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Shoreline, Matador embark on Dark Corners shoot
Shoreline Entertainment and Matador Pictures recently started principalphotography on horror thriller DarkCorners. Shooting started October 11 in London. Ray Gower wrote and is directing the film, which stars Thora Birch as a woman living two lives who is stalked by amonster. Toby Stephens and Christien Anholt also star.Shoreline will handle ...
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Working Title cranks up Sixty Six
WorkingTitle Films started principal photography in London for its coming-of-age comedy Sixty Six. Paul Weiland (Roseanna'sGrave, City Slickers II) is directing from a screenplay by Peter Straughan and Bridget O'Connor. Elizabeth Karlsen, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with NataschaWharton executive producing.UniversalPictures will handle worldwide distribution of Sixty Six, ...
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Sean Farnel leaves TIFF for Hot Docs
Sean Farnel, documentaryprogrammer at the Toronto International Film Festival, has been appointed tothe newly-created post of director of programming at Hot Docs, the CanadianInternational Documentary Festival. As well as leading the programming team, Farnelwill be charged with refining the event's slate of professional developmentindustry programming.Farnel told Screendaily:"It's an organic step ...
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Glitzy Gardener opens London festival
The 49th Times bfi London Film Festival opened amid torrential rain on Wednesday night (Oct 19) witha gala screening of Fernando Meirelles' TheConstant Gardener. The director was in attendance along with stars Ralph Fiennes,Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, and author John Le Carre, who wrote the novel onwhich the film is ...
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Lucas to accept Hollywood Movie Of The Year award for Episode III
George Lucas will bepresented with the Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Movie of the Year Awardon Oct 24 after Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith was voted best film.More than 70,000 people casttheir votes on Yahoo and ETonline, which together reported more than 20millionimpressions throughout the poll.The sixth ...
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Merged festivals to boost French cinema in UK
French cinema is set to receive a significant boost to its UK profile with the merging of two festivals into a single focused promotional event to be held each Spring. The UK's annual French Film Festival, first launched in 1991, is to merge with the Renault French Film Season to ...
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France's TFI renews film deal with BVITV
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) and France'sleading private terrestrial broadcaster TF1 renewed multi-year agreements forvarious genres at this week's international television market, Mipcom.The deals consist of drama series, first-run and library features andkids programming.Announced by BVITC's Philippe Maigret and TF1's Laurent Storch,the renewal will give TF1 access to such high-profile ...
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Kadokawa to enter Chinese cinema market
Kadokawa Holdings (HD), thecore company of Japan's Kadokawa media group, has announced plans to join with HongKong-based Sun Wah Group to build and manage 20 multiplex cinemas in mainlandChina. Kadokawa will be the firstJapanese company to enter the Chinese multiplex market with a Chinese partner. The two partners will soonlaunch ...
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Lelouch, Japanese cinema to get tribute programmes at Denver
Organisers at the 28th StarzDenver International Film Festival have announced tributes to Claude Lelouchand Japanese cinema at next month's event.Lelouch will be interviewedon stage following a screening of his latest drama The Courage To Love on Nov12. Lelouch's Les Miserables and AMan And A Woman will also screen.The Japanese spotlight ...
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Djurkovic wins Sheffield Doc fest's Jerwood prize
The12th Sheffield International Documentary Festival (October 10-16) has awardedits top prize, the Jerwood First Cuts DocumentaryAward, to Sasha Maja Djurkovic's Last MenStanding. Djurkovic is a student at the National Film and Television School, and she topped theshortlist of 12 projects to win a cash prize of £3,500 towards her next ...
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Media 8 brings Persuasion to AFM buyers
Los Angeles-based productionand sales house Media 8 Entertainment has added Pretty Persuasion to its AFM slate after picking up all internationalrights from Prospect Pictures.The company will screen thepicture for buyers after the market kicks off in Santa Monica on Nov 2.Marcos Siega's high schoolsatire stars Evan Rachel Wood and received ...
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Gold Circle, Vertigo team up for Eye 2 remake
Gold Circle Films andVertigo Entertainment have teamed up to co-produce In-Utero, an adaptation of the Pang brothers' Hong Konghorror title Jian Gui 2 aka TheEye 2 that will be released throughNew Line.Gold Circle is financing theproject and Mandate Pictures will handle international sales. Gold Circle Filmspresident Paul Brooks will produce ...
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Voltage has rights to American Standard
LosAngeles-based sales company Voltage Pictures has acquired international rightsfrom Eleven Eleven to Matthew Cole Weiss' psychological thriller TheAmerican Standard andwill begin selling at AFM.Eleven Eleven, whichproduced the eagerly awaited thriller Unknown, plans to begin shooting next week inLos Angeles on the story of a woman who comes between two male ...
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IFC aqcuires UK hangman story Pierrepoint
IFC Films hasacquired US rights from Capitol Films to Adrian Shergold's true-life drama Pierrepoint (formerly The Last Hangman) following its recent world premiere inToronto.The distributorplans a 2006 release on the picture, which stars Timothy Spall as Albert Pierrepoint,Britain's last Chief Hangman and arguably the country's best-known publicexecutioner.Pierrepoint wassingly responsible for ...
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UK box office promises strong end of year run
With a promising fourthquarter to come, the UK box office looks set to leave the rest of Europe in the shade and may even have an outside chance of beating 2004's numbers. After a phenomenal run forWarner Bros' Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, theterritory is just 4% down on last ...
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Lions Gate acquires Redbus in the UK
Lions Gate Entertainment hasacquired the UK's Redbus Film Distribution in a combined cash and stocktransaction valued at approximately $35m.The move gives theburgeoning US independent studio a vital distribution outlet in the UK, one ofthe leading markets outside North America, and brings in a library of more than130 titles including Bend ...
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HK government appoints film committee members
The Hong Kong government has appointed 11 members to the newly-established FilmDevelopment Committee (FDC), which was first unveiled by chief executive DonaldTsang last week. Jack So, deputy chairman oflocal telco PCCW, will chair the committee with Hong Kong's Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology, John Tsang, servingas vice-chairman. The other ...
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Fox follows Disney in signing digital deal with Christie
TwentiethCentury Fox has become the second US major to sign a non-exclusive deal tosupply its features to digital cinema projection systems deployed by Christie.Christie willinstall between 2,500 and 4,000 systems in North America over the next twoyears in a development that has taken a long time to reach fruition.The announcementfollows ...
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Yemenidjian named director at Regal Entertainment
Former MGMchairman Alex Yemenidjian has been appointed an independent director and amember of the audit committee at leading US exhibitor Regal Entertainment.Yemenidjian'sappointment became effective on Oct 13, along with that of real estate agentNestor R Weigand Jr, who was named independent director and member of thecompensation committee and nominating and ...
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Election leads race for Taiwan's Golden Horse
Johnnie To'sElection leads the nominations for this year's Golden Horse awards with11 nods, followed by Stephen Chow's Kung-Fu Hustle with 10 nominationsand Hou Hsiao-hsien's Three Times with nine.All three films have beennominated for best feature and best director along with Tsai Ming-liang's TheWayward Cloud. Feng Xiaogang's A World WithoutThieves was ...