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Mungiu's 4 Months takes Hollywood World Award
Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days won the Hollywood Film Festival's fourth annual Hollywood World Award backed by Screen International. Mungiu's film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year and is Romania's submission for the foreign-language Academy Award. Mungiu was unable to attend the Hollywood ...
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IMAX moves into Morocca with Al Amine Casablanca deal
IMAX Corp. has signed a deal with Moroccan retail developer Al Amine Investissement to install a giant-screen cinema in a new retail facility in Casablanca, the first in the country. Set to open in early 2009, the cinema will be the anchor attraction at the new Morocco Mall, expected to ...
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Catherine Demier leaving Cannes administrative director post
After two years of service, the Cannes Film Festival's Catherine Demier is in the process of leaving her position as administrative director. On Monday, Demier told ScreenDaily.com that her post 'no longer corresponds to the conditions under which I joined the festival.' In August, it was announced that ...
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Schamus calls Oscar snub of Lust, Caution 'unjust and capricious'
James Schamus, CEO of Focus Features, has expressed his dismay at the decision last week of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) in Los Angeles to reject Ang Lee's Lust, Caution as Taiwan's official submission for the Foreign Language Oscar.'I am sure there is some ancient and ...
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TIFFCOM: US talent agents advise Japan on creating demand
Find top US directors to support your talent and capitalise on US films shooting in Japan were among the nuggets of advice that Hollywood agents and casting directors offered to Japan's talent powerhouses at a TIFFCOM seminar today. Panellists including Endeavor's Adam Levine, US casting director Richard Pagano and Paris-based ...
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Corbijn's Control leads BIFAs race with 10 nominations
Anton Corbijn's debut feature Control, about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, leads the nominations for the 10th annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs). Control, which premiered in Cannes, has 10 nominations, including Best Independent British Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Newcomer (Sam Riley), and Best Screenplay. Following closely behind ...
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Indian distributor-exhibitor PVR ramps up production
Indian distribution and exhibition company PVR Ltd, through its wholly-owned subsidiary PVR Pictures, plans to invest $25.2m (Rs1bn) in film production and expand its slate to three to four films in the current financial year. The company has also announced that it is teaming up with award-winning veteran filmmaker Rajkumar ...
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Let's Say (On Dirait Que)
Dir: Francoise Marie, France 2007. 82 mins.A touching, telling documentary about older children's perspectives on the world of grown-ups, Let's Pretend That... has the potential to rival the success of Etre et Avoir (To Be and To Have) - Nicolas Phillibert's widely distributed study of a primary school class in ...
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ContentFilm promotes Harry White to head of sales
ContentFilm International has promoted Harry White to head of sales.White has been with ContentFilm International since 2002 and has worked on Black Book, Thank You For Smoking, Nightwatching, Transamerica, and Closing The Ring.He is based in ContentFilm's satellite office in Los Angeles. He will be attending next week's AFM along ...
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Cork's top shorts are Toyla and The Apology Line
The Corona Cork Film Festival ended Oct 21 with a sold-out screening of Ang Lee's Lust, Caution. The festival estimates that more than 35,000 people attended films during the seven days of the festival, pushing box office takings up 9% from 2006.Several films sold out including the opening and closing ...
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Swedish Institute gives record funding to Moodysson's Mammoth
Swedish director Lukas Moodysson's first English-language feature, Mammoth (Mammut), which starts principal photography on Nov 5 in Thailand, has received a record $1.7m (Euros 1.3m) production funding from the Swedish Film Institute.Gael Garcia Bernal will star in the $10m-plus (Euros 7.4m-plus) production which will move to the Phillippines and Swedish ...
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Capitol bolsters AFM slate with new films from Redford, Hackford
Capitol Films has announced several high-profile new projects on its slate for next week's American Film Market.Capitol will introduce buyers to Robert Redford's next directorial project, Against All Enemies, which will star Bruce Willis; as well as Taylor Hackford's next film Love Ranch, starring his wife, Oscar winner Helen Mirren ...
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blinkx strikes content indexing deal with Dogwoof
Video search engine blinkx has partnered with Dogwoof.com for online film content. blinkx will transcribe and index video content from Dogwoof.com and allow users to watch Dogwoof's content at blinkx.com.Dogwoof.com offers its own indepently produced content as well as films from international film festivals. blinkx already has 14m hours of ...
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Rotterdam to offer Focus tributes to Breer and Jamie
The International Film Festival Rotterdam, which is under the new leadership of director Rutger Wolfson for its 37th edition, is focusing its programme on Free Radicals, 'film-makers and artists who idiosyncratically and energetically follow their own course.' US film-maker Robert Breer and US artist Cameron Jamie will be the subject ...
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Unrelated
Dir: Joanna Hogg. UK, 2007, 100minsBritish film-makers have never been comfortable making thoughtful, provocative arthouse movies about the tribulations of bourgeois families. It is a style of film-making in which the French have long excelled but that UK directors generally steer clear of in case of being thought affected or ...
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In Prison My Whole Life
Dir: Marc Evans. UK-Italy. 2007. 91mins.On December 9 1981, Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested for the murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner. He has been languishing on Death Row ever since. Mumia's story forms the focal point of Marc Evans' impassioned and engaging feature-doc. Using computer graphics, animation and music as ...
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American World takes on Alan Cumming's Ghost Writer
Los Angeles-based American World Pictures (AWP) has boarded international rights to Alan Cumming's solo directorial debut Ghost Writer (aka Suffering Man's Charity) and will begin sales at AFM. Cumming stars in the comedy-horror film as a predatory music teacher who attempts to take the credit for a book written ...
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Lauren re-enters production with Roman comedy
Spanish distributor-exhibitor Lauren Films is preparing a Roman-era Monty Python-esque comedy, Lisistrata, which will mark its return to production after a decade-long hiatus.The film is scheduled to shoot in early 2001 under director Francesc Bellmunt (Thanks For The Tip). Lauren chief Antonio Llorens said he hopes to tap co-producers and ...
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NFI takes on Day Zero, Intervention and Sex and Breakfast
New Films International (NFI) has picked up three titles ahead of AFM including the psychological drama Day Zero with Elijah Wood and addiction drama Intervention with Andie MacDowell.Day Zero imagines the lives of three friends in New York at a time when the military draft has been reinstated and the ...
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Arsenal beefs up AFM slate with LA street-fighting drama
Principal photography has started in and around Los Angeles on the sub-$10m street fighting drama Blood & Bone from producers Arnold Rifkin and Christopher Eberts of Rifkin-Eberts. Remarkable Films' Nick Simunek and Matthew Binns are also producing along with Michael Mailer. Yarek Danielak's Arsenal Pictures holds exclusive international sales rights ...