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United States - Quarterlife change
I don't watch TV, I make TV," says Marshall Herskovitz. "I don't do what other people do. I do what I do and I do it the same way, whether it's film or TV or the internet."Herskovitz and partner Ed Zwick - who between them have writing, producing and directing ...
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Arcand, Cronenberg, Maddin among TIFF's Canada Top Ten selection
Denys Arcand's Days Of Darkness, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises and Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg were among the finalists as the Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) announced its 2007 Canada's Top Ten lists of the country's best feature and short films. The presentations were made in Toronto at an event ...
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AMC to install 100 IMAX digital projection systems in 33 major US cities
Giant-screen pioneer IMAX Corp. and US exhibitor AMC Entertainment have signed a joint-venture agreement to install 100 IMAX digital projection systems at AMC locations in 33 major US markets. The agreement promises to double IMAX's installed base by 2010. The US Nasdaq exchange responded to the news by boosting IMAX's ...
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In-flight movies - Eyes In The Skies
Disney, Fox, Paramount, Sony, Universal, Warner: along one aisle of September's World Airline Entertainment Association (Waea) convention in Toronto, the majors were looking to sell their movies to the world's most captive audience.Extreme long-haul flights (Los Angeles to Singapore, for instance, takes 18-and-a-half hours) are increasingly the norm. Strapped in ...
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Wirthensohn takes over from Filippelli at TIFF's sales/industry office
Giulia Filippelli is stepping down as head of the Toronto International Film Festival's Sales and Industry Office after a three years. Replacing her is Stefan Wirthensohn, who has worked closely with Filippelli through her tenure on the strategy and administration of the office. The changes take effect January 1, 2008.Now ...
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Creative Soundtracking
The downturn in the fortunes of film soundtracks is not mirrored in the TV industry. The sector is capitalising on its musical muscle, particularly in the US where programmes such as Grey's Anatomy have tapped into a burgeoning indie music market for material and are reaping the rewards through sales ...
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David Cronenberg to write his debut novel for Penguin Canada
Canadian auteur David Cronenberg has signed a deal with Penguin Canada to write his debut novel, the publishing house announced today. The deal was negotiated by Nicole Winstanley, executive editor at Penguin Group Canada, and UK literary agent Andrew Wylie of the Wylie Agency. Wylie is handling world rights on ...
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Piche begins principal photography on Nothing Really Matters
Jean-Marc Piche has begun principal photography on his entirely self-financed film Nothing Really Matters, a black comedy starring Yannick Bisson, Pascale Bussieres, Kenneth Welsh and Canadian musician Gord Downie, lead singer and composer of The Tragically Hip. Written by Piche and Catlin Stothers, the film shoots in Toronto through December ...
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Soundtracks - What's the Score
Doug Frank remembers The Bodyguard with fondness. Not the movie, the soundtrack. Powered by an ascendant Whitney Houston, the 1992 release sold 17 million copies in the US market and the same number around the world. It was and remains the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time. It is a ...
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Montreal's Delphis picks up sales rights to Christmas Story
Montreal-based sales company Deplhis Films has picked up world rights on Juha Wuolijoki's recent Finnish hit Christmas Story. The film opened in Finland November 16 through Sandrew Metronome with nearly 22,000 admissions on 60 prints to knock Ratatouille from the top position at the local box office. Delphis will introduce ...
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Hansel's Sounds Of Sand takes top prize at Amazonas
Marion Hansel's Belgium-France coproduction Sounds Of Sand won the grand prize at the fourth annual Amazonas Film Festival in Manaus, Brazil. The jury, headed by film-maker John Boorman, split its second prize between Micha Wald's Belgium-France-Canada coproduction Horse Thieves and Feng Xiaogang's The Assembly. The audience prize winner was Brazilian ...
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Sounds Of Sand takes top prize at Amazonas Film Festival
Marion Hansel's Belgium-France coproduction Sounds Of Sand won the Grand Prize at the fourth annual Amazonas Film Festival in Manaus, Brazil. The jury, headed by filmmaker John Boorman, split its second prize between Micha Wald's Belgium-France-Canada coproduction Horse Thieves and Feng Xiaogang's The Assembly. The Audience Prize winner was Brazilian ...
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Access rolls with boxing biopic Phantom Punch
Production has begun on actor-director Robert Townsend's Phantom Punch, a biopic of controversial US boxer Sonny Liston, a one-time heavy-weight champion whose fame is based more on whom he lost to than his winning bouts. In 1965, Liston was knocked down by Cassius Clay, the future Muhammed Ali, by the ...
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Spottiswoode's Devil crosses C$1m at Canadian box office
Powered by strong audiences in Quebec, Roger Spottiswoode's Shake Hands With The Devil has passed the C$1m ($1.07m) at the Canadian box office, according to distributor Seville Pictures. Starring Roy Dupuis as the Canadian general rendered powerless to prevent the Rwandan genocide, the C$15m production opened on September 28 on ...
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Cry Of The Owl starts in Toronto with Considine, Stiles
Principal photography has begun in Toronto on Jamie Thraves' Cry Of The Owl with Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles and Caroline Dhavernas in the lead roles. Adapted by Thraves from the novel by Patricia Highsmith, the Canada-Germany co-production follows the tortured path of a voyeur who become entangled with the object ...
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Brazil - Amazon green
Lionel Chouchan has launched many film festivals in his native France, including the Deauville Festival of American Cinema, the Festival International du Film Fantastique d'Avoriaz (now based in Gerardmer) and the Festival du Film Policier de Cognac. But for the director of Paris-based communications agency Le Public Systeme none of ...
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Spiderwick Chronicles set for simultaneous IMAX release
Paramount Pictures will release The Spiderwick Chronicles simultaneously in IMAX and conventional cinemas, the companies announced today. The fantasy adventure will be released in the US and Canada on February 15, 2008. The agreement is the fourth between Paramount and IMAX in the past five months. Paramount releases an IMAX ...
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Hot Docs in April 2008 to spotlight Iran and Mexico
Contemporary documentary cinema from Iran will be the focus of National Spotlight programme of the 15th annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, it was announced yesterday. Mexico has been selected for the festival's other national-themed sidebar, the Made In programme. The festival runs from April 17 to ...
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Whistler unveils competition line-up including Continental and Amal
Stephane Lafleur's Continental: A Film Without Guns and Richie Mehta's Amal are among the six titles competing at the upcoming Whistler Film Festival. Continental premiered at Venice and won the Best First Canadian Feature Film prize at Toronto. Amal debuted at Toronto. Other titles in the Whistler competition are Mark ...
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Earth to open Brazil's Amazonas Film Festival
Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield's Earth will open the fourth annual Amazonas Film Festival in Manaus, Brazil. The announcement came as the festival unveiled its feature and documentary film competitions as well as its symposium for the 2007 edition which runs Nov 9-15. The UK-Germany co-production, a feature-length companion to ...