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The Fountain
Dir: Darren Aronofsky. US. 2006. 96mins.Something of a feature-length New Age doodle, The Fountain will alienate many of thosewho were turned on to indie director Darren Aronfosky by his quirky debut Pi and its follow-up, the drug-fuelled cinematic opera Requiem For A Dream. Threading its epiclove story through three time ...
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Australia submits Ten Canoes for foreign Oscar
TheAustralian Film Commission has selected Rolf de Heerand Peter Djigirr's Ten Canoes as the country's submission for the Best ForeignLanguage Oscar.De Heer wrote the film in collaboration with the people of Ramingining, a community of Yolngupeople in Central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.The project is the first feature to be shot ...
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Tartan gets UK and Irish rights to Taxidermia
Tartan Films have acquired all UK and Ireland rights to Gyorgy Palfi's Taxidermia from Fortissimo Films. The film, Palfi's follow-upto his 2003 debut Hukkle,screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes and won sixprizes at the Hungarian Film Week. It is also screening at the TorontoInternational Film Festival. Taxidermia is the ...
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ContentFilm completes acquisition of UAV and Allumination
ContentFilm has completed its previously announced acquisition ofcertain assets of UAV Corporation and UAV Holdings and AlluminationFilmWorks LLC. The company now wholly owns a significantUS DVD distribution operation. Also, the company has added KerryMcCluggage to its board of directors. McCluggage was recently appointed executive chairman of Allumination, which he ran ...
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Metrodome gets UK rights to Days Of Glory (Indigenes)
Metrodome Distribution has acquired full UK rights for DaysOf Glory (Indigenes)from Films Distribution, following on The Weinstein Company's US deal. Rachid Bouchareb's feature isabout French Algerian fighters during WWII. The North African ensemble cast,including Roschdy Zem, Samy Naceri, SamyBouajila and Jamel Debbouze, collectively won the Best Actor Prize at the ...
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UK tax credit financier Brighthaven on board for Magicians
Brighthaven, the new film financing venture formed byWaking Ned and Shooting Fish producer Richard Holmes, has agreed to board itsfirst feature film. Brighthaven will be cash-flowing thenew UK tax credit for Andrew O'Connor's Magicians,a comedy feature from the team behind the UK hit TV series Peep Show. Brighthaven was established ...
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Beirut Film Festival makes plans for October event
Despite last month's war in Lebanon, the organisers of the seventh Beirut InternationalFilm Festival have confirmed that their event will be going ahead from Oct 4-11.A range of international titles have already been invited including Mark Dornford-May's Son OfMan, Jafar Panahi's Offside, Cannes hit Paris Je T'Aime,and Pedro Almodovar's Volver.The ...
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Bobby's Estevez grateful for Weinstein support
It was hats off to Harvey time at yesterday's Venice press conference for Bobby as director Emilio Estevez and star Lindsay Lohan both paidtribute to Harvey Weinstein, the head of The Weinstein Company (which will bereleasing Bobby in the US.) "Bobby Kennedy stood for thelittle guy and the underdog. Perhaps ...
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Amir Malin assumes sole leadership of Artisan
Amir Malin has assumed sole leadership of Artisan Entertainment following the resignation yesterday of co-chief executive officer Mark Curcio. Malin will from now on be responsible for overseeing all areas of the company and its future growth. Bill Block will remain president of Artisan and will take on additional responsibilities ...
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Peccadillo gets UK rights to Maximo Oliveros and Beyond Hatred
Peccadillo Pictures hasacquired all UK and Irish rights to TheBlossoming of Maximo Oliverosby Auraeus Solito and Beyond Hatred by Olivier Meyrou. Both films won Teddy Awardswhen they played at the 2006 Berlinale. The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros, soldby UFO, is a Filipino drama about a 12-year-old cross-dresser who strikes up ...
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Metrodome works with Moodysson for Container installation
UK distributor Metrodome will launch Lukas Moodysson's new film Containerat London's ICA tied in with a unique art installation. The installation, Inside The Head Of Lukas Moodysson: The Container Crypt, will have threeseparate screens playing the film, at different intervals. The film will belooped on the three walls, with only ...
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Bobby
Dir/scr: Emilio Estevez. US.2006. 119mins.Actor-director Emilio Estevez makes a convincing return to featuredirection with Bobby, an all-starchoral drama set in Los Angeles' Hotel Ambassador on the day Democraticcandidate Robert Kennedy was assassinated there. True, it is not one of those auteurist multi- strand films like Magnolia that provokes and challenges ...
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Falling
Dir/scr: Barbara Albert.Austria. 2006. 85mins.An ensemble piece exploring the existential crisises of five thirtysomething women,Barbara Albert's Falling plays like acoded conversation between its writer/director and her female cast to which therest of us are not privy. A secretive film-maker who likes her audiences to digaround and supply the details suggested ...
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Paprika
Dir: Satoshi Kon. Japan2006. 90mins.Satoshi Kon proves againwith the teen- and adult-oriented feature Paprikajust why he is one of the most interesting anime Japanese directors right now.On the evidence here it's easy to see why his work, rather than the more conventionalTales Of Earthsea - directed by HiyakiMiyazaki's son Goro ...
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The Hottest State
Dir/scr: Ethan Hawke. US. 2006. 116mins.Films about first love are a bit like films aboutdrugs: they risk being more interesting for those involved than for theaudience. But The Hottest State -which screened in Horizons at Venice - has the grace and resilience to charm audiences,grounding its potentially self-indulgent tale into ...
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The Untouchable (L'Intouchable)
Dir/scr: Benoit Jacquot. Fr. 2006. 82mins.Resembling a vehicle for upcoming young French star Isild Le Besco, The Untouchable, the latest feature fromveteran writer/director Benoit Jacquot, follows anactress who leaves Paris for India to locate her lower caste biological father.A modest production in everyrespect that would have been better suited to ...
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Freston ousted as Viacom CEO after 26 years at the company
Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone made his second decisive move intwo weeks as chief executive officer Tom Freston was ousted from the company yesterdayafter more than 25 years of service.Philippe P Dauman, the 52-year-old former deputy chairman,replaces Freston as the new president and chief executive officer, and Thomas EDooley has been ...
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Gruberg joins MGM as senior vp, media operations, from DreamWorks
Amy Gruberg has joined MGM as senior vice president of media operationsfollowing a ten-year stint overseeing media operations at DreamWorks.Gruberg will be responsible for shaping MGM's media vision, which involvesoverseeing media strategy and placement on all theatrical and homeentertainment releases and network and cable broadcasts of titles, as well asmanaging ...
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Little Film Company picks up Toronto doc Blindsight
Robbie and Ellen Little's Little Film Company has picked upworldwide sales on the adventure documentary Blindsight, which will get its world premiere inthe Real To Reel section at Toronto.Lucy Walker directed the story of six blind Tibetan teenagers who attemptto climb Everest climbing expedition.Sybil Robson Orr of Robson Entertainment served ...
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Walk from Japan, Love from Brazil share Montreal prize
Nagai Sanpo (A Long Walk) by Eiji Okuda of Japan and O Maior AmorDo Mundo (The Greatest Love Of All) from Brazil's Carlos Diegues shared the top prize GrandPrix of the Americas at 30th Montreal World Film Festival which wrappedover the weekend. The jury, whichincluded US actress Kathy Bates, Canadian ...