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ReviewsThe Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond
Dir. Jodie Markell, US, 2008, 102 minutes.In exhuming Tennessee Williams’s unproduced screenplay from 1980, actress-turned-director Jodie Markell has delivered a respectable 1920’s-set upstairs-downstairs story of a vain heiress (Bryce Dallas Howard) who looks beyond her Memphis surroundings but struggles for the respect of a man below ...
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RAI Cinema says no deal yet with StudioCanal
RAI Cinema has firmly denied trade reports that it has closed a deal with StudioCanal to become its Italian distribution partner. President & CEO Giancarlo Leone said negotiations with the French company are continuing but insisted that he is also talking to other potential European supplier partners for its upcoming ...
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ReviewsPride And Glory
Dir. Gavin O’Connor. US. 2008 125 min.After sitting on the shelf for the better part of two years, Gavin O’Connor’s bruising Manhattan melodrama charges into a congested festival lineup breathing fire and smoke. A coiling police saga about the clash between family and career loyalties, Pride ...
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European co-productions outperform national productions
Admissions for European co-productions are nearly three times higher than national productions according to a report by the European Audiovisual Observatory. They are also twice as likely to be released in foreign markets and significantly outperform national productions in non-national markets.The report covers circulation and performance of more than 5,000 ...
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Righteous Kill
Dir: Jon Avnet. US. 2008. 100 mins.Screen legends Robert De Niro and Al Pacino team up with director Jon Avnet in Righteous Kill, a thinly-sketched, utterly pedestrian cop thriller that pivots on a very predictable twist ending. An unworthy vehicle for its stars' talents, the movie plays like an episodic ...
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Wang's Princess to receive free release on YouTube in US
Magnolia Pictures will distribute Wayne Wang's The Princess Of Nebraska as a free release on YouTube's recently launched internet platform YouTube Screening Room on October 17.The release of The Princess Of Nebraska ties in with Magnolia's theatrical release of Wang's companion film A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers on September ...
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Allen's Vulcan to partner with Infinity on Nine Mile Falls
Vancouver-based production company Infinity Features has partnered with Paul G Allen's Vulcan Productions to produce Deb Caletti's young adult novels as a series of films titled Nine Mile Falls.Infinity's Rob Merilees and Vulcan's Michael Caldwell are producing and Allen, Jody Patton and Richard Hutton are serve as executive producers.The five ...
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Philippe Martinez is back with Cinepro Pictures, directing film
Former Bauer Martinez chief Philippe Martinez has resurfaced with Tampa Bay, Florida-based Cinepro Pictures and commenced principal photography on thriller The Stream Experiment starring Val Kilmer, Armand Assante and Eric Roberts.Martinez himself is directing and producing from a screenplay by Rob Malkani about six people trapped in a Turkish bathhouse. ...
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Andy Tennant to direct Chasing Harry Winston for Universal
Universal Pictures has acquired rights to The Devil Wears Prada author Lauren Weisberger's novel Chasing Harry Winston and attached Andy Tennant to direct.Mandalay Pictures will produce the story of three young women who vow to change their lives over the course of a year.Gina Wendkos will adapt the screenplay, which ...
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National Society Of Film Critics sets annual voting meeting for Jan 3
The National Society Of Film Critics will stage its 43rd annual voting meeting for the best films from 2008 on January 3, 2009 at Sardi's in New York City. Results will be announced later that evening.Sixty-three members are eligible to vote on any film that opens in the US during ...
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Chicago Film Festival stages galas for Christmas Tale, Happy-Go-Lucky
The 44th Chicago International Film Festival, which runs this year from October 16-29 and has announced its gala screenings will be Arnaud Desplechin's Christmas Tale and Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, both of which premiered in Cannes, and Gavin O'Connor's Pride And Glory, which received its world premiere in Toronto earlier this ...
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Fireworks buys Innocence for the US
Fireworks Pictures - the domestic distribution subsidiary of Jay Firestone's Toronto-based CanWest Entertainment - has closed its latest acquisition at MIFED, taking US rights to Paul Cox's award-winning crowd-pleaser Innocence from sales agent Cinemavault Releasing.The deal was sealed by Fireworks vice president of acquisitions and co-productions Bob Aaronson and Cinemavault ...
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Vivendi buys domestic rights to Tribeca premiere Tennessee
Vivendi Entertainment has paid low seven figures for all domestic rights to Lee Daniels Entertainment's Southern drama Tennessee starring Mariah Carey that premiered at Tribeca in April.Aaron Woodley directed the story of two brothers who travel from New Mexico to Tennessee to find their estranged father. Carey plays an aspiring ...
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Santaolalla to receive lifetime achievement award at LALIF
Gustavo Santaolalla will receive the GABI Lifetime Achievement at the Los Angeles Latino International Film's (LALIFF), which runs from September 12-19.The Oscar winning composer of Brokeback Mountain and Babel also co-wrote the festival's opening night film Cafe De Los Maestros, a tango documentary directed by Miguel Kohan that gets its ...
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IFC Films takes domestic rights on Levring's Fear Me Not
IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Kristian Levring's Danish drama Fear Me Not, which received its word premiere in Toronto's Contemporary World Cinema section last weekend.Ulrich Thomsen stars as a man whose mood begins to swing violently after he undertakes clinical trials for an anti-depressant drug.Levring wrote ...
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Universal, Focus team with CJ on Park's Thirst
Universal Pictures International (UPI) and Focus Features are teaming up with Korea's CJ Entertainment to co-produce award-winning director Park Chan-wook's upcoming vampire thriller Thirst. As part of the deal, Focus will release the film in North America. CJ is handling Korean distribution and international sales.The deal was announced by UPI ...
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Honda drives up to Chinese romantic comedy
Beijing-based Pegasus & Taihe Entertainment and China Film Group have announced that they will co-produce romantic comedy, Fit Lover, which is the third film in a successful series that also includes Call For Love and Crossed Lines. The two companies are also working with automobile company Guangzhou Honda, which has ...
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Mamma Mia! set to surge past $300m with France, Mexico openings
Universal UPI's smash stage adaptation Mamma Mia! is set to lead the international weekend again. The musical blockbuster has reached $288.6m and will cross $300m this weekend, driven by six launches that include France, French-speaking Switzerland and Belgium on September 10 followed by Hong Kong a day later and Mexico, ...
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Screen opinion:Small bang theory
If they haven't sucked the entire galaxy into a man-made black hole by the time you read this, do you think the boffins attached to the new Large Hadron Collider might shift beyond the minor matter of understanding life, the universe and everything to the task of explaining a workable ...