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Mehta's Water makes a splash at Canadian box office
DeepaMehta's Waterhas crossed the C$2m ($1.75m)threshold at the Canadian box office.Released on Nov 4, 2005, the film has played in more than 115 theatres andcontinues its run on 12 screens.Featuring Bollywood stars Lisa Ray and John Abraham and shot in Hindi, theperiod film was recently nominated for nine Genie Awards, ...
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Quinceanera, God Grew Tired Of Us win Sundance
In an unprecedented double coup, Quinceanera, a tender-hearted drama set amongst a Latino community of Los Angeles that is being encroached upon by yuppies, walked home with both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival.Co-directed by Wash Westmoreland, a British filmmaker, and his ...
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V For Vendetta to get simultaneous IMAX version release
WarnerBros will release an IMAX version of action-adventure V For Vendetta simultaneous with the March 17 domestic release ofthe conventional version of the film. StarringNatalie Portman, the film is directed by statement McTeigue and produced by theWachowski Brothers and Joel Silver. In a release, Dan Fellman, president ofdomestic distribution for ...
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Toronto Film Festival appoints three new Canadian programmers
TheToronto International Film Festival has appointed three new Canadianprogrammers. Marguerite Pigott, a film and television consultant and formerdevelopment and production executive at Odeon Films, and Jesse Wente, a filmcritic and producer for CBC Radio, will join Canadian feature selectors StaceyDonen, Steve Gravestock and festival co-director Noah Cowan. AgataSmoluch Del Sorbo ...
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Dir. Kirby Dick. US. 2005. 100minsAlight-hearted but ultimately serious exploration of the cultural chill imposedby the Motion Picture Association Of America's ratingsystem, Kirby Dick's new documentary exposes the process for the sham it is.Financed by US cable network IFC TV anddirect-to-home video distributor NetFlix, This Film Is Not Yet Rated ...
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Art School Confidential
Dir. Terry Zwigoff. US.2006. 102mins.TerryZwigoff's ArtSchool Confidential doesn't achieve the promise of its intriguing premise -how far will an aspiring artist go to achieve recognition' ScreenwriterDaniel Clowes' answer' Far.But his script doesn't work hard enough to merit this cynical if trueconclusion.Audiences will be left wondering what tothink about a movie ...
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C.R.A.Z.Y. leads pack with 12 Genie Award nominations
Jean-Marc Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y. picked up 12 nominations and Deepa Mehta's Water earned nine Canada's Genie Awards. Both films werenominated for Best Motion Picture and Best Achievement in Direction. Michael Dowse's It's AllGone Pete Tong had eight nominationswhile Luc Picard's debut feature L'Audition and Andre Turpin's Familia had seven. Five films ...
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Lucky Number Slevin
Dir. Paul McGuigan. US.2006. 104mins.Anuncomfortable mixture of light banter and extreme violence, Lucky Number Slevinfalls somewhere between Guy Ritchie's Revolverand David Burke's still unreleased Edisonin its reliance on shock value over character development and narrativeheft. A likeable performance by Josh Hartnett carries the film for a long way,but a third ...
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Alliance Atlantis sign Weinstein Company films till 2009
The Weinstein Company and AllianceAtlantis Motion Picture Distribution (MPD) LP have signed an exclusive 80picture, multi-year distribution agreement anticipated to run through 2009. Under the deal, MPD willdistribute all films released by the Weinstein Company and Dimension Films. Thepact re-establishes the 12-year relationship of Alliance Atlantis and theWeinstein brothers during ...
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The Illusionist
Dir.Neil Burger. US. 2005. 110mins.Magic is the artof distraction. The Illusionistsucceeds because writer-director Neil Burger has his audience concentrate onEdward Norton's title character while Paul Giamatti'sfoil bustles around the picture providing the drama. The resulting periodromantic thriller is an attractive after-dinner treat which not only tastesdelicious but lingers on the ...
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Christie steps in for Redgrave in Polley's directorial debut
Julie Christie has replacedVanessa Redgrave in the lead role of Sarah Polley's debut feature Away FromHer. The veteran actress willstar opposite Gordon Pinsent and Olympia Dukakis in the Polley-pennedadaptation of the Alice Munro short-story "The Bear Came Over The Mountain."Kristen Thomson, who starred in Polley's short film I Shout Love, ...
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Herzog to get Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award
German filmmaker WernerHerzog will be presented with the Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award on May5 during the 2006 festival in Toronto. The occasion will be markedby An Evening With Werner Herzog, a co-presentation of Hot Docs and theCinematheque Ontario. Both organizations will present complimentaryretrospectives gleaned from his more than 40 ...
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Alliance Atlantis' MPD restructures senior management and board
AllianceAtlantis' releasing arm Motion Picture Distribution has restructured the seniormanagement and board, with Victor Loewy, current CEO assuming the title ofchairman and Patrice Theroux moving from president and COO to president andCEO. The position of COO has been phased out. The changes are effective Feb 1,2006.In a statement,Loewy said the ...
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Canadian luminaries call for quotas to be returned to local television
ProminentCanadian actors and other representatives of the Canadian performers guildACTRA are calling on their fellow citizens to demand action on the culturalfront as the nation heads into a federal election on January 23. Wendy Crewson,Fiona Reid, RH Thompson were among the speakers at a press conference today. 'It is ourculture ...
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Quebec critics name Violence best international film of 2005
Quebec's film criticsassociation, L'Association quebecoise des critiques de cinema (AQCC), has named David Cronenberg's A History OfViolence as the best international filmof 2005.The other finalists wereJean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's L'enfant, Michael Haneke's Cache,Lodge Kerrigan's Keane and AngLee's Brokeback Mountain. It'sthe second major Canadian critical accolade for the film; In December, ...
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Goblet Of Fire breaks IMAX box office record
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire: The IMAX Experience has grossed more than $16mworldwide on 89 screens, breaking the previous $15.9m giant-format record for adigitally-remastered (DMR) 2D release set by Batman Begins: The IMAX Experience last year.The titles are two of three IMAX releases that grossed more than $200m ...
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IMAX signs cinema deal in China
IMAX Corp and Chinese property developer Sailun Real EstateDevelopment Co have signed an agreement that will see the installation of a newIMAX MPX theatre system in a retail and leisure centre in Kunming, YunnanProvince, China. The facility will be the entertainment anchor of Sailun'smassive $310m Kunming Shuncheng Mall project.In a ...
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Alliance Atlantis, New Line renew output deal
Alliance Atlantis' Motion PictureDistribution and New Line Cinema have agreed to renew their distributionagreement through Dec 31, 2008.The deal commenced in 1989 and covers all media in Canada.The parties did not disclose financial terms at time of going to press.
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Depp, Winslet to narrate IMAX Deep Sea 3D
Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet will jointly narrate and DannyElfman will score the IMAX and Warner Bros. giant-screen documentary DeepSea 3D.Set for release in IMAX cinemas on Mar 3, 2006, the film marks the secondoriginal giant-screen documentary for Warner Bros following the successfulrelease of NASCAR 3D, whichgrossed nearly $23m worldwide ...
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Toronto critics hail Cronenberg's History
David Cronenberg's AHistory Of Violence won three prizesincluding Best Picture as the Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) unveiledits picks for 2005. Toronto-based Cronenberg wasnamed Best Director. while the film itself was deemed Best Canadian Film -despite the fact it was fully-financed by US studio New Line and does not qualifyas ...