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Dubai recruits Field, Scarlet
Heading into its second year,the Dubai International Film Festival is beefing up its presence by appointingfive high-profile new programmers, including former Rotterdam chief Simon Fieldand Tribeca's executive director Peter Scarlet.South Africa's Nashen Moodley,Arab cineaste Raouf Tewfik and Iraq's Ziad Khuzai join a team which alreadyincludes former LFF director Sheila Whitaker, ...
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KWA takes on international sales for Galan's Editor
Spanish sales outfit KevinWilliams Associates (KWA) has picked up international rights on a handful ofnew Spanish and Latin American films including San Sebastian special screener Pablo G.del Amo: Editor Of Illusions. The documentary from DiegoGalan, the former director of the Donostia- San Sebastian International FilmFestival, tracks the career of one ...
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Mehta plots Exclusion as Water follow-up
Still riding the strong reaction to her Toronto festivalopener Water, hot Canadian director Deepa Mehta is already preparing hernext project, Exclusion, with Water star John Abraham in thelead. Mehta is looking to shoot in Calcutta and Vancouver next summer.The screenplay, written by Mehta, concerns the little-known Komagata Maruincident of 1914, ...
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RESFEST kicks of global tour in New York this week
The 9th RESFEST touring festival willkick off its global tour of 35 plus cities with a launch at New York City'sTribeca Performing Arts Center from September 15-18. This year's RESFEST willoffer the world premiere of Doug Pray's graffiti documentary Infamy aswell as retrospectives devoted to musician Beck, the label XL ...
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Webber's Young Hannibal lines up for Prague shoot
PeterWebber's Behind The Mask: Young Hannibal is to start shooting on October10th in Prague. Dinoand Martha De Laurentiis, Tarak Ben Ammar of Quinta Communications and Britishco-producers Chris Curling and Phil Robertson of Zephyr Films will produce thefilm with Petr Moravec of Czech production company, Etic Films.Bestselling novelist Thomas Harris has ...
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Nayar's The Thread unspools in India, UK
Supernatural thriller The Thread has started shooting inIndia this week, where it will continue through the rest of September beforemoving to the UK. Mahesh Mathai (Bhopal Express) is directingfrom a script by Randall Fontana, based on a story by Harris W. Freedman.Deepak Nayar, who previously produced Bride and Prejudice and ...
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Charlie tops international box office with $11.3m
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory returned to the top of the internationalbox office over the weekend as the Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI)release added an estimated $11.3m on approximately 4,100 prints in 49 countriesfor a $155.7m running total.The weekend haul was led by Japan, where Charlie opened top on $4.3m ...
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InDigEnt starts 16th film with Maggenti, Mol
Independent DigitalEntertainment, aka InDigEnt, the New York-based digital production collectivehas begun shooting its 16th feature in New York City this week.The as-yetuntitled film was written and is being directed by Maria Maggenti, who hasn'tmade a film since 1995's The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls In Love.The romanticcomedy stars Gretchen ...
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Exorcism a demonic success for Screen Gems with $30.5m weekend
Screen Gems/Lakeshore Entertainment's The Exorcism OfEmily Rose frightenedthe life out of the competition over the weekend as it opened top on anestimated $30.2m.Scott Derrickson directedthe $20m project about the trial of a priest accused of negligent homicideduring the exorcism of a college student.Jennifer Carpenter, Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson and Campbell ...
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Beauvois' Lieutenant wins Europa Cinemas Label prize
Cult Frenchdirector Xavier Beauvois has won the 'Europa Cinemas Label' for hiscop thriller, Le Petit Lieutenant which screened in the Venice Festival's 'Venice Days'sidebar last week.The award willgive Le Petit Lieutenant a healthy fillip as it hits the internationaldistribution trail. The film is now eligible for extended theatrical exposureand additional ...
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Bim kneels to Frears' Queen
In one of asmattering of deals signed at the Venice Film Festival, veteran arthousedistributor Bim has acquired Italian rights to Stephen Frears' next film, TheQueen, about thedeath of Princess Diana. StarringHelen Mirren as the Queen, the picture delves into the relationship betweenTony Blair and the British Royal Family from the ...
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Dinard unveils festival of British film line-up
The 16th DinardFestival of British Film, the France-based film festival for British featuresto be held October 6-9, has selected the six titles for this year'scompetition. They are: Brian Cook's ColourMe Kubrick, starring John Malkovichas a man impersonating the great director; Jan Dunn's Dogme-style drama Gypo; Opal Dreams from The Full ...
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Venice Festival goes for Brokeback
AngLee's Brokeback Mountain has won the Golden Lion at the 62nd Venice Film Festival.The Grand Jury prize went to Abel Ferrara for Mary, while George Clooney'sheavily-tipped Good Night. And Good Luck won two consolation prizes - Best Actorfor David Strathairn's portrayal of journalist Edward R Murrow, and a Lion forClooney's ...
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Viva Zapatero earns Venice buzz
One of thefilms that has earned the biggest round of applause on the Lido is Italiandocumentary Viva Zapatero! which focuses onthe thorny subject of censorship in Italy.Thefilm is directed by comedian Sabina Guzzanti, whose satirical program RAIOT wasremoved from the airwaves after only one episode in November 2003. VivaZapatero,which screened ...
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Civilian Content rebrands as The Works
Publiclylisted UK entertainment outfit Civilian Content has changed its name to TheWorks Media Group, in an effort to reflect the integrated nature of thefinance, production, distribution and sales house.Production andfinance company The Film Consortium has been renamed The Works Production. Thecompany's credits include Pawel Pawlikowski's Toronto 2004 drama My SummerOf ...
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Crash lands the top prize at Deauville
Paul Haggis took home thegrand prize Sunday night at the 31st Deauville Festival of American Film forhis directing debut, Crash.The ensemble look at racerelations in Los Angeles, is the first time behind the camera for the MillionDollar Baby screenwriter and will bereleased in France this week by Metropolitan.The jury prize ...
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McLean, Weinsteins reteam for crocodile horror
The creative team behind red hot Australian horror movie Wolf Creek, including writer/director Greg McLean, is preparing to shoot Rogue, a film about a giant crocodile stalking tourists in the Australian outback that will be majority financed by The Weinstein Co.A large staff is known to be well into pre-production ...
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Hollywood studios explore new age of secure digital distribution
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has signed on tothe cutting-edge US networking consortium internet2 as it explores futuremodels for the online delivery of Hollywood content.MPAA chiefs believe the super-fast and secure communications platform- developed by the research and higher education community - could give them avital edge in ...
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Venice goes for Brokeback
Ang Lee's BrokebackMountain won the Golden Lion at the62nd Venice Film Festival yesterday. The Grand Jury prize went to Abel Ferrerafor Mary, while George Clooney'sheavily-tipped Good Night. And, Good Luck won two consolation prizes - Best Actor for David Strathairn'sportrayal of journalist Edward R Murrow, and a Lion for Clooney's ...
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Wolf joins Peace Arch as sales chief
Former HBO Films Londonmanaging director Penny Wolf has joined Toronto-based production anddistribution outfit Peace Arch Entertainment Group as executive vice presidentof international sales and marketing.Based in London, Wolf will oversee all feature acquisitions andinternational sales and marketing on the company's film and television slate."We're looking to acquireand produce theatrical projects ...