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Best Make-Up, Costume Design form guide
MAKE-UPKate Briscoe and Noriko Watanabe, Memoirs Of A GeishaThere was a lot riding on Kate Briscoe during the shoot of MemoirsOf A Geisha, Rob Marshall's epic adaptation of Arthur Golden's bestseller. The make-up department head was responsible for executing thevision of make-up designer Noriko Watanabe and preserving the integrity of ...
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Production form guide
PRODUCTION DESIGN/ ART DIRECTIONWynn Thomas, Cinderella ManRecreating a landmark boxing venue so closely associated with New York City - a municipality that has historically swept away its architectural history - was the challenge for Cinderella Man's production designer Wynn Thomas. So he did what so many film-makers do. He ...
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Woody Allen prepares 2007 Spanish shoot
Woody Allen is to shoot a film in Spain in 2007 with local producer MediaPro.MediaPro general director Jaume Roures said his company has signed a deal with Allen to back an as-yet unscripted film by the director set in Spain, and likely Barcelona.Roures told Screendaily.com that a contract was ...
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Woody Allen prepares 2007 Barcelona shoot
Woody Allen is to shoot a film in the Barcelona in 2007 with local producer MediaPro.MediaPro general manager Jaume Roures said that his company had signed a deal with Allen to back an as-yet unscripted film by the director set in Barcelona."We signed a contract in which Woody Allen ...
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Best Actor form guide
Great performances come in waves. Or at least, that is howit feels looking at the prospects for best actor this year. They are thin onthe ground compared to last year when monumental performances by Javier Bardem,Paul Giamatti, Liam Neeson, Christian Bale and Kevin Bacon were excluded fromthe awards shortlist in ...
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Best Actress form guide
It is an unusually rich year for actresses in Hollywoodmovies and some of the most versatile performers in the business arefrontrunners for awards glory. Leading the pack is the indomitable Judi Dench, giving anoutstanding performance in Mrs Henderson Presents. But she is, ironically, competing with several actresses under theage of ...
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Weinstein Co returns The Promise to producers
The WeinsteinCompany has returned distribution rights to Chen Kaige'sThe Promise (akaMaster Of The Crimson Armor) to thefilm's producers Moonstone Entertainment and China Film Group.TWC had boughtrights in North America, UK, Australia and South Africa to the film at Cannesthis year but those territories are now available again and Moonstone's Etchie ...
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Intermedia signs video deal with Warner Home Video
Internationalmedia's subsidiary Intermedia Film Distribution has signed a 10-year exclusive distribution deal with Warner Home Video (WHV) for titles from its film library.The deal will give WHV the worldwide home video rights and pay-per-view, video-on-demand and television rights in the USA, Canada and Germany.The films include Point Break, G.I. Jane, ...
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Government subsidy supports Hou Hsiao-hsien project
Taiwan's award-winning director Hou Hsiao-hsien has raised $450,000 in government subsidies for the production of Nie Yinniang, his long-cherished martial arts film about a female assassin.In the Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.) short story that inspired the film, a 10-year-old girl is kidnapped by a Buddhist nun and arduously trained until ...
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Greek Sirens attract more admissions than Kong
A stellar performance from local comedy Sirens in the Aegean has left Greece as the only European territory other than Italy in which King Kong failed to storm the box office.To the astonishment of many, the comedy managed 200,000 admissions in its second week, leaving King Kong a distant second ...
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Kong gets bigger Christmas stocking at North American box office
It was a closely fought battle but King Kong bested TheChronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe over theChristmas weekend to retain its North America crown.Despite new comedy openers headlining Jim Carrey, SteveMartin and Jennifer Aniston and the wide release of Sony's Memoirs Of AGeisha the fight ...
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Narnia claims international crown over holiday season
Buena Vista International (BVI) was celebrating two foldthis weekend as Santa brought a sleigh full of international number ones for TheChronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.Doubling its international territory count from 13 to 26 overthe Christmas weekend the family fantasy film brought a blow to King ...
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Kong, Narnia vie for international control
King Kong is in pole position heading into the holiday weekendas impressive weekday business boosted last weekend's mighty $82.8m globallaunch to $113.5m.Universal's three-hour epic has no major releases scheduled through UIP thisweekend, however the picture's strong word of mouth should ensure solid holdsand be enough to fend off the considerable ...
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Asia Focus: China and the international market
Due to its location and perhaps also timing, the recent CineAsia conference in Beijing (Dec 13-15) turned out to be an opportune platform for the US studios to air some of their long-held opinions and grievances about the China film market. Likewise, China's major film organisations didn't hold back on ...
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Korea's MK Pictures signs second China deal
Korea's MK Pictures has signed a deal to provide China's largest internet protocol TV (IPTV) serviceprovider, Zhejiang Huaying Media, with video-on-demand and pay-per-view content.Under the terms of the deal,MK Pictures will act as the company's exclusive agent for Korean films and willstart providing content from its in-house library following censorship ...
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Screendaily wishes you a Happy Holidays
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British Film Institute to refurbish its South Bank venue
The British Film Institute (bfi)announced on Tuesday that a significantly refurbished and improved venue on theSouth Bank will open in Autumn 2006, intime for the Times bfi50th London Film Festival.. Work starts at the beginning of January 2006 to revitalisethe existing National Film Theatre (NFT) building and to transform the ...
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Report confirms difficult times for Irish film industry
The Audiovisual Federation of Ireland's employer's lobbyIBEC has released its annual report for 2005, reviewing production andemployment statistics across the film and TV sectors in 2004 and givingestimates for 2005.Produced just as the new measures were being adopted in Britainthe foreword to the report by producer James Flynn of Octagon ...
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Pride & Prejudice Leads London Critics nominations
The London Critics Circlehas announced nominees for its annual film awards, with Pride & Prejudice leading the way with eight nominations. The Constant Gardener was close behindwith seven nominations. UIP was the UK distributor with the most nominations at 20 ahead ofPathe's 14.The winners will beannounced on Feb 9 at ...
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Local Christmas comedies top Italian box office
On its opening weekend in Italy, King Kong paled in comparison to two local Christmas comedies,which stormed into the Italian box office, beating the giant ape into thirdplace. Filmauro's Christmas inMiami grossed a huge $3,659,566from 447 screens on its opening weekend, registering a massive screen averageof $8,148 per screen. The ...