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Cannes line-up: Un Certain Regard
Un Certain RegardOpening film Paris Je T'Aime Bled Number One (Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche)Il Registra Di Matrimoni (The Wedding Director) (Marco Bellocchio)Cronica De Una Fuga (Free Pass) (Israel Adrian Caetano) Hamaca Paraguaya (Paz Encina)* ...
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Cannes Competition yields surprises
CannesFestival organisers have announced the official lineup for this year's edition, with 19 films competing for the Palmed'Or - one less than 2005.Many filmshad been predicted prior to the announcement, including Pedro Almodovar's Volver, SofiaCoppola's Marie-Antoinette, Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth,Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel, Aki Kaurismaki'sLights In The Dusk and ...
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The Sentinel
Dir: Clark Johnson. US.2006. 108mins.One of the biggest challenges facing contemporary UScinema is the high quality of homegrown TV drama, beit The West Wing, The Shield or The Sopranos or so-called "procedurals" like Law And Order or CSI. It is why a movie like TheSentinel, a White House-set thriller about ...
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Focus Features gets Woody Allen's Scoop
Focus Featureshas picked up North American, Australian and New Zealand rights to WoodyAllen's second UK project Scoop, which is currently in post-production.Scoop was shot in London last summer and starsScarlett Johansson as a journalism student who investigates a string of murdersand falls in love with a handsome Englishman. Hugh Jackman, ...
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IMAX to add fifth giant screen in CJ CGV Pusan multiplex
IMAX has signed a deal with leading Korean exhibitor CJ CGV Coto add a fifth giant screen theatre to its original four-theatre commitment inPusan's Seomyun 12 multiplex.The new theatre is scheduled to open in time for the release of SupermanReturns: The IMAX Experience on Jun 30.The decision to add a ...
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Hamilton to head festival centre programming at TIFFG
Jim Hamilton has been appointed to the new post of director offestival centre programming for the Toronto International Film Festival Group(TIFFG).Effective immediately, Hamilton (pictured) will take charge of allprogramming at the yet-to-be-built festival centre and oversee the five screens, educationalspaces and gallery.In the meantime, he will also oversee the direction ...
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Driver races to worldwide deal with Rogue/Focus
Rogue Pictures has acquired worldwide distribution rightsexcluding Germany, Austria, and German-speaking Switzerland to Constantin Filmand Impact Pictures' video game adaptation Driver.Roger Avary is writing the screenplay and will direct, with ImpactPictures' Jeremy Bolt and Paul W S Anderson and Constantin's Bernd Eichingerand Robert Kulzer producing.Focus Features International will handle international ...
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Yari backs Jamie Kennedy vehicle Kickin It
Jamie Kennedy is heading the cast on the comedy Kickin It OldSkool for Bob YariProductions and Kennedy's Jizzy Entertainment and Hi-Def Entertainment.Shooting is underway in Vancouver on Harvey Glazer's directorialdebut about a 32-year-old former breakdancer who awakens from a 20-year comaand attempts to revive his dance team.Maria Menounos, Christopher McDonald, ...
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Noeltner's CMG takes on rap & hip-hop collection
Ed Noeltner's CinemaManagement Group (CMG) will commence pre-sales in Cannes on its 12-title rapand hip hop DVD premiere set The Streets Are Talkin'.Each DVD in the collectionwill feature cutting edge music, interviews and footage and will be accompaniedby a specially created bonus CD mix.The first title set fordomestic release in ...
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Ice Age sequel set to soar with major openings
Fox International's Ice Age 2: The Meltdown should soar past $300m this weekend,powered by expected strong holds and several major launches.The animated sequel currently stands at $291,5m and goes out inSouth Korea on Apr 20, followed by Italy and India on Apr 21 and Japan on Apr22.Big debuts would appear ...
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United 93
Dir/scr. Paul Greengrass. US-UK. 2006.110mins.Gut wrenching and chilling, Paul Greengrass' United 93is a visceral recreation of the September 11 terrorist attacks that sharplydraws on the film-maker's documentary background. The result is a searingcollage, couched in sorrow and conjuring up mournful chaos and dread.Features of this scaleclearly are neither made nor ...
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Allouache secures backing from Hubert Bals Fund
Salut Cousin! director Merzak Allouache is amongst a host of film-makers from developing counties to secure funding from the International Film Festival Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund.Allouache was awarded support for L'Autre Monde, which explores the social and political situation in Algeria through a young woman's search for her fiance.Other projects ...
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Chadha to shoot JR in Dallas remake
Gurinder Chadha has confirmed that she is to direct Twentieth Century Fox's screen adaptation of TV series Dallas(which ran from 1978-1991.)Thefilm, scripted by Robert Harling (Steel Magnolias), will star JohnTravolta as Texas oil magnate JR Ewing and Jennifer Lopez as hishard-drinking wife, Sue Ellen. Luke Wilson and Shirley Maclaine are ...
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DeA Planeta to launch new international sales arm
Spanish-Italian media venture DeAPlaneta will launch a new international sales department at Cannes, headed by CFOGonzalo Martin.Current acquisitions directorYolanda del Val and sales manager Laia Medina will handle day-to-day work.The company's slate will spanin-house productions, co-productions and third-party pick-ups from Spain andLatin America.Among DeA Planeta's recent featurefilm productions are psychological ...
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Mexican documentary wins Buenos Aires top prize
Mexican Juan Carlos Rulfo's documentary In the Pit (En elHoyo)won the prize for best film in the internationalcompetition at the eighth Buenos Aires International Festival of IndependentCinema (BAFICI), while German Valeska Grisebach's Longing took theSpecial Jury Award, Argentinian Lorena Munoz's painting documentary LosProximos Pasados (Next to be Gone) received the ...
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Zentropa goes solo in Danish distribution
Zentropa willdistribute its own films in Denmark starting from this autumn. For some yearsthey have had an unusually friendly deal with primary Danish competitor in filmproduction, Nordisk Film, about distributing Zentropa's films. Nordisk willstill send out the next couple of Zentropa movies, but in future PeterAalbaek Jensen and Lars von ...
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Ten Canoes to open Sydney Film Festival
Un Certain Regard Cannes entrant Rolf de Heer's TenCanoes is to open the 53rd Sydney Film Festival (SFF) on June 9."We are absolutely thrilled to have such an exciting anddistinctively Australian film open the festival," said SFF artistic directorLynden Barber in the statement."It is fitting that such a beautifully poetic ...
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Moretti tops golden week with Donatellos triumph
Nanni Moretti's The Caiman was named best picture at the 50th David di Donatello film awards, and took home six prizes. Its main rival, MichelePlacido's Crime Novel, walked away with eight Donatellos, including best screenplay and supporting actor.The Caiman, which screens in competition in Cannes, is a mix of marital ...
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Ice Age 2 cracks $300m at international box office
Fox International's Ice Age 2: The Meltdown remained the runaway number one title in theinternational marketplace as it swept past $300m.The hit animated sequel added $40.3m on 8,964screens to raise the international cumulative tally to $333.1m.It opened number one in Italy on a superb $6.2m on 644 screens,and scored a ...
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TriStar tops North American box office with Silent Hill
TriStar's horror tale Silent Hill emerged as the North American weekendchampion on an estimated $20.2m while Fox's thriller The Sentinel opened third on $14.7m and Universal's AmericanDreamz flopped in eighthplace on $3.7m.Meanwhile last weekend's top title Scary Movie 4 from Dimension Films fell to second placeon $17m for a $67.7m ...