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Punk to promote The Gigolos with My Single Friend
Punk Cinema is teaming withthe UK dating website My Single Friend to promote their newfilm The Gigolos to single young professionals. The site attracts 300,000visitors per month and has more than 70,000 members, and Punk notes that theseusers are "above-average cinema attendees and fans of intelligent, independentmovies."The campaign, which includesadvertising ...
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Austrian board backs biopic of popstar Falco
Debut features by Serbianfilmmaker Stefan Arsenijevic and the Iranian-born video artist Shirin Neshatand a biopic on the life of Rock Me Amadeus singer, the Austrian pop star Falco,are among six new projects backed with a total of $1.75m (Euros 1.31m) by thejoint funding committee of the Austrian Film Institute and ...
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Filmauro to adapt Manfredi's The Empire of Dragons
Aurelio De Laurentiis has announcedthat his Rome-based Filmauro production company has purchased the rights to The Last Legion author Valerio MassimoManfredi's The Empire of Dragons,with principal shooting to take place in China next year.A period epic adventure, Dragon winds a historical tale thatintersects the Roman and Chinese civilizations. Currently being ...
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The Lives Of Others and Volver share EFA honours
FlorianHenckel von Donnersmarck's Stasi thriller The Lives Of Others (Das Leben Der Anderen) and Pedro Almodovar's Volver werethe big winners at this year's European Film Awards.TheGerman entry for the Oscar and Golden Globes, won best European Film, bestactor for Ulrich Muehe and best screenplay for the director at the awardsceremony ...
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The Good German
Dir: Steven Soderbergh. US. 2006.107mins.Steven Soderbergh's latestcinematic experiment is an homage to atmospheric wartime noir classics like The Third Man and Casablanca, attempting to reconjure themagic by recreating post-war Berlin on the backlot, shootingin black-and-white and encouraging the actors to give heightened theatricalperformances a la Bogart or Dietrich. It's a ...
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Spain's Ono to pump $1.7bn into expanding network
Spain's nascent cable industry is set for a major tranche of investment as local cable operator Ono (Cableuropa) has unveiled plans to invest $1.7bn (PTS300,000m) over the next five years to expand its broadband network into new regions of Spain.The company, which said it plans to build "one of the ...
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Apocalypto
Dir: Mel Gibson. US. 2006.136mins.True to the pre-release PR spin and healthy industrybuzz, Mel Gibson's Apocalyptois less of a stodgy history lesson and more of a fleet-footed action adventure- albeit one with a highly unusual setting in the world of the ancient Maya.The action is sometimes thrilling and the evocation ...
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Danes dominate IFDA doc prizes
The 19th International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), proveda triumph for Danish documentary makers.IDFA's most prestigious prize, The VPRO Joris Ivens Award, went to Danish feature doc The Monastery - Mr Vig And The Nun, directed byPernille Rose Gronkjaer. (The Monastery was also selected last weekfor The World Cinema Documentary Competition ...
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Grisebach's Longing takes top prizes at Gijon
Spain's Gijon International Film Festival (Nov 28- Dec 1) awarded its top honours to Valeska Grisebach's Longing (Sehnsucht).The German film about a man who unexpectedly falls in love with another woman, picked up best feature film award and the Fipresci prize.The best director prize was awarded ex-aequo to Maziar Miri ...
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Feet keeps marching for Warner Bros in domestic market
Warner Bros' animated hit Happy Feet kept on marching and stayed atop thecharts for the third consecutive weekend as Sony's Casino Royale remained in second place.Happy Feetadded an estimated $17m for $121m after three weekends, while 007 raised histally by $15.1m to $115.9m after the same amount of time. Casino ...
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Chinese film wins Golden Peacock at Goa
HasiChaolu's Chinese drama The Old Barber won the Golden Peacock best film award at the 37th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. Theprize, with its $22,000 (Rs 1m) purse, was presented by actor-writer-directorAparna at the closing ceremony of the festival.Announcingthe award, jury chairman, Australian filmmaker Rolf De Heer ...
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SPRI's Casino wins jackpot with $44.7m third weekend
Bond ruled the waves for a third consecutive weekend as CasinoRoyale grossed anestimated $44.7m from 6,770 prints in 54 territories for $196.5m.The film will cross $200m on Monday [Day 17] and alreadystands at more than $312m worldwide. 007 is on course to finish hisinternational mission in the mid-$300m range.Casino Royale ...
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Chan's $40m Ci Ma starts shooting in Beijing
Andre Morgan and Peter Ho-sunChan, who together run production house Morgan Chan Films, unveiled their$40m martial arts period drama Ci Ma (working title) today in Beijing.The Hong Kong-China co-productionis directed by Chan and features a stellar cast headed by Jet Li, Andy Lau andTakeshi Kaneshiro. Principal photography has just started ...
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Gaumont goes digital with XDC France
French major Gaumont hassigned a deal with digital developer XDC to offer its upcoming features in adigital format for cinemas equipped with the necessary projection systems. Themove makes Gaumont the first French producer/distributor to make its filmsavailable digitally. The newly created XDCFrance, a subsidiary of XDC International, proposes technical ...
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Sean Ellis starts shoot for The Broken
Writer/director Sean Ellishas started principal photography for his second feature, The Broken. As previously reported, LenaHeadey stars and the cast also includes Richard Jenkins, Melvil Poupaud, UlrichThomsen, Michelle Duncan and Asier Newman. The psychological horrorfilm will shoot for seven weeks. Headey plays a woman who thinks she seesherself drive past ...
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ACE seminars to look at 17 European projects
TheEuropean Cinema Workshops (ACE) will be held this year from Dec 6-12 inRoubaix/Tourcoing in the Nord Pas-de-Calais region of France.Theworkshops are an opportunity for European producers to gather with European andUS professionals in order to examine financing, co-production and distributionpotential for, in this year's case, a total of 17 projects. ...
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Edinburgh festival to host Luzhin premiere
Marleen Gorris' The Luzhin Defence and Bill Eagles' Beautiful Creatures are amongst the world premieres at next month's Edinburgh International Film Festival (August 13-27).Artistic director Lizzie Francke has also confirmed that the festival will be book-ended by Lars von Trier's opening film Dancer In The Dark and Wong Kar-Wai's closing ...
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NewsSweden unveils plans to scrap state film censor
Sweden is planning to scrap its film censorship body under plans revealed in a government research paper this week.
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NewsPeter Carlton to lead Warp’s European expansion
Film4 senior commissioning executive Peter Carlton is leaving to set up the European division of Warp Films.Carlton, who leaves Film4 after six years, will also act as executive producer across selected projects from its UK-based slate, and will work closely with Warp Films’ joint managing directors’ Mark Herbert and Robin ...
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NewsAFI won't continue partnership with Dallas festival
The Dallas Film Society will continue the Dallas International Film Festival even though the American Film Institute will no longer sponsor the event.