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Asian Film Industry Network launches at Pusan
The Asian Film IndustryNetwork (AFIN) - an initiative that aims to promote Asian film industriesinternationally - was officially launched at the 10th Pusan International FilmFestival this morning (Oct 11).The network's four foundingmembers include the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), UniJapan, the Vietnam MediaCorporation and the Federation of National Film Association of ...
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Kino snaps up US rights to Look Both Ways
Australian break-out hit Look Both Ways has found a UStheatrical distribution partner in Kino International. The Sarah Watt-directed title, which won the Discovery Award at theToronto Film Festival, has taken $1.6m (A$2.11m) at home in Australia in eightweeks of release and is being touted as a long-awaited international prospectfor the ...
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Carnaby takes on sales for Pensmith's Much Too Young
UK sales company Carnaby International hasacquired its first externally produced film, Too Much Too Young, from PensmithPictures. The comedy about twostreet-wise brothers is directed by Trevor Steven Smith, produced by Stuart D. Fenegan, and stars Steve John Shepherd, Adam Croasdell, and Kellie Shirley. "Too Much Too Young is a very ...
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Tenerife to host new Historical Film Festival
Spain's Canary Island of Tenerife will host thenewly-created International Historical Film Festival of La Laguna (Oct 13-15).Billed as a pioneer cultural and social eventin Spain, the festival, dubbed FICHLA, hopes to up its budget next year and runsubsequent editions over seven days.Teodoro Rios, organiser of the Spanish Film Screenings of ...
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Scholl to open Made In Germany at AFI FEST
Made In Germany, the annualshowcase of new German cinema held in Los Angeles as part of AFI FEST,commences on Nov 4 with Marc Rothemund's wartime drama and German foreignlanguage Academy Award submission Sophie Scholl - The Final Days.Other titles in the 6thAnnual Festival of German Films Los Angeles include the ...
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Hodge signs on to adapt Dark for Walden
Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge will adapt SusanCooper's British children's fantasy novel The Dark Is Rising for Walden Media.As previously reported here (Screendaily, May 6 2005),Marc Platt is producing the project about a young boy who discovers that he isdescended from a line of immortal warriors dedicated to fighting evil."We are ...
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Shoe Fairy flies to Japan's IMX
Hong Kong star Andy Lau's Focus Films has sold Robin Lee's TheShoe Fairy, the first film to emerge from its Focus: First Cuts series, toJapan's IMX.Produced by Taiwan's Three Dots Entertainment, the film combines fairytaleimagery and computer graphics in a love story between a woman, her new husbandand her collection ...
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Conversations talk for Fabrication
Los Angeles-basedFabrication Films concluded a raft of deals at Toronto and Telluride recentlyon Hans Canosa's romance Conversations With Other Women starring Aaron Eckhart and Helena BonhamCarter.All respective territory rights have gone to MK2 inFrance, Dendy in Australia, Solopan in Poland, Prooptiki in Greece, Shapira inIsrael, VideoFilmes in Brazil, and Cathay ...
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Altman lines up Tortoise shoot in London
Followinghis success with murder-mystery Gosford Park, US directorRobert Altman is set to return to the UK. He isattached to direct The Tortoise And The Hare, due to shoot in London nextyear from a screenplay by Andrew Davies. Theproject is being produced by industry veteran Alan Ladd Jr.EmmaThompson is in talks ...
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Woodward speaks out to defend Film Council role
UK FilmCouncil chief executive officer John Woodward has delivered an impassioneddefence of the function of the Film Council. Speakingthis week at an ACE (Ateliers Du Cinema Europeen) debate in London on 'The UK, A Suitable CaseFor Treatment,' Woodward sought to clarify the Council's position vis a vis the Government and ...
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Che, Chang promoted at NBC Universal International TV
Justin Che has been namedvice president of international on-demand licensing and Sandra Chang has beenappointed manager of international on-demand licensing for NBC UniversalTelevision Distribution.Both Che and Chang will bebased in Los Angeles and report to senior vice president of internationalon-demand licensing Beth Minehart.Che will support Minehart inall aspects of on-demand ...
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Fairy Tale, Heartbreak share top PPP award
Korean directorLee Kwang-mo's Fairy Tale Of A Picture Tree and Thai project HeartbreakPavilion shared the top prize at this year's Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) -the $20,000 Busan Award - supplied by the city of Busan. When it goes intoproduction, Fairy Tale will mark the first film from Lee since hismultiple ...
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Pusan unveils plans for 'biggest' Asian film market
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF)has unveiled ambitious plans for a full-scale market which it claims will bethe biggest and most comprehensive in Asia. To be held alongside PIFF in October 2006, the four-day event has beenchristened the Busan Film Market (Busanis the new name for the city although the ...
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Intandem takes on sales for Nobody's Hero
Intandem Films has taken on international sales for Jason Lehel's forthcoming drama Nobody's Hero, which the company is also executiveproducing. The film follows a soldier from the Iraq war who tries to return to normal life back home. The film is currently inpre-production with producers Esther Randall of Open Eye ...
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Cannes festival to overhaul final weekend schedule
The Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) has said that its 2006 edition willsee a slight change in its second weekend programme. The festival's awards ceremony will now revert back to the last Sundaynight, having been held on the last Saturday for the past two years. TheSaturday night film will now ...
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Fly's Manslaughter wins Nordic Council prize
Per Fly's Manslaughterhas won the prestigious NordicCouncil Film Prize 2005The third film in Fly's class trilogy, Manslaughter is still playing well in Denmark after six weeks of releaseand nearly 320.000 tickets sold. Itrecently played in competition at San Sebastian.The cash prize was awarded by the Nordic Council andcomes with a ...
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London to host inaugural Children's Film Festival
The Barbican Centre and theIndependent Cinema Office are working with Film London to create the firstcity-wide London Children's Film Festival. The inaugural event will be heldNovember 9-20, screening 60 films at the Barbican and 15 other venues. Disney's animated comedy Chicken Little will open the fest witha charity gala screening ...
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Lie With Me
Dir: Clement Virgo. Can.2005. 92mins.Graphic sex and a voracious, predatory femaleprotagonist are the hallmarks of Lie With Me, a raw perspective of carnality that's initiallydisarming in its aggressive stance and mesmerising inits heady resolve.Belying thesensuality of The Lover or thegentleness of 9 Songs, it only beginsto falter when it abandons ...