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Horizon lines up vintage Daiei slate for AFM
Rob Straight'sVancouver-based Horizon Entertainment is bringing a slate of vintage titlesfrom the Daiei library to the AFM through its partnership with Kadokawa HeraldPictures, including 1968 horror title YokaiDaisenso and its 1968 and 1969 sequels. In addition, Horizon willoffer Takashi Miike's $10m children's fantasy epic The Great Yokai War, a remake ...
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Arclight picks up Brooks' Looking For Comedy
Arclight Films has acquiredinternational rights to Albert Brooks' comedy Looking For Comedy In The Muslim World and will commence sales atthe AFM next week.Brooks stars as a comedianworking for the US government who travels to India and Pakistan to discover what makes Muslims laugh.Brooks directed and wrotethe project, which is ...
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India's Mukta Arts unveils five-picture slate
Mukta Arts chairman andfilmmaker Subhash Ghai announced five new films during the company's 27thanniversary celebrations in Mumbai this week.Ashwini Chowdhary willdirect Good Boy Bad Boy, a collegecampus musical, with Emraan Hashmi, Tusshar Kapoor, Isha Sharvani and TanushreeDutta in the cast. Sangeeth Sivan will direct Money Money Money, set to star ...
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Australia's Kojo Group moves into film production
Leading Adelaide-basedpost-production and TV production company, Kojo Group, is moving into featurefilm production and has boarded writer/director Murali K. Thalluri's debutfeature 2:37."Our optimistic goal is tomake a couple of films per year," Kojo founding partner Kent Smith told Screendaily. "We have already had a bigrole on a number but not ...
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De Niro to star in Levinson's What Just Happened'
Robert De Niro will star inBarry Levinson's comedy What JustHappened' for 2929 Productions which is based on Art Linson's book andscreenplay about his experiences in Hollywood.2929 will fully finance theproject and the company's sales chief Shebnem Askin will commence internationalsales at the AFM next week. No domestic distributor is attached ...
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Glawogger's Death takes London's Grierson prize
The Times bfi London Film Festival has givenits inaugural Grierson Award to Michael Glawogger for Workingman'sDeath. The award is presented to the director of the best feature-lengthdocumentary shown at the LFF. Austrian film-maker Glawoggerwill accept the award at a special screening of the film on November 1. The festival's artistic ...
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Newcastle's Northern Lights fest plans industry summit
Newcastle Upon Tyne'sthird-annual Northern Lights Film Festival is planning a two-day industrysummit to be held November 18-19. This year's keynote will be presented by JimStark, the producer of Factotum, Coffeeand Cigarettes and Mystery Train.The summit will also includepitching sessions, case studies, panels, and speed meetings. The expectedattendees include Julia Short ...
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Shochiku to finance Kore-eda period drama
Japanese director HirokazuKore-eda (After Life, Nobody Knows) is set to make his firstperiod drama, Hana Yori Mo Naho, withShochiku providing financing and distribution.Based on an original storyby Kore-eda, the film is scheduled for a spring 2006 release. Shochiku willalso be handling worldwide sales. The film will featureJunichi Okada (Tokyo Tower) ...
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Celluloid adds Burman, To films to AFM slate
Celluloid Dreams is preparing an impressive roster of films for theupcoming AFM and has released details of two additions to its burgeoning slate.Argentine director Daniel Burman's FamilyLaw will begin pre-sales at the AFM. The film is currently in post-production.Burman's 2004 film Lost Embrace was a double Silver Bear winner in ...
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Drum is audience favourite at Mill Valley
The Mill Valley FilmFestival's inaugural audience award for dramatic feature went to Zola Maseko'sApartheid drama Drum.The strong audience response to the picture has prompted producer ChrisSievernich to begin discussions with North American distributors for a platformrelease.Sievernich's Armada Pictures International holds worldwide rights to theproject starring Taye Diggs and Jason Flemyng.Lisa ...
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Austrian film-makers sign up for Mozart project
Ulrich Seidl, Jessica Hausner, Michael Glawogger, Goran Rebic and Bady Minck are among 28 Austrian-based filmmakers participatingin The Mozart Minute film project for the Wiener Mozartjahr2006 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang AmadeusMozart.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com at the Viennale this week, project coordinator Christine Dollhofer explained that ...
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Sex, Order, Lackeen head Irish award hopefuls
With theannouncement of a host, new venue and, for the first time, a live broadcast byRTE, the final elements of the programme for the Irish Film & TelevisionAwards have been put in place for November 5. Leadingthe pack with seven nominations is local low budget feature Trouble With Sexfollowed closely ...
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Hong Kong court convicts BitTorrent user
A Hong Kong court has convicted a 38-year-old man for uploading films to theinternet using BitTorrent (BT) technology, in a case that is regarded locallyas the world's first criminal conviction of a BT user.Chan Nai-ming, who used thealias "Big Crook", was convicted by a Hong Kong magistrateof three charges of ...
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Virgins run wild at Spanish box office
Seville-set teendrama 7 Virgins ousted runaway localhit Torrente 3: The Protectorin a surprise upset at the Spanish box office over the weekend.7 Virgins (7 Virgenes) earned Euros 746,039 from just under148,000 admissions on its second weekend, beating Torrente 3's Euros 727,070 from nearly 143,000admissions.It is highly unusualfor atitle to rocket ...
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Warner Bros restructures home entertainment divisions
Adopting a streamlinedapproach to the global multi-media delivery of its properties, Warner Bros hasconsolidated its home video, online, wireless, games, anti-piracy and emergingtechnologies divisions under Warner Bros Home Entertainment Group (WBHEG).Kevin Tsujihara, a highlyregarded new media strategist at Warner Bros, will head up the division aspresident, reporting directly to studio ...
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Cock And Bull to open European Union Film Showcase
The American FilmInstitute, working with the Cultural Counselors of the European Union Member States, will present the 18th editionof the European Union Film Showcase at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland, from November 8-22.UK films will open and close the festival:Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull ...
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Lions Gate lines up stellar voice cast for Foodfight!
Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria,Wayne Brady, Chris Kattan and Christopher Lloyd have joined the voice cast ofThreshold Animation Studios and Lions Gate Family Entertainment's upcominganimated comedy Foodfight!As previously announced,Hillary and Haylie Duff have committed to the project set after hours in asupermarket populated by talking products.Lions Gate FamilyEntertainment has scheduled an ...
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Lions Gate checks into Hostel with Screen Gems
Lions Gate has come on boardas domestic distributor on Screen Gems' upcoming horror picture Hostel from Eli Roth and will launch itwide on Dec 21.Quentin Tarantino served as executive producer on the picture, which stars JayHernandez as an American tourist who becomes ensnared in an underground torturering.Lions Gate, which distributed ...
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Film Sales Company heads for Middletown
Andrew Herwitz' The FilmSales Company has bulked up its AFM slate after picking up worldwide rightsexcluding the UK to the sibling drama Middletown starring Matthew Macfayden.Macfayden, currently starring as Charles Darcy opposite Keira Knightley in PrideAnd Prejudice, will star in theIreland-set tale about the torrid relationship between two brothers.Brian Kirk ...
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Frozen Days named as surprise Haifa winner
FrozenDays, the story of a young woman roaming the streets of Tel Aviv and breakinginto empty flats to sleep at night took the 21st Haifa InternationalFilm Festival by surprise and won the competition for the Best Israeli Film. FrozenDays is the debut feature of Danny Lerner, a graduate of Tel ...