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Campaigning for BAFTA awards season kicks off
The BAFTA awards season unofficially kicked off this weekwith the first lobbying of the organisation's members - more than five monthsbefore next the awards ceremony takes place (Feb 19, 2006).Yesterday (Aug 31) saw BAFTA members invited to Ang Lee'smuch anticipated Brokeback Mountain next week to be accompanied by starJake Gyllenhaal ...
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Hungary names Fateless as Oscar choice
Hungary will fieldLajos Koltai's Fateless as its entry for the foreign language Oscar innext March's Academy Awards.The move come as Fateless,which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, preparesfor a Toronto screening in advance of its North American release.Based on a novel by2003 Nobel literature prize winner Imre ...
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Clooney rides on Good Luck at Venice
Actor-director George Clooney's Venice competition film Goodnight,And Good Luck has emerged as one of the first buzz films at the festival.Screen International reviewer Lee Marshall said thefilm "represents George Clooney's consecration as a serious writer anddirector" (see review, opposite).Goodnight was well received by critics atits Venice press screening, ahead of ...
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Kitano film tipped to be surprise Venice competitor
TakeshiKitano's Takeshis is tipped to be the "surprise" last-minute entry inthe Venice Film Festival's competition.Takeshis, whichsees the Japanese director playing himself contronting a look-alike, is alsoset to screen at the Toronto Film Festival.Kitanolast attended the Venice Film Festival with his 2003 samurai romp Zatoichi.In themeantime, the Biennale was keeping tight-lipped ...
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Venice kicks off with Swords, metal detectors
The 62nd VeniceInternational Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday night in hot and stickyweather with the world premiere of Tsui Hark's Seven Swords, amid heightened security measuresinvolving more than a dozen metal detectors and around 1,000 police officerspatroling the Lido.The black tieopening ceremony, which was hosted by Spanish model Ines ...
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Chinese film companies launch anti-piracy agency
The China Film Copyright Protection Association (CFCA), anon-profit organisation formed by 62 film-related companies, was officiallylaunched in Beijing on Monday.Headedby former Shanghai Film Group president Zhu Yongde, the association aims tohelp the Chinese film industry to combat the nation's high levels of DVD, VCDand online piracy.Apart from advising its members ...
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Screen appoints Asia-Pacific bureau chief
Screen International has appointed Liz Shackleton asAsia-Pacific bureau chief.A Screen International reporter for more than adecade, Shackleton was responsible for the successful launch of ScreenDaily.comand has been reporting on Hong Kong and China for the magazine and websitesince 2001.From today, she will supervise a top-flight reporting teamfrom across the region, ...
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Pinewood blames tax policy for profit plunge
Pinewood Shepperton has blamed uncertainty over UK film taxpolicy and the weak US dollar for disappointingfirst-half results.The studio reported today that pre-tax losses for the firstsix months of 2005 were £108,000 compared with £1.63m for the same period lastyear. Revenues tumbled from £20.4 million to £13.3 million.Pinewood chief executive Ivan ...
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Warsaw festival launches CentEast film market
The Warsaw International Film Festival (WFF)(Oct 7-16) is launching the CentEast regional film market for films fromCentral and Eastern Europe for the first time this year over four days fromOctober 12-15.WFF festival director Stefan Laudyn told ScreenDaily.comthat CentEast builds on the experiences of the festival's previous WarsawScreenings and will include ...
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Winkler to teach three-day masterclass at Deauville
Irwin Winkler (pictured) will teach athree-day directing masterclass at the 31st Deauville American Film Festival in France.Winkler, a four-time AcademyAward producing nominee who shared best picture honours for Rocky in 1977, has directing credits including De-Lovely, The Net, Guilty By Suspicion, Life As A House and Night And The City.Winkler ...
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Searchlight clicks onto Imagine Me & You
Fox Searchlighthas acquired North American, Latin American, French, Italian and Japaneserights to Ol Parker's directorial debut romantic comedy Imagine Me & You (working title, formerly Click).The picture willreceive its world premiere in the Special Presentations section of Toronto on Sept 9 and opens across North America on Feb 10 2006. ...
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Academy takes over European Film Awards
The European FilmAcademy has taken over the production of its annual awards ceremony, theEuropean Film Awards, which will be held this year in Berlin on Dec 3.For the past eightyears, DDA Productions has financed and executive produced the ceremony. In a statement,both parties described the move as a "mutually agreed ...
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South Africa names Tsotsi as Oscar submission
GavinHood's gritty gangster-drama Tsotsi, a double winner at the EdinburghInternational Film Festival over the weekend, has been named as South Africa'sofficial entry into the foreign language category of the 78thAcademy Awards.The South African selection committee wasconvened by the National Film and Video Foundation and the country'sIndependent Producer's Organisation. It was ...
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San Sebastian launches North African financing initiative
TheDonostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 15-24) is expandingits geographical reach with a new financing initiative targeting North Africanfilmmakers, building on its current reputation as a hotbed for emerging Latintalents.The festival has unveiled two sections in two days: thepopular Latin Horizons competition, where many of the films are alumni orfinalists ...
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Bond serves up Haggis for Casino Royale polish
The screenwriting teambehind the new James Bond feature have confirmed that Oscar-nominatedscreenwriter Paul Haggis has been brought on board.Robert Wade told ScreenDaily.comthat Haggis,who adapted Million Dollar Babyas well aswriting and directing Crash,will do a three-week polishonthe second draft of Sony/MGM's Casino Royale, originally penned byhimself and co-writer Neal Purvis."What I ...
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Fortissimo takes on sales for Cuesta's Twelve
FortissimoFilms is to handle worldwide sales on Twelve And Holding, the secondfeature from director Michael Cuesta (L.I.E).Thefilm is to world premiere at next month's Toronto International Film Festival(Sept 8-17) in the Contemporary World Cinema section.TwelveAnd Holding is the story of three twelve year olds, who sparked by the tragicdeath of ...
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Strong opening for Fly's Manslaughter
Danish director Per Fly Manslaughter had a strong opening in itslocal market over the weekend on the back of rave reviews. Manslaughter, the third in Fly's trilogy of class filmsthat includes The Bench andInheritance, opened number one in Denmark with over 38,000admissions, three times as many as the second placed ...
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Funny Balloons swoops for Mueller's Face Addict
Paris-basedFunny Balloons has taken on international sales for Edo Bertoglio's documentaryFace Addict whichwas produced by Venice Film Festival director Marco Mueller's Downtown Picturesand Switzerland's Amka Films in association with Swiss Television and the USA'sMako Productions.Focusing onthe past and present lives of New York's downtown scene from the late '70s andearly ...
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Verhoeven's Black Book cranks up in The Hague
Paul Verhoeven's longawaited WWII thriller Blackbook starts shooting this week (Aug 31)in The Hague in the Netherlands.The Dutch/German/Englishlanguage production will shoot for 76 days in both The Hague and Germany'sStudio Babelsberg. The $20m wartime thriller isthe most expensive pre-dominantly Dutch language production ever made and tellsthe story of a German ...
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Lumina takes on sales for Favela Rising doc
Sales house Lumina Films has picked up world rights outside the US toprize-winning documentary Favela Rising.The US-Brazilian co-production won directors Jeff Zimbalist and MattMochary the best new documentary filmmaker award at the Tribeca Film Festivalin May and will now screen at both the Montreal International Film Festival andin Rio de ...