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Alliance Atlantis renews Focus output deal until 2008
Canada'sAlliance Atlantis' Motion Picture Distribution and Focus Features have extendedtheir output agreement to December 31, 2008. Under the termsof the agreement, MPD will continue to distribute all Focus Features films aswell as those of Focus' genre label Rogue Pictures in all media in Canada.One of thosepictures, Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, ...
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Egoyan's Truth loses MPAA appeal against NC-17 rating
Atom Egoyan's Where TheTruth Lies has lost its appeal tothe Motion Picture Association of America to overturn its restrictive NC-17rating. The decision, handed downyesterday in Los Angeles, means the film will be restricted in the US topersons 18 years and over. More important, the decision could be detrimental interms of ...
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Scott's Domino will close Montreal's new film festival
The world premiere of TonyScott's Domino starring KeiraKnightley will close the inaugural Festival International de Film de Montrealon September 25. The new festival added afurther 13 titles to its line-up, including an addition to Iris Awardscompetition, UK-Canada coproduction Guy X, from Scots director Saul Metzstein starring Jason Biggs and JeremyNortham, ...
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Boe's Allegro sells fast for Celluloid Dreams
Celluloid Dreams has lockedmultiple sales on Christopher Boe's Venice Directors Fortnight screener Allegro.Celluloid managing directorCharlotte Mickie confirmed the following sales: Ladyfilm for Italy, AudioVisual for Greece, Bir Film for Turkey, Budapest for Hungary, Tantra forPoland, Maywin for Russia and the Baltic states, and Alfa for Argentina andChile.The second feature from ...
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Kujipers' Off Screen takes top jury prize at Montreal
Montreal filmmaker ClaudeGagnon did not win the top prize but his film Kamataki walkedaway with five major awards as the Montreal World Film Festival wrapped up its29th edition on Monday. Kamataki, a Canada-Japan coproduction, won the AudiencePrize, the FIPRESCI Prize, the Ecumenical Prize and the Prize for The MostPopular Canadian ...
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De Palma, Gilliam sign up for Talent Lab at Toronto
Brian De Palma, TerryGilliam and Atom Egoyan are just three of the film artists who have signed forthe Toronto International Film Festival's Talent Lab, a four-day artisticdevelopment programme for emerging Canadian filmmakers held during the event. 22participants from across Canada were selected.De Palma, a perennialaudience member at TIFF, has agreed ...
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Celluloid seals international on Barney, Caravaca films
Celluloid Dreams has signedto handle international theatrical sales on Drawing Restraint 9, from Cremaster Cycle director Matthew Barney and all international rightson Eric Caravaca's Le Passager. Celluloid managing directorCharlotte Mickie told Screendaily.com that the company has already locked adeal on DR9 with Australia'sAccent and is considering offers for Japan, Germany, ...
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Celluloid Dreams closes deals on Toronto opener
Celluloid Dreams has pickedup international sales rights on Deepa Mehta's Water which is the opening night film at the TorontoInternational Film Festival on Sept 8. Cellulloid managing directorCharlotte Mickie told Screendaily.com the company has already closed deals withGolem for Spain, Rosebud for Greece, Australia's Dendy Films and Universum Filmin Germany.The ...
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De Hadeln's Montreal FilmFest announces inaugural competition
Sevenworld premieres will be on offer at the first Festival International de Filmsdu Montreal, the upstart event at the centre of Montreal's film festival wars.TheFIFM - which is calling itself the New Montreal FilmFest in English -announcedthe 14-film line-up for its inaugural Iris Awards competition on Wednesday, twodays before the ...
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Toronto lineup completed with Frears, Ritchie
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival has added four major world premieres to its line-up: StephenFrears' Mrs. Henderson Presents,starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins; Guy Ritchie's Revolver, starring Jason Statham and Ray Liotta; JackieChan-starrer The Myth, directedby Stanley Tong all to be presented as Galas -- and Martin Scorsese's documentary No ...
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Montreal's Nouveau fest adds Vinterberg, Quebecois shocker
Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema added eight titles toits October line-up, including screenings of Thomas Vinterberg's Sundance titleDear Wendy, Pierre Jolivet's Cannestitle Zim & Co. and the worldpremiere of Quebecois director Robert Morin's shock film Petit Pow!Pow! Noel. The festival will also present Amos Gitai's Free Zone, which won Israeli ...
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Toronto adds 11 foreign-language world premieres
The Toronto International Film Festival has added 11 worldpremieres to its September line up, including The Duelist from Korea's Lee Myung-se, Iberia from Spanish auteur Carlos Saura and a Galapresentation of German filmmaker Hermine Huntgeburth's White Masai.Deflecting criticism that it's a Hollywood-centred event,TIFF packaged its latest 21- title announcement as ...
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Toronto set for Rossellini celebration, Aardman's Were-Rabbit
Guy Maddin and Isabella Rossellini willpresent the world premiere of the short film My Dad Is 100 Years Old, a celebration of the centenary of Italian filmmaker RobertRossellini, at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-17). It was oneof a number of personal appearances announced for this year's event including ...
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Toronto names documentary world premieres
The Toronto International Film Festival hasadded thirteen documentary world premieres to its line-up, including SydneyPollack's Sketches Of Frank Gehry.Alex Hinton's Pick Up The Mic, a lookat gay rappers, and Lian Lunson's profile of Canadian troubadour Leonard Cohen,Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man,featuring performances by Cohen, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright and U2. ...
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Imax signs eighth US cinema deal of 2005
IMAX Corp. and SaltLake City-based LHM Group have signed an agreement to install one of itsgiant-screen cinema systems at the Jordan Commons Megaplex in the city.The 17-screen complexis the highest-grossing in Utah. The deal will see an existing 70mm auditoriumretrofitted as an IMAX facility; it should be operational by Autumn ...
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Montreal unveils full competition line-up
Iranian filmmaker MohsenMakhmalbaf's Sex And Philosophy andveteran Canadian director Claude Gagnon's Kamatakiare among 22 titles selected for the 29th Montreal World Film Festival's Competition. Other world premieres includeSwiss filmmaker Simon Aeby's six-territory coproductionThe Headsman;Bosnia-Herzegovina-Croatia title Go Westfrom Ahmed Imamovic; Jocelyne Saab's Duniaand UK hostage drama Red Mercury,directed by Roy Battersby, ...
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Toronto line-up confirms Oscar launchpad status
Confirming its position as the launch padfor Oscar season, the Toronto International Film Festival has added nine worldpremieres to its line-up, many from or starring Academy Award-winningfilmmakers and actors.Among the new titles scheduled to screen at the 30thTIFF are Breakfast On Pluto, fromscreenplay winner and directorial nominee Neil Jordan; The ...
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Canada's Capri picks up six including U-Carmen
Toronto-based CapriReleasing has picked up all Canadian rights on several titles, including GoldenBear winner U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha,from South Africa, John Hillcoat's Australia-UK coproduction The Proposition, starring Ray Winston and Guy Pearce, GabrieleSalvatores' Italian box office hit Quo Vadis Baby', and Sundance title Pretty Persuasion, starring Evan Rachel Wood. Capri also picked ...
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Losique's Montreal festival uninvites Karla
Under pressure from itssponsors, the Montreal World Film Festival has decided not to present acontroversial film about Canada's infamous serial killing couple Karla Homolkaand Paul Bernardo. Karla, directed by Joel Bender, tells the story of Homolka,whose husband Bernardo is serving a life sentence for the kidnapping, rape andmurder of two ...
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New Gunarsson, Fitzgerald films among the Canadian premieres at Toronto
Sturla Gunnarrson's epic Beowulf& Grendel starring Gerard Butlerand Sarah Polley and Thom Fitzgerald's Three Needles starring Chloe Sevigny, Lucy Liu, Stockard Channingand Sandra Oh will have their world premieres as Special Presentations at the30th Toronto International Film Festival. Also world premiering is LieWith Me, the much-anticipatedsexually explicit feature from Clement ...