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Gitmo
Dirs: Erik Gandini,Tarik Saleh. 78mins. Den-Swe. 2005.There is something Kafka-esqueabout the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. Despitebeing part of the War On Terror, prisoners detainedhere in their strident orange suits are not given "Prisoner Of War" status butare treated as "Unlawful Combatants." Many have been left in limbo for ...
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Pioneering technologist Demos to receive Gordon E Sawyer Award
Gary Demos, a pioneering motion picture technologist in the motionpicture industry, will receive the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesGordon E Sawyer Award in recognition of his scientific contributions to film.Demos, along with John Whitney Jr, established the Motion PictureProject at Information International to produce computer-generated simulatedscenes for such ...
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Marshall joins Marvel Studios as senior vp, legal and business affairs
Marvel Entertainment has hired Michael Marshall as senior vicepresident of business and legal affairs for its Marvel Studios division.Marshall will oversee all business and legal affairs issuesrelating to development and production, as well as character licensing fortheatrical, direct-to-video and television projects.He will work closely with Marvel Studios president and chiefoperating ...
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EC probe could help Vivendi's up-Stream battle
Today's decision by the European Commission (EC) to investigate the takeover of Italian digital TV platform Stream may help French facilities group Vivendi negotiate the terms on which it would cease hostilities with News Corp and join Platco.While expressing growing enthusiasm for Platco, a new holding company that would harness ...
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Lewis named production president at Searchlight
In the latest senior appointment at Fox Searchlight as the studioprepares for its biggest ever year, company veteran Claudia Lewis has beenappointed president of production.Lewis (pictured) will oversee the slate including development,packaging, budgeting, casting and production. All production executives willreport to her.Fox Searchlight president Peter Rice called Lewis "hands-down thebest ...
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Mandate options film rights to The Ghouly Boys
Mandate Pictures has optioned the film rights to The GhoulyBoys, based onChristopher's children's comic books that were initially published by SlaveLabor Graphics Publishing in 2004.The stories track the fortunes of four misfit young monsters whofind it hard to integrate with human children and embark upon an adventure oftheir own.Los Angeles-based ...
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Bangkok unveils contenders for Golden Kinnarees
Brazil's House Of Sand, the UK's Mrs Henderson Presents and South Korea'sSympathy For Lady Vengeance are amongthe 12 films that have been selected for the international competition sectionof this year's Bangkok International Film Festival (Feb 17-27).Four Golden Kinnaree awardswill be given out for best film, best director, best actor and ...
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Day Watch breaks Russian box office record
Day Watch, the firstsequel to Russian horror fantasy thriller NightWatch, has followed its predecessor and broken box office records in Russia and theCentral Independent States (CIS) in record time. Distributedby Gemini Film the sequel was released on New Year's Day in Russia and hadearned $25.9m as of January 16, making ...
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New UK festival will combine two French events
Thefirst Renault French Film Festival will be presented at nine UK cities - London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee - in March. Thisfestival combines two previous events, the French Film Festival UK and the Renault French Film Season with UniFrance. "Audiences did not understand why there ...
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Marc Evans' Snow Cake to open Berlin Film Festival
MarcEvans' drama Snow Cake, starring AlanRickman and Sigourney Weaver, will open the Berlin Film Festival in Competitionon February 9.Thefull Competition line-up is now almost complete, with 23 out of 26 titlesannounced and a further three to be revealed at the end of the week.Worldpremieres from the UK's Michael Winterbottom (The ...
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Michael Auret CEO of Sithengi steps down
Michael Auret, headof the South Africa's SithengiFilm and TV Market and the Cape Town World Cinema Festival, has stepped downafter wrapping Sithengi's 10th anniversaryedition.Auret took over at Sithengi in 2001 and set up the concurrent film festival in2002; last year Sithengi logged 1700 delegates whilethe festival saw a 10 percent ...
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James Marsh's gothic horror to open Glasgow festival
James Marsh's gothic horrortale The King starring Gael GarciaBernal will open the Glasgow Film Festival on February 16. Marsh andscreenwriter Milo Addica will attend and also takepart in a master class on the making of the film. The 2nd edition of this newScottish event runs until February 26 and includes ...
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Christie steps in for Redgrave in Polley's directorial debut
Julie Christie has replacedVanessa Redgrave in the lead role of Sarah Polley's debut feature Away FromHer. The veteran actress willstar opposite Gordon Pinsent and Olympia Dukakis in the Polley-pennedadaptation of the Alice Munro short-story "The Bear Came Over The Mountain."Kristen Thomson, who starred in Polley's short film I Shout Love, ...
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Herzog to get Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award
German filmmaker WernerHerzog will be presented with the Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award on May5 during the 2006 festival in Toronto. The occasion will be markedby An Evening With Werner Herzog, a co-presentation of Hot Docs and theCinematheque Ontario. Both organizations will present complimentaryretrospectives gleaned from his more than 40 ...
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Vivendi in talks to offload AOL France stake
French media and utilities giant Vivendi has started talks with America On-Line (AOL) about selling its stake in AOL France. Vivendi managing director Philippe Germond made it clear last week that: "our wish is to get out of AOL France and not to have a shareholding link with it." While ...
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IFC Films announces Sex Addict, Dolls buys
IFC Films maintained its concerted acquisitions drive byannouncing two new pick-ups this week, Caveh Zahedi's I Am A Sex Addict and Cedric Klapisch's Russian Dolls.The autobiographical comedy I Am A Sex Addict chronicles the life of an insecure youngman who becomes addicted to prostitutes at the expense of his friendships. ...
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Bello, Butler join Brosnan in Butterfly On A Wheel
Maria Bello andGerard Butler have joined Pierce Brosnan in the thriller Butterfly On AWheel, which is beingproduced by Brosnan and Beau St Clair's Irish Dreamtime, Infinity and IconEntertainment. Shooting isscheduled to begin in March in Vancouver on the story of a couple whose idylliclife is shattered when their daughter is ...
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Narnia, Kong set to continue box office domination
TheChronicles Of Narnia should remainthe one to beat this weekend despite no new launches. The blockbuster nowstands at $326m through Buena Vista International (BVI). Narniawill cross $600m in worldwide ticketsales this weekend - it reached $590.6m at time of writing - and will becomethe fifth Disney Company title to achieve ...
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The Constant Gardener leads Bafta nominations
The Constant Gardener leads the nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards with 10 nominations. Brokeback Mountain and Crash followed with nine each. Good Night, And Good Luck, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Pride & Prejudice each scored six nominations, and Capote has five. Gardener, a UK-German co-production, ...