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Mexican stand-off as Guadalajara faces up to rival festival
Mexico is poised to have two major film festivals slated just a month apart.The 19-year old Guadalajara Mexican and Iberoamerican Film Showcase (March 19 to 25) could get upstaged by a new film event in Mexico City to run from February 19 to 29.Dubbed the Mexico City International Contemporary Film ...
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Swiss tune in to Jagged Harmonies
Dominique de Rivaz's Jagged Harmonies - Bach vs Frederick II (Mein Name Ist Bach) has won the top award at the Swiss Film Prize 2004.Sold internationally by Bavaria Film International, de Rivaz's feature debut won in the best film category. It had its world premiere at last August's Locarno International ...
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US box office revenues to pass $10bn by 2006, says report
Box officerevenues in the US are predicted to pass $10bn for the first time ever in 2006,according to a new report from analysts Dodona Research.This figurecompares with $8.7bn in ticket revenue for 2003 and is expected to grow to$11bn by 2008. Most of the gains will come from higher ticket ...
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Max acquires international rights to Lepage's Moon
Montreal-based Max Films hasacquired international rights to Robert Lepage's Far Side Of The Moon (La Face cachee de la lune) from Alliance Atlantis. The film, based onwriter-director-star Lepage's stage piece, will have its international premierein Berlin's Panorama section. Shot on HD, it will screen in 35mm and HD, thefirst time ...
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Rappeneau races ahead with Bon Voyage at Cesars
Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Bon Voyage has emerged as the front-runner for France's Oscar equivalent, the Cesars, with 11 nominations.The nominees for the awards were announced this morning (Jan 23) by the newly installed president of France's Academie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema, Alain Terzian.Bon Voyage, a picaresque tale set against ...
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Sony Classics takes on North American rights to Zelary
Sony Pictures Classics (SPC)has acquired North American rights to Ondrej Trojan's Zelary, the Czech World War II epic which is this year'sCzech Republic entry for the best foreign language film Academy Award.The deal was struck betweenSPC and Neil Friedman of Menemsha Entertainment who had previously soldTrojan's production Divided We Fallas ...
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Animal Logic drafts in veteran Smith for liaison role
Animal Logic, Australia's foremost visual effects studio, has appointed Greg Smith to the newly created position director of communications and public affairs.The former executive, who was instrumental in the firm's key move to Sydney's Fox Studios in 1998, will be Animal Logic's "senior liaison person with government and industry bodies", ...
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WGA announces ten screenplay nominees
The Writers Guild of America(WGA) nominees for best original screenplay have been announced as GurinderChadha, Paul Mayeda Berges and Guljit Bindra for Bend It Like Beckham, Steven Knight for Dirty Pretty Things, Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridanfor In America, Sofia Coppola forLost In Translation and TomMcCarthy for The ...
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The Return Of The King continues to reign over Argentina's box office after three weeks. New entries Spy Kids 3-D Game Over, Mona Lisa Smile and 21 Grams took over the top slots, pushing down Disney's Brother Bear and Clint Eastwood's Mystic River. Argentinian comedy /drama Hoteles by Aldo ...
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Doolan joins Irish Arts Council as film specialist
The Irish Arts Council has appointed Jane Doolan to the new part time consulting role of Film Specialist. She will be responsible for developmental work and for providing policy advice to the Arts Council on film.The Arts Council is a major source of funding in Ireland for cultural organisations such ...
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Thirty projects set for debut Talent Project Market at Berlin
Feature films from 23 countries as far flung as the Philippines, Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Iceland, Ukraine and Hong Kong are among the 30 projects selected for the first Talent Project Market at next month's Berlinale Talent Campus.The Talent Projects were picked from 256 entries by an international jury comprising the Berlinale ...
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Berlin's Panorama unveils complete line-up
Berlin's Panorama section has unveiled its full line-up across its main programme and the Special, Dokumente and Short Films strands.The line-up comprises 34 features, 16 documentaries and 26 short films. The films are from 32 countries and include twelve directing debuts and 14 films which are to be digitally projected, ...
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Hungarian critics name Pleasant Days as best film
The Hungarian Film Critics association has named director Kornel Mundruczo's festival favorite Pleasant Days as the best Hungarian production of 2003.Producer Viktoria Petranyi accepted the B. Nagy Laszlo prize for Mundruczo who is currently abroad developing his next feature, Delta.Benedek Fliegauf's Oscar submitted Forest received the best first film award.The ...
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High Point takes over Irish Dead Bodies sales
World sales outfit High Point Films, has taken on international sales on Irish thriller Dead Bodies.Produced by Dublin based Distinguished Features, headed by David McLoughlin and Clare Scully, Dead Bodies is directed by Robert Quinn and stars Andrew Scott as a young slacker whose world is turned suddenly upside down ...
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Cabin Fever's Roth steps into The Box for Camelot
Following the acquisition of its Sundance hit Garden State, Camelot Pictures is to finance and produce The Box, a psychological thriller written by Richard Kelly (Donny Darko) and Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) that Roth is set to direct.Kelly and Sean McKittrick's fledgling Darko Entertainment will produce with Camelot founders Gary ...
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Godard loses copyright case in Paris court
Paris' high court has ruled against filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard for copyright infringement in his 1987 film King Lear.According to Agence France Presse, author Viviane Forrester brought the suit claiming Godard had used a text from her book La Violence Du Calme that was recited in the film without her authorisation.Godard ...
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Russia's Cinema Park opens its first multiplex in Moscow
Cinema Park, the verticallyintegrated Russian production, distribution and exhibition outfit, got its ambitious two-year theatreexpansion underway yesterday (22) with the opening of a nine-screen Moscowmultiplex.More than 600 peopleattended the opening of Cinema Park at Kaluzhskaya, which coincided with therelease of The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King.The ...
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LA manager D'Andrea joins Edmonds Entertainment
LA-based manager/producerAlex D'Andrea has joined Edmonds Management, bringing with him a client rosterthat includes Stephen Baldwin, Jacob Young (who appears in the upcoming featureThe Girl Next Door) and director Gillies Mackinnon (Hideous Kinky).D'Andrea most recentlyserved with ADA Entertainment and prior to that was a manager at Seven SummitsPictures and Management, ...
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Woodsman, September Tapes score Sundance sales
One of the Sundance FilmFestival's most acclaimed competition entries this year - Nicole Kassell's TheWoodsman - was sold yesterday toNewmarket Films for North America for a figure in the $1.2m range.The deal, closed yesterdayafternoon, was the end of a bidding war between six buyers for thecontroversial title which tells the ...