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Wind blows to UK and Switzerland
Tom Barman's Any Way The Wind Blows, which had its international premiere in Locarno's competition, has been picked up by Axiom Films for the UK and Agora Films for Switzerland. The film, which will be screening at the forthcoming Montreal World Film Festival, will be released in the Netherlands by ...
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Maddin' s Dracula earns him DGC nomination
Canadian director Guy Maddin has been nominated for an award from the Directors Guild of Canada for his critically acclaimed Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary.Maddin received a nomination in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Direction - Television Movie/Mini-Series. The second annual DGC Awards, which will be held on ...
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Distant Horizon takes world rights to 'junkmation' feature
Anant Singh, CEO of Distant Horizon, has announced the acquisition of worldwide rights to Africa's first full-length animation feature, The Legend Of The Sky Kingdom, and that the film will open the African Horizons section of the Montreal Film Festival where it will have its world premiere. The film, produced ...
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Golden Horse organisers target Hong Kong
Organisers of Taiwan's Golden Horse awards are in Hong Kong to promote the 40th anniversary of the event amid criticisms that too many prizes have been given to Hong Kong-produced films.Last year for example, Hong Kong movies scooped the top prizes for best director (Hollywood Hong Kong), best actor (Three-Going ...
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Magnusson takes over as head of production at Nordisk
Rumle Hammerich, head of production at the Copenhagen-based Nordisk Film Production, has been replaced by Kim Magnusson (pictured), general manager of Nordisk Film's film and TV drama operations.Hammerich previously developed highly successful TV-series like Taxa and Unit One as well as the upcoming Defense (Forsvar), and he will continue to ...
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Metrodome takes UK rights to Valentin
UK distributor Metrodome has acquired all UK rights to Argentinian director Alejandro Agresti's comedy, Valentin.The deal was negotiated with Kathy Morgan International acting for First Floor Features. Metrodome has scheduled the film, which was picked up by Miramax Films, for a February release. Newcomer Rodrigo Noya stars as the titular ...
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Jarre gets honorary award at Flanders soundtrack awards
Oscar-winning composerMaurice Jarre is to receive an honorary award at the Flanders InternationalFilm Festival-Ghent's 3rd Annual World Soundtrack Awards ceremony.Jarre, who won three AcademyAwards for Lawrence Of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage To India, will collect the Joseph Plateau Award inrecognition of his distinctive achievements in film.The ceremony is ...
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Strangler wraps for Tartan, New Horizon
The Hillside Strangler, the horror-thriller collaboration between HamishMcAlpine's UK-based Tartan Film and actor Alexa Jago and property tycoonJohn Stienfield's Los Angeles-based New Horizon Pictures, is due to wrap in LosAngeles on Aug 17.C Thomas Howell (TheHitcher, Gods & Generals) andNicholas Turturro (NYPD Blue)star in the true-life story of Kenneth Bianchi ...
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Silent Waters makes a splash at Locarno
For a second year running, the winner of Locarno's Golden Leopard took everyone by surprise: Pakistani filmmaker Sabiha Sumar's Silent Waters (Khamosh Pani) came away with the top honour after festival-goers had been putting their money on Korea's Kim Ki-Duk going for gold with his latest film Spring, Summer, Fall, ...
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Freddy Vs Jason is the top match at US box office
New Line's Freddy Vs Jasonscored a dazzling surprise opening of $36.4m at the weekend, scaring off lastweek's champion S.W.A.T. intosecond place with its $18.6m.Kevin Costner's western, OpenRange, opened third on a respectable$14.1m for Buena Vista, while MGM's chick flick Uptown Girls debuted on a feisty $11.2m in fifth place.Warner Bros' ...
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Digital Film Lab completes Underworld process
Copenhagen- and London-based Digital Film Lab has taken it first full Hollywood movie - Sony Pictures and Lakeshore Entertainment's Underworld - through its Digital Intermediate process."We have been very quiet about this, but we are happy to announce that we have completed the film, and that Sony subsequently has boosted ...
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New Nordic films to unspool at Haugesund
The 31st Norwegian International Film Festival (Aug 17-21) in the small western town of Haugesund is set to benefit from one of the country's most interesting filmmakers being lured to Hollywood. Erik Skjoldbjaerg (Insomnia) is bringing the two US stars - Christina Ricci and Jason Biggs - from his latest ...
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Odense Occupied by Pederson's Palestinian tale
Joergen Flindt Pedersen's controversial documentary The Occupied (De Besatte) won the Grand Prix at the 18th edition of the Danish short and documentary film festival in Odense over the weekend.The film follows five Palestinians for one year and at the same time describes how the Palestinians lost their country in ...
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A return of the high summer temperatures affected a lot of films in the UK this weekend, but Columbia TriStar's Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines rode the heatwave with a massive $9.8m (£6.1m) gross from 478 sites playing 762 prints.The launch figures included Thursday previews of $1.7m (£1.05m) from ...
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T3 rises up to $200m international take
With no major openings this weekend, Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines will again be the one to watch as it prepares to pass $200m in international ticket sales.The sci-fi sequel has been the dominant performer since its campaign began on Jul 2 and has an international running total of ...
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Kinowelt and Ottfilm mull collaboration plans
A closer working collaboration between German distributors Kinowelt and Ottfilm looks to be on the cards.The two are planning to jointly release Lone Scherfig's Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself on September 18, with Filmwelt acting as an agency to handle the film's physical distribution. Kinowelt's Georg Miros told ScreenDaily.com that ...
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Hungary picks Forest for Oscar consideration
Benedek Fliegauf's Forest has been selected as the official Hungarian entry for the 76th Annual Academy Awards in the best foreign language film category. The five-member jury of the Hungarian Selection Committee for Academy Awards Entry decided on Fliegauf's multi-award winner for "finely balancing stylisation and realism. The film uncompromisingly ...
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Oz exhibitors rally round Gibson's Passion
Australian exhibitors appear to be rallying behind Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion.The film, about the last hours of Jesus, has been attacked in the US by some religious organisations. Four minutes footage from The Passion screened at the Australian International Movie Convention this week; the full length film is ...
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Stroke Of Genius tees up in Scotland
Scottish-based production company McDongall films is to co-ordinate the Scottish element of the $15m US indie biopic Bobby Jones - Stroke Of Genius, which starts shooting in St Andrews on August 24. Directed by Rowdy Herrington, the LLC, Dean River Productions film stars Jim Caviezel as the legendary American golfer ...
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30,000 pirate DVDs and VCDs seized by MPAA in Malaysia
More than 30,000 pirate copies of DVDs and VCDs as well asmanufacturing and computer equipment have been seized in raids on an onlinemail-order syndicate in Malaysia.The raids were carried out on three sites in Penang on Aug 11 byMotion Picture Association of America (MPAA) staff and a 20-person team fromMalaysia's ...