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Celluloid Dreams closes deals on Toronto opener
Celluloid Dreams has pickedup international sales rights on Deepa Mehta's Water which is the opening night film at the TorontoInternational Film Festival on Sept 8. Cellulloid managing directorCharlotte Mickie told Screendaily.com the company has already closed deals withGolem for Spain, Rosebud for Greece, Australia's Dendy Films and Universum Filmin Germany.The ...
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Cooper, Phillippe team up for Universal FBI thriller
Chris Cooper andRyan Phillippe have signed to star in Universal Pictures' true-life spythriller Breach,Billy Ray's follow-up to Shattered Glass.The studio plansto begin production towards the end of this year on the story of a trainee FBIagent who is assigned to a top secret division and begins to suspect hisarrogant employer ...
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Zaentz, Forman call action on Goya's Ghosts
Milos Forman will strike up principal photography on his $36million (Euros 29m) historical drama Goya's Ghostsstarring Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman and Stellan Skarsgard on September 5in Spain.The highly-anticipatedbiopic marks the reunion of Forman with his OneFlew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus producer Saul Zaentz. Ghosts willshoot entirely on location ...
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De Hadeln's Montreal FilmFest announces inaugural competition
Sevenworld premieres will be on offer at the first Festival International de Filmsdu Montreal, the upstart event at the centre of Montreal's film festival wars.TheFIFM - which is calling itself the New Montreal FilmFest in English -announcedthe 14-film line-up for its inaugural Iris Awards competition on Wednesday, twodays before the ...
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Blitz makes fictional debut with Rocket Science
Los Angeles-basedproduction company Duly Noted has begun filming in Baltimore on the romanticcomedy Rocket Science,Jeff Blitz's fictional follow-up to his Oscar-nominated documentary Spellbound.Rocket Science chronicles an awkward teenager's efforts to courtthe apple of his eye by joining the high school debating team.The cast ofmostly newcomers includes Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, ...
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Weather Man world premiere to close Chicago
The 41st ChicagoInternational Festival will open on Oct 6 with Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy Elizabethtown starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunstand closes on Oct 20 with the world premiere of Gore Verbinski's family drama TheWeather Man.The WeatherMan stars Nicolas Cageas an ambitious broadcaster who gets a shot at the big ...
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MDC to mastermind Trzaskalski's San Sebastian entry
MDCInternational is to handle world sales for Polish director Piotr Trzaskalski's TheMaster (Mistrz) which will have its world premiere in San Sebastian'sZabaltegi section next month.The title role of the master, an Afghanistan war veteran travellingthrough Poland with a knife-throwing act, is played by the Russian actorKonstantin Lavronenko.Hebecame known to international ...
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Foreign films dominate Australian production spending
Spending on foreign films made in Australia over the last year was more than double thatspent on local films and Australian/international co-productions for the thirdconsecutive year.The Australian Film Commission's comprehensive annualproduction survey revealed 22local projects worth £80m (A$106m), including three Australian/UKco-productions, spent £66m (A$87m) in Australia after beginning principalphotography during ...
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San Sebastian announces Films in Progress contenders
Seven projects chosen from 80applicants from across the world will compete for completion funding in thisyear's Films in Progress initiative.The contenders will screenbefore a range of cinema professionals on September 20 and 21 at theDonostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival.Each is hoping for finance to completetheir features, which are either still ...
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UK online rental service shut as High Court seizes assets
Online rental serviceBoxchoice.com has shut after UK High Court enforcement officers seized itsstock.The move was part of theRental Rights Protection Programme (RRPP) against copyright infringement.The RRPP, an organisation launchedlast year by the Federation Against Copyright Theft and distributors, obtaineda High Court injunction in March ordering Boxchoice to stop renting out ...
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AFI to announce annual top ten on Dec 11
The top 10 AFImotion pictures, television programmes and moments of significance of the yearwill be unveiled when the American Film Institute announces its AFI Awards 2005on Dec 11.AFI members willhonour the creative ensembles for each chosen project, person or event at anawards lunch on Jan 13, 2006.AFI AWARDShonorees are selected ...
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The Rising shatters box office records in India
Hindi blockbuster, MangalPandey - The Rising has broken boxoffice records for a Hindi film in India, taking $5m in its first week onrelease the highest ever on record.The film opened on Aug 12 on600 screens in India and grossed $3m in its first three days; so far in itssecond ...
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LFF opens with Gardener, closes on a Good Night
Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener will open the 49th London Film Festival on October 19, it was announced today. The festival will welcome back Meirelles whose City Of God (Cidade De Deus) played in the 2002 line-up. The closing film, on Nov 3, will be George Clooney's second feature as ...
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Commercial UK pics spark optimism at Edinburgh
After all the doom and gloom about the state of the British filmindustry this year, the Edinburgh International Film Festival (August 17-28)has provided some cause for optimism.That's largely because a string of British features with decentcommercial prospects have unspooled at this year's event.Richard E Grant's Wah Wah, NickLove's The Business, ...
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Toronto lineup completed with Frears, Ritchie
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival has added four major world premieres to its line-up: StephenFrears' Mrs. Henderson Presents,starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins; Guy Ritchie's Revolver, starring Jason Statham and Ray Liotta; JackieChan-starrer The Myth, directedby Stanley Tong all to be presented as Galas -- and Martin Scorsese's documentary No ...
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Cineclick announces global sales deal with Korea Pictures
South Korean sales companyCineclick Asia has announced a strategic alliance with distributor/financierKorea Pictures, with Cineclick to represent all but two of the latter's titles.Korea Pictures had formerlyoperated a small sales division that was a regular presence at internationalmarkets but the departure of CEO Soma Chung earlier this year resulted in ...
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Olympian bounty for winning Taiwanese film-makers
Taiwan's GovernmentInformation Office (GIO) yesterday announced new financial rewards foraward-winning local directors. Film directors andproducers who win top prizes at Cannes, Venice, Berlin or the Academy Awardscan each receive $310,000, the same bounty paid to taekwondo champions ChenShih-hsin and Chu Mu-yen after winning Taiwan's first-ever gold medals at lastsummer's Olympic ...
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Latecomers boost Venice festival line-up
The Venice Film Festival hasannounced two late additions to its official line-up: Paul Morrissey and BerndBohm's documentary Veruschka and Neil Marshall's horror film TheDescent.Veruschka focuses on the life of legendary model andartist Vera von Lehndorff, a muse of Salvador Dali who appeared in MichelangeloAntonioni's seminal film Blow-Up and famously collaborated ...
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Tokyo governor to produce wartime drama
Tokyo governorShintaro Ishihara will script and executive produce a film about Japanesesuicide pilots in World War II. Called Kimi no tame ni koso Shiniiku (I WillDie for You), the film will be directed by Taku Shinjo and distributed byToei. The cast andrelease date have yet to be decided. The genesis ...
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Russell shows off Hot Pants at Oldenburg
VeteranUK director Ken Russell is to be feted with a retrospective including theworld premiere of his latest film Hot Pants at this year's OldenburgInternational Film Festival (Sept 7-11).Themaverick filmmaker will come to the festival which has been dubbed the"German Sundance" for the screening of such films as Women In Love,The ...