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Herzog to get Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award
German filmmaker WernerHerzog will be presented with the Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award on May5 during the 2006 festival in Toronto. The occasion will be markedby An Evening With Werner Herzog, a co-presentation of Hot Docs and theCinematheque Ontario. Both organizations will present complimentaryretrospectives gleaned from his more than 40 ...
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Marshall joins Marvel Studios as senior vp, legal and business affairs
Marvel Entertainment has hired Michael Marshall as senior vicepresident of business and legal affairs for its Marvel Studios division.Marshall will oversee all business and legal affairs issuesrelating to development and production, as well as character licensing fortheatrical, direct-to-video and television projects.He will work closely with Marvel Studios president and chiefoperating ...
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Pioneering technologist Demos to receive Gordon E Sawyer Award
Gary Demos, a pioneering motion picture technologist in the motionpicture industry, will receive the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesGordon E Sawyer Award in recognition of his scientific contributions to film.Demos, along with John Whitney Jr, established the Motion PictureProject at Information International to produce computer-generated simulatedscenes for such ...
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Bangkok unveils contenders for Golden Kinnarees
Brazil's House Of Sand, the UK's Mrs Henderson Presents and South Korea'sSympathy For Lady Vengeance are amongthe 12 films that have been selected for the international competition sectionof this year's Bangkok International Film Festival (Feb 17-27).Four Golden Kinnaree awardswill be given out for best film, best director, best actor and ...
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Korean master's 100th film saved from shutdown
Korean master director ImKwon-taek's 100th film has been saved from the verge of shutdown bystart-up production company Kino2 and funding from Centurion TechnologyInvestment Corp and the Korean Film Council.The director's long-timeproducer Lee Tae-won announced that funding for the $3.5m film had fallenthrough just days before it was due to go ...
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Ireland leads Celtic fest nominations
The Celtic Film and Television Festival has announced the awards shortlist for its 27th annualfestival, which recognizes works from the Celtic countries and regions (Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, Scotland and Wales). Ireland leads with 30 nominations, Scotland follows with 27, and Wales with 26. In the filmcategories, best feature film nominees ...
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Scots producer enters distribution fray
Scottish producer Ros Borland hasestablished BS Distribution to handle the UKrelease of her latest feature WildCountry. The low-budget teen horror movie was made by Borland's GabrielPictures and co-stars Martin (Sweet Sixteen)Compston and Peter Capaldi.It will be released in six prints in Scotlandon February 24 with a wider release across the ...
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International Jury for the 56th Berlinale is decided
The eight-member international jury under the presidency ofCharlotte Rampling was announced today, January 17th.For the first time in 56 years of the Berlin International Film Festival, thejury will announce the winners during the awards ceremony on February 18.The international jury awards the following prizes to filmsscreened in the Competition: The ...
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2006 Golden Globe winners
2006 Golden Globe winners:Best Motion Picture - DramaBrokeback MountainBest Performance By An Actress In AMotion Picture - DramaFelicity Huffman - TransamericaBest Performance By An Actor In A MotionPicture - DramaPhilip Seymour Hoffman - CapoteBest Motion Picture - Musical Or ComedyWalk The LineBest Performance By An Actress In AMotion Picture - ...
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IFC Films takes domestic rights to Drawing Restraint 9
MatthewBarney's experimental Drawing Restraint 9 has found a US home at IFC Films and is scheduled to open at the IFCCentre in New York on Mar 29 before expanding to other regions. Thepicture stars Barney and his longtime partner Bjork as passengers aboard aJapanese whaling ship, and features a soundtrack ...
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Walden acquires Allende trilogy about teen adventurer
WaldenMedia has acquired the rights to Isabel Allende's young adult trilogy featuringthe teenage adventurer Alexander Cold. Thefirst story in the series, City Of The Beasts, will be produced by Barrie Osborne of The LordOf The Rings fame. DavidRothenberg will adapt the screenplay from Allende's novel and serve asco-producer. HarperCollins, which ...
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THINKFilm buys North American rights to Down In The Valley
THINKFilmhas acquired all North American rights from Element Films to David Jacobson'scontemporary western Down In The Valley starring Edward Norton and Evan Rachel Wood. THINKFilmplans a spring release for the San Fernando Valley-set story of a young girlwho falls for a charismatic stranger who is not all he appears to ...
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Disney denies plans for Beijing theme park
Disney has denied reports inthe Hong Kong and mainland China press that it plans to build a theme park in Beijing by 2010.Local newspapers reported onTuesday (Jan 17) that the Beijingcity government had suggested a Disney theme park would be one of ten facilitiesestablished at the upcoming National New Media ...
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Brokeback Mountain towers over Golden Globes
AngLee's western romance Brokeback Mountain and James Mangold's Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line dominated the Golden Globe Awards at last night's 63rdannual ceremony.BrokebackMountain won four prizes - bestmotion picture (drama), best director for Ang Lee, best screenplay and bestsong. Walk The Line won threetrophies - for best motion picture ...
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Golden Globes
2006 Golden Globe winners:Best Motion Picture - DramaBrokeback MountainBest Performance By An Actress In AMotion Picture - DramaFelicity Huffman - TransamericaBest Performance By An Actor In A MotionPicture - DramaPhilip Seymour Hoffman - CapoteBest Motion Picture - Musical Or ComedyWalk The LineBest Performance By An Actress In AMotion Picture - ...
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UK production spending down 31% in 2005
As expected, 2005 wasn't abanner year for UK film production as film tax breaks uncertainty and a strong pound hurtthe industry. According to figures from the UK Film Council, film productionspending in the UK was £559m ($988m) in 2005, down 31% from 2004's £810.3m ($1432m). That'sfar below 2003's record year ...
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Berlin's Co-Production Market line-up confirmed
This year's Berlinale Co-ProductionMarket will feature 44 projects from 24 countries, including three projects from the forthcoming CineMart in Rotterdam.Under an agreement between the two festivals, the Berlin market (February 12-14) will include Eran Riklis' Israeli-Palestinian dark comedy Lemon Tree; Stefan Arsenijevic's featuredebut Love and Other Crimes, co-produced with Cologne-based ...
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Nu Image acquires Boyana Film Studios in Bulgaria
Nu Image Bulgaria has acquiredBoyana Film Studios and plans several major Hollywood productions for theformerly state-owned studios. The romantic drama Napoleon and Betsy, starring Al Pacino and Scarlett Johansson, thethriller The Code, starring MorganFreeman, and a remake of the zombie classic Dayof the Dead are scheduled to shoot in Bulgariathis ...
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Gerardmer Film Festival confirms its line up
The Gerardmer Fantastic FilmFestival has announced its line up for the 13th annual edition to be heldJanuary 25-29.Director Hideo Nakata will head up the jury and be thesubject of a tribute. The director previously won the festival's grand prizefor Dark Water.Other jury members include actors Lou Doillon,Antoine Dulery, Claire Keim,Tom ...
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DVD sales in Italy jumped by 33% in 2005
DVD sales in Italy jumped a massive 33% in2005, according to national home entertainment body Univideo.Univideo estimates that 40million DVDs were sold last year. The average price of DVDs dropped 21% to$17-18 (14-15 Euros). Meanwhile, video sales slumped 47%.Official figures for 2005will only be available in March or April. Univideopresident ...