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Chaser sprints off with top awards at Korea's Grand Bells
Na Hong-jin's The Chaser scooped up six prizes at Korea's 45th Grand Bell Awards on Friday night (June 27), including three major awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor for Kim Yoon-suk's performance In accepting the latter, Kim said to his younger co-star and rival in the category, ...
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Cinefan film festival to open with Johnnie To's Sparrow
Johnnie To's Berlin competition title Sparrow will be the opening film of the 10th Osian's-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema (July 10-20) in New Delhi. The film, which stars Simon Yam, Kelly Lin and Ka Tung Lam, will screen on the second day of the festival on July 11. ...
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Reliance Big Entertainment signs five-picture deal with Puja
In yet another announcement of an affiliation, Reliance Big Entertainment's (RBE) Big Pictures has joined hands with Indian producer Vashu Bhagnani's Puja Films for a five-picture slate to be completed over the next two years. Shooting has already begun on the first two projects. David Dhawan is directing Do Knot ...
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Somers Town takes Powell prize as Edinburgh closes first June festival
As The Edinburgh International Film Festival comes to a close in its first June edition today, Shane Meadows' Berlin and Tribeca favourite Somers Town won the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature continuing a banner year for Meadows after his BAFTA Korda award for This Is England.Marianna Palka ...
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Cannes hits taketop honours at Munich
Laurent Cantet'sThe Class, Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah and Valeria Gaia Germanica's Everybody Dies But Me were among the prizewinners at this year's Munich Filmfest which closed with the world premiere of Thomas Schamoni's documentary Botero.Cantet's Palme d'Or winner - the Filmfest's opening film on June 20 - received the One Future ...
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Wall-E, Wanted deliver gigantic numbers at domestic box office
Disney/Pixar's latest slice of magic coupled with Angelina Jolie in glorious kick-ass action mode created the figurative perfect storm as the top 12 pictures combined for $179m to beat the same weekend last year by 22%.In the fifth consecutive year-on-year climb, Wall-E led the way with an excellent $62.5m estimated ...
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Wanted shoots to top of international box office with $33m gross
Angelina Jolie, a bulked up James McAvoy and one of the world's most dynamic action directors stole the show at the weekend as Universal/UPI's Wanted took charge of the international marketplace with a $33m estimated launch.The graphic novel adaptation about an unassuming office worker who learns he descends from a ...
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Sky Perfect tumbles 20% on market debut
Sky Perfect Communications, which operates the Sky PerfecTV communications satellite (CS) platform, made a disappointing debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's MOTHERS market for venture firms on Friday.On the first day of trading, October 20, Sky Perfect shares fell 20% from their pre-market price of $2.962 (Y320,000) to $2.083 (Y255,000) ...
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Van Galder, Weinstock named marketing co-chiefs at SPE
Valerie Van Galder and Marc Weinstock have been promoted to co-presidents of worldwide theatrical marketing at Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE).Van Galder and Weinstock will jointly develop and oversee campaigns for all films released by Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Animation and will report to chairman of worldwide marketing ...
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Kino replaces THINKFilm as US distributor on Mamma's Man
Kino International has acquired US rights to Azazel Jacobs' Momma's Man, which was one of the highlights of Sundance earlier in the year when it received its world premiere.The film was formerly acquired by THINKFilm but was resold in light of the company's current financial difficulties.The picture will open in ...
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Prince Of Broadway, Loot take top prizes at LA Film Festival
The winners of the Los Angeles Film festival's Target Filmmaker Awards and two unrestricted cash prizes of $50,000 were announced at closing night on June 28.Closing night film Hellboy II's director Guillermo del Toro presented the Target Filmmaker Award for best narrative feature to Sean Baker for Prince Of Broadway ...
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Rose McGowan to play Red Sonja for Nu Image/Millenium Films
Rose McGowan will star as Red Sonja in Nu Image/Millennium Films' bid to revive the character last seen on the big screen in the 1985 action picture that starred Brigitte Nielsen.Robert Rodriguez will present the picture and is producing with Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Joe Gatta and George Furla.Douglas Aarniokoski ...
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Screen opinion: Nurturing arthouse audiences
Film-makers across the world are incredibly generous with their time and expertise in supporting the next generation of talent. But is enough attention given by film policy-makers to nurturing the next generation of cinema-goers, or at least those whose tastes extend beyond the studio hits'The Film Department chief executive and ...
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International writers and directors seek new deal
Nothing demonstrates the difference between Hollywood and the international independent sector more than a strike.Earlier this year, Hollywood writers were able to bring prime-time TV shows off the air and halt major film shoots. Now contract negotiations with actors and directors are underway, conducted in a manner that would be ...
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Festival review: Shanghai International Film Festival
It was always going to be a difficult year for the Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff). The festival is striving to re-invent itself but China has recently suffered a series of calamities, both man-made and natural, that inevitably cast a shadow over this year's event.Chief among these was the May ...
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Green energy
As Terminator, Aliens and Armageddon showed, Gale Anne Hurd knows a thing or two about taking risks that pay off. She has enjoyed enough success to endure as one of Hollywood's few powerhouse female producers and has inevitably seen the odd gamble turn sour, too, which is what made The ...
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Disney focuses on brand values
If the key to navigating a volatile and uncertain market is concentration on core strengths, then Disney has got it right.And the rock on which the future will be built is the Disney brand itself, according to Mark Zoradi, president of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group.Over the last couple of ...
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United Kingdom - if it ain't broke..
Nothing." That's what Film London's head of international Helena MacKenzie says has changed in plans for this year's London UK Film Focus (Luff). The sales event runs June 30-July 3.Some might see the decision to keep the event in the same form as last year as a sign of complacency. ...
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Indian film sector wins industry status
India's information and broadcasting minister, Sushma Swaraj, plans to grant the Indian film sector with "industry" status, thus enabling it to receive loans from banks and financial institutions. Indian films can now also be insured, as is the practice in the west. The move is part of the on-going corporatisation ...
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France - In a class of his own
When Laurent Cantet heard his name called during the awards ceremony at last month's Cannes film festival, he was not entirely surprised. The Class (Entre Les Murs), Cantet's Palme d'Or winning film, had been tipped to take a prize when the busload of schoolchildren who appear in the film was ...