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Dubai announces line-up; Paradise Now to open festival
Headinginto its second year, the Dubai International Film Festival (December 11-17)has announced an expanded line-up of 98 Middle East and international films,kicking off with Hany Abu-Assad'ssuicide bomber drama Paradise Now,and culminating with the closing night gala of Christian Carrion's Merry Christmas. Along theway, Dubai will host six world premieres,including Albert ...
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Solanas takes Bronze Horse at Stockholm festival
Juan DiegoSolanas has been awarded the Bronze Horse for best film at the 16th StockholmInternational Film Festival. Nordesteis the story of a struggling single mother in a poverty-stricken area ofArgentina and a rich French woman desperate to adopt a child. As theirpaths cross the story takes on issues of child ...
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Sterk's Turning hits the right notes in Mannheim
The mainaward of this year's Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival went to Tuningby Slovenia's Igor Sterk.Theinternational jury, including Istituto Luce's Claudia Bedogni, Swiss Films'Micha Schiwow and Austrian producer Veit Heiduschka praised the film's"precise use of film language."The juryawarded the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize to Perry Ogden's Pavee Lackeen,which also received the ...
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Spanish short takes big prize at UK's Brief Encounters
The UK's largestshort film festival, Brief Encounters, has awarded its international jury prizeto Spanish short Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! by Marcal Fores.Other winners atthe 11th Bristol International Short Film Festival were Bristol-basedfilm-makers Sam Hearn and Richard Penfold of Omni Productions, whose short Indians won the ITV West Award and its £1,000prize. ...
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Belgian takes top honours at Thessaloniki festival
Belgian Fien Troch was awarded the Golden Alexanderand $43,000 (37,000 Euros) for Someone Else's Happiness (EenAnder Zijn Geluk) at the 46thThessaloniki International Film Festival. VittorioStoraro's seven-strong jury also handed the film awards for Troch's screenplay, a shared BestActress award for Ina Geerts and a Special Mention for Natali Broods as ...
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Harry dominates Thanksgiving box office in US
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire crossed $200m on its 10th day to produceanother unbeatable weekend that is poised to enter the record books as thesecond biggest Thanksgiving weekend in history.The fourth instalment in Warner Bros' family franchise added anestimated $54.9m over three days and $81.3m over the five-day ...
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42 international markets generate massive $95.4m for Harry Potter
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire cast a spell over the international arenawith a staggering second weekend that generated an estimated $95.4m from morethan 9,400 prints in 42 markets to raise the running total to $207m.Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) sources said the picturecrossed $200m in 11 days - ...
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Andrea makes something of Big Nothing as filming begins
Jean-BaptisteAndrea will start principal photography on December 4 for the black comedy BigNothing. The cast featuresJoining David Schwimmer, Simon Pegg, Natasha McElhone, Mimi Rogers, MauryChaykin, and Alice Eve. The film is about a frustrated teacher who embarks on ablackmailing scheme with two con artists. Big Nothing is a Pathe Pictures ...
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Kadokawa partners with Hong Kong's Intercontinental
Japan's Kadokawa Holdings has made an aggressive move into the Chinese andSouth-East Asian film markets by forming a wide-ranging partnership withIntercontinental Group in Hong Kong. The tie-up - announced by Kadokawachairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa and Intercontinental chiefs Terry Lai and Rigo Jesutoday in Hong Kong - covers every stage of the ...
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Look Both Ways dominates Aussie awards
Compere Russell Crowe andthe film Look Both Ways were thestars of the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards at the Melbourne CentralCity Studios.Oscar-winner Crowe made a significantcontribution to the revitalisation of an event that had lost its gloss inrecent years, injectingcomedy by threatening to throw the black phone next to the ...
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Toei Video resurrects Battles Without Honour
Japan's Toei Video is reviving its signature Battles Without Honor Or Humanity television series, originally launched by cult Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku in 1973. Based on true accounts of gang wars in Hiroshima, the nine-part series, which ran until 1979, not only established Fukasaku's reputation, but gave a new lease ...
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Charlie wins golden ticket at BAFTA awards
Charlie And The Choclate Factory was revealed as UK children's choice for this year's best film.Tim Burton's film was presented with the award at yesterday's British Academy Children's Television And Film Awards in London. More than 30,000 under-16s voted.The Incredibles was named best feature film at the ceremony.
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Birmingham to host film-literature conference
Birmingham's Midlands Arts Centre will host the Lost in Adaptation conference, exploring the links between film and literature, from December 2-4.Speakers will include director Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham), novelist Jonathan Coe (The Rotters Club), screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce (Millions), novelist Helen Cross (My Summer of Love) and producer ...
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Roger Michell Starts London Shoot For Venus
Director Roger Michell has started principal photography on his next feature, Venus, which is described as a "coming of very-old-age story."The film reunites Michell (Notting Hill, Changing Lanes) with producer Kevin Loader and writer Hanif Kureishi, who previously worked together on feature film The Mother and TV series The Buddha ...
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Polish fest honours Fiennes, Menzel, Delli Coli
Poland's Camerimage Festival has awarded its Krzysztof Kieslowski award to actor Ralph Fiennes. Czech director Jiri Menzel also received a festival award, the Special Golden Frog, for his"exceptional visual sensibility." The career achievement award was given posthumously to Italian cinematographer Tonino Delli Coli, who recently passed away.Festival director Marek Zydowicz ...
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Goa festival faces producer boycott
The 36th government-backed International Film Festival of India (IFFI), set to open December 1 in its new permanent home of Goa, is facing a last-minute internal wrangle with the Film Federation of India (FFI).Producers' body the FFI is threatening to boycott the festival's Indian film promotion section, the Film Bazaar.The ...
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Tele Muenchen AFM Pickups
New films by Roberto Benigni and Woody Allen are among a collection of new titles acquired by Germany's Tele Muenchen Group (TMG) at the recent American Film Market (AFM). German speaking rights were bought for Benigni's latest box-office sensation The Tiger And The Snow; Allen's romantic comedy Scoop, starring Scarlet ...
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Tele Muenchen AFM Pickups
New films by Roberto Benigni and Woody Allen are among a collection of new titles acquired by Germany's Tele Muenchen Group (TMG) at the recent American Film Market (AFM). German speaking rights were bought for Benigni's latest box-office sensation The Tiger And The Snow; Allen's romantic comedy Scoop, starring Scarlet ...
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Nicaragua ready for first production in 16 years
Germany's Shotgun Pictures will co-produce producer-directorFlorence Jaugey's feature debut La Yuma whichwill be the first feature film to be produced in Nicaragua for 16 years. French-born Jaugey, who took upresidence in Nicaragua set up her production company Camila Filmswith Nicaraguan filmmaker Frank Pineda in 1990.Budgeted at Euros 350,000and scheduled to ...
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GenArt launches new award, names festival committee
Top brass at national artsand entertainment body Gen Art are ringing the changes with new programming, anew festival committee and an inaugural award at the upcoming eleventh AnnualGen Art Film Festival (GAFF).For the first timeorganisers at the festival, which is scheduled to run from Apr 5-11 2006, willpresent the juried ...