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Hakim to head jury of Cinefan's Asian-Arab competition
The Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival has announced the juries for this year's tenth anniversary edition (July 10-20), which will feature four competition sections: Asian & Arab, Indian, First Features and In-tolerance. Leading Indonesian actress Christime Hakim will be president of the Asian & Arab competition jury. She has previously served on ...
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Fox pulls in the stars to promote films at Cinema Expo
Twentieth Century Fox drafted in major stars to support the reel presentations for exhibitors at this year's Cinema Expo in Amsterdam.Hugh Jackman, Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson and Rainn Wilson all made personal appearances to promote their upcoming filmsDavid Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada) introduced his new film Marley ...
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Gabizon leaves Telepool after 17 years
Marc Gabizon is to leave Telepool and its subsidiary Europool after 17 years of working for the Munich-based licensing group.Gabizon had been with Europool since 1991 and was appointed the managing director there in 2004. In addition, he had been an executive director and head of the film division at ...
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NAFFgenre projects marketannounces full line-up andagenda
The 12th Puchon International Film Festival (PiFan)'s newNetwork of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) has announced its full line-up and agenda,to run July 19-23, concurrent to the festival. NAFF will be spearheaded by the It Project market, which organizers boastis'the first project market dedicated to genre cinema,' with the Fantastic Film ...
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Korea's Chungeorahm announces Chinese sequel to The Host
Korea's Chungeorahm Film, producer of Bong Joon-ho's The Host, has announced it will be co-producing a China-based sequel to the mutanthit with Chinese director Ning Hao's newly-established Stoneman Films. Choi Yong-bae, CEO of Chungeorahm, and Daniel Yu, producer of Ning's sleeper hit Crazy Stone, will take producer credits on the ...
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Sony unveils first footage of new Bond film
Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) showed 10 minutes of exclusive footage of Quantum Of Solace to delegates at this year's Cinema Expo.The sneak peak was prefaced by a brief introduction from Michael G Wilson, co-producer of the James Bond franchise along with Barbara Broccoli, who claimed that the 22nd installment ...
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Sony unveils first footage of new Bond film
Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) showed 10 minutes of exclusive footage of Quantum Of Solace to delegates at this year's Cinema Expo.The sneak peak was prefaced by a brief introduction from Michael G Wilson, co-producer of the James Bond franchise along with Barbara Broccoli, who claimed that the 22nd installment ...
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Help! I'm A Fish sinks competition in Denmark
Danish animation Help! I Am A Fish is currently storming the Danish box office, sinking local competitor Dancer In the Dark. Just two weeks after its release Help! I Am A Fish has achieved admissions of 177,243 and a gross of $915,945 (DKR8,101,536) from 60 screens. In comparison Lars von ...
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Reviews
Hancock
Dir: Peter Berg. US. 2008. 92 mins.A fun, fairly crisp opening hour gives way to a muddled, entirely unsatisfying ending in the action-comedy Hancock, which finds Will Smith starring as a sullen superhero trying to win over the population of Los Angeles via a very public makeover. Smith's first summer ...
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World premiere of Frost/Nixon to open London Film Festival
The world premiere of Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon is to open The Times BFI London Film Festival.The Universal Pictures film - adapted by Peter Morgan from his hit stage play - will screen on October 15.The story of a legendary 1977 US television interview between UK television presenter David Frost and ...
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Swipe Filmstakes UK and Ireland rights to Bigga Than Ben
Swipe Films has picked up UK and Ireland rights to Suzie Halewood's Bigga Than Ben, which stars Prince Caspian lead Ben Barnes.The film, which premieres in Edinburgh on Friday, is based on the bestselling diaries of two Russian immigrants in London.Swipe is looking for a release in September for the ...
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Ben Ammar withdraws from French post-production deal - report
Tarak Ben Ammar has withdrawn his efforts to acquire France's Éclair laboratories, according to reports.Reasons given for the move were deteriorated economic conditions and certain delays imposed by the competition authorities.Ben Ammar, who already holds 43% of the post-production facility, said in December that he would purchase the remaining 57% ...
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Zaillian, Mandate buy debut screenplay from Jens Assur
Steve Zaillian and Mandate Pictures have acquired the debut feature screenplay from photojournalist and acclaimed short film-maker Jens Assur.The script, entitled Close Far Away, was purchased through Zaillian and Mandate's newly formed co-venture Film Rites, which has a joint first-look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment.Assur is attached to direct, while ...
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Italian industry bodies threaten festival boycott over film taxes
Leading film industrybodies in Italyare threatening to pull Italian entries to the Venice, Rome and Turin film festivals if the country's new right-wing government abolishes tax credits promised in the 2008 national budget.The threat was including in a joint statement from motion picture organisation Anica, independent producers group Api and ...
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Screen Opinion - festival change is sign of success
Oh, for the certainties of yesteryear. There was a time when it was clear where you stood in the film festival world. Everyone knew their place and God was in his heaven, or at least in an arthouse cinema.The year was more or less happily divided between well-known events with ...
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Writers' strike: are the Oscars threatened'
Last Friday, US TV network ABC Studios terminated more than 20 writer or producer deals, invoking the force majeure provision allowing termination of such deals six weeks into a strike.LastMonday, four other TV studios followed suit, saving tens of millions of dollars in the process.On February 24, ABC stands to ...
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Reviews
The Prime Gig
Dir: Gregory Mosher. US. 2000. 97 mins.Prod co: Independent Pictures. US dist: Fine Line. Int'l sales: Independent Picures, tel: (1) 212 993 1200. Prod: Cary Woods, Gina Mingacci, Elliot Lewis Rosenblatt. Co-prod/scr: William Wheeler. DoP: John A. Alonzo. Prod des: Richard Hoover. Editor: James Kwei. Music: David Robbins. Main cast: ...
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Features
In focus - Bafta nominations - Big year for UK talent
The organisers of the Orange British Academy Film Awards, Bafta, are confident the February 10 event will not be caught up in the WGA strike turmoil."Neither Bafta nor our broadcaster (the BBC) is in dispute with the Writers Guild of America; while we hope for the sake of the whole ...
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United States - Original intent
This week, Original Media, the New York-headquartered independent film and TV production company headed by former internet entrepreneur Charlie Corwin, is attending Sundance with what it hopes will be another buzz-generating festival film.In 2005, the then two-year-old company went to Park City as the primary backer of The Squid And ...