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Ryan elected to second term as IFTA chairman
IAC Filmdirector Michael Ryan has been re-elected as chairman of the Independent Film& Television Alliance (IFTA).Ryan, who is thefirst IFTA chairman from outside the US, ran unopposed and now commences hissecond consecutive two-year term.IFTA's sevenperson executive committee, headed by Ryan, includes newly-elected vicechairman John Kochman of StudioCanal, and vice chairman, ...
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Chicago unveils competition lineups for Oct festival
Cristi Puiu's critically adored Romanian dramaThe Death Of Mr Lazarescu, Patrice Chereau's French chamber piece Gabrielle and Sarah Watt's Australian drama Look Both Ways feature in next month's international competitionline-up at the 41st Chicago International Film Festival.International competitioninclude features a slew of 2005 festival mainstays such as Heo Jin-ho's April ...
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Hardwicke joins Gang at Columbia
Columbia Pictures hasacquired film rights to Edward Abbey's comic bestseller The Monkey WrenchGang which Catherine Hardwicke willdevelop and direct. The film has long been indevelopment with Ed Pressman's Edward R Pressman Film Corp and Pressman will serveas one of the producers on the project alongside Gary Burden and LloydPhillips. Alessandro ...
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Zentropa boards Zenith's Jenny Wagon
White-hot Danish production outfit Zentropa will co-produce English-language western The Jenny Wagon with the UK's Zenith Productions. The film will be shot in Trollhattan, Sweden, one of the locations used for Zentropa's Palme d'Or winner Dancer In The Dark."We learnt so much about imitating the US in Sweden when we ...
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Violence, Line, Bride among Flanders selections
12 Beneluxpremieres will take place during the 32nd Annual Flanders Film Festival, whichruns from Oct 11-22 in Ghent, Belgium.US titles set toscreen among more than 200 entries include A History of Violence, Walk TheLine, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Elizabethtown and The Weather Man.As previouslyannounced, Mike Leigh and Alan Ladd Jr ...
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India selects Paheli as Oscar entry
Hindi feature Paheli,starring Shah Rukh Khan and directed by Amol Palekar, has been selected as India's entry in the best foreign-language film categoryof the Oscars.A ten-member jury, headed byIndian filmmaker Vinod Pandey, made the selection in Mumbai after week-longdeliberations. It beat fourteen other Indian films including The Rising: The Ballad ...
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HK bets on Love, China has Promise in Oscar race
Peter Chan's musical PerhapsLove has been selected as Hong Kong's candidate for thebest foreign-language film category at next year's Oscars, while China has submitted Chen Kaige's fantasy epic ThePromise. Both films are scheduled toopen in December and both are being released on a single screen in theirrespective territories this week ...
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Australia's FFC announces funding for seven features
Film Finance CorporationAustralia (FFC) has agreed to invest in seven features, two of which will behandled internationally by Celluloid Dreams and two by Arclight Films.The seven projects include actor/theatre director Richard Roxburgh'sdirectorial debut Romulus, My Father, to star Eric Bana; director CherieNowlan's long-awaited follow-up to Thank God He Met Lizzie, ...
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Twelve And Holding
Dir: Michael Cuesta. US.2005. 90mins.A deft, nuanced drama which, while conventionally framed, still feels freshand new, Twelve And Holding is a delight. Its three child stars are allstrong, but this film will be remembered for young actress Zoe Weizenbaum'sperformance as a young girl caught between precocious childhood and the fullonslaught ...
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Dam Street (Hong yan)
Dir: Li Yu. Chi-Fr. 1995.93mins.A persuasive, lyricalstudy of smalltown life in rural China in the 1980s and 1990s, Dam Street fullyconfirms the promise of director Li Yu's debut feature, Fish And Elephant.Like that first film, Dam Street deals with women's issues - but not ina narrow or dogmatic way. There ...
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In His Hands (Entre Ses Mains)
Dir: Anne Fontaine.Fr-Bel. 2005. 90mins.Frenchauteur and former actress Anne Fontaine has been turning out nuanced studies ofthe hidden depravities of respectable middle-class life for a decade. Thehighpoint was 2001's How I Killed My Father, which staged a riveting,deliciously ironic encounter between a son and a father, played respectively,and brilliantly, by ...
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Foreign language Oscar race hots up
A slew of countries haveannounced their selections for the foreign language category of the AcademyAwards, just days before the final deadline on October 3.- Anders Thomas Jensen Adam's Apples has been selected as theDanish entry. The popular comedy has sofar sold more than 350,000 tickets in Denmark.Anders Thomas Jensen haspreviously ...
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Shadowboxer
DirLee Daniels. US. 2005. 93mins.LeeDaniels made history as the first stand-alone black producer of anOscar-winning film, when Halle Berry lifted the Best Actress prize for Monster'sBall in 2002. It's a shame then that the talented Daniels chose Shadowboxerfor his directorial debut: it's doubtful whether even the most experiencedauteur could have ...
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Wild Bunch strikes slew of sales on Viva Zapatero!
French salesoutfit Wild Bunch has made a swathe of sales on hot Italian documentary VivaZapatero!The documentary, which has screened in Venice and at theSan Sebastian Film Festival, has sold to Spain (Golem), Belgium (Cineart),Holland (A-Film), France (Haut et Court) and Switzerland (Frenetic). Directed bycomedian Sabina Guzzanti, Viva Zapatero focuses on ...
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Carlton snaps up US cinema ad company Screenvision
Carlton Communications has made a vital step forward in tackling the US cinema advertising market through its purchase of New York-based Screenvision Cinema Network. The $93.3m cash deal announced yesterday (May 22) gives Carlton access to Screenvision's 65% share of the US screen advertising industry. This is a major ...
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Rio festival expands market activities
The Rio Film Festival (Sept 22 -Oct 6) is expanding itsmarket activities and has now declared itself the largest industry gathering inLatin America. Some 900 film and TV distributors, producers, exhibitors,trade groups, festival programmers and film commissioners from around the worldhave registered to attend the event. More than 200 projects ...
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Japanese industry ramps up production
Asthe Japanese industry continues to ramp up production, releasing 310 films in2004, compared with only 251 a decade earlier, producers are making more filmsinspired by, based on or remade from earlier hits, domestic or foreign. A sign of flagging creativity' Perhaps, but the Japanesemovie industry has long ridden winning formulas ...
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EastWest picks up sales rights to Totally Personal
Sales agent EastWest Filmdistribution has picked upinternational rights to the Bosnian documentary Totally Personal, whichhas just been nominated as that country's entry for the Academy Awards in theforeign film category.TheLondon-based sales company has also nabbed international rights to Edinburghtitle The Wedding, a black comedy directed by Poland's WojtekSmarzowski. It also ...
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CMG seals Toronto sales on Reeker, Conan
Edward Noeltner's CinemaManagement Group (CMG) has reported a string of Toronto sales on David Payne'shorror title Reeker and animatedproduction Conan: Red Nails.Theatrical rights to Reeker, which played out of festival in a de facto marketscreening, went to Baditri in Spain, Dutch Film Works in Benelux, Cine Video yTV in Mexico, ...
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Endeavor, TW1 joint venture in Transend
Seeking to expand a global platform for its clients,Hollywood talent agency Endeavor has teamed up with TW1, the television,broadcast and new media arm of IMG, to launch a new partnership calledTransend.Transend willpackage and distribute TV programming and formats in all media. It has alreadyset up its first two projects, Vegas ...