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Venice filmmakers vent their political anguish
Wim Wenders became the latest director to join a chorus ofvoices at the Venice Film Festival condemning the Bush administration, during aweek which has twice seen the Biennale officially react to events developing onthe world stage."As a Christian, I am deeply troubled by the acts of theBush administration," said Wenders, ...
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Love's Business completes casting
Human Traffic's Danny Dyer is to star in Nick Love's Costa del Crimestory The Business, which Content International will present at the AFM.Dyer will appear with TamerHassan (Batman Begins), Roland Manookian (The Football Factory)and Georgina Chapman (Shanghai Knights) in the film, which startsprincipal photography Sept 20 in Malaga, Spain. The ...
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UIP scoops up remaining Fahrenheit territories
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is set for a furthertheatrical lease of life as United International Pictures (UIP) has acquiredall remaining territories to the film, including six in Asia.Territories covered by the deal, signed last week, includeMalaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, India and SouthAfrica.UIP is aiming to give the ...
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FRANCE 10 September
Francois Ozon's latest work, 5x2, debuted in second position with a strong per screen average of$5,962 on 221 copies. Indeed French films performed well with Yvan Attal's Ils Se Marierent Et Eurent BeaucoupD'Enfants still near the top of the list in third position - though itdropped off by more than ...
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Eisner to retire from Disney in 2006
Walt Disney Co Chief Executive Michael Eisner will retire inSeptember 2006, when his contract expires, the company said on Friday."Until then I shall continue to exert every effort tohelp the company achieve our goals, to assist the Board in selecting the newChief Executive Officer, and to make the transition expeditious, ...
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Alzheimer named as Belgian Oscar contender
Flemish-languagethriller The Alzheimer Case (De Zaak Alzheimer) has been selected to represent Belgium in the foreign-languageOscar category.Directed by Erikvan Looy, the film follows an aging contract killer who turns on his politicalmasters when he discovers that he is being manipulated. Alzheimer was a huge local hit in its nativeBelgium, selling ...
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Spacey outfit wins Orientrose backing
UK company Orientrose is totake a 13% stake in Trigger Street Independent, the newly-formed low-budgetoffshoot of Kevin Spacey and DanaBrunetti's Trigger Street production company.Orientrose also has anoption for a further 32% of the company for a payment of $500,000. The othershareholders include a trust of which Spacey is a beneficiary, ...
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Filmax takes on international Hypnos sales
Filmax International has picked up worldwide distributionrights to Spanish thriller Hypnos (Hipnos)from DeAPlaneta PC, and will present it to buyers in Toronto.The deal teams two of Spain's film behemoths and couldmark the start of a prolific relationship. It also marks only the second timeFilmax has picked up a third-party film ...
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Media Programme sets out Euros 1bn strategy
With its proposed budget of over Euros 1bn, the new Media Programme (MEDIA 2007), which will run from 2007 to 2013, aims to double the number of European films that are currently distributed outside their own country of origin.During a meeting in Venice, European Union Commissioner Viviane Reding said that ...
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First Look asks When Will I Be Loved
USsales and production outfit First Look Media has picked up international rightsto James Toback's When Will I Be Loved, which plays at the festivaltoday (Sept 9) and tomorrow. Sister-company First Look International will beginsales in Toronto this week.Thefilm stars Neve Cambell as a woman who sets out to explore the ...
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Bim boards Bellucci vehicle Combien
Italy's Bim, which has three titles playing in competitionat the Venice Film Festival, will co-produce Bertrand Blier's next film, CombienTu Gagnes', with Italian diva Monica Bellucci.Bim president Valerio De Paolis has boarded the Euros 12mproject alongside France's Fidelite, which is Francois Ozon's long-termproduction partner. Bim also owns Italian distribution rights.The ...
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Ledger, Collette starring pics win Oz funding
The Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) has cleared theway for cameras to roll on two new films, investing in Candy starringHeath Ledger and Like Minds starring Toni Collette.Ledger and rising star from Abbie Cornish (Somersault)play lovers full of lust and self-destructive tendencies in thelong-gestating drama Candy, which also features Geoffrey ...
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First Look to sell Toronto's When Will I Be Loved
USsales and production outfit First Look Media has picked up international rightsto James Toback's When Will I Be Loved, which plays at the festivaltoday (Sept 9) and tomorrow. Sister-company First Look International will beginsales in Toronto this week.Thefilm stars Neve Cambell as a woman who sets out to explore the ...
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NORWAY 9 September
BuenaVista saw its animated Home On The Rangedebut as number one in the Norwegian charts. This week's biggest disappointmentwas, however, the new release of newcomer Annette Sjursen's drama comedy My Jealous Barber, which took justNOK10,032 from its 31 prints. It is produced by Kaare Storemyr and Dag Alveberg(Elling) and star ...
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ROMANIA 9 September
I, Robot proved to be a real catch with Romanian audiences when it debuted at thetop of the box office admissions list with a screen average of nearly twothousand admissions after being released on seven prints by distributorInterComFilm. Pieces Of April fromNew Films couldn't quite match the splendid performance of ...
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De Laurentiis acquires Naples football club
Italian producer Aurelio De Laurentiis has taken overNaples' new football club, which will start life in Serie C, the country'sthird division.Twice Italian champions Napoli were recently declaredbankrupt but the franchise for the city was taken up by a new club formed by DeLaurentiis.Althoughformally the club has a new name they ...
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Glut of premieres in Noah's Ark
If themeasure of a film festival is the company it keeps, the number of returningfilmmakers presenting world premieres marks this Toronto International FilmFestival as one of the strongest in its 29 years. From veterans like BilleAugust, Taylor Hackford and Istvan Szabo, who opens the festival with Being Julia, to new ...
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Moodysson's Heart beats up Swedish critics
Swedishdirector Lukas Moodysson says that everyone should see his latest film AHole In The Heart - despite it containing explicit sex scenes, physical andpsychological violence.Moodysson was speaking after the first press screening ofthe film in Stockholm this week. The film world premieres in Toronto tomorrow(Sept 10).The dark,provocative drama tells the ...
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Moodysson's Hole In The Heart beats up Swedish critics
Swedishdirector Lukas Moodysson says that everyone should see his latest film AHole In The Heart - despite it containing explicit sex scenes, physical andpsychological violence.Moodysson was speaking after the first press screening ofthe film in Stockholm this week. The film world premieres in Toronto tomorrow(Sept 10).The dark,provocative drama tells the ...
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US star directors lead Deauville invasion
The 30th anniversary edition of theDeauville Festival of American Film has seen a troupe of Hollywood luminariespass through town over the past week - with the promise of more to come.While the festival is sometimesconsidered a poor cousin to the simultaneous Venice and Toronto film festivals,Deauville founder Lionel Chouchan told ...