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Tiziana Finzi steps down from Locarno team
Italian-born Tiziana Finzi is to leave her post at the Locarno Film Festival team after nine years citing 'personal reasons.' A graduate in Architecture and History of Cinema at the universities of Venice and Trieste, Finzi joined Locarno in 1999 when she became the chief programmer for the Filmmakers of ...
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UK exhibitors urged to boycott Revolver's all-platform release
The UK's Cinema Exhibitors Association (CEA) has called on members to boycott Revolver Entertainment's planned Boxing Day release of Mum & Dad simultaneously on theatrical, DVD and online platforms.In a letter leaked to ScreenDaily, CEA chief executive Phil Clapp says that while the film was 'clearly only of at best ...
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Hicks starts production on Boys Are Back In Town
Scott Hicks has started shooting UK-Australia co-production The Boys Are Back In Town, which is billed as a love story between a single parent, played by Clive Owen, and his two sons. The producers Tim White (Two Hands) and Greg Brenman (Billy Elliott) have sold North American rights in advance, ...
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China's Voole.com launches legal film streaming network
Beijing-based Voole.com has launched an online film distribution network, which will stream around 1,500 films from the US, Hong Kong and Korea. Shao Yiding, CEO of Voole, announced at the China Internet Conference that Voole has signed digital distribution deals with Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers Pictures, Koreanbroadcaster MBC and Hong ...
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Eleven Arts indulges in Daytime Drinking
Ahead of the upcoming Asian Film Market, South Korea's Fine Cut has announced deals for Toronto Discovery section film Daytime Drinking, which sold to Eleven Arts for North America, and horror film Hansel And Gretel, which went to Terracota Media for the UK and MFA+ Distribution for Germany and Austria. ...
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Ayres' Scratch The Surface one of ten at SPAAmart
Tony Ayres is attached to direct Scratch The Surface, which is inspired by the murder of two-year-old James Bulger, who was brutally murdered by the two youngsters that calmly lead him away from a UK shopping centre 15 years ago. The film is one of ten projects given the thumbs ...
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ReviewsPublic Enemy Number One: Part 1/Part 2 (Mesrine: L'Instinct De Mort/Mesrine: L'Ennemi Public N1)
.Dir: Jean-Francois Richet. 2008. Fr-Can-It. Part 1: 113mins, Part 2: 132mins.
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Passchendaele to screen for Canadian troops in Afghanistan
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) opener Passchendaele will be presented to Canadian military personnel serving in Afghanistan at an advance screening Oct. 3 in Kandahar. The WWI saga is released across Canada Oct. 17 through Alliance Films. Paul Gross, writer, director and star of the film, said the screening acknowledges ...
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Almodovar to stay at home for next film
Still basking in the worldwide success of All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre), Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has decided to shoot his next film on home turf, postponing indefinitely his much anticipated English-language debut.The provisionally titled Hable Con Ella (Talk To Her) will shoot in Spain sometime next ...
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Peter Webber to directThe Spider's House
Peter Webber, who directed the Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated Girl with a Pearl Earring and Hannibal Rising, will direct Timothy Burrill's next production The Spider's House. Burrill's co-producer credits include La Vie En Rose and Swimming Pool. The screenplay for The Spider's House is by Laurie Cooke ...
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Peter Webber to directThe Spider's House
Peter Webber, who directed the Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated Girl with a Pearl Earring and Hannibal Rising, will direct Timothy Burrill's next production The Spider's House. Burrill's co-producer credits include La Vie En Rose and Swimming Pool. The screenplay for The Spider's House is by Laurie Cooke ...
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Peter Webber to directThe Spider's House
Peter Webber, who directed the Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated Girl with a Pearl Earring and Hannibal Rising, will direct Timothy Burrill's next production The Spider's House. Burrill's co-producer credits include La Vie En Rose and Swimming Pool. The screenplay for The Spider's House is by Laurie Cooke ...
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Peter Webber to direct The Spider's House
Peter Webber, who directed the Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated Girl with a Pearl Earring and Hannibal Rising, will direct Timothy Burrill's next production The Spider's House. Burrill's co-producer credits include La Vie En Rose and Swimming Pool.The screenplay for The Spider's House is by Laurie Cooke is based ...
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Body Of Lies
Dir: Ridley Scott. US. 2008. 129 mins.Ridley Scott employs all his cinematic tricks to craft a heart-thumping action thriller in Body Of Lies, which blends thematic elements of Syriana, Rendition and The Kingdom and then churns them through a high octane Bourne blender. More gripping to watch in the moment ...
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David J Anderman named general counsel for Lucasfilm
David J. Anderman has been named general counsel for Lucasfilm Ltd and will now oversee all business affairs and legal issues for the privately held company.Anderman has been a key member of Lucasfilm's legal team since he joined the company in 1998 as associate director of business affairs. He was ...
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Deepa Mehta to be honoured by LA's Loyola Marymount SFTV
Loyola Marymount University's School Of Film And Television (SFTV) will honour Deepa Mehta with the 2008 Infinite Power Of Story Lifetime Achievement Award.Mehta will receive the award during the univesity's Film Outside The Frame Festival on October 13 at the DGA in Los Angeles.. She will also be the first ...
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Wajda, Krauze & Kos-Krauze receive funding from PISF
The Polish Film Institute (PISF) has awarded funding to four projects in its third funding session this year and has tagged a number of films as eligible for support in the coming months. Husband-and-wife film-makers Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze (Saviour's Square, My Nikifor) will receive $1.9m (PLN 4.5m) for ...
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Japan's Avex and Docomo establish mobile contents company
Avex Group film subsidiary Avex Entertainment and mobile communications giant NTT Docomo have partnered to establish a company to create mobile contents. Under the name Avex Broadcasting & Communications Inc, the company will incorporate next February and begin operations in March. Avex will contribute 70% and Docomo 30% of start-up ...
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Tigerlily wraps production on Guo Xiaolu's La Chinoise
The UK's Tigerlily Films has wrapped production on London-set drama La Chinoise (working title), which is directed by Chinese writer and filmmaker Guo Xiaolu. Produced by Tigerlily's Natasha Dack through the Warp X Low Budget Initiative, the film follows a Chinese girl who moves to London and her encounters with ...
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India opens doors to DTH broadcast services
After years of indecision, India's government has finally given the go-ahead for Direct-to-Home (DTH) broadcast services in India. In addition, foreign investment in the DTH sector has been allowed but is capped at 49%. "The total foreign investment in the DTH broadcasting sector shall not be more than 49% of ...