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Thai exhibitor says political chaos is bad for business
Thailand's largest exhibitor Major Cineplex kickedoff the official opening of its latest 16-screen multiplex at upscale SiamParagon shopping centre with the premiere of Mission Impossible III - amid political and business uncertainty."The political chaostogether with high oil prices has been creating a big negative impact on thegroup's business,' says Kittsanan ...
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FFC Australia backs diverse slate of new projects
Film Finance Corporation Australia has provisionallypromised funding to three features, including writer-director Christina Andreef's adaptation of the novel Shiver, one of 18 projects in Cannes' scriptdevelopment program L'Atelier.The other two dramas are Two Fists One Heart, to be directed by NewYork-based Australian John Polson (Swimfan, Hide and Seek),and the German-Australian-Chinese ...
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Bille August starts South African shoot for Goodbye Bafana
Production has started in South Africa on Bille August's NelsonMandela project Goodbye Bafana, with Dennis Haysbertof TV's 24 playing the former South African premier and Joseph Fiennes as hisprison guard for almost 20 years, James Gregory.Diane Kruger also stars asJames' wife, Gloria, in the Banana Films/ArsamInternational production adapted for the ...
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High Point adds four films to Cannes slate
High Point Films hasadded four features to its sales slate ahead of Cannes. The London-based film and TV sales and production companyhas picked up world rights to Zoo RangersIn India, Hell in Tangier,Under The Ice, and Doomstown.Zoo Rangers in India, in post-production, is the sequel to teenage adventurefilm Zoo Rangers ...
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Star Wars, staff cuts boost Kinematografer profits
Norwegian exhibitor Oslo Kinematografer, owned by Oslo City Council, has posted a pre-tax profit of $696,000 (NKr6m) on turnover of $21.5m (NKr185m) for the 12 months to December 1999.The result is significant improvement for the company which for the last two years has reported profits close to zero. Head of ...
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Swipe takes worldwide sales on thriller Flourish
London-basedSwipe Films has picked up worldwide sales rights on Flourish, a feature that will have its debut at the Cannes Market. Thethriller stars Jennifer Morrison as a babysitter who helps investigate a younggirl's mysterious disappearance. Morrison,who stars on TV's House, alsoproduced the film. The cast also features her House co-star ...
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Rezo Films takes on sales for Uro
Heading into Cannes, France'sRezo Films International has boarded Un CertainRegard title Uro by Norway'sStefan Faldbakken.The film is a thriller about a member of an elitepolice unit who works undercover to expose a criminal drug network and ends uptorn between following the law and straying to the dark side.Urois Faldbakken's first ...
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Cannes Classics to present restored Platoon
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup for this year'sedition of Cannes Classics. The initiative is a specially programmed sectionwhich screens new and restored copies of old films.Special invitees include Oliver Stone for a screening of a restoredversion of Platoon and 20 minutes of his forthcoming film World TradeCenter. ...
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Pathe and Vertigo set to start Nick Love's Outlaw
Pathe Productions and Vertigo Films are planning a May 12start date for Nick Love's Outlaw.Sean Bean, Danny Dyer,Rupert Friend, Lennie James, Sean Harris and BobHoskins star in five interwoven stories about victims of crime taking law intotheir own hands. The feature will shoot inthe Southwest of England and London. Vertigo's ...
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Pope joins UK's NPA as CEO
The UK's New Producers Alliance (NPA) has named David Popeas its new CEO. Pope had been director of education at New York Film Academy UK.He also directed the shortfilm Skulls, Angels Mom and Dad andfeature film Miles FromNowhere. Pope is also an associatetutor for the British Film Institute and is ...
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The TV Set
Dir: Jake Kasdan. US. 2006. 87mins.One of the early highlights of the Tribeca Film Festival, Jake Kasdan'sThe TV Set is a short, sharpinsider's view of US network television. Boasting a fine cast led by David Duchovny and Sigourney Weaver, the latter giving a tastyturn as the atrociously manipulative network president, ...
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Mission: Impossible III
Dir: JJ Abrams. US. 2005. 125mins.The Mission:Impossible franchise comes full circle and returns to its TV origins withthe frenetic third film directed by small-screen icon JJ Abrams,whose series like Lost and Alias have resuscitated longform drama on the US networks. Like a souped-up $150m episode of Alias, the film is ...
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Confetti
Dir: Debbie Isitt. UK.2006. 100mins.A good-natured but uneven farce, Debbie Isitt's Confettipokes fun at the marriage industry, using a mockumentarystructure borrowed from Christopher Guest's BestIn Show - but with engaged couples instead of dogsin the limelight. Meanwhile, the deadpan humour and low-key acting style aredistinctively British, with a cast that ...
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Hungarian distributor signs for Freedom's Fury
BestHollywood has acquired distribution rights in Hungary to English-languagedocumentary Freedom's Fury, which had its world premiere last week at theTribeca Film Festival.Thefilm, which looks at the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the politicized waterpolo match between Hungary and the USSR at that year's Melbourne Olympics,will be released in Hungary on ...
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Pinefilm taps Sorby to head up acquisitions
Australian distributor Pinefilm Entertainment has appointed Nicole Sorby as head of acquisitions replacing Peter Downer who left the company last week following a breakdown in relations with owner and managing director Sean Rothsey.Rothsey was formerly a financial backer of The Globe Film Co, when Downer was one of three partners ...
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Posey, Poupaud take leads in Cassavates drama
Production is set to begin in New York on May 5 on HD Net Films'romance Broken Englishstarring Parker Posey and Melvil Poupaud.Japan's Phantom Films and France-based Back Up Films areco-producing the story based on a screenplay by John Cassavetes' daughter ZoeCassavetes, who makes her feature directorial debut.Posey plays a high-flying ...
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Strangers to open New York's NewFest on June 1
Paul Dinello's Strangers With Candy will open the 18th Annual NewFest, NewYork's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festival that runs from Jun1 to 11.Strangers With Candy stars Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert and Dinello and was written byDinello and Colbert as a prequel to the Comedy Central series of the ...
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Barbakow takes over as president of board at Santa Barbara festival
The 22nd annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF)will take place in 2007 from Jan 25 to Feb 4.Festival organisers have also announced new officers for the SBIFFboard of directors, headed up by president Jeff Barbakow, the former chairmanand chief executive officer of MGM/UA, who takes over from Arnold Kassoy.The ...
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Zeta Jones nears deal to star in Death Defying Acts
Catherine Zeta Jones in final talks to join Guy Pearce in theAustralia-UK co-production Death Defying Acts, a drama about Harry Houdini.Filming is scheduled to begin later this summer in the UK withGillian Armstrong set to direct from a screenplay by Tony Grisoni and BrianWard.The Australian Film Finance Corporation, BBC Films ...
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Kent Jusick installed as executive director and curator of MIX NYC festival
MIX NYC, the media arts organisation behind the New York Lesbian& Gay Experimental Film Festival, has installed a new team of directors.The four-person committee is led by executive director andfilmmaker and curator Stephen Kent Jusick.Co-directors are Canadian-born artist, photographer anddocumentarian Szu Burgess, animator, artist and diversity activist Kate Huh,and filmmaker ...