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Vesper soars at Sundance Channel
ChristianVesper has been promoted to senior vice president, acquisitions, programplanning and scheduling at Sundance Channel. He continues to report to LauraMichalchyshyn, executive vice president, programming and marketing at thechannel.In hisexpanded role, Vesper will manage the channel's international sales activityand work closely with the digital media team, licensing content for the ...
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Bruce Weber plots Robert Mitchum documentary
Bruce Weber, in Toronto, tosupport a Dialogues screening of his 1988 documentary Let's Get Lost, has announced that his next project will definitelybe his long-cherished Nice Girls Don't Stay For Breakfast: A Portrait OfRobert Mitchum.Described by Weber as a'musical documentary,' the project is a profile of Hollywood's original badboy, Mitchum. ...
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Cirrus jumpstarts racer drama Nitro
CirrusCommunications, the Montreal-based production company behind last year's smash C.R.A.Z.Y., has begun production on its nextfilm, the $6.4m action romance Nitro.Directedby hot Quebec TV director Alain Desrochers from a screenplay by BenoitGuichard, the film takes its lead from the high-octane adrenalin rush of TheFast And The Furious,according to C.R.A.Z.Y. producer ...
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Ecosse, Shivas to produce Disraeli biopic
Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd is being lined up to star as Benjamin Disraeli in the provisionally titled Dizzy, a feature dramatising the life of the brilliant British prime minister being produced by Mark Shivas and Ecosse Films.Gruffudd would play Disraeli at 28 years old in the film, which revolves around ...
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Cars passes billion dollar Pirates on international track
Buena Vista International had a lot to celebrate thisweekend, as Cars took over pole position at the international box officeand previous leader Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest passedthe $1bn worldwide gross milestone. A powerful opening in Germany helped Cars gross anestimated $9m from 3,900 screens in 34 countries ...
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The Covenant leads new releases at US box office
Three new releases divided the spoils at the NorthAmerican box office this weekend, and in the end it was Sony's teen horrorouting The Covenant that managed to top the chart with a relativelymodest $9m gross.Focus Features' Hollywoodland opened in secondplace with an estimated $6m and The Weinstein Company's The Protectorcame ...
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Hong Kong set to lose only arthouse cinema
Hong Kong's only dedicated arthouse cinema, the Cine-ArtHouse, is facing closure as its owner Sil-Metropole Organisation is havingdifficulty renewing the lease.The two-screen cinema, locatedat the Sun Hung Kai Centre in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island, programmes mainland Chinese, foreign-language and other kinds of arthouse and specialist cinema. It has ...
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Tokyo Filmex to open with Venice winner Still Life
Tokyo Filmex has announcedJia Zhangke's Venice Gold Lion winner StillLife as the opening film at this year's edition. Jia's fifth feature focuseson the lives of couples and families set against the backdrop of the massiveThree Gorges Dam project in China. The film, which was not tipped to win but walkedaway ...
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Transmedia gets UK rights to Our Fathers and The Run
New UK distributor Transmedia hasadded two more films to its slate: OurFathers and The Run. Dan Curtis' Our Fathers, about sex abuse scandals inthe Catholic Church, stars Ted Danson, ChristopherPlummer, Daniel Baldwin, Ellen Burstyn and Brian Dennehy.Tania Meneguzzi's The Run, abouta young London couple drawn into the world of drug ...
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Luc Besson says he will stop directing after Arthur
Unveiling the names of the French actors who willvoice the lead roles in his upcoming Arthur And TheMinimoys, Luc Bessonconfirmed Monday morning that the film will be his last as director.Arguably one of the best known and most successfulfilm-makers to come from Francein the past 20 years, Besson made the ...
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Arts Council, Film Council launch Single Shot programme
The Arts Council England and the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund have launched Single Shot, a multi-platform touringprogramme of moving image projects. Single Shot will commission film and video projects - based on theconcept of a single unedited shot - by established artists and new talents.Also the Arts Council ...
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European Film Awards picks longlist of 49 films
The European Film Academy has announced the 49 European films on the selectionlist for the 2006 European Film Awards. EFA members in 20countries have voted one national film into the selection list, and then theEFA board and experts add further films to the list. The Academy's 1700members will select films ...
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Australian Film Commission's script lab chooses eight projects
Director Fred Schepisi will be one of the mentors at SP*RK, theAustralian Film Commission's script lab, and eight projects have been chosen toparticipate.They include An Imaginary Life, an adaptation ofDavid Malouf's novel of the same name being producedby Penny Chapman, a former head of drama at national broadcaster the ABC, ...
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Cairo festival resurrects market as Egyptian production grows
The organisers of the CairoInternational Film Festival, now in its 30th year, are launching afilm market to run alongside the main festival. It will take place in the CairoOpera House, Dec 2-7."We had a market a few yearsback but it stopped for various reasons. This seemed the year to bring ...
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Phone rivals hit at Vizzavi
Vizzavi - one of the key planks on which the merger of Seagram, Vivendi and Canal Plus is built - was reportedly dealt a blow this weekend when two phone giants secured an injunction preventing the portal from operating in France. According to British newspaper The Sunday Times, British Telecommunications ...
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Berlinale plans shorts, childrens changes in 2007
The Berlinale has announced two structural innovations for itsnext edition which will be held from Feb 8-18, 2007.Thefestival's Kinderfilmfest/14plus section will held in future under the name ofGeneration, with the two competitions renamed as Generation Kplusand Generation 14plus. 'Renaming the section in this way enables us tocommunicate and define our ...
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IMAX, Cinearte sign for IMAX cinema in Sao Paolo multiplex
IMAX Corp and Brazilian exhibitor Circuito Cinearte have signed anagreement that will see an IMAX cinema as part of a 10-screen mulitplex in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new facility is scheduled to open in 2007. The deal is IMAX'ssecond in Brazil. In all there will be 29 IMAX theatres in ...
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TWC to handle international sales on two Mayhem Projects films
The Weinstein Company (TWC) hassigned a deal to handle international sales on LA-based production andfinancing company The Mayhem Project's first two pictures, Clock Tower and Make It Happen.TWC's president of international Glen Basner is keen to build upthe sales agency side of the company, and concluded a raft of deals ...
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Ruby Tuesday gets animated with Jagger, Europa
EuropaCorp and Mick Jagger's Jagged Films are preparing a late2006 start on the animated feature Ruby Tuesday in time for a winter 2008 release.The partners are jointly producing the project and EuropaCorp isfinancing and ...
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Bachchan to join Abraham in Mehta's next Exclusion
Indian megastar AmitabhBachchan is expected to take the lead role in Deepa Mehta's Exclusion, a$15m historical drama about an ill-fated voyage of emigre Sikhs who soughtrefuge but where rebuffed by Canadian authorities in the early part of the 20thcentury. Bachchan, who is in Torontoto promote Never Say Goodbye,will play Gurdit ...