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Cork Film Festival gets Death Of A President
The 51st Cork Film Festivalwill open on Oct 8 with Toronto Fipresci Critics Award winner Death Of A President, the Channel 4-financed drama which imaginesthe assasination of George W Bush."We are delighted to havesecured the European premiere of Death Of A President,' said Cork Film Festival DirectorMick Hannigan. 'This is ...
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Cornwall recruits agency for film and TV push
South West Screen andCornwall Film have appoined Cornish company Location Solutions South West tomarket the region to film and TV production companies. Location Solutions willmarket the UK's western-most county overthe next six months to national and international film and TV productioncompanies. The region has previouslyhosted TV series including Nighty Night ...
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Belfast shoot starts for Collins' Kings
Prinicipal photography hasstarted in Belfast on Kings, an adaptation of Jimmy Murphy's play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road about a group of Irish emigrantswho reunite for the funeral of one of their friends.Leading Irish actor ColmMeaney features in an ensemble cast along with Donal O'Kelly, Brendan Conroy,Donncha Crowley, ...
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Bunny Chow
Dir:John Barker. South Africa. 2006. 90mins. Ahopeful signal of change in the new South Africa, Bunny Chow is an exuberant hop in the hay, a bonk in the back seatand a flamboyant middle finger to the nation's apartheid past. The title is a referenceto a South African fast-food specialty, a ...
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UK Film Council delegation headed to Pusan
The UK Film Council isworking with UK Trade and Investment to bring a delegation from the UK film industry from Oct 12-20 to Korea to attend the Pusan International Film Festival,Pusan Promotion Plan and Asian Film Market.The UK companies represented are Capitol Films, CelsiusEntertainment, Hanway Films, High Point Films, Independent ...
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Copenhagen gives top award to 12.08 East Of Bucharest
As the CopenhagenInternational Film Festival wrapped, Romanian feature 12.08 East Of Bucharest won the Golden Swans for best film and bestscript. Corneliu Porumbiou's darkly comic project about Romania just before thefall of the Ceausescu dictatorship previously won the Camera d'Or and theEuropa Cinemas Label in Cannes. The Copenhagen jury,which judged ...
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Alliance Atlantis MPD renews with New Line, retains Loewy
Alliance Atlantis' Motion Picture Distribution announced ithas reached an agreement with New Line Cinema to continue its Canadian outputdeal through December 31, 2008. The company has also settled the legal wrangle with formerchairman Victor Loewy, former CEO Patrice Theroux and former senior counselPaul Laberge. Today's announcements lay to rest months ...
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Ghosts Of Cite Soleil
Dir.Asger Leth. Denmark/US. 2006. 88min. Although it will prove a maddeningexperience for anyone seeking a traditional documentary approach to the enduring and vexing humanitarian crisis thatis Haiti, Ghosts Of Cite Soleil is anincredibly visceral journey into the meaning of the phrase "life is cheap". Avital melding of hip hop sensibility ...
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Ghosts Of Cite Soleil
Dir.Asger Leth. Denmark/US. 2006. 88min. Although it will prove a maddeningexperience for anyone seeking a traditional documentary approach to the enduring and vexing humanitarian crisis thatis Haiti, Ghosts Of Cite Soleil is anincredibly visceral journey into the meaning of the phrase "life is cheap". Avital melding of hip hop sensibility ...
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Israel chooses Sweet Mud as Oscar submission
Dror Shaul's drama Sweet Mud has been named as the official Israeli submission for thisyear's foreign-language Oscar category. The film, set in a kibbutz in the1970s, follows a 12 year-old boy and his attempts to navigate the needs of hisemotionally fragile mother.Sweet Mud was given four Ophir awards in Sept ...
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Avignon hands out prizes beyond US, French borders
The Avignon film festival - for the first time expanded to include films from Europe, beyond France - awarded its prestigious Prix Tournage to Elias Merhige (US) for Shadow Of The Vampire, Virginie Wagon (France) for Le Secret, Giacomo Campiotti (Italy-France-UK) for A Time To Love (Il Tempo dell'Amore) and ...
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Argentina goes for Family Law as Oscar hopeful
The Argentinian Academy of Film Arts and Science hasselected Daniel Burman's fifth feature Family Law as its submission for the foreign language filmcategory at next year's Academy Awards.The E1.7 million Argentinian-French-Spanish-Italianco-production follows a justice department official (Daniel Hendler) who isforced to confront life-changing decisions when his father dies.Family Law wasselected ...
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Peace Arch Films finalising US rights for Delirious
Peach Arch Films is in final talks with US buyers for the rights to distribute Tom DiCillo's film Delirious in North America after its successful world premiere at San Sebastian. A final deal is expected to be made early next week. "Several US buyers attended the first screening of the ...
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France rules over San Sebastian
French film My Son (Mon Fils A Moi) has won top honours at the San Sebastian International Film Festival sharing the Golden Shell for Best Film with Half Moon and taking the Best Actress award for Nathalie Baye.My Son is the first feature film from director Martial Fougeron about a ...
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The Yacoubian Building selected as Egyptian Oscar entry
Marwan Hamed's The Yacoubian Building has been selected by Egypt to represent it in the race for a foreign language Oscar nomination this year.The film, which has enjoyed great success in its home territory, has been the subject of controversy given its themes of Islamic fundamentalism, police brutality and homosexuality.Released ...
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Canal Plus signs French VOD agreement with Fox
France's Canal+ Active has signed a VOD agreement with Fox, it was announced Friday.The deal means new Fox releases, as well as catalogue films, will be available on Canal Plus' CanalPlay, the company's one-year old VOD service.Canal Plus' Bruno Thibaudeau said, "We are very proud of this partnership with this ...
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Sony Animation's Season tops North America with $23m
Sony scored its 11thdomestic number one release of the year as the animated feature Open Season stormed to the top on an estimated $23m. Thepicture, which features the vocal talents of Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher, opened tomixed-to-favourable reviews.It was a great weekend forKutcher, who also stars alongside Kevin Costner ...
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World Trade Center takes international lead for Paramount
Paramount's World TradeCenter ruled the international roostas it grossed an estimated $12.3m from 2,690 screens across 20 territoriesthrough UIP and raised the overseas total to $22m.The carefully plannedrelease benefited from Oliver Stone's extensive publicity tour that took inLondon, Berlin, Venice, Moscow, Tokyo and Seoul.The 9/11 drama opened insecond place in ...