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Arclight picks up Aussie war story
Arclight Films has boarded anuntitled war story about Australian soldiers in Papua New Guinea during World War II, which gives former Film FinanceCorporation Australia (FFC) head Catriona Hughes her first credit as producer.The film, which startsshooting on September 30, also marks the feature debut of director AlisterGrierson, whose short film ...
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Mundra unveils Sonia Gandhi biopic
An English-language biopicof Italian-born Indian Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi has been unveiled byLos Angeles-based film director Jag Mundra. The film, Sonia, willprofile her as a reluctant leader who entered politics only to fulfil thedreams of her assassinated husband. It's based on the book Sonia - ABiography, written by Indian ...
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Miramax set to bask in Tuscan Sun
Miramax has acquired an option on Frances Mayes' best-selling non-fiction book Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home In Italy. The book - for which Miramax reportedly paid a mid six-figure dollar sum - is about Mayes' work restoring an abandoned villa in the Italian countryside. It figured in the New ...
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Beyond takes on sales for road movie Carmo
Beyond Films has picked up international salesduties on new Latin America-set feature film Carmo from start-up BR-3Films & Music UK. The romantic-adventure road movie described asBonnie & Clyde meets Y Tu Mama Tambien marks short film andTV writer-director Murilo Pasta's feature debut. Mariana Loureiro (BehindThe Sun) and Jorge Ramon (Brainstorm) ...
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Hollywood shoots trek to Czech Republic
This autumn two major Hollywood productions, Omen 666 and Young Hannibal: Behind the Mask, will shoot in the Czech Republic,providing a welcome injection of cash after a slow summer and a dip in foreignorders in 2004. Insiders dismiss rumours that Warner Bros. is eyeing theCzech Republic for Harry Potter and ...
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Water
Dir/scr.Deepa Mehta. Can. 2005. 114mins.As intelligent as it isravishing, Deepa Mehta's Water is amoving portrayal of impossible love and possible hope. Fronted by an equally ravishingcombination of Bollywood stars Lisa Ray and John Abraham and cloaked in ahistorical drama set within Indian's widow caste, it tells the story of a ...
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Paradise reigns in Dutch market
Multicultural comedy Schnitzel Paradise, a contemporary Romeo andJuliet style story, is riding high at the Dutch box office.The local picture has been at the top of the box office for the past twoweeks, beating international titles such as WeddingCrashers and Cinderella Man.In ten days, Schnitzel Paradise has grossed Euros 800,000 ...
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April Snow (Wae Chul)
Dir: Hur Jin-ho. S Kor.2005. 105mins.Coming after ChristmasIn August and One Fine Spring Day, April Snow shows HurJin-ho be as gentle and romantic as ever - and as likely to enjoy successfulbox office.Once again he concentrateson strong emotions, showing as slow, deliberate and sensitive a touch as he hasdone before, ...
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Not Here To Be Loved (Je Ne Suis Pas La Pour Etre Aime)
Dir: Stephane Brize. Fr.2005. 95mins.French director StephaneBrize's second feature after Hometown Blues (1999), Not Here To BeLoved is more a slow, intimate study of two repressed characters than astraightforward romantic comedy. The film's measured dosing of humour andpassion takes its cue from the tango music, which is central to the ...
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Montreal FilmFest has Pride for closing night
The Closing Night film atthe Festival International de Film de Montreal has been changed but the newfilm still stars Keira Knightley. The fledgling event suffered a major PRset-back this weekend when New Line pulled Tony Scott`s Domino, starring Knightley as the wild child of film actorLaurence Harvey, out of the ...
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Ballroom, Enron, Murderball named on IDA shortlist
Thirteen features will compete for the 21st Annual InternationalDocumentary Association Awards, including box office hit Mad Hot Ballroom, and hot theatrical titles Murderball, Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room and Why We Fight.Two features from the shortlistwill be chosen for top honours when the winners are unveiled at the ...
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Polychrome, Sundance pick up US rights to Love, Ludlow
Polychrome Pictures has picked up North American home video andcable and Sundance Channel has acquired pay cable rights from Washington SquareFilms to Adrienne Weiss' comedy Love, Ludlow.Polychrome is a joint venturebetween New York-based Lightyear Entertainment and Los Angeles-based BellaVicEntertainment, and the picture will be released in North America in December ...
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Sarandon, Howard to receive career awards at Chicago in Oct
Susan Sarandon will collect the Gold Hugo Award at the 41stChicago International Film Festival's opening night screening of Cameron Crowe'sElizabethtown on Oct6.Sarandon won the best actressAcademy Award in 1996 for Dead Man Walking,and earned nominations for Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo's Oil, TheClient, and Atlantic City.Elizabethtown opens through Paramount in North ...
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Vertigo gets Cock & Bull Story for Spain
Vertigo Films has picked up Spanish rights from The Works toMichael Winterbottom's comedy A Cock & Bull Story starring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon andGillian Anderson.The film-about-a-film recently screened at Toronto and SanSebastian. It marks the fourth collaboration between Vertigo and Winterbottom followingButterfly Kiss, 24 Hour Party People and In This ...
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IFP sets up training programme for independent film in New York City
New York-based film collective IFP is teaming up with the New YorkCity Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting and NYC BusinessSolutions to set up a workforce training pilot programme.The Independent Film Training Grant Initiative will offeron-the-job training to freelance workers on independent productions and offerproduction companies grants to offset ...
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Golden Horse to kickstart strong Chinese film awards season
While film industries aroundthe globe are busy selecting their foreign-language Oscar entries, the Chinesefilm awards season got underway this week with submissions for Taiwan's GoldenHorse, which claims to be the leading awards ceremony for Chinese-language film.Reflecting what has been arelatively strong year for Chinese cinema, the submissions include severalhigh-profile titles ...
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Singapore exhibition market opens up
Singapore's box office is set for a shake-up following an openingup of the exhibition market which allows films to be played on more screensthan ever before.Until recently, filmsacquired by local exhibitor-cum-distributor Cathay had been excluded from the cinema circuits operated by its rivals Shaw,Golden Village and Eng Wah. Thanks to ...
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Forbidden winner of San Seb's In Progress prize
Brazil's EProibido Proibir (Forbidden To Forbid) has won the Films In Progress 8(Cine En Construccion) award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival,a prize which carries over Euros $400,000 in completion funding.Directed byJorge Duran, Forbidden was one of seven finalists selected out of 60entries to screen in front of industry ...
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Italian veterans line-up ambitious new projects
While the Italian filmindustry continues to grapple with a two-year financial crisis, the country'susual suspects are lining up ambitious new pictures. These include RenzoMartinelli, director of local special effects-heavy picture Vajont, whois currently shooting a film about terrorism entitled Il Mercante di Pietre(literally, The Precious Stones Merchant). The film is ...