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Warner buys into new franchise School Of Fear
Warner Bros has made a preemptive buy on Gitty Daneshvari's partial manuscript of a four-book series called School Of Fear.Graham King will produce through his GK Films as the partners aim to establish a children's franchise along the lines of the phenomenally successful Harry Potter series.The story is based on ...
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PUSAN: Wang's 11 Flowers wins Pusan Award
Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai's 11 Flowers was presented with the $20,000 Pusan Award at the closing of the Asian Film Market and Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) on Thursday night. The award, from the Metropolitan City of Busan, is designed to support a talented director and producer. Wang, whose credits include ...
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Ladd to head Tokyo's international competition jury
The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced the members of its international competition jury. Famed Hollywood executive and producer Alan Ladd Jr. will head the jury. Ladd previously ran 20th Century Fox, during which time Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back were produced. Hits Moonstruck and Thelma & ...
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American World adds three horror films ahead of AFM
Los Angeles-based distribution and production company American World Pictures (AWP) has boarded the horror titles Crazy Eights, Grizzly Park and Triloquist ahead of the AFM.James K Jones's Crazy Eights stars Traci Lords, Frank Whaley and Gabrielle Anwar and follows a gang of friends who discover a time capsule they buried ...
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PUSAN: AFCNet to discuss production incentives
AFCNet, the Asian Film Commissions Network, has announced the launch of the first Asia Pacific Film Industry Policy Forum at its annual General Assembly yesterday. The three-day forum which will be held from October 11-13 during BIFCOM 2008 (in conjunction with Pusan 's Asian Film Market) will provide a much-needed ...
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London Children's Film Festival to open with Bee Movie
The London Children's Film Festival will run Nov 17-25 at the Barbican and 10 other cinemas, opening with a gala preview screening of Bee Movie.The programme for children, families and schools will close with Cristiano Bortone's Red Like The Sky from Italy. In addition to screenings, the festival also includes ...
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Editorial - Screen says Lions or Lambs'
Hollywood has become just another territory.' United Artists CEO Paula Wagner's bold statement to this year's Mipcom in Cannes needs to be taken with a pinch or two of seasoning.It was, after all, delivered in Europe - and her UA partner Tom Cruise is shooting Valkyrie in Germany. Hollywood talks ...
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The match-makers - new co-production markets
It is a truth acknowledged universally that an international producer in possession of a good project must be in want of a backer. But as the international market adjusts to a new business reality, producers, particularly those with mid-level budgets, are struggling to find suitors. Not only is Hollywood awash ...
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In Focus - Q&A: Talking shop
VINCENT MARAVAL, CO-CHIEF, WILD BUNCHWhich co-production markets do you attend'We go to CineMart to find co-producers for our own projects and to co-produce some other projects. We did The Magdalene Sisters, Carnages and some others that way. We use Pusan in the same way. It has the best knowledge of ...
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Hollow Man fills Spanish box office
Columbia TriStar had a successful weekend in Spain with the release of Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man where it won the number one slot with a three-day gross of $2.3m (PTS434m). This is the territory's third strongest opening so far this year. Comparatively, Fox's Titan AE on 226 screens (versus Hollow ...
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Foreign affairs: Academy leaders on the improved foreign-language rules
When it comes to its influential foreign-language film category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (Ampas) was aware of shortcomings in the criteria for submission and selection of nominees. It seemed each year threw up a controversial omission - the fact instant classics such as Three Colours: Red ...
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The Board identity: BBC Filmsrestructuring
The UK film industry rarely welcomes change. So Jane Tranter, controller of BBC Fiction, had a tough job on October 2 as she explained her decision to revamp BBC Films (which Tranter oversees).There will no longer be a single head in charge of the BBC's film arm. Instead, responsibility will ...
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Up Hit Creek: Joel Schumacher and Paul Brooks in Romania
The secret to working in Romania is the smaller the budget, the better luck you're going to have,' suggests US director Joel Schumacher on the set of supernatural thriller Town Creek, which shot just outside Bucharest for 10 weeks this summer.'It's a small movie without major stars. It's gritty,' Schumacher ...
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Belgium - The Ben X factor
"We're still floating in seventh heaven, on a Montreal cloud," says Belgian director Nic Balthazar following the success of his directorial debut Ben X at the Montreal festival in September.The film is based on When Nothing Was All He Said, a novel Balthazar wrote about a young autistic boy who ...
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Festival - Second Life
Launching a major new competitive festival in a crowded calendar was never going to be easy. At times it looked like last year's inaugural Rome Film Fest was going to be as notable for its audacious entry to the festival circuit as it would for its programme. In the end ...
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Festival - Industry - The call of Rome
The Rome Film Fest's market event, The Business Street (October 18-21), was one of the inaugural festival's most popular and effective events. This year, it is attracting more than 300 international industry delegates, including Celluloid Dreams, The Match Factory and The Weinstein Company.The event is gathering steam and has been ...
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Festival - London burning bright
Celebrating its 50th anniversary last year, The Times BFI London Film Festival (LFF) announced a thorough consultation process on its future. Everything was put under the microscope as the event sought the opinions of audiences, industry and media alike: should the festival dates be moved' Should it become competitive'A year ...
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World Premieres at the LFF
LIONS FOR LAMBSSection: The Times GalaRobert Redford's new film is a contemporary thriller with a political undertow. The cast includes Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise, all of whom are expected to attend the LFF to support the launch. Twentieth Century Fox releases in the UK on November 9.THE ENGLISH ...
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Festival - Production Finance Market - Search for new money
It is a timely moment for a pilot Production Finance Market (PFM, October 22-23). The event, backed by Film London in association with the London Film Festival, comes when the UK - thanks to the end of the sale-and-leaseback era, the new UK tax credits and the strong pound - ...
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Into the Arthouse: how artists like Sam Taylor-Wood move into film
There has always been an overlap between art and film. From surrealists such as Man Ray, Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dali to Cindy Sherman (Office Killer), Matthew Barney (Cremaster) and Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly), a steady stream of artists have crossed over into film-making.In the late ...