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European Commission welcomes UK first in broadband deregulation
The European Commission has approved a bold proposal by Ofcom to deregulate broadband provision in some areas of the UK. Ofcom has identified four distinct UK broadband markets, which will allow it to remove regulation in areas where competition is regarded as sufficiently strong.The move is a first for an ...
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Grant Thornton promotes Brion, Page to partner
UK-based accounting/financial services firm Grant Thornton has promoted Liz Brion and Nick Page to become partners in the firm's Media and Entertainment team.Brion joined GT in 2001 and is head of media tax.Page joined GT in 1996 and has been a specialist in the Media and Entertainment Team since 2004, ...
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Revolver strikes marketing deal with UK publisher Pan MacMillan
UK distributor Revolver has struck a unique marketing deal with publisher Pan MacMillan.The companies will work together on film releases and book tie-ins.Revolver's forthcoming release My Brother Is An Only Child by Daniele Luchetti is based on Antonio Pennacchi's Il fasciocomunista. Each will be released (in cinemas and bookstores) on ...
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Fine Cut seals slew of deals for The Chaser, Hansel And Gretel
Seoul-based sales agent Suh Young-joo's newly launched Fine Cut has announced a raft of deals from the European Film Market (EFM). Na Hong-jin's action thriller The Chaser did sales to Haut et Court for France, Cineart for Benelux, Seven Group for Greece, and Golden Scene for Hong Kong.At its opening, ...
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Before The Fall (3 Dias)
Dir: Francisco Javier Gutierrez. Spain 2008. 93 mins.The buzz surrounding this Spanish sci-fi thriller at Berlin was fuelled by both the co-production involvement of Antonio Banderas and the news that Euro genre giant Filmax had picked up international rights. It's difficult to see what all the fuss is about: for ...
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Motherland (La Terramadre)
Dir: Nello La Marca. Italy. 2008. 120mins.Italian director Nello La Marca's first narrative feature Motherland (La terramadre) is a neorealist drama about economic disenfranchisement that explores the intertwined fates of two radically different people trying to survive in the dirt-poor southern Sicilian city of Palma di Montechiaro .La Marca has ...
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Drifting Flowers (Piao Lang Qing Chun)
Dir: Zero Chou. Taiwan, 2007. 97 mins.Following on from last year's Spider Lilies and seemingly catering for the same market - gay festivals and specialised distribution - Zero Chou's episodic drama about unrequited love through childhood, adolescence and old age is another step in her 'Rainbow Colours' project about finding ...
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Countdown to Oscar: Screen Looks At The Nominees
If this year's Oscar nominations are a gauge of contemporary cinema, today's film-makers are apparently preoccupied with the dark side of the human soul - whether it be the unadulterated evil of the assassin in No Country For Old Men or the rotten heart of the oil magnate in There ...
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Love of Siam bags top honours at Thailand's Oscars
Love of Siam clinched three major prizes at the Thai Subhanahongsa Awards - billed as the nation's equivalent of the Ocars - including best picture, best director and best supporting actress. The gay drama about the friendship of two teenage boys is directed by up-and-coming filmmaker Chukiat Sakweerakul who was ...
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BEST PICTURE
This year's best picture nominees include work from some of Hollywood's biggest names - Scott Rudin, the Coens, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, Paul Thomas Anderson - as well as relative newcomers such as Jason Reitman, Tony Gilroy and Joe WrightATONEMENT Focus Features, Universal Pictures International Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner ...
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BEST DIRECTOR
The five film-makers nominated for the best director Oscar this year are among the most visionary and risk-taking in North America today.PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON There Will Be Blood Anderson roars back to the screen and could land his first directing Oscar nomination (he has two writing nods to his name) ...
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BEST ACTOR
Four Oscar veterans and one newcomer join a best actor race which sees a Brit playing American, an American playing British and an American playing Russian, not forgetting two Americans playing old-fashioned AmericanGEORGE CLOONEY, Michael Clayton Clooney gives probably his most accomplished performance to date as the amoral fixer for ...
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News Corp unveils Liberty Media tie-up
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has confirmed that it plans to strengthen ties with John Malone's Liberty Media by acquiring its 21% stake in Gemstar-TV Guide. Liberty Media is transferring its Gemstar stake to News Corp in return for 121.5 million News Corp American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), making it the ...
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BEST ACTRESS
Laura Linney is the only American in the best actress category this year, which also numbers the legendary Julie Christie, dazzling French star Marion Cotillard and 20-year-old newcomer Ellen PageCATE BLANCHETT Elizabeth: The Golden AgeShekhar Kapur's movie may have been one of the most over-directed souffles of the year, but ...
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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Hollywood writers may be involved in an acrimonious strike that could result in the collapse of this year's Academy Awards, but 10 of their number have still been shortlisted for this year's two screenplay Oscars.BRAD BIRD RatatouilleBird took over Ratatouille at a relatively late stage and came up with perhaps ...
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BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON There Will Be Blood Anderson is the first to admit his adaptation of the 1927 novel Oil! is loose - he invented many of the situations in the film using the first 100 pages of the book as the inspiration. The result is a highly original adapted ...
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
CASEY AFFLECK The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert FordAffleck was the bright new star of 2007, thanks to his breakout performance as Robert Ford; the actor anchors the film, starting off as James' biggest fan, ending as his killer.WHAT SCREEN SAID 'Ravishingly shot in an autumn-to-winter palette ...
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
CATE BLANCHETT I'm Not There One of the most respected actresses in Hollywood, Blanchett could be this year's shoo-in for the supporting category with her gender-bending turn as rock star Jude Quinn (aka Bob Dylan) in I'm Not There. Blanchett doesn't try too hard to affect a male impersonation, resulting ...