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Academy invites 120 new voting members to join
The Academy OfMotion Picture Arts & Sciences has issued its annual membership invitationstatement, naming the 120 artists and executives who will become new votingmembers in 2006.Candidates areconsidered by committees made up of representatives from each of the Academy's14 branches. Names are put forward by two current members of the branch ...
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Screen partners with Denver festival on Kieslowski Award
ScreenInternational is partnering with the Starz Denver Film Festival to present thethe Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for Best Feature Film, a juried award presentedannually at the festival to a feature-length fiction film that reflects theartistic sensibilities of the late Polish director.''The 29th StarzDenver Film Festival, produced by the Denver Film Society ...
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Academy revamps foreign language Oscar category
The foreign languagecategory of the Academy Awards has finally been revamped after years ofcontroversy.The governors of the AcademyOf Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) this week endorsed a series ofchanges including one in which entries for the Oscar can be in any language orcombination of languages so long as the ...
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Olguin signs to direct Mayhem Project's Clock Tower
One year-old LA-basedproduction and financing outfit The Mayhem Project has signed Chile's JorgeOlguin to direct horror film Clock Tower, based on the bestselling video game franchise from Japan's Capcom.The film, which is scheduledto go into production later this year, has been written by Jake Wade Wall (WhenA Stranger Calls, The ...
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Bloom to join Bosworth in Seasons Of Dust
Orlando Bloom will join hisreal-life girlfriend Kate Bosworth in the independent drama Seasons Of Dust which has been written and will be directed byactor/film-maker Tim Blake Nelson (O, The Grey Zone) and is due to shoot this summer.Set in 1935 in Depressionera Oklahoma, the film is about a young farm ...
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Superman Returns
Dir: Bryan Singer. US.2006. 150 mins. Like Sam Raimi did with Spider-man and Christopher Nolan with Batman Begins, Bryan Singer invests his new Superman movie withemotional intensity and high passions, creating a love triangle scenario whichis even more gripping than Lex Luthor's latest plot to destablise the world.Made with the ...
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France's OSS 117 wins top audience prize at Seattle
The 32nd annual Seattle International FilmFestival (SIFF) closed its epic, 25-day run on Sunday with a gala screening ofMichel Gondry's The Science Of Sleep atwhich Gondry was in attendance.418 films were screened at the festival, 19 of them worldpremieres and 41 of which were North American premieres. The festival isexpecting ...
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Screen teams with HFF for Hollywood World Award
Screen International isteaming up for the third consecutive year with the Hollywood Film Festival andthe Hollywood Awards to present the Hollywood World Award, a prize for the bestin world cinema which will be presented at the Hollywood Awards ceremony at theBeverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Oct 23.The award ...
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Puerto Rico shoot kicks off for Maladies Of Love
Donald Ranvaud's Buena Ondahas unveiled Maldeamores (Maladies Of Love), the first film from thefund set up by its parent company IFC and the Puerto Rico Film IndustryDevelopment Corporation.The film, which iscurrently in production, stars Luis Guzman among other Puerto Rican actors in aseries of darkly humorous stories about the quest ...
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Janus Films to get 50 year celebration during New York Film Festival
TheNew York Film Festival will hold a retrospective of the films released by 50year-old US specialized distributor Janus Films during its 44thedition which runs from Sept 29 to Oct 15 this year.Theretrospective will kick off with Jean Renoir's seminal La Regle Du Jeu (1939) on Sept 30 and will continue ...
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Picturehouse wins US rights to La Vie En Rose
New Line/HBO joint venturePicturehouse has acquired US rights to the hotly sought after Cannes markettitle La Vie En Rose, the biopicof Edith Piaf which stars Marion Cotillard as Piaf and Gerard Depardieu as LouisLeplee. The film follows Piaf's risefrom the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York all ...
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Sono's Circus scores Cannes US deal with TLA
Philadelphia-based TLAReleasing has acquired North American theatrical and home entertainment rightsto Sion Sono's Japanese shocker Strange Circus. It is the seond Sono film in TLA's library after SuicideClub which is featured in thecompany's upcoming "Danger After Dark" box set.TLA bought the film fromJapan's Sedic International; the deal was negotiated at ...
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MySpace teams with Bside, Right Angle to launch touring US film and music fest
Hugely successful lifestyleportal MySpace is teaming with specialized independent film distributor BsideEntertainment and festival consultant Right Angle Studios to launch the BsideRoadshow, a touring US film and music festival which will begin on June 4 inAustin, Texas.The festival will travel tocollege towns like Ann Arbor, Minneapolis, Madison, Philadelphia, Boulder,Portland and ...
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24th Outfest to open with Puccini on July 6
Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian FilmFestival, will kick off its 24th edition on July 6 with MariaMaggenti's comedy Puccini For Beginners and close on July 17 with Spanish musical 20 Centimeters directed by Ramon Salazar.Among the other gala screenings are Q Allan Brocka's BoyCulture which will play on ...
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Focus International sells out on Cannes slate
Focus Features International has reported its most successful Cannes ever, preselling "pretty much the entire slate" according to president Alison Thompson here yesterday. Thompson said thatthe company had closed 110 deals on its new titles, demonstrating, she said, thatthe company continues to sell films contrary to market speculation that Focustitles ...
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Linklater plans Chet Baker project
Richard Linklater is movingfrom Fast Food Nation into aproject about Chet Baker called Chesney which will look at one day in the life of the jazz legend before he wasfamous.Describing the film as'a small jazz movie,' Linklater said this week that the film would bemade independently. Linklater is in Cannes ...
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Oliver Stone unveils World Trade Center footage in Cannes
The first nerve-crunching 20minutes of Oliver Stone's World Trade Center were screened before the 20th-anniversary screeningof Platoon on Sunday night to astrong response from a packed Salle Debussy in Cannes.The footage laid out themorning of September 11, 2001, from the point of view of John McLoughlin(Nicolas Cage), a Port Authority ...
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Werner works with Vajna on Hungarian Children Of Glory
Fortissimo's Michael JWerner has teamed with Andy Vajna, his former partner at Summit Entertainment,to act as sales and marketing consultant for Vajna's epic Hungarian production ChildrenOf Glory.Children Of Glory is directed by Krisztina Goda, whose Just Sex AndNothing Else was one of Hungary'sbiggest local hits last year.The new film is ...
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Rocket Pictures plans new UK animation facility for Gnomeo
Elton John and DavidFurnish's Rocket Pictures is teaming with Miramax Films to create a newanimated facility in London for the Rocket/Miramax CG-animated musical comedy GnomeoAnd Juliet.Meanwhile Lee Hall, whoworked with John on Billy Elliotis writing the Elton John biopic tentatively titled Rocket Man for Disney. The project will be crafted ...
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Horror film Damned finds several buyers
Pathe Distribution in the UKand RCV in Benelux are two buyers who have already stepped up to buy Damned, a new US horror film from producer Rob Fried (Collateral,Godzilla) which is being sold byPierre Weisbein's Green Room Pictures.Focus in Brazil and Star TVin Asia have also acquired the film, which ...