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ReviewsTelstar (2007)
Dir. Nick Moran. UK, 2008. 114 mins.There’s a lot in the Telstar credits to attract the viewer - or at least the UK viewer. Nick Moran’s directorial debut (an adaptation of his stage play with Hicks); Kevin Spacey in a small but substantial role; its setting ...
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Franklyn
Dir/scr. Gerald McMorrow. UK 2007. 95 minsIt's unusual in the current film-making climate to see an independent director making such an ambitious debut as Gerald McMorrow's Franklyn. He aims high, visually and conceptually, but a more experienced director would have trouble finding the right tone to pull this intricate plot ...
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The Human Contract
Dir/Scr: Jada Pinkett Smith. US. 2008. 106minsA seriously-intended dramatic study of erotic obsession, jealousy and violence, Jada Pinkett Smith's debut feature The Human Contract is a messy and frequently furious entwining of the sacred and the profane. Despite some entertaining stretches and compensatory observations about contemporary Los Angeles, the work ...
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Regent Releasing picks up worldwide rights to Blue Tooth Virgin
Regent Releasing has swooped on worldwide distribution rights to US comedy The Blue Tooth Virgin written and directed by Russell Brown.Regent plans a limited release in early 2009 following the film's world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival last summer, where it won the special jury award.The story charts ...
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Bleiberg to self-distribute Adam for Oscar qualifying run
Bleiberg Entertainment will self-distribute the Holocaust drama Adam Resurrected in New York and Los Angeles for an Academy Awards qualifying run in December.Adam Resurrected premiered at Telluride and Toronto recently and will screen at the AFI FEST 2008 on November 8 and 9.Jeff Goldblum stars as a survivor who ends ...
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Goldcrest Independent boards Marceau-Lambert drama Percussions
Goldcrest Independent has acquired international rights to Thelma Films and Cine Nomine's upcoming French romance Percussions starring real-life couple Sophie Marceau and Christophe Lambert.Executive president of sales Pierre Weisbein will introduce the project to buyers at AFM following a seven-week shoot in the Colombia city of Cartagena.Currently in post-production in ...
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Sam Mendes attached to direct Columbia's Preacher
Columbia Pictures has attached Sam Mendes to direct a feature adaptation of the graphic novel Preacher that Neal Moritz will produce through Original Films banner alongside Kickstart Productions' Jason Netter.This will be Mendes' second graphic novel project after Road To Perdition, although the property's supernatural tone marks a dramatic direction ...
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Lake Tahoe finds a US distribution home with Film Movement
Film Movement has acquired domestic rights to Fernando Eimbcke's Mexican drama Lake Tahoe, winner of the FIPRESCI Award and the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 2008 Berlinale.The film follows the antics of a teenager who escapes from his miserable home life only for his car to break down, leading to ...
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New York's South Asian Film Festival gives The Pool top honours
Chris Smith's The Pool was named best narrative feature and ChristyGarland and Susan Armstrong's Doormat took documentary honours as the2008 fifth annual South Asian Film Festival (SAIFF) came to a close onOctober 25.Dipti Gogna's Narmeen won best short film prize as nearly 200 attendees packed the gala ceremony event at ...
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Filmstudio launches Hungarian festival season
Hungary's Budapest Filmstudio, headed by Laszlo Kantor, is launching a series of film festivals in neighbouring countries with the aim of increasing exposure of Hungarian films.The festivals, which will be targeted at general audiences as well as local industry and critics, will showcase the 10-12 movies that proved most popular ...
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Wenders helps toturn First Page in Taipei
Wim Wenders formally announced his new project, First Page Taipei, in Taiwan's capital today. The German filmmaker, introduced as 'the master of road movies', will executive produce the debut feature of Taipei-born and San Francisco-raised director Arvin Chen. Wenders stated that he and his director have two things in common: ...
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Oz genre filmmakers check into The Clinic
Distributor Richard Sheffield and producer Jonathan Shteinman are the executive producers on thriller The Clinic, which goes into production on November 10 in the isolated regional town of Deniliquin in Australia. Producer Samuel Pinczewski and director James Rabbitts are the drivers behind the film, set in the middle of nowhere ...
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Warlords heads the pack forTaiwan's Golden Horse Awards
Peter Chan's The Warlords leads the race for the 45th Golden Horse Awards with nominations in 12 categories, including best feature film, best director and best actor for Jet Li. Also competing for the best film award are Feng Xiaogang's Assembly, Wei Te-sheng's Cape No. 7, Liu Fendou's Ocean Flame ...
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NDTV Lumiere strikes online deal with BIGFlix
NDTV Lumière has partnered with Indian entertainment portal www.bigflix.com to provide 30 world movies titles from its extensive acquisitions list to India and the SAARC territories. These titles will be available on the site on a yearly basis at a price of $1.99 per download-to-rent and $4.49 per download-to-own.Viewers can ...
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Consumer spending on video rose to $17.3bn in 8 key markets in 2007
Consumer spending overall on movie and TV videos rose by 26% to $17.3bn in eight key markets; UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, Japan and the US in 2007. Despite the rise, spending on buying movies declined everywhere except the US, UK and Australia.That was one of the key findings ...
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Beta Cinema presents four market premieres at AFM
The Munich-based sales agent will be having market screenings for the first time of:Robert Dornhelm's $ 6.4m (Euros 5m) production of the Puccini opera La Boheme with star singers Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon, which has been released so far in Austria (Constantin Film) and Germany (NFP/Warner);Nicolai Rohde's drama 10 ...
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Celluloid Dreams acquires Wagenhofer doc, Let's Make Money
Celluloid Dreams has acquired Erwin Wagenhofer's documentary, Let's Make Money. Produced by Allegro Film's Helmut Grasser, the film is a behind-the-scenes look at the ways in which ordinary people are implicated in the political and economic machinations of the international finance market through a simple bank deposit.Celluloid will premiere the ...
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Bengt Toll appointed head of Swedish Film Institute's Audience Dept
Bengt Toll, of Swedish regional film centre, Film i Väst in Trollhättan, has been appointed head of the Swedish Film Institute's Audience department, as of February 2009. Previously Toll was head of development of Swedish regional film centre, Film i Väst in Trollhättan and is also currently chairman of CineRegio, ...
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Role Models
Dir: David Wain. US. 2008. 99 mins.A superbly-cast comedy, Role Models manages to locate and till fresh ground in the ascendant guys-behaving-badly sub-genre of American studio comedies. Both Paul Rudd (Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) and Seann William Scott (the American Pie films) are best known as ensemble comedic ...
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De Heer to head jury in Sydney, which sticks to mid-year spot
Australian auteur director Rolf de Heer has agreed to be president of the competition jury for the 2009 Sydney Film Festival (SFF).The competition rewards new directions in film and organisers use words such as audacious, courageous, cutting-edge and emotional to describe the kind of films sought. It was launched this ...