All articles by Finn Halligan
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NewsLewis, Brown-Findlay, Capaldi line up for Leon's Driven
EXCLUSIVE: Damian Lewis, Jessica Brown-Findlay, Peter Capaldi and Iwan Rheon will star in actor/writer/director David Leon’s debut feature Driven.
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CommentFerretti wows at BAFTA
Famed production designer Dante Ferretti talks Fellini, Scorsese and more
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Berlin critics jury grid: Milk Of Sorrow tops in lacklustre year
The 59th Berlinale’s competition line-up was undistinguished; as can quickly be seen from Screen International critics’ jury (click here to see full grid), no single film won over the crowd and there were very few ‘excellent’ marks awarded.
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ReviewsRockNRolla
Dir/scr: Guy Ritchie. UK. 2008. 114mins.RocknRolla returns Guy Ritche precisely to the world that made his name; the low-level underworld of Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (1999) and Snatch (2000) which were in turn the inspiration for a UK geezer subgenre (Sexy Beast, Layer Cake, ...
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Rotterdam Cinemart confident despite growing competition
CineMart, heading into its 24th year Jan 28-Feb 1, isn't the lone co-production market it used to be. Competition is now tough to line-up projects, as almost every festival worth its weight features some project market element.Tougher for CineMart, as it likes to be the first to bring a feature ...
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Rotterdam adds five to Tiger Awards Competition
The Rotterdam International Film Festival has added five new titles to its Tiger Awards Competition and announced that Abderrahmane Sissako and Johnnie To will be the 36th festival's film-makers in focus.La Marea, by Belguim's Diego Martinez Vignatti; Fourteen, by Hirosue Hiromasa; Die Unerzogenen, by Pia Marais; Does It Hurt' The ...
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Oliver Stone pays fines over Cuba documentaries
OliverStone has confirmed that his production company, Ixtlan Corp, has paid the USTreasury department $6,300 in fines over his Cuba documentary Looking ForFidel in order "to end the affair". However,he stressed, "we maintain our innocence."Speakingat the Dubai International Film Festival, where he is accepting a career award,60-year-old Stone said the ...
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Gheko buys rights to Spanish remake of Saving Grace
Spain's Gheko Films has bought the rights to remake Saving Grace in the Spanish language - with Carmen Maura attached in the Brenda Blethyn role for a Galicia shoot.This will follow the outfit's upcoming La Mula, to be directed by Il Postino's Michael Radford. La Mula's shoot is set for ...
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Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days And 30 Nights - Hollywood To The Heartland
Dir. Ari Sandel. US, 2006.110mins.The odd thing about Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show is that itson-screen success has little to do with Vaughn himself. The US actor may be theimpresario behind the comedy show, which was inspired by Buffalo Bill'straveling festival and played in 30 cities across America over ...
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Miami Vice to open Locarno festival
Michael Mann's Miami Vice will kick off the Locarno International Film Festival on August 2 with a gala screening on the Piazza Grande.The screening of the all-star blockbuster, which stars Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, will mark Frederic Maire's first year as artistic director of the festival, which celebrates its ...
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Bille August starts South African shoot for Goodbye Bafana
Production has started in South Africa on Bille August's NelsonMandela project Goodbye Bafana, with Dennis Haysbertof TV's 24 playing the former South African premier and Joseph Fiennes as hisprison guard for almost 20 years, James Gregory.Diane Kruger also stars asJames' wife, Gloria, in the Banana Films/ArsamInternational production adapted for the ...
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Fortissimo boards Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want To Sleep Alone
FortissimoFilms has acquired worldwide sales rights to Tsai Ming-liang'sI Don't Want To Sleep Alone, set in Malaysia.Thefilm is one of the seven New Crowned Hope (NCH) projects, which willbe shown at Vienna's NCH festival inNovembercelebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.IDon't Want To Sleep Alone stars LeeKang Sheng and Chen ...
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Fortissimo banks on SCB
Dutch/HK-based sales agent Fortissimo Films has entered into a new banking relationship with Standard Chartered Bank.The arrangement is "unique" according to co-chairman Michael Werner, and involves the "construction of a revolving line of credit based on their discounting our contracts portfolio, resulting in a reasonable line of credit which we ...
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The Alchemist set for 2006 shoot
The $100 million adaptation ofPaolo Coehlo's TheAlchemist is set for a 2006 shoot across the Middle East -possibly in a mooted new Dubai studio - according to producer Barrie Osborne.A long-cherished project forLaurence Fishburne, who will adapt, direct and starin The Alchemist, Osborne is lookingto finalise financial commitments by the ...
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CineMart decides on final selection for 2006 market
The world's largest co-production market, Rotterdam'sCineMart, has announced 2006's final selection. Atotal of 45 projects in advanced stages of production, including new films fromAmat Escalante, Pablo Trapero,Guy Maddin, He Jianjun andJan Svankmajer are now eligible to present to anestimated 800 producers, TV buyers, sales agents,distributors and fund representatives at the ...
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Nanny McPhee
Dir: Kirk Jones. UK 2005. 98minsEmma Thompson makes her long-awaited return toactress-screenwriter mode (her first since Sense& Sensibility, for which she won several major awards) with Nanny McPhee,a family film based on the Nurse Mathilda children's books.Also appearing in this taleof seven motherless children, their hapless father (Firth) and theirastonishingly ...
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Polanski, Silverstone set for Amazonas festival
The 2nd World Adventure Film Festival, held in the remoteAmazonas city of Manaus, has announced its line-up - and several starsincluding Alicia Silverstone and Roman Polanski are packing their bags for aweek in the jungle.Set to unspoolbetween November 4 and 11, the Amazonas festival will open with Oliver Twist and ...
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Kino snaps up US rights to Look Both Ways
Australian break-out hit Look Both Ways has found a UStheatrical distribution partner in Kino International. The Sarah Watt-directed title, which won the Discovery Award at theToronto Film Festival, has taken $1.6m (A$2.11m) at home in Australia in eightweeks of release and is being touted as a long-awaited international prospectfor the ...
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Shooting Dogs
Dir: Michael Caton-Jones.UK-Ger. 2005. 114mins.Yes, it is poor timingfor Shooting Dogs, arriving in the wake of the international tour deforce that was Hotel Rwanda and HBO title Sometime In April. Butthere's room for more than one film to be made about the 1994 genocide - or atleast for as long ...
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EastWest picks up sales rights to Totally Personal
Sales agent EastWest Filmdistribution has picked upinternational rights to the Bosnian documentary Totally Personal, whichhas just been nominated as that country's entry for the Academy Awards in theforeign film category.TheLondon-based sales company has also nabbed international rights to Edinburghtitle The Wedding, a black comedy directed by Poland's WojtekSmarzowski. It also ...