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Kidman eyes Wong Kar Wai's Lady From Shanghai
Hong Kong's hippestdirector has revealed that he's planning to work with Nicole Kidman on aproject with the working title The LadyFrom Shanghai.A spokesperson forWong Kar Wai's production company, Jet Tone Productions, confirmed that he hopes toshoot the film from early next year. His long-time collaborator, productiondesigner and editor William Chang ...
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Sidney Kimmel ramps up movie plans with LA operation
Philanthropist SidneyKimmel, who produced Nine-And-A-Half Weeks and has notched upa rack of executive producer credits over the past two decades, is ramping uphis Hollywood ambitions with the launch of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment in LosAngeles.As company chairman andchief executive officer, Kimmel will head up the Beverly Hills offices whenthey open on ...
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Somersault smashes AFI nominations record
Somersault hassmashed the record for the number of nominations received in the AFI(Australian Film Institute) Awards, winning the thumbs up 15 times across all13 categories for which it qualified.These include best film for producer Anthony Anderson, bestdirector and best original screenplay for Cate Shortland, best actor for AbbieCornish and Sam ...
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Bier's Brothers wins again
Susanne Bier's Brothershas won the Hamburg Film Critics' Prize, which was awarded at theFilmfest Hamburg for the first time this year. The win comes just days after Brothers won two best acting Golden Shells at the SanSebastian film festival.The critics' jury - which included representatives ofthe Der Spiegel and Stern ...
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Amenabar beats Almodovar to Spanish Oscar nod
Alejandro Amenabar's The Sea Inside will represent Spain in the race for aforeign-language Oscar nomination.Sea (Mar Adentro)beat out Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) and Jose Luis Garci's Tiovivo C.1950, the other two semi-finalists selectedby the Spanish Academy.Spain's most international director, Almodovar lostout on the 2002 nomination with his ...
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Dog laps up ten Irish Film Award nominations
The full list of nomineeshas been announced for this year's jury-based Irish Film and Television Awards(IFTAs).Major nomination recipients include Treasure Entertainment'sMan About Dog with ten nominations,Porridge Pictures' Adam & Paulwith eight, and Octagon Films' Inside I'm Dancing and Timbuktu which scored seven nominations each.Only one of the four films, Lenny ...
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Night Watch named as Russian Oscar entry
Russian blockbuster Night Watch has been selected to represent Russia at next year'sAcademy Awards ceremony. .Night Watch has rakedin some $16m, breaking all box-office records in Russia's post-Soviet historysince premiering on July 8.The action-packed fantasy thriller featuringstate-of-the-art special effects turns contemporary Moscow into a battlegroundfor a century-old fight between the ...
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Askin leaves Pandora to head 2929 International
Shebnem Askinhas been appointed head of 2929 International, the fledgling internationalsales arm of Los Angeles-based 2929 Entertainment owned by the billionaire duoTodd Wagner and Mark Cuban.Askin, who arrivesfrom Pandora/Gaylord Films, will handle worldwide sales on the theatrical outputof 2929 Productions and HDNet Films, the sister companies owned by 2929Entertainment.The appointmentmarks ...
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Pons' Idiot benefits from Spanish Euros 40m fund
Ventura Pons' Idiot Loveand Eduard Cortes' Other Days Will Come are two of the feature films setto receive backing from a Euros 40m fund created by Sogecable and CatalanTelevision (TVC).The projects form part ofthe first Euros 4m earmarked from the fund, 50% of the anticipated investmentthis year. Four TV movies ...
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Bavaria takes on (T)Raumschiff Surprise sales
Bavaria Film International will handle theinternational sales for Michael "Bully" Herbig's local blockbuster (T)RaumschiffSurprise - Period 1 which has been seen by over nine million cinema-goersin Germany this year. It is currently the territory's most successful releasewith a box-office gross of over Euros 50m.The sci-fi spoof will have its market ...
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Echo Bridge buys Green Communications library
LosAngeles-based Echo Bridge Entertainment has acquired Green Communications'library and associated distribution rights and will begin representing the newtitles at Mipcom next month.This is thethird library acquisition since the company's launch a year ago and raises itscatalogue to more than 250 titles.The 12-titleGreen Communications catalogue comprises mostly thrillers, sci-fi and horrorfilms ...
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Multiplex building spree in Malaysia, Singapore
Singapore's leadingexhibitor Golden Village is set to build the country's largest entertainmentmultiplex occupying 90,000 sq feet with 15 screens and about 2,500 seats.GV Harbourfront, which costs$590,000 (S$1m) per screen, is located in VivoCity shopping mall, previouslyknown as HarbourFront Mall, and due to open in late 2006. It will be GoldenVillage's ...
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Hawaii, Oslo named as Oscar candidate by Norway
The Norwegian Oscarcommittee has chosen Erik Poppe's Hawaii, Oslo as the country's official candidate for the Oscars'best foreign language film category.The film grossed a solidNOK1.2m upon release this weekend after rave reviews from the Norwegian InternationalFilm Festival in Haugesund, where it also picked up the critics' and ecumenicalprize.Written by Harald ...
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Hawaii, Oslo named as Oscar candidate by Norway
The Norwegian Oscarcommittee has chosen Erik Poppe's Hawaii, Oslo as the country's official candidate for the Oscars'best foreign language film category.The film grossed a solidNOK1.2m upon release this weekend after rave reviews from the Norwegian InternationalFilm Festival in Haugesund, where it also picked up the critics' and ecumenicalprize.Written by Harald ...
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Cinemark to open seven-screen multiplex in Ecuador
Cinemark International continues to redraw the LatinAmerican exhibition map with the announcement that it will open theseven-screen Mall del Sur complex in Ecuador, on Oct 20.Cinemark's thirdmultiplex in the country is equipped with more than 1,400 stadium-style seatsand will be part of a larger shopping centre in the southern part ...
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Wellspring takes Desplechin's Rois Et Reine to US
Wellspring haspicked up all US rights to Arnaud Desplechin's drama Kings & Queen (Rois Et Reine), which received its world premiere atVenice earlier this month and is scheduled to play at the New York FilmFestival next week.The company plans2005 theatrical and DVD releases for the picture, which centres on the ...
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Nolan Pielak joins Dream from Mobius
Nolan Pielak hasjoined Los Angeles-based production and international sales company DreamEntertainment as senior vice president of international distribution.Pielak willoversee Dream's burgeoning international distribution department and willhandle sales in all territories worldwide.He most recentlyserved as director of international distribution for Mobius International,where he also consulted on worldwide sales projections and spearheaded ...
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Portman Film sold to UK radio magnate
Chris Wright, chairman ofradio group Chrysalis, has acquired a majority stake in UK sales agent andco-producer Portman Film and TV.The acquisition is apersonal investment by Wright, who remains chairman of Chrysalis, and alsobecomes executive chairman of Portman with immediate effect.The major property ofPortman is the current ITV television show Doc ...
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Taiwan selects 20:30:40 as foreign-language Oscar entry
Taiwan has selected Sylvia Chang's 20:30:40 as its entry for the foreign-language category of nextyear's Academy Awards.The romantic drama, which follows three women aged 20, 30and 40 as they grapple with modern-day relationships, screened in competitionat this year's Berlin International Film Festival. It opened in Taiwan inFebruary and was a ...
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ROMANIA 30 September
Veteran Romanian director Sergiu Nicolaescu's latestproduction, Orient Express was thetalk of the town last week opening with a total of nearly 9,000 admissions. Thehistorical drama released by MediaPro Film Distribution opened on seven printsjust like Hollywood production TheChronicles Of Riddick and was only defeated by less than one thousandadmissions to ...