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No Country For Old Men dominates Academy Awards
Miramax and Paramount Vantage were the narrow winners at a largelyworkmanlike 80th Annual Academy Awards with No Country For Old Men claiming four Oscars for best film, directing and adapted screenplay for Joel and Ethan Coen and supporting actor for Javier Bardem.For winners in full, click hereThere Will Be Blood, ...
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UPI plans to march Elite Squad across Latin America
Universal Pictures International (UPI) plans to release Jose Padilha's $5m Elite Squad in theatres throughout Latin America following the film's Golden Bear win at Berlin. 'We are presenting Elite Squad in main Latin American festivals to generate a media exposure for the film,' says Mauricio Durán, UPI VP for of ...
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Palador, Zee Studio join forces to broadcast world cinema
Mumbai-based Palador Pictures, which aims to promote world cinema in the Indian sub-continent, has tied up with 24-hour movie channel Zee Studio to showcase 26 films from its catalogue. Starting April 2008, the channel will dedicated a Sunday slot to sub-titled films from directors such as Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, ...
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Singapore's InnoForm Media acquires video distributor
Singapore producer-distributor InnoForm Media has acquired leading home video distributor Alliance Entertainment as a wholly-owned subsidiary, in line with a strategy of extending its business portfolio. Established in 1999, Alliance Entertainment is a well-recognised brand not only in Singapore but also in South-East Asia with a catalogue of more than ...
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The Bank Job
Dir: Roger Donaldson. US/UK/Australia. 2008. 111 mins.The juicy combination of a Royal sex scandal, high-level corruption and the perfect crime provides The Bank Job with too many options for its own good. An entertaining recreation of true events from the 1970s, it veers between larkish, old-fashioned Italian Job-style caper, Scandal-like ...
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Early returns point to box-office recovery in Norway
Norwegian cinemas have got off to a flying start in 2008, boosting ticket sales by 27.8% between Jan 1-Feb 21 compared to the same period in 2007, according to statistics published by Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino.Local films drew 1.7m admissions in the whole of 2007. In the first ...
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The Art Of Crying named Best Danish Film
The Art Of Crying won two honours at the annual Bodil Awards last weekend in Copenhagen. Peter Schønau Fog's powerful drama won Best Danish Film and Jesper Asholt (Mifune) was named Best Actor for his mesmerizing performance of a father with incestuous tendencies. Fog had faced difficulty finding finance for ...
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Northern Ireland Screen announces $1.4m in funding for local films
Northern Ireland Screen has announced almost $1.4m in funding for indigenous film production from home-grown talent through the Northern Ireland Screen Fund, supported by Invest NI. 'Last year the big Hollywood film [Walden Media's children's adventure City Of Ember] afforded a great deal of experience for many local cast and ...
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Hong Kong Filmart expecting 7% increase in exhibitors
The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (TDC), which organises the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (Filmart), is expecting a 7% increase in the number of exhibitors at this year's event, to 480 from 30 countries and regions. The market, which aims to position Hong Kong as a vital ...
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Mumbai film festival to open with Wajda's Katyn
The 10th edition of the MAMI (Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image) film festival will open in Mumbai on March 6 with Polish master Andrzej Wajda's Oscar-nominated Katyn. Japanese director Naomi Kawase's The Mourning Forest, which won the Grand Jury Prize at last year's Cannes, will close the week-long event.Presented ...
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Tax inspectors swoop on Indian film stars
The Indian Directorate of Investigation, Income Tax, raided the houses and offices of several leading Hindi film personalities yesterday (September 27). A team of 150 officers fanned out to raid more than 30 premises belonging to film stars, directors and one distributor. Among those targeted were actresses Aishwarya Rai, Urmila ...
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Ruud Lamers to leave Warner Bros after 25 years
Managing director of Warner Home Video Benelux Ruud Lamers will leave the company on Apr 30.Lamers joined Warner Home Video Benelux upon its inception in 1982 and since then has been involved in many developments such as retail sell-through, the launch of DVD and digital distribution.'The last quarter of a ...
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AFI Dallas festival adds two cash & services awards
The AFI Dallas International Film Festival will bestow two new awards at its upcoming event, which runs from Mar 27-Apr 6.The Best Texas Film and Best Environmental Film will be sponsored by MPS Studios and Current Energy, respectively, in addition to the existing $25,000 Target Filmmaker Awards for Best Narrative ...
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Ben Ammar promises to preserve French 'cinematic heritage'
Quinta Communications boss Tarak Ben Ammar has moved to reassure the French industry that he recognises a 'cultural responsibility' in his takeover of the country's post-production sector.In December, Ben Ammar bought a 57% stake in post-production group Eclair, cementing his position as the owner of all of France's film labs.Industry ...
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MK2 picks up Berlin doc With Gilbert & George
France's MK2 has announced the acquisition of Julian Cole's documentary With Gilbert & George.The film ran in the Panorama Dokumente section of the recent Berlin Festival. MK2 has taken world rights.A moving portrait, the work traces the lives of award-winning artists Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore from their humble beginnings ...
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SPWAG picks up international rights to Terminator 4
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has picked up international rights excluding South Korea and select territories in the Middle East to The Halcyon Company's Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.The first episode in the revived franchise will be directed by McG and produced by Moritz Borman and Halycon co-CEOs Derek ...
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Magnolia's Magnet buys domestic on Sweden's Let The Right One In
Magnolia Pictures' genre arm Magnet has acquired North American rights from Bavaria Film International to Thomas Alfredson's romantic horror film Let The Right One In.Negotiations commenced immediately after the film's first market screenings in Berlin earlier in the month on the story of a 12-year-old boy's friendship with a vampire ...
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Chen, McLachlan to star in Beresford's Last Dancer
Kyle McLachlan, Bruce Greenwood and Joan Chen have been cast in Bruce Beresford's adaptation of the best-selling book, Mao's Last Dancer, which starts shooting in China next month. Jack Thompson, Aden Young, Amanda Schull and Wang Shungbao (Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress) have also joined the multinational cast.Paris-based Celluloid ...
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Bavarian regional fund announces $10.6m in funding
New productions by actor-director Til Schweiger, Christian Ditter and Mike Barker are among 35 film and TV projects allocated over $10.6m (Euros 7.2m) by the Bavarian regional fund FFF Bayern at its latest sitting.The largest amount - $1.25m (Euros 850,000) - went to Schweiger's next feature project, the medieval slapstick ...
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Chocolate becomes biggest film of the year in Thailand
Thai action flick Chocolate has become the highest-grossing film of the year in Thailand (excluding holdovers from last year), grossing $2m in less than three weeks. Produced and distributed by Sahamongkolfilm International, Chocolate is also the only film across Asia that has managed to beat Stephen Chow's alien comedy CJ7, ...