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I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK
Frustrating, whimsical, baffling and yet utterly original, Park Chan-Wook's new feature seems designed expressly to alienate those who were turned on to the Korean director by his revenge trilogy - Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Old Boy, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. This tale of a psychologically fragile girl who thinks ...
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Israel's The Bubble picked up by Strand
Strand Releasing has snapped up US rights to Israeli director Eytan Fox's Panorama title, The Bubble, it was confirmed this week. The deal was negotiated between Jon Gerrans of Strand Releasing and Pierre Menahem of Scalpel Films. Strand Releasing plans an August opening for the film across the US. The ...
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Bon Cop Canada 's top-grossing film for 2006
Berlin market title and bilingual buddy cop movie Bon Cop, Bad Cop was named the recipient of the 2007 Golden Reel Award, a token prize presented annually at the Genie Awards to the top-grossing Canadian film from the previous year. Nominated in ten categories including Best Picture, the film broke ...
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Japanese baseball star to head promotions for Bruckheimer movies
Retired Japanese baseball star Tsuyoshi Shinjo has been tapped to head domestic promotions for three Jerry Bruckheimer productions slated for release in Japan in 2007. Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Buena Vista International (BVI) Japan chose the popular sports figure to lead promotions for three upcoming releases produced by hit-maker Bruckheimer. ...
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ACTRA strike at impasse despite mediation
Canadian performers remain on strike as ACTRA and the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) failed to reach a compromise despite two days of talks with a government-appointed mediator. Today, each side blamed the other for the deadlock. The point of contention is new media rights. ACTRA says it ...
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Germany's Culture Minister bangs local drum at Berlinale opening
Germany's State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann was in a bullish mood at the gala opening ceremony for this year's Berlinale, which opened with La Vie En Rose on Thursday evening. Speaking in front of a select first-night audience including the team of opening film La Vie En Rose, the ...
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The Hospital launches 2007 Audi Channel Reel Talent Awards
Original screenplays are now being accepted for the Reel Talent short-film competition, which is the only incentive in the UK to finance and facilitate the production of its finalists' films.In conjunction with London-based creative community and member's club The Hospital, Audi's 24-hour digital television channel is hosting the awards in ...
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Italy soars, Japan and North America sour in global box office
Six of the nine major territories saw increases in box office takings this week but drops in the North American and Japanese markets accounted for a virtually static year-on-year comparison, according to the Screen International Screen Index. Collective global grosses were boosted by just 0.19% compared to the same week ...
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Milos Forman heads Venice jury
Director Milos Forman will chair the jury of the upcoming Venice International Film Festival, the festival has announced.Forman, who recently directed Man On The Moon and The People Vs Larry Flint, will head a jury composed of Jennifer Jason Leigh; Giuseppe Bertolucci; Claude Chabrol; writer Tahar Ben-Jelloun; Iranian Cannes prize-winner ...
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Don Johnson and Jackie Chan plan action comedy Pretty Baby
Don Johnson and Jackie Chan are set to co-star in action comedy A Bullet For Pretty Baby. Arthur Sarkissian, who worked with Chan on the Rush Hour trilogy, is producing with George Edde. The contemporary San Francisco-set story is about a high-class pimp (Johnson) and small-time crook (Chan) both ...
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Independent takes on documentary In Search Of Diego
London-based sales company Independent has picked up worldwide rights to documentary In Search Of Diego.The feature documentary, currently in post-production, follows five young UK freestyle footballers who travel the world to try to meet their hero Diego Maradona.Brothers Benjamin and Gabe Turner directed, while Leon Pearlman and Ben Winston of ...
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One Eyed adds Tony Manero and Others
UK-based sales and production company One Eyed Films has added to its slate of Latin American offerings. The company is on board for Pablo Larrain's Tony Manero, a Chile/Brazil/Argentina co-production that is still seeking one more partner from Ibero-America. The comedy is about a criminal in 1970s Chile who wants ...
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Optimum buys four including Haggis' In The Valley Of Elah
Optimum Releasing has acquired UK rights to four new films: Paul Haggis' In The Valley Of Elah, Susan Montford's While She Was Out, Jonathan Hensleigh's Welcome To The Jungle and Xavier Gens' Frontier(s).Paul Haggis' Crash follow-up Elah, sold by Summit Entertainment, stars Charlize Theron, Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon ...
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Trapped Ashes picked up by horror-hungry Lionsgate
Lionsgate has picked up North American rights from Darclight Films to the horror anthology Trapped Ashes. The four-part tale tells of seven strangers on a Hollywood studio tour stranded inside a House of Horrors exhibit. The protagonists are forced to share their most terrifying personal stories in order to get ...
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Hopper set to star in King horror
Dennis Hopper is in final talks to join Film Bridge International's Stephen King adaptation Dolan's Cadillac. Hopper will play a crime boss who kills a woman to prevent her from testifying against him in a murder trial and is subsequently pursued by the woman's vengeful young husband. Production is set ...
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Sola Media takes on sales for $3m Turtle's Song
Germany-based sales company Sola Media has picked up rights to nature documentary The Turtle's Song, from UK producers Film & Music Entertainment and Big Wave Productions. Sola has world rights excluding Austria and Finland to the theatrical feature produced by F&ME's Mike Downey, Sam Taylor and Zorana Piggott and Big ...
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Sola Media takes on sales for $3m Turtle's Song
Germany-based sales company Sola Media has picked up rights to nature documentary The Turtle's Song, from UK producers Film & Music Entertainment and Big Wave Productions. Sola has world rights excluding Austria and Finland to the theatrical feature produced by F&ME's Mike Downey, Sam Taylor and Zorana Piggott and Big ...
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Germany's IN-motion takes over US' Myriad for $4m
German media concern IN-motion has acquired 76% of Kirk D'Amico's US sales operation Myriad Pictures for $4m, only weeks after the Frankfurt-based company went public.D'Amico will remain CEO of Myriad, working with IN-motion's LA-based chairman for film and TV Philip von Alvensleben, formerly president of Telemuenchen, who joined Myriad's board ...
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Whishaw and Goode take leads in HanWay's Brideshead Revisited
HanWay Films has announced that Ben Whishaw and Matthew Goode have taken the lead roles as Sebastian and Charles, respectively, in the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Julian Jarrold is directing the project, and Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae are producing through their Ecosse Films. HanWay is handling worldwide ...
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Whishaw and Goode take leads in HanWay's Brideshead Revisited
HanWay Films has announced that Ben Whishaw and Matthew Goode have taken the lead roles as Sebastian and Charles, respectively, in the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Julian Jarrold is directing the project, and Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae are producing through their Ecosse Films. HanWay is handling worldwide ...