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Fortissimo closes Mysterious, Love sales
FortissimoFilm Sales has closed a raft of sales on its Venice and Toronto titles, MysteriousSkin and P.S. ILove You.Gaga has taken Japanese rights to Dylan Kidd's P.S.I Love You, whichopened Critics Week.Fortissimo has also sold the romantic comedy, which starsGabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, and Marcia Gay Harden, to Benelux (A ...
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Kim Ki-duk's 3 Iron added to main Venice competition
Onlyhours before its official screening on Monday evening, Venice artistic directorMarco Mueller unveiled Kim Ki-duk's 3 Iron (Binjip) as thefestival's "surprise" 22nd competition entry.Thefilm, which tells the story of a homeless man who rescues a wealthy woman whois beaten by her husband, has only just been completed and will have ...
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Vera Drake
Dir/scr: Mike Leigh.2004. UK/France. 125mins.Mike Leigh's latest tourde force takes the subject of illegal abortion in 1950 London and uses it toair issues of moral integrity, goodness and justice never more relevant than intoday's self-serving social and political climate.In Vera Drake, Leighachieves a level of engagement and intensity of which ...
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SWEDEN 7 September
The Village's timeat the top of the Swedish chart was brief as two new releases pushed it down tothird in its second week. Local writer-director Kay Pollak's return tofilmmaking after 18 years, Saa Som IHimmelen, (As In Heaven) impressively managed to go head to head with Shrek 2 with almost ...
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Zentropa, Cylo team for paranormal strand
Zentropa Internationale, the recently-launched international arm of Dogme co-creators Zentropa, has partnered with start-up UK production house Cylo Film to form a new strand of innovative films where Dogme meets The X-Files.Although not being made as Dogme films, the English-language paranormal thrillers are to combine a quasi-documentary style with paranormal ...
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Palm Springs ShortFest announces winners
The 2004 PalmSprings International Festival of Short Films & Short Film Market, thelargest short film festival and market in North America, ended on Monday,September 6, 2004. More than 2,600 industry representatives, filmmakers andmedia from around the world participated in this year's Festival, including arecord-setting 2,000 film submissions and attendance by ...
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Fortissimo closes Mysterious Skin, PS sales
FortissimoFilm Sales has closed a raft of sales on its Venice and Toronto titles, MysteriousSkin and P.S. ILove You.Gaga has taken Japanese rights to Dylan Kidd's P.S.I Love You, whichopened Critics Week.Fortissimo has also sold the romantic comedy, which starsGabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, and Marcia Gay Harden, to Benelux (A ...
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Toronto-bound 3 Iron added to Venice competition
Onlyhours before its official screening on Monday evening, Venice artistic directorMarco Mueller unveiled Kim Ki-duk's 3 Iron (Binjip) as thefestival's "surprise" 22nd competition entry.Thefilm, which tells the story of a homeless man who rescues a wealthy woman whois beaten by her husband, has only just been completed and will have ...
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The Merchant Of Venice
Dir. MichaelRadford. UK-It. 2004. 125mins.Despite beingone of Shakespeare's best known plays, The Merchant Of Venice has seenlittle in the way of film adaptation during the past 50 years or so. While TVhas given us plenty of Shylocks to feast our eyes upon, cinema has offered nocompetition, in part due to ...
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Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum to be revived
The organisers ofthe Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) have called for submissions fornext year's edition which marks the long-awaited return of the Hong Kong-basedprojects market following a four-year hiatus.Around 20 projectswill be presented to potential investors, distributors and sales agents duringthe three-day event (March 22-24, 2005). Projects of ...
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French cinema admissions leap 22% during 2004
France's film council (CNC) has revealed very healthybox-office figures for the first eight months of the year. In total, 133.57 millioncinema tickets have been sold since the beginning of the year.This represents a 22% increase over the same period in 2003.Overall, the projection is for a 15% increase over last ...
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Twenty one features selected for Netherlands Production Platform
Twenty one local and foreign feature-projects have beenselected for this year's Netherlands Production Platform, which will take placeduring the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht between Sept 24-26.The selected titles will be presented to Dutch and foreignproducers and financial backers. The Dutch entries are also aiming for TheKodak Development Prize, worth ...
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Two new Greek films get US distribution
Two Greek films have found distribution in the US, in whatthe state-backed Greek Film Centre describes as a promising sign for a newgeneration of Greek filmmakers.Picture This has acquired US distribution rights to Oxygen, a drama written and directed by ThanassisPapathanasiou and Mihalis Reppas.Produced by Elena Hadzialexandrou, and sold by ...
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DENMARK 7 September
Though it actually improved on its performance from lastweek, Susanne Bier's Brothers was nomatch for Shrek 2, which on a massive119 prints swept the top of the Danish chart with 105,273 admissions (DKK6,4m).Despite winning both best script and film awards at theCopenhagen International Film Festival only a week ago, Lidija ...
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Stone's Alexander to open Stockholm
OliverStone will be this year's guest of honour at the Stockholm International FilmFestival (Nov 18-28). He will visit Stockholm to accept the Stockholm LifetimeAchievement Award in a prize ceremony on Nov 18, while his latest film, Alexander,will open the festival.The Stockholm festival said: "With a fearless explorationof individual lives affected ...
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MIFED's loss could become Venice's gain
While the Venice Film Festival has always been known for itsrelaxed atmosphere and casual meetings, the absence of many American andEnglish companies from next month's MIFED has inadvertently lead to increasedbusiness activity on the Lido, some industry figures say.On Tuesday, MIFED issued a statement revealing that at least25 American and ...
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Colonna named as new CNC chief
Catherine Colonna will be confirmed as the new director ofthe French film council (CNC) on Wednesday according to sources close to thesituation. Colonna will take up her functions as of the 22nd of September whencurrent chief David Kessler will step down.As previously reported by Screendaily.com, Kessler will headto France Televisions ...
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Spacey's TriggerStreet launches digital offshoot
Kevin Spacey, who will be inToronto this weekend for the premiere of his Bobby Darin biopic Beyond The Sea,is adding to his producer credentials.Spacey and Dana Brunetti'sTriggerStreet Productions has hatched a new digital production label TriggerStreet Independent (TSI) in association with film-making brothers Adam and MarkKassen.The new company expects toproduce ...
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First Look takes near worldwide rights to Freeze Frame
Los Angeles-based distributionand sales house First Look Media has picked up worldwide rights excluding the UK and Irelandto John Simpson's futuristic thriller Freeze-Frameand will begin sales in Torontothrough First Look International.Freeze-Frame premiered atthe Tribeca Film festival earlier this year and starsBritish comic Lee Evans as a man who is acquitted ...
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Big Bear Lake to open with Finding Home
The Big Bear Lake InternationalFilm Festival will open on Sept 17 with Lawrence David Foldes'Maine-set redemption drama Finding Home,which won a trio of awards including best director at the Monaco InternationalFilm Festival.Festival organiserswill also present Laszlo Kovacs with the Lifetime Achievement Award inCinematography award at the festival gala on the ...