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KIM JAE-SEUNG (KOREA)
Kim Jae-sung is currently training in martial arts for his next appearance on the upcoming television mini-series Hong Gil-dong, a costume drama. The actor has yet to make a film but is being tipped as talent agency Yedang Entertainment's next big star. Yedang is placing Kim in television dramas to ...
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KIM KI-BUM (KOREA)
As a member of the popular boy group Super Junior, and with several TV drama roles under his belt, Kim Ki-bum has already had his fair share of stardom. He made his big-screen debut this summer in Attack Of The Pin-Up Boys, a mystery comedy in which he stars as ...
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YANG JIN-WOO (KOREA)
Yang Jin-woo has already demonstrated his versatility: the actor has just wrapped Won Shin-yeon's Seven Days, in which he plays a drugged-out rocker with a split personality. Meanwhile his previous film, Kwon Yong-kuk's The Elephant On The Bike, saw him playing an internalised, quiet part as a physically challenged young ...
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HARUMA MIURA (JAPAN)
Born north-east of Tokyo, Haruma Miura is only 17 - but already has an impressive resume.Miura's parents enrolled him in Tsukuba Actors' Studio as a child and he made his debut at just seven years old on the NHK television drama Aguri. Soon after, he made his film debut in ...
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Resident Evil 3 makes strong US debut
Sony's Resident Evil: Extinction went straight to the top of the North American box office chart this weekend with a $24m estimated gross, the best domestic opening yet for the Resident Evil sci-fi horror franchise. Two other wide releases had more modest debuts but several awards hopefuls had promising launches ...
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Festival preview: Rome's New Cinema Network
While no-one knows the exact number of potentially great film projectsthat just sit on the shelf, it is estimated 75% of first-timefilm-makers do not complete their second projects. WhenTeresa Cavina, who co-curates the Rome Film Fest's competitionselection with Giorgio Gosetti, decided to design a co-production eventto coincide with the festival, ...
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The Class enters foreign Oscar race for Estonia
The Class has been put forward as the Estonian contender for the foreign-language Oscar.Ilmar Raag's debut feature beat out the other Estonian choice, The Autumn Ball, among the local Oscar committee.The drama, based on true events, is about a class geek and a friend who stands up for him to ...
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Latido secures more sales for Saura's Fados
Spanish sales outfit Latido Films has sold Carlos Saura's film Fados to countries across North, Central and South America. The musical drama, co-produced by Spain's Zebra Producciones and Portugal's Fado Filmes, has been sold to Canada (K Films Amerique), Mexico and Central America (Latino Vision), Venezuela (Amazonia). Deals were also ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina adds It's Hard To Be Nice to Oscar list
The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Association of Film Makers chose Srdjan Vuletic's It's Hard To Be Nice (Tesko Je Biti Fin) as the country's foreign language submission for the Academy Awards.The drama, about a Sarajevo taxi driver who involuntarily gets mixed up in a series of complicated situations, opened this year's Sarajevo Film ...
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Normal
Dir. Carl Bessai. Canada . 2007. 100 min.With Normal , Canadian filmmaker Carl Bessai delivers his most accomplished film yet. An intense psychological portrait of lives shattered by a sudden death, it does everything well. Although it explores familiar terrain - comparisons with the daisy-chain of Paul Haggis' Crash are ...
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Regent International names Gene George president
Gene George has been named president of Regent International, the international division of LA-based independent producer/distributor/exhibitor Regent Entertainment. George, a veteran on the international scene who was most recently president of NewStar Worldwide and before that executive vice president of Arista Films, will oversee all international sales and distribution operations ...
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Wild Bunch closes a slew of deals on Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame
The screening of Hana Makhmalbaf's French-Iranian drama Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame in official competition at San Sebastian has sparked a flurry of international sales. Wild Bunch has secured sales of Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf's first feature to the UK (Slingshot), Spain (Wanda), Canada (Crystal), Portugal (Lusomundo), Benelux (Imagine), Switzerland ...
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Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance
Dir: Darren Ashton. Australia 95 minsFollowing two children's dance troupes as they compete for top prize in a prestigious national tournament, Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance is an intermittently amusing backstage comedy that skewers the rampaging egos and vaulting ambition of its ragbag of aspiring show-biz types. Filmed in ...
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Glass
Dir: Scott Hicks. Australia . 2007. 122mins.The critical relationship of subject to filmmaker is the tipping point for most documentary portraits. It is the primary distinction between a probing and objective analysis and hagiography. In Scott Hicks' Glass, the composer Philip Glass has allowed the director unmediated exposure to his ...
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Cuerda starts shoot in Galicia for Blind Sunflowers
Spanish director Jose Luis Cuerda started shooting in Galicia for his 10th feature film, The Blind Sunflowers, based on Alberto Mendez's novel by the same name. Javier Camara and Meribel Verdu star. The film follows Elena (Verdu), who is living in post-war Spain hiding secrets about her family. Her teenage ...
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Jimi Mistry and Joanne Whalley line up for Eating Dust
Jimi Mistry, Joanne Whalley, Joseph Beattie and Clive Standen have signed up to star in Eating Dust for Glasgow-based director Jade Carmen. Carmen wrote the script with producer Louis Paltnoi. The film will start shooting at the end of October. The project, described as a 'modern Celtic comedy' is set ...
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Foul Gesture (Tnuah Meguna)
Dir: Tzahi Grad. Israel 2006. 96 mins.A satirical social comedy turns into a terrific, slow-burn revenge drama in Israeli actor Tzahi Grad's second directorial outing. Though the rough, low-budget production values will put off mainstream distributors, arthouse and genre specialists should take a look at this title, whose strong script ...
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The Trap and Short Circuits enter foreign Oscar race
The Serbian Academy of Film Arts and Sciences has selected Srdan Golubovic's The Trap (Klopka) for the Oscar race. The Serbian-German-Hungarian co-production is a thriller about a man who decides to take on a hitman's task in order to be able to pay for a life-saving operation for his son. ...
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Hong Kong selects Exiled as Oscar submission
Hong Kong's Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong (FMFP) has selected Johnnie To's Exiled as the territory's entry for the best foreign-language film category of next year's Academy Awards. The Macau-set gunplay drama premiered in competition at the Venice film festival in 2006 and was sold widely by ...