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De La Iglesia wraps The Child's Room
Alex de la Iglesia will wrap shooting next week on the firstin a landmark series of six genre TV movies for Filmax and Telecinco dubbed "Filmsto Keep You Awake."Theseries is the first of its kind in Spain. Filmax is presenting thetitles to buyers this week at Mipcom. Other directors involved ...
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Cinematheque Ontario's Quandt wins prize from Japan Foundation
James Quandt, the seniorprogrammer of Cinematheque Ontario, has been awarded the Special Prize for Artsand Culture from The Japan Foundation.The honour recognizesQuandt's extensive scholarly work in Japanese cinema, from monographs onJapanese film masters, such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Shohei Imamura and KonIchikawa, and numerous individual and overview retrospectives that have touredinternationally.In ...
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Moody Street, IPW snare Delpy for Lucy Keyes
Julie Delpy is in finaltalks to star in the psychological thriller The Legend Of Lucy Keyes, which writer/director John Stimpson will directwhen shooting begins in Massachusets on Nov 1.Inspired by a well-knownMassachusetts legend, the story chronicles the experiences of a damaged familythat relocates to a home in rural New England ...
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Pusan kicks off with massive outdoor 2046 screening
The 9thPusan International Film Festival kicked off on Thursday night with the firstfestival screening of Wong Kar-wai's re-edited version of 2046.The film, which receives its commercial release in Koreaon October 15, was shown on a massive outdoor screen with Wong and lead actorTony Leung in attendance. The 5000+available seats reportedly ...
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INTERNATIONAL 7 October
Thefive week reign of BVI's The Village over the international chart endedthis week as UIP's Tom Cruise starrer Collateral moved to the head ofthe pack.Aseries of new number one bows in Europe, including France, Belgium, TheNetherlands and Poland boosted Collateral into the lead. Collateral launchedinternationally the same week as The ...
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PGA to take legal action against phoney producer credits
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) said yesterday (6) that itwould immediately begin to seek court injunctions against studios anddistributors who engaged in the increasingly prevalent use of counterfeit"produced by" credits.Speaking at the Los Angeles launch of the Truth In Creditscampaign, PGA president Kathleen Kennedy said the PGA was no ...
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Taylor appointed Warner Bros UK distribution chief
Peter Taylor has been appointed managing director UK & Ireland ofWarner Bros. Pictures International UK.Taylor joins from Columbia Pictures where for the last five years he hasbeen director of distribution. Prior to that he was director of sales at Columbia,a position he held for nine years.He replaces Nigel Sharrocks who ...
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Samurai, Hero take first MIPCOM DVD awards
The first ever Mipcom DVDawards were announced in Cannes on Wednesday evening (Oct 6).The awards were created inJune in conjunction with the US-based DVD Association and the Belgium-basedInternational Video Federation. Prizes were given to reward creativity andinnovation in DVD content.Jean-Paul Commin of FranceTelevisions Distribution headed up the jury which screened ...
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Loncraine steps in to Warner/VRP thriller Wrong Element
Richard Loncraine has stepped in to direct the thriller TheWrong Element starringHarrison Ford and Paul Bettany, which Warner Bros Pictures and Village Roadshow Picturesare co-financing.Mark Pellington had previously been attached to direct but pulledout after a family tragedy.Based on Joe Forte's screenplay, the story centres on a securityexpert who must ...
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Valladolid unveils festival line-up
Wong Kar Wai's 2046, Ken Loach's Ae Fond Kiss,John Boorman's Country Of My Skull are among the feature films competingat Spain's upcoming Valladolid International Film Festival (Oct 22-30).The titles vie for prizes including the Golden Spike, withEuros 35,000 for the Spanish distributor, and the Silver Spike, with Euros17,500 for the ...
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Medienboard Berlin ups funding by Euros 3m
TheBerlin-Brandenburg Medienboard announced an increase in regional film fundingfor 2004 at Mipcom on Monday.Petra Muller,managing director of the agency, said that Berlin would add another Euros 3mtowards film and TV productions in the area.It was noted thatwhile film funding at other German media locations is under threat, theBerlin-Brandenburg region will ...
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Korea's 'star directors' aim to shoot to thrill
Korea's cinematic boom, that started in the late 1990s, hascreated a diverse group of star directors who, thanks to their reputation atthe box-office and at international festivals, now wield an enviable degree ofcreative control compared to their younger colleagues. The latter half of this year will see alarge number of ...
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Screen announces shortlist for world, European awards
Mike Leigh'sVenice Golden Lion winner Vera Drake, Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education, Zhang Yimou's House Of FlyingDaggers and WalterSalles' The Motorcycle Diaries are among the shortlisted films for the Hollywood World andEuropean Awards presented by Screen International.The winners willbe chosen by a panel of judges and announced at the Hollywood Awards ...
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Anschutz Film Group hires Levine, Brown, Jones
Anschutz FilmGroup (AFG), parent company to Walden Media and Bristol Bay Productions, isringing the changes, relocating to the former Turner Network Television officesin Century City and appointing several key hires.Jackie Levinehas been named vice president of production, Bill Brown becomes senior vicepresident of physical production and post production, and Douglas ...
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Filmax, Telecino present 'Films To Keep You Awake'
Alex de la Iglesia (The Day Of The Beast, Perdita Durango, 800 Balas) will wrap shooting next week on the first in a landmark series of six horror TV movies for Filmax and Telecinco dubbed 'Films To Keep You Awake.'The series is the first of its kind in the genre ...
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Noeltner's CMG picks up Brazilian comedy Manual...
Edward Noeltner's LosAngeles-based sales company Cinema Management Group (CMG) has picked upinternational rights to Jose Roberto Torero's Brazilian comedy Manual ForLove Stories (Como Fazer Um FilmeDe Amor).The picture recentlyreceived its world premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival; CMG willrepresent it at next month's AFM in Santa Monica.Styled as a ...
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New Portugese indie festival celebrates success
Portugal's newly-createdInternational Independent Film Festival, IndieLisboa (Sept 24-Oct 2), closedits first annual edition with resounding public success.Eugene Green's The LivingWorld (Le Monde Vivant) won the grand prize in the official competition offirst and second works by international directors.Sergio Trefaut's Lisboetaswon best Portuguese film, Miguel Gomes' A Cara Que Mereces the ...
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Paramount Classics to launch Jay-Z documentary in US
Paramount Classics willrelease Pat Paulson and Michael John Warren's hip-hop documentary Fade ToBlack on Nov 5 in North America. Thefilm features rapper Jay-Z's farewell solo concert in New York's Madison SquareGarden as well as live guest appearances by Beyonce, Mary J Blige, MissyElliott, and R Kelly. It also includes footage ...
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Hopscotch leaps on four hot titles
Australian distributor Hopscotch has acquired 3-Iron, which won the FIPRESCI award andthe best director award for Kim Ki-duk at the Venice Film Festival, as well as Downfall, Mysterious Skin and Bombon.Argentinian film Bombon,by director Carlos Sorin (Minimal Stories)is also a FIPRESCI winner, at San Sebastian.Downfall, byOliver Hirschbiegel (Das Experiment),is Germany's ...
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Spain's MediaPro, Globomedia negotiate merger
MediaPro, one of Spain's largest media companies is about to grow significantly bigger if merger talks with local TV powerhouse Globomedia are successful.MediaPro confirmed that it had entered negotiations earlier this summer with Globomedia on a possible merger or, what may be more likely in the short term, a wide-ranging ...