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  • News

    Legendary Hungarian DP Laszlo Kovacs dies at 74

    2007-07-24T00:25:00Z

    Laszlo Kovacs, the Hungarian-born cinematographer who fled his country during the 1956 revolution and went on to become one of the most influential DPs in Hollywood, died at his Beverly Hills home on Jul 22, aged 74.Kovacs amassed a sterling body of work during the late 1960s and early 1970s ...

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    Fiennes joins Graham in Kaige's Killing Me Softly

    2000-08-23T03:56:00Z

    Joseph Fiennes has been cast opposite Heather Graham in Chen Kaige's first English language film Killing Me Softly which is set to go into production in London on Oct 30. The film is being produced and financed by Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock's Montecito Pictures; MGM has domestic rights with ...

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    Japan's Avex signs on for Korean comedy Highway Star

    2007-07-24T07:05:00Z

    Korea 's Studio2.0 has sold musical comedy Highway Star to Avex Entertainment for Japan. A remake of Japanese film Enka No Hanamichi, the film tells the story of a wanna-be rocker who ends up singing Trot (Korean country-style music) behind a mask and becoming a star. Launched into pan-Asian popularity ...

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    BANGKOK: Thailand's Mono Film set to double production

    2007-07-24T07:12:00Z

    Up-and-coming Thai producer Mono Film is set to double its production output next year to eight films from last year's four. 'We now have more confidence after spending the last three years to learn the local and international markets,' says CEO Soraj Asavaprapha who founded the company with Pete Bodharamik ...

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    BANGKOK: Right Beyond launches first Taiwanese-Thai co-production

    2007-07-24T07:19:00Z

    At the Bangkok Film Market, Right Beyond Films has launched international sales of The Fatality, billed as the first ever co-production between Thailand and Taiwan. In the horror film, an unsuccessful man in Taipei attempts suicide only to wake up in the body of a coma victim in Bangkok with ...

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    BANGKOK: GMM's Kung Fu Tootsie tops Thai box office

    2007-07-24T07:28:00Z

    GMM Tai Hub's Kung Fu Tootsie has become the first Thai film to top the box office chart in July which is overwhelmed with Hollywood blockbusters. Opening last Thursday on 129 prints, the action comedy grossed $1.3m (40m baht) over its first four days and knocked last week's number one ...

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    Ratatouille's Remy recruited for UK anti-piracy campaign

    2007-07-24T14:31:00Z

    The UK's Industry Trust for IP Awareness is working with Disney and Pixar for an anti-piracy campaign starring Ratatouille's Remy the Rat. The new anti-copyright theft spots will launch in cinemas Friday. Remy is seen dismissing pirated films for their poor quality and lack of taste. The initiative is also ...

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    Nadine Labaki: beauty without cruelty

    2007-07-24T16:35:00Z

    It might not be about war or politics but the debut project from a young Lebanese director says much about the peace that can be achieved. Antonia Carver reportsNadine Labaki (pictured) shot Caramel in Beirut in late spring 2006, when the troubled city was in a buoyant mood following the ...

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    Sad Vacation by Aoyama Shinji to open Venice Horizons

    2007-07-24T16:52:00Z

    The Venice Film Festival's Horizons side bar dedicated to new trends in filmmaking has announced its opening and closing film in both the feature and documentary categories.Sad Vacation by Aoyama Shinji starring Japanese super star Tadanobu Asano will be Horizons' opening film.Sad Vacation is the story of a boy who ...

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    The Independent becomes sponsor of Sheffield Doc/Fest

    2007-07-24T17:03:00Z

    The UK 's Sheffield Doc/Fest has recruited The Independent newspaper as the festival's presenting media sponsor. The festival will now be known as Sheffield Doc/Fest in association with The Independent, and the sponsorship deal also includes editorial, advertising and marketing initiatives. Heather Croall, festival director of Doc/Fest, said: 'With The ...

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    Arcel prepares new feature about Danish royals for Zentropa

    2007-07-25T05:00:00Z

    Danish director Nicolaj Arcel, whose Island of Lost Souls sold 195,000 tickets domestically, is preparing a feature film about the relationship between Danish King Christian VII, Queen Caroline Mathilde and German-born physician-in-ordinary Johann Friedrich Struensee, who was executed in 1772 - 235 years ago.Over the years several projects have been ...

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    ICM, MGlobal Trust team on LA-based Indian Splendor

    2007-07-25T00:19:00Z

    Prominent Indian film-makers, performers, and business and spiritual leaders will descend on Southern California next month to attend a celebration to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Indian independence.India Splendor will take place from Aug 10-15 and is being hosted by MGlobal Trust in association with ICM and the UCLA School ...

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    MGM Worldwide TV forms Latin American sales arm

    2000-08-23T03:58:00Z

    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)'s TV distribution and co-production unit MGM Worldwide Television Distribution has established its first direct sales operation for the Latin American region and appointed Mary Ann Pasante to serve as vice president of Latin America Television Sales. Pasante will be based in Atlanta, Georgia, where the new branch office ...

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    Edith Kramer named guest director at Telluride 2007

    2007-07-25T00:22:00Z

    Edith R Kramer will be the guest director at the Telluride Film Festival, which runs in Colorado from Aug 31-Sept 3.Kramer is renowned for her work in film preservation and collection development, and previously served as senior film curator and director of the Pacific Film Archive at the University of ...

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    Meirelles' Blindness sees start of shoot in Toronto

    2007-07-25T00:24:00Z

    Fernando Meirelles has begun principal photography on Blindness, a $25m multi-territory co-production adapted from the novel by Jose Saramago by Don McKellar. The film stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Maury Chaykin and Gael Garcia Bernal. McKellar is also a featured player. The ...

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    Samuel Goldwyn to handle US distribution of Southland Tales

    2007-07-25T01:14:00Z

    Samuel Goldwyn Films will release Richard Kelly's Southland Tales in the US on Nov 9 in association with Destination Films and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group.The long awaited release follows the film's world premiere at Cannes 2006, when Kelly's follow-up to his 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko came under fire ...

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    Walden options family comedy Relativity by Peter Craig

    2007-07-25T06:07:00Z

    Walden Media has optioned Peter Craig's family comedy screenplay Relativity.The story revolves around parents who on the occasion of their 35th wedding anniversary gather their children to reveal a big secret that sends shockwaves through the family.Vice president of development Evan Turner brought the project to the company and will ...

  • Reviews

    The Simpsons Movie

    2007-07-25T09:19:00Z

    Dir: David Silverman. US. 2007. 87mins.Mixing to pleasingly irreverent effect the same sort of light social satire, dysfunctional family comedy and base physical gags that have been part of its well-honed formula for almost 20 years, The Simpsons Movie smoothly jumps the yawning chasm from small screen to large, delivering ...

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    Ulrich Muehe, star of Oscar-winning The Lives Of Others, dies aged 54

    2007-07-25T10:46:00Z

    The German film industry is in mourning after the death at 54 of actor Ulrich Muehe, the star of Oscar-winning international success The Lives Of Others.Muehe, who played the secret police officer Gerd Wiesler in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's feature about 1980s East Germany, had been diagnosed with cancer earlier ...

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    Martin Schuermann steps down as CEO of IM Internationalmedia

    2007-07-25T11:00:00Z

    IM's CFO Sascha Konzack will now run the company on his own, Schuermann will continue as managing director of Intermedia Film Equities USA Martin Schuermann has stepped down from his post as CEO of IM Internationalmedia due to 'personal reasons' with immediate effect. He will continue to serve as the ...