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Dillon to get Gotham Award tribute for body of work on Nov 30
Matt Dillon will receive aGotham Award tribute at IFP New York's upcoming 15th Annual Gotham Awards on Nov 30. Dillon will be the onlyperson to be honoured for his body of work during the show, although the awardwill be presented alongside six competitive honours recognising the year's mostinnovative films and ...
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Anjelica Huston to head San Sebastian jury
Anjelica Huston will presideover the official jury of the 53rd Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 15-24), which has also unveiled TheWorld's Fastest Indian as its closing film.Written and directed byRoger Donaldson, The World's Fastest Indianstars Anthony Hopkinsin the true story-inspired tale of a man who set a new speed record ...
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New LA short festival launches with series of quarterly competitions
LA-based Very Short Movies(VSM) has launched with the aim of presenting a world class shorts festival inHollywood for films under 10 minutes called the Golden Star Shorts Fest. In addition to providingshort filmmakers with festival exposure, VSM will help to secure appropriatedistribution opportunities for select entries VSM launches with a ...
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Tribeca, Sloan Foundation team to stage Oct science conference
The Tribeca Film Institutewill host a summit aiming to bring together the film and scientific communitiesfrom Oct 5-8 in New York City.The Summit is designed toassemble emerging screenwriters and directors from leading film schools andorganisations across the US who have been supported by grants from the Alfred PSloan Foundation. The ...
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Warner Bros signs German broadband VOD deal
Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD) has signed a multi-year deal toprovide content to T-Online for its broadband VOD service in Germany.Beginning inSeptember, Warner Bros pictures from the Harry Potter and Matrix franchises, as well as Ocean's Twelve and The Polar Express, will be available on T-Online'sbroadband VOD service. The deal ...
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De Palma, Gilliam sign up for Talent Lab at Toronto
Brian De Palma, TerryGilliam and Atom Egoyan are just three of the film artists who have signed forthe Toronto International Film Festival's Talent Lab, a four-day artisticdevelopment programme for emerging Canadian filmmakers held during the event. 22participants from across Canada were selected.De Palma, a perennialaudience member at TIFF, has agreed ...
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Copenhagen Screenings win seller approval
The Copenhagen International Film Festival's (Aug 18-28)new industry Screenings programme has been given the stamp of approval byScandinavian sellers.Trust Film Sales, NordiskFilm Sales and Angel Film have reported strong interest generated by the CopenhagenScreenings. Ten new Danish films wereshown to 30 international buyers over a two-day period during the festival ...
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Films Distribution strikes US deal on Live And Become
French sales house FilmsDistribution has acquired several new titles, formed a new alliance andmade some of high-profile sales.Radu Milhaileanu's LiveAnd Become, which last month took top prizes at the Copenhagen FilmFestival, has been sold to the US's Menemsha in a six figure deal. The film hasalso gone to Klockworx in ...
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Virgin goes against Red Eye in hot UK weekend for UIP
Warner BrosPictures International (WBPI) executives are bidding to hold on to theirinternational crown of the past few weeks when they unleash The Dukes OfHazzard in Italy on Sept2 and Taiwan on Sept 3.The comedy hasgrossed $5.5m from six territories so far and executives will be looking tocapitalise on its familiarity ...
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Two Bollywood movies set to shoot in New York
Two Indian projectsfeaturing Bollywood superstars are gearing up for autumn shoots with thefinancial support of New York Mayor Bloomberg's Made In NY tax creditinitiative. Shirish Kunder's romanticcomedy Jaaneman stars megastarSalman Khan with Preity Zinta and Akshay Kumar and is being produced byNadiawala Grandson Entertainment, which plans to launch a US ...
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Telluride lineup includes Pluto, Brokeback
Announcing aheavily US-centric line-up on its opening day, organisers of the 32nd TellurideFilm Festival have snagged world premiere bragging rights to films includingJames Mangold's Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line starring Joaquin Phoenix and ReeseWitherspoon, and Scott McGehee and David Siegel's drama Bee Season starring Richard Gere and JulietteBinoche.Also scheduledto ...
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Terence Stamp joins cast of western love story Dawn
Terence Stamphas joined the cast of September Dawn, Christopher Cain's Western love story set against thebackdrop of religious fanaticism.Jon Voight,Lolita Davidovitch, Trent Ford, Tamara Hope and John Gries were previouslyconfirmed in the cast.Cain wrote the screenplaywith Carol Whang Schutter, and is producing with Scott Duthie and KevinMatossian. Production is currently ...
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Sogepaq runs with South Express
Spain's Sogepaqhas picked up world rights on new feature South Express, screening this month in both Toronto andSan Sebastian.The movie (SudExpress) weaves togethersix stories of ordinary people whose lives are touched by the fabled train linethat runs from Lisbon to Paris.It was shot onDVacross three countries and in five languages ...
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Zhang Yimou reunites with Gong Li for China drama
Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou will reunite with his former museGong Li for the first time in 10 years in an untitled new film slated for 2006.Qin Lixun, deputy general manager of Beijing New Picture,has confirmed that both Gong and Hong Kong actor Chow Yun Fat have signed tostar in a ...
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Lions Gate greenlights Lennon doc with Ono approval
Lions Gate Filmsand LSL Productions have begun pre-production on David Leaf and JohnScheinfeld's documentary The US Vs John Lennon, the third project from Lions Gate'sdocumentary unit following Grizzly Man and Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man, which receives its world premiere atToronto.Endorsed by YokoOno, The US Vs John Lennon covers the ...
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Celluloid seals international on Barney, Caravaca films
Celluloid Dreams has signedto handle international theatrical sales on Drawing Restraint 9, from Cremaster Cycle director Matthew Barney and all international rightson Eric Caravaca's Le Passager. Celluloid managing directorCharlotte Mickie told Screendaily.com that the company has already locked adeal on DR9 with Australia'sAccent and is considering offers for Japan, Germany, ...
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Bim goes on pre-Venice buying spree
Rome arthouse distributor Bim has acquired Italiandistribution rights to a host of Venice films, including competition titles BrokebackMountain and The Constant Gardener.Sold by Focus/UIP, Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain is about therelationship between a Wyoming ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy. Heath Ledger andJake Gyllenhaal co-star.The Constant Gardener, which opened in North ...
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Fox Searchlight lands US rights to Mehta's Water
Fox Searchlighthas picked up US rights to Water, the final instalment in Deepa Mehta's elemental trilogy thatwill open the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept 8.Set in 1930sIndia against the backdrop of Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, Water charts the fallout on a temple communitywhen a group of widows arrives. ...
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Palm Springs ShortFest accepts 324 submissions
Films starringStephen Rea, Rosario Dawson, Sandra Oh, Selma Blair and Steve Buscemi arefeatured in the line-up of the upcoming 2005 Palm Springs InternationalFestival of Short Films (ShortFest), which runs Sept 20-26.Organisers haveunveiled a roster of 324 titles chosen from a record 2,400 worldwide entries,which they say has led to a ...
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Erratum: Pupi Avati's La Seconda Notte di Nozze
PupiAvati's Venice competition title La Seconda Notte di Nozze is being soldat the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals by Rai Trade and not Adriana ChiesaEnterprises, as reported in the weekly edition of Screen International. Weapologize for any confusion this may cause.