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Mamoru Oshii set to direct adaptation of Sky Crawlers
Japanese animation director Mamoru Oshii is gearing up to start work on a big-budget adaptation of Hiroshi Mori's five-part novel series The Sky Crawlers. The film will be produced by Oshii's long-time backer Production IG in collaboration with Nippon Television Network (NTV). Warner Brothers Japan will distribute the film as ...
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Thai resort Phuket to host international film festival
Thai holiday resort Phuket will host its first ever international film festival this autumn, which will showcase around 30 films, including the international premieres of Oscar Aibar's Dance Machine and Panos Angelopoulos' A Hero in Rome. The seven-day event (September 30 - October 6) is scheduled to be held at ...
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Wotling named cinema director of CNC
Olivier Wotling has been named cinema director of France's national film organisation, the CNC. Wotling replaces outgoing cinema director Francois Hurard who has left to join the cabinet of newly-appointed culture minister, Christine Albanel. Hurard will act as spokesman for the government under the heading of Film Counsellor. Wotling began ...
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Italy's Mikado bags Venice closing film Vengo
Italian distributor Mikado has acquired Venice closing night film Vengo, directed by Tony Gatlif, a French-Spanish co-production that is being sold worldwide by France's Flach Pyramide International.Following the international arthouse success of Gatlif's award-winning titles Latcho Drom and Gadjo Dilo, Vengo - in which Gatlif once again explores his gypsy ...
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Korea's CJ, China Film sign MoU for co-production
Korea's CJ Entertainment and state-owned China Film Group Corp signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Shanghai Film Festival today to become strategic partners on film co-productions. According to CJ Entertainment president Kim Joo-sung, the partnership involves the production of both Chinese and Korean-language films to be set in ...
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Chou's Secret directorial debut set for summer release
Hong Kong's Edko Films officially unveiled Taiwanese star Jay Chou's directorial debut Secret in Shanghai today. The shooting of the film, budgeted at $2.5m, was as tight-lipped as the film's title.Edko announced that the film will be released almost simultaneously in Taiwan, China and Hong Kong in late July or ...
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Pony Canyon acquires Korean romance Hwang Jin Yi
Seoul-based CJ Entertainment (CJE) has sold period romance Hwang Jin Yi to Pony Canyon for Japan. Directed by Chang Yoon-hyun (Some, Tell Me Something), the film deals with the life of Korea's most famous gisaeng (aka geisha) and poetess Hwang Jin Yi and her love affair with a lowly manservant. ...
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Global entertainment industry to be worth $2 trillion by 2011
The global entertainment & media market will see sustained growth and a 6.4% compound annual growth rate to hit $2 trillion in 2011, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report. In particular, convergent platforms will rise at double-digit rates and will represent more than 50% of global entertainment spending by 2011. ...
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Reviews
Talk To Me
Dir: Kasi Lemons. US. 2007. 115mins.A tasty performance by Don Cheadle and a nice evocation of late-sixties black America are the heart and soul of Talk To Me, director Kasi Lemmons' enjoyable period drama about real-life Washington DC deejay-activist Petey Greene Jr. The Sidney Kimmel Entertainment production could prove a ...
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Stockholm plans film centre to co-finance 10 features per year
Regional authorities in the Swedish Stockholm-Malardalen area will set up a new film centre, 'Stollywood', which - when in full operation - will co-finance up to 10 feature films annually. 'Today 90% of all Swedish actors and film companies are based in this region, yet only 10% of of domestic ...
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3D begins big push into global cinemas
The number of digital 3D cinema screens has nearly tripled during the first six months of 2007, suggesting exhibitors are stepping up to meet Hollywood studio's increasing investment in exclusive 3D movies.According to a report from Screen Digest - 'The Business Case For Digital Cinema Exhibition' - there were 258 ...
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France's Rosem Films sets up Hong Kong beachhead
French producer Rosem Films has established a Hong Kong production office, which will produce the next projects from award-winning Chinese directors Wang Chao and Guo Xiaolu. Headed by Anais Martane, the Hong Kong entity will develop and co-produce projects with mainland China, beginning with Wang's upcoming drama Starting Over, a ...
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Macleod quits Channel 4 International
Bernard Macleod is stepping down as managing director of UK programming distributor Channel 4 International (C4I).Macleod is leaving to pursue interests in further education and will act as a media consultant. He joined C4I in 1998 from his own TV production outfit Cahoots."We will be sad to see Bernard depart, ...
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Leipzig documentary fest to open with Happiness
A gala screening of a restored print of Alexander Medvedkin's silent classic Happiness (Stschastje) from 1934 will open this year's International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animation Films (October 17-22). The festival will also feature a retrospective dedicated to the East German film-maker Juergen Boettcher and a special programme of ...
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Editorial opinion: international affairs
The international markets are beginning to exert pressure on how business is done in a way that was once the sole preserve of the US domestic market - but there's still room for growth, says Michael GubbinsThere's a bitter joke among the residents of Brittany in France about the oil ...
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Box office: the global perspective
With 2007 on course to break box-office records, Leonard Klady explores how developments in the international market hold the key to the future of the film industry. Widespread predictions that 2007 would break recent box-office records look to be well founded. The international box office generated $4.5bn in the first ...
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Strong Fox finds comfort in Grass
Fox's Christian Grass, distributor of the year at the upcoming Cinema Expo, says a solid partnership between distributors and exhibitors is essential for the future. Michael Gubbins reportsThere is a certain irony in this year's choice of distributor of the year at European exhibitor conference Cinema Expo. Christian Grass, executive ...
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Parvez Sharma: love & faith
Parvez Sharma'sIslam, My Love could be the most controversial documentary of the year. Jeremy Kay finds out why.A film arrives this autumn with the potential to blow through institutionalised thinking in a manner that will make Michael Moore's polemics seem breezy by comparison.Responses will inevitably be polarised, but 33-year-old film-maker ...
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Michael Kang and Teddy Zee: Wild West 32nd
Wendy Mitchell meets director Michael Kang and producer Teddy Zee, whose gangland drama West 32nd marks the first US production for Korean powerhouse CJ Entertainment.It was a memorable meeting of minds at Sundance 2005, where director Michael Kang was premiering his coming-of-age story The Motel, and producer Teddy Zee was ...
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Etgar Keret and Shira Geffe: the nextbig sting
Husband-and-wife film-making team Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen won the Camera d'Or at Cannes last month for Jellyfish, a surreal drama inspired by US indie films. Edna Fainaru reports. Etgar Keret is a celebrity at home in Israel. A prolific writer of short stories and graphic novels that have been ...