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Muren, Miyazaki named among Hollywood Film Awards winners
The Hollywood Film Festival's board of advisors hasunveiled a roster of film recipients for the upcoming 9th annual Hollywood FilmAwards, which is set to take place in Beverly Hills in October.Warner Bros' Batman Begins will receive the Hollywood Sound of the Year Award, Disney'sHowl's Moving Castle earnsthe Hollywood Animation of ...
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Muren, Miyazaki score at Hollywood Film Awards
The Hollywood Film Festival's board of advisors hasunveiled a roster of film recipients for the upcoming 9th annual Hollywood FilmAwards, which is set to take place in Beverly Hills in October.Warner Bros' Batman Begins will receive the Hollywood Sound of the Year Award, Disney'sHowl's Moving Castle earnsthe Hollywood Animation of ...
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The Smiths cross $200m overseas benchmark
New Regency/Summit Entertainment/Weed Road Pictures' Mr And MrsSmith has passed $200min international ticket sales.The action picture stayed top in France through SND for the third weekend in a row and stands at more than $13.9m.In other market highlights, Mr And Mrs Smith has taken more than $21m in Germanythrough Kinowelt, ...
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Rag Tale
Dir. Mary McGuckian.UK-Lux. 2005. 123mins.Bashing newspapers hasalways been popular sport for film-makers. But Mary McGuckian's Rag Taleadds nothing to the genre, despite its radically different technical approach,and ultimately only results in a muddle.Shot mostly in hugeclose-ups by three madly swinging HD cameras and using every type of distortinglens to twist ...
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FFC Australia revamps board
The Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) has revamped its board,appointing investment banker Alastair Walton and the high-profile entertainmententrepreneur Paul Dainty.The terms of four of the eight-member board have expired in the past sixweeks and a further two people are likely to be appointed soon by theAustralian Government, although it may ...
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FilmFour, Key back Vinterberg
The UK's FilmFour will take English-speaking territories on It's All About Love, the English-language debut from Festen director Thomas Vinterberg. Budgeted at an estimated $13m, the New York-set futuristic love-story, written by Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov, revolves around a world famous ice-skater separated from her lover. Key Films has boarded ...
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Greeks act to revitalise embattled box office
Greekdistributors have agreed to move back film release dates to Thursdays in anattempt to revitalise the country's embattled local box office. Until now,Fridays have been the traditional opening day for films. The move takes effectfrom today (August 18). Admissionsin Greece have plateaued in the past five years, at an estimated ...
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UIP readies global Were-Rabbit campaign
The long-awaited Wallace & Gromit - The Curse Of TheWere-Rabbit will bow in Australia on September 15, as internationaldistributor UIP mirrors the pattern successfully swum byShark Talelast year.With a North American premiere at the Toronto InternationalFilm Festival following within days, Wallace will open in the US throughDreamWorks on October 7 ...
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Festival director becomes new Czech culture minister
The Czech prime minister hasproposed Vitezslav Jandak, an actor and the president of the Zlin InternationalFilm Festival, as culture minister. Jandak will replace Pavel Dostal, who diedrecently of cancer.Pavel Strnad, president ofthe Czech Audiovisual Producers Association, was optimistic about the primeminister's selection. "It's good news that he's an actor and ...
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Sogepaq to handle five more from Tesela
Spanishsales house Sogepaq has inked a deal with local producer Tesela to handle internationalsales and domestic video on five new and in-development features Includedin that five are two films that will be unveiled in the upcoming festivalseason. Among them is Venice Days screener The Wind (El Viento) from director Eduardo ...
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New York Film Festival unveils full line-up
The prestigious New York Film Festival (NYFF) has unveileda typically diverse and high-wattage line-up for its 43rd edition, with numerous potential US and North American premieres.The exact status of the premieres remains uncertain until both theToronto International Film Festival announces its complete line-up and thesecretive Telluride programme becomes known when ...
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Weinsteins press Panic button
Harvey and Bob Weinstein have added another title to their bulgingWeinstein Company slate, optioning film rights to Jeff Abbott's paranoiathriller novel Panic,which goes out in US bookshops today [18].Abbott's story centres on Evan Casher, a documentaryfilmmaker who returns home to discover his mother's murdered body and quicklylearns that everything he ...
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Deauville unveils American film line-up
The Deauville Festival of American Film has announced itscomplete line up for the 31st edition which will run from September2-11 in the Normandy town.AlainCorneau will head up the jury surrounded by directors Dominik Moll, BrigitteRouan and actors Dominique Blanc and Melvil Poupaud among others.Ten films make up the main competition, ...
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Pusan project market shortlists 27 Asian features
Asia's highest-profile project market, the PusanPromotion Plan (PPP), has unveiled a record 27 projects that will be introducedto potential co-producers and financiers at the upcoming Pusan InternationalFilm Festival.Held from October 10-12, this year's PPP will includevarious projects in development or pre-production including The War MovieProject, a big-budget WWII film set ...
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IFC accompanies Weinsteins on trans-sexual odyssey
IFCFilms will partner with The Weinstein Company to distribute Duncan Tucker's hot-buttonroad movie Transamerica. Thefilm's central character, a Christian transsexual played by Felicity Huffman, isseen as a potent Oscar vehicle for the Desperate Housewives actress.Thetwo companies, who already share a broadly defined strategic alliance, willjointly share the distribution of the ...
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Irish producers line up 'likely' local shoots
Aftera slow seven months it looks increasingly likely that Irish producers will pushupwards of six locally developed features into production before the year-end.That they are "likely" to start means, as many producers are carefulto say, that the films are probable rather than definite and that financingdeals in many cases are ...
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Helkon extends ties with Zide, Perry
Germany's Helkon Media is believed to have struck yet another US production deal, agreeing to fully finance films in the $10m range from producers Warren Zide and Craig Perry (American Pie, Final Destination) and their production company Zide/Perry under a two-year arrangement. They will be joined in those films by ...
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Producers urged to focus on older cinemagoers
Prompted by new research,Nielsen EDI has suggested putting more of a focus on cinemagoers aged 55 yearsand over as a way of addressing Australia's current box office demise. General manager Simon Burton toldthe Australian International Movie Convention today that a key finding from thesurvey of 1,428 moviegoers was that the ...
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UIP, Fox take Oz Movie Convention prizes
UIP and Fox were the most high profile distributors at last night'sAustralian International Movie Convention's box achievement awards.UIP won six of the 18 awards which are given to films that grossed morethan $7.5m (A$10m) in the previous 12 months.Top of the list for UIP was Meet The Fockers but it ...
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Sarajevo festival kicks off in confident mood
The 11th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 19-27)kicks off today with a film line-up and guest list that suggests it has becomethe most important festival in South East Europe. With 162 films, four world premieres and five regionalpremieres and 100 foreign press representatives, Sarajevo in now an essentialplace to be for ...