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Australian VoD licenses Granada International films
Australianvideo-on-demand company Reeltime has signed a dealwith Granada International to license select film and television programmesfrom Granada's library.OnceReeltime launches in early 2006, the Granada content will be made available to all of its ISPpartners.Thedeal covers unspecified films and TV programmes including Prime Suspect,Cracker, 7Up and Nanny 911."Weare delighted to see ...
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Hopkins to receive HFPA DeMille Award
Anthony Hopkinswill collect the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Cecil B DeMille Awardfor lifetime achievement at the 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan 16,2006.Hopkins hasreceived six Golden Globe nominations including four as best actor for Nixon,The Remains Of The Day, The Silence Of The Lambs and Magic.He won the bestactor ...
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Too Good To Be True Film-makers bank on pixel sell
Following in the footstepsof a startlingly simple online marketing scheme launched this year,two UK screenwriters are raising funds online to develop theirfeature films. Screenwriters Talia Channon and Lee Curle of Lucre Films have launched PixelYourShops.com, asite based on the successful Million Dollar Homepage, developed by 21-year-old UK student Alex Tew. ...
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Blank Slate for UK ethnic minority film-makers
The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and b3 mediaare launching a new digital short film project to support black and ethnicminority filmmakers. The Blank Slate scheme, funded by the NationalLottery, is expected to commission eight shorts to be produced by spring 2006.Filmmakers from across the UKcan apply to make ...
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Water reaches watershed level at box office
Deepa Mehta's Water passed the C$500,000 ($419,000) mark this pastweekend, achieving the milestone in 10 days on 41 screens for a screen averageof approximately $7000. It was enough to earn 10thspot on the nation's box office Top Ten, a rare feat for a Canadian filmproduced outside of Quebec. That said, ...
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Bridge opens for Fortissimo
Dutch-HK-based sales agent FortissimoFilms has reported a string of sales on documentary The Bridge, which itpicked up at AFM. Directed by Eric Steel and following the stories of peoplewho decided to commit suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate bridge in 2004,the film has already sold to Japan (Tornado), Village ...
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Brooks' Muslim comedy to world premiere in Dubai
In an unusual move, AlbertBrooks' new film Looking For ComedyIn The Muslim World will have its world premiere at the Dubai InternationalFilm festival ahead of an early-2006 US release through Warner IndependentPictures.The film, which sees Brooksbeing sent to India and Pakistan by the US Government to find out what makesMuslims ...
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US Producers Guild to honour Eastwood, Corman
Clint Eastwood and RogerCorman will be honoured at the Producers Guild of America's (PGA) annual awardsceremony on Jan 22 2006 in Los Angeles.Eastwood, whose producingcredits include the Oscar winning Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven, will receive the Milestone Award and Corman, whose prolific career hasspawned The Wild Angels and Deathrace3000 ...
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de Hadeln to head Damascus festival jury
Moritz de Hadeln, artistic director of this year's FestivalInternational de Film deMontreal (FIFM), hasbeen named president of the international jury of the Damascus International Film Festival (November 20-27).Acceptingthe offer from the Syrian event, the former head of the Berlin, Venice and Locarno festivals said: "Inthe difficult international present political situation, ...
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India film festival to host Merchant tribute
This year's edition of the InternationalFilm Festival of India (IFFI), to be held in Goafrom Nov 24 - Dec 4, will pay a special tribute to Indian-born filmmaker IsmailMerchant who died in May this year.The retrospective will screenIn Custody, which Merchant directedhimself, and three films that he produced with James ...
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Peace Arch announces AFM deals on new slate
Toronto-based Peace Arch Entertainment has reported strong pre-sales during AFM on the nine new titles on its slate.Momentum in the UK, itssister company Aurum in Spain and Odeon in Canada have each taken rights to theromance Delirious starring SteveBuscemi, Michael Pitt and Alison Lohman, as well all five titles from ...
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New film agency to be established in Wales
The Welsh Development Agency and the Arts Council of Wales(ACW) have announced plans to establish a new film agency, Ffilm Wales. Theagency will operate under the Welsh Assembly Government's new CreativeIndustries initiative.The film agency will aim to "ensure that Wales can be moreeffective in developing talent and in making feature ...
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Lehmann attached to direct Gold Circle's romcom
Michael Lehmannwill direct Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore in Gold Circle Films' comedy BecauseI Said So, which will bereleased domestically through Universal and is being sold internationally byMandate Pictures.Lehmann'scredits include Heathers, 40 Days And 40 Nights and The Truth About Cats And Dogs; he replaces Gillian Armstrong who waspreviously attached.Gold ...
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Northern Ireland enjoys a production boom
Northern Ireland is enjoying a production boom with several filmsbacked by the Northern Ireland Film & Television Commission (NIFTC) beginning shoots.Seven films are due to start principal photography between now andnext Spring start in Belfast and along the border with the Republic of Ireland.Alreadyshooting is 48 Angels, a low-budget feature ...
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Final hopes for German media funds are dashed
German media funds are now all but dead, with the incoming government announcing it will backdate reforms to last week.Some German media fund managers had hoped to continue signing up investors until new Chancellor Angela Merkel officially begins business next week.But FinanceMinister designate Peer Steinbrueck says he intends to retain ...
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Ferrara to be honoured at Sarajevo festival
TheSarajevo Film Festival will celebrate the work of Abel Ferrara during thefestival's 12th edition, to be held August 18-26, 2006. Ferrara isexpected to attend the festival and present a selection of his films, includinghis latest feature, Mary."This courageous filmmaker makes no concessions - in hismovies as well as in the ...
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15 titles named on Oscar documentary shortlist
The Academy OfMotion Picture Arts & Sciences unveiled a fiercely competitive shortlist of15 documentaries today [Tuesday] that will vie for the five nominee slots inthe 78th annual Academy Awards.The rosterfeatures Luc Jacquet's record breaking March Of The Penguins, Jessica Sander's miscarriage of justiceexpose After Innocence,Marilyn Agrelo's Slamdance hit Mad Hot ...
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First Run acquires domestic rights to Mengele doc
First RunFeatures has acquired domestic rights to Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh's ForgivingDr Mengele and plans a2006 theatrical and DVD release.The documentary charts the extraordinary spirit ofreconciliation adopted by Auschwitz survivor Eva Mozes Kor, who was one of thevictims of the Nazi doctor's brutal medical experiments."Forgiving Dr. Mengeleis an entirely ...
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Cronenberg, Gyllenhaal, London added to Palm Springs honours roster
David Cronenberg willreceive the Visionary Award, Jake Gyllenhaal will receive the Desert PalmAchievement Award and Michael London will collect the Producer of the YearAward at the 17th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) inJanuary.Cronenberg's latest picture AHistory Of Violence has grossed morethan $30.5m since opening through New Line. His ...