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IMAX moves into Morocca with Al Amine Casablanca deal
IMAX Corp. has signed a deal with Moroccan retail developer Al Amine Investissement to install a giant-screen cinema in a new retail facility in Casablanca, the first in the country. Set to open in early 2009, the cinema will be the anchor attraction at the new Morocco Mall, expected to ...
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British Columbia extends 30% tax credit through 2013
British Columbia has extended until 2013 its 30% labour-based tax credit for film and television production shooting in the province.The move, announced by BC premier Gordon Campbell on Friday, comes as the Canadian dollar pushes past US$1.02.The other industry tax credits in the province, a 12.5% regional credit for productions ...
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Band's Visit takes top prize at Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema
Eran Kolirin's popular Israel-France co-production The Band's Visit won the Louve d'Or at 36th Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema.The jury, composed of Paul Ahmarani, Celine Bonnier et Jean-Francois Lamarche, presented a special mention to Australian title Boxing Day by Kriv Stenders. That film's lead, Richard Green, took the Acting Award. ...
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IMAX brings forward digital projection system into mid-2008
IMAX Corp. has moved up the launch date of its digital projection system to the second quarter of 2008. IMAX originally expected to have the system ready by the end of next year or in 2009. Digital projection is particularly important for IMAX and those who distribute and exhibit IMAX ...
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Estomago
Dir. Marcos Jorge. Brazil-Italy. 2007. 111 min.A melange of food, sex and power not seen since Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover, Marcos Jorge's feature film debut is a sleeper mystery. Fashioned less as a 'whodunnit'' than a 'what-he-done'', like a delicious meal in a ...
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Telefilm renews $2m theatrical documentary fund
Telefilm Canada has announced the renewal of the Theatrical Documentary Pilot Program. Designed to assist the production and post-production of feature-length documentaries intended for Canadian theatrical release, the $1.875m initiative is co-financed by the National Film Board of Canada and the Rogers Group of Funds, a foundation underwritten by Canada's ...
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IMAX, Regal sign digital projection deal for five new IMAX systems
IMAX Corp. and US exhibitor Regal Cinemas have signed the first North American order for the giant screen company's new digital projection technology. The joint-venture agreement will see five IMAX systems added to the Regal chain in the US, boosting Regal's IMAX circuit to 21 screens by the spring of ...
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Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Dir. Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi. Canada/US. 2007. 84 min.Its title promises little but this big-hearted documentary delivers much. Beginning as a misguided if not utterly foolhardy travelogue - risking one's life in the world's most dangerous city to track down an amateur music group - it segues into a potent ...
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United States - The English track
Louis Belanger is sitting in a tent deep in the Quebec wilderness, 700km north-east of Montreal. The location is doubling for Canada's Northwest Territory, 2,000km to the northwest. "This is the closest we could get to the real thing while making the logistics possible," he says. Twenty-one days into principal ...
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Intimate Enemies (L'ennemi intime)
Dir: Florent Siri. France . 2007. 108 min.A gritty and realistic depiction of a French platoon during the final stages of Algeria 's war of independence, Intimate Enemies is an assured and well-crafted drama that is sure to cause a stir in its native France . Featuring strong lead performances ...
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Amal wins top prize at Sudbury's Cinefest in Canada
Richie Mehta's debut feature Amal won the NFB Carolyn Fouriezos Memorial Award for Best Canadian First Feature as the 2007 Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival wrapped on Sunday. The film, which world premiered at Toronto in the Canada First! program, is written by Mehta and his brother Shaun and produced ...
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Alliance signs Canadian output deal with Overture
Alliance Films and Overture Films have signed an all-rights multi-year output deal for Canada. The deal was announced by Overture's CEO Chris McGurk and Alliance's executive chairman Victor Loewy.The deal, which runs through 2010, will add an additional eight to 12 titles annually to Alliance's releeasing slate, beginning with Callie ...
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Normal
Dir. Carl Bessai. Canada . 2007. 100 min.With Normal , Canadian filmmaker Carl Bessai delivers his most accomplished film yet. An intense psychological portrait of lives shattered by a sudden death, it does everything well. Although it explores familiar terrain - comparisons with the daisy-chain of Paul Haggis' Crash are ...
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Virgo's Poor Boy's Game wins major prizes at Atlantic Film Festival
Clement Virgo's boxing drama Poor Boy's Game won two major prizes as the 27th Atlantic Film Festival wrapped yesterday. The Halifax-set picture was presented with the Best Atlantic Feature prize while Virgo and co-screenwriter Chaz Thorne won the Michael Weir Award for Best Original Screenplay. Thorne too was a double-winner. ...
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Atopia picks up Gauder's The District! for North America
Montreal-based Atopia Distribution has acquired North America rights to Aron Gauder's animated musical The District! (Nyocker!). The Hungarian film made its North American premiere at Toronto in 2006 and went on to win 13 prizes across a swath of international film festivals. The social comedy tells the story of a ...
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Erik Nietzsche - The Early Years (Erik Nietzsche - De Unge Ar)
Dir.Jacob Thuesen. Denmark . 2007. 91 min.Lars von Trier's revenge on the Danish film industry is a very funny inside joke. A not-so-fond evisceration of film school, filmmakers, actors (more precisely oversexed Danish actresses), technicians, guilds and unions, the picaresque film follows its eponymous hero through a circus of cinema-related ...
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China's Wanda Cinema Line Corp books 10 IMAX cinemas
IMAX Corp. and China's Wanda Cinema Line Corp. have signed an agreement that will see ten IMAX cinemas installed in the People's Republic of China, including seven IMAX digital cinema systems. The deal is the largest-ever multiple-cinema deal in Asia.All ten cinemas are expected to be installed by 2010, with ...
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Arcand's Days Of Darkness named Canada's Oscar submission
Denys Arcand's Days Of Darkness has been selected as Canada's submission for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film. It is the fourth time an Arcand film has been selected. The latest, 2004's The Barbarian Invasions, won the Oscar. The previous films were 1989's Jesus Of Montreal and 1986's ...
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Maddin's Winnipeg sells to IFC, Soda, Maximum
Fresh from its victory for Best Canadian Feature at TIFF, Guy Maddin's idiosyncratic documentary My Winnipeg has been sold to IFC Entertainment in US, Soda Pictures in the UK and Maximum Films Distribution in Canada. The deals were announced by My Winnipeg producer (and DoP) Jody Shapiro from the podium ...