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    Ashley Luke leaves Fortissimo for New South Wales FTO

    2008-09-08T06:00:00Z

    Ashley Luke joins the New South Wales Film and Television Office (FTO) as director of market development on September 29 after seven years with sales agent Fortissimo.'I have been in Australia for four years and now know it pretty well and this move means I can solely concentrate on Australian ...

  • Reviews

    Genova

    2008-09-08T05:00:00Z

    Dir. Michael Winterbottom. UK. 2008. 94minsA family’s struggles with loss, grief and guilt form the basis of a frustratingly insubstantial drama inGenova.Michael Winterbottom’s latest effort is commendable for its refusal to indulge in easy sentimentality but the pricefor that is an elusive, low-key tale that keeps ...

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    Abu Dhabi's MEIFF to host Youssef Chahine exhibition

    2008-09-08T06:00:00Z

    The Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi (Oct 10-19) will host an exhibition dedicated to the late Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.Executive Director Nashwa Al Ruwaini says: 'The exhibition contains 100 frames of tens of rare photos and rare artifacts that will be held in one of the halls ...

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    Strong international weekend for Universal led by Mamma Mia!

    2008-09-08T04:05:00Z

    Universal's musical adaptation Mamma Mia! led the international pack at the weekend and is nearing $300m following an estimated $15m haul through UPI from 3,493 sites in 39 territories that raised the tally to $280.1m.Mamma Mia! overtook The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian to become the fifth biggest grossing international ...

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    Bangkok Dangerous is top of lacklustre domestic weekend

    2008-09-08T04:19:00Z

    Nicolas Cage stands atop the domestic box office charts following a typically lacklustre post-Labor Day weekend that saw the action thriller Bangkok Dangerous launch at number one through Lionsgate on an estimated $7.8m.There were no other new entries in the top ten as DreamWorks-Paramount's comedy Tropic Thunder ranked second on ...

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    Singapore selects My Magic as foreign-language Oscar entry

    2008-09-08T06:03:00Z

    The Singapore Film Commission (SFC) has selected Eric Khoo's My Magic as Singapore's entry to the best foreign-language film category of next year's Academy Awards. The mostly Tamil-language film, which played in competition at Cannes this year, follows the complex relationship between a father, who is analcoholic magician, and his ...

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    Kinowelt still in the hunt for films; targets RCV

    2000-10-31T18:12:00Z

    Rainer Koelmel, co-chief of Kinowelt, has insisted that his expansion-minded German outfit is in good financial health and still on the acquisitions trail, for both product and companies - contradicting persistent talk around the MIFED halls that his company is facing a liquidity crunch. Koelmel said that despite the plunging ...

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    Vicky Cristina, Langkasukatoopen Bangkok fest

    2008-09-08T06:28:00Z

    Despite current political unrest in Thailand, the Bangkok International Film Festival (BKIFF) will kick off as planned on Sept 23 with a screening of Woody Allen's Vicky Christina Barcelona. Thai director Nonzee Nimibutr's Queens Of Langkasuka will mark the launch of the Thailand Entertainment Expo (TEE) with a red carpet ...

  • Reviews

    Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick)

    2008-09-08T06:36:00Z

    Dir:Jan Troell. Denmark/Sweden, 2008. 130 mins.Discreet, old fashioned, traditional and altogether admirable, this is Jan Troell in what he does best, a period drama about a woman photographer living in Sweden at the turn of the last century. Paying minute attention to the smallest details, taking its time but never ...

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    Local comedy Cape No. 7 tops Taiwanese box office

    2008-09-08T11:13:00Z

    On its third weekend on release, Wei Te-sheng's character comedy Cape No. 7 is the first local film in six years to climb to the top of the Taipei box office charts. Over the three-day weekend, the film grossed $240,000 representing a 77% boost on last weekend's numbers. It leap-frogged ...

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    Zack And Miri Make A Porno

    2008-09-08T13:46:00Z

    Dir/scr Kevin Smith. USA. 2008. 102 mi

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    Miracle at St. Anna

    2008-09-08T13:26:00Z

    Dir. Spike Lee; US/Italy. 2008. 166 mins.After enjoying the biggest commercial success of his career with the tightly disciplined genre film Inside Man, Spike Lee returns to his freewheeling ways in Miracle At St Anna, an Italy-set World War II story which plays like a jazz ...

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    Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick)

    2008-09-08T14:03:00Z

    Dir. Jan Troell. Denmark/Sweden, 2008. 130 mins.

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    Flash of Genius

    2008-09-08T14:12:00Z

    Dir. Mark Abraham. US. 2007. 119 minsMarc Abraham’s debut feature about an inventor battling the Ford Motor Company, which steals and markets his window-wiper invention, puts new mileage on the David-Goliath model. Sentimental but remarkably compelling, the saga of a little man’s victory over a corporate ...

  • Reviews

    Krabat

    2008-09-08T14:18:00Z

    Dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner. Germany. 2008. 120 mins.The beloved 1971 children’s book by Otfried Preussler finally reaches the screen in a live-action version courtesy of young German director Marco Kreuzpaintner - and the results are impressive. Set in an 18th century Europe ravaged by the plague, the ...

  • News

    $3.5m UK lottery backing forDorian Gray and Triangle

    2008-09-08T14:56:00Z

    The UK Film Council's Premiere Fund has awarded more than$3.5m (£2m)of National Lottery Funding to two productions.The biggest sum - $2.9m (£1.62m)- was awarded toChristopher Smith's Triangle, apsychological thriller set inside the Bermuda Triangle.It will be produced by Dan Films' Jason Newmark and Julie Baines in the UK, and Chris ...

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    Catherine Buresi named European Film Market deputy director

    2008-09-08T16:10:00Z

    French-born Catherine Buresi has been appointed as the deputy director for Berlin European Film Market (EFM). She took up her post as from September 1 as the successor to Karen Arikian who stepped downas deputy director after this year's Berlinale in February to become the executive director of the Hamptons ...

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    Summit's Femme Fatale seduces buyers

    2000-10-31T18:14:00Z

    Summit Entertainment has sealed a score of high-profile sales deals on its new titles including Brian DePalma-directed thriller Femme Fatale which will shoot in Paris no later than Feb 15.Nippon Herald, which has been noticeably aggressive in its acquisitions strategy at London and MIFED, perhaps in anticipation of its planned ...

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    Fox Searchlight pays $4m for US rights to The Wrestler

    2008-09-08T17:09:00Z

    After a cautious start sorely lacking in buzz and domestic deal-making, TIFF sprang into life yesterday as Fox Searchlight paid $4m for US rights to Darren Aronofsky's Venice Golden Lion winner The Wrestler.Searchlight beat out bids from Lionsgate, Sony and Overture Films before it closed the deal with CAA in ...

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    Celluloid Dreams scores deals on Kore-eda film and Valentino doc

    2008-09-08T18:28:00Z

    Celluloid Dreams has closed key deals on Hirokazu Kore-eda's Still Walking and Matt Tyrnauer's Valentino: The Last Emperor, both of which are playing here.Kore-eda's sixth film explores the emotional dynamics of a middle class Japanese family and sold to Pyramide in France, Trigon in Switzerland and Folkets Bio in Sweden. ...