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FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR SUBMISSIONS
FULL LIST OF THE OSCAR SUBMISSIONS 2007Argentina - XXY, Lucia PuenzoAustralia - The Home Song Stories, Tony AyresAustria - The Counterfeiters, Stefan RuzowitzkyAzerbaijan - Caucasia, Farid GumbatovBangladesh - On The Wings Of Dreams, Golam Rabbany BiplobBelgium - Ben X, Nic BalthazarBosnia and Herzegovina - It's Hard To Be Nice, Srdan ...
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR SUBMISSIONS
FULL LIST OF THE OSCAR SUBMISSIONS 2007Argentina - XXY, Lucia PuenzoAustralia - The Home Song Stories, Tony AyresAustria - The Counterfeiters, Stefan RuzowitzkyAzerbaijan - Caucasia, Farid GumbatovBangladesh - On The Wings Of Dreams, Golam Rabbany BiplobBelgium - Ben X, Nic BalthazarBosnia and Herzegovina - It's Hard To Be Nice, Srdan ...
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MOST NOMINATED COUNTRIES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR
THE LAST 30 YEARS: TOP NOMINATED COUNTRIESWinners in bold1: France (18 nominations, 3 wins)2005 Joyeux Noel2004 The Choir2001 Amelie2000 The Taste Of Others1999 East/West1996 Ridicule1992 Indochine1990 Cyrano De Bergerac1989 Camille Claudel1987 Au Revoir Les Enfants1986 Betty Blue1985 Three Men And A Cradle1983 Entre Nous1982 Coup De Torchon1980 The Last Metro1979 ...
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Bee Movie takes over top spot at US from American Gangster
DreamWorks-Paramount's Bee Movie climbed to the top of the North American charts at the weekend as it traded places with Universal's crime saga American Gangster.Bee Movie added an estimated $26m through Paramount for $72.2m after two weekends, while Gangster raised its total after the same amount of time by $24.3m ...
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Sony's first Indian production Saawariya is a smash
Sony Pictures' first Indian production Saawariya delivered a mighty debut in India through Sony Pictures Releasing International, where it took an estimated $14.4m from 754 screens.But that was not enough for it to beat Indian number one - Om Shanti Om - which took in about $17m in IndiaOverall Saawariya ...
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Munyurangabo wins international competition at AFI FEST
Lee Isaac Chung's Munyurangabo was named AFI FEST 2007's winner of the grand jury prize for international feature competition.Andreas Mol Dalsgaard's Afghan Muscles and Nina Davenport's Operation Filmmaker shared the International documentary grand jury prize.The shorts jury prize went to Nash Edgerton's Spider, while a special award for best animated ...
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Kuroki heads cast of pan-Asian production Subaru
Japanese actress Meisa Kuroki (Crows: Episode 0) is headlining the cast of pan-Asian production Subaru, it was announced at a weekend press conference in Shanghai. Bill Kong (Lust, Caution) is producing the project for Japan 's Avex Group Holdings and its affiliate, Seoul-based SM Entertainment, with Lee Chi-ngai (Magic Kitchen) ...
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Paula Jalfon moves from Ingenious to BBC Films
Paula Jalfon has joined BBC Films as commercial manager. She is the former head of production at Ingenious. Jalfon will be responsible for managing third-party financing for BBC Films, seeking new local and international sources of funding, and overseeing sales, marketing and distribution for the BBC Films' slate. Jalfon will ...
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Love In The Time Of Cholera
Dir: Mike Newell. US/Colombia. 2007. 138minsMike Newell delivers a respectable movie adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's beloved 1985 novel, which because of its structural and temporal challenges has often been dubbed unfilmable. Newell and screenwriter Ronald Harwood remain faithful in a very literal sense to the narrative of the novel, ...
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Dubai to start new Gulf Film Festival in April
The Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone Authority, organisers of the Dubai International Film Festival, have announced plans to launch a Gulf cinema event. The competitive Gulf Film Festival, in assocation with Dubai Studio City (also a partner in DIFF), will be devoted to films from the United Arab Emirates, ...
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Tanovic, Lichtenberg among mentors for Goa script workshop
Danis Tanovic, Bernd Lichtenberg and Olivia Hetreed are among the high-profile writers who will mentor eight students at a script development workshop, Screenwriters Bloc, to be held next week in Goa, India (Nov 18-23). Organised by India's National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), and held in the run-up to the International ...
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Golden Horse Awards announces new nominations
The Golden Horse Organising Committee has announced additional nominations for the Golden Horse Film Awards to be held on Dec 8 in Taipei. The unusual reconvening of the jury on Sunday night fills gaps created by the withdrawal of Wang Quanan's Tuya's Marriage and Li Yang's Blind Mountain under pressure ...
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Norway's Tinius Nagell-Erichsen dies aged 73
Tinius Nagell-Erichsen - the largest shareholder of Norwegian media concern, Schibsted ASA, and itsChairmanfor 10 years - did last night (Nov 11). He was 73.A descendant of Christian Michael Schibsted - the founder of the Schibsted media group - Nagell-Erichsen graduated from the London School of Economics, and spent his ...
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Sony signs digital download deal with Videoland and Movie MAX
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed an electronic sell-through deal with two DVD rental companies in Benelux: Videoland and Movie MAX. The deal covers new and library titles from Sony Pictures available for digital download from the companies' online sites in Belgium, Luxemburg and The Netherlands. The service went ...
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Verhoeven to receive award at 12th Capri film festival
Paul Verhoeven will receive the Capri Cult Award at the 12 Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival (Dec 27-Jan 2).Verhoeven will also talk about his forthcoming film Azazel, starring Milla Jovovich and Dan Stevens, adapted from the novel by Boris Akunin, set in 19th century Russia. Marc Canton serves as festival ...
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Dodona sees 50% digital conversion by 2013, pushed by 3D
Half of the world's cinema screens could be digital by 2013, according to predictions from Dodona Research. A total of 4,627 screens have been converted as of September 2007, representing about 5% of the global total. Dodona analysts estimate that the potential market for digital cinema equipment could be $8bn.Report ...
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Frontrow's AFM pickups include The Babysitters and Eddie The Eagle
Middle Eastern distributor Frontrow Entertainment picked up eight films at the recent AFM. Theprojects includeThe Babysitters and Goal 3, both from Peace Arch. From HanWay Films, Frontrow acquired David Cronenberg's The Talking Cure, Eddie The Eagle to star Steve Coogan, Wim Wenders' The Palermo Shooting, Gorillaz documentary Bananaz and horror ...
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Gosling, Waits on board for Dagur Kari's The Good Heart
Icelandic director Dagur Kari, who previously made festival this Noi Albinoi and Dark Horse, is gearing up for a December start of shoot for his next project The Good Heart.The film, which shoots in San Francisco and Iceland, stars Ryan Gosling and Tom Waits. Kagur wrote the story, about a ...
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Frankel fills top communications role at The Weinstein Company
Former Rainbow Media communications chief Matthew Frankel has joined The Weinstein Company (TWC) in the newly created role of chief communications officer and senior vice president of corporate affairs.Frankel will start in TWC's New York offices on Nov 26 and initially work alongside Sarah Rothman, the Weinsteins' head of corporate ...
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Dokument buys domestic rights to Bornhak's 8 Miles High
New US independent Dokument Films has acquired all North American rights to Achim Bornhak's biopic 8 Miles High (Das Wilde Leben). Dokument is a subsidiary of Illinois-based MPI Media Group.MPI's vice president of acquisitions and development Greg Newman negotiated the deal with Andreas Rothbauer of Beta Cinema and the company ...