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Demented (Le Dernier Des Fous)
Dir: Laurent Achard. Fr. 2006. 96mins.A stark corrective to the tradition of lyrical Frenchfilms about the tender joys of growing up in the country, Laurent Achard's Dementedis a Gothic but soberly-executed melodrama about childhood as hell. Based on anovel by Canadian writer Timothy Findley, Achard'sfilm gives us a child's-eye view ...
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John Stanley leaves Fox for Warner UK
John Stanley is leaving hispost at Twentieth Century Fox UK to become managing director of Warner HomeVideo UK. He replaces Neil McEwan,who departed Warner Bros. a few weeks ago. Since 1999, Stanley had been MD ofTwentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment in the UK.Joshua Berger, executive VPand MD of Warner Bros ...
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Grey Rembert leaves DreamWorks for Initial
Former DreamWorks production executive Grey Rembert has joinedInitial Entertainment Group as vice president of development.Rembert will work alongside senior vice president of creativeaffairs Jennifer Wachtell and will report directly to company head Graham King.Rembert joined DreeamWorks at its inception 12 years ago and mostrecently headed up the literary department at ...
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AFI Awards to announce annual winners on Dec 10
The seventh annual AFI Awards will be announced on Dec 10 andhanded out at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Jan 12, 2007.Ten AFI Movies of the Year, 10 AFI Television Programmes of theYear and up to 10 AFI Moments of Significance will be unveiled.Film honorees will be chosen by ...
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Cinemavault hires Rondina, MacPhee on sales team
Cinemavault Releasing International has bulked up its sales team,naming Ruby Rondina festivals and publicity manager and Alisha MacPhee marketsmanager.Rondina joined Cinemavault last year as distribution coordinatorand reports to both the acquisitions department and sales department. MacPheepreviously served as office manager.Laura Jengle becomes the new distribution coordinator andPatterson Skuce is named ...
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White Planet, Ghobadi Mozart film added to TIFF world premiere roster
Arctic documentary TheWhite Planet and films commissioned for the 250thanniversary of the birth of Mozart have been added to the line-up of the 31stToronto International Film Festival. The festival is also addingchild-themed programming under its Sprockets brand, including the NorthAmerican premiere of Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker, directed by Geoffrey ...
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Saints kicks off IFP's Independent Film Week in Sept
The 28th Annual IFP Market and 1st Annual Filmmaker Conferencewill be among highlights of IFP's annual Independent Film Week in September.The New York event is scheduled to run from Sept 18-21 and kicksoff with the New York premiere of Dito Montiel's drama A Guide To RecognizingYour Saints.Other features include reduced ...
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CJ moves into English fare with Kang's West 32nd
Koreanstudio CJ Entertainment is set to shoot its first English-language feature, West 32nd. MichaelKang, who previously directed Sundance selection The Motel, will direct from a script he co-wrote with Edmund Lee. TeddyZee (Hitch, Saving Face) will produce. JohnCho, who has appeared in American Pie and Harold &Kumar Go To White ...
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Pusan to give filmmaker of the year prize to Andy Lau
The Pusan International FilmFestival has announced that Andy Lau will receive this year's Asian Filmmakerof the Year award. The festival said it applauded "Lau's dedication ofsearching for Asian filmmaking talents and promoting Asian cinema as a producerand actor'During the past two decades, Lau has proven himself as one of thecelebrities ...
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Hounded (Verfolgt)
Dir: Angelina Maccarone.Ger. 2006. 83mins.The fascination of German cinema with encountersbetween middle-aged adults and teens, aired twice this year at Cannes (see Summer Of 04 and pingpong) takes a new and unexpectedturn in Angelina Maccarone's new feature Hounded.Here the focus is not on innocentgames of sex initiation but the sado-masochisticaffair ...
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2:37
Dir/scr: Murali K Thalluri. Aust. 2006.94minsAn impressive debut feature from a 20-year-old withno previous film training nor experience, 2:37proves is a gripping teen suicide drama that forces audiences to confront thechallenges of growing up in wrenching style.Aside from showcasing the compellingdirection of director Murali K Thalluri,it also demonstrates the tenacity ...
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Steven Leighton moves to Fox Home Entertainment UK
Steven Leightonhas been named UK managing director for Twentieth CenturyFox Home Entertainment. He replaces John Stanley, who as ScreenDaily.comreported yesterday, is leaving Fox to join Warner Bros UK.He has been withFox Home Entertainment since 2004 as managing director of Australia. Previously he was CEO of the HawthornFootball Club in Melbourne ...
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Japan plans early expansion for Sokurov's The Sun
The Sun, director Alexander Sokurov's drama aboutEmperor Hirohito after Japan's WWII defeat, hasexpanded its cinema count earlier and in greater numbers than originallyanticipated. The film,released by small distributor Slow Learner, opened Aug 5 on one screen each inTokyo and Nagoya. The opening weekend in Tokyo broke the predominantly B-movietheatre's record ...
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Loach's Wind blows to IFC in North America
IFC Entertainment has picked up domestic rights to Ken Loach'sPalme D'Or winner The Wind That Shakes The Barley ahead of its North American premiere atToronto next month.The 1920s-set tale about the early Irish resistance movement willget a multi-platform release through IFC's First Take Films label in 2007.IFC Entertainment president Jonathan ...
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Ganis re-elected to second term as president of the Academy
Sid Ganis has been re-elected for a second term as president ofthe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) following a meeting ofthe board of governors.Executives branch governor and former Academy president RobertRehme was re-elected first vice president in this week's meeting [Aug 15],while music branch governor Arthur Hamilton ...
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Valderama, Universal to make Partybuddys movie
Wilmer Valderrama will produce and possibly star in Universal Pictures'story about Partybuddys founders James King and Jason Roefaro.Mike Samonek is writing the screenplay about the entrepreneurial friendswhose VIP service offers party-goers a ready-made posse, bodyguard, limo,paparazzi detail and nightclub entry.Valderrama's manager Glenn Rigberg will serve as executive producealong with John ...
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Routh, Stallone, Strathairn in fillms at Palm Springs Short Films Festival
Brandon Routh, David Strathairn and Timothy Hutton feature in someof the films at the upcoming Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films& Short Film Market.The event will take place from Aug 24-30 and is expected toshowcase 333 films from 46 countries chosen from more 2,500 worldwidesubmissions.Superman Returns' Routh takes the ...
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Sony challenges BVI's Pirates record in Spain
Sony Pictures Releasing International (SRI) has challenged BuenaVista International's claim that Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest set a new industry opening record inSpain last weekend.According to figures the BVI sequel grossed Euros 8,598,915 includingpreviews on the Thursday night [Aug 10] before official release.SPRI executives said The Da Vinci ...
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CINE EXPO: Internet makes release dates go global
One of the strongest messages to emerge at this week's Cinema Expo conference in Amsterdam is that the growing influence of the internet - particularly among cinema's prime audience of 14 to 19-year-olds - is driving distributors towards global release dates.Driving the point home was a screening of Sony Pictures ...
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Hollywoodland
Dir: Allen Coulter. US.2006. 126mins.A noir thriller set in 1950s Los Angeles which blendsfact, fiction and speculation, Hollywoodland is so rich in detail, character and atmospherethat it's easy to forgive its narrative failings. This well-crafted, well-castfilm which marks the feature debut of TV veteran Allen Coulter, should stir upplenty of ...