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New Latina film-maker grant created by Women In Film in LA with GM
TheLos Angeles branch of Women In Film has teamed up with General MotorsCorporation to launch the Women In Film/General Motors Latina New Filmmakergrant, designed to support upcoming Latina filmmakers by providing them withaccess to key industry personnel and female mentors. Thegrant will be awarded to five women selected from an ...
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Diary Of A Mad Black Woman opens top in US
Lions Gate Film's comedy-dramaDiary Of A Mad Black Woman ruled the roost at the weekend, opening topon an estimated $22.7m.The picture stars Kimberly Elise as a woman who learns on the eve of her 20thwedding anniversary that her husband wants to marry her best friend. DarrenGrant's picture opened to dire ...
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MacDowell joins FilmFour's Sad Fuckers Club
Andie MacDowell is to star in FilmFour's UK comedy Sad Fuckers Club (working title) alongside Imelda Staunton and Anna Chancellor.The film is the story of three female friends behaving badly. Newcomer John McKay, who has made a mark through shorts such as Doom & Gloom and Wet & Dry, is ...
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Avex buys Japan on Screaming Masterpiece from Katapult
LA-basedKatapult Film Sales closed a major Japanese deal at Berlin recently for itsmusic documentary Screaming Masterpiece with Avex in Japan.Open Sesame helped to brokerthe deal which saw Avex take Ari Alexander Ergis' film about the contemporaryIcelandic music scene. The film, which was completed in Jan, and screened inBerlin, features such ...
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Diary Of A Mad Black Woman opens top in US
Lions Gate Film's comedy-dramaDiary Of A Mad Black Woman ruled the roost at the weekend, opening topon an estimated $22.7m.The picture stars Kimberly Elise as a woman who learns on the eve of her 20thwedding anniversary that her husband wants to marry her best friend. DarrenGrant's picture opened to dire ...
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New cast join Stranger Than Fiction
TomHulce, Linda Hunt and Tony Hale have joined the cast of Marc Forster's StrangerThan Fiction, which is set to begin filming in April.Aspreviously announced, Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman and EmmaThompson and Queen Latifah already star in the story of an IRS auditor namedHarold Crick who inexplicably finds himself ...
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FULL LIST OF ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS 2004
Best Picture MillionDollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, AlbertS Ruddy & Tom Rosenberg, producers)BestDirector Clint Eastwood Million Dollar BabyBest Actor Jamie Foxx RayBest Actress Hilary Swank MillionDollar BabyBest Supporting Actor MorganFreeman Million Dollar BabyBest Supporting Actress CateBlanchett The AviatorBest Original ScreenplayCharlie Kaufman (screenplay), Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry & PierreBismuth (story) Eternal Sunshine ...
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Million Dollar night at the Oscars for Eastwood's Baby
Million Dollar Baby delivered a knockout blow to its chiefcompetitor The Aviator attonight's 77th Annual Academy Award ceremony, winning four Oscarsfor best picture, best director (Clint Eastwood), best actress (Hilary Swank)and best supporting actor (Morgan Freeman).MartinScorsese once again came away empty-handed in the best director category for TheAviator, although the ...
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Be Cool
Dir: F Gary Gray. US.2005. 115 mins.Imperturbablemobster-turned-movie-producer Chili Palmer tries his hand at the music biz in BeCool, the long-awaited sequel to Barry Sonnefeld's deftly funny 1995 ElmoreLeonard adaptation Get Shorty. In musical terms, the sequel doesn'tswing like the original did and neither does it ever quite find a more ...
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Cursed
Dir: Wes Craven. US.2005. 95minsThe release date of 2005tells one side - perhaps the official one - to Cursed, the new werewolfpicture from Dimension, the in-house genre arm of Miramax that revitalised themodern horror landscape with the self-aware yet scary Scream picturesfrom what now seems like eons ago. Almost every ...
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Veer Zara, Hum Tum top India's Oscars
Shahrukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee bagged the best actor andbest actress award for their role in Swades and Hum Tumrespectively at the 50th Filmfare awards (Indian Oscars) in Mumbai on Saturday.Rani also bagged the best actress in a supporting role for the film VeerZara. Yashraj Film's Veer Zara, was awarded ...
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Krabbe and Hershey to star in Albert Schweitzer biopic
Jeroen Krabbe and Barbara Hershey are headlining the cast of UK director Gavin Millar's biopic Schweitzer (working title) on the life of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer.Set in 1949 in the early years of the Cold War, the film follows Schweitzer (played by Krabbe) as he arrives in ...
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Nigel Planer joins International Screenwriters Festival line-up
Next week'sInternational Screenwriters' Festival has added actor, novelist and playwright Nigel Planer to its line-up.Planer remains best-known for his iconic comedy roles in the 1980s in The Comic Strip and The Young Ones but hasalso been a successfulplaywright and writer with two novels to his name.Among recent work, he has ...
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Reliance forms joint venture with the Bachchan family
Just one week after news broke that Anil Ambani's Reliance Big Entertainment (RBE) is in talks to invest in DreamWorks, the Indian company has announced a joint venture with India's first family of Hindi cinema, the Bachchans. The tie-up covers the production of films, TV series, reality shows, internet and ...
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Bollywood.tv launches Bindies online film festival
South Asian cinema online platform, www.bollywood.tv, is launching an internet film festival for independent filmmakers, dubbed the Bollywood Indies (The Bindies). The online fest welcomes independent films in any Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or Sri Lankan language, theme or flavour.The content will be uploaded, and made available for sales agents and ...
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Risk
Dir: Alan White. Australia. 2000. 92 mins.Prod co: MacGowan Films. Int'l sales: Beyond Films (61-2) 9281 1266. Exec prod: Marion Pilowsky. Prod: Marion MacGowan. Scr: John Armstrong, Steve Wright, based on the short story "The Adjuster" by Tracy Kidder. DoP: Simon Duggan. Prod des: Murray Picknett. Ed: Lee Smith. Mus: ...
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Balibo to start shooting in Australia on Monday
Political thriller Balibo will start principal photography in Darwin, Australia and East Timor on June 30 (Monday).The cast features Anthony LaPaglia and Oscar Isaac.Robert Connolly directs from a script co-written with David Williamson. The story is based on true events during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975.LaPaglia plays ...
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Matthew Rhys takes a trip with Marc Evans' Patagonia
Matthew Rhys, currently starring with Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller in The Edge Of Love, has come on board to star in Patagonia with Nia Roberts.Marc Evans (Snow Cake) will direct and Rebekah Gilbertson (The Edge Of Love) will produce with Argentina's Oscar Kramer.Laurence Coriat (Wonderland, A Mighty Heart) wrote ...
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Warp X to kick off shoot for fifth film, Bunny And The Bull
Paul King from British TV's The Mighty Boosh will start shooting his feature film debut Bunny And The Bull on June 30 (Monday). Edward Hogg, Simon Farnaby and Veronic Echegui will star. And the Boosh's Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade will appear.The Warp X production will be produced ...
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San Sebastian announces first Official Selection films
This year's San Sebastian International film festival (Sept18-27) will see its official selection include new films from acclaimed directors Daniel Burman, Christophe Honore, Kim Ki-Duk, Kristian Levring and local favourite Jaime Rosales.Multi-award winning Argentinean director Daniel Burman will present his sixth feature, Empty Nest (El Nino Vacio), which has already ...