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LA documentary showcase points to Oscar contenders
The International Documentary Association (IDA) has named 12features in its upcoming 9th Annual Theatrical Documentary Showcase, DocuWeek(formerly InFact).The list traditionally serves as a key indicator of Academy Awardsfavourites and complies with Academy rules that Oscar submissions play ontheatrical screens for paid admissions in either Los Angeles County, Manhattanor four other ...
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World premiere of Pray's graffiti doc set for RESFEST
The world premiere of DougPray's graffiti documentary Infamywill take place at RESFEST, which runs in New York City from Sept 15-18.Pray's picture chroniclesthe lives of seven people who are obsessed with graffiti in all its forms, fromvandalism and "tagging" to larger murals sanctioned by local communities."These are intenselypassionate individuals," Pray, ...
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Helen Loveridge resigns from Seattle Film Festival
Helen Loveridge, who has served as executive director of theSeattle International Film Festival Group (SIFF) since 2003, has resigned her postto return home to England.Loveridge recently guided a successful 31st annual festivalthrough to its conclusion on Jun 12.Former board president and Platinum Lifetime member Deborah Personhas been named interim director ...
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Argentinean admissions plunge in first half of 2005
Cinemaattendance figures in Argentina dropped by an estimated 24.5% in the first halfof 2005, according to provisional figures from Nielsen EDI and Dis-Service.The period saw some 16.8m admissions as opposed to 22.26mover the same period in 2004, the biggest year for Argentine cinema in almosttwo decades. However, audiences are still ...
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LA's Gersh promotes ten agents to partner
As part of an ambitiousexpansion mandate, LA-based talent agency The Gersh Agency has promoted tenexecutives to partner and announced that longtime senior executive LeslieSiebert has become senior managing partner.The move precedes a periodof planned growth over the next two years that will see construction of a40,000 sq ft headquarters in ...
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Chow Yun-fat hops on board Ann Hui project
Chow Yun-fat is reteamingwith Hong Kong director Ann Hui on the US$5m drama, The Aunt's PostmodernLife, produced by start-up Beijing-based production outfit Cheerland Films.Chow said he would forgo hisusual fee to work with Hui, who directed him in his first critical success,The Story Of Woo Viet, in 1981. Their new ...
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Nevins, Yari to co-chair Gotham Awards in NYC
HBO Documentary and Familypresident Sheila Nevins and producer Bob Yari will co-chair IFP's upcoming 15thAnnual Gotham Awards.The awards are scheduled totake place in New York on Nov 30, when three new competitive categories of BestEnsemble Cast, Best Use of the Arts in Film, and Best Film Not Playing at aTheatre ...
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Toronto has four world prems in black cinema focus
Wayne Beach's hot USthriller Slow Burn is among fourworld premieres announced in a batch of five pictures celebrating black cinemaadded to the line-up of the 30th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).The picture plays in thespecial presentations programme and stars Ray Liotta as a district attorney whohas one night to exculpate ...
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Hytner's History Boys starts shooting
Shooting has begun on the film adaptation of AlanBennett's The History Boys. Like the award winning play, the film version will bedirected by Nicholas Hytner from a script by Bennett. The project is financed by DNA and BBC Films anddistributed by Fox Searchlight. The film will shoot for six weeks ...
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De Hadeln unveils four films in New Montreal FilmFest
Moritz De Hadeln hasunveiled the first four titles of the New Montreal Filmfest, which opens onSept 18 with the North American premiere of Cedric Klapish's Les PoupeesRusses.The picture follows up onthe 2002 romantic comedy L'Auberge Espagnole and reunites Audrey Tautou, Cecile de France, RomainDuris, and Kelly Reilly.Meanwhile there are worldpremieres ...
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Loggerheads, Year win top OUTFEST prizes
Los Angeles Gay and LesbianFilm Festival OUTFEST ended its 23rd festival on Sunday night withan awards night which saw 15 winners headed up by Tim Kirkman's relationshipdrama Loggerheads which won the juriedprize for OUTstanding American narrative.Anahi Berneri'sArgentinian AIDS drama A Year Without Love (Un Ano Sin Amor) won OUTstanding International ...
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Zhang Ziyi boards Feng's $15m Banquet
Zhang Ziyi is attached to star in Feng Xiaogang's $15mperiod drama The Banquet which has been set up as a co-productionbetween Beijing-based Huayi Brothers and Hong Kong's Media Asia. Thefilm's stellar cast also includes Feng regular Ge You, hot up-and-comingactress Zhou Xun and Hong Kong star Daniel Wu. Production is ...
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Skillset's Inside Pictures film business course invites applicants
Skillset's InsidePictures, the film business trainingprogramme now funded by the Skillset Film Skills Fund, is acceptingapplications from 18 July.Comprising three intensiveone-week modules, Skillset's Inside Pictures takes place in London and Los Angeles betweenNovember 2005 and May 2006. Seminars, workshops andstudio visits are hosted by some of the US and UK's ...
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Auteuil joins Bellucci for Napoleon comedy
Daniel Auteuil has joined Monica Bellucci in the cast ofPaolo Virzi's new comedy, which is entitled "N."The Euros 8.5m film, adapted from Ernesto Ferrero'sprize-winning novel, tells the story of Napoleon's exile on the island ofElba, where he lived for 300 days, and a librarian who closely observes histurmoil and his ...
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Charlie sells $55.4m in golden tickets for Warner Bros
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory dominated the weekend with anestimated $55.4m opening as the positive box office reversal continued for thesecond weekend in a row.Warner Bros' revival of Roald Dahl's children's classic wasapplauded by critics for its dark tone and the Tim Burton-directed filmaveraged $14,689 on 3,770 screens.Johnny Depp stars ...
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Pan-Euro exhibitor Kinepolis sees admissions fall
Pan-Europeanexhibitor The Kinepolis Group has announced its first half of 2005 figures with10.7m admissions recorded, a fall of12% year-on-year.Between January and June the company, which operatessites in France, Spain, Belgium, Poland and Switzerland, sold 10.7m tickets.This is comparable with 12.1m in 2004. However,excluding figures for the Paris Max Linder complex ...
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MPA strikes anti-piracy deal with Chinese government
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has signed an agreementwith two Chinese government agencies to co-operate in the fight against China'srampant piracy.China'sMinistry of Culture (MoC) and the State Administration of Radio, Film andTelevision (SARFT) both co-signed a memorandum which aims to help Chineseenforcement agencies to identify pirated movie products.Under the terms ...
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Madagascar leads int'l weekend, beating War by a whisker
DreamWorks' animated family title Madagascar was the number one international titleover the weekend as it grossed an estimated $31m through UIP, beatingParamount's War Of The Worlds by a whisker.The picture opened in six territories and currently stands at$143m from more than 5,100 sites in 40 territories so far.The chief highlight ...
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Charlie is golden for Warner Bros
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory dominated the weekend with anestimated $55.4m opening as the positive box office reversal continued for thesecond weekend in a row.Warner Bros' revival of Roald Dahl's children's classic wasapplauded by critics for its dark tone and the Tim Burton-directed filmaveraged $14,689 on 3,770 screens.Johnny Depp stars ...
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Serkis, Fry join Stormbreaker cast
Andy Serkis and Stephen Fryare the latest stars to join the cast of Samuelson Productions' Stormbreaker,which has just started shooting on the Isle of Man.The $40m-plus teen superspy adventure is based on the first book in the best-selling AlexRider series by Anthony Horowitz.Serkis will play Mr Grin, theunfortunately disfigured henchman ...