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Korean government to introduce completion bond scheme
The South Korean government has announced plans for an inaugural completion bond system in order to back the development of local cultural content. In a forum between the ruling Grand National party leaders and officials from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, it was decided that the government would ...
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Venice competition includes Aronofsky, Arriaga, Kitano, Ozpetek
The 65th Venice Film Festival has unveiled its programme this morning.CompetitionThe Wrestler, dir. Darren Aronofsky (US)The Burning Plain, dir. Guillermo Arriaga (US)Il papa di Giovanna, dir. Pupi Avati (Italy)BirdWatchers, dir. Marco Bechis (Italy)L'Autre, dirs. Patrick Mario Bernard & Pierre Trividic (France)The Hurt Locker, dir. Kathryn Bigelow (US)Il seme della discordia, ...
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The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
Dir: Rob Cohen . US. 2008. 107 mins.Nine years have passed since The Mummy, a moderately-charming period action-adventure yarn starring Brendan Fraser, but it seems even longer after viewing Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor, a dispiritingly witless sequel with very little personality but a lot of frenetic comic banter and ...
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Locarno adds new films from Francois Rotger, Sean Baker
New films by Francois Rotger and Sean Baker have been added to Locarno's official selection a week before the festival opens on Aug 6 with Brideshead Revisited on the Piazza Grande.Rotger's French-Canadian co-production StoryOfJen, starring Laurence Leboeuf, Marina Hands and Tony Ward, will screen as a world premiere in the ...
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Swing Vote
Dir. Joshua Michael Stern, US, 2008, 120 minutes.Swing Vote is a motivational effort whichlurches between homespun sentimentality and topical satire, with the moral that echoes the American mythology that one vote can make a difference, even if it is cast by a beer-drinking boob who has just been laid off ...
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Nigel Osner to start The Tale Of Reverend Jones Aug 11
Nigel Osner plans an Aug 11 start of shoot in Swansea and Gower for his film The Tale Of The Reverend Jones. Osner also wrote the screenplay, about a Welsh vicar who takes on the Church of England over its views on homosexuality.Jakob Esposito of Welsh Dragon Pictures will executive ...
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Mueller digs deep withVenice's worldly offerings
Venice is aiming widefor its 65th edition,with artistic director Marco Mueller following up 2007's heavily English-language programme with a more geographically diverse, less star-drivenline-up of films from 18 countries. Notably lighter onUS features (and with none solely from the UK), this year's Lido line-up features two Japanese animation masters and ...
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TIFF unveils 20 world premiere documentaries
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced 25 world premieres in its line-up of documentaries screening across various programmes. Among the debuts screening in the Real To Reel programme are An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim's It Might Get Loud, a celebration of the electric guitar featuring three virtuosos, Led ...
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Asselin's Sentimental Capitalism to open FNC in Montreal
Olivier Asselin's A Sentimental Capitalism (Un Capitalisme Sentimental) will make its world premiere as the opening film of the 37th annual Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal. Starring Lucille Fluet, Paul Ahmarani and Sylvie Moreau, the period drama lays bear the saga of a young woman at the centre of ...
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Kori Bernards named media strategist at Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures has officially confirmed that it has appointed former Motion Picture Association Of America media communications chief Kori Bernards to serve as the studio's media strategist and trade and business press contact.Bernards will start in her new role as senior vice president of media relations on August 4 and ...
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Universal to partner with TWC on Inglorious Bastards
The Weinstein Company and Universal are nearing a deal to partner on the release of Quentin Tarantino's World War II drama Inglorious Bastards.Sources stressed the deal points had not been concluded at time of writing, however it is understood TWC would handle the North American release and Universal would oversee ...
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Alicia Keys and Jack White record duet on new 007 theme song
Alicia Keys and Jack White of The White Stripes have recorded the theme song for the upcoming James Bond thriller Quantum Of Solace, marking the first duet in 007 history.White wrote, produced and plays drums on the track, 'Another Way To Die', which will be released on the soundtrack on ...
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Ron Gell's The G-Machine reunites with New Films International
Ron Gell and his production and sales company G-Machine have reunited with Nesim Hason's financing New Films International (NFI).Gell will handle worldwide acquisitions for NFI and The G-Machine and the companies will collaborate on acquisitions and sales.G-Machine, which launched in January and built up a roster including Spiros Stathoulopoulas' Cannes ...
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Sundance Institute names 2008 Annenberg Film Fellows
The Sundance Institute has selected seven film-makers as its 2008 Annenberg Film Fellows, each of whom will receive a living stipend or grant to nurture their projects.The Fellows and their projects are: Fellipe Barbosa with Casa Grande; Frank Budgen with Shockheaded Peter; Daniel Casey with Poletown; John Magary with Blood ...
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Palisades, Media Asia clash over Tartan library titles
New York-based Palisades Media Corp has reasserted its ownership of the Tartan Films' library, after Hong Kong producer-distributor Media Asia announced last week that it was retrieving rights to seven films it had previously licensed to the UK distributor. Media Asia issued a notice last Friday (July 25) asserting that ...
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Bank of Beijing grants loans to Polybona, Enlight
China's Bank of Beijing has made loans of $14.64m (RMB100m) each to two mainland film companies - Polybona Film Distribution and Enlight Media Group - to fund their production and distribution operations in the coming year. The bank announced the loans yesterday as part of its 'cultural and creative industry ...
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Tourism Australia to help market Luhrmann's new film
Tourism Australia is to invest $47.4m (A$50m) to be part of and to help generate the marketing hype around Baz Luhrmann's sweeping period romance Australia, which is in cinemas from November 13. The government authority has signed a promotional partnership agreement with Twentieth Century Fox and will leap into the ...
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Colin Brown steps down as Editor-in-Chief of Screen International
Colin Brown is stepping down as the longstanding Editor-in-Chief of Screen International to pursue new entrepreneurial ambitions in the global media and entertainment sphere.Announcing the amicable departure, Natasha Christie-Miller, Managing Director, Retail & Media at Emap Inform, Screen's parent company, paid tribute to Brown's long and profitable association with the ...
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Juraj Jakubisko strikes back with empire story 200 Years Of Solitude
Juraj Jakubisko is preparing a film from the time of Great Moravian Empire, which dominated Central Europe in the 9th and 10th centuries.The Slovak director said he might release 200 Years Of Solitude (working title) in two or three parts.Jakubisko describes the project as an epic look at the time ...
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Jack White, Alicia Keys team for new Bond song
The 22nd James Bond film, Quantum Of Solace, will feature a theme song duet for the first time in the franchise's history.Jack White (of the White Stripes and Raconteurs) and Alicia Keys will record Another Way To Die.As rumoured, troubled British chanteuse Amy Winehouse had been in talks to record ...