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Screen International unveils its UK Stars Of Tomorrow
Screen International has unveiled its 2007 UK Stars Of Tomorrow, a comprehensive round-up of the brightest new talent in the British film industry.Published both in this week's Screen International and online (click here), the annual talent survey - now it fourth year - highlights the brightest actors, directors, writers and ...
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Government closes UK tax schemes
The UK Treasury has pulled the plug on tax schemes expected to raise hundreds of millions of pounds of film finance this year.One expert believes as much as $3.8bn (£2bn) could have been lost before the end of this tax year, which ends early next month.The UK revenue department announced ...
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Screenwriters festival launches script market
This year's international Screen Writers Festival is to launch a speculative script market.scriptMARKET offers writers the chance to send in a script for consideration by a panel of agents, producers, commissioners, developersand/or sales agents.The panel will meeet the top 30 at the festival in the UK town of Cheltenham on ...
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The Queen and King win royal flush at the Baftas
The Queen's royal progress in this year's awards season was matched at this year's Orange British Academy awards by the grand success of Last King Of Scotland.Stephen Frears' The Queen was named best film at the ceremony at London's Royal Opera House with another best actress winner to the unstoppable ...
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United 93 named best film by London critics
United 93 has been named best film and Paul Greengrass best director by the London Film Critics' Circle.But it was The Queen which dominated, winning best British film, best British director for Stephen Frears, best screenwriter for Peter Morgan and best British actress for Dame Helen Mirren. Forest Whitaker ...
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Chinese censors approve Lost In Beijing with major cuts
Li Yu's Berlin competition title Lost In Beijing was finally passed by China's Film Reviewing Committee this afternoon. However the approved film is 15 minutes shorter than the original version according to the film's producer Fang Li. Zhang Hongsen, deputy director of the Film Bureau under the State Administration of ...
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Lost In Beijing producer awaits final decision from censors
Fang Li, the producer of Berlin competition title Lost In Beijing, is having a final meeting with Chinese film censors today (Feb 5) in a last-ditch attempt to win approval for the film to participate in the festival. The Film Reviewing Committee under the State Administration of Radio, Film and ...
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UK exhibitors pull Museum in row over DVD release window
Some of the UK's biggest exhibitors are pulling Fox's Night At The Museum this weekend in a row over a shortened 13-week window between theatrical and DVD release. Odeon and Vue cinemas are amongst those taking action - though none of the chains involved was making a statement tonight.It follows ...
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Aardman and Dreamworks finally part ways
DreamWorks andAardman have formally announced the premature ending of their five-film exclusive partnership that dates back to 1999.They worked together on award winning animanations including Chicken Run, Oscar winner Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and, most recently, Flushed Away.But the split was widely expected. 'Both companies areaware ...
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Chinese box office to double by 2010, says report
Chinese box office revenues will almost double over the next three years, according to analyst Screen Digest and Nielsen NRG, from last year's $336m to $720m by 2010.The rapid box office growth that has been driven by the opening up of the Chinese market and the fast development of modern ...
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Multi-million dollar boost for Irish film
The Irish government has pledged $188m (Euros 145) to support the Irish Film Board's work until 2013.The investment forms part of the $238bn seven-year National Development Plan, details of which were revealed yesterday.It will be allocated to the Irish Film Board to support its work, and particularly to support international ...
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Sundance Film Festival 2007
Reviews (A-Z)(Click to go to review)An American Crime (Tommy O'Haver, US)Although excruciating to watch, Tommy O'Haver's real-life crime drama is so well-crafted and well-acted that it resonates long after the credits, says Mike GoodridgeCatch And Release (Susannah Grant, US)Susannah Grant's ambitious romantic comedy-drama is a jumble of tones unsuccessfully searching ...
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Bond and The Queen head BAFTA longlist
Casino Royale and The Queen top the Orange British Academy Film Awards longlist with 14.
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China bans Summer Palace director for five years
Following months ofspeculation, Chinese authorities have finally made a statement aboutcontroversial Cannes competition entry Summer Palace, banning both the directorLou Ye and producer Nai An from making films in China for five years. According to the Beijing-basedLegal Mirror newspaper, the filmmaking duo has been banned for submitting thefilm to Cannes ...
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Breaking News: Venice Line-Up Announced
IN COMPETITION OPENING FILM: THE BLACK DAHLIADir: Brian De PalmaUSA - 120'Main cast: Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner,Mike Starr, Fiona ShawFALLENDir: Barbara AlbertAustria - 88'Main cast: Nina Proll, Birgit Minichmayr, Ursula StraussLA STELLA CHE NON C'ÈDir: Gianni AmelioItaly, France, Switzerland, Singapore - 103'Main cast: Sergio ...
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Volver tops Screen's Cannes critics poll
Ken Loach'sThe Wind That Shakes TheBarley may have captured the Palme d'Or, but by a notable margin Screen International's juryof critics voted Pedro Almodovar's Volver as thebest film in Cannes competition. Volver lead the pack of 20 competition titles with a 3.4 average (out of amaximum 4), followed by Alejandro ...
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Elena Anaya joins cast of The Floating World
Goya nominee Elena Anaya hasjoined Wintertime Films and Walker Films' Australian Outback-set drama TheFloating World.The Spanish actress willstar as a grieving widow who embarks upon ajourney of self-discovery andlearns disturbing truths about her past.Ben Mendelsohn and VinceColosimo round out the key cast.John Winter wrote anddirected and is serving as producer ...
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FilmFour gets on board for first Screenwriters Festival
The firstInternational Screenwriters' Festival, to be held in the UK from June 27-30, has added FilmFour as one of its sponsors. Supportersof the inaugural event, to be held at Cheltenham Film Studios in the Cotswolds,include Gosford Park writer Julian Fellowes, Gladiator writer Bill Nicholson and Stoned director Stephen Woolley. Thefestival ...
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Triple triumph for Adam's Apple at Brussels Film Festival
Adam'sApple, by Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen (Flickering Lights, The Green Butchers), was the big winner of the24th edition of the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festivalon Saturday. The film scooped the GoldenRaven (Grand Prize of the Festival), the Meliès d'Argent (Best European Fantastic Film)and the Pegasus (AudiencePrize).The International Jury made ...
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Pioneering launch of DVD quality human rights film on the Internet
DerekWyatt MP, Chair of the Parliamentary Internet Committee, launched the firstever DVD quality human rights film on theInternet. The documentary film, Russia/Chechnya:Voices of Dissent, produced by Vanessa Redgraveand directed by Carlo Nero, was made in honour of Amnesty International.OpusMedia is using video-streaming technology with no buffering and no downloading,delivering a ...