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Liu Ye joins cast of Lu Chuan'sNanking! Nanking!
Chinese filmmaker Lu Chuan's war drama Nanking ! Nanking ! started shooting in Changchun city in north-east China yesterday, with Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan and Qin Lan heading the cast. Liu previously starred in Zhang Yimou's Curse Of The Golden Flower and Chen Kaige's The Promise, while Gao is best ...
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Atonement joins line-up at Dinard's British Film Festival
The Festival of British Film in Dinard has announced further films in its line-up.Titles added to the previously announced Avant Premiere section include: Joe Wright's Atonement, Anand Tucker's And When Did You Last See Your Father, and Bille Eltringham's Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution.As reported last week, Dinard (Oct 4-7) will open ...
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Yamada to shoot kabuki feature for Shochiku
Shochiku has announced that famed Japanese director Yoji Yamada will shoot a feature film version of a live kabuki performance next month, which is intended for theatrical release Two different performances of classic stories Renshishi and Ninjo-banashi Bunshichimottoi will be filmed at the Shimbashi Enbujo theatre, starring Japan 's most ...
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Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart wins Frankfurt Book Fair award
At the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, director Michael Winterbottom will receive the award for Best International Literary Film Adaptation for A Mighty Heart.The award, to be given Oct 12, comes with a $14,000 (Euros 10,000) prize. Winterbottom's film, which premiered at Cannes, is based on the 2003 book of ...
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Love Comes Lately
Dir. Jan Schutte. Germany/Austria/US 2007. 86 min.Jan Schutte's adaptation of three short-stories by the Yiddish writer and Nobel-prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer will attract mostly mature audiences who will identify with its central character, octogenarian writer Max Kohn. Like most adaptations of works by great authors, the picture faces the ...
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Shadows
Dir/Scr: Milcho Manchevski. Macedonia 2007. 120mins.A ghost story that draws on the irrational to explore the historical and cultural redress of displaced Macedonians, Milcho Manchevski's third feature Shadows is ambitious and capably mounted. However it is too fastidious for its own good, and is damaged by dramatically contradictory parts that ...
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France's MK2 set to launch loyalty pass
MK2 plans to launch a loyalty pass, as an answer to the cards created by fellow French exhibitors UGC, Pathe and Gaumont. The company's chairman Marin Karmitz - who has been one of the staunchest opponents of loyalty passes - is not giving details about the card, but said in ...
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Korean trio makes splash in Screen International chart
Korean films made a big impact on the international chart this weekend together accounting for 5.4% of the international revenue from the top-40 films over the three-day period.Kidnapping Granny K, Two Faces Of My Girlfriend and The Happy Life all made the top 25 films at the weekend, having only ...
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Art Of Crying and A Man's Job enter foreign Oscar race
Danish director Peter Schonau Fog's The Art of Crying (Kunsten at gaede i kor) and Finnish director Aleksi Salmenpera's A Man's Job (Miehen tyo) have joined the race for consideration for the Best Foreign-Language Oscar.Both are also nominated for the Nordic Council Film Prize.Fog's feature debut, which was selected by ...
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Mad Detective
Dir. Johnny To, Wai Ka Fai. Hong Kong 2007. 89 min.The prolific Johnny To and his occasional collaborator Wai Ka Fai here put a new twist on the standard police yarn. No longer simply good cop versus bad cop, they add a third angle, the mad cop, who uses neither ...
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Rome Extras sidebar to include Malick conversation
The Rome Film Fest's Extra section - one of the festival's primary sidebars, has unveiled its packed and diverse line-up.While the Fest will present main stream filmgoers-fare in the Premiere and Cinema 07 line-ups next week, Extra serves as Rome's experimental portal. Artistic director Mario Sesti told ScreenDaily.com that Extra ...
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Blueprint takes film rights to Before I Die
Blueprint Pictures, working with its slate deal with Pathe, Film4 and the UK Film Council, has picked up film rights to Jenny Downham's debut novel Before I Die.The deal was negotiated by Caroline Wood at Felicity Bryan Agency on behalf of Catherine Clarke.David Vickling Books published the novel on July ...
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Affleck, Connelly, Meron and Zadan get Hollywood Awards
Ben Affleck will be named Hollywood Breakthrough Director Of The Year, Jennifer Connelly Hollywood Supporting Actress Of The Year and Neil Meron and Craig Zadan Hollywood Producers Of The Year at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony in Los Angeles on Oct 22.The awards show takes place at the close of ...
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IFC Entertainment takes North America on Kalin's Savage Grace
IFC Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Tom Kalin's Savage Grace, which had its world premiere in Directors Fortnight at Cannes this year.The film will be released theatrically and at the same time on video on demand cable platforms in the US as part of IFC First Take programme.Julianne ...
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Dimension touts Superhero as next potential franchise
Dimension Films has begun production on Superhero, a comedy written and directed by Craig Mazin who directed both Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4 for the company.An ensemble cast has been assembled for the film including Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Leslie Nielsen, Kevin Hart, Marion Ross, Ryan ...
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Terrence Howard stars with Channing Tatum in Montiel's Fighting
Terrence Howard will co-star with Channing Tatum in Dito Montiel's action drama Fighting, which begins shooting in New York City this week for Rogue Pictures. Kevin Misher is producing the film through his Misher Films.The film, set in the world of underground street fights, stars Tatum as a young man ...
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Summit signs Canada, UK deal with Entertainment One
Summit Entertainment has signed a multi-territory, all rights agreement with Canada's brand new Entertainment One (E1) whereby E1 will handle Summit titles in Canada through E1 subsidiary Seville Entertainment and in the UK through subsidiary Contender Films. The deal will run through 2010.The announcement was made yesterday by Summit co-chairmen ...
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Spain's Prisa reports 40% profit increase
Spanish multimedia giant Grupo Prisa reported first half profits of $46.6m (PTS8,393m), a 40.7% rise over the same period last year. Operating revenues rose 86% to $470m (PTS87.5bn). The first half of 2000 has been an important period for Prisa, which floated 20% of its shares to great success on ...
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TWC, Exodus to co-produce CG-animated comedy Navy Seals
The Weinstein Company and CG-animated production outfit Exodus Film Group have named the first film in their strategic partnership. Navy Seals, a story concept developed in-house at Exodus, is an adventurous family comedy about an elite pod of US Navy dolphins who are captured, their only hope for rescue being ...
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Arts Alliance America picks up Life After Tomorrow
Arts Alliance America, the new US DVD arm of Arts Alliance Media which was formerly Hart Sharp Video, has picked up US DVD rights to the documentary Life After Tomorrow.Directed by Julie Stevens and Gil Cates Jr, the film explores the life-changing repercussions of child performers in the long-running Broadway ...