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Gilbert Taylor gets international award from ASC
Gilbert Taylorwill receive the 2006 American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) InternationalAchievement Award at the 20th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in LosAngeles on Feb 26.During thecourse of a career spanning eight decades, Taylor's credits have included DrStrangelove, A Hard Day's Night, The Omen and Star Wars. He received a Lifetime ...
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Sogepaq takes on Banderas' Spanish project
Sogepaq has picked upinternational rights to Antonio Banderas' second film as director, The WayOf The English, which beginsshooting next Monday in Spain.The film is a co-productionbetween Banderas' own Green Moon Producciones and Sogepaq sister companySogecine.It marks Banderas' return tothe Spanish film industry, where he also plans to begin producing local ...
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THINKFilm picks up Boys Of Baraka
THINKFilm has acquired NorthAmerican theatrical and home video rights to Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's TheBoys Of Baraka and will roll it outin New York on Nov 30.The story follows fourchildren as they are transplanted from the mean streets of Baltimore to aprivate boarding school in Kenya and recently won ...
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Battle lines drawn for Prix Screen International
The European Film Academy has announced 11 nominations for the Prix ScreenInternational for non-European film.The awards, backed byScreen International, reflect the wide geographical spread of this year's top films, taking in every continent.Three of the films - C.R.A.Z.Y., Be With Me and Tsosti - have also been nominated to represent ...
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Global Film Initiative names eight features in US touring series
The Global Film Initiativehas unveiled its third annual Global Lens touring film series featuring eightfeatures and five shorts from developing-world countries.The series will screen incities across the US beginning in January through partnerships with major culturalinstitutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of FineArts in ...
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BoyTown, December Boys crank up in Australia
Cameras started rolling onMonday on two high-profile Australian productions - BoyTown, the Molloy Boy Productions follow-up to Crackerjack, and December Boys, starring Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame.Mick Molloy co-wrote,co-produces and is one of the stars of BoyTown,just as he was on Crackerjack, whichgrossed $5.6m (A$7.7m) for distributor Roadshow and ...
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German-Polish alliance creates pioneering film fund
Thenewly-created Polish Film Institute and the two German regional funds haveestablished a Polish-German Co-Development Fund.The agreement was reached during this year's ConnectingCottbus market forum.The fund'sannual budget will be $175,000 (Euros 150,000.)Theinitiative aims to encourage the development of Polish-German scripts that willhelp increase the number of co-productions between Polish producers and ...
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Bac is back with hugely improved results
Revitalised French distributor Bac Films has reported third-quarterrevenues of $4.6m (Euros 3.9m), up sharply from $1.2m (Euros 1m) for the sameperiod last year.Overall, the company has seen revenue rise to $17m (Euros 14.5m) since thestart of the year, spurred in theatres by the release of Jim Jarmusch's Cannes favourite Broken ...
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Fox's Bubble ready to burst onto world stage
Director Eytan Fox and writer-producer Gal Uchovsky havecompleted their follow-up to Israel's biggestever international hit Walk On Water ($2.7m in US, $7m worldwide).The Bubble returns to the theme of the individual's right to live a life of their own choosing and the Middle East conflict, which determines fates regardless of ...
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Flightplan lands at number one in 15 territories
Fired up by a string of number one launches in major territories,Buena Vista International's (BVI) Flightplan ruled the roost at the weekend with anestimated $15.2m haul.Ranking number one in 15 territories and boasting an internationalrunning total of more than $60m, the thriller looks to have its global anchorsin place ahead ...
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Chan wins best actor at Golden Roosters
Hong Kong star Jackie Chan was awarded best actor for his rolein Benny Chan's New Police Story atthis year's edition of mainland China's Golden Rooster Awards.This year marks the firsttime that the awards have been open to talent from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. In a departure from his usual ...
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Norway's Vinterkyss wins top jury prize at AFI FEST
Sara Johnsen's Kissed By Winter (Vinterkyss), the Norwegian entry for the foreignlanguage Oscar this year, was awarded the International Feature Competition'sGrand Jury Prize at last night's AFI FEST 2005 awards ceremony.Zach Niles and Banker White's The Refugee All Stars won the Aquafina Pure Vision AwardInternational Documentary Grand Jury Prize, while ...
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BFI crosses more bridges with Akin music doc
Afterconcluding an all-rights US deal with Strand Releasing for FatihAkin's music documentary Crossing The Bridge - The Sound Of Istanbul at the recent AFMmarket, Bavaria Film International (BFI) has now also sold the film to Brazil'sImovision, Bulgaria's Art Fest Ltd, and Japan's Alcine Terran.Inaddition, a deal has been signed with ...
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Look Both Ways scores with Australian critics
Look Both Ways won the behind-the-camera trifecta of best film, best director and bestoriginal script at the Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) awards at theweekend.The drama was written anddirected by Sarah Watt and produced by Bridget Ikin immediately prior to herbecoming one of the two evaluation managers at Film ...
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Clooney to recieve Modern Master award at Santa Barbara
George Clooney will receive the 2006 Santa Barbara InternationalFilm Festival's Modern Master Award.The actor-director, whose historical drama Good Night, And GoodLuck has firmlyestablished itself as one of this season's awards contenders, will collect thehonour during next year's event."This is Clooney's year," festival director Roger Durlingsaid. "He's shown great versatility and ...
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Gothams award Ballroom, Jarmusch and five unreleased films
Mad Hot Ballroom filmmakers Marilyn Agrelo and Amy Sewell will receive theCelebrate New York Award at the 15th Annual Gotham Awards in New York on Nov30.Meanwhile organizers have unveiled the full roster of nominees inthe Best Film Not Playing At A Theatre Near You category.The prize will be contested by ...
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Chicken Little continues to tower over US box office
Family titles dominated the top 10 as Buena Vista's CG picture ChickenLittle stayed top forthe second weekend in a row ahead of Sony's new release Zathura.Chicken Little added an estimated $32m for an excellent $80.8m running totalafter two weekends. The picture will certainly pass $100m although it will comeunder heavy ...
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Glawogger and Herzog share Copenhagen garlands
The top prize at this year's third Copenhagen Dox film festival was shared between Michael Glawogger'sWorkingman's Death and WernerHerzog's The White Diamond.The former deals with the consequences of globalisation while the latter tells the story of a British engineer with dreams of flying over the rainforest in a hot-air balloon.OdessaOdessa ...
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Audiard beats rivals to Golden Giraldillo at Seville
JacquesAudiard's The Beat That My HeartSkipped (De battre mon coeur s'est arrete) took theGolden Giraldillo at Spain's European Film Festival ofSeville.The award comes with a $70,000 (Euros 60,000) prize awarded - like all those handed out - to the film's Spanish distributor.AustrianJorg Kalt's Crash Test Dummies won the SilverGiraldillo, while ...