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Toronto adds world premieres including Disgrace, Miracle Of St Anna
The Toronto International Film Festival has added six films to its Special Presentations line-up for 2008.The films include four world premieres: Steve Jacobs' Disgrace, Vicente Amorim's Good, Spike Lee's Miracle At St Anna, and Peter Sollett's Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist.North American premieres are Paolo Sorrentino's Cannes jury prize-winner Il ...
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Ireland's first fully digital cinema to open July 4
Omniplex Cinemas, part of the Ward & Anderson cinema group, will open Ireland's first fully digital cinema on Friday. The Wexford Omniplex is a $14.2m (Euros 9m), eight-screen development with a total seating capacity of 1,577.Projection in each auditorium will utilise service provider Digital Cinema Ltd's Barco 2K digital projectors ...
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Bristol's Encounters to host Oliver Postgate tribute
Encounters, the Bristol, UK-based festival of short film and animations, will pay tribute to Oliver Postgate on July 27.Comedian Phill Jupitus will host the event at Watershed cinema in Bristol.The Phill, Bagpuss & Friends programme (3:30-4:45 pm) will celebrate the 50-year career or animator Postgate and his characters including Bagpuss, ...
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Kloster named MD of Fox Home Entertainment UK
Anders Kloster has been appointed managing director of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) UK.Kloster was most recently managing director for Leapfrog Toys-Europe. Prior to joining Leapfrog, he was managing director of LEGO Toys UK and vice president of sales, LEGO Northern Europe.At Fox, he will be responsible for creating ...
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Screenwriter Hazeldine to make directorial debut with Exam
Stuart Hazeldine, a UK-based screenwriter who has worked on studio films including Knowing and The Day The Earth Stood Still, is making his feature directorial debut on a project titled Exam.The low-budget UK feature, also written by Hazeldine, is a psychological thriller set in one room. Hazeldine describes it as ...
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Screenwriters still undervalued, says Oscar winner Ronald Harwood
The film industry's undervaluing ofthe work of screenwriters - and the need for writers to be more assertive and proactive in response- were the recurring themes on the first day of this year's International Screenwriters Festival.During an entertaining interviewat the Cheltenham event about the psychology of screenwriters The Pianist and ...
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New law firm Aslan Charles Kousetta launches in London
A new specialised media law firm, Aslan Charles Kousetta, has launched in London.The firm's founders are Susan Aslan, Sue Charles and Hakan Kousetta.The boutique firm, which will handle contentious and non-contentious matters for clients,will work across film, TV, advertising, publishing and new media. They will also advise on other areas ...
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Robert Carlyle comes on board as Edinburgh Festival Patron
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has signed up Scottish-born actor Robert Carlyle as the festival's latest patron.He joins Tilda Swinton and Sean Connery, the festival's other patrons.Carlyle had a particularly good run in Edinburgh this year, appearing in The Stone Of Destiny and also taking the best actor prize for ...
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Sheffield Doc/Fest unveils early selections for Nov line-up
Sheffield Doc/Fest, now planning its 15th edition, has announced several early selections for its 100+ film programme running Nov 5-9.Sheffield will unveil a new strand of docs about a specific cultural issue, this yer's being Regime Change (tied to the US election). Films set for this initiative are: Mohamed Al-Daradji's ...
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Delanic takes UK rights to Spread starring Ashton Kutcher
UK distributor Delanic Films continues to build its release slate by adding Spread starring Ashton Kutcher.David McKenzie's erotic comedy has been acquired for the UK and Ireland from Voltage Pictures. The story is about a womanising conman in LA who meets a female hustler.Spread is still in post and is ...
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Works closes more Somers Town, Man On Wire sales post-Cannes
As its filmsswept the prizes at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, London-based sales company The Works International has announced a number of new deals closed since Cannes.Shane Meadows' Somers Town sold to Taiwan (Filmware International).James Marsh's documentary Man On Wire sold to Taiwan (Filmware International), Japan (Shin Nippon), and Hungary ...
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BIFAs to move to Old Billingsgate Market for Nov 30 awards
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) have set their next awards for Nov 30, 2008.James Nesbitt will again host the awards, to be held at Old Billingsgate Market in London in its 11th year, moving from last year's venue of The Roundhouse.BIFA directors Johanna von Fischer and Tessa Collinson said: ...
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Winding Refn starts Scottish shoot for Valhalla Rising
Nicolas Winding Refn has started the Scotland-based shoot for his next film, Valhalla Rising.Alongside Mads Mikkelsen, the film will star Jamie Sives and Gary Lewis from Billy Elliot fame. The budget is about $7m.The famed Danish director is taking with him the organic working method from his Pusher films shooting ...
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Somers Town takes Powell prize as Edinburgh closes first June festival
As The Edinburgh International Film Festival comes to a close in its first June edition today, Shane Meadows' Berlin and Tribeca favourite Somers Town won the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature continuing a banner year for Meadows after his BAFTA Korda award for This Is England.Marianna Palka ...
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Tartan Films goes into administration
UK distributor Tartan Films has gone into administration, ending months of speculation.The business, founded in 1982 by Hamish McAlpine, is believed to have made more than 20 staff redundant.The news has come as no surprise after months of discussion about the company's finance.Last year, the business restructured with veteran managing ...
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Newcastle's Tyneside reopens after digital revamp
The new-look Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle has reopened to the public following a $14m (£7m) refurbishment to bring the venue into the digital age, whilst restoring all its original art-house glory.The cinema now boasts a modern extension with two new digital screens, to meet the demands of growing audiences in ...
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Galway celebrates 20th anniversary with O'Toole, Lange, and Pullman
The 20th Galway Film Fleadh (July 8-13) will open with a screening of Fugitive Pieces, Jeremy Podeswa's drama set in Nazi-occupied Poland and adapted from the novel by Canadian poet Anne Michaels. The closing film is the unreleased Bonneville (2006), in which three women played by Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates ...
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