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Sony poised to pounce on The Band's Visit
Sony Pictures Classics is reportedly poised to take North Americanrights excluding French-speaking Canada to Eran Kolirin's Un Certain Regard hit The Band's Visit. The Israeli-French film follows an Egyptian police band that gets stranded in Israel after they arrive for a ceremony and end up befriending the local villagers.Bleiberg Entertainment ...
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Buyers take Control of Becker's hot Corbijn title
Becker International has closed several deals for Anton Corbijn's hot Director's Fortnight opener Control. The new territories sold are Japan (Style Jam), Scandinavia (Atlanta), Brazil (Daylight), Poland (Gutek), Croatia (Continental Films), and Russia (Maywin Media). US negotiations are ongoing.The existing distributors already in place for the Ian Curtis biopic are ...
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Salsa to open London's Latin American fest
Salsa, featuring Cuban band Sierra Maestra, opens September's Latin American Film Festival, the London-based event has announced.Directed by Joyce Sherman Bunuel, the film follows a young composer's obsession with salsa. This year's festival runs September 1-14 in London and then around the UK.Other highlights include a focus on Brazilian films, ...
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Paranoid Park
Dir/scr: Gus Van Sant. US-Fr. 2007. 85mins.Gus Van Sant is such a consummate filmmaker, so in love with the visual and aural texture of the medium, that it's difficult at first to pinpoint the niggling problem with Paranoid Park, his most experimental feature to date. It's not that Van Sant ...
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Arthouse takes North American DVD rights to Cartier-Bresson box
Arthouse Films has acquired North American DVD rights to the Henri Cartier-Bresson double DVD box set, featuring five films by the master photographer and several documentaries on his life and work.The deal was struck with French sales company MK2's head of sales Mathilde Henrot by David Koh, head of acquisitions ...
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Double Edge comes on board for King Of Fighters
Taiwan's Double Edge Entertainment has boarded King Of Fighters: The Movie which it will jointly finance and produce with Japan's Micott & Basara and Arclight Films/Easternlight Films.Bobby Sheng, CEO of the Los Angeles and Taipei-based production and finance outfit, will produce alongside Axis Entertainment's Joseph Chou and Convergence Entertainment's Tim ...
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BIG Media rides with Jingle Ma's Playboy Cops
Hong Kong's BIG Media Group is joining forces with mainland Chinese digital cinema operator Time Antaeus to co-produce Jingle Ma's next project Playboy Cops.Chinese actor Chen Kun and Hong Kong's Shawn Yue are set to star in the $2.2m action comedy which is scheduled to start shooting at the end ...
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Night Bus drives to UK and Korea
Italy's Intramovies has sold Night Bus (Notturno Bus) to ACMEInternational Investments for the UK with theatrical release through Maiden Voyage Pictures and to K& Entertainment for South Korea.A debut film by Davide Marengo, Night Bus is an action comedy starring Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Valerio Mastrandrea. Producers are Maura Vespini and ...
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Cronenberg swarms to executive produce Woodley's Drone
David Cronenberg will executive-produce horror Drone, the next film by Aaron Woodley (being pre-sold in Cannes by Global Cinema Group.) The film is being produced by Joel B. Michaels and Garth H. Drabinsky.Drone, written by Jon Felson and Rusty Gorman, is based on a short story by TC Boyle. It ...
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F&ME strikes with White Lightnin'
Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) the London-based production and distribution outfit run by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor, has begun production on three feature films all shooting in the US and with a fourth slated to start in October in Canada.Headlining the slate is the debut feature from Dominic Murphy, ...
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Krampack
Dir: Cesc Gay. Spain. 2000. 90 mins.Prod co: Messidor Films. Backers: Canal Plus, Television de la Catalunya. Int'l sales: Art Box. Prod: Marta Esteban, Gerardo Herrero. Scr: Cesc Gay, Tomas Aragay. DoP: Andreu Rebes. Prod des: Llorenc Miguel. Editor: Frank Gutierrez. Music: Joan Quilis, Albert Manera, Ricard Casals. Main cast: ...
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Cannes Residence names next six directors
Six directors have beenselected by the Cannes Film Festival Residence to participate in the 13thedition of the scheme from October 2006 through February 2007.A jury presided over bydirector Rithy Panh haschosen Natacha Feola fromthe US, Fien Troch fromBelgium, Antonio Campos of the US, Sebastian Campos of Chile, Alexis Dos Santosof ...
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Pakistani feature starts historic shoot in India
Pakistani director JavaidFazil has started shooting his latest film, IShall Return (Ek Din Lot Kar Aain Ga),in Mumbai, marking the first time that a Pakistani film has ever lensed in India. Fazil, who started shootinglast week, had earlier gone to Mumbai with composer Javaad Ahmad to recordsongs with the voices ...
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Monster House
Dir: Gil Kenan. USA. 2006.89mins.Seemingly every neighbourhoodhas a house or two whose spooky reputation derives either from an owner neverglimpsed or else an atmosphere unnervingly caustic and weird. The animatedmovie Monster House takes this impressionto the extrapolated extreme in a slick, wholly rousing family adventure aboutthree pre-teens banding together to ...
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Edinburgh to open 60th year with The Flying Scotsman
The2006 Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) will open with the worldpremiere of The Flying Scotsman. Thefilm tells the true story of champion cyclist Graeme Obreeand marks the feature directorial debut of Douglas MacKinnon. Jonny Lee Miller plays Obree andthe cast also includes Brian Cox, Billy Boyd and Laura Fraser.The60th Festival ...
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UK's Eat Cinema channel partners with Metro Newspapers
The UK's film promotion TV channel, EatCinema, has announced a three-month sponsorship deal with Metro Newspapers to startin mid-July.This is the first sponsorship deal Eat Cinema has signedsince its launch at the end of February.Over the three month period, Eat Cinema will provide videoclips and interviews to put onto the ...
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New York extends tax credits until 2011
New York's Mayor Bloombergyesterday [11] signed into law a bill that expands the city's 5% tax credit onbelow-the-line expenses for qualified film and television productions.The New York State 2007 executive budget allocates $30m in annual funding forthe tax credit scheme through 2011, complementing a $60m state allocation for a10% tax ...
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New York bulks up 5% city tax credit for film, TV
New York City's Mayor Bloomberghas signed into law a bill that expands the city's 5% tax credit on below-the-line expenses for qualified film and television productions.The New York State 2007 executive budget allocates $30m in annual funding for the tax credit scheme through 2011, complementing a $60m state allocation for ...
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Applegate joins Farce Of The Penguins voice cast
Christina Applegate islending her sultry tones to the voice cast of THINKFilm's documentary spoof FarceOf The Penguins.Applegate will voice the part of Melissa, whom director Bob Saget describes asa 'grounded and sexually compatible' partner to his character, Carl.Samuel L Jackson narrates the story and Lewis Black, Mo'Nique and Tracy Morganround ...
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LA Confidential's Hanson hits Melbourne festival
LA Confidential's Curtis Hanson will attend the Melbourne International Film Festival when the US director's Wonderboys opens the event.Hanson will also participate in a q&a session during the 19-day event, which runs from July 19 to August 6.Home-grown talent will be showcased on the closing night, with the local premiere ...
