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King And The Clown rings Korea's Grand Bell
Korean box officerecord-holder King And The Clown,directed by Lee Joon-ik, swept Korea's 43rd Grand Bell Awards on Friday (July21).Nominated in an all-timehigh of 15 categories, the film took seven awards including best film, bestdirector and best leading actor for Gam Woo-sung who played a masculine courtjester.Lee Joon-ki, who shot tostardom ...
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COMIC-CON: Studio, Singer eye 2009 Superman sequel
Bryan Singer is in talks with Warner Bros top brass to direct a high-action Superman sequel to open no later than 2009.Speaking at the COMIC-CON popular culture convention here in San Diego, Singer said he had not agreed terms yet but confirmed he was keen to make the picture."Now that ...
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Big Momma fails to topple Gladiator
Big Momma's House failed to unseat Gladiator from the top of the UK box office last weekend as the Roman epic continued its glory run in the cinema arena. Gladiator scooped $1.5m (£1m) on its seventh weekend bringing its total to an unbelievable $36.7m (£24.4m). The Martin Lawrence comedy from ...
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Spacek joins Paramount comedy Hot Rod
Sissy Spacek has joinedParamount's comedy Hot Rodalongside the Saturday Night Live (SNL) comedy duo Andy Samberg and JormaTaccone.SNL writer Akiva Schaffer makes his directorial debut on the story of anaccident-prone daredevil who plans to jump a river on a moped in a bid to winhis stepfather's approval.Lorne Michaels and John ...
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Bet Collector scoops top prizes at Cinefan
The Bet Collector, directed by the Philippines' Jeffrey Jeturian, was awarded best film and bestactress for Gina Pareno's performance in the Asian Competition at Osian'sCinefan in New Delhi on Sundaynight. Pareno plays a middle-agedhousewife who collects bets for the illegal game of 'jueteng' in the film,which also picked up ...
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Rock band biopic wins best film at Cinemalaya
Michael Sandejas' Tulad Ng Dati was named best film at thesecond Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival in Manila last night.The digital film based onthe story of rock band The Dawn alsotook away best sound and shared the best editing award with Rotonda. Ron Bryant was named bestdirector for Rotonda. Batad: Sa ...
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French distributor Bac posts strong revenues
Bac Majestic has announced a marked increase in revenues for the first half of 2006. With $15.1m (Euros 12m) in income, the French distributor saw a 56.6% rise over the same period last year. Figures were especially notable in theatrical distribution with $7.8 (Euros 6.2m) in revenues for 12 films ...
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Ireland's BCI backs Lenny Abrahamson's Garage
Garage, Lenny Abrahamson's second feature following Adam & Paul, has been awarded $833,513 (Euros 660,000) in the second round of funding from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland's (BCI) Sound & Vision fund. Garage is the only feature project to have been backed by the BCI in the second round of ...
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Ireland establishes new Academy to run awards
Ireland's arts minister John O'Donoghue has announced the creation of a new Irish Film and Television Academy. The body will take over the running of the Irish Film and TV Awards from previous organisers The Irish Film and Television Network. The timing of the awards will be move to February ...
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UK's Cinema Extreme open for next round of shorts funding
Cinema Extreme, the short film initiative from FilmFour and the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund, is taking applications for its new funding round. Up to $92,447 (£50,000) will be awarded to the selected short film projects. Those accepted go through a development programme. The scheme's first two years backed ...
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De Palma's The Black Dahlia to open Venice
Brian De Palma will returnto the Biennale with a film for the first time in 14 years as it was announcedhis star-studded film noir The Black Dahlia will open the 63rd Venice International FilmFestival on Aug 30.Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart star in theJames Ellroy adaptation ...
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Driving Lessons
MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Location: file:///C:/2A8CB117/drivingreview.htmContent-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableContent-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"Dir/scr: Jeremy Bro=ck. UK. 200=6.95mins.Funny and tender enough to compen=satefor its lightweight, conventional core, DrivingLessons, the first directorial feature from scriptwriter Jeremy Brock (=Mrs Brown, Charlotte Gray) is a likeable HaroldAnd Maude rerun that is given a commercial leg-up by the canny casting =ofthe three ...
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Driving Lessons
Dir/scr: Jeremy Brock. UK. 2006.95mins.Funny and tender enough to compensate for itslightweight, conventional core, DrivingLessons, the first directorial feature from scriptwriter Jeremy Brock (Mrs Brown, Charlotte Gray) is a likeable HaroldAnd Maude rerun that is given a commercial leg-up by the canny casting ofthe three main roles. Harry Potterregular Rupert ...
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Ostrow, MarVista agree terms on Surfer King
Producers representativePage Ostrow has closed an international distribution deal for Bernard Murray'steen comedy The Surfer King withLos Angeles-based MarVista Entertainment.MarVista will handle international theatrical, television and video distributionon the story, which stars Lindsay Wagner, Randy Wayne, Ben Ziff, Alan Thicke,and Cerina Vincent.The Surfer King charts the exploits of a 17-year-old ...
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Academy tweaks marketing rules
The Board ofGovernors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has made a slightchange to the regulations governing marketing campaigns for the upcoming 79thAcademy Awards.Going forward notifications about screening schedules may include informationabout regular theatrical release screenings alongside details of private,invitation-only screenings, as long as they conform to ...
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Magnolia sees light in The Hero of Colour City
Magnolia Pictures hasacquired North America rights to Exodus Film Group's CG-animated feature TheHero Of Color City.The story follows a group of crayons as they strive to save a vibrant land from a tyrant who clearly subscribes to the monochrome school of interior design.J P McCormick and Rich Raczelowski co-wrote the ...
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Cambridge festival sets attendance record
The 26thCambridge Film Festival saw more than 14,500 admissions, a new festival record,during its run from July 6-16. The event hosted 225 screenings and events. Audience awards went toPedro Almodovar's Volver and Mike Flores's short Waiting/Hoping. The young person's jurywinner was 14-year-old Melinda Barber from Parkside Community College. The festival ...
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Pinball Films wraps UK, German shoot for Horner's KAZ
UK-basedPinball Films has wrapped principal photography on KAZ, which marks director Ashley Horner's feature debut. Theproject shot for six weeks in Newcastle upon Tyne and Berlin. KAZ stars Nora Von Waldstatten as a German music journalist who discoversshe's inherited a blood disorder from a rock musician father she never knew. ...
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Pirates bounty gives boost to UK box-office
Box-office figures from thefirst half of 2006 may have seen a 3% year-on-year deficit in the UK but Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has almostsingle-handedly turned fortunes around in just two weeks. After its third weekend (18days on release) Buena Vista International's sequel had already become thehighest-grossing film ...
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Sarajevo's CineLink partners with The Netherlands
TheNetherlands will be the countrypartner of Sarajevo's CineLink(August 23-27) after the co-production market's previous collaborations with Austria in 2004 and Germany in 2005.Adelegation of around two dozen representatives from film institutions,production companies, distributors, broadcasters and sales companies will betravelling to Sarajevo to meet filmmakers from South Eastern Europe whose projects ...