All articles by Sandy George – Page 9
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NewsOnly God Forgives wins in Sydney
Nicolas Winding Refn’s violent thriller, starring Ryan Gosling, wins top prize at the Sydney Film Festival.
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NewsHugo Weaving agrees to ride Mule
One of Australia’s most internationally recognised character actors, Hugo Weaving (The Lord Of The Rings, The Matrix), is to star in comedy The Mule, which recently went into production in Melbourne.
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NewsScreen Australia backs dozen
Kriv Stenders, director of Red Dog, the eighth biggest Australian hit of all time in its home market, is attached to two of the 12 projects that have just received development money from Screen Australia.
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NewsSydney unveils competition line-up
Cannes titles Grigris and Borgman are among the 12 titles selected for the 60th Sydney Film Festival’s competition line-up.
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NewsFilmart: Film adaptations help integrate cultures
Indian investment banker-turned-novelist Chetan Bhagat said the Indian film industry is only recently becoming more active in adapting books for screen, but that shoudl grow as India’s independent film production sector grows.He noted that in India, commerical films are driven by the audience’s desire for escapism, formulaic stories and stars, ...
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NewsAustralia’s movie convention moves to October
Move will highlight Christmas line-up and is hoped to attract new international delegates.
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NewsFear spreads for StudioCanal
EXCLUSIVE: StudioCanal has sold Sundance Film Festival title In Fear to Umbrella for Australia and New Zealand at Filmart.
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NewsDutch thriller Taped sells to Japan
EXCLUSIVE: New Select has acquired Japanese rights to the Dutch thriller Taped from Australian sales agent Odin’s Eye Entertainment at Filmart.
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CommentA new animal kingdom
One family-friendly title at Filmart features Gregory Popovich sharing the spotlight with dozens of rescued cats and dogs.
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NewsJim Gillespie to direct Take Down
Radiant Films International has signed on to represent the teen thriller Take Down, to be directed in the UK later in the year by I Know What You Did Last Summer director Jim Gillespie, from a script by Ransom writer Alexander Ignon.
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NewsJust Like A Woman selling well for Doc & Film
EXCLUSIVE: Company also strikes deals for Berthe Morisot, Tenderness, Violette.
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NewsChinese hits may have trouble travelling
Filmart panel explores selling and branding of Chinese-language films.
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NewsTen Asian projects in Filmart’s ACE line-up
Ten producers and feature films from the region are among the 16 currently attending the third Hong Kong co-production lab held by Ateliers du Cinéma Européen (ACE) during Filmart.
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NewsAustralian delegation returns to China
An official delegation of Australian film producers, bureaucrats and film service company representatives are heading to China for the third round of formal meetings in four years.
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NewsFilms Boutique makes Haneke doc sales
EXCLUSIVE: Michael H Profession: Director sells to Australia, Taiwan, Canada and beyond.
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NewsAustralia earmarks $21m for incentives
The Australian government this week put aside $21m (A$20m) to attract high-budget international film production, but exactly how it is going to be used will not be known until the industry has been consulted, which may be a few weeks.
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Cambodia's Sotho lines up Om-Tuk, Last Reel
Filming wraps in a few days in Cambodia on the international co-production Om-Tuk which Australian writer/directors Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Michael Cody are producing alongside Phnom Penh-based Kulikar Sotho.
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NewsKing's Speech producers grab autobiography
The true story of how a poor five-year-old Indian boy was separated from his mother, adopted by an Australian family, then found her 25 years later, is to be made into a film by See-Saw Films producers Emile Sherman and Iain Canning.