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Zane, Sizemore sign up for Archetype mayhem
Billy Zane will starin The Mad and Tom Sizemore hassigned to Bottom Feeder, twoproductions by Peace Arch Entertainment's genre arm Archetype Films.The Mad is scheduled to beginproduction this month in Canada and tells of a doctor and his teenage daughterwho are terrorised by zombies at a truck stop.John Kalangis will ...
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Green signs on to New Line's Golden Compass
Rising French star Eva Greenhas been cast as Serafina in New Line's adaptation of The Golden Compass, the first instalment of Phillip Pullman's HisDark Materials fantasy trilogy.Green, who plays Bond's love interest Vesper Lynd opposite Daniel Craig in theupcoming Casino Royale, is thelatest addition to the $150m project.Earlier this week ...
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Toronto launches 'envelope-pushing' Vanguard sidebar
The Toronto International Film Festival is launching a newprogramme, Vanguard, with four world premieres to back up the sidebar'sambition to showcase films that are "stylistically bold, structurally playfuland appeal to adventurous, risk-taking audiences." The four world premieres are, from Australia, GeoffreyWright's contemporary adaptation of Macbeth;from France, Chacun Sa Nuit byPascal ...
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Montreal's FNC bags new Trier comedy
Lars von Trier's The Boss Of It All will makes it North American premiere at Montreal'sFestival du Nouveau Cinema, which runs from October 18 to 28. The film will have its worldpremiere at the Copenhagen International Film Festival in September. The Danish-language comedy, which stars such von Trierregulars as Peter ...
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The Bubble (Ha'Bua)
Dir: Eytan Fox. Is. 2006. 90mins.Film-maker Eytan Foxdisappointingly follows Walk On Water, one of Israel's strongest exports of recenttimes, with The Bubble, asurprisingly feeble drama which picks up on similar themes but frames them indisorganised fashion.Set in Tel Aviv's Shenkin neighbourhood, the Israeli capital's equivalent ofGreenwich Village, the drama addresses ...
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Serambi
Dirs: Garin Nugroho, Tonny Trimarsanto, Viva Westi,Lianto Luseno. Ind'sia-Fr. 2006. 75mins.Concentrating on the events after 2004's Asiantsunami disaster, the documentary Serambifunctions best as a companion piece to Garin Nugroho's previous work Of Love And Eggs, itself an ebullient pieceabout an Indonesian marketplace. Presenting through its collage of images thehuman and ...
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Just Like The Son
Dir/scr: Morgan J Freeman. US. 2006. 86minsEssentially a road movie for kids, with the adultssimply straight men and women to a wisecrackingsix-years-old, Morgan J Freeman's Just LikeThe Son joins the plethora of undemanding matinee products targeted at thechildren's crowd.While its plot motor - adultkidnaps boy - hardly sounds ethical, audience ...
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Industry turns out for closure of Shochiku studios
Nearly 700 film industry figures and other guests, including director Yoji Yamada and veteran stars Chieko Baisho and Rentaro Mikuni, turned up for the ceremony held yesterday (June 26) to mark the closing of Shochiku's historic Ofuna Studio complex.First opened in 1936 near the seaside town of Kamakura, the Ofuna ...
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Hilary Bevan Jones takes chairman post at Bafta
HilaryBevan Jones has taken over as chairman of the The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta), succeeding Duncan Kenworthyafter his two-year stint.Bevan Jones will be the first woman to chair the Academyin its 60-year history, after having served as deputy chairman for one year. Kenworthy will now take ...
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Sarajevo sets competition films and jury
The 12th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug18-26) has announced its competition programme andmain jury. Eightcompetition films will compete for the awards of best film, special jury award,best actor and best actress: Das Fraulein, Switzerland/Germany/Bosnia andHerzegovina, dir: Andrea StakaThe Paper WillBe Blue (Hartia Va Fi Albastra), Romania, dir: RaduMunteanKythera, Hungary, dir: Peter ...
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Korean film exports down 58% on last year
Korean filmexports for the first half of 2006 are down 58% year-on-year, according tofigures released by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). Total exports came to$17.4m, compared to $41.8m in the first six months of 2005. The main reasonfor the sharp decline in sales is that Japan, Korea's biggest buyer, has ...
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Walters, Serkis and Mackintosh on board for Sugarhouse Lane
NewUK-based digital film production and distribution company Slingshot will beginshooting its debut feature Sugarhouse Lane on Aug 21.DirectorGary Love makes his feature film debut, with a script by Dominic Leyton basedon his stage play Collision. MichaelRiley is producing.Sugarhouse Lane will star StevenMackintosh as a middle-class boy who becomes involved ...
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Off Screen leads charge in Cinemavault sales
Cinemavault ReleasingInternational has notched up a string of sales, headed by Pieter Kuijpers' OffScreen.The Dutch hostagethriller has been picked up for the US by Image Entertainment, with furtherdeals for France (Melimedias), Brazil (California), Greece (Spentzos Film), andthe former Yugoslavia (A.G. Market).Georgina Riedel's comedy How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer ...
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MonteCristo kicks off japan shoot on Apartment 1303
New York-based salesand distribution company MonteCristo Entertainment has begun principalphotography in Hamamatsu, Japan, on the horror tale Apartment 1303.Ataru Oikawa is directing the project about the terrifying circumstancessurrounding a rental apartment, which is expected to be ready for delivery byAFM and stars Noriko Nakagoshi.Oikawa adapted the screenplay from Kei Oishi's ...
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Sundance names seven Annenberg fellows
Sundance Institutehas announced the seven recipients of this year's Annenberg awards, which givefilmmakers a $10,000 grant and extended creative and financial support over atwo-year period to assist development.This year's screenplays touch on issues ranging from the struggles of younglove in a post-9/11 New York to the challenges and small victories ...
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Shim named managing director of Fox Korea
Jay Shim has beenappointed managing director of Fox Korea, replacing Jesse Lee who was recentlynamed general manager of Fox Japan.Shim will assume the new role immediately and reports to vice president of theAsia/Pacific region Sunder Kimatrai.Shim most recently served as vice president of Popcorn Film, where he managedthe production of ...
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Hot Docs to spotlight Central, Eastern Europe
Central and Eastern European documentary cinema will beshowcased at the 2007 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival aspart of the festival's National Spotlight programme.Films from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia will be considered forinclusion. In addition, Hot Docs will devote its Made In... sidebar ...
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New Hong Kong producer Artforce starts Protege
Through newHong Kong-based production company ArtforceInternational, two top Hong Kong film-makers are teaming together for the first time on Protege, a drugtrafficking drama produced by Peter Chan and directed by Derek Yee.A new jointventure between Yee, Chan and his business partner Andre Morgan, Artforce is co-producing the $4.6m (HK$36m) film ...
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Winchester hooks Midler's All Girl, Merv Griffin
The UK's Winchester Entertainment, which unveiled pre-tax profits up a record 205% yesterday (June 27), has struck first-look deals with entertainment impresario Merv Griffin and Bette Midler and Bonnie Bruckheimer's All Girl Productions.The UK film and TV concern will act as overseas sales agents on films from the two production ...
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Swiss study finds more funding but lack of box-office success
TheSwiss film industry is likely to have mixed feelings after reading the FederalOffice for Statistics' (BFS) latest study "Filmproduction in Switzerland 1995-2004'.Appearingahead of Locarno Film Festival's first Swiss Day (Aug8), which will showcase national filmmaking, the BFS study notes, on the onehand, that public and private funding for local production ...