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Gilbert Taylor gets international award from ASC
Gilbert Taylorwill receive the 2006 American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) InternationalAchievement Award at the 20th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in LosAngeles on Feb 26.During thecourse of a career spanning eight decades, Taylor's credits have included DrStrangelove, A Hard Day's Night, The Omen and Star Wars. He received a Lifetime ...
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Peace Arch announces AFM deals on new slate
Toronto-based Peace Arch Entertainment has reported strong pre-sales during AFM on the nine new titles on its slate.Momentum in the UK, itssister company Aurum in Spain and Odeon in Canada have each taken rights to theromance Delirious starring SteveBuscemi, Michael Pitt and Alison Lohman, as well all five titles from ...
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Lehmann attached to direct Gold Circle's romcom
Michael Lehmannwill direct Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore in Gold Circle Films' comedy BecauseI Said So, which will bereleased domestically through Universal and is being sold internationally byMandate Pictures.Lehmann'scredits include Heathers, 40 Days And 40 Nights and The Truth About Cats And Dogs; he replaces Gillian Armstrong who waspreviously attached.Gold ...
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THINKFilm picks up Boys Of Baraka
THINKFilm has acquired NorthAmerican theatrical and home video rights to Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's TheBoys Of Baraka and will roll it outin New York on Nov 30.The story follows fourchildren as they are transplanted from the mean streets of Baltimore to aprivate boarding school in Kenya and recently won ...
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Global Film Initiative names eight features in US touring series
The Global Film Initiativehas unveiled its third annual Global Lens touring film series featuring eightfeatures and five shorts from developing-world countries.The series will screen incities across the US beginning in January through partnerships with major culturalinstitutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of FineArts in ...
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Battle lines drawn for Prix Screen International
The European Film Academy has announced 11 nominations for the Prix ScreenInternational for non-European film.The awards, backed byScreen International, reflect the wide geographical spread of this year's top films, taking in every continent.Three of the films - C.R.A.Z.Y., Be With Me and Tsosti - have also been nominated to represent ...
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Too Good To Be True Film-makers bank on pixel sell
Following in the footstepsof a startlingly simple online marketing scheme launched this year,two UK screenwriters are raising funds online to develop theirfeature films. Screenwriters Talia Channon and Lee Curle of Lucre Films have launched PixelYourShops.com, asite based on the successful Million Dollar Homepage, developed by 21-year-old UK student Alex Tew. ...
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India film festival to host Merchant tribute
This year's edition of the InternationalFilm Festival of India (IFFI), to be held in Goafrom Nov 24 - Dec 4, will pay a special tribute to Indian-born filmmaker IsmailMerchant who died in May this year.The retrospective will screenIn Custody, which Merchant directedhimself, and three films that he produced with James ...
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Churches out to boost the lion's share of the box office
Disney and Buena VistaInternational are working with Christian groups to spread the word about theforthcoming release of The Chronicles ofNarnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The film, due out December9, has been promoted to UK religious groups and businesses since early thissummer, through an independent consultant. In the ...
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15 titles named on Oscar documentary shortlist
The Academy OfMotion Picture Arts & Sciences unveiled a fiercely competitive shortlist of15 documentaries today [Tuesday] that will vie for the five nominee slots inthe 78th annual Academy Awards.The rosterfeatures Luc Jacquet's record breaking March Of The Penguins, Jessica Sander's miscarriage of justiceexpose After Innocence,Marilyn Agrelo's Slamdance hit Mad Hot ...
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Cronenberg, Gyllenhaal, London added to Palm Springs honours roster
David Cronenberg willreceive the Visionary Award, Jake Gyllenhaal will receive the Desert PalmAchievement Award and Michael London will collect the Producer of the YearAward at the 17th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) inJanuary.Cronenberg's latest picture AHistory Of Violence has grossed morethan $30.5m since opening through New Line. His ...
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Sogepaq takes on Banderas' Spanish project
Sogepaq has picked upinternational rights to Antonio Banderas' second film as director, The WayOf The English, which beginsshooting next Monday in Spain.The film is a co-productionbetween Banderas' own Green Moon Producciones and Sogepaq sister companySogecine.It marks Banderas' return tothe Spanish film industry, where he also plans to begin producing local ...
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UK film 'parliament' to debate industry's global role
The UK's Independent FilmParliament is hosting a forum November 30 at the Insitut Francais in London.Among those expected to debate film policy will be Nik Powell of theNational Film and Television School, John Woodward of the UK Film Council,producer Chris Atkins and author Peter S. Grant. The forum will featuresessions ...
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European industry event hopes to build East-West links
The Belgrade International Film Festival FEST is to launch a forum to boost links between film professionals from Western and Eastern Europe and neighbouring countries with a strong European influence and heritage.Speakingexclusively to Screendaily.com, project manager Miroslav Mogorovic explained the focus of the B2B Industry Meetings (March 3-5, 2006) would ...
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Water reaches watershed level at box office
Deepa Mehta's Water passed the C$500,000 ($419,000) mark this pastweekend, achieving the milestone in 10 days on 41 screens for a screen averageof approximately $7000. It was enough to earn 10thspot on the nation's box office Top Ten, a rare feat for a Canadian filmproduced outside of Quebec. That said, ...
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Grade takes up TV production chair at NFTS
Entertainment impresario Michael Grade has taken up the first Lew Grade chair of TV production at the UK's National Film And Television School (NFTS).Grade will take up the post, created in honour of his late uncle, in the autumn at the school's Beaconsfield site. He will work with students as ...
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BVI hits $1bn gross for 11th consecutive year
Buena VistaInternational (BVI) passed $1bn in annual tickets sales yesterday [Tuesday],marking the 11th consecutive year the distributor has achieved the distinction."We're thrilledto be able to keep this going," BVI president Mark Zoradi said. "Theinteresting thing about the theatrical business is that the shelf is emptyevery year. Through good product years ...
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de Hadeln to head Damascus festival jury
Moritz de Hadeln, artistic director of this year's FestivalInternational de Film deMontreal (FIFM), hasbeen named president of the international jury of the Damascus International Film Festival (November 20-27).Acceptingthe offer from the Syrian event, the former head of the Berlin, Venice and Locarno festivals said: "Inthe difficult international present political situation, ...
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Awards Countdown
The Awards Countdown features below offer a form guide to the major honours. We also look at who has won what at other major awards.
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Brooks' Muslim comedy to world premiere in Dubai
In an unusual move, AlbertBrooks' new film Looking For ComedyIn The Muslim World will have its world premiere at the Dubai InternationalFilm festival ahead of an early-2006 US release through Warner IndependentPictures.The film, which sees Brooksbeing sent to India and Pakistan by the US Government to find out what makesMuslims ...