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UK strong, Brown Bunny Redux at Toronto
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival has unveiled its complete line-up, which includes a raft of worldpremieres from film-makers as diverse as Richard Linklater, Jacques Rivette andMike Hodges in addition to those already announced from Robert Altman, JaneCampion and Carl Franklin.And North American audiencesare in for their first viewing of Vincent Gallo's ...
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Spinotti gets Palm Springs retrospective in Nov
Dante Spinotti,the veteran cinematographer who earned two Oscar nominations for The Insider and LA Confidential, is to be the subject of a retrospectivein Palms Springs, California, from Nov 1-2.The two-daystand-alone event features screenings, on-stage discussions, a masterclass bySpinotti and a keynote speech by the acclaimed cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs.The Art OfCinematography: ...
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Deauville rounds out festival line-up
Along with the list of competition films announced on August 19, France's Deauville Festival of American Film (Sept 5-14) has unveiled its premieres and special sections.American films which will have their French premieres out of competition include American Wedding with stars Alyson Hannigan and Jason Biggs set to attend; Woody ...
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Arthouse films benefit from Edinburgh exposure
Speaking at last year's Edinburgh premiere of All Or Nothing, Mike Leigh declared that he could think of no better event in Britain to launch a new film. His words might yet come to be seen as the guiding ethos of this year's Festival where Jim Sheridan's warm-hearted family drama ...
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American Pie: The Wedding takes large slice of UK box office
The UK and Ireland embraced UIP's American Pie: The Wedding this weekend as the comedy marched up the aisle into pole position.The third instalment in the popular series claimed $6.6m (£4.2m) from 326 sites including $1.3m (£802,322) of previews in the territory. It dethroned last week's leader Pirates Of The ...
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Apollo wraps Russian-US feature
Russian-American production company Apollo Films has just wrapped on its new feature Passenger From San Francisco after nearly a year of shooting in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cyprus, the Crimea, the Greek islands, Moscow and St Petersburg.Producer and director Anatoli Balchev hopes to break into the American market with the ...
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Home Game (Heimspiel)
Dir: Pepe Danquart. Germany. 1999. 95 mins.Prod co: Quinte Film, Arte, Goethe Institut. Int'l sales: Amberlon Pictures. German distribution: Senator Film. Prod: Mirjam Quinte. Scr: Pepe Danquart. DoP: Michael Hammon. Ed: Mona Brauer. Mus: Walter W. Cikan, Eddi Siblik. Before embarking on his rousing documentary about an East Berlin ice-hockey ...
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Senator still in red despite Good Bye, Lenin!
German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment has posted an operating loss of Euros 6.9m for the first six months of 2003.Earlier this year, Senator posted a massive net loss of Euros 178.2m for the 2002 financial year Turnover in the first six months of 2003 stood at Euros 25.8m - down Euros ...
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Maya team ready Indian Opium tale
The production outfit and director behind the acclaimed Indian film Maya have launched their next project, Opium Royale, which is budgeted at $3.5m. Set to start shooting in India on Jan 15, 2004, Opium Royale is produced by Dileep Singh Rathore and Emmanuel Pappas of Kundalini Pictures and directed by ...
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Fortissimo tests out Spellbound worldwide
Fortissimo Film Sales has acquired world rights to documentary Spellbound, an account of eight ambitious young finalists in America's national spelling contest. Spellbound is currently on release in the U.S and Canada where it has taken over $5m at the box-office since its premiere earlier this year via Thinkfilm. The ...
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Scola's Gente Di Roma to premiere at Viareggio
Renowned Italian writer-director Ettore Scola's new film, Gente Di Roma, is to have its world premiere at the 20th Europa Cinema festival in Viareggio (Sep 20 - 27). Co-produced and distributed by Istituto Luce, Gente Di Roma stars Stefania Sandrelli (The Last Kiss, Un Filme Falado) and Valerio Mastandrea (V-Max) ...
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Little Fiesta makes big noise in Spain
A new Spanish release about a hard-partying group of college-aged kids, appropriately called La Fiesta, has taken the Spanish box office by surprise and could convert its directors into poster children for struggling filmmakers in Spain.Shot on a budget of less than Euros 6,000 with a crew of unpaid actors ...
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Hammer, TriggerStreet contribute to New Orleans festival
Hammer FilmProductions and Kevin Spacey's online film-makers' collectiveTriggerStreet.com are lending their support to The New Orleans MediaExperience, an inaugural arts festival set to run from Oct 26-Nov 1.Hammer willprovide prints for the Breakfast With Hammer Films series, a daily screening ofclassic horror from the company's vaults such as Dracula Prince ...
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UA options the rights to Snake Hips
United Artists has optionedthe rights to Anna Thomas Soffee's memoir Snake Hips and will develop the project with Hart SharpEntertainment.Published in 2002, SnakeHips is a comic account of the30-year-old authoris life as a relationship ends and she moves back homewith her parents in Virginia, where she reconnects with her Lebanese ...
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Intermission
Dir: John Crowley. Ireland. 2003. 106minsAn abrasive, sour-tasting ensemble piece, Intermission is a giddy Irish attempt to muscle in on the kind of territory previously mined by the likes of Amores Perros and Happiness. Ambitious in its scope, it has a confident swagger to its execution but lacks the originality ...
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Raggy Boy comes out top at Copenhagen
Aisling Walsh's Song For A Raggy Boy won the Golden Swan prize for best film at the inaugral Copenhagen International Film Festival (Aug 13-20).Walsh's story about one man's struggle against a violent and fascistic regime in a boys' Irish Reformatory School has won widespread acclaim since it world premiered earlier ...
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Cantona travels to Montreal for Overeater fixture
French footballer-turned-actor Eric Cantona will accompany the international premiere of his first starring role, The Overeater (L'Outremangeur) at the Montreal World Film Festival (Aug 27-Sept 7). Directed by Thierry Binisti, the film is a spin on the Beauty And The Beast fairytale in which the former Manchester United star plays ...
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First Look Pictures acquires The Opportunists
First Look Pictures has acquired North American theatrical and TV rights to Sundance American Spectrum entry The Opportunists from the film's producers Prosperity Pictures and New Beginnings Media. First Look's parent company Overseas FilmGroup was the international sales agent on the film which stars Christopher Walken and Cyndi Lauper.As reported ...
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Telepool to conduct sales for musical pair
Telepool has picked up international sales on two theatrical music documentaries: Thomas Riedelsheimer's Heartbeat and Gandulf Hennig's Fallen Angel - Gram Parsons.Riedelsheimer, who received a Golden Lola at the German Film Awards this year for his internationally successful documentary Rivers And Tides, has been working since autumn 2002 on ...
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Studio slates gear up for key Euro weekend
An eclectic slate this upcoming weekend sees key European bows for Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life and American Pie: The Wedding, both of which should do well based on previous form.Elsewhere two of the summer's more successful performers - 2 Fast 2 Furious and 28 Days Later ...