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New Montreal FilmFest suffers digital conference blow
The Festival International de Films de Montreal (FIFM) isabout to be the city's shortest-lived film festival.The unlucky event took another step toward oblivion yesterday with theannouncement that Digimart, its allied digital distribution conference, isabandoning the FIFM for a berth alongside the city's third festival, Festivaldu Nouveau Cinema (FNC), in October ...
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IMAX to install three systems in Latin America
IMAX Corp and Rio de Janiero-based gaming consortium RACIMECInternational Group have signed an agreement to install three IMAX cinemasystems in Latin America.Two systems will be installed in Santiago, Chile, and one will go in Caracas,Venezuela.The giant-screen pioneer is now scheduled to open 26 new cinemas in LatinAmerican territories by 2008, ...
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C.R.A.Z.Y., Cronenberg among Canada's Top Ten
Jean-Marc Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y.and David Cronenberg's A HistoryOf Violence were among the titleslisted in the Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG)'s annualCanada's Top Ten.The yearly roll-call,published in alphabetical order as opposed to merit, honours achievement inCanadian film. Other titles include Deepa Mehta's Water, which has earned more than C$1m at the ...
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THINKFilm buys into The Best Restaurant
THINKFilm has picked upNorth American rights on The Best Restaurant In The World. Ever to be produced by Vancouver-based Irreverent Media. Monika Mitchell (Break ALeg) will direct the screenplayadapted by Rick Obran from his stage play. Irreverent's Tom O'Brien and HarrySutherland will produce. Casting is pending on several roles in ...
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Exiles takes top prize at Whistler Film Festival
Ilan Sargosti's Exiles In Lotus Land won the $8,600 (C$10,000)Borsos Award for Best New Canadian Feature as the 5thannual Whistler Film Festival wrapped on Sunday. The National Film Board ofCanada-financed film, which follows Quebecois street youth who have gravitatedto Canada's West Coast, was the lone documentary in the competition of ...
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Doc Exiles wins best new Canadian feature prize at Whistler
Ilan Sargosti's Exiles InLotus Land won the C$10,000 BorsosAward for Best New Canadian Feature as the 5th annual Whistler FilmFestival closed on Sunday. The National Film Board ofCanada-financed film, which follows Quebecois street youth who have gravitatedto Canada's West Coast, was the lone documentary in the competition of six newfeatures. ...
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Water crosses the million mark in Canada
Only 21 days into its release, Deepa Mehta's Water has grossed C$1m ($850,000) at the Canadian box office, an impressive sum based on a release that encompasses only 33 screens. The film, distributed through Mongrel Media, was ranked number one this past weekend at several major cinemas in Toronto, Calgary, ...
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Potter release breaks IMAX records
The box office phenomenonthat is Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire has been felt within the giant-screen realm. The fourth Potter film has broken every record for an IMAX Hollywoodtitle on simultaneous release. Debuting at 66 IMAX venues in North America, thefilm scored a three-day opening of $2.93m for ...
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Pool signs to direct Mort for Equinoxe
Montreal-based EquinoxeProductions has signed Lea Pool to direct and co-adapt a film of GilCourtemanche's second novel Une Belle Mort, published this autumn in Quebec. Author Courtemanche will co-write thescreenplay. Equinoxe recently completedpost-production on Un Dimanche A Kigali, the film based on Courtemanche's Rwandan genocide drama which shot inRwanda in earlier ...
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Water reaches watershed level at box office
Deepa Mehta's Water passed the C$500,000 ($419,000) mark this pastweekend, achieving the milestone in 10 days on 41 screens for a screen averageof approximately $7000. It was enough to earn 10thspot on the nation's box office Top Ten, a rare feat for a Canadian filmproduced outside of Quebec. That said, ...
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Frappier's Max sells Saint-Martyr to four
Roger Frappier's Max Filmshas completed sales on four territories at the AFM for Robin Aubert's featuredebut St. Martyrs Of The Damned (Saint-Martyr-Des-Damnes). Produced by Frappier and LucVandal, the psychological thriller has sold to Japan through AK Company,Germany through Media Corp. One, Benelux through Film Freak Distributie andBrazil through California Films. ...
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Seville picks up second Metal pic
Montreal-based sales anddistribution outfit Seville International has picked up worldwide rights for GlobalMetal, the follow-up to hot Torontodocumentary Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. Directed by the same team ofSam Dunn, Scot McFadyen and Jessica Joy Wise, the new film will pick up thetheme that heavy metal music is an alternative view-point ...
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Saskatchewan boosts tax credit to 45%
The Canadian province ofSaskatchewan has announced it will boost its labour-based production tax creditto 45% from 35% of total eligible costs for film and television productionsshooting in the region. The Saskatchewan FilmEmployment Tax Credit (SFETC) can increase to 55% if certain criteria are met,including a new 5% bonus tax credit ...
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Canada's Cianciotta leaves Capri Releasing
Tony Cianciotta has leftToronto-based Capri Releasing, the 18-month old distribution company of whichhe was founding president. A spokesperson confirmed Cianciotta resigned threeweeks ago but the company has issued no announcement. His name has been removedfrom the company website while Robin Smith, who was operations manager, is nowlisted as general manager. ...
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The Myth (Sen Hua)
Dir. Stanley Tong. HK-China.2005. 118mins.The Myth is a misfire from three stalwarts of the martial arts genre: JackieChan, his long-time collaborator, director/screenwriterStanley Tong, and co-scenarist Wang Hui-ling,screenwriter of Crouching Tiger, HiddenDragon. An enthusiastic attempt at the Indiana Jones model, it has neither the pace, the tone nor the dialogue to ...
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IMAX, Epic to build three giant screen theatres in Israel
IMAX Corp. and US-based EpicEntertainment have signed an agreement to install three giant-screen cinemas atmultiplexes throughout Israel. The new facilities willprogramme digitally re-mastered Hollywood films. Specific locationannouncements are pending. In a statement, Epic's Bennett Kaplan and PeterIsraelson said the company hopes to build on the success of its originalinvestment, a ...
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Toronto says $44m in sales achieved at 2005 film festival
The Toronto International Film Festival says an estimated $44m(C$52m) changed hands as a result of buying and selling at this year's event,including $24.5m in North American deals and $19.5m in international deals fromterritories such as the UK, Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, and Spain. The record sum, based on estimates from ...
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The War Within
Dir. Joseph Castelo. US.2005. 100mins.The War Within is amilestone in many ways. It's the first dramatic film production from a businessmodel hatched by 2929 Entertainment that may shape the way movies are exploitedin the future. Shot entirely in high-definition, it was released in the USsimultaneously in theatres and on high-definition ...
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IMAX to launch first cinema in Brazil
IMAX Corp and Brazilianretail developer Tacla Shopping have signed an agreement to build the South American nation's first IMAX cinema.The new cinema will be part of a 10-cinema multiplex to be installed in the proposed Palladium Shopping Centre in Curitiba, which is anticipated to be the largest shopping mall in ...
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Sean Farnel leaves TIFF for Hot Docs
Sean Farnel, documentaryprogrammer at the Toronto International Film Festival, has been appointed tothe newly-created post of director of programming at Hot Docs, the CanadianInternational Documentary Festival. As well as leading the programming team, Farnelwill be charged with refining the event's slate of professional developmentindustry programming.Farnel told Screendaily:"It's an organic step ...