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    Filipino Oscar-contender finds US home

    2007-05-02T23:29:00Z

    TLA Releasing has acquired North American non-theatrical, video, and select TV rights from Unitel Pictures International to Filipino director Aureaus Solito's The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros.The distributor plans a DVD release on Aug 28 on the story of a gay pre-teen growing up with petty thieves in the slums of ...

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    Dorian Gray adaptation opens NewFest

    2007-05-02T23:35:00Z

    Duncan Roy's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's cautionary tale The Picture Of Dorian Gray, starring David Gallagher, will open NewFest: The 19th Annual New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival.Robert Cary's drama Save Me will close the festival. Chad Allen, Robert Gant, and Judith Light star in the tale ...

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    New Yorker Films gorges on Still Life for US

    2007-05-02T23:42:00Z

    New Yorker Films has picked up Jia Zhang-Ke's Venice 2006 Golden Lion winner Still Life and has scheduled an autumn platform release in New York City followed by a nationwide roll-out.Still Life chronicles the changes that sweep through an ancient town when a hydro-dam project forces families to uproot and ...

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    Cannes Directors Fortnight bookended by debuts from Corbijn, Kogut

    2007-05-03T11:02:00Z

    This year's Directors Fortnight will open at Cannes with Anton Corbijn's Control, a biopic of late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. The closing film is also a first film, Mutum, from Brazilian director Sandra Kogut.In total 23 films round out the main selection with nine first time features which are ...

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    Tiscali works with AAM to launch new UK VOD service, Movies Now

    2007-05-03T11:19:00Z

    Phone and Internet company Tiscali has launched its online VOD download service, Movies Now, in partnership with Arts Alliance Media (AAM).The new service launches with more than 500 films and programmes available to anyone visiting the Tiscali web site (www.tiscali.co.uk/moviesnow). Users can rent or download titles to own with prices ...

  • Reviews

    Smiley Face

    2007-05-03T15:19:00Z

    Dir: Gregg Araki. US. 2007. 87mins.Smiley Face opens as a would-be LA actress's pot-induced journey stumbles to an end, with blonde stoner Jane (Anna Faris) reflecting on the binge that, as the omniscient narrator (Roscoe Lee Browne) puts it, took a young woman 'from point A to point Z.' The ...

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    RAI's 01 Distribution names Adriano Coni as its new president

    2007-05-03T17:37:00Z

    RAI Cinema, the film unit of Italy's state run broadcaster RAI has named Adriano Coni as new president of 01 Distribution, the distribution arm of RAI Cinema. Coni previously acted as chief of both RAI Cinema's marketing and human resource divisions.01 Distribution has been without a president since its previous ...

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    Live!

    2007-05-03T17:41:00Z

    Dir: Bill Guttentag. US. 2007. 96mins.Bill Guttentag's hilarious satire of reality/game show media culture, Live! takes its subject to the wall with a live televised Russian Roulette competition. Presented as a The Making Of story, Live! also attacks the ghoulish opportunism of independent documentaries. Live! will show viewers of ...

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    Jerome Le Grand gets vp stripes at BVI and BVHEI

    2000-08-06T23:47:00Z

    Jerome Le Grand has been promoted from executive director of finance and planning for Buena Vista International (BVI) to the newly created position of vice president, finance and planning, for BVI and Buena Vista Home Entertainment International (BVHEI).Reporting directly to Mark Zoradi, president of BVI and BVHEI, and Lawrence Kaplan, ...

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    Italian minister stresses importance of co-production incentives

    2007-05-04T04:00:00Z

    Ahead of official festivities for Cinecitta's 70th anniversary to be celebrated in a mega party on the famed movie studio's lot on May 4, Italy's movie making politicos got together to talk about the state of Italian cinema and attracting international productions yesterday.As part of the celebrations, Culture Minister Francesco ...

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    Darfur doc Sand And Sorrow to close IETFF in Monte Carlo

    2007-05-04T00:18:00Z

    A preview of Paul Freedman's Darfur documentary Sand And Sorrow narrated and produced by George Clooney will close the inaugural International Emerging Talent Film Festival (IETFF), which runs in Monte Carlo, Monaco, from May 13-15.Thom Fitzgerald's AIDS drama 3 Needles will open the event, which is screening 11 features including ...

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    Hopkins gets lifetime achievement award at Seattle

    2007-05-04T00:22:00Z

    Anthony Hopkins will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 33rd Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), set to run from May 24-Jun 17.The presentation will feature clips from Hopkins' career, an on-stage interview, and a screening of The Remains Of The Day. Hopkins will introduce his new film Slipstream later ...

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    Israel's My Father My Lord wins top jury prize at Tribeca

    2007-05-04T03:00:00Z

    David Volach's Israeli drama My Father My Lord won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature and a $50,000 cash prize at the 6th annual Tribeca Film Festival.Mexican film-maker Enrique Begne received the Best New Narrative Filmmaker and and $25,000 in cash for Two Embraces. Best Actor in a Narrative ...

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    Easternlight takes on Three Kingdoms for sales at Cannes

    2007-05-04T00:54:00Z

    Easternlight Films will handle international sales at Cannes on Hong Kong director Daniel Lee's martial arts epic Three Kingdoms - Resurrection Of The Dragon, based on the popular Chinese classical novel The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms.Andy Lau and Maggie Q star in the story of a common man who ...

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    El Violin a surprise hit at Mexican box office for Canana

    2007-05-04T01:24:00Z

    Francisco Vargas' El Violin, the first distribution release from Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal and Pablo Cruz's outfit Canana, has been a surprise hit in Mexico on 20 prints, scoring the number one ranking at the box office in its first weekend and some 36,000 admissions in its first week.The ...

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    Spidey 3 has world in its web as blockbuster opens in 105 markets

    2007-05-04T01:33:00Z

    The global blockbuster season has well and truly begun as Spider-Man 3 opens in approximately 105 countries around the world this week in what has already become a record-breaking event.After two days in release the latest episode in the Marvel comic book superhero's adventures stood at $42.5m. This dizzying figure ...

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    Double Edge to co-finance two US films with Inferno

    2007-05-04T01:43:00Z

    Taiwan and US-based Double Edge Entertainment will co-finance with Inferno Distribution the psychological thriller The Heaven Project, which has started principal photography and stars Paul Walker and Piper Perabo.The company also co-financed with Inferno the family comedy Smother starring Diane Keaton, Liv Tyler and Dax Shepard, which is currently in ...

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    THINKFilm International picks up De La Iglesia, Cole films

    2007-05-04T02:06:00Z

    THINKFilm International arrives in Cannes buoyed by a sales slate that includes Alex De La Iglesia's new thriller The Oxford Murders starring Elijah Wood and John Hurt, about a series of killings in the English university town that are seemingly related to mathematical symbols.The line-up continues with Five Dollars from ...

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    India's PNC, Motion Pixel Corp team for five-picture slate

    2007-05-04T06:12:00Z

    Indian media and entertainment company Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC) has signed a five-picture deal with Florida-based animation house Motion Pixel Corporation (MPC) and its animation studio Estudio Flex in Costa Rica. The deal covers five 3D animated full-length feature films, which will feature Indian and international actors, songs and dances ...

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    Hollow Man - a clear smash at US box office

    2000-08-06T23:51:00Z

    As expected, Columbia Pictures' adult sci-fi thriller Hollow Man topped the box office chart in North America over the weekend - probably one of the most competitive of the summer so far. Directed by Paul Verhoeven, the R-rated film took an estimated $26.8m, which if the figure holds, would mark ...