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Darfur Now
Dir: Theodore (Ted) Braun. US, 2007, 99 minutes Some may find this documentary on the tragedy currently unfolding in the Darfur region of Sudan a bit too slickly produced for its own good, but all in all, it's a solid, exciting, informative, and occasionally moving portrait of that troubled, desperate ...
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Films Distribution finds home for Ben X
French sales outfit Films Distribution has acquired the debut feature from Nic Balthazar, Ben X. The film is the story of a 17-year-old autistic boy who finds solace in online gaming while in real life being violently harassed by two school bullies. His revenge against the kids ultimately takes an ...
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Jane Austen Book Club
Dir. Robin Swicord, US, 105 minutes, colour, 35 mm. In The Jane Austen Book Club, five women and one man lead lives that seem torn from the pages of Jane Austen's novels as they discuss those writings in a book club in a California suburb. 'What would Jane do' becomes ...
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Eros to release Om Shanti Om on 2,000 screens
Eros International is preparing its widest ever release for Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om, which will open on more than 2,000 screens worldwide on November 9. Produced by Red Chillies Entertainment, the film stars Bollywood's number one star, Shah Rukh Khan. It also marks the debut of model Deepika Padukone. ...
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Toronto deals close on Visitor, Nothing Is Private, Diary Of The Dead
Following an anaemic first few days at Toronto the domestic acquisitions scene finally showed signs of life as Overture Films took North American rights to Thomas McCarthy's crowd-pleaser The Visitor, Warner Independent Pictures and Red Envelope jointly took North America and other territories on Alan Ball's Nothing Is Private and ...
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Vivendi Universal gets greenlight from Canada
The three-way merger between Vivendi, Seagram and Canal Plus has been cleared by Canada's competition authorities. The deal is now only now only waiting for a greenlight from the European Commission (EC) after being waved through by the French and US authorities. The EC was originally scheduled to rule on ...
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Pan-Europe participants selected for first pitch forum
Thirteen screenwriters from all over Europe, including the UK, Poland, Hungary, Macedonia and Italy have been selected to present their screenplays to a panel of international producers at the first Central European Pitch Forum to be held during the Pecs International Film Festival on October 3.The Pitch Forum's organisershad 60 ...
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We Are Together finds a home Down Under
Rialto Distribution has acquired the theatrical and home video rights for documentary feature, We Are Together (Thina Simunye) for both Australia and New Zealand.The deal was negotiated by Rialto's CEO, Kelly Rogers and by Annie Roney from ro*co films international on behalf of the producers, Rise films.Rialto's Rogers said, 'We ...
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Superman producer Pierre Spengler plans Luchadores 5
Spengler, who produced the live-action Superman films, returns to the comic book genre with Luchadores 5, the first of a 12-picture slate based on titles from graphic novel publisher Les Humanoïdes Associes/Humanoids.Former Humanoids chief executive F. Alexander Ciger, who is also Spengler's producing partner in Clubdeal, will produce.The live-action adaptation ...
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Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame (Buda As Sharm Foru Rikht)
Dir: Hana Makhmalbaf. Iran / France , 2007. 81 min. Hana Makhmalbaf is the younger scion of the Makhmalbaf Film House factory. All of eighteen years old and already a veteran with a short film, a documentary and a book of poems to her credit, she handles this first feature ...
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Nightwatching
Dir: Peter Greenaway, Netherlands-Canada-Poland-UK. 140mins.Peter Greenaway takes The Night Watch - arguably Rembrandt's most famous painting, and certainly his most earnestly discussed and interpreted work - as the basis for a rambling, theatrical, frequently didactic study of a turning point in the Dutch painter's life. By turns both murder mystery, ...
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Continental: A Film Without Guns (Continental: Un Film Sans Fusil)
Dir: Stephane Lafleur Canada 2007. 103 min.From the bold statement of the title to the closing scene that completes a crooked circle, Stephane LaFleur's feature debut is a mordantly funny tour of human despair. You don't need firearms to kill the human spirit, loneliness and a boring job will do ...
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Magnolia Pictures launches genre label
Magnolia Pictures has launched the genre label Magnet to release 'thewild, unquantifiable and uncompromised', kicking off with the DVDrelease of Jeremy Saulnier's hipster slasher film Murder Party on Oct16.The label will allow Magnolia to specialise in an area that it haspreviously serviced through releases such as The Host, Severance,Exiled, and ...
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Magnolia Pictures launches genre label
Magnolia Pictures has launched the genre label Magnet to release 'thewild, unquantifiable and uncompromised', kicking off with the DVDrelease of Jeremy Saulnier's hipster slasher film Murder Party on Oct16.The label will allow Magnolia to specialise in an area that it haspreviously serviced through releases such as The Host, Severance,Exiled, and ...
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Regus to sponsor London Film Festival
The London Film Festival (November 1-16) has unveiled its first ever title sponsor, meaning the festival will change its name for its forthcoming 44th edition.Business centre operator Regus Instant Offices has guaranteed funding of over $1.46m (£1m) for the festival over the next three years. As a result, the festival's ...
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Japanese Hero makes heroic impact on Screen's international chart
Fuji TV's Hero was the hot international opener this weekend, according to Screen's international chart. Click here for full details.Generating $8.9m in its home territory from 475 screens, the Takuya Kimura-starrer, directed by Masayuki Suzuki catapulted to number three in the weekly chart of top performing films in international markets.While ...
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Mother of Tears
Dir/Scr: Dario Argento. Italy. 2007 98mins .The new work of Italian horror specialist Dario Argento, Mother of Tears forms a trilogy of the two macabre, hyper stylized works that made his international reputation: Suspiria (1977) and Inferno (1980). The time away from the material has certainly not dulled the director's ...
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The Past (O Passado)
Dir: Hector Babenco Argentina-Brazil 2007. 114 mins.Brazilian director Hector Babenco's latest film is an utterly misbegotten effort, a long way from his earlier successes such as Pixote and Kiss of the Spider Woman, or 2003's Carandiru. Despite the presence of international heart-throb Gael Garcia Bernal, the tortured, sometimes unwittingly laughable ...
