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PIFF names Gulnara Sarsenova as Asian Filmmaker of the Year
The 13th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) has announced that Gulnara Sarsenova from Kazakhstan will be the recipient of its Asian Filmmaker of the Year award. Sarsenova, the first woman to win the award, is currently festival chairman of the International Eurasia Film Festival and also a producer whose credits ...
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Babylon A.D.
Dir: Mathieu Kassovitz. 2008. France. 101mins.An American mercenary stranded in Eastern Europe finds his ticket back home escorting a very special young lady the 6,000 treacherous miles from a convent in Kazakhstan to the Manhattan of the future in Babylon A.D. Mathieu Kassovitz's ambitious but flawed sci-fi action movie touches ...
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Deauville adds Chaos Theory, Sex And The USA, and Polanski doc
The upcoming Deauville Festival of American Film has added a handful of films and a tribute to independent director Charles Burnett for its 34th edition. Further, it has announced the jury members for the Cartier Revelation Prize.Zoe Cassavetes, whose Broken English ran in competition last year, will head up the ...
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Rothstein, Kier step up to run TWC International as Basner departs
Harvey Weinstein has promoted Michael Rothstein and Jonathan Kier to fill the slot vacated by The Weinstein Company International chief Glen Basner, who as widely predicted has departed the company following a three-year tenure.Rothstein has worked with the Weinsteins for more than a decade and becomes executive vice president of ...
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Elle Driver picks up titles in Venice, Toronto including Paper Soldier
Nearing its first birthday, French sales company Elle Driver will head to its first Venice and Toronto Festivals with a handful of films across the various sections including some new titles.In Venice, Elle boasts the previously announced The Sky Crawlers by Mamoru Oshii which Warners released in Japan on August ...
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The Dark Knight sweeps into Germany for WBPI
Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) The Dark Knight will continue to rumble its way towards $400m this weekend as it launches in Germany on August 21 and Austria on August 22.The crime epic currently stands at $346.5m and can expect fierce challenge from Universal's Hellboy II: The Golden Army on ...
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Paramount Classics guns for Schroeder's Assassins
StudioCanal has sold Barbet Schroeder's Our Lady Of The Assassins to Paramount Classics for the US. Paramount has also taken rights for Colombia, the country where the hard-hitting gay-themed film that takes place within a culture where human life is dirt cheap was secretly filmed. In addition, StudioCanal has struck ...
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Peace Arch, ContentFilm take North American rights to JCVD
Peace Arch Home Entertainment, the fledgling division owned by Peace Arch Entertainment Group and ContentFilm, has picked up all North American rights to JCVD starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.The action comedy is set to receive its North American premiere in the Midnight Madness programme at Toronto on September 4 and will ...
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Binder's Greentree Films boards sci-fi actioner Gaea
Producer Jack Binder, whose credits include The Upside Of Anger and Reign Over Me, has boarded the sci-fi action title Gaea: Beyond The Son via his Greentrees Films label.The story centres on a father and son who seek to reunite despite being apart for more than 30 years across two ...
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Sony, MGM move US release of Quantum Of Solace to Nov 14
Columbia and MGM have moved the release of Quantum Of Solace back by one week to November 14 to capitalise on the Thanksgiving Holiday and Warner Bros' decision last week to push back Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince from November 21 to July 2009.In the wake of Warner Bros' ...
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Eden to open Irish Film Festival Of Los Angeles on Oct 2
The West Coast premiere of Liberation Entertainment's marriage drama Eden will open the first Irish Film Festival Of Los Angeles, set to run from October 2-5.Among the films in the programme are Tom Collins' drama Kings about six intertwined lives that stars Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly and Brendan Conroy, as ...
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Death Race
Dir. Paul WS Anderson. US. 2008. 105mins.Forget satire. British genre expert Paul WS Anderson goes mostly for metal- and bone-crunching action in his efficiently visceral but not very imaginative rethink of Roger Corman's tongue-in-cheek 1975 B movie Death Race 2000. With reliable action everyman Jason Statham in the lead, this ...
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Ginnane appointed president of Oz producers association
Distributor and producer Antony Ginnane has been voted president of the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) in what is believed to be the first three-way contest in the organisation's history. Ginnane defeated the incumbent, Trish Lake (Gettin' Square), and Michael Bourchier (Lucky Miles). His one-year term starts from September ...
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Rushes' Sharon Hill named UK Screen Shining Star
Trade group UK Screen has selected Sharon Hill as winner of its first Shining Star scheme.Hill is head of library services at Rushes.The new initiative seeks to recognise non-creative employees at UK Screen member companies.A new star will be named each month and all will be recognised at the Vision ...
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ReviewsReligulous
Dir: Larry Charles. US. 2008. 100mins.A blunt satiric object applied to delicate subject matter, Religulous is a consistently funny if one-sided putdown of society’s blind devotion to its many religious faiths. In the hands of Borat director Larry Charles and American political comedian Bill Maher, the ...
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San Sebastian's Zabaltegi-New Directors names 14 selections
The San Sebastian Film Festival has unveiled the 14 films in its Zabaltegi-New Directors section.The section, with a Euros 90,000 prize to be shared between the director and the Spanish distributor, is devoted to film-makers presenting first or second films not previously screened at any other international competition. (Official Selection ...
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London animation fest to host UK premiere of Plympton's Idiots
The fifth London International Animation Festival (LIAF) is taking place from Sept 1-7, with more than 220 animated films from 27 different countries being shown at various London venues.Films being screened at the festival include the UK premiere of Bill Plympton's graphic pencil-drawn style Idiots and Angels, the French animated ...
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Gordon's $30m Tree takes root at MGM, Winchester
Chuck Gordon's Daybreak Productions has finally set up the first picture to fall under his independent financing structure now that MGM has committed to taking domestic rights to The Tree, a $30m comedy featuring hot rising star Johnny Knoxville.Winchester Films - which set up the international distribution structure for Gordon ...
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Haugesund's Co-Production Forum welcomes 18 projects
The third Nordic Co-Production Forum will host 18 feature film projects with budgets between Euros 1.6m-10m. The event opens today at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund.Total costs of the film which will be discussed by German, Canadian and Nordic producers amount to Euros 65m.110 participants have registered for ...
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Norrie leaves Capitol to become head of international at Salt
The Salt Company has appointed James Norrie as head of international.Norrie was previously head of sales at Capitol Films and previously worked at Icon International.Salt, recently relaunched from the previous sales incarnation Lumina Films, is part of the International Film Collective.The company's directors and founders are Samantha Horley, Robert Bevan ...