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Irish Film Board gets $3m boost
Ireland'sMinister for Arts, Sport & Tourism, John O'Donoghue,has given supplementary capital funding of $3m (Euros 2.3m) to the Irish FilmBoard. The additional money is intended to facilitate an increase in film andtelevision production in the last quarter of 2006 and the first half of 2007.The move is part of a ...
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Harness wins UK Film Council's 25 Words Or Less scheme
Writer Peter Harness and hispitch The Bone Family has won the"Director's Cut" competition for the UK Film CouncilDevelopment Fund's 25 Words Or Less scheme. Harness is now working with Intermission director John Crowley todevelop the script, about a man cursed with freezing the women he falls in lovewith.Other 25 Words ...
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Beautiful Dreamer to open Temecula Valley Film festival
Terri Farley's romanticdrama Beautiful Dreamer will openthe 2006 Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival on Sept 13.The festival, which runs Sept 13 to 17, will also screen the short West BankStory on opening night, a musicalcomedy about an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian girl torn between their lovefor each ...
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TIFF Group sets ground-breaking for new centre in 2007
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival Group says it will break ground on its proposed headquarters inthe first quarter of 2007 towards an opening in the second quarter of 2009. Construction of FestivalCentre, as it is dubbed, was announced in April 2003 and was originally plannedto begin in 2005 - and be ...
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Romero to start Diary Of The Dead in October
Nicolas Chartier's LA-basedsales agency Voltage Pictures has acquired worldwide sales rights to George ARomero's Diary Of The Dead, thelatest film in Romero's Dead series,which is scheduled to begin shooting on Oct 11, 2006.The film has been written byRomero and is being produced by Romero-Grunwald Productions and Artfire Films,the latter of ...
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Production report: EU puts Danish film on a roll
Maverick Danish director Lars von Trier may have won the Palme d'Or in Cannes for Dancer In The Dark, but two other Nordic films, Roy Andersson's Songs From The Second Floor from Sweden and Liv Ullmann's Faithless from Norway, enjoyed just as much buzz on the Croisette. Both relied on ...
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Regent takes worldwide rights to Aurora Borealis
Regent Releasing hasacquired worldwide rights to James Burke's family drama Aurora Borealis and will release it domestically on Sept 15.The film, which stars JoshuaJackson, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis and Louise Fletcher, has played atnumerous film festivals throughout the US including Tribeca, Jackson Hole andFort Lauderdale.Jackson plays an aimlessyoung man who ...
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Sony breaks $1bn international gross mark in record time
Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI) has announced that it passed $1bn in grosses today(Aug 24)- a record time for the company. The previous record for the studio wasSept 8, 2002, when the company went on to take $1.3bn in international grosses.So far in 2006, the companyhas taken $2.1bn in worldwide grosses ...
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Cholera cast beefs up with Leguizamo, Montenegro
John Leguizamo, HectorElizondo and Fernanda Montenegro have joined the cast of Mike Newell's film ofGabriel Garcia Marquez's novel Love In The Time Of Cholera which is set to start shooting on Sept 4 inCartegena, Colombia and London.They join Javier Bardem,Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Benjamin Bratt in the film which has been ...
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BVI set for eighth straight weekend lead with Pirates
Buena Vista Internationalshould rule the international box office seas for the eighth consecutiveweekend with Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. The adventure sequel has only two small openings- Greece and Lebanon, which both opened today (Thursday) - but itshould easily stay top bearing in mind its seventh weekend take ...
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Tanovic lines up first feature shot in his Bosnian homeland
Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land) is planning his firstBosnian-shot film.The project is an adaptation of Croatianjournalist Ivica Djikic'sdebut novel Circus Columbia. Speaking after presenting his secondfeature Hell at the Sarajevo FilmFestival, Tanovic explained that fellow Bosnian directorDino Mustafic (whose feature debut Remake appeared in 2003) had intended ...
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Tanovic lines up first feature set in his Bosnian homeland
Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land) is planning his firstBosnian-set film.The project is an adaptation of Croatianjournalist Ivica Djikic'sdebut novel Circus Columbia. Speaking after presenting his secondfeature Hell at the Sarajevo FilmFestival, Tanovic explained that fellow Bosnian directorDino Mustafic (whose feature debut Remake appeared in 2003) had intended ...
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Hood takes best British short prize at Edinburgh
Dictynna Hood won the Kodak and UK Film Council-sponsored best British short film award at this year's Edinburgh Festival, jointly by Kodak and the UK Film CouncilMain award winnersUK Film Council Kodak Award for Best British Short FilmThe Other Man (Dictynna Hood)McLaren/ BBC Film Network Award for New British Animation ...
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World premiere of Fur will open Rome festival
The opening film of the inaugural Rome Film Festival is to be Steven Shainberg's Diane Arbus biopic Fur.Its star Nicole Kidman will present the film at a grand opening gala on October 13th in the Santa Cecilia Hall at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. Fur is an adaptation of Patricia ...
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Video-on-demand service prepares Asia Pacific launch
Singapore-based video-on-demand company Anytime is set to launch an on-demand entertainment portal that allows consumers access to internet-delivered programming in the Asia Pacific region.Anytime TV is an Intel Viiv technology-based digital entertainment platform, which can transfer Hollywood movie content from the PC to the TV at home.Intel Capital, the venture ...
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US football drama Invincible leads domestic box office
Buena Vista's true life American football drama Invincible trampled the competition at the weekendas it opened top with an estimated $17m in ticket sales.Mark Wahlberg stars as Vince Papale, the 30-year-old barman whoearned a place on the 1976 Philadelphia Eagles after responding to an open recruitingcall. Ericson Core's picture impressed ...
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Holst lines up adaptation as second feature
Norwegian director Marius Holst is developing an adaptation of an Ingvar Ambjornsen short story - Oyenstikkere - as a follow-up to his successful debut feature Cross My Heart And Hope To Die.Nikolaj Frobenius, whose credits include Norwegian thriller Insomnia, has written the script and Scandinavian actors Marie Bonnevie, Mikael Persbrandt ...
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HATCHfest names ten student film-makers on shortlist for 2006 festival
Ten student film-makerfinalists from around the world have been selected for the upcoming HatchAudiovisual Arts Festival, HATCHfest, which will run Oct 3 to 8 in Bozeman,Montana. The festival, whose mission is to provide mentorship, education,inspiration and recognition, honours the young film-makers who are dubbed"Groundbreakers" with various awards for best director, ...
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Dead Man's Chest continues to fill with international grosses
Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest set another record for Buena VistaInternational (BVI) as it remained the international box office champion for aneighth consecutive weekend Ð the longest run at the top in the company'shistory.Meanwhile Cars ranked third in the international market behind Universal/UIP's MiamiVice, giving BVIexecutives plenty to ...
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Das Fraulein wins best film at Sarajevo festival
Andrea Staka's Das Fraulein has added the Heart ofSarajevo Award for best film at the 12th Sarajevo FilmFestival to its Golden Leopard win at Locarno.Marija Skaricic was also named best actress award for her part in the tale of three women from the former Yugoslavia dealing with their past, present ...