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Marilyn Manson to direct, star in Lewis Carroll feature
Rocker Marilyn Manson will attend Berlin'sEuropean Film Market to present his directorial debut to buyers - $4.2m ( 3.5m Euros) Phantasmagoria - The Visions Of Lewis Carroll,in which Manson will play the author of Alice In Wonderland.With French sales agent Wild Bunch on board - WB partnerAlain de la Mata ...
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New projects for NoDream Cinema and Mantarraya Producciones
NoDream Cinema, headed up byMexico's Carlos Reygadas, and Jaime Romandia's Mantarraya Producciones are upping their collaboration to back fourupcoming projects, all budgeted around the $500,000 mark.New projects by Reygadas and Amat Escalante (Los Bastardos) are joined by A Mexican Story, by Russia's Artur Aristakisian, and a directorial debut by Spain's ...
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New Spanish film festival to be held in June
International buyers of Spanish featureshave a new event to mark on their calendars: the Spanish Film Screenings ofMadrid, to be held June 18-20.Dubbed "Madrid de Cine,"themini-market will fill the hole left by the cancellation of the Spanish FilmScreenings of Lanzarote.It will offer a more central and accessiblelocation for international travellers, ...
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Lucy Liu thriller goes international via Lionsgate
Hot on the heels of itsSundance acquisition of dirty bomb thriller Right At Your Door, Lionsgate has bought international rights to theheist thriller Devil To Paystarring Lucy Liu.Lionsgate Internationalpresident Nick Meyer will commence sales at Berlin next week on the Echo LakeProductions and Intellectual Properties Worldwide (IPW) project.Echo Lake's Doug ...
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Paramount hires Poku for international marketing post
Former Focus Features director of publicity Dee Poku has joinedParamount's rebranded specialty division as vicepresident of international marketing.Poku (pictured) will relocate from New York to Los Angeles andreport to division chief John Lesher."Dee's relationships in the international marketplace, aswell as her incredible talent and filmmaker relationships, make her an idealchoice ...
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Golden Globes to introduce animated feature in 2007
Members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) havevoted to add the category of best animated feature film to next year's 64thAnnual Golden Globes.Eligible films must be 70 minutes or longer with no more thanone-quarter comprising live-action footage.If less than eight animated films qualify, the award will not behanded out ...
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78th Academy Award nominations
78th Academy Award Nominees: Best Picture Brokeback Mountain Capote Crash Good Night, And Good Luck Munich Best Director Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain Bennett Miller - Capote Paul Haggis - Crash George Clooney - Good Night, And Good Night Steven Spielberg ...
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Fearless storms across Asia over Chinese New Year
Fearless,the latest martial arts epic from uber-producer Bill Kong, had a strong openingweekend (Jan 26-29) across Asia over the Chinese New Year holiday grossing $7.5mfrom six territories. The film, directed by RonnyYu and starring Jet Li, Nakamura Shidou and Collin Chou, racked up a mighty $3.7m(RMB30m) in China and $1m ...
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ContentFilm racks up sales on Book Of Revelation
ContentFilm Internationalhas sold The Book Of Revelation,directed by Ana Kokkinos (Head On), to22 territories, one of the most robust sales performances by an unseenindependent Australian film in recent years.Distributors including TheWorks (UK), A Film (Netherlands and Belgium), Scanbox (Scandinavia) and Palace(Australia and New Zealand) signed on prior to the film ...
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Brokeback Mountain leads Oscar nominations
Focus Features' Brokeback Mountain confirmed its reputation as the frontrunner for this year's 78th Annual Academy Awards with eight nominations, as Hollywood's specialty divisions dominated the major categories with a raft of provocative work.Ang Lee's acclaimed drama wasnominated for best picture, director, lead actor for Heath Ledger, supportingactor for Jake ...
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Chinese masters crank up new productions
Two of mainland China's leading film-makers - Zhang Yimou and Jiang Wen -are currently working on new projects that look set to raise considerableinterest in international markets.Following his quietdrama Riding Alone ForThousands Of Miles, Zhang Yimou is returning to the big-budget arenawith a $45m costume drama, starring Chow Yun-fat and ...
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Film Sales Co takes on rights to Panorama title Dolls
Andrew Herwitz's The FilmSales Company has bulked up its Berlin sales slate with Israeli Filmmaker TomerHeymann's Paper Dolls, whichreceives its world premiere in the Panorama section. Herwitz is handlingworldwide rights on the picture.Claudia Levin and StanleyBuchthal produced the picture, which chronicles the life of Filipinotransvestites who enter Israel illegally to ...
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Screenwriters Festival enjoys industry support at launch
TheScreenwriters Festival was launched last night in London.A packedevent of big-name supporters were told of ambitious plans for the festival,which will take place from June 27-30 in the UK town of Cheltenham.It will bea unique opportunity for writers to share experiences and ideas, said festivaldirectorand Arturi Films producer David Pearson.Screenwriterswho ...
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Debut feature film wins the Grand Prix-Golden FIPA
Wega-Film production Mein Morder (MyMurderer), the debut feature of Austrian former documentary director and journalistElisabeth Scharang received the Grand Prix-Golden Fipa in the Fiction section of the 19th Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) in Biarritz January24-29. The five-memberjury headed by Polish film director Krzysztof Zanussi and including among others ...
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Five world premieres for Berlinale Special
The selection of films for Berlinale Special has beenfinalised. This film series has a varied programme with two football filmsfeaturing among the five world premieres which are, Luis Llosa'sThe Feast of the Goat (La Fiesta Del Chivo), based on the best-selling novel of the samename by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas ...
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Peckinpah's Pat Garrett to close Berlin
Thedirector's cut of Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy TheKid willclose this year's Berlinale on February 18.Announcingthe complete festival programme, festival directorDieter Kosslick revealed that Peckinpah'sfilm will be shown "out of competition" in a High Definition versionat the Berlinale Palast andUrania cinemas.Therewill also be other films shown in high ...
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Wild Bunch finalises Berlin slate
At the upcoming EFM in Berlin,French sales and finance outfit Wild Bunch will commence sales on the latestfilm from director Emir Kusturica about the life offootball legend Diego Maradona.Maradona,a documentary that traces the player's rise to stardom, fall from grace andeventual redemption, travels from Argentinato Naples to Cuba,Barcelona, Yugoslaviaand other ...
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Wild Bunch finalises Berlin Slate
At the upcoming EFM in Berlin,French sales and finance outfit Wild Bunch will commence sales on the latestfilm from director Emir Kusturica about the life of football legend DiegoMaradona.Maradona, a documentary that traces the player's rise to stardom, fall fromgrace and eventual redemption, travels from Argentinato Naples to Cuba,Barcelona, Yugoslaviaand ...
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Hungarian Film Week sticks by Istvan Szabo
Istvan Szabo'sRelatives will open the 37thHungarian Film Week tonight as scheduled despite the director's admission thathe was an informant for Hungary's communist-era secret police while a filmstudent in the 1950s.Magyar Filmunio, the promotionagency of the Hungarian Motion Picture Public Foundation, would not comment onthe matter other than to say that ...
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Coixet's Secret Life takes Goyas for best film and director
IsabelCoixet's The Secret Life Of Words wasthe big winner atthe 20thanniversary edition of the Spanish Film Academy's Goya Awards, taking home fourstatues including best film, director and script.But unlikelast year, when Alejandro Amenabar made history with 14 Goyas for The SeaInside, this year's prizes were spread more evenly acrossnominees. Nosingle ...