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BAFTA 2006 winners in full
Best FilmBrokeback Mountain (Diana Ossana/James Schamus)Alexander Korda Award For Best British FilmWallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Peter Lord/David Sproxton/Nick Park/ Steve Box/Mark Burton/Bob Baker)Carl Foreman Award For First Film Joe Wright (Director,Pride & Prejudice)David Lean Award For Best DirectorBrokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)Best Original ScreenplayCrash (Paul Haggis/Bobby ...
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Love's A Bitch (Amores Perros)
Dir: Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu. Mexico. 2000. 151 mins.Prod co: Altavista Films. Co-prod: Zeta Films. Int'l sales: Lions Gate Films (+1 323 692 7300). Prods: Martina Sosa, Francisco Gonzalez Complean. Scr: Guillermo Arriaga. DoP: Rodrigo Prieto. Eds: Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Luis Carballar, Fernando Perez Unda. Music: Gustavo Santaolella. Main cast: Emilio ...
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Brokeback Mountain dominates the BAFTA awards
Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain was the clear winner at this year's BAFTA awards.It picked up best film, best director, best supporting actor for Jake Gyllenhaal and best adapted screenplay for Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.The British hopeful that had led the nominations, The Constant Gardener, managed to win just one ...
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Kosslick delight at record-breaking Berlinale
"Spectacularlyunspectacular" is Dieter Kosslick's personal verdict on the fifthBerlinale under his direction which came to end this weekend with the awardingof the Golden Bear to Bosnian film-maker Jasmila Zbanic for Grbavica."Nothingwent wrong - except perhaps for the heating in the Martin-Gropius-Bau (MGB),"Kosslick remarked in an exclusive interview with ScreenDaily."Notone single ...
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Lagardere set to take a 20% stake in French pay-TV group
Frenchmedia group Lagardere is set to acquire a 20% stake in pay-TV group Canal PlusFrance in exchange for Lagardere's 34% stake in Canal Plus satellite platformCanalSat and a cash payment of $626m (Euros 525m) in cash.Lagardere would become the second-biggeststakeholder in Canal Plus France, a new company which combines all ...
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Disney's Eight Below wins Presidents Day weekend
Disney/Spyglass' snowbound adventure Eight Below was the top ranking domestic releaseover three days on Presidents Day Weekend as it launched on an estimated$19.9m.Fox's comedy Date Movie opened close behind in second place on $18.9m, while lastweekend's champion The Pink Panther ranked third on $16.5m for $42.2m. Sony/Revolution's newthriller Freedomland disappointedin ...
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Mockert steps down as head of German media fund MBP
Rainer Mockert has stepped down from the German private media fund MBP which he founded in 1999 and has handed over management of the MBP KG I and MBP KG II funds to financing expert Kai Grueneke. Over the last seven years, Mockert had involved the MBP funds in the ...
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Richard Fox honoured in France
The French CulturalMinistry in Paris will today name Richard Fox,executive VP of Warner Bros. International, a Chevalier de l'Ordredes Arts et des LettresRenaud Donnedieude Vabres, minister of culture and communication,will present the award. The Chevalier is the highest honourin L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, which was created in 1957 ...
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The Works does brisk business for Guantanamo
London-based sales company The Works had a busymarket in Berlin, led by sales for Michael Winterbottom'sSilver Bear winner, The Road to Guantanamo. Deals were struck with Alta for Spain, Art Film for Brazil, Palace for Australia and New Zealand, Falcom Media for Germany and Austria, Prooptiki for Greece and Cyprus, ...
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Gerard Depardieu still the best paid actor in France
GerardDepardieu, Jean Reno and Christian Clavier were France's highest paid actors for 2005according to a report in Monday's LeFigaro newspaper.Depardieu,who had roles in such films as Gerard Jugnot's Boudu and Bertrand Blier'sHow Much Do You Love Me', earned $3.8m (Euros 3.2m) in 2005 despite a downturnin the box-office of his ...
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Eight films selected for Australia's IndiVision Project Lab
Moving South, aroad movie from director Kate Woods and producer Robyn Kershaw, who last teamedup on the local hit Looking For Alibrandi, is one of eightfilms to be developed through the second IndiVisionProject Lab.The Australian Film Commission (AFC)released the names of those chosen for the week-long low-budget initiative introduced last ...
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The Free Will (Der Freie Wille)
Dir: Matthias Glasner. Ger.2006. 163mins.Even audiences inured to the rigors of snail-pacedEuropean introspection face a grueling ride in Matthias Glasner'sdrama about a rapist in search of redemption.Digitallyphotographed by the director himself in murky shades, The Free Will mostly eschews incident for sombrecontemplativeness. But, in the odd moments when Glasnercranks up ...
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Happy End
Dir: Ji-Woo Jung. South Korea, 2000. 93 mins.Prod co: Myung Film Co. Co-prod: Seoul Movie. Int'l sales: CJ Entertainment (+82 2 726 8488). Prod: Eun Lee. Scr: Ji-Woo Jung. DoP: Woo-Hyung Kim. Prod des: Sang-Mahn Kim. Editor: Hyung Kim, Yong-Soo Kim. Music: Young-Wook Cho, Kyu-Yang Kim. Main cast: Min-Shik Choi ...
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Requiem
Dir: Hans-Christian Schmid.Ger. 2005. 92mins.The thinking man's The Exorcism Of Emily Rose, Requiem offers a deliberatelyunderstated take on the real-life events which inspired that commerciallysuccessful courtroom horror yarn.Director Schmidand scriptwriter Lange are only marginally interested in the hoary theme of Emily Rose - the tussle between religiousfaith and scientific reason. ...
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Germans join forces for $47.7m English-language slate
Production outfit Schmidtz KatzeFilmkollektiv and the Berlin-based developmentcompany mediacontentfactory (mcf)have joined forces to initiate a $47.7m (Euros 40m) slate of English-languagegenre films for the international market.According to thejoint venture's partners, the slate of six to seven thriller,fantasy or adventure feature films will either be based on successful novels,games and/or creative ...
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Find Me Guilty
Dir/scr: Sidney Lumet. US. 2006. 123mins.Now in his eighties, veteran director Sidney Lumet shows no signs of slowing down - and mob courtroomdrama Find Me Guilty proves that hehas lost none of his ability to turn out a slick, well- crafted product.But it's a product that,like many of the director's ...
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Subject Two
Dir/scr Philip Chidel. US. 2006.92mins.Philip Chidel's secondfeature Subject Two begins with ataut, suggestive title sequence of two men battling for possession of a gun; asmart, sharp opening that provides a chilling introduction to the highly assuredand impressively staged low-budget horror film that follows.It conforms enough to thedemands of the form, ...
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1:1
Dir: Annette K Olesen. Den. 2005. 90mins.1:1is nothing if not timely, addressing the ethnic and religious tensions inDenmark highlighted by the recent furore over anewspaper cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.Annette K Olesen's follow-up to InYour Hands comes across as a passionate, socially concerned cri de coeur, albeit one executedin a ...
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Final Destination 3
Dir: James Wong. US. 2005.92mins.With its original writers and director back at thecontrols, the Final Destinationfranchise cruises efficiently but not very excitingly through its third outing,a cartoonishly gory horror romp with an all-new castof little known young actors. The franchise has proved surprisingly profitablefor New Line: the first film grossed ...
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Istituto Luce takes Italian rights to Golden Bear winner
Rome state distributor Istituto Luce has acquired Italian rights to Berlin Golden Bear winner Grbavica.Sold by German-based agent The Match Factory, Grbavica looks at the aftermath of the mass rape of women during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian war.Meanwhile, Andrea Occhipinti's Lucky Red has acquired all Italian distribution ...