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Dubai festival boosts Arab film line-up
The Dubai International FilmFestival (DIFF), now in its third year, opens on Dec 10 with Emilio Estevez's Bobby, one of 115 films from 47countries. Actors Laurence Fishburne and Joshua Jackson will accompany thefilm. Oliver Stone, Syrian auteur Nabil Maleh and leading man Shah Rukh Khanare this year's honourees, and will ...
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Cairo festival opens with censorship talk
The 30th Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF)opens today at the city's opulent Opera House amid a growing controversy overcensorship.While jury chairman Luis Puenzo, Jacqueline Bisset and DannyGlover are scheduled to attend the glittering event presided over by Egypt'sMinister of Culture HE Farouk Hosney, first-time director Marc Ellegard willnot be in ...
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Ferrara begins shooting screwball comedy in Italy
Principalphotography began this week [Nov 27] on Abel Ferrara's Italian-US screwballcomedy Go Go Tales starring WillemDafoe, Bob Hoskins and Matthew Modine.Theproject charts the fall-out when a cabaret impresario is told his club facesimminent foreclosure. Asia Argento and Lou Doillon also star. Go Go Tales is shooting at Rome's Cinecitta Studios ...
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56 foreign-language films qualify for Golden Globes
Fifty-six foreign-language films have qualified forconsideration in the 64th Golden Globes race.The nominations will be unveiled on Dec 14 at The BeverlyHilton and the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards will take place on Jan 15, 2007in Los Angeles.The list of contenders follows:9th Company(Russia/Ukraine/Finland) Fyodor Bondarchuk, directorAfter The Wedding (Denmark)Susanne BierAhlaam ...
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Magiday joins Element Films as head of production
Lee Magiday, former vice president of acquisition andproduction, Europe, at Focus Features, has joined Dublin-based productionoutfit Element Films as head of production. She will remain based in London.Magiday (pictured) left Focus in 2005 to take some timeoff. At Element, she will have responsibility for acquiring, developing andoverseeing new feature film ...
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Magnolia set to release 2000 Thai hit Tears in US
Fiveyears after Miramax bought a slew of rights including US to Wisit Sasanatieng'sThai western Tears Of The Black Tiger,the company has sold US rights to Magnolia Pictures.TearsOf The Black Tiger was the first Thai filmto be accepted at Cannes and went on to become a major draw at the 2001festival. ...
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UIP Korea to become solely Universal operation on Jan 1
UIP's South Korean branchoffice will transition to a Universal Pictures International operation as ofJan 1, 2007. Universal Pictures International Korea (UPIK) will directly distributeUniversal films in the territory as well as acquiring local product there.UPI has alreadyestablished a presence in Germany, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland,Holland, Belgium and Russia."We arevery ...
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Mobile giant NTT DoCoMo buys stake in Kadokawa
Japan's largest mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo is acquiring a 3.78% stake in filmand publishing company Kadokawa Group Holdings as part of a tie-up aimed atdeveloping content for DoCoMo cellphone users. NTT DoCoMo will pay $34.45m(Y4bn) for 1.03 million new shares in Kadokawa, making the mobile giant theseventh largest shareholder in ...
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Producer says Nativity is more family than Passion
It isn't everyday that nunsand priests are seen scurrying to find a seat at the world premiere of a film,but when New Line Cinema's Catherine Hardwicke-directed The Nativity Story was approved by the Vatican for its "poeticand faithful retelling of the scriptures" the Vatican hosted its first worldpremiere of a ...
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LoveFilm hires Andrew Ground as UK MD
LoveFilm.com has appointedAndrew Ground as UK managing director, effective immediately. Ground had been marketingdirector and then managing director of subscription business Homeserve. He alsoheld senior marketing roles at Sainsbury's and previously worked at Procter Gambleand LEK.LoveFilm now operates itsonline DVD rental service in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany. ...
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UIP's gamble pays off
Setting what other distributors will hope is a precedent, Mission: Impossible 2 has broken the spell of the summer cinema slump in Italy. Grossing $2.5m from 456 screens and going straight to the top of the chart, M:I2 recorded an unheard of success in the month of July when ...
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Lionsgate pacts with Fintage for music sub-publishing
Lionsgate hassigned an agreement for Fintage Music to handle all of its international musicsub-publishing for current and upcoming projects. The deal coversLionsgate films including Akeelah and theBee, Employee of the Month, Bug and television series including Weeds and Wildfire.Fintage Music isa division of Fintage House, which works on financial solutions ...
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Hamilton departs UK distribution post at Icon
Alex Hamilton has departedhis post as president of UK distribution for Icon Entertainment. Prior to joining Icon in April2005, Hamilton worked at Momentum Pictures. Icon said there is no new appointmentat this time, and that UK distribution was being overseen by COO Andy Mayson and CEO Martin Bigham. Icon's recent ...
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Lisa Hill joins Cosgrove Hall Films
UK animation company Cosgrove Hall Films has appointed Lisa Hill as its newPR and marketing manager.Hill had worked with screenagency North West Vision and is an associate member of the Chartered Instituteof Public Relations. Manchester-based CosgroveHall is celebrating its 30th anniversary and has worked on properties includingDangermouse and Count Duckula.Cosgrove ...
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Regular Lovers takes EFA FIPRESCI prize
The European Film Academy and the international film critics associationFIPRESCI have announced that the EFA Critics Award 2006 - Prix FIPRESCI will goto Philippe Garrel's The Regular Lovers(Les Amants Reguliers). "Philippe Garrel made hisfirst film when he was 16, and by 20 had earned the reputation of the NouvelleVague's Wunderkind ...
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Argentine actor Darin to direct The Signal
Ricardo Darin, Argentina's most renowned actor, announced he willdirect his first film, The Signal, a film-noir set in 1950s Buenos Aires.The Signal, based on Eduardo Mignogna's 2002 best-seller novel, wasready to begin shooting this December, but Mignogna died on Oct 6.The $2.5m Argentinian-Spanish co-production between Pablo Bossi'snew company Pampa Films, ...
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Spain's Notro picks up 10 films at AFM
Two-year-old independentSpanish film distributor Notro Films is flexing its muscle with ten new titlesacquired at the recent American Film Market.The AFM pick-ups includethree titles each from Horizon and HanWay, another two from Shochiku and oneeach from Myriad and Fabrication Films. They range from Anne Hathaway-starrer Becoming Jane and Sarah Polley-directed ...
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Perfume has strong Spanish opening for Filmax
Tom Tykwer's Perfume did strong business on itsopening weekend in Spain, landing in second position at the box officetrailing only Casino Royale.Perfume'sper-screen average of $7,047 (Euros 5,355) was just shy that of the new Bondfilm, $7834 (Euros 5,953), according to figures from Nielsen/EDI.According to distributorFilmax, also a co-producer on the ...
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Sunshine, Nelson lead Spirit Award nominations
IFC Films led the FilmIndependent 2007 Spirit Award nominations with nine nods including three for AmericanGun.Fox Searchlight earned sevennominations, five of them for Little Miss Sunshine including feature, director for Jonathan Dayton andValerie Faris, and supporting male nods for Alan Arkin and Paul Dano.First Look Studios made anemphatic statement about ...
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Sarah Turner joins anti-piracy team at Warner Bros
Sarah Turner has been named Warner Bros Entertainment's executivedirector of worldwide anti-piracy operations - North America.Turner will oversee all North American anti-piracy operations andmanage strategic worldwide anti-piracy initiatives and projects, workingclosely with Warner Bros Entertainment's anti-piracy regional teams andbusiness units.She reports to senior vice president of worldwide anti-piracyoperations Darcy Antonellis ...