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Crude, Magdalene Sisters win honours in LA
Paxton Winters' sardonic road movie Crude won the Target Filmmaker Award for BestNarrative Feature at the ninth IFP Los Angeles Film Festival, which ran fromJun 11-21.The festival jury gave the Target Documentary Award for BestDocumentary Feature to Tracy Droz Tragos' Be Good, Smile Pretty, a personal tribute to the film-maker'sfather ...
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Mosaic to produce six urban movies for HBO Films
LA entertainment groupMosaic Media Group has pre-sold a series of six urban films to HBO that will bewritten and directed by new film-makers.One of the first ideas underdiscussion is an untitled surreal love triangle and musical inspired by hip-hopduo Outkast's upcoming album SpeakerBox/The Love Below.The project will mark thefeature directorial ...
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The Hulk rampages to $62.6m for Universal
Universal's The Hulk turned its studio rivals green with envy over the weekend as thenumber one comic book adaptation clobbered the June opening record with anestimated $62.6m.Ang Lee's film sees Eric Bana as the troubled research scientistprone to unseemly temper tantrums. Jennifer Connelly and Nick Nolte co-star,while the Hulk himself ...
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The Spanish Apartment is the toast of Sydney
The French/Spanish film The Spanish Apartment, (aka L'auberge Espagnole/ Europudding) directed by Cedric Klapisch and produced by Bruno Levy for Ce Qui Me Meut, won both the PRIX UIP award for Best European Film and the audience award for best feature at the 50th Sydney Film Festival, which closed ...
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Ireland gears up for renewed production activity
A stagnant period of film production in Ireland comes to an end this week with the start of shoot on Pierce Brosnan's Laws Of Attraction, followed next week by Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthur .Arthur, which has a budget of $85m, is the biggest production ever to come to Ireland, dwarfing ...
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Theo Angelopoulos to lead first Copenhagen film fest
Theo Angelopoulos is to preside over the first Copenhagen International Film Festival's five-strong jury, which so far also includes Sweden's Jan Troell and Denmark's Bille August.The festival's awards, The Golden Swans, will be given to the best film, director, actress, actor, script and cinematography. In addition to the jury prizes, ...
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Australian film-makers fight for 'culture'
High-profile filmmaking couple Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward, and Australian Film Commission (AFC) chief executive Kim Dalton, met with 45 government backbenchers to argue that 'culture' should be excluded from a free trade agreement with the US. It was yet another attempt to prevent constraints being applied to Australian film ...
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Lost Swedish classic is found and restored
The Avenger (Hamnaren 1916), a long-believed lost silent classic from the Swedish director Mauritz Stiller has been rediscovered and restored by the Swedish Film Institute and will screen as part of this summer's Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna. The film was recently rediscovered in Germany in an edited German version, ...
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Karlovy Vary unveils cosmopolitan competition line-up
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has unveiled this year's line-up, with films in competition including Korean Kim Ki-duk's Coast Guard and Facing Windows from Italy's Ferzan Ozpetek. The festival, which takes place in the Czech west Bohemian spa town July 4-12, will feature 16 films in the main competition for ...
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Japanese government to ease film production fund regulations
Japan's Trade Ministry is set to relax the restrictions governing film production funds. Under the current law, only four such funds have been set up since 1992.Local industry analysts have been warning that unless Japan creates a system that makes it easier, and more attractive, to invest in feature film ...
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It's Initial from now on, IEG is out, says Los Angeles company
Following its recent adoption of a new company logo,Graham King's independent finance, production and distribution companyInitial Entertainment Group has announced that it will no longer be known asIEG.Hereafter, the company has said, it will be known by itsfull name or as Initial but no longer by the acronym IEG.Recent creditsfor ...
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Sarandon, Tucci join cast of Miramax's Shall We Dance
SusanSarandon and Stanley Tucci will join Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere in thecast of Peter Chelsom's remake of Shall We Dance for Miramax Films and Spyglass Entertainment. Miramaxis handling domestic rights on the film, Spyglass has international exceptJapan where Gaga Communications has rights.Thecast also includes Bobby Cannavale, Lisa Ann Walter, ...
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William Fraker to receive special honour at Lodz
Pioneering cinematographerWilliam A Fraker is to receive the Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award at the11th Annual International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, whichruns in Lodz, Poland, from Nov 29-Dec 6.Born in Los Angeles in Sep1923, Fraker graduated from the University of Southern California with a degreein film-making and eventually ...
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UK, French shorts lead Cartoon D'Or hopefuls
British and French animated shorts make up almost two-thirds of the 25 European films vying to be shortlisted for the nominations for this year's Cartoon D'Or.Among the films being considered by a jury composed of CARTOON's Corinne Jenart, the UK's Mark Baker, Denmark's Jannik Hastrup and Spain's Antonion Zurera Aragon, ...
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UK National Film Theatre to be digital cinema test-bed
The British Film Institute (BFI) has secured funding from the Department of Trade and Industry for a digital cinema test-bed at the National Film Theatre (NFT).The so-called Digital Test Laboratory is being set up just as BFI parent the UK Film Council develops plans for a nation-wide circuit of digital ...
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Antena 3 announces executive appointments
Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 has announced several new executive appointments following the anti-trust authorities' greenlight to Grupo Planeta's buy-out of a 25.1% stake in the network.Planeta executives Jose Manuel Lara Bosch and Maurizio Carlotti will control Antena 3 as president and CEO, respectively. An Italian Mediaset veteran, Carlotti formerly held ...
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Raindance to host Live! Ammunition! pitching event
Independent UK film organisation Raindance is to host Live! Ammunition!, a pitching event featuring an all-women panel, in London on July 8. The panel includes Leslee Udwin, producer of East Is East; Tracey Scoffield, head of development and executive producer at BBC Films; director Antonia Bird; and writer and actress ...
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NonStop signs up with SF Anytime VOD service
Stockholm-based distributor NonStop Entertainment AB has signed a deal with Video on Demand (VOD) service SF Anytime. The long-term agreement will see a number of NonStop-titles become available by streaming over broadband. SF Anytime earlier this year launched a VOD service allowing for the viewing of films at home through ...
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Peter Sellers on hold as Rush returns to Australia
HBO Films has reportedly put The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers on hold after star Geoffrey Rush was forced to return to Australia for personal reasons.The biopic was shooting at Shepperton Studios in the UK, but, according to UK reports, Rush took an emergency flight to Australia to be ...
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Australian producers body to launch script market
The Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) is to launch SPAAMart, an initiative aimed at presenting Australia's best scripts to potential production partners. SPAAMart will be part of the annual SPAA conference, which is being held from November 18 to 21 at Melbourne's new Centre for the Moving Image. ...