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Charlie's Angels beat out Little Nicky
Columbia's Charlie's Angels remained atop the North American box office over the weekend with a huge $25m haul, bringing its total to $75.4m after ten days. The camp adventure spinoff from the TV series of the same name roundly defeated its competition which included Adam Sandler's latest film Little Nicky ...
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Film treaty to boost relations between UK and Morocco
UK and Moroccan Government officials have completed negotiations on a film co-production agreement that will enable UK and Moroccan film-makers to co-produce films eligible for national status in both countries. The treaty is due to come into effect in the first half of next year.Commenting on the agreement, Culture minister ...
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Australia
Dir: Baz Luhrmann. Aus/US. 2008. 165 mins With Australia, Baz Luhrmann has fearlessly gone for the biggest, lushest goal he could imagine - a romantic, old-fashioned epic to stand beside Gone With The Wind. Though it fails to reach such Hollywood heyday heights, Australia's combination of high adventure, awesome landscapes ...
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Lord Puttnamto bepresident of UK Film Distributor's Association
The Film Distributor's Association (FDA) has appointed Lord Puttnam CBE as its president.His remit is to champion the business of film distribution at a time when the industry is reshaping itself to embrace the challenges and opportunities of digital technology. He will start in the position on December 1.Lord Puttnam ...
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White Night Wedding is best feature at Icelandic awards
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur's White Night Wedding took best feature and six other awards at the Icelandic Film & Television Academy Awards in Reykjavik. The awards honour the local industry.White Night Wedding had been nominated for a record 14 awards. It is Iceland's official candidate for an Oscar nomination as ...
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Mannheim top prize for Rain, FIPRESCI Prize to Borderline
Argentinian director Paula Hernandez's Rain (Lluvia) received the top award at this year's Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival. The international jury headed by veteran German filmmaker Edgar Reitz gave the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize to Stephanie Duvivier for her film A Police Romance (Un Roman Policier).Its special award was presented to ...
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2009 European Film Awards to be held in Essen
The 22nd European Film Awards in December 2009 will be hosted by the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Essen and not Berlin as generally expected.This is a change in usual practice as the venue for the awards ceremony has alternated between Berlin and other European cities such as Warsaw, Barcelona, Rome, ...
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European Film Promotion secures three year partnership withEC
European Film Promotion (EFP) has announced a partnership agreement with the European Commission MEDIA programme that will secure EFP's activities for the next three years.The agreement includes a budget of $1.57 m (Euros 1.25m) for 2009 alone.The partnership agreement is a first for EFP who until now have received project ...
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Claymation feature Mary And Max to open Sundance Film Festival 2009
The 2009 Sundance Film Festival will launch on January 15 with the world premiere of Oscar winning animator Adam Elliot's claymation feature Mary And Max.Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette voice the lead characters, a lonely Australian girl and a middle-aged New Yorker with Asperger's Syndrome who become pen pals.The ...
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Perez, Ferguson, Hall join Ricci in voice cast of Hero Of Color City
Rosie Perez, Craig Ferguson and Arsenio Hall have joined Christina Ricci on the voice cast of Exodus Film Group's CG animated feature The Hero Of Color City.Exodus Film Group founder and CEO John D Eraklis and president Max Howard are producing the story of a pack of crayons who save ...
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NZ award-winning producers to partner with Bavaria Film
New Zealand producers Rachel Gardner and Philip Smith of Great Southern Film and Television have been crowned New Zealand's Independent Producers of the Year. The duo are developing a slate of eight features with the most advanced being Scott Reynolds' Falling Angels and writer/director Anthony McCarten's Death Of A Superhero, ...
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Rick Senat to leave Warner Bros after 24 years
Rick Senat, head of European business affairs for Warner Bros and a 24 year-old veteran of the studio, is to retire from the company at the end of the year to pursue independent entrepreneurial opportunities in the entertainment business. He will remain with Warner in an advisory capacity.Senat's departure was ...
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Alexandra Stone leaves Recorded to set up CMP Film
Alexandra Stone, who has spent the last 14 years in senior production roles at Jeremy Thomas' Recorded Picture Company (RPC), has left Recorded to head up a new film division for Creative Management And Productions (CMP) called CMP Film Ltd.Based in London, she will be charged with developing and producing ...
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Moszkowicz commits to Constantin for another five years
Constantin Film's executive director for production Martin Moszkowicz has had his contract as a member of the German producer-distributor's management board extended to end 2013.Moszkowicz's commitment to stay at the helm of Constantin Film for production contradicts suggestions in recent months that the future of the producer-distributor could be in ...
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Shooting of Wide Open Spaces begins in Ireland
Principal photography of coming of age comedy Wide Open Spaces has started in Ireland. The film was written by Arthur Mathews, co-writer of TV series Father Ted, is directed by Tom Hall and shot by Tim Fleming (Once).The film is a co-production between Irish company Grand Pictures (Spin the Bottle) ...
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Episode 3: Enjoy Poverty opens 21st International Documentary Festival
The 21st International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) has opened with the world premiere of Renzo Martens' Episode 3: Enjoy Poverty. On the eve of IDFA, international sales rights to Enjoy Poverty were picked up by Vienna-based outfit, Autlook Film Sales.The provocative, Congo-set film explores the emotional and economic value of ...
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Screen International Critics' Choice 2008
Screen International Critics' Choice 2008The Chaser (dir. Na Hong-jin)The Class (dir. Laurent Cantet) Gomorrah(dir. Matteo Garrone) Hunger (dir. Steve McQueen) Il Divo (dir. Paolo Sorrentino) O'Horten (dir. Bent Hamer) Of Time And The City (dir. Terence Davies) Three Monkeys (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Tokyo Sonata (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Vinyan (dir. ...
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Black Nights Festival announces competition line up
The 12th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (November 13-December 7) has announced its international competition programmes and the projects included in the Baltic Event Co-Production Market.In the festival's EurAsia competition, 18 films will compete for the Grand Prix and $12,600 (Euros 10,000).The EurAsia jury consists of actor Rain Tolk, director ...
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Asian Festival of 1st Films unveils nominations
The Asian Festival of 1st Films, a Singapore-based film and documentary festival for first-time filmmakers, has unveiled the nominations for the festival's fourth edition to be held December 4-10. Among nominated films are Indian actress Nandita Das' Firaq, which traces the emotional journeys of ordinary people one month after the ...