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Palm Springs unveils rich short film talent line-up
Early work from Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and Spike Jonze andshorts directed by or featuring well-known actors are among the biggest everline-up of titles in the upcoming 10th Palm Springs InternationalFestival Of Short Films.A total of 308 short films, up 15% from last year andselected from more than 2,000 entries, ...
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German cinema admissions leap in 2004
Germany's distributors and exhibitors have cause forcelebration as 1 million more cinema tickets were sold in the first half of2004 compared to the same period last year, according to official figuresunveiled by the Berlin-based German Federal Film Board (FFA).The FFA reported that 72.3m tickets were sold in the periodto June ...
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Malaysian films aspire to international market
Following the local commercial success of Pontianak HarumSundal Malam, Malaysian writer/director Shuhaimi Babas is preparing a($526,000) RM2m sequel with her own company Pesona Pictures producing.Pontianak, which tells the story of a female banshee fromlocal folklore, was the first local film to break the taboo of the horror genrewhich was banned ...
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Cassel to head Oldenburg jury
Veteran American indie actor Seymour Cassel will serve asthe president of the International Jury for the German Independence Award -Best German Film to be presented for the first time at the forthcoming FilmfestOldenburg (Sept 8-12).Cassel and the other jury members - German PR and marketingexpert Heike Melba-Fendel, Spanish author and ...
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Toronto unveils Visions, Discovery, Wavelengths titles
New films from DavidGordon Green and Michael Winterbottom are among the latest wave of worldpremieres announced by the Toronto International Film Festival as it unveiledthe complete line-ups in the Visions, Discovery and Wavelengths programmes.Visions, which wasintroduced in 2002 with a mandate to focus on "innovation" but is actually away of ...
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Edinburgh Fringe to be subject of new UK feature
The UK Film Council'sPremiere Fund and FilmFour have teamed on Festival,an ensemble comedy set during the Edinburgh Fringe which will shoot on locationat the famed theatre and comedy festival this month.The production marks thefeature debut of writer-director Annie Griffin, who won a BAFTA for Book Group, the Friday night comedy ...
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Switzerland's national film fund to be reviewed
Pascal Couchepin, head of Switzerland's Federal Departmentof Home Affairs (EDI) has commissioned an independent report on the running ofSwitzerland's national film funding programme at the Federal Office for Culture(BAK).The report, to evaluate BAK's criteria for grantingsubsidies, comes after previous criticisms by Couchepin of "lack oftransparency" and "too large a bureaucracy" ...
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Irish production sector returns to form
After a year in which production in Ireland had stalled to avirtual standstill the last days of August and early September will see adramatic return to form.First off the mark will be David T Friendly's Deep RiverProductions' The Honeymooners whichwill start shooting on August 27. The production for Paramount, co-producedwith ...
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Court orders Samaha, Franchise to pay $121.5m
A federal judge in Santa Ana, California, entered judgmentyesterday (17 Aug) against Elie Samaha, Franchise Pictures, and 18 Franchiseone-off production companies for $121.5m.Thejudgment, pending post-trial motions and appeals, marks the conclusion of the four-yearlegal battle between Franchise and its former co-production partner,Intertainment Licensing GmbH.Judge Alicemarie Stotler ruled that Franchise, Samaha, ...
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FRANCE 18 August
King Arthur handily dethroned Will Smith vehicle I,Robot grabbing the top spot withnearly 635,000 admissions in its first week out. Spider Man 2 held steady in the number two slot to bring itscumulative take to $28,979,702 after 4 weeks on release. Jennifer Garnerstarrer 13 Going On 30 landed atnumber 6 ...
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GERMANY 18 August
Michael 'Bully' Herbig allowed Alex Proyas' I, Robot only one week at pole positionbefore returning to the top spot with his sci-fi spoof (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 registering another $5.1m grossfrom 980 screens for a total gross of over $50m. With a total of over 7.2madmissions, (T)Raumschiff is now ...
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Koenekamp to receive ASC lifetime achievement award
Fred Koenekampwill receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) LifetimeAchievement Award at the annual Outstanding Achievement Awards on Feb 20 2005 in LosAngeles.Koenekamp began his career in 1964 with television's The Man FromU.N.C.L.E., and seven years later earned his first of three Academy Awardnominations for Patton.He shared the Oscar with ...
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Sogepaq adds Roma to autumn slate
Spain's Sogepaq has picked up international rights to SanSebastian competition title Roma fromveteran Argentine director Adolfo Aristarain.The film joins Sogepaq's fall slate, headlined by AlejandroAmenabar's much-anticipated drama Out ToSea (Mar Adentro) starring Javier Bardem, and Alex de la Iglesia's newblack comedy Ferpect Crime (CrimenFerpecto).A tale spanning 50 years, Roma follows ...
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IFP/Los Angeles bid to kick-start awards season
Seeking to steal a march on its awards season rivals,IFP/Los Angeles said this week it will announce nominations for the 20thIndependent Spirit Awards on Nov 30.Theorganisation wants to manoeuvre itself into a more influential slot beforeother awards bodies unveil their contenders.The National Board of Review traditionally kicks off theseason and ...
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Creber to receive honorary Art Directors Guild award
William J Creber will receive the ArtDirectors Guild's (ADG) honorary Lifetime Achievement Award at the 9thAnnual ADG Awards on Feb 12 2005 in Los Angeles.Creber earned three Academy Award nominations for TheGreatest Story Ever Told in 1966, The Poseidon Adventure in 1973,and The Towering Inferno in 1975.His other credits include ...
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Buena Vista UK promotes marketing, publicity staff
Buena Vista International (BVI) has announced the promotionof Lee Jury to Marketing Director for BVI UK.In addition Phil Cairns has been promoted from SeniorPublicist to Publicity Manager and Amanda Telfer promoted from Publicist toPublicist and Awards Co-ordinator.
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Vulcan wraps principal photography on Hard Candy
Seattle-based Vulcan Productions has completed principalphotography on video director David Slade's psychological thriller HardCandy, starring Patrick Wilson and newcomer Ellen Page.Based on a screenplay by Brian Nelson, Hard Candy centreson a calamitous date between a 32-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl who meetover the internet.David W Higgins and Jody Patton ...
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Echelon picks up domestic rights to political doc Rabbit Hash
EchelonEntertainment has acquired domestic rights to arguably the most bizarre of thecurrent crop of political documentaries, Jude Gerard Prest's Rabbit Hash:The Centre Of The Universe.Thesatirical picture focuses on an electoral race in the Kentucky town of RabbitHash that returned an actual dog named Goofy as town mayor.Thefilmmakers profile the town's ...
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Toronto rounds off programme line-ups
World premieresfeature heavily in the latest programming volley from the Toronto InternationalFilm Festival, which includes 11 additions to the Visions programme, a28-strong Discovery section and 23 pictures in the Wavelengths strand.David Gordon Green's thriller Undertow starring Jamie Bell,Dermot Mulroney and Josh Lucas, and Michael Winterbottom's sexually explicitLondon-based love story Nine ...
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Civilian Content secures $13m in tax funding
In a welcome boost after itsNew Zealand period piece River Queen stalled mid-shoot, UK media concernCivilian Content aims to double its production levels this year after securinga $12.9m (£7m) tranche of funding.The publicly-listed companyhas accessed the production funding through its partnership with financierSureFire, which has raised the money through UK ...