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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter' And Spring (Bom, Teoreum, Gaeul, Gyeowool, Geurigo, Bom)
Dir: Kim Ki-duk. South Korea-Germnay. 2003. 102mins.Superior to any of his previous works, this contemplative, lavishly photographed picture made by the prolific Kim Ki-Duk, has been shot in a spectacular location, is calm, leisurely and philosophical and a cinema event in its own right. In sharp contrast to Kim's boldly ...
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Wind blows to UK and Switzerland
Tom Barman's Any Way The Wind Blows, which had its international premiere in Locarno's competition, has been picked up by Axiom Films for the UK and Agora Films for Switzerland. The film, which will be screening at the forthcoming Montreal World Film Festival, will be released in the Netherlands by ...
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Golden Horse organisers target Hong Kong
Organisers of Taiwan's Golden Horse awards are in Hong Kong to promote the 40th anniversary of the event amid criticisms that too many prizes have been given to Hong Kong-produced films.Last year for example, Hong Kong movies scooped the top prizes for best director (Hollywood Hong Kong), best actor (Three-Going ...
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Distant Horizon takes world rights to 'junkmation' feature
Anant Singh, CEO of Distant Horizon, has announced the acquisition of worldwide rights to Africa's first full-length animation feature, The Legend Of The Sky Kingdom, and that the film will open the African Horizons section of the Montreal Film Festival where it will have its world premiere. The film, produced ...
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Australia's Pennell moves into big-budget arena
Australian production outfit Pennell Motion Pictures is set to produce A$15-20m ($9.5-12.6m) romantic comedy Amorous Intrigue, displaying further evidence that the Australian production community is intent on moving into bigger-budget projects.The film is based on the true story of Aphra Bhenn, who was a writer in the UK over 300 ...
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Strangler wraps for Tartan, New Horizon
The Hillside Strangler, the horror-thriller collaboration between HamishMcAlpine's UK-based Tartan Film and actor Alexa Jago and property tycoonJohn Stienfield's Los Angeles-based New Horizon Pictures, is due to wrap in LosAngeles on Aug 17.C Thomas Howell (TheHitcher, Gods & Generals) andNicholas Turturro (NYPD Blue)star in the true-life story of Kenneth Bianchi ...
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Jarre gets honorary award at Flanders soundtrack awards
Oscar-winning composerMaurice Jarre is to receive an honorary award at the Flanders InternationalFilm Festival-Ghent's 3rd Annual World Soundtrack Awards ceremony.Jarre, who won three AcademyAwards for Lawrence Of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage To India, will collect the Joseph Plateau Award inrecognition of his distinctive achievements in film.The ceremony is ...
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Silent Waters makes a splash at Locarno
For a second year running, the winner of Locarno's Golden Leopard took everyone by surprise: Pakistani filmmaker Sabiha Sumar's Silent Waters (Khamosh Pani) came away with the top honour after festival-goers had been putting their money on Korea's Kim Ki-Duk going for gold with his latest film Spring, Summer, Fall, ...
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Freddy Vs Jason is the top match at US box office
New Line's Freddy Vs Jasonscored a dazzling surprise opening of $36.4m at the weekend, scaring off lastweek's champion S.W.A.T. intosecond place with its $18.6m.Kevin Costner's western, OpenRange, opened third on a respectable$14.1m for Buena Vista, while MGM's chick flick Uptown Girls debuted on a feisty $11.2m in fifth place.Warner Bros' ...
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New Nordic films to unspool at Haugesund
The 31st Norwegian International Film Festival (Aug 17-21) in the small western town of Haugesund is set to benefit from one of the country's most interesting filmmakers being lured to Hollywood. Erik Skjoldbjaerg (Insomnia) is bringing the two US stars - Christina Ricci and Jason Biggs - from his latest ...
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Silent Waters (Khamosh Pani)
Dir. Sabiha Sumar. Pakistan, France, Germany, 2003. 99 min.As courageously outspoken as her frontal criticism of Islamic fundamentalism is, Sabiha Sumar's Locarno winner qualifies more as a political pamphlet than a film drama. A Pakistani-born, American-educated documentarist who has explored in the past the growth of Islam in her homeland, ...
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Bayside shakes up Japanese box office
Bayside Shakedown 2 , the follow-up to the 1998 hit thriller, passed the Y10bn ($84m) mark at the box office on its 29th day of release - making it the third fastest film to reach this milestone in the Japanese market, after Spirited Away and Harry Potter And The Philosopher's ...
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Locarno winning producers unveil Unlimited slate
Unlimited, the pan-European producers network behind Pakistani director Sabiha Sumar's Locarno winning film Silent Waters, has unveiled a new slate The slate includes new projects by Mikhail Kobakhidze (Georgia), Didi Danquart (Germany), Haile Gerima (Ethiopia), and Shaji N. Karun (India)."Silent Waters is a kind of pilot project for Unlimited and ...
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Taiwan's Golden Horse rides out funding storm
Despite a funding controversy, this year's Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Festival and awards ceremony have received the green light to go ahead, according to George Chang, chairman of the event's executive committee.A question mark hung over the future of the Golden Horse earlier this year following the cancellation of Taiwan's ...
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Digital Film Lab completes Underworld process
Copenhagen- and London-based Digital Film Lab has taken it first full Hollywood movie - Sony Pictures and Lakeshore Entertainment's Underworld - through its Digital Intermediate process."We have been very quiet about this, but we are happy to announce that we have completed the film, and that Sony subsequently has boosted ...
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Artisan seeks to raise $140m from Nasdaq IPO
Artisan Entertainment has announced that its seeking to raise $140m from its upcoming initial public offering and has applied to trade its shares on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol "RTSN". Merrill Lynch & Co., Bear Stearns & Co and ING Barings have been engaged as Artisan's IPO underwriters.According to ...
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Odense Occupied by Pederson's Palestinian tale
Joergen Flindt Pedersen's controversial documentary The Occupied (De Besatte) won the Grand Prix at the 18th edition of the Danish short and documentary film festival in Odense over the weekend.The film follows five Palestinians for one year and at the same time describes how the Palestinians lost their country in ...
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Tomb Raider 2 opens top in Germany for Concorde
Paramount's Lara CroftTomb Raider: The Cradle Of Lifecontinued to show good legs on its international roll-out this weekend,launching in nine territories, including a number one bow in Germany throughConcorde.Germany and Switzerland,where the film is handled by Ascot Elite, provided the Jan de Bont film itsfirst non-UIP international launches, taking pole ...
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Bruno promoted to vice president at CTFDI
Steve Bruno hasbeen promoted to vice president of distribution at Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI).'Steve hasspent his entire career at Sony, and he is a valued member of our internationalteam,' CTFDI's senior executive vice president of distribution MarkZucker said in a statement.'He isrespected by his co-workers and industry peers and ...
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LXG has powerful opening for Fox in South Korea
FoxInternational's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG) cut a swathe through Asia at theweekend with a several number one bows, the highlight of which was an excellent$2.6m in South Korea.The Korean takeon 140 screens was Fox's fourth biggest bow ever in the territory andcontributed to the bulk of the film's ...