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Out Of Control wins top Britspotting prize
Dominic Savage's Out Of Control has won the Best Feature Film Award at the 4th 'britspotting' British Independent Film Festival in Berlin.The award for the hard-hitting study of three juvenile delinquents from the poverty stricken estates of South London includes Euros 13,000 worth of post-production and online editing work to ...
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Post-production monopoly challenged in Argentina
A new major post production facility will launch in August in a bid to challenge the monopoly of leading facility Cinecolor in Argentina. The new lab, called LACSA, aims to bring down the prices set by Cinecolor which has forced major and local distributors to deeply reduce their local ...
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Dead Bodies
Dir: Robert Quinn. Ireland. 2003. 85mins.Dead Bodies achieves most of what it hopes to be: a low-budget, jokey thriller peopled by plot-expedient characters who are too young to develop character or motivation. But the debut feature from director Robert Quinn, , the first film shot in Ireland on high-definition, lacks ...
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Hollywood prays for summer salvation
When 20th Century Fox's X2: X-Men United opens in the US (and 92 other territories) this weekend, it will trigger the start of a nervously anticipated domestic summer season.Box office in the first quarter of this year has been sluggish, casting doubts over whether 2002's all-time record of $3.16bn in ...
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Icon seduced by Loach's Fond Kiss
Ken Loach may not be such a stranger in his own land after all. Having typically financed his films with little more than a TV deal out of the UK, the director's regular producer Rebecca O'Brien has secured an all-rights pre-sale on Ae Fond Kiss to Icon Film Distribution.The deal ...
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HBO London trumpets first sale on Elephant
HBO Films London has struckits first sales deal on Gus van Sant's Cannes-competition bound film Elephant. All rights in France were sold to mini-major MK2,which can be expected to support its launch at the festival.The film is related to hisprevious film Gerry in style.Focusing on high-school violence, it was shot ...
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Malaysian censors change their minds on Iraq
The MalaysianCensor Board, Censorship Film Malaysia, has overturned its previous ruling toban Bahman Ghobadi's Marooned In Iraq. The board originally informeddistributor Sureya Film at the end of March that the film promoted the image ofSaddam Hussein as "inhumane" and would be damaging to relationsbetween Malaysia and Iraq and Iran.The ruling ...
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US puts Taiwan and Russia on its Priority anti-piracy list
In anendorsement of the Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA)inchoate anti-piracy strategy, the United States Trade Representative hasplaced Taiwan and Russia on its global Priority Watch List.AmbassadorRobert Zoellick's Special 301 annual review, named after the section ofthe 1988 Trade Act that empowers the US to act against countries that block ...
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Horror scores in German market
As Scream 3 breaks records in the US, the horror genre is making its mark in Germany - and this time for a locally produced film. Anatomie, written and directed by hot young Austrian Stefan Ruzowitzky, attracted 320,000 cinema-goers over its opening four-day weekend. Making almost $2m (DM4m) from 386 ...
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GreeneStreet, Kimmel team for Slow Burn
GreeneStreet Films and Sidney Kimmel Entertainmentannounced today (May 1) that they will co-finance writer-director WayneBeach's thriller Slow Burn in aco-production deal with Bonnie Timmermann Productions.The actioncentres on an ambitious district attorney who has a 24-hour showdown with apowerful gang leader.Ray Liotta andLL Cool J will star in the project. Liotta ...
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Whale Rider and The Cuckoo tie for San Francisco Festival audience award
NikiCaro's drama Whale Rider and Alexander Roqozhkin's Russian anti-war comedy The Cuckoo tied for first place in lastnight's (May 1) Virginmega Audience Awards at the 46th San FranciscoInternational Film Festival.Runner-up wentto Chen Kaige's rites-of-passage Chinese drama Together. Best documentary feature went to HeartOf The Sea: Kapolioka'Ehukai, a profile of the ...
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Lot 47's Williams partners up with Vanco at Cowboy
Greg Williams, CEO of Lot 47Films, is to join John Vanco as a partner in Cowboy Pictures. He brings VickiLoughery and Rick Thiedig with him from Lot 47. Williams will retain thelabel of Lot 47 Films and continue to exploit its library's ancillary rights.Williams and his team are in the ...
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IN-motion boards Romero chiller
London-based sales house IN-motion Pictures has boarded horror -meister George A Romero's thriller The ILL.IN-motion will handle worldwide sales excluding the UK and US on the project, to be directed by Romero and produced by Thierry Cagianut and Matthew Myers of P-Kino Films. Principal photography starts in September on location ...
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Calendar Girls head for Cannes
Buena Vista International's highly-anticipated UK comedy Calendar Girls will screen at Cannes outside the festival.The story of members of the traditionally stuffy Women's Institute who pose for a charity nude calendar will screen Thursday May 15. Stars Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, along with the real women on which the ...
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Samurai Resurrection (Makai Tensho)
Dir: Hideyuki Hirayama. Japan. 2003. 106minsHideyuki Hirayama's Samurai Resurrection has the flamboyant costumery, bravura swordplay and super-powered trickery of many a Hollywood sci-fi or fantasy epic, but served up with a distinctive Japanesque spin. It may not be ideal remake material, unless the re-makers figure out how to Westernise a ...
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Mexico's production activity intensifies
Despite a challenging economic climate, a raft of new film companies are suddenly launching in Mexico - all hoping to hit the big time with their new projects.Many have been spurred on by the kind of success seen by local blockbuster El Crimen Del Padre Amaro. The new outfits are ...
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Hopkins receives tribute at Maui Film Festival
Anthony Hopkinswill receive the Silversword Award Tribute at the 4th Annual Maui Film Festivalat Wailea, Hawaii, which runs from Jun 11-15.The honour,named after a rare indigenous plant, goes to actors or film-makers whosecontributions to cinema and their personal commitment affect positive change inthe world. Clint Eastwood collected the accolade last ...
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Veneziano is back at Alliance Atlantis, moves from LA to London
ArielVeneziano has been appointed director of motion picture sales and internationalhome video distribution at Alliance Atlantis Entertainment Group, president ofdistribution Ted Riley announced today (May 2).Effective immediately,Veneziano will be based in the company's London office where he willoversee European film sales and worldwide home video distribution (excludingNorth America).He will report ...
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Artisan bets big on black entertainment
Shrewd US distributor Artisan Entertainment is boosting its product supply once again, this time sealing an agreement this week to distribute 6-8 black-themed films across North America.The films will be made by BET Pictures II, a subsidiary of BET Holdings II, the first and only black-owned and operated entertainment company ...