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Besson directed secret b/w feature over the summer
Although details aresketchy, it would appear that French filmmaker Luc Besson has directed a filmin total secrecy this summer in Paris. Citing the upcoming issue of France'sPremiere magazine, Agence France Presse reports that Besson shot Angel A for seven weeks over the summer and will release thefilm in December.Local star ...
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Nu Image, Artisan tape up Ticker
Avi Lerner and Danny Dimbort's Nu Image is teaming up with Artisan Entertainment to finance and distribute Steven Seagal-starrer Ticker to be directed by Albert Pyun. Dennis Hopper and Tom Sizemore will join Seagal. Artisan will distribute the film in North America and Nu Image will handle international rights. Paul ...
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Fortissimo takes global rights to Singapore horror
FortissimoFilms has acquired worldwide rights to MediaCorp Raintree Pictures' The Maid, Singapore's first local horrorfilm.It will belaunched internationally at the American Film Market in November.On hometurf, the picture opened at number one over the weekend, raking in $0.7m(S$1.16m) including previews. On itsopening day, it grossed $71,600 (S$119,419) on 32 prints, ...
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Workingman's Death starts life with PTD
Luxembourg-based Paul Thiltges Distributions (PTD) will handle international sales on Austrian filmmaker Michael Glawogger's documentary Workingman's Death.The film will have its world premiere in the Orizzonti sidebar at Venice next month.Produced by Lotus Film with Germany's Quinte Film, Workingman's Death focuses on the act of performing heavy manual labour and ...
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Workingman's Death starts life with PTD
Luxembourg-basedPaul Thiltges Distributions (PTD) will handle international sales on Austrian filmmakerMichael Glawogger's documentary Workingman's Death.Thefilm will have its world premiere in the Orizzonti sidebar at Venice nextmonth.Produced by Lotus Film with Germany's Quinte Film, Workingman'sDeath focuses on the act of performing heavy manual labour and on thoseworkers who toil at ...
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The Brothers Grimm
Dir: Terry Gilliam. UK-CzRep. 2005. 118mins.Terry Gilliam is afilm-maker for whom the joy of cinema is more in the journey than the finaldestination. This is usually okay because of the sheer phantasmagoria of hiscreations, and the kernel of universality at the core of his colourfulidiosyncrasies. But The Brothers Grimm, the ...
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Kinky Boots
Dir: Julian Jarrold. UK.2005. 106mins.Ealing-style comedy meetsAlmodovar-style extravagance in Kinky Boots, a likable triumph of theunderdog comedy celebrating tolerance, drag queens and fabulous footwear. Thefilm has a good number of marketable elements from the intriguing premise tothe slinky soundtrack and the star performance of Chiwetel Ejiofor but it lacksthose special ...
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Tsotsi
Dir: Gavin Hood. UK-S Af.2005. 94mins.Touched by the kind ofdynamism that also marked City Of God, Tsotsi brings a fresh energy tofamiliar themes of crime and redemption. Based on a novel by Athol Fugard, itoffers an unflinching portrait of post-apartheid South Africa; the lawlessshanty towns and lives bereft of hope. ...
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Citizen Dog (Ma Nakorn)
Dir/scr: WisitSarasatieng. Thai-Fr. 2004. 100mins.Co-produced by LucBesson's EuropaCorp, Wisit Sasanatieng's follow-up to Tears Of The BlackTiger is a film of undeniable charm: a romantic fantasy already touted bysome as a Thai equivalent to Amelie. Shot in the same iridescent coloursas Black Tiger, full of surrealistic humour and musical interludes, itis ...
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Galactic launch for Real Madrid movie
Madrid is to host the most lavish premiere in Spanish cinemahistory this week featuring the city's footballing megastars, known as galacticos.Real The Movie is the first official film featuringplayers from the Real Madrid football team.The project made a huge splash when it was unveiled atCannes last May and organisers expect ...
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Bavaria adds three from Li, Armendariz, Svoboda
BavariaFilm International (BFI) has added three new titles to its sales lineup fromChinese filmmaker Li Yu, Spain's Montxo Armendariz and Austria's AntoninSvobodaThe triowill be screening at the film festivals in Venice, Toronto and San Sebastiannext month.Li Yu'sChinese-French co-production Hongyan (Dam Street)will be premiering in Venice's Orizzonti and then showing in ...
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National Lampoon begins latest comedy Cattle Call
National Lampoonand Los Angeles-based production company ProActive Media Group have begunproduction in Los Angeles on Martin Guigui's comedy National Lampoon'sCattle Call.The story follows a group oftestosterone-fuelled friends who set up a fake casting office to meet girls andare forced into making a film after they receive a torrent of interest.Thomas ...
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Miramax plans return to Colditz
Miramax Films is planning a major film franchise set in notorious German prisoner-of-war fortress Colditz, originally seen on film in Guy Hamilton's gung-ho 1954 classic. The studio has acquired remake rights to that film as well as exclusive movie rights to the book on which it was based by John ...
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Albert Pyun to be feted at Estepona festival in Spain
Albert Pyun, the director behind such cult hits as TheSword And The Sorcerer, Nemesis and Cyborg, will receive the Golden Unicorn Award at theupcoming sixth Estepona Film Festival in Andalusia, Spain.Mayor ofEstepona Antonio Barrientos will preside over the tribute, which will also beattended by festival director Julio Peces.The festival,which runs ...
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Boyle's Sunshine pic starts rolling in London
Principal photography beganin London yesterday [Monday] on DNA Films and Fox Searchlight's sci-fico-production The Untitled Sunshine Project, which reunites the companies with Danny Boyle andAlex Garland, the director-writer team behind the worldwide zombie hit 28Days Later and The Beach.Set 50 years in the futurewhen a rapidly dying sun is ...
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Christenson confirmed as new Initial sales chief
Eric Christenson (pictured)has come aboard Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group as president of salesand distribution.Based in LosAngeles, Christenson started work at the company in Los Angeles on Aug 1 andreports directly to King. He replaces Stephanie Denton, who was recently nameddistribution chief at Lions Gate International.Christensonformerly established Tentpole Pictures where ...
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California report tallies revenues, jobs lost to runaway production
Runaway productions are costing the state of California $10.6m inlost tax revenues and the equivalent of 928 full-time annual jobs for a $70mproject shooting for 75 days, according to a study released by the CaliforniaFilm Commission.The report conducted by the Los Angeles Economic DevelopmentCorporation (LAEDC) analysed a number of theatrical ...
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Tokyo governor to produce wartime drama
Tokyo governorShintaro Ishihara will script and executive produce a film about Japanesesuicide pilots in World War II. Called Kimi no tame ni koso Shiniiku (I WillDie for You), the film will be directed by Taku Shinjo and distributed byToei. The cast andrelease date have yet to be decided. The genesis ...
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Russell shows off Hot Pants at Oldenburg
VeteranUK director Ken Russell is to be feted with a retrospective including theworld premiere of his latest film Hot Pants at this year's OldenburgInternational Film Festival (Sept 7-11).Themaverick filmmaker will come to the festival which has been dubbed the"German Sundance" for the screening of such films as Women In Love,The ...
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Latecomers boost Venice festival line-up
The Venice Film Festival hasannounced two late additions to its official line-up: Paul Morrissey and BerndBohm's documentary Veruschka and Neil Marshall's horror film TheDescent.Veruschka focuses on the life of legendary model andartist Vera von Lehndorff, a muse of Salvador Dali who appeared in MichelangeloAntonioni's seminal film Blow-Up and famously collaborated ...