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The Home of Dark Butterflies frontrunner for Jussi awards.
Finnish director Dome Karukoski's The Home of Dark Butterflies (Tummien perhosten koti) took a total of 10 nominations for the Jussi awards, Finland's national film prize. The film tells the story of Juhani, who ends up at a boys' institution, the Island, after six years of wandering between foster homes. ...
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Jaman launches UK film site
Jaman, the company behind the eponymous US website featuring independent and world cinema, is expanding into the UK film distribution film market with the launch of its first localized site in the UK. The website has a collection of 1,000 titles, which include international dramas, documentaries, shorts, Japanese animated titles ...
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Unified signs two-picture US distribution deal with Cinema Epoch
Keith Kjarval's Los Angeles-based production, finance and international distribution company Unified Pictures has signed a two-film US distribution deal with Cinema Epoch.The deal covers mystery noir The Perfect Sleep directed by Jeremy Alter and starring Roselyn Sanchez, and Craig Carlisle's romance Bob Funk starring Rachael Leigh Cook. Both films are ...
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Saudi prince in talks for Sky Global stake
Saudi financier Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal is in talks to invest in Rupert Murdoch's global satellite business, Sky Global Networks, according to the UK's Financial Times.The prince already holds a 3% stake in Murdoch's News Corp, and is also an investor, along with Murdoch, in German media group Kirch. Microsoft ...
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Consortium gets together to launch new east coast film studio
A consortium of business partners led by real estate billionaire Arthur G Cohen, Adi Cohen and Joseph Grinkorn of Killer Films owners GC Venture Capital Fund's, Baldwin Entertainment's Howard and Karen Baldwin and City Lights Media are launching the East Coast studio United Studios Of America.The group is expected to ...
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SPC takes on North America to Mexican smash Rudo Y Cursi
Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed it has taken North American rights to Carlos Cuaron's Mexican blockbuster Rudo Y Cursi, which gets its North American premiere at Sundance on January 16.Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna reunite for the first time since Y Tu Mama Tambien opened in 2001 and are ...
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Focus teams up with Universal's production arm to create global entity
Focus Features has joined forces with the international production arm of Universal Pictures to create a global financing, production and distribution entity on the heels of a successful 2008 in which both divisions’ films grossed more than $350m worldwide.Styled as a one-stop shop for the world’s film-makers, the venture will ...
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Brendan Fraser joins Harrison Ford in CBS Films' true life drama
Brendan Fraser will star opposite Harrison Ford in drama The Untitled Crowley Project for CBS Films, the first production to go for the new division when shooting commences in April.Fraser will play John Crowley, the father who recruited the services of a maverick scientist to solve a mystery that could ...
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Richard Matson joins Anywhere Road as vice president
Marketing executive Richard Matson has joined San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York-based distributor Anywhere Road as vice president and head of distribution and marketing.Anywhere Road's 2009 release slate includes the drama Sinner starring Nick Chinlund as priest who faces a crisis of faith when a fundamentalist junior colleague clashes ...
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Oscilloscope buys So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain for North America
Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up North American rights to So Yong Kim's South Korean drama Treeless Mountain, which premiered in Toronto and will screen in the Forum section at next month's Berlinale.The new York-based company plans an April 22 theatrical release at the Film Forum in New York City followed ...
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Revolver takes UK rights to Slamdance premiere City Rats
Revolver Entertainment has snapped up UK rights from Facefilms and Scanner Rhodes Productions to City Rats ahead of its world premiere in competition at Slamdance.Steve M Kelly directed from Simon Fantauzzo's script about eight individuals who seek to help each other improve their lives. Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, MyAnna Buring ...
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Slumdog Millionaire and Benjamin Button top BAFTA nominations
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire looks favourite to add BAFTA honours to its huge Golden Globe success.The film - which picked up four Globes this week including best picture - is nominated in 11 categories including best film, best director (Boyle), best actor (Dev Patel), best supporting actresss (Freida Pinto), best ...
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Dir: Steve Carr . US. 2009. 87mins. A depressingly strained comedic riff on Die Hard, Paul Blart: Mall Cop mixes fat jokes, a sappy romantic subplot and hostages-in-a-mall action elements without much verve or wit. As his first starring vehicle after playing second-fiddle to bigger box-office names in recent films, ...
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Telefonica restructures Media, delays float
After months of uncertainty following the forced resignation of former Telefonica chairman Juan Villalonga, a new blueprint unveiled this week for the future of subsidiary Telefonica Media (TM) confirms the conglomerate's intent to remain at the forefront of the international media business.That said, however, TM executive president Juan Jose Nieto's ...
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ReviewsShrink
Dir: Jonas Pate. US. 2009. 105mins.A splintered look at the Hollywood dream factory through the perspective of Kevin Spacey’s quickly-unraveling Los Angeles therapist, Jonas Pate’s Shrink is more forgiving and humanistic than acid-tongued, more Entourage than The Player.Thomas Moffett’s script deals with familiar material - social ...
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ReviewsTaking Chance
Dir: Ross Katz. US. 2009. 80mins.A heartfelt and sorrowful memorial to the war dead of Iraq marked by a typically restrained and concentrated performance by Kevin Bacon, Ross Katz’s Taking Chance is a quietly observational study of memory and loss. The fact-based story of a career ...
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The Glass House
Dir: Hamid Rahmanian.US-Iran. 2008. 92min. The Glass House, Hamid Rahmanian's documentary about young women who have fallen through the massive cracks in Iran's Islamic society, is a sampling of stories from Iran's underclass, a portrait of life in Tehran today that is anything but flattering. The rare unofficial glimpse into ...