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Korea's Sponge Entertainment wins Shortbus ratings battle
After two years, Sponge Entertainment has won the fight to screen John Cameron Mitchell's sexually explicit film Shortbus in South Korea with a 'Teenager Restricted' rating. The film follows a sex therapist, who has never experienced an orgasm, as she is introduced to the people in an underground sex club ...
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Alta Films picks up French comedy LOL for Spain
Spanish outfit Alta Films has picked up theatrical distribution rights for Spain to Lisa Azuelo's French comedy LOL (Laughing Out Loud) from Pathe International. The film is a co-production between Pathe, Bethsabee Mucho, TF1 and M6 Films in collaboration with Canal+, CNC, CineCinema and Poisson Rouge Pictures. LOL (Laughing Out ...
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Russian Financial Alliance Bank puts film fund operation on hold
As reported by Kommersant, Russian Financial Alliance's (RFA) $10m mutual fund, Kinofond, has been put on hold. RFA has refused to comment at this stage as to why Kinofond's operations have been suspended. The RFA bank established, the $10m Kinofond in 2007 through a sister company, the RFA investment agency. ...
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Polish film festival in UK to kick off with 33 Scenes From Life
The seventh edition of the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival will open in London with Malgorzata Szumowska's drama, 33 Scenes from Life, a study of the resilience of the human spirit and the ties that unite people. The festival will take place in London from March 12 to April 8. The ...
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Departures sweeps Japanese academy awards
Yojiro Takita's Departures picked up ten prizes, including best picture of 2008, at the 32nd Japan Academy prize awards ceremony, held Friday evening at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo. The film, which had thirteen nominations, also won best director, best actor (Masahiro Motoki), best supporting actor (Tsutomu ...
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The Wrestler named best feature, actor at Independent Spirit Awards
The Wrestler was named best feature and won the best actor award for Mickey Rourke and the best cinematography award for Maryse Alberti at the 2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards which took place today (Saturday) in Santa Monica.The annual event, which honours films embodying independence and 'who dare to challenge ...
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Tyler Perry's latest Madea film tops domestic box office with $41.1m
As fruitful relationships between studio and film-maker go, they don't get much better than the collaboration between Lionsgate and Tyler Perry. Both parties scored the highest launch of their careers at the weekend as Madea Goes To Jail stormed to the top with an estimated $41.1m number one debut that ...
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Button adds $19.6m for Warner Bros to sweep past $150m
While 13 Oscar nominations for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button may not translate into such a dominant reality once the awards are handed out at tonight's 81st Annual Academy Awards, what is in no doubt is the incontrovertible evidence of the picture's commercial clout. Staying on top of the ...
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Screen Actors Guild rejects studios' 'best and final offer'
Hopes of a settlement in the ongoing contract dispute between the Screen Actors Guild and the studios suffered the latest setback at the weekend as the Guild's national board of directors rejected the studios' 'best and final offer.'On Saturday the board of directors voted 73% to 27% in favour of ...
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Recoletos, Prensa Espanola win DTT licences
Two major new players were unleashed on the Spanish media scene Friday with the government concession of two nationwide, free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT) licences.The winners of the new licences were consortia Veo TV, spearheaded by publishing entities Recoletos and Unedisa (home of national newspaper El Mundo), and Net TV, ...
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Poul, Wright to adapt Dews' Must Read After My Death
Alan Poul and Craig Wright have optioned the family story captured in documentary Must Read After My Death and plan to co-produce the feature film which Wright will write and Poul will direct.The documentary, directed by Morgan Dews, was released Friday (February 20) at New York's Quad Cinemas and in ...
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NewsOscar winners - Slumdog Millionaire wins Best Picture
Winners of the 81st Annual Academy AwardsBest Supporting ActressPenelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina BarcelonaBest Original ScreenplayDustin Lance Black, MilkBest Adapted ScreenplaySimon Beaufoy, Slumdog MillionaireBest Animated FeatureWall-E, Andrew StantonBest Animated ShortLa Maison en Petits Cubes, Kunio KatoArt DirectionThe Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Donald Graham Burt (art direction) ...
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NewsSlumdog takes eight Oscars including best picture, best director
Slumdog Millionaire wins 8 Oscars including best picture and best director.
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Wonderful Town wins top honours at Thai Oscars
Aditya Assarat's Wonderful Town scooped five awards, including best film and best director, at Thailand's leading film honours, the Subhanahongsa Awards, on Sunday night (Feb 22). The indie drama also won best screenplay - which also went to Assarat - best cinematography and best art direction. A love story set ...
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UK Film Council awards distribution support to Che
Che: Part One, Bronson and Franklyn are among a list of films to have benefited from the latest round of awards from the UK Film Council's prints and advertising fund. While blockbusters are often released in the UK with more than 1,000 film prints, the average number of prints for ...
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UK's Firefly Vision and Lansdowne Films to produce Skin
Firefly Vision, sister company of the UK's Firefly Films, has signed with Jordi Devas' Lansdowne Films to produce Skin. Skin marks the debut of screenwriter Steven Elliott and is set in Thailand and London. Speleers is set to star in the film and the producers are currently in talks with ...
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Film veteran Hercules Bellville dies
Hercules Bellville passed away on Saturday February 21at the age of 69 following a fifteen month fight with lung cancer. Born in San Diego, California to an American mother and an English father, Bellville attended boarding school in Britain and went on to study modern languages at Oxford. He started ...
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Inaugral 'Write Here, Write Now' awardgiven to Sonya Gildea for Faith
The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in association withWaltDisneyStudios Motion Pictures (Ireland) have announced that Sonya Gildea's script Faith has won the inaugural 'Write Here, Write Now' screenwriting award. The judging panel also gave an honourable mention to Rodney Lee for his script Do Not Pass Go. The 'Write Here, ...