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Cork Festival kicks off with Dancing
The CorkFilm Festival opens on Sunday night (Oct 10) with the Irish premiere of DamienO'Donnell's Edinburgh crowd pleaser Inside I'm Dancing.Now in its 49th year - and building to major 50thanniversary celebrations next year with an international symposium on the shortfilm during the city's tenure as European City of Culture ...
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Joseph joins Udwin's Revolution
Francesca Joseph (TomorrowLa Scala) has been confirmed as director of Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution,the latest feature from East Is East producer Leslee Udwin.Scripted by Peter Straughan and Bridget O'Connor, the film is a bittersweetcomedy based on the true story of an ardent Marxist from the north of Englandwho takes his family ...
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Taylor appointed Warner Bros UK distribution chief
Peter Taylor has been appointed managing director UK & Ireland ofWarner Bros. Pictures International UK.Taylor joins from Columbia Pictures where for the last five years he hasbeen director of distribution. Prior to that he was director of sales at Columbia,a position he held for nine years.He replaces Nigel Sharrocks who ...
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Valladolid unveils festival line-up
Wong Kar Wai's 2046, Ken Loach's Ae Fond Kiss,John Boorman's Country Of My Skull are among the feature films competingat Spain's upcoming Valladolid International Film Festival (Oct 22-30).The titles vie for prizes including the Golden Spike, withEuros 35,000 for the Spanish distributor, and the Silver Spike, with Euros17,500 for the ...
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Samurai, Hero take first MIPCOM DVD awards
The first ever Mipcom DVDawards were announced in Cannes on Wednesday evening (Oct 6).The awards were created inJune in conjunction with the US-based DVD Association and the Belgium-basedInternational Video Federation. Prizes were given to reward creativity andinnovation in DVD content.Jean-Paul Commin of FranceTelevisions Distribution headed up the jury which screened ...
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Pusan kicks off with massive outdoor 2046 screening
The 9thPusan International Film Festival kicked off on Thursday night with the firstfestival screening of Wong Kar-wai's re-edited version of 2046.The film, which receives its commercial release in Koreaon October 15, was shown on a massive outdoor screen with Wong and lead actorTony Leung in attendance. The 5000+available seats reportedly ...
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Trigger Street Independent launches TV arm
Trigger Street Independent(TSI), the low budget production outfit announced in Toronto last month byKevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti's TriggerStreet Productions, has launched itstelevision arm.The new entity kicks offwith the production of two pilots, the scripted half-hour comedy Hell OnWheels written and executiveproduced by Laura Kightlinger for IFC, and the reality ...
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Bryce Dallas Howard named Rising Star at Palm Springs
Bryce Dallas Howard willreceive the Rising Star Award at the 16th Annual Palm Springs InternationalFilm Festival (PSIFF) awards gala in Palm Springs on Jan 8 2005.Howard is the first honoureeto be named and receives her award in recognition of her standout feature debutperformance in M Night Shyamalan's mystery The Village.She ...
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Man On Fire spreads to UK, Spain & Brazil for Fox
Fox International'skidnapping drama Man On Fire getsa major push this weekend with openings in the UK, Spain and Brazil that shouldboost its $19.4m overall international running total.The picture goes out on Oct8 in all three markets, opening on 310 prints in the UK, 300 in Spain and 127in Brazil. Decent ...
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Fortissimo grabs Jarmusch library
Fortissimo Films is act as the internationaltheatrical, video, and television distributor for the entire Jim Jarmusch filmlibrary. The catalogue had previously been represented by diverse entities.Fortissimo's relationship with Jarmusch began lastyear with Coffee And Cigarettes.Included in the deal are Permanent Vacation (1980), StrangerThan Paradise (1983), Down By Law(1986), Mystery Train ...
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God's shadow hangs over Rio festival prizes
The shadow of Brazil's Oscar-nominated City of God was strongly felt at the closing ceremony of the RioInternational Film Festival last night (Oct 7) - with two films abouturban violence picking up the lion's share of the Jury prizes.In the Premiere Brasil category, for domestic productions,the best film award went ...
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Watson, Hurt attracted by The Proposition
Emily Watson, John Hurt, Ray Winstone, David Wenham andDanny Huston star in the big-budget UK/Australian co-production TheProposition, which goes into production inthe tiny outback town of Winton on Monday (October 11) amid temperatures likelyto be well over 30 degrees Celsius.The film reunites director John Hillcoat and music legendand scriptwriter Nick ...
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Taxi
Dir: Tim Story. US. 2004.97 mins.Luc Besson's French franchise-starter Taxi certainly seems like a goodcandidate for a US makeover: like its two hugely successful sequels, the hit1998 original was essentially, after all, a Hollywood action comedy with aGallic spin. Whatever potential there may have been, however, is squandered bythis bland ...
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Lack of leading lady puts Eucalyptus, Crowe on hold
The producers behind Jocelyn Moorhouse's Eucalyptus, which was to have gone into production this year,are gearing down because they have not been able to find an Australian leadinglady to star alongside Russell Crowe and Geoffrey Rush.They say Crowe and Fox Searchlight, which is fully financingthe film, remain very supportive of ...
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Kinsella named Moonstone managing director
Writers and directorstraining body Moonstone International has appointed Fiona Kinsella as managingdirector.Kinsella, who replaces TaraHalloran, was most recently a project advisor at the Irish national filmtraining body FAS Screen Training Ireland and has 10 years experience in thefilm sector. She takes up the position at Moonstone this month.Jonathan Olsberg,Moonstone's chairman, ...
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L'Esquive takes top Haifa prize
L'Esquive,Abdelatif Kechichi's coming-of-age romp about immigrant kids in a Parisslum, walked away with the Golden Anchor, Haifa's supreme award for its20th International Film Festival, in a competition entirely dedicated toMediterranean production.The jury, presided by Turkish actor Tuncel Curtiz, added twospecial mentions, one to Goran Paskaljevic's Midwinter Night'sDream, and to Jean-Luc ...
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'Judgement of Solomon' settles 9 Songs dispute
The three month-long disputeover UK distribution of Michael Winterbottom's sexually explicitrelationship drama 9 Songs hasbeen settled with what aggrieved distributor Tartan Films described as "ajudgement of Solomon".9 Songs, which had its market debut in Cannes and screenedin the Venice festival, will now be handled in the UK by Tartan's rivalOptimum ...
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PPP shares top prizes between Butter and Help
Projects byKorean-American director Grace Lee and Taiwanese actor/director Lee Kang-shengwill share the top award bestowed by the 7th Pusan Promotion Plan(PPP).Held inconcert with the Pusan International Film Festival, Asia's biggestproject market showcased 23 films this year from directors throughoutAsia.Other filmsto receive awards include Korean film Thou Shall Cut Off A ...
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CanWest dubs new US distribution venture IDP
Canada's CanWest Entertainment has confirmed a joint venture with Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and Carl Icahn, the billionaire backer of Stratosphere Entertainment, to launch an independent distribution outfit, IDP Distribution, to be based in New York. IDP will acquire North American rights to smaller-budget films in a model similar to Lions ...
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Multicultural Import-Export takes off in Norway
More than a year after receiving $1m (NOK7.3m) in productionsupport from the Norwegian Film Fund, Pakistani-Norwegian filmmaker KhalidHussain has finally got his new film Import-Export off the ground with $330,000 from Eurimages.It is the first film to be set in the Pakistani community inOslo, and shoots from Oct 11 with ...