academy Awards winners
Best PictureCrash - Paul Haggis, Cathy SchulmanBrokeback MountainCapoteGood Night, And Good LuckMunichBest DirectorAng Lee - Brokeback MountainBennett Miller - CapotePaul Haggis - CrashGeorge Clooney - Good Night, And GoodNightSteven Spielberg - MunichBest ActorPhilip Seymour Hoffman - CapoteTerrence Howard - Hustle & FlowHeath Ledger - Brokeback MountainJoaquin Phoenix - Walk The ...
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Academy Awards
Best PictureCrash - Paul Haggis, Cathy SchulmanBrokeback MountainCapoteGood Night, And Good LuckMunichBest DirectorAng Lee - Brokeback MountainBennett Miller - CapotePaul Haggis - CrashGeorge Clooney - Good Night, And GoodNightSteven Spielberg - MunichBest ActorPhilip Seymour Hoffman - CapoteTerrence Howard - Hustle & FlowHeath Ledger - Brokeback MountainJoaquin Phoenix - Walk The ...
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Crash takes best picture Oscar, shares spoils with Brokeback Mountain
Crash turned the tables on popular wisdom when it was named best picture at the 78th annualAcademy Awards last night as it took three Oscars, while the pre-ceremonyfavourite Brokeback Mountain alsotook home three awards including best director for Ang Lee.Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Reese Witherspoon won the lead actor and ...
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Brokeback takes feature, director prizes at Spirit Awards
BrokebackMountain continued its virtual sweepof best picture awards at the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards which took placein a tent on the beach at Santa Monica this afternoon (Saturday). The event, which isstaged by Film Independent (formerly IFP/West), acted as a mirror to tomorrow'sAcademy Awards which this year is dominated by ...
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Narnia enjoys spectacular $9.2m opening in Japan for BVI
The Chronicles of Narnia returned to the top of the international rankings thisweekend courtesy of a superb number one launch in Japan.The fantasy grossed an estimated $9.2m in the major market andtook $10.3m for the weekend overall to raise the international cumulative tallyto $389m.This makes Narnia the 19th biggest international ...
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Madea continues to top North American box office
Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion consolidated its number one ranking aheadof four top 10 openers in a typically quiet Oscar weekend at the box office.The Lionsgate release - which is written, directed,produced by and stars Perry in a big screen version of his hit stage play -added an estimated $13m ...
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Massis, Film Source to executive produce Brazilian gay love story Copacabana
Roberto Jabor will make his feature directorial debut on theBrazilian gay romance Copacabana, Of Love And Shadows from his own screenplay.Alex Massis of Florida-based production and sales companyThe Film Source will serve as executive producer on the $5m English-languageproject, which is set to begin shooting in the autumn in Rio ...
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Chan's Perhaps Love to open San Francisco Film Festival
Peter Chan's China-set musical Perhaps Love and Robert Altman's A Prairie HomeCompanion bookend the49th San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from Apr 20 to May4.Ed Harris will receive the Peter J Owens Award in honour of a bodyof work that "exemplifies brilliance, independence and integrity".Werner Herzog will collect the ...
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Film Independent names lineup of fellows, advisors for Directors Lab
Film Independent has chosen seven fellows for its annual DirectorsLab, which will begin its seven-week run on Mar 7.The fellows and their projects are: Jennifer Arnold (Speedway), Thomas Dean Donnelly (Bridge AndTunnel), Tamar Halpern (EzzyFish), Michael Lew (JunkyardOf Dreams), FabianMarquez (Coyote Sleeps),Minh Nguyen-Vo (Point Of Reference), Scott Prendergast (Kabluey), and ...
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Shoreline picks up worldwide rights to kung fu comedy Babes
Shoreline Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to HighCotton Films' kung-fu comedy All Babes Want to Kill Me from first-time filmmakers Colin Millerand Alex Cain.The story centres on a martial artist afflicted with a raredisease that makes beautiful women want to kill him.Shoreline chief executive officer Morris Ruskin negotiatedthe deal ...
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California's Method Fest opens with Matzner's Dreamland
Jason Matzner's directorial debut Dreamland starring Agnes Bruckner and Gina Gershonwill open the 8th annual Method Fest festival on Mar 31 in Calabasas,California.The line-up of 22 features and 40 shorts runs until Apr 7 andincludes the world premieres of Dave Rodriguez' youth drama Push starring Chad Lindberg, Michael Rapaportand Chaz ...
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Constantin subsidiary acquires rights to children's book
Just aweek after acquiring the film rights to Michael Ende'sJim Button children's classic for anEnglish language screen adaptation German producer Christian Becker has nowbought the rights to the late Max von der Gruen's 1976 children's book, The Suburban Crocodiles (Die Vorstadtkrokodile).The storyof a paraplegic boy being integrated into a children's ...