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LA Cinema Libre unveil ambitious plans for film-making collective
In a bid to nurture artisticfreedom among "politically charged and socially conscious" film-makers a groupof independent LA-based directors, producers and investors has formed a newmovement called Cinema Libre.Cinema Libre's ambitious plans include a production slate,international distribution network, the non-profit Cinema Libre Foundation -due to open later this year - and ...
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IFSI sells horror House to Metropolitan, Redbus, others
Interactive Film Sales International (IFSI) closed a raft offoreign sales at Cannes on House Of The Dead, the horror feature from Germanproduction and finance fund Boll KG and Mindfire Entertainment. IFSI, the exclusive sales agent for Boll KG, sold the zombie storyto Metropolitan in France, Manga in Spain, Redbus (formerly ...
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Jersey woos Franchise with Caveman's Valentine
The increasingly prolific Franchise Pictures has teamed up with Jersey Films to co-produce and co-finance Caveman's Valentine, a psychological thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson which started shooting in Los Angeles this week.Universal Pictures has all rights to the film in North America, and Franchise will be selling it at next ...
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Jeunet re-teams with Tautou in Euros 46m Engagement
Jean-Pierre Jeunet has confirmed the casting of Audrey Tautou in his next project, Un Long Dimanche de Fancailles (A Very Long Engagement). The film is adapted from the book by Sebastien Japrisot and will be produced and distributed in France by the local Warner Bros. outpost.Shooting on the project, which ...
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My Little Eye opens in crowded markets
UIP launched horror title My Little Eye into four European territories last weekend to varying success amongst crowded markets.The Spanish launch saw $250,843 (Euros 212,715) for sixth position from 140 screens - an average of just $1,792. The release put Marc Evans' film up against bigger budget Hollywood releases including ...
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Theo Angelopoulos to lead first Copenhagen film fest
Theo Angelopoulos is to preside over the first Copenhagen International Film Festival's five-strong jury, which so far also includes Sweden's Jan Troell and Denmark's Bille August.The festival's awards, The Golden Swans, will be given to the best film, director, actress, actor, script and cinematography. In addition to the jury prizes, ...
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Japanese government to ease film production fund regulations
Japan's Trade Ministry is set to relax the restrictions governing film production funds. Under the current law, only four such funds have been set up since 1992.Local industry analysts have been warning that unless Japan creates a system that makes it easier, and more attractive, to invest in feature film ...
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Ireland gears up for renewed production activity
A stagnant period of film production in Ireland comes to an end this week with the start of shoot on Pierce Brosnan's Laws Of Attraction, followed next week by Jerry Bruckheimer's King Arthur .Arthur, which has a budget of $85m, is the biggest production ever to come to Ireland, dwarfing ...
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Lumiere Institute unveils new museum
As the Lumiere Institute celebrates its 20th anniversary today, a new museum dedicated to the earliest days of film is also to be inaugurated. Under the presidency of director Bertrand Tavernier and general secretary Thierry Fremaux, the Lumiere Museum boasts such important artifacts as the Cinematographe #1, the projector used ...
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Lost Swedish classic is found and restored
The Avenger (Hamnaren 1916), a long-believed lost silent classic from the Swedish director Mauritz Stiller has been rediscovered and restored by the Swedish Film Institute and will screen as part of this summer's Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna. The film was recently rediscovered in Germany in an edited German version, ...
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Australian film-makers fight for 'culture'
High-profile filmmaking couple Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward, and Australian Film Commission (AFC) chief executive Kim Dalton, met with 45 government backbenchers to argue that 'culture' should be excluded from a free trade agreement with the US. It was yet another attempt to prevent constraints being applied to Australian film ...
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Les Cotelettes
Dir. Bertrand Blier. France, 2003. 86 mins.Cannes selectors must have been pretty desperate to drag this dubious comedy, met at the end of its press screening with vociferous booing, into the world's most prestigious film competition. Adapted from Blier's stage debut, which was a hit, this is simply a dialogue-driven ...
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Shara
Dir: Naomi Kawase. Japan. 2003. 100 minsThe third feature by Japanese director Naomi Kawase, Cannes competitor Shara is set, like Suzaku (a Cannes Camera d'Or winner in 1996) and Hotaru (2000), in the director's home province of Nara. Like the previous two, it deals with themes of separation, the continuity ...
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Karlovy Vary unveils cosmopolitan competition line-up
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has unveiled this year's line-up, with films in competition including Korean Kim Ki-duk's Coast Guard and Facing Windows from Italy's Ferzan Ozpetek. The festival, which takes place in the Czech west Bohemian spa town July 4-12, will feature 16 films in the main competition for ...
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William Fraker to receive special honour at Lodz
Pioneering cinematographerWilliam A Fraker is to receive the Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award at the11th Annual International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, whichruns in Lodz, Poland, from Nov 29-Dec 6.Born in Los Angeles in Sep1923, Fraker graduated from the University of Southern California with a degreein film-making and eventually ...
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It's Initial from now on, IEG is out, says Los Angeles company
Following its recent adoption of a new company logo,Graham King's independent finance, production and distribution companyInitial Entertainment Group has announced that it will no longer be known asIEG.Hereafter, the company has said, it will be known by itsfull name or as Initial but no longer by the acronym IEG.Recent creditsfor ...
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Sarandon, Tucci join cast of Miramax's Shall We Dance
SusanSarandon and Stanley Tucci will join Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere in thecast of Peter Chelsom's remake of Shall We Dance for Miramax Films and Spyglass Entertainment. Miramaxis handling domestic rights on the film, Spyglass has international exceptJapan where Gaga Communications has rights.Thecast also includes Bobby Cannavale, Lisa Ann Walter, ...
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UK National Film Theatre to be digital cinema test-bed
The British Film Institute (BFI) has secured funding from the Department of Trade and Industry for a digital cinema test-bed at the National Film Theatre (NFT).The so-called Digital Test Laboratory is being set up just as BFI parent the UK Film Council develops plans for a nation-wide circuit of digital ...
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UK, French shorts lead Cartoon D'Or hopefuls
British and French animated shorts make up almost two-thirds of the 25 European films vying to be shortlisted for the nominations for this year's Cartoon D'Or.Among the films being considered by a jury composed of CARTOON's Corinne Jenart, the UK's Mark Baker, Denmark's Jannik Hastrup and Spain's Antonion Zurera Aragon, ...
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Release of Otomo's Steamboy delayed
The makers of Steamboy, the $20m animated feature by Katsuhiro Otomo, have delayed the film's release date from October to sometime in 2004. Announced at a press conference on June 19, this decision leaves a huge hole in distributor Toho's autumn schedule. The film, Otomo's first full-length theatrical feature in ...