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Quantum Of Solace to open in India one week before US
Sony Pictures Releasing India has announced that Quantum Of Solace will be released in India on November 7, one week before the US opening on November 14. The latest film in the Bond franchise will be released in the UK on October 31. However, this marks the first time that ...
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India rolls out three big titles for Eid, Gandhi holidays
Two big Hindi movies and a Pakistani film are set to open on Thursday, October 2, in India in order to capitalise on the Eid and Gandhi Jayanti (Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary) holidays. Traditionally, the Muslim festival of Eid and the Hindu festival of Diwali are the two big holidays ...
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90% of digital screens not adequate for 3D experience, film-maker claims
Only one-in-10 of digital screens is adequate for 3D screenings, claims pioneering 3D film-maker Ben Stassen.Stassen is CEO of Brussels-based nWave which has been behing a series of successful IMAX projects and this year released 3D animation Fly Me To The Moon. But although he claims 3D is the 'second ...
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Pierre Morel to direct action thriller Hunter-Killer for Relativity
District B13's Pierre Morel is in talks to direct the action thriller Hunter-Killer for Relativity Media, who acquired the screenplay from producer Arne Schmidt based on the novel Firing Point by Don Keith and George Wallace.Kavanaugh will produce with Original Film's Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe. Relativity's Tucker Tooley will ...
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Sparrow, Monkeys lead nominees for Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Five films - two co-productions and one each from Hong Kong, India and China - are in the running to be crowned best feature at the second Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs), being held in early November in Australia.The films are Tulpan (Kazakhstan/Russia/Switzerland/Poland/Germany), Uc maymun (Three Monkeys, Turkey/France/Italy), Men Jeuk ...
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Rotterdam Festival undergoes revamp
Rotterdam is going in for a revamp. The 38th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), running 21st Jan to 1st Feb 2009, is to get a new and simplified format with three main sections - Bright Futures, Spectrum and Signals.The overhaul comes amid criticisms in recent years that ...
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Momentum Pictures acquires rights to The Crew
Momentum Pictures has acquired all UK and Irish rights to The Crew, a thriller based on the novel Outlaws by Kevin Sampson.The Crew stars Scot Williams (Backbeat, The Tulse Luper Suitcases), Kenny Doughty (Elizabeth, Crush) Rory McCann (Alexander, Hot Fuzz) and Stephen Graham (This is England and Michael Mann's forthcoming ...
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How To Lose Friends & Alienate People
Dir: Robert Weide. 2008. 109mins.The big-screen translation of Brit journalist Toby Young's doomed sojourn at Vanity Fair is a slick package that recalls everything from The Devil Wears Prada to A Fish Called Wanda (mainly for the dead dog gag). It's a breezy interpretation which should turn out the crowds ...
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A French Gigolo (Cliente)
Dir: Josiane Balasko. France. 2008.102mins.Nathalie Baye gives a classy, nuanced performance as a successful divorced woman who pays young male escorts for sex in A French Gigolo (Cliente). Writer, director and co-star Josiane Balasko's intelligent take on how the need for money and/or sex dictates human behaviour is consistently engaging ...
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Irish exhibitors to receive grants for switch to digital
Ireland's Cultural Cinema Consortium has announced a scheme which will provide funding for the purchase and installation of digital projection equipment in Irish cinemas. The consortium comprises the Arts Council and the Irish Film Board (IFB),The grants will be made available to full-time cinema operators who can demonstrate that they ...
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Portugal Telecom buys out Lusomundo
Portuguese telecommunications company Portugal Telecom (PT) has acquired the 58% it did not already own of local media and film giant Lusomundo in a transaction valued at Euros267m.The deal marks the full-blown entrance into the Portuguese feature film sector of a new heavyweight player. PT, which acquired 42% of Lusomundo ...
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Danish production Valhalla Rising completes shooting
After ten weeks in the Scottish highlands, shooting on Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising has been completed. The film stars Bond villain Mads Mikkelsenk as One-Eye, a savage warrior held captive by a clan leader. With the help of a young child, he escapes on a Viking ship which leads ...
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Abbott Vision in talks to acquire Tightrope Pictures
Writer's think-tank Abbott Vision, headed by Paul Abbott, aims to buy out producer Hilary Bevan Jones from her share of their independent production company Tightrope Pictures and rename it Abbott Productions.Abbott, creator of Shameless, aims to expand Abbott Vision through production of new drama and other content, for which Tightrope ...
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Polish Film Institute announces more than $4m in production support
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) ...
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Philip Seymour Hoffman to voice Oz animation Mary and Max
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) has joined the cast of the new claymation feature Mary and Max, to voice the role of Max.Mary and Max is the first film from writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, since their Oscar winning animated short Harvie Krumpet, winner of the 2004 Oscar for ...
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Screen International trailer park
Screen International trailer parkThe FallFilm Trailers from Filmtrailer.comHow to Lose Friends and Alienate PeopleFilm Trailers from Filmtrailer.com Brideshead RevisitedFilm Trailers from Filmtrailer.com Fly Me To The MoonFilm Trailers from Filmtrailer.com Good DickFilm Trailers from Filmtrailer.com 88 minutesFilm Trailers from Filmtrailer.com Nights in RodantheFilm Trailers from Filmtrailer.com The House BunnyFilm Trailers ...
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Men's Group, Son Of A Lion and The Black Balloon vie for Australian awards
The Black Balloon is the stand-out nominee in Australia's 10th Inside Film Awards with 10 nominations including best film, director and script. Director Elissa Down's story, based on her own family, was produced by Tristram Miall.The Black Balloon 's two rivals for best film are Men's Group, produced by director ...
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Distribution Workshop kickstarts slate with Rain Fall
Distribution Workshop, the new Hong Kong-based production and sales outfit founded by Nansun Shi and Jeffrey Chan, has picked up international rights outside Japan to upcoming Japanese thriller Rain Fall, starring Gary Oldman. The $12m film, directed by Australian Max Mannix and produced by Japan's Satoru Iseki and Megumi Fukasawa, ...
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Stanford appointed to role of General Manager, IMAX
Julian Stanford has been appointed as IMAX's General Manager, Theatre Development for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).Based in London, Stanford will be responsible for accelerating IMAX's growth and increasing its presence throughout EMEA. IMAX currently has 55 theatres open in EMEA with 15 additional theatres scheduled to open in ...
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Slovaks submit Blind Loves for Oscar
The Slovak Film and Television Academy will submit Juraj Lehotsky's documentary Blind Loves for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.Blind Loves, which screened in Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, follows four blind people as they experience love in their everyday lives. The film also screened at London BFI, ...