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Serra's Honor from Spain wins Turin Film Festival
Spanish director AlbertSerra's Honor de Cavalleria tookbest film honors at the 24th annualTurin Film Festival which wrappedSaturday in the Northern Italian city.Cavalleria was awarded the Euro 20,500 ($26,000) Lancia Prizein the fest's international feature film section dedicated to the discovery ofnew filmmakers. The jury called Serra's film "a moving, elegant, ...
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Feet shuffles past Casino at US box office
Warner Bros' animated feature Happy Feet pipped Sony's James Bond epic CasinoRoyale to the post as the two top films ofthe weekend unusually grossed more than $40m each.Happy Feet, a storyabout a tap-dancing penguin featuring the vocal talents of Hugh Jackman NicoleKidman and Robin Williams, opened on an estimated $42.3m ...
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Beauty In Trouble takes Denver's Kieslowski Award
Jan Hrebejk's Beauty In Trouble was the winner of this year's Krzysztof KieslowskiAward for best feature film at the Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF) whichended on Saturday night with the US premiere of Werner Herzog's RescueDawn.For the first time this year, Screen International partneredwith SDFF to present the Kieslowski award, ...
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SPRI wins big with Bond, taking $42.2m from 27 markets
Bondis back and then some as Casino Royalelaunched at number one in all its 27 markets on an estimated $42.2m throughSony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).Thestirring result - powered by a franchise record in the UK and anastonishing Indian debut - vindicates the producers' decision to slip therough-hewn Daniel Craig into ...
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Miike starts shooting English-language spaghetti western
Following months of rumourand speculation, cult director Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western: Django is now before cameras. Details of theproduction were announced to the press on location in Yamagata prefecture yesterday.Though set during the Genpeiclan wars of the 12th century, the film is being billed as Japan's first true western. The ...
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Novkovic wins hat-trick of awards at Cottbus festival
Serbiandirector Oleg Novkovic scored a hat-trick at this year's FilmFestival Cottbus(Nov 14-18) when his latest feature Tomorrow Morning (Sutra Ujutru) won the Main Prize for Best Film, the FIPRESCI Prize and thenewly-created From Cottbus to Cinema Distribution Support Prize.This Novkovicthird film to show at the festival of East European Cinema, ...
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Besson gets permissions for Cinema City project
The mayor of Saint-Denis has signed the construction permit for Luc Besson's Cinema City project, it was announced Friday. Didier Paillard, mayor of the Parisian suburb, gave the go-ahead for the long-gestating project which will see soundstages, workshops, offices and other amenities built on a 65,000 square metre site.In a ...
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Turin gives top prize to Honor de Cavalleria
Spanish director AlbertSerra's Honor de Cavalleria took bestfilm honors at the 24th edition of the Turin Film Festival which wrappedSaturday in the Northern Italian town.Cavalleria was awarded the $26,000(Euros 20,500) Lancia Prize in the fest's international feature film sectiondedicated to the discovery of new filmmakers. The jury called Serra's film'a ...
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Dubai to open third festival with Bobby
The Dubai InternationalFilm Festival (DIFF) has selected Emilio Estevez's Bobby for its opening night gala on Dec 10. The film followsthe lives of 22 people on the night of Robert Kennedy's 1968 assassination. Theensemble cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Christian Slater,Lawrence Fishburne, Joshua Jackson and Lindsay Lohan.The festival willoffer ...
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Raoul Ruiz taps Damian Lewis for Love And Virtue
Raoul Ruiz's period epic Love And Virtue has lined up a stronginterernational cast including Damian Lewis, Virginie Ledoyen, John Malkovich,Peter O'Toole, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Dillane, Leonor Varela, Vincent Perez, DarylHannah, Michael Madsen, Melvil Poupaud, Anna Massey, Cristian de la Fuente MaxRyan, Alexa Rey and Boo Boo Stewart.Lewis plays the hero,Orlando, ...
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Rome Film Fest starts Rome Cinema Foundation
Rome FilmFest has announced the formation of Rome Cinema Foundation, intended tostrengthen the new Cinema Festa di Roma, which ran its first edition Oct 13-21in the Italian capitol.Goffredo Bettiniwill leave his role as president of Rome Music Foundation at the Auditorium Music Park where hehas been President since 1996 to ...
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Cronenberg starts London shoot for Eastern Promises
Production startsin London this week on David Cronenberg's thriller Eastern Promises, starring ViggoMortensen and Naomi Watts.The KudosPictures and Serendipity Point Films co-production will be distributed in the US and internationally by Focus Features,while Alliance Atlantis will distribute in Canada. Steven Knightwrote the script about a ruthless man involved in organised ...
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London to host fifth Discovering Latin America Film Festival
The fifth Discovering LatinAmerica Film Festival will run in London from Nov 23 to Dec 3. The programme includes 40features, documentaries and shorts from 10 countries across Latin America. Features include Forbidden to Forbid (Proibido Proibir) by Brazil's Jorge Duran, Habana Blues by Cuba's Benito Zambranoand Sacred Family (La Sagrada ...
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Argentina's Aleph tries on Runaway Shoes
Argentina's Aleph Productions has boarded $2m comedy Runaway Shoes (Viva Sapato!) as co-producer alongside Brazil's Total Filmes and Spain's Euroficcion.The Spanish-language film, touted as the first ever co-production between Brazil, Argentina and Spain, will be shot in Brazil and Cuba in December this year. It will feature Cuban actor Jorge ...
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London To Brighton wins at Seagate Foyle festival
The 19th Seagate Foyle FilmFestival wrapped yesterday in Northern Ireland after 10 days of screenings and other activities withthe presentation of its Stella Artois Film Awards. Paul Andrew Williams' London To Brightoncontinued its winning streak by capturing the best feature film prize. Bestdocumentary was The Real Dirt On Farmer John ...
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Marrakech to open with The Departed
The sixth Marrakech Film Festival will kick off on Dec1 in the Moroccan town with a screening of Martin Scorsese's The Departed. The festival will close with Mon Meilleur Ami by Patrice Leconte. Roman Polanski will head upthe jury alongside Sandrine Bonnaire, Jamel Debbouze, Maria De Medeiros, PanNalin, Yousry Nasrallah, ...
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Deja Vu
Dir: Tony Scott. US. 2006.128mins.The latest thriller from producer Jerry Bruckheimerand director Tony Scott, Deja Vu bites off more than it can stylishlyblow up in trying to turn a terrorist attack into back-story fodder for atime-travel tale. But its greatest weakness is making the usually charismatic Denzel Washington seem a ...
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UK's Italian Film Festival runs through Dec 4 in six cities
The 13th edition of theItalian Film Festival UK, in association with Fiat and the Italian CulturalInstitues in Edinburgh and London, is running in six UK cities through Dec 4. Seven cinemas in Edinburgh, Glasgow,London, Manchester,Aberdeen and Dundee will host the event, which has been moved from itspast dates in April. ...
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Chalet to step down as CEO of Carlton Screen Advertising
Debbie Chalet has announcedthat she will step down as CEO of Carlton Screen Advertising at the end of theyear.Chalet had been part of theacquisition team at Carlton TV when it became Carlton Screen Advertising in1996 and she was named sales director. She has served as CEO since 2000 and hadalso ...
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German-French funders back projects including new Denis film
Three internationalco-productions have been awarded nearly $1.28m (Euros 1m) by the German FederalFilm Board (FFA) and France's CNC at thelatest sitting of the German-French Funding Committee.The largest amount - $576,787(Euros 450,000) - was given to Peter Sehr and Marie Noelle'sGerman-French-Spanish co-production DieFrauen Des Anarchisten which will be produced by Sehr ...