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Competitive 3D Film Festival launches this month in Florida
The first ever 3-D Film & Interactive Festival (3DFF) will take place in Orlando, Florida, from Oct 10-12 and continue at nearby Cocoa Beach from Oct 17-19. The festival is hosted by AMC Entertainment and presented by RealD 3D, The Kerner Company, Domaine de Canton and Florida's Space Coast. The ...
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Shoreline picks up worldwide rights to Spring 1941
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to Spring 1941 the first ever Israeli-Polish co-production, which stars Joseph Fiennes and Clare Higgens. Directed by Uri Barbash (Beyond The Walls) and financed by the Israeli Rabinavitz Film Fud and the Polish Film Insititute, the film is the story ...
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Pusan reviews
Screen critics review key films at this year's Pusan International Film Festival in Korea.Click on the title to see review:Awaking From A Dream (Freddy Mas Franqueza)Breathless (Yang Ik-june)Da Da's Dance (Zhang Huan)Dim Sum Funeral (Anna Chi)The Gift To Stalin (Rustem Abdrashev)Himalaya, Where The Wind Dwells (Jeon Soo-il) Miao Miao (Cheng ...
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UK shooting of Julian Fellowes' From Time To Time begins
Principal photography has started on Julian Fellowes' second feature film From Time to Time.The Oscar winning screenwriter is directing the film from his own screenplay. The cast includes two-time Oscar winner Maggie Smith (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Gosford Park), four-times BAFTA-nominated Timothy Spall (Sweeney Todd, Harry Potter ...
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Vladimir Putin promises $164m in annual support for Russian cinema
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday announced $76m (RUB 2bn) in immediate support of the Russian film industry and promised to allocate at least $164m (RUB 4.3bn) annually.Putin made the announcement in St. Petersburg at a conference on cinematography hosted by Russian World Studios (RWS). Russian news agency Kommersant reported ...
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High Point Films acquires international rights to Mum & Dad
High Point Films, the theatrical sales arm of High Point Media Group, has taken world rights, outside UK and North America, for British horror Mum & Dad.Produced by Lisa Trnovski of 2am Films, Mum & Dad is the first film to be completed through Film London's Microwave, a production scheme ...
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A Perfect Day opens Antalya's Eurasia Film Festival
The festival has programmed more than 60 Turkish premieres of international titles including The Wrestler, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Genova, RocknRolla, and The Palermo Shooting.The International Competition, which includes Uberto Pasolini's Machan, Claire Denis' 35 Rhums, Karim Dridi's Khamsa and Christian Petzold's Jerichow, will be decided by a five-person jury presided ...
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IFC Entertainment picks up the gothic horror film Sauna
IFC Entertainment has acquired North American rights to AJ Annila’s gothic horror film Sauna.
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Prix Eurimagesaward to be made at European Film Awards
Award highlighting European co-production to be made to Dogville and Manderlay co-producers Vibeke Windeløv and Bettina Brokemper. The Prix Eurimages will be presented for the second time at this year's European Film Awards.The prize acknowledges the importance of co-production within the European film industry. It is presented by Eurimages, the ...
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IFC picks up Jaoui's Let It Rain, Annila's Sauna
IFC Films has acquired Agnes Jaoui's latest film Let It Rain which has its North American premiere on Friday at the New York Film Festival.IFC has also picked up North American rights to AJ Annila's gothic horror film Sauna which had its world premiere at Toronto recently.Jaoui's social satire stars ...
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Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors
Dir: Hong Sang-Soo. South Korea. 2000. 127 mins.Prod co: Miracin Korea. Int'l sales: Mirovision. Exec Prod: Hong Sang-Soo. Prod: Lee Yu-jin. Scr: Hong Sang-soo. DoP: Choi Young-taek. Ed: Ham Sung-won. Music: Ok Gil-sung. Main cast: Lee Fun-joo, Jung Bo-suk, Moon Sung-keun.South Korea's thirtysomethings are much like Hollywood's, who talk endlessly ...
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Cinetic Rights Management plans online premiere for Yeast
Cinetic Rights Management (CRM) is planning a web premiere of Mary Bronstein's SXSW title Yeast on the online video site Dailymotion. Headed by former SXSW film festival director Matt Dentler, CRM was launched earlier this year with a mandate to exploit the online potential of its clients' work. Yeast, which ...
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Canadian government reverses course on tax credit legislation
Canada's Conservative minority government has promised to drop controversial tax credit legislation that chilled the film and television production industry earlier this year. The omnibus tax bill, C-10, would have allowed the government to withhold a producer's tax credit if that production were deemed contrary to 'public policy.' With Canadians ...
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AFI FEST to include tributes to Danny Boyle, Tilda Swinton
AFI FEST has announced its full programme which includes a tribute to Danny Boyle preceding a screening of Slumdog Millionaire and a tribute to Tilda Swinton including a clip retrospective of her career and a Q&A session with the actress.The 22nd annual festival, running from Oct 30 to Nov 9, ...
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Sambo Do Maazouz wins $100,000 grant at Circle Conference
The second annual Circle Conference ended on Wednesday with the $100,000 Shasha Grant being awarded to Moroccan film-maker Hicham Ayouch for his project Sambo Do Maazouz.The story is about a Moroccan who speaks and prays in Portugese and is infatuated with Brazilian culture and obsessed with the Brazilian TV soap ...
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BAFTA rejects new best feature doc category
BAFTA has ruled out a new Best Feature Documentary category at this year's Orange British Academy Film Awards.With the growth of interest in the theatrical documentary, some film-makers have been calling for their own award. That sense of missing out has been exacerbated by BAFTA's decision to introduce an 'animated ...
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Painted Skin heads record-breaking holiday week in China
Box office during the seven-day National Day holiday period in mainland China reached a record $24.85m (RMB170m), according to figures released yesterday, which is a 220% increase on the same period last year. Gordon Chan's fantasy drama Painted Skin, Benny Chan's action thriller Connected and 3D movie Journey To The ...
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Bigfoot strides into US theatrical distribution
US-Asian production and finance company Bigfoot Entertainment is entering US theatrical distribution with the release of its horror feature Midnight Movie on October 17. Produced by Bigfoot CEO Kacy Andrews, Liam Finn and Jacques Thelemaque, the film marks the directorial debut of Jack Messitt from a screenplay written by Mark ...
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Moment In June to open World Film Festival of Bangkok
Thai drama A Moment In June, directed by Nattapong O Wongtrinetrakul, will open this year's World Film Festival of Bangkok (Oct 24-Nov 1), while Martin Scorsese's Shine A Light will close the event. A Moment In June focuses on a group of individuals in modern Thai society and is screening ...
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Eight films shortlisted for documentary short subject Oscar
Eight films have been shortlisted for the documentary short subject Oscar by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Three to five will make the final nominations shortlist announced on Jan 22 next year.Voters from the Academy's documentary branch viewed this year's 31 eligible contenders and submitted their ballots ...