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Pennebaker, Hegedus to get career award from IDA
DA Pennebaker and ChrisHegedus will receive the International Documentary Association (IDA) 2005Career Achievement Award at the 21st Annual IDA Distinguished DocumentaryAchievement Awards Benefit Gala on Dec 9 in Hollywood.The duo has collaborated onsuch award winning titles as The War Room, for which they jointly received an Oscar nomination in 1994, ...
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Wilson, Margulies, Trachtenberg go to Beautiful Ohio
Rita Wilson,Julianna Margulies and Michelle Trachtenberg have joined the cast of accomplicefilms' Beautiful Ohio,the directorial debut of company partner Chad Lowe that began filming in NewYork this week. The story, whichas previously announced stars William Hurt, is based on Ethan Canin'sadaptation of his short story Batorsag & Szerelem and chronicles ...
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Habana Blues to kick off LA Latin film festival
The 9th AnnualLos Angeles Latino International Film Festival will open on Oct 21 with BenitoZambrano's Spanish drama Habana Blues. The picture, which played inUn Certain Regard at Cannes this year, charts the fortunes of two Cubanmusicians given the chance to leave their country in exchange for a recordingcontract. The programmeincludes ...
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Gromit goes Latin in Spain, Brazil, Mexico
DreamWorksInternational's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit has stormed off to an early $6.8minternational running total and executives will be looking to build when theanimated picture launches through UIP in Brazil, Mexico and Spain on Oct 7.Paramount'srevenge drama Four Brothers gets a big push this weekend when UIP ...
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Sloan science prize at Hamptons goes to Cardia
Su Rynard's Canadian drama Kardia will receive the $25,000 Alfred P Sloan Foundationcash prize at the upcoming Hamptons International Film Festival.The storycentres on a pathologist who discovers she is linked to another personfollowing an experimental heart operation she underwent as a child.The Sloan awardis handed out to work that explores ...
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Dinerstein & Vitale exit Paramount Classics
Paramount Classics co-heads David Dinerstein and Ruth Vitale areleaving the division after they were told this week their contracts will not berenewed in February 2006.The duo;s fate had been in the balance ever since Viacom co-president Tom Freston told investors last year thatthe division would bulk up and take on ...
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Sitges kicks off with Cronenberg's Violence
QuentinTarantino, Jodie Foster, Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg are among thehigh-profile guests expected at Catalunya's International Film Festival (Oct9-17), which kicks off on Sunday in the coastal resort town of Sitges.The festival'sswitch back from December to its traditional October dates has helped attractthe talents, director Angel Sala told local press.Sitges ...
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Korean star power on parade at glitzy Pusan opening
The 10th edition of Asia's leading film showcase and industry event, the Pusan InternationalFilm Festival (PIFF), kicked off on Thursday with a glitzy opening thathighlighted South Korea's emergence as the new star factory of Asia.With 5,000 spectators seatedin front of a massive outdoor screen, the event featured fireworks, a surpriseperformance ...
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Terrence Howard named Rising Star at Palm Springs
Terrence Howardwill collect the Rising Star Award at the 17th Annual Palm SpringsInternational Film Festival's awards gala on Jan 7, 2006. Howard wonacclaim for his role as a Memphis street hustler who aspires to becoming a rapstar in Craig Brewer's Hustle & Flow, which also stars Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning,Ludacris, ...
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Yoji Yamada to complete samurai trilogy
Shochiku has announced that Yoji Yamada will complete the trilogy of samurai dramas he beganwith The Twilight Samurai - nominated for best foreign-language film atthe Oscars in 2004 - and The Hidden Blade.Tentatively titled BushiNo Ichibun (A Warrior's Duty), the final instalment in the trilogyis based on a story by ...
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Bond looks outside UK for Casino Royale shoot
Very little of theforthcoming James Bond feature Casino Royale is to shoot at the 007franchise's traditional home, the UK's Pinewood Studios, according to thefilm's director Martin Campbell.The film's productionlocation has been heavily speculated in recent months, ever since ScreenInternational reported in May that the Czech Republic's Barrandov Studioswas in talks ...
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Rocket comedy It's A Boy Girl Thing starts production
Elton John's London-basedRocket Pictures and Toronto-based Prospero Pictures have begun principalphotography in and around Toronto on the Canadian-UK romantic comedy It's ABoy Girl Thing.Production is expected to move to the UK after Nov 20 on the story ofneighbours and sworn enemies who wake up in each other's bodies and set ...
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Relativity secures multi-picture deal with Warner Bros
Relativity Media hasfinalised a multi-picture co-financing deal with Warner Bros that is expectedto see total production spend reach $528m for the first six features.All titles have been pre-selected and are scheduled to open by February 2007."The deal closed less than 60 days after the signing of the initial termsheet - ...
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Golconda Films completes Camille financing
London-based Golconda Films looks to have completed thefinancing on its twisted honeymoon adventure, Camille, to star SiennaMiller, Nick Stahl and Harvey Keitel.The $4.5m project is being co-financed by new sales outfitVoltage Pictures, headed by international sales veteran Nicolas Chartier, whichwill handle international sales. Odeon Films is set to release the ...
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Women in Film and Television unveils Technical Change initiative
Women in Film and Television (WFTV) has extended itsmentoring programme Directing Change to help women develop their careers in technicalroles within the film and TV industry. WFTV willofficially launch the new initiative, called Technical Change, on October 10.Working inconjunction with Skillset and the UK Film Council with the backing of ...
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Focus unveils raft of Tiger And The Snow sales
Focus Features has pre-soldRoberto Benigni's latest comedy The Tiger and The Snow to a raft ofterritories ahead of its widely-anticipated Italian release on October 14.The film has been sold toFrance (Pathe), Germany (Telemunchen), Benelux (A-Film), Greece (Odeon),Iceland (Sena), Portugal (Lusomundo), Scandinavia (Nordisk), Switzerland (AscotElite), Turkey (Ozen).AQS has acquired rights forBulgaria, ...
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Schloendorff, Kaurismaki projects win German funding
New films by Volker Schloendorff, Mika Kaurismaki,Angelina Maccarone, Ute Wieland and Djamshed Usmonov are among projectsreceiving production support from Filmstiftung NRW and MedienboardBerlin-Brandenburg (MBB) at their latest funding sessions.Veteran filmmaker Schloendorff received Euros 120,000from MBB for his historical drama Heldin Wider Willen about AnnaWalentynowicz, the initiator of the Solidarity movement ...
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Weinsteins raise $230m in backing for new venture
Harvey and Bob Weinsteinhave raised $230.5m in equity for their new venture the Weinstein Co, accordingto a report on financial wire service Bloomberg.Bloomberg reported that the Weinstein Co. sold shares to 18investors, according to a regulatory filing this week. The Weinsteins are innegotiations with other investors that may increase the ...
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Arts Alliance acquires Danish DVD rental outfit
Arts Alliance Media, the owner of the UK's DVD rentalcompany LOVEFiLM, and lScandinavian operator Boxman AB of Sweden, has furtherincreased its European network with the acquisition of Digitarian A/S,Denmark's largest online DVD rental company.Theacquisition was made through Boxman and means the group will now serve over20,000 customers in Scandinavia."Boxman choseDigitarian ...
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Singapore censors lift ban on gay-themed Lan Yu
Singapore's film censors have lifted the ban on Stanley Kwan's2001 gay-themed drama Lan Yu, which local distributor Festive Filmsplans to release one week after Kwan's latest film, Everlasting Regret,on October 13. Gay-themed films havetraditionally been banned outright in Singapore. However, Lan Yu has now been rated R21, thanksto the revised ...