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Ben X
Dir: Nic Balthazar, Belgium - Netherlands, 2007, 90 mins.A galvanizing portrait of autism and its profound impact on both the autistic person and their families and community, Ben X boldly melds virtual reality with live-action verite style and docudrama to create what may be a new film grammar. Inspired by ...
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Festival buzz - Toronto International Film Festival
GALA PRESENTATIONSCleaner (US)Dir: Renny HarlinHarlin brings one of the more gung-ho US films to this year's festival. Samuel L Jackson stars as a former police officer who unwittingly covers up evidence of a murder. Ed Harris and Eva Mendes also star. Sony is releasing domestically.Int'l sales: Nu Image/Millennium Films, (1) ...
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Lust, Caution (Se Jie)
Dir. Ang Lee. China/US, 2007. 156 mins. One of the main attractions in Venice this year, Ang Lee's new film promises much more than it actually delivers. Lavishly handsome and elegant, possibly too much so for its own good, this sprawling adaptation of a short story by Eileen Chang risks ...
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Rezo boosts Toronto slate with Sayles' Honeydripper
Following its success with Julie Delpy's 2 Days In Paris , France 's Rezo Films will handle international sales on another English-language film, John Sayles Honeydripper. The film will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this month and is a 'rock-n'-roll fable' about a 1950s juke joint ...
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Shoot 'Em Up
Dir: Michael Davis. US. 2007. 87mins.Merrily amoral, shamelessly watchable and outlandishly funny, Shoot 'Em Up is not for all tastes, but those with a dark sense of humour and a penchant for knowingly excessive violence will have a ball. Short enough so that its thin premise doesn't run out of ...
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THINKFilm takes world sales for Babenco's The Past
THINKFilm International has taken worldwide sales rights (excluding Latin America and Italy) to Hector Babenco's The Past (El Pasado). The film will have its world premiere in the Masters section of the Toronto International Film Festival. Gael Garcia Bernal stars as a young translator going through a divorce, whose former ...
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Lions For Lambs to open AFI FEST
Lions For Lambs, the inaugural release under Paula Wagner and TomCruise's revamped United Artists, will get its North American premierewhen it opens the AFI FEST in Los Angeles on Nov 1.The announcement suggests the film is likely to receive its worldpremiere at the 51st BFI London Film Festival that runs ...
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Red Envelope and New Line take rights to childbirth doc
Red Envelope Entertainment and New Line Home Entertainment havejointly acquired North American rights to the childbirth documentaryThe Business Of Being Born.Ricki Lake produced the film, in which director Abby Epstein capturesfootages of women giving birth and speaks to mothers, obstetriciansand experts about whether childbirth is a natural process or a ...
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Relativity on board for Contractors
Relativity Media has swooped on film rights to Bob Fisher'sspeculative script Contractors and will finance, develop and producethe project with Landscape Entertainment.Fisher, who co-wrote the 2005 hit Wedding Crashers with Steve Faber,co-wrote Contractors with David Hemingson.The story centres on two contractors who land a big assignment in theHamptons, only for ...
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First Tropfest@Tribeca competition set for Sept 23
Sixteen short films from four countries have been selected to compete in the inaugural Tropfest@Tribeca competition in New York City on Sept 23.Finalists, chosen from a pool of 161 submissions, were each asked to interpret the word 'slice' in their film.The winner will be chosen by a jury of Rose ...
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NBC Universal acquires Hallmark global pay-TV channels
NBC Universal has acquired Sparrowhawk Holdings and its global portfolio of pay TV channels from Providence Equity Partners, 3i and management shareholders.The move represents a major step forward in NBC Universal's strategy to more than double the size of its international cable channels in the next two to three years.Terms ...
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ASC dedicates Heritage Award to memory of Kovacs
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has dedicated the 2008 Heritage Award competition for film school seniors and recent graduates in the US to the memory of the Laszlo Kovacs, who died on Jul 22.The organisation simultaneously issued a call for entries in the annual competition. The deadline for submissions ...
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Lantos unveils new Canadian distribution, international sales outfit
Canadian producer Robert Lantos has officially unveiled his new international and domestic film distribution enterpriese, Maximum Films International and Maximum Film Distribution. As previously tipped on Screendaily, former Celluloid Dreams managing director Charlotte Mickie will head the former while veteran Canadian industry executive Tony Cianciotta will head the latter. Both ...
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Balls Of Fury
Dir: Robert Ben Garant. US. 2007. 90mins. A rather shockingly enervated treatment of a colourful, wilfully silly concept, Balls of Fury looks to disappoint both those expecting the bawdy underdog tale of a make-good loser and those seeking something a bit more offbeat from its creators, the creative team behind ...
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Fortissimo takes on Schnabel's Lou Reed film Berlin
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide sales rights, excluding North America, to Julian Schnabel's Berlin, a concert film featuring Lou Reed. Waterboy's Jon Kilik produced with Tom Sarig and Reed. Executive producers are LM Media Gmbh, Stanley Buchthal and Maja Hoffmann. Berlin will world premiere at this week's Venice International Film ...
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War
Dir: Philip G. Atwell. US. 2007. 103mins.A sturdy B-movie thriller with enough style to overcome its formulaic trappings, War finds mid-level action stars Jet Li and Jason Statham riffing on their already established personas to winning effect. A needlessly elaborate plot somewhat spoils the pairing of these martial-arts icons, but ...
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War
Dir: Philip G. Atwell. US. 2007. 103mins.A sturdy B-movie thriller with enough style to overcome its formulaic trappings, War finds mid-level action stars Jet Li and Jason Statham riffing on their already established personas to winning effect. A needlessly elaborate plot somewhat spoils the pairing of these martial-arts icons, but ...
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Verhoeven plans $27m adaptation of Dexter's The Paperboy
Paul Verhoeven will direct the big-screen adaptation of Pete Dexter's novel The Paperboy, which former cinematographer Jan de Bont will produce. The Dutch collaborators will reunite for this $27m (Euros 20m) drama about three people being influenced by the execution of a presumed killer. Shooting is scheduled in a couple ...
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New Zealanders McIver, Dando cast in The Lovely Bones
Following a worldwide search Peter Jackson and his team have cast New Zealanders actresses Rose McIver and Carolyn Dando in DreamWorks/Film 4's upcoming drama The Lovely Bones.The Alice Sebold adaptation tells the story of murder victim Susie Salmon, who continues to observe her family on Earth after her death as ...