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Spooked scores NZ distribution
Arkles Entertainment has acquired New Zealand distributionrights for director Geoff Murphy's local conspiracy thriller Spooked.Cliff Curtis (Whale Rider) plays the lead role of ajournalist who becomes obsessive about investigating a mysterious fatal carcrash on the Auckland Harbour Bridge. The starting point for Murphy's scriptwas the true events depicted in Ian ...
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Bacon's Loverboy drops out of Deauville competition
The Deauville Festival ofAmerican Film, which kicks off on Friday, has substituted one of itscompetition films.Rather than screening KevinBacon's directorial debut Loverboy, Omar Naim debut feature The FinalCut, will be shown instead.Reasons for the last minutechange were not given. The Final Cut stars Robin Williams, JamesCaviezel and Mira Sorvino. Bacon ...
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Italian sleeper hit After Midnight wins US sale
As dealson the Lido get underway, Italian sales house Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE)has sold Davide Ferrario's sleeper hit, After Midnight, to USdistributor Avatar Films.Writtenand directed by local indie stalwart Ferrario, After Midnight tells the storyof a night watchman who guards Turin's National Cinema Museum.Actor-of-the-moment Giorgio Pasotti stars in the film, ...
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FRANCE 2 September
The Village heldits ground to remain in first place this week and added an additional 592,805admissions. Yvan Attal's Ils Se Marierent Et Eurent Beaucoup d'Enfants openedin second place with 415,961 admissions. The film, which stars Attal and hiswife Charlotte Gainsbourg, had the strongest per screen average of the weekwith $7,517 ...
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Gilliam completes key Tideland casting
Terry Gilliam has cast nineyear-old Jodelle Ferland as the star in his upcoming Tideland, alongside a cast that includes US actress JenniferTilly and Janet McTeer and Brendan Fletcher.Ferland is already somethingof veteran, having racked up a string of TV credits including KingdomHospital, Carrie and Wolf Lake since she started acting ...
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Cannes' Jacob awarded top Italian honour
The Italian government has awarded Cannes Film Festivalpresident Gilles Jacob one of the country's highest honours, to thank himfor "everything that he has done over the years" for Italy andItalian cinema.Jacob received the prestigious Gran Ufficiale dellaRepubblica Italiana award on the Lido, during a solemn ceremony which wasattended by Biennale ...
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Broderick launches website of political cinema
Peter Broderick,the head of Paradigm Consulting and former president of Next Wave Films, haslaunched the political cinema resource website Films To See Before You Vote.The siteprovides information on current and previous documentary and narrative releasesand advice on arranging screening parties."It's impossibleto claim any longer that politics is box office poison ...
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Godard goes to US with Wellspring
Wellspring haspicked up all US rights to Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique (Our Music) and plans to release the picture on Dec22 in New York followed by a nationwide roll-out.TheToronto-bound title premiered at Cannes earlier this year and is styled as ano-holds barred meditation on 20th century Europe, war, Middle Eastern ...
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Celluloid Dreams goes on The Take
Paris-based Celluloid Dreamshas picked up international sales rights on the feature documentary The Take, written and narrated by Canadian journalist NaomiKlein, author of the best-selling corporate critique "No Logo", and directed bypartner Avi Lewis.The film, which screens inVenice's new Digital Section and premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs DocumentaryFilm Festival in ...
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5 x 2 review
Dir. Francois Ozon.France 2004. 90mins.A kind of Scenes FromA Marriage told in reverse, Francois Ozon's latest feature is a pleasant,watchable but rather unexceptional melodrama that catches wedlock gone stale atfive emblematic moments, starting with the divorce and ending with the firstencounter.Given Ozon's smoothprofessional touch and a presentable performance from lead ...
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Celluloid Dreams on The Take at Toronto
Paris-based Celluloid Dreamshas picked up international sales rights on the feature documentary The Take, written and narrated by Canadian journalist NaomiKlein, author of the best-selling corporate critique "No Logo", and directed bypartner Avi Lewis.The film, which screens inVenice's new Digital Section and premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs DocumentaryFilm Festival in ...
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Festival programmer gets death threat for Casuistry doc
A programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival was therecipient of a death threat on Tuesday. The anonymous caller was protesting thefestival's inclusion of a feature documentary, Casuistry:The Art Of KillingA Cat, a film aboutthree Toronto visual art students who in 2001 killed a cat as part of ananti-meat art ...
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Sleeper hit After Midnight secures US sale
As dealson the Lido get underway, Italian sales house Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE)has sold Davide Ferrario's sleeper hit, After Midnight, to USdistributor Avatar Films.Writtenand directed by local indie stalwart Ferrario, After Midnight tells the storyof a night watchman who guards Turin's National Cinema Museum.Actor-of-the-moment Giorgio Pasotti stars in the film, ...
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Newmarket takes North American rights to three from Trust
Newmarket Filmshas acquired North American rights to a trio of Scandinavian pictures fromTrust Film Sales - Old, New, Borrowed And Blue, In Your Hands, and Daybreak.Natasha Arthy'sDanish bittersweet romantic comedy Old, New, Borrowed And Blue won the 2003 Grand Jury Award in the AFIFEST's International Feature Competition; it stars Sidse ...
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Full Toronto line-up 2004
Features are marked with an (F) after the film title.GALA PRESENTATIONSWorld PremiereARSÈNE LUPIN (F)Jean-Paul Salome, France / United Kingdom / Spain / Italy, 2004World PremiereBEING JULIA (F)István Szabo, Canada / United Kingdom / Hungary, 2004World PremiereBEYOND THE SEA (F)Kevin Spacey, United Kingdom / Germany, 2004North American PremiereCLEAN (F)Olivier Assayas, France ...
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Full Toronto line-up 2004
Features are marked with an (F) after the film title.GALA PRESENTATIONSWorld PremiereARSÈNE LUPIN (F)Jean-Paul Salome, France / United Kingdom / Spain / Italy, 2004World PremiereBEING JULIA (F)István Szabo, Canada / United Kingdom / Hungary, 2004World PremiereBEYOND THE SEA (F)Kevin Spacey, United Kingdom / Germany, 2004North American PremiereCLEAN (F)Olivier Assayas, France ...
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Creep, Dead Birds lead Midnight line-up
The worldpremiere of Christopher Smith's UK-German subway thriller Creep is one of the highlights of 10 titlesset to screen in the 17th Midnight Madness programme at the TorontoInternational Film Festival.Franka Potentestars as a drowsy commuter who takes the last train of the night into aterrifying maze of catacombs where she ...
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Evans to receive Leadership Award
Legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans is to be presented withthe Leadership Award at a gala evening for charity Best Buddies during thisyear's Toronto International Film Festival.The Sept 13 event will see Evans, producer of The Godfatherand Chinatown among other classics, join a list of previous awardwinners that includes Muhammad Ali, ...
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Venice engulfed by protesters and ticketing chaos
The screams of the crowds and paparazzi who met AlPacino's arrival at the Venice Film Festival at the weekend almost paledin comparison to the chaos and ruckus caused by Italian anti-globalisationactivists, temporary workers in the French entertainment industry, and theBiennale's ticketing system that went completely haywire causingdouble-booking and massive delays ...
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Nair develops Namesake project
In Venice for the festival screening of Vanity Fair, Mira Nair has revealed details of her next project, an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's 2001 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Namesake.The novel tells the story of a Calcutta family who leave India to come to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the US in ...