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Downfall snubbed in German Film Awards
Oscar-nominated German hit Downfall has been controversiallyomitted from best film shortlist for this year's German Film Awards.The Bernd Eichinger produced box office smash only mustered three actingnominations for this year's awards including best actor for Bruno Ganz as AdolfHitler. Dani Levy's Jewish family comedy Go For Zucker! - An Unorthodox ...
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Arab festivals co-ordinate to avoid date clashes
The second DubaiInternational Film Festival is to be held from December 11-17, 2005. The date of the week-longfestival was decided after a series of discussions with the organizers of theCairo, Marrakech and Damascus film festivals to enhance synergies between majorfestivals from the Arab world. The discussions focused onthe most appropriate ...
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Warner Bros boards Ant and Dec's Alien
Warner Bros is to handleinternational distribution on Alien Autopsy, the new feature showcasingthe acting talents of diminutive British TV presenters Ant and Dec. The film, produced by MichaelKuhn of Qwerty Films and Barnaby Thompson of Ealing Studios, begins shootingnext month.Alien Autopsy is a comedy abouttwo friends who make a spoof ...
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Brody, Affleck embark on American Way for Focus
Production has begun on AllenCoulter's Truth, Justice And The American Way, the real-life Hollywoodmystery starring Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Diane Lane. Focus Features will handlethe North American release and international sales on the picture, which alsostars Bob Hoskins and marks Sopranos director Coulter's feature directorialdebut. Brody stars as a ...
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Monster-In-Law
Dir: Robert Luketic. US2005. 95mins.Jennifer Lopez may get top billing, but Jane Fonda is theonly conceivable reason to see Monster-In-Law, a tepid romantic comedyabout a bride-to-be locking horns with her boyfriend's mum.In the US, where the filmsopens on May 13, box-office may be mixed. Thirty years after the US pulled ...
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Gamblers (Les Mauvais Joueurs)
Dir. Frederic Balekdjian.Fr. 2005. 85mins.Taking place entirely ina garment district of Paris, Gamblers is a French Mean Streets, amessy, gratifying film about life in an ethnically-mixed neighbourhood and theart of making a living however one can. The first feature by the promisingFrederic Balekdjian, it makes for an assured, exciting drama ...
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The Baxter
Dir. Michael Showalter.US. 2005. 91mins.The debut feature fromMichael Showalter, The Baxter harbours noble ambitions - but therein liemost of its problems, with what appears to be an attempt at mixing classicHollywood screwball comedy with elements of Billy Wilder's The Apartment(Jack Lemmon's character was named CC Baxter).In the US, distributor IFCFilms ...
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Transylvania Festival to open with Oldboy
The fourthedition of the Transylvania International Film Festival will kick off on May 27in Cluj, Romania with the gala screening of Korean title Oldboy.The festival willclose on June 5 with Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar's AcademyAward winner The Sea Inside. TheRomanian-born, German actress Alexandra Maria Lara, the British producer KeithGriffiths, Belgrade ...
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Kuhn calls for reform of UK Film Council
Michael Kuhn, former head of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, has slammedGovernment-backed support body the UK Film Council as 'helpless' and 'in needof reform'.Giving the inaugural film lecture held by producer's agency Pact, Kuhnlaunched into one of the most stinging attacks on the Film Council since itsinception five years ago. The studio ...
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Mutual's foreign partners strike $200m credit line
The three leading foreign distributors involved in Mutual Film Company have jointly secured a $200m revolving credit line allowing the production company to develop and finance projects without having to necessarily wait for a greenlight from a Hollywood studio partner.The flexible financing arrangement is the result of a three-year credit ...
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Clooney thriller joins Summit's Cannes slate
Michael Clayton, a dramatic thriller set to start shootingearly next year with George Clooney starring, has been added to SummitEntertainment's Cannes pre-sales slate. Tony Gilroy, whose screenwriting credits include The BourneSupremacy and The Bourne Identity, will write the script and make his directingdebut on the film. Clooney's and Steven Soderbergh's ...
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Bavaria strikes US and UK deals ahead of Cannes
Munich-based sales agentBavaria Film has concluded a number of US and UK deals ahead of this year'sCannes market.First Run has picked uprights for the USA and English-speaking Canada for Oskar Roehler's Agnes AndHis Brothers and the Chinese Ning Hao's comedy Mongolian Ping Pong.Meanwhile, Strand Releasingacquired the Berlinale Teddy Award-winner Un ...
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Dubrovnik Film Festival unveils competition line-up
The DubrovnikFilm Festival, taking place in Croatia immediately after Cannes, has confirmeddetails of its line-up and many of its guests. The festival (running 25 to 29May) is to open with Charles Dance's Ladies In Lavender and to close with Sahara.Britishactor John Hurt is President of the main festival jury. Other ...
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Lemming jump starts Cannes festival
The 58th CannesFilm Festival gets underway today with the opening ceremony and competitionscreening of Dominik Moll's Lemmingat 19.30.Festival delegates have beenpouring into Cannes over the past two days in preparation forthe start of the festival.According to official Cannes figures, 8281 delegates from 79 countries have registered for the Cannes market, ...
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Elton John to exec produce It's A Boy Girl Thing
SirElton John is to executive produce high school comedy It's A Boy Girl Thing through his company Rocket Pictures, it was announced this week. "Iabsolutely love this project. The script is hysterical - I can't stop laughingwhenever I read it," the British pop star commented.Directedby Nick Hurran (Little Black Book, ...
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Icon does brisk business with Clear Day
UK sales outfit Icon International has been doing brisk business on therun up to Cannes with Gaby Dellal's On A Clear Day, securing salesto MK2 (France), Degeto/ARD for free TV in Germany as well as wrapping dealswith Portugal (Lusomundo), Israel (Shapira) and Iceland (Skifan.)On A Clear Day, the opening film ...
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Brits on pre-Cannes shopping spree
UK companies picked up several titles from theCannes official selection before today's festival opening.Tartan signed CarlosReygadas' competition entry Battle In Heaven, Kim Ki-Duk's Un Certain Regard entry, The Bow, and Kim Jee-woon's A Bittersweet Life (screening out of competition.)It also took UK rights (excluding TV) to James Marsh's Un Certain ...
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Toronto's January Films signs Dragojevic to direct After
Start-up Toronto production company January Films has signedSerbian director Srdjan Dragojevic (Pretty Village, Pretty Flame) to direct After, a post- World War II dark comedy abouta trio of concentration camp survivors suddenly set loose in war-ravaged Germany.Based on a novel by Melvin Jules Bukiet, with a screenplay byAngus Fraser (Kissed),the ...
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Goda's FilmMates hits Croisette with 10 titles
Alan Goda's Los Angeles-basedfinance, production and distribution outfit FilmMates Entertainment is hittingthe Croisette for the first time with 10 titles that feature the likes of SusanSarandon, Jeremy Irons, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Shirley MacClaine. The company plans to finance,produce and release eight to 10 pictures a year budgeted at up ...
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Queens join Golden parade
Hong Kong-based sales agent GoldenNetwork Asia has added Thai director Nonzee Nimibutr's big-budget actionadventure The Queens Of Pattani to a busy Cannes slate. Produced by Nimibutr's Cinemasia with backing from Thai studioSahamongkol, the ambitious two-part feature is scheduled to start shooting nextJanuary for delivery by the end of 2006. Loosely ...