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Errol Morris to be feted at 2005 Hot Docs
Acclaimed US documentary filmmakerErrol Morris will be the guest of honour at the 2005 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Along with a retrospective of his work, the director of such films as Gates Of Heaven, The Thin Blue Line and the AcademyAward-winning Fog Of War will be presented with ...
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I-On buys German home ent rights to Murder-Set-Pieces
MSP Productions has soldGerman home entertainment rights for the horror title Murder-Set-Pieces to I-On New Media.Nick Palumbo's picture premiered last December at the Sitges International FilmFestival in Barcelona and played in limited release in Los Angeles and NewYork.Murder-Set-Pieces follows theexploits of a homicidal fashion photographer and stars Sven Garrett, Tony ...
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New Line ready to go Running Scared
New Line Cinema has paid high seven figures for North Americanrights to Running Scared, Wayne Kramer's follow-up to The Coolerthat stars Paul Walker as a low-level mobster who must find a gun used in acontract killing.Chazz Palminteri, Vera Farmiga, Alex Neuberger and Cameron Bright also star inthe picture, a co-production ...
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Universal acquires Magic Kingdom For Sale series
Universal Pictures haspicked up rights to Terry Brooks' book series Magic Kingdom For Sale which The Mummy creator Stephen Sommers willdirect.Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel will adapt the story, the first in a series ofsix books about an attorney widower who buys a magical kingdom and must save itfrom an ...
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Williams to star in inner city drama Brother
Vanessa Williams has signed to play the lead in Liberty Artistsand My Brother Productions' inner city drama Brother.Williams will play a dying mother of two young boys who tries to put herchildren up for adoption. The experience forms an intense sibling bond as thebrothers grow into adults.Fredro Starr and newcomer ...
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AUSTRALIA 15 February
Two US films new to cinemaslead the box office on the weekend and both would have got a boost because oftheir links to Australia. The Aviator, starring the homegrown Cate Blanchett, tookA$1,830,974 from 248 screens for Roadshow, and Hide And Seek, directedby the homegrown John Polson, took A$1,652,264 from 205 ...
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Rois Et Reine named French film of the year
The French critics union hasnamed Arnaud Desplechin's Rois Et Reine best French film of the year. The film, which starsEmmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Almaric and Catherine Deneuve, recently took the PrixLouis Delluc and is up for seven Cesar awards including best picture, director,actor and actress.Best foreign film went toSofia Coppola's Lost ...
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Tickets
Dirs:Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach. It-UK. 2005. 118mins.Three famous directors joining forces to direct one film is not new, but Ticketsdiffers from other recent "celebrity trio" showcases (Eros, ThreeExtremes) in that its film-makers share the same setting, some of the samecharacters and the same screenplay (or, in the case ...
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Tickets
Dirs:Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach. It-UK. 2005. 118mins.Three famous directors joining forces to direct one film is not new, but Ticketsdiffers from other recent "celebrity trio" showcases (Eros, ThreeExtremes) in that its film-makers share the same setting, some of the samecharacters and the same screenplay (or, in the case ...
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Trust clinches int'l on Vinterberg's Wendy
ThomasVinterberg's controversial drama, Dear Wendy has been hitting the targetat the European Film Market. Followingpacked screenings in Berlin earlier this week, the film, scripted by Lars VonTrier, has been sold to Germany (Legend), the UK (Metrodome) Canada (TVA)films, Argentina (Distribution Company) and Peru (Gateno Films) Peru.USbuyers are also circling Dear ...
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Taiwan Springs for Brothels
SpringInternational in Taiwan and Barbarian Turk in Turkey are the latest companiesto buy Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski's award-winning Born Into Brothels,which has an Oscar nomination this year for best documentary feature.AndrewHerwitz of The Film Sales Company, which is selling the film here, is reportingintense buyer interest in the documentary ...
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Wild Bunch goes crazy in Berlin
WildBunch has hosted the hot stand at this year's EFM market, with the Frenchseller signing over 50 deal memos at Berlin so far. Despitewell-publicised problems on Go Go Tales, Abel Ferrara has not scared offbuyers for his upcoming all-star Mary. Starring Juliette Binoche, ForestWhitaker, Heather Graham, and Mathew Modine, Mary ...
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Cannes unveils Directors' Fortnight
Bulging with the most titles to ever screen in the section, Cannes' Directors' Fortnight unveiled its 32nd edition on Wednesday.Highlights in the section, which takes place 11 - 21 May, are expected to be Karen Kusama's Girlfight, which wowed critics and buyers alike at its Sundance premiere; Silvio Soldini's Bread ...
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Mirovision sends My Boyfriend to Nippon
Koreanmini-conglomerate Mirovision has tied up a clutch of high profile sales on itsSundance/EFM slate and extended its relationship with controversial directorPark Chul-soo.My Boyfriend Type B, a romantic comedy about the Asianphenomenon of dating according to blood groups - B-type men have a reputationas being selfish and arrogant - was sold ...
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Savage sales for Celluloid
CelluloidDreams has closed some key pre-sales on Tom Kalin's Savage Grace inBerlin, having flown the Swoon director in from New York for meetingswith buyers to share his vision of the film.Vertigopre-bought rights in Spain, BIM in Italy and Scanbox in Scandinavia;negotiations are underway between Celluloid and buyers in Greece, Japan,France, ...
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Short Bear drinks up Milk
Britishshort Milk, directed by Peter Mackie Burns, has taken the Golden Bearfor Best Competition Short Film at the Berlinale.America'sThe Intervention, by Jay Duplass, and German director IzabelaPlucinska's Jam Session tied for the short Silver Bear. Don QuixoteIn Jerusalem (Israel) by Dani Rosenberg received a Special Mention. PrixUIP for Best European ...
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Major upheaval ahead for UK cinema advertising sector
A dramatic shift of power inthe UK cinema advertising market is on the horizon.UK cinema chain UGC's screenadvertising contract, currently held by Pearl and Dean, is to pass to CarltonScreen Advertising (CSA) in early 2006, according to a spokesperson at CSA. Themove follows the acquisition of UGC by Cineworld, which ...
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Hamori pours H2O on Cronenberg's Pain
AndrasHamori, the international producer here with the epic Hungarian picture Fatelessin competition, has reactivated his H20 Motion Pictures production outfit andset four pictures to shoot in the next two years including two with his oldAlliance Atlantis partner Robert Lantos. Hamori'sH20 has boarded two pictures which are in development with Lantos ...
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Red feeling Lucky on Plateaux
Italiandistributor Lucky Red has pre-bought multi-territory rights to A Thousand Plateaux (Chungae Eui Gowon),the Mongolian-set epic to be directed by controversial Korean director JangSun-woo. Thefilm is sold internationally by independent Korean sales house, Cineclick Asiaand was presented last month at Rotterdam's CineMart project market. There ithad $1m of finance in ...
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The freeze is on at Cannes
Abreeze of good news from the Croisette should warm Berlinale hearts: Cannes'four-star hoteliers have come together to freeze hotel rates this year to 2004levels. Billed as a defence against the fluctuating dollar - atyesterday's exchange rates anyway - the declaration effectively means that people staying at theCarlton, the Majestic, the ...