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Rome selects 12 film-makers for production market
The inaugural Rome Film Festhas announced the 12 participants for its New Cinema Network, a co-productionforum along the lines of Rotterdam'sCineMart.The 12 participants, who allhave made their debut feature film already, are:Santiago Amigorena, FranceDave McKean, UKMatthias Luthardt, GermanySantiago Tabernero, Spain Inaki Arteta, Spain Luciano Melchionna, ItalyGiorgio ...
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Alliance Atlantis shores up MDP with Sherry promotion
Alliance Atlantis' distribution arm Motion PictureDistribution (MPD) has promoted Jim Sherry to the position of executivemanaging director; Sherry was previously president of Canadian theatricaldistribution. The appointment comes in the wake of the sudden departure ofMPD chairman Victor Loewy and president and CEO Patrice Theroux in July. MPD CEO John Bailey ...
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Locarno pays tribute to late Daniel Schmid
TheSwiss filmmaking community is in mourning after the news at the weekend of thedeath of one of its internationally best-known filmmakers Daniel Schmid at theage of 64 from cancer. TheLocarno Film Festival, which awarded Schmid an Honorary Leopard in 1999 inrecognition of his work, reacted to the news by programming ...
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Kirch, Axel Springer create German TV giant
A new German TV giant is to be born following the merger of SAT1 and ProSieben (Pro7) Media which was announced today. The new group, ProSiebenSAT1 Media, which overtakes CLT-Ufa's RTL grouping, will be floated on the stock exchange later this year, but remain controlled by the Kirch group.With an ...
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Carla's List has buying buzz ahead of Locarno premiere
Swissdirector Marcel Schuepbach's documentary Carla's List about the work of Carla Del Ponte, the prosecutor ofthe International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), wascreating a buzz among international buyers ahead of its world premiere at theweekend in Locarno's Piazza Grande open-air prorgamme, according to the film'ssales agent Wide Management. ...
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Parker's I Really Hate My Job starts London shoot
DirectorOliver Parker has started shooting comedy I Really Hate My Job in London. Neve Campbell, Shirley Henderson,Alexandra Maria Lara, Anna Maxwell Martin and Oana Pellea star. Thefilm is shooting on location and at Three Mills Studios. Producers are 3DDProductions' Andrew Higgie and Dominic Saville with Matthew Justice and AlanGreenspan. The ...
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Talladega Nights roars past the finish line
Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of RickyBobby took the chequered flag at theweekend with a superb $47m estimated haul that kept box office ahead of thesame period last year by 17%.Sony executives were surprised by the power of the debut, despite very strongreviews, another star role for the popular Will Ferrell, ...
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Pirates plunders its biggest overseas weekend yet
Buena Vista International's(BVI) Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest took more in its fifth weekend than any other as theadventure romp stormed towards $400m.Fired up by a huge French debut, the picture added an estimated $57m from 8,500screens in 47 countries for a $392m international tally and now ranks ...
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ReviewsThe Lives Of Others (Das Leben Der Anderen)
Dir/scr. Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck.Ger. 2006. 137mins.
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Mikado takes Italian rights for Hottest State and Retribution
Arthouse distributor Mikado Film has taken Italiandistribution rights to Venice titles The Hottest State and Retribution (Sakebi).Directedby Ethan Hawke, The Hottest State,which is screening in the Horizons competition, is about a young actor from Texas who tries to make it in Manhattan while struggling with arelationship with a singer-songwriter.StarringMark Webber, ...
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Brian De Palma to talk at Edinburgh
The Edinburgh InternationalFilm Festival has added another A-lister to itsscheduled attendees. Brian De Palma will participate in one of the festival'sReel Life Q&A interviews to talk about the legacy of the New AmericanCinema.EIFF is presenting aretrospective devoted to "other voices" of the new American cinema of the1970s.Other Reel Life intervieweesat ...
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Dubai opens submissions for new Arab competition
The Dubai International Film Festival hasopened submissions for its new Arab Film Competition, which is open tofeatures, shorts and documentaries. Eligible films must be made by a director ofArab nationality or origin and have a subject or storyline of centered on theArab world, Arab history or Arab culture."The Competition serves ...
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Nomad
Dirs: Ivan Passer/Sergei Bodrov/Talgat Temenov. Kazakh. 2006. 112mins.A sprawling spectacle that took its three directorsmore than three years to usher it to Locarno's PiazzaGrande, Nomad is a larger-than-lifehistorical epic replete with stunning landscapes and authentic productionvalues.While hardly afestival gem, it should still be something of a crowd pleaser among sympatheticaudiences ...
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Im Kwon-taek recruited for Asian Film Academy
The Asian FilmAcademy (AFA) has announced master Korean cineaste ImKwon-taek as this year's dean for the TalentCampus-style intensive program for young filmmakers from Asia. In its secondyear, AFA is co-hosted by the Pusan InternationalFilm Festival, the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), and Dongseo University. The event, aimed at creating ...
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Wheels rolls away with Sochi grand prize
Serbian comedy Wheels, written and directed by newcomer Djordje Milosavljevic, won the grand prize at this year's Sochi International Film Festival, which took place in Sochi, Russia from June 7-17.The international jury, chaired by veteran Indian director Mrinal Sen, also awarded its special prize to Can Togay's A Winter ...
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European partners start new initiative for minority film-makers
The Locarno Film Festival has joined France's CNC, theUK's British Council, bfm International Film Festival, Screen East andGermany's Goethe Institut among the initial partners for a new European film developmentinitiative, Babylon. Fiona Howe and Gareth Jones of the UK production houseScenario Films and Thierry Lenouvel of France's Cine-Sud Promotion unveiled ...
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Kazakh epic Nomad racks up sales in Locarno
It may have had threedifferent directors and an immensely complex birth, but bloodcurdling Kazakhepic Nomad has caught buyers' hearts.The $35m epic, which received its international premiere in Locarno's Piazza Grande at the weekend, has been bought in anumber of international territories. In France, Nomadwill be co-distributed by Rezo and Wild ...
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IMAX to instal two cinemas in Ukraine
IMAX Corp andKiev-based production company Kinokompaniya 'Triumph' have announced plans tobuild two IMAX cinemas in Ukraine.The first complex is set to open in Kiev in early 2007 and the second to followin an unconfirmed major city in early 2008. The two cinemas will bring to ninethe number of IMAX facilities ...
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Focus, AOL partner up for The Ground Truth
Focus Features hasentered into a strategic online marketing partnership with AOL for PatriciaFoulkrod's Iraq War documentary The Ground Truth.As part of the initiative AOL willcreate a customised profile of the film on its new AIM social networking service.Featured soldiers in the documentary will write blogs and war testimonies, andusers will ...
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Giamatti eyes lead role in Philip K Dick biopic
Paul Giamatti is lining up a possible lead role as Philip K Dick in a biopic of the influential sci-fi writer whose novels havespawned such adaptations as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and thecurrent release A Scanner Darkly.Giamatti will produce through his newly formed Touchy Feely Films incollaboration with Anonymous Content's ...