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Major honours shared at Bafta Scotland awards
Honours were equally shared between On A Clear Day and Festival at the annual BAFTA Scotland Awards announced in Glasgow.StarringPeter Mullan, On A Clear Day tells of an unemployedman's determination to regain his self esteem by swimming the English Channeland wonboth Best Film and Best Screenplay for Alex Rose. Thebawdy ...
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Gaumont donates box-office takings to riot victims
French studio Gaumont is todonate two days' of box-office takings from new release Il Etait Une FoisDans L'Oued to victims of the riots that have broken out across France inrecent weeks.Directed by Homeboys On TheBeach's Djamel Bensalah, the comedy has attracted nearly 700,000admissions since its release in late October. "At ...
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Gravehopping on top at record-breaking Cottbus
JanCvitkovic's Gravehopping was named best film at this year's Cottbus Festival of East European Cinema.TheSlovenian-Croatian co-production, which was also awarded the New DirectorsAward at this year's San Sebastian Film Festival and opened the LjubljanaInternational Film Festival last week, also received the Prize of theEcumenical Jury.Thisyear's International Jury Special Prize went ...
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Five Golden Horses for Kung Fu Hustle
Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle was the clear winnerat Taiwan's 42nd Golden Horse Award in Keelung, picking up fiveprizes, including Best Feature Film and Best Director. Benny Chan's Divergence was another to enjoymultiple successes with three key awards for acting, photography andediting. Johnnie To's Election, Andrew Lau's Initial D, Hou ...
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Screen heroines focus for Berlinale anniversary
The30th anniversary edition of the Berlinale Retrospective next February will bededicated to the screen heroines of the 1950s.EntitledDream Girls. Film Stars of the Fifties, itthe will focus on the portrayal of femininity in international films of thepost-war period.Berlinalefestival director Dieter Kosslick said the imagery reflected the changes andcontradictions of the ...
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Sitney named director of programming at Silverdocs
Sky Sitney has been nameddirector of programming at the fourth Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery ChannelDocumentary Festival, which is set to run from Jun 13-18 2006 in SilverSprings, Maryland.The third annual SilverdocsInternational Documentary Conference is scheduled to run concurrently from Jun15-17.Sitney formerly served asprogramming director at The Newport International Film Festival. Before thatshe ...
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Pathe, Medusa among big-ticket Breed buyers
First Look Internationaldivision has closed major territory sales on horror picture The Breed, which is directed by Wes Craven'sprotege Nick Mastandrea.Rights have gone to Pathe in the UK, Medusa in Italy,Europa Films in Brazil, Nordisk in Scandinavia, Lizard Cinema Trade in CIS,Falcon Films in the Middle East, and Hollywood Entertainment ...
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Revolver picks up Herzog and Huda for 2006
UK distributor Revolver Entertainmenthas acquired two films for release in early 2006: Werner Herzog's documentary Grizzly Man and MenhajHuda's adolescent story Kidulthood.Grizzly Man, set for a February 4 release, isabout the life and death of Timothy Treadwell, a follower of grizzly bears. Thefilm won the Alfred P. Sloan award at ...
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DDA to stage 35th anniversary event in London on Dec 6
PR and marketing consultancyDennis Davidson Associates is celebrating its 35th anniversary byholding a champagne reception, dinner and concert in London on Dec 6 in aid ofthe Small Faces' All Children's Charity and the Cinema & TelevisionBenevolent Fund.To highlight DDA's earlyrelationships across film and music including some of its earlier work ...
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Pedro Maso earns Spain's highest film award
Veteran director Pedro Maso will receive the Goya of Honour at the 20thanniversary edition of Spain'sOscar-equivalent national awards ceremony next January 29.The Academy said the career of Maso, 60, "has followed the social,moral and political evolution of Spanish society, so that his broad workconstitutes an important sociological testimony to the ...
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BAFTA/LA hands out Britannia awards
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)'s LA branch gave out its highesthonours at the 2005 Britannia Awards last night. As previously announced, TomCruise received the Stanley Kubrick award forexcellence in film and Elizabeth Taylor picked up the award for artisticexcellence in international entertainment.Mike Newell, director of thelatest ...
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Halloween producer killed in Jordanian bombings
The producer of the Halloweenfilms, Syrian-born Moustapha Akkad,was confirmed today as one of the victims of the hotel bombings in Jordan.Los Angeles-resident Akkad, who also directed the epic Anthony Quinn-starrers Lion Of The Desert and TheMessage, died this morning from wounds sustained in Wednesday's attack in Amman.His daughter, Rima Akkad ...
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Charity tie-in boosts UK In Her Shoes launch
The UK launch of Curtis Hanson's In Her Shoes this weekend will be boosted by a tie-in with a majorcharity.The film's 253-siteopening has been accompanied by a celebrity shoe auction in aid of BreastCancer Care.Distributor 20th CenturyFox came up with the online sale for which celebrities have donated footwear. Many ...
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Warner sends digital Corpse Bride to Japan
Warner Bros TechnicalOperations subsidiaries Motion Picture Imaging (MPI) and Global Digital MediaXchange (GDMX) have created the first ever 4K digital cinema package of apicture for commercial exhibition.The version of TimBurton's Corpse Bride, created incompliance with the recently announced Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI)specifications, was sent from California to Japan by secure ...
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BVI lands Flightplan in major territories
Buena Vista International's (BVI) thriller Flightplan sets course for what could well becomeits biggest weekend to date with major launches scheduled in Australia, France,Spain, South Korea and Russia.The picture is currentlycruising at $43.9m and should fly past $50m this weekend with strong debutsexpected in each of the above major markets.It ...
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Entertainment lawyer Jesuele joins Hogan & Hartson in LA
Internationalentertainment lawyer Robert R Jesuele has joined law firm Hogan & Hartson'sLos Angles office as partner.Jesuele bringsto the firm nearly 20 years of experience handling cross-border transactions onbehalf of clients in media and other industries.He representsmajor US, European and Asian media, as well as entertainment, consumerproducts, manufacturing and automotive companies ...
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Media fund reprieve is just stay of execution
German media funds in their current form have little chance of survival, despite a change of government and yet another late reprieve.The funds have been a popular way of raising capital for film, allowing investors to offset losses against personal income tax.But it was clear that they were a lucrative ...
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IFC Films acquires domestic rights to Duane
IFC Films hasacquired North American rights to Matt Mulhern's drama Duane Hopwood starring David Schwimmer and JaneaneGarofalo.Mulhern directed from his own screenplay about a casinoworker who embarks upon an emotional personal journey after an arrest for drunkdriving jeopardises his visitation rights with his two daughters.Lemore Syvan of Elevation Filmworks produced ...
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Cape Town festival to crown glorious year for South Africa
A breakthrough year ofextraordinary achievement for South African cinema will culminate in the CapeTown World Film Festival starting tomorrow, and next week's Sithengi film market .This year, South Africapicked up its first Golden Bear with u-Carmen eKhayelitsha and its first Academy Award nomination for Yesterday.The fourth Cape Town festival, will ...
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Animation master Otomo begins work on live-action sci-fi
Animationauteur Katsuhiro Otomo, whose films, including Akira and Steamboy, have been widelyscreened internationally, has started production of a live-action feature. Basedon the Kodansha comic Mushishi (Mushi Master)by Yuki Urushibara, the eponymous SF fantasy is set around the turn of the 20thcentury in Japan. The"master" of the title has the ability ...