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Pusan to present record 64 world premieres
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) announced itsline-up today with a record 64 world premieres. A total of 245 films from 63countries will show at the festival's 11th edition, running Oct 12 - 20. The inauguralAsian Film Market will run parallel to the festival from Oct 15-18, with 95registered sales ...
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Pusan to present record 64 world premieres
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) announced itsline-up today with a record 64 world premieres. A total of 245 films from 63countries will show at the festival's 11th edition, running Oct 12 - 20. The inauguralAsian Film Market will run parallel to the festival from Oct 15-18, with 95registered sales ...
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Rob-B-Hood
Dir: Benny Chan. HK-Chi. 2006. 135mins.Jackie Chan returns to the broad Hong Kong comedyaction of earlier films like Meals On Wheels with the enjoyably ramshackle, fast-pacedbabysitting-crook yarn Rob-B-Hood.Laced with some classic stunts - a couple of them as inventive as anything Chanhas ever done - and action set-pieces, and canny ...
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Sarandon, Byrne, Plummer get Emotional
Susan Sarandon, GabrielByrne, Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow and Roy Dupuis have signed on asleads in Emotional Arithmeticfrom Montreal-based BBR Productions and Toronto's Triptych Media. Budgeted near$5.8m, the long-gestating project begins production in Quebec's Easterntownships in October. Directed by Paolo Barzmanand adapted by Jefferson Lewis and Barzman from the eponymous ...
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Magnolia, Optimum, Madman reteam to buy To's Exiled
Magnolia Pictures in North America, Optimum in the UK and MadmanEntertainment in Australia and New Zealand have jointly bought allEnglish-language rights to Hong Kong director Johnny To's action thriller Exiled.The distributors recently teamed up to buy the South Korean boxoffice smash The Host and Magnolia plans to release in North ...
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Penelope cruises into international markets
Hyde Park International has closed multiple territory deals onMark Palansky's fantasy drama Penelope, which has been in play with domestic buyers since itsworld premiere screening last week.Rights have gone to Australia (Magna Pacific), Mexico(Gussi), Brazil (Paris Films), CIS (MGN), Taiwan (CMC), and Portugal(Lusomundo).Deals also closed in Benelux (RCV), Greece (Village ...
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Apple announces US download service for iTunes, iPod
Apple will start selling downloads of feature-length WaltDisney titles that can play on any computer loaded with iTunes software as wellas the new 80GB iPod.The company will offer features from Buena Vista, Pixar, Miramaxand Touchstone, priced at $12.99 in the first week and rising to $14.99 afterthat.Speaking at a conference ...
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World's largest Imax theatre to open in Mumbai
India is set to get its first Imax theatre - in its leading film city Mumbai - following an agreement signed last week between the Canadian large format specialist and Indian film processing lab, Adlabs.Scheduled to open in December this year, the $12.5m cinema will have the world's largest Imax ...
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Newman named deputy director of US National Video Resources
Former National Board of Review (NBR) executive director EileenNewman has been appointed deputy director of National Video Resources.In her new role Newman will serve as the organisation's chief programmaticand operating manager, overseeing all NVR programmes including the Media ArtsFellowships, which award approximately $800,000 annually to artists.Newman served as the NBR's ...
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BME chooses not to renew first-look deal with Samaha's Gibraltar
Bauer Martinez Entertainment (BME) has decided not toexercise its option to extend its first look deal with Elie Samaha's Gibraltar Entertainment,which expired on Jun 1.Under Samaha's deal with Bauer Martinez the company producedthriller The Flockstarring Richard Gere and Claire Danes and set to open next year in NorthAmerican, and acquired ...
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Yamada to direct World War II drama for Shochiku
Japanese major Shochiku isproducing the next film from Yoji Yamada following his acclaimedsamurai trilogy - a World War II drama with the working title Kabei, set to star veteran actressSayuri Yoshinaga. Based on the non-fictionnovel Chichi Eno Requiem, written byTeruyo Nogami, the film is set in 1940s Tokyo and follows ...
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Medavoy, Foster invest in Korean production house
Korea's Guardtec Inc hasannounced that Phoenix Pictures head Mike Medavoy and Mr & Mrs Smith producer Lucas Foster have bought into the firm,marking the first time that Hollywood players have directly invested in alisted Korean production company.The two US producers have also joined the company as advisoryboard members.Originally a securitysystems ...
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Vernon promoted to marketing head at Metrodome
UK distributor Metrodomehas promoted Jezz Vernon to Head of Marketing. Hereplaces Tom Grievson, who is leaving Metrodome to join Warner Bros. as Marketing Manager. Vernon joined Metrodome in 2005 from RevolverEntertainment. He had been Marketing Manager at music publication NME. He willnow oversee marketing for theatrical and DVD campaigns. Metrodome ...
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Japan's Avex buys into Chinese talent agency
Japan's Avex Group has agreed to acquire a 20% stake in the holding companyof Beijing-based talent agency and production house, Chengtian EntertainmentGroup. The two companies also planto establish a joint venture, Avex China, with dates to be announced. Two undisclosed US companies have also acquired a combined 5% stake inthe ...
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Black Sheep
Dir/scr: Jonathan King. NZ. 2006. 87mins.A canny mix of splatter-movie aesthetics, nationaldread and ecological warning, Jonathan King's debut feature Black Sheep is a riotously funny,gleefully overdone horror exercise that more than hints at the influence of earlyPeter Jackson like Meet The Feebles, Braindead and BadTaste.Swift andentertaining, though at times too ...
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Bugmaster
Dir: Katsuhiro Otomo. Jap-US. 2006. 130mins.Japanese anime director Katsuhiro Otomomakes a curiously subdued, poetic foray into live-action cinema with his latestfeature, Bugmaster.Though the story's setting in the late Meiji era and its "invisible bug"infestation theme initially suggest a period horror along the lines of ShinyaTsukamoto's Gemini, the meditativepace, lonely but ...
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Transmedia strikes UK deal for A Few Days In September
New UK distributor Transmedia hasacquired all UK rights to A Few Days In September (Quelques Jours En Septembre). The film, written anddirected by Santiago Amigorena, stars Juliette Binoche, John Turturro, Nick Nolte, Sara Forestierand Tom Riley.A Few Days In September is a thriller set in Paris and Venice in 2001, ...
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Arthaus, Neue Visionen, Kairos win dist'n prize
German distributors Arthaus Filmverleih, Neue Visionen Filmverleih and Kairos Filmverleih have each been awarded a Distribution Prize by the German culture ministry for "special achievement in the distribution of films of artistic excellence".German culture minister Michael Naumann will present the awards, which are each worth DM200,000 ($97,250), on October 10 ...
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Lionsgate swoops for Polley's directorial debut
Lionsgate has bought US rights to Sarah Polley's directorial debutAway From Herfollowing its world premiere earlier in the festival.The company plans to release the picture, which stars JulieChristie and Gordon Pinsent, in spring 2007. The adaptation of Alice Munro's short story The Bear Came OverThe Mountain deals withrevelations that emerge ...