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Fish Dreams (Sonhos De Peixe)
Dir/scr: Kirill Mikhanovsky. Braz-Russ-US.2006. 105mins.Russian-born Kirill Mikhanovsky makes a promising debut with Fish Dreams, which may be set in an impoverishedfishing village in Brazil but is heavily indebted to Italian neo-realism in itsreliance on non-professional actors and real locations. More specifically it recallsVisconti's masterpiece La Terra Trema (1948) in much ...
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The Way I Spent The End Of The World (Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii)
Dir: Catalin Mitulescu. Rom-Fr. 2006. 106mins.More like a quick guide to recent history rather thana fully rounded first feature, Catalin Mitulescu's debut TheWay I Spent The End Of The Worldpaints a disturbing realistic, if often disorganised,portrait of Romanian life during 1989, the last year of the Ceausescu era.Blending childhood pranksand ...
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The Way I Spent The End Of The World (Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii)
Dir: Catalin Mitulescu. Rom-Fr. 2006. 106mins.More like a quick guide to recent history rather thana fully rounded first feature, Catalin Mitulescu's debut TheWay I Spent The End Of The Worldpaints a disturbing realistic, if often disorganised,portrait of Romanian life during 1989, the last year of the Ceausescu era.Blending childhood pranksand ...
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Tartan gets UK rights to Rankin and Cottam's Saints
Distributor Tartan Films has acquired UKand Irelandrights to The Lives OfThe Saints, directed by photographer and publisher Rankin and Chris Cottam. The debut will have its world premiere in competitionat the 2006 Locarno International Film Festival next month. The original screenplay is by Tony Grisoni,who previously wrote Fear And Loathing ...
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Argentina enjoys big box office rise for first six months
Nielsen EDI and Dis-Service reported a 16%year-on-year increase in admissions and 33.8% rise in box office takings forthe first half of 2006 in the Argentinian market.The period saw some 19.5 million admissions as opposedto 16.8 million for the first six months of 2005. However, audiences are still down by 2.8m ...
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First International Screenwriters Festival wins plaudits
Theinaugural International Screenwriters Festival held last week in the UK town ofCheltenham has been hailed as a major success by industry figures and bodies.Thefestival, in association with Film Four, and backed by Screen International attracted big names from around theworld including Julian Fellowes, Nicolas Roeg and Alan Scott, WilliamNicholson, Olivia ...
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BBC Films to collaborate with TV's comedy arm
As it aims to diversify its feature filmslate, BBC Films is working together with BBC Comedy's team of writers andproducer to develop comedic feature films. The announcement was made by DavidThompson, head of BBC Film and Kenton Allen, creative head of BBC Comedy Talentand Comedy North. BBC's head of comedy ...
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Eli Roth plans Czech shoot for Hostel 2
Eli Roth will begin production on Hostel 2 in September in Prague, Cesky Krumlov, Karlovy Vary andother locations around the Czech Republic.The director told reporters at theKarlovy Vary International Film Festival the film financing was a negative pick-upby Columbia Screen Gems and Lionsgate. Lionsgate will distribute the film with Sony ...
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Korean admissions up by 29% in first half of the year
Admissions in South Koreaincreased by 28.7% to 80.8 million from Jan-June 2006, compared to the sameperiod last year, according to local exhibitor CJ CGV, marking the biggestincrease since 2001. Hits were bigger and morenumerous during the first six months compared to last year, and admissions werealso boosted by an increase ...
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Miami Vice to open Locarno festival
Michael Mann's Miami Vice will kick off the Locarno International Film Festival on August 2 with a gala screening on the Piazza Grande.The screening of the all-star blockbuster, which stars Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, will mark Frederic Maire's first year as artistic director of the festival, which celebrates its ...
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German government agrees tax break
The German government has agreed a tax rebate model for the film industry following on the lines of the new UK scheme to come into effect from January 1, 2007.In collaboration with a working group of experts from the film industry, State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann had been considering ...
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Freedman joins Mandate in business and legal affairs dept
Dan Freedman has joinedMandate Pictures as vice president of business and legal affairs.Freedman assumesresponsibility for negotiating rights and talent agreements in the developmentand production of features, overseeing production counsel, negotiating dealsfor Mandate's mobile content ventures, and handling key corporate matters.He will report to RobMcEntegart, executive vice president of business affairs, ...
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Diller re-grouping anticipates dealmaking binge
Barry Diller's USA Networks has streamlined itself into three distinct yet interrelated business units as a prelude to what many believe will another aggressive round of deal-making on both sides of the Atlantic especially now that this sprawling electronic empire is about to become affiliated with Vivendi Universal.The three divisions ...
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Bouso promoted at Warner Bros distribution services
Annette Bouso has beenpromoted to executive vice president of worldwide distribution services atWarner Bros Technical Operations.Bouso will continue to beresponsible for the physical delivery of more than 43,000 hours of programmingfrom the company's library to clients in the broadcast, cable, pay TV, and VODsectors, as well as new and emerging ...
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Fox International teams with Croft & Co in New Zealand
Fox International hasappointed Croft & Co as its theatrical distributor for New Zealandfollowing the retirement of the studio's longtime partner Royce Moodabe.The Moodabe family'sconnection with the studio began in 1936 when Fox first acquired a 50% share inits exhibition business in New Zealand, then owned by Royce's father MJMoodabe.Royce became ...
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Screen partners with Denver festival on Kieslowski Award
ScreenInternational is partnering with the Starz Denver Film Festival to present thethe Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for Best Feature Film, a juried award presentedannually at the festival to a feature-length fiction film that reflects theartistic sensibilities of the late Polish director.''The 29th StarzDenver Film Festival, produced by the Denver Film Society ...
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Academy invites 120 new voting members to join
The Academy OfMotion Picture Arts & Sciences has issued its annual membership invitationstatement, naming the 120 artists and executives who will become new votingmembers in 2006.Candidates areconsidered by committees made up of representatives from each of the Academy's14 branches. Names are put forward by two current members of the branch ...
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Beyond Films promotes Stephen Kelliher
Beyond Films haspromoted Stephen Kelliher to director of sales &marketing, effective immediately. Kelliher had mostrecently served as Sales Executive forterritories including Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.He will continueto report to Hilary Davis, Beyond's head of sales andacquisitions. "After nineyears with the company, we feel it only fitting that ...
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Telema has to pay damages over Tanguy
French production house Telema has been ordered to pay $63,657 (Euros 50,000) indamages to each of three screenwriters who claimed their script was highjacked in order to produce hit 2001 film Tanguy.Christophe Valee, Francois Villardand Philippe Barrassat contended they had shown ascript for Recherche Parents Desesperement to Telema,which then declined ...
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Films Sans Frontieres to remake The Blue Angel
Films Sans Frontieres has acquired thecinematographic estate of Robert Liebmann, whichincluding remake rights of The Blue Angeldirected by Josef von Sternberg.Films Sans Frontieres said it is currently amodern update of The Blue Angel. Theoriginal 1931 Weimar cinema classic starredMarlene Dietrich asa nightclub singer who tempts a repressed professor. Screenwriter Liebmann ...