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House Of Wax
Dir. Jaume-Collet Serra.Aus-US. 2005. 120mins.Nicely balanced between comedy and terror, House Of Waxhas monster written all over it - box office, that is. It puts paid to thenotion that the irony-laden Scream and I Know What You Did LastSummer franchises had clipped the wings of mainstream teen-gore fests.North American numbers ...
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Levinson, Golchan team to acquire Peau remake rights
Barry Levinson and FredericGolchan have acquired the English-language remake rights to Daniel Roby's LaPeau Blanche (White Skin), the winner of the first Canadian feature prize atthe 2004 Toronto International Film Festival.Golchan told Screen Daily thepair are planning to produce the picture and are shopping the project to USstudios. He said ...
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Goblet Of Fire set for simultaneous Imax release
Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire will be released on Imaxscreens simultaneous with the picture's conventional release on November 18,2005. It is the second film in the$2.6bn-grossing franchise to be released day-and-date with the 35mm version; Harry Potter AndThe Prisoner Of Azkaban: The IMAX Experience,released in June ...
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International filmmakers triumph at Tribeca
International filmmakers and co-productionsdominated the prizes as the fourth annual Tribeca Film Festival wrapped onSaturday night. Chinese filmmaker Li Shaoshong's Stolen Life (Sheng Si Jie) won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature,with Italian Pietro Reggiani receiving a Special Mention for My Brother's Summer. Netherlands-Hungaryco-production El Perro Negro: StoriesFrom The ...
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Losique defends Montreal turf with powerhouse jury...
Chinese auteur Chen Kaigeand Russian director Pavel Lounguine have agreed to participate on the jury ofthe 2005 Montreal World Film Festival, the festival announced yesterday. Kaige's credits include thePalme d'Or-winning Farewell My Concubine, while Lounguine is the director of such films as Taxi Blues and Luna Park.Both will unite with ...
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... as rival Montreal Festival of New Cinema loses chief
Claude Chamberlain, thefounder and director of Montreal's Festival of New Cinema (FNC), has resignedabruptly. The festival today issued abrief statement, announcing with "regret" the departure, effective immediately."For more than three decades, Claude Chamberlain hascontributed with success to the recognition of a high quality and uniquecinema. He leaves a distinguished track ...
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Montecito Pictures set to roll with Trailer Park Boys
Ivan Reitman's Montecito Pictures isset to commence principal photography this summer on Trailer Park Boys- The Movie, a feature adaptation of theCanadian cult television series about the antics of three 'hosers'- Ricky, Julian and Bubbles - in a Maritime backwater. The production will team series director,head writer and creator Mike ...
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NFB adds cash to Cannes short film Palme d'Or
The National Film Boardof Canada is pumping some prize money into the Cannes' Short Film Palmed'Or. The Canadian filmagency has created the Norman McLaren Prize, under the aegis of the Cannes FilmFestival, a Euros 3000 prize to be presented to director of the winning short. NFB chief JacquesBensimon and Cannes ...
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Canadian government pledges $20m to Toronto festival centre
The Canadian government haspledged to invest up to $20m (C$25m) in the Toronto International Film FestivalGroup's proposed Festival Centre. The much-neededcontribution, which was anticipated, takes TIFFG another large step towardreaching its goal of raising $160m. the projected cost of not only completingthe centre but of establishing an endowment fund and ...
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Canada's Equinoxe begins production on Rwandan genocide pic
Montreal-based EquinoxeProductions begins principal photography May 27 on A Sunday In Kigali, a romantic drama set against the backdrop of theRwandan genocide. Directed by Robert Favreau and produced by Lyse Lafontaineand Michael Mosca, the $5.6m (C$7m) film shoots in Kigali and in surroundinglocations for 37 days. Equinoxe Films will handle ...
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TIFFG launches year-round support programme for Canadian film-makers
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival Group has launched a year-round industry-oriented supportprogramme for Canadian filmmakers and their films. Designed to further themission of the festival's OMDC Sales Office, the new department, dubbed theIndustry Initiatives Office and headed by long-time Sales Office directorKelley Alexander, will provide programmes and services in marketing, artisticdevelopment ...
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Halifax, Montreal bury the hatchet over schedule clash
Film festivals in Montrealand Halifax have buried the hatchet over a scheduling conflict. The new FestivalInternational de Films de Montreal (FIFM) raised the hackles of theHalifax-based Atlantic Film Festival (AFF) by unilaterally switching the datesof its inaugural event to overlap with those of the AFF, which this yearcelebrates its 25th ...
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Canada's Equinoxe scores Laroche, Poulin
Montreal-based productionand distribution company Equinoxe Films has lured two local industry veterans to its executivesuite. Michele Laroche, who headed marketing and communications at Christal Films,has joined the company as director of theatrical distribution whileMarie-Claude Poulin, for three years a vice-president at TVA Films, will assistEquinoxe chief Michael Mosca in the ...
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Saint Ralph wins film nod at Canadian Screenwriting Awards
Writer-director MichaelMcGowan's Saint Ralph won thefeature film prize at the ninth annual Canadian Screenwriting Awards. The award was presented Monday night in Toronto. Thebittersweet coming-of-age story recently won the Grand Arc Award at the FestivalParis Ile-de-France. One of the fewEnglish-Canadian films to land distribution abroad last year Samuel Goldwynpicked it ...
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Atlantic Film Festival reacts with fury to Montreal move
Canada's Atlantic FilmFestival (AFF) has reacted with fury to news that the newly-minted FestivalInternational de Films de Montreal (FIFM) has shifted its launch dates to Sept18-25, overlapping the Halifax, Nova Scotia-based event's run of Sept 15-24. The change in FIFM dates isa black eye for Telefilm Canada, the federal film ...
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Polley, McKellar call for Canadian content quotas in theatres
Canadian filmmakers SarahPolley and Don McKellar are calling on the federal government to take strongmeasures to improve the fortunes of local television and film, includingintroducing local content rules in cinemas. The two, both actors,writers and directors, made a presentation on behalf of the Canadian actors'guild ACTRA before the House of ...
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Toronto's Temple Street hire Quarrington to adapt book Galveston
Canadian novelist andscreenwriter Paul Quarrington will pen the screen adaptation of his book, Galveston, for Toronto-based Temple Street Entertainment.Temple Street's Ivan Schneeberg and David Fortier will produce, with TempleStreet Productions' Patrick Whitley acting as executive producer. The book, to be published inthe US in July under the title "Storm Chasers", ...
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THINKFilm picks up Canadian rights to Coupland's Green
THINKFilm has picked upCanadian rights on Everything's Gone Green, the screenwriting debut of Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland to bedirected by Paul Fox for Toronto-based Radke Films and Vancouver-based TrueWest Films.True West's Elizabeth Yakeproduced Canada-UK coproduction It's All Gone Pete Tong. Chris Nanos will produce for Radke. The $1.47m(C$1.8m) production goes ...
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National Amusements seals deal for first IMAX screen in Argentina
Imax Corp. and US exhibitorNational Amusement have signed a deal that will see the first IMAX screeninstalled in Argentina. The new facility will be part of an existing multiplex,the Showcenter Norte in Buenos Aires and is expected to open in October 2005;it will be capable of playing standard and 3D ...
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MPD takes Fast Runner follow-up for Canada
Alliance Atlantis' MotionPicture Distribution has acquired Canadian rights to The Journals Of KnudRasmussen, Zacharias Kunuk andNorman Kohn's follow-up to Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. The film, which beginsprincipal photography on April 4 in the high Arctic, is an epic tragedy ofInuit culture lost in the tide of European civilization. The context ...