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Sooner Or Later (Fruher Oder Spater)
Dir/scr: Ulrike von Ribbeck. Ger. 2007. 91mins.Dangerously tottering on the line between parody and ridicule, this debut feature by a short film director whose early efforts got into both Berlin and Cannes is either a send-up of the coming-of-age movie, back in fashion in Germany of late, or an honest ...
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Sapient to sponsor BAFTA LA's Britannia Award
Sapient - a leading creator of new economy businesses - has partnered with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles (BAFTA LA) to sponsor the 10th Annual Britannia Award - now called the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence In Film - which is this year being ...
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Josh Hartnett to star in George Ratliff's End Zone
George Ratliff, writer-director of psychological thriller Joshua (which debuted at Sundance and is in Locarno's competition this week) has recruited Josh Hartnett to appear in his next feature, End Zone. Hartnett will play a star player at a West Texas College who becomes increasingly obsessed with the threat of nuclear ...
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Anthony Hopkins says bigger festivals are like 'circuses'
Speaking at the Locarno Film Festival this weekend, Anthony Hopkins revealed that he bypassed several other European festivals, including Rome and Venice, to bring his directorial debut Slipstream to Locarno.'We lost the Rome Festival but we thought it would be better to come here,' Hopkins said. 'It is much more ...
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Ahead of Locarno premiere, Sejong takes on Nothing But Ghosts
South Korea's Sejong has picked up German director Martin Gypken's second feature Nothing But Ghosts (Nichts Als Gespenster) ahead of its world premiere screening on Locarno's Piazza Grande on Monday evening.Beta Cinema's head of sales Andreas Rothbauer confirmed to ScreenDaily.com in Locarno at the weekend that Sejong had acquired theatrical, ...
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Bourne sets $70.2m August opening record in North America
Universal's spy thriller The Bourne Ultimatum roared to the top of the North American charts on the back of wildly enthusiastic reviews and set a record estimated $70.2m August launch in the process.The third and supposedly final episode in the saga of the amnesiac covert operative scored the biggest opening ...
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Fox extends theatrical slate financing deal with Dune
Fox Filmed Entertainment and Dune Entertainment, riding high on the recent successes of Live Free Or Die Hard and Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer, have extended their multi-year theatrical slate financing arrangement.Dune Entertainment affiliate Dune Entertainment III has committed to invest more than $500m in Fox films over ...
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Dan Brown's Pierre wins top honours at SWSXclick
Dan Brown's Pierre won the 4th annual SXSWclick Festival's Grand Jury Prize and Will Elliott's Peterson's Savings And Loan took top honours in the audience award.Pierre won the Animate-It section, Peterson's Savings And Loan won the Old School Shorts, and Ubuntu by David Serota won the Really Real Shorts programme.Always ...
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Cannes titles to play at Hawaii International Film Festival
More than 150 features from global film-makers will screen at the 27th Annual Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival, which runs from Oct 18-28.The 11-day Oahu event includes screenings of Bela Tarr's The Man From London and Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Ploy from this year's Cannes Film Festival.Justin Lin's US mock documentary ...
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Simpsons continue to burn up international box office
International audiences kept The Simpsons Movie at the top of the overseas market for the second consecutive weekend as Fox International's comedy added an estimated $47.3m from 6,600 screens to raise the tally to $187m.Weekend business was driven by a robust $6.9m number one debut in Mexico on 850 screens ...
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Cinta takes top best film honours at Malaysian Film Festival
Khabir Bhatia's Cinta, an omnibus of five love stories set in modern-day Kuala Lumpur, was named best film at the 20th Malaysian Film Festival awards ceremony on Saturday night. It also took best supporting actor (for Haji Rahim Razali), best screenplay and best editor. A total of 29 awards were ...
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UTV taps three portals for online film releases
Indian motion picture company UTV has tied up with three portals that will premiere two of their forthcoming feature film releases online. UTV Motion Pictures' library of movies will also be available for viewing via these portals. The first two premieres are the Vikram Bhatt helmed Fear (Aug 10) across ...
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Sundance launches Online Film Festival for 2001
The Sundance Institute yesterday unveiled The Sundance Online Film Festival, a showcase of new work specifically developed for the web, which will coincide with next year's film festival, Jan 18-28, 2001. The cyber-festival will launch on Jan 18 on www.sundance.org.The online film festival is open to mixed-media pieces that have ...
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The Yellow House (La Maison Jaune)
Dir/scr: Amor Hakkar. Fr-Alg. 2007. 80mins.Shot in the Aures mountains, one of the more remote and arid regions of Algeria, The Yellow House is a worthy and particularly authentic representative of North African cinema that at the least can expect an extended list of festival. Refraining from any political statements ...
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LoveFilm hires BBC iPlayer expert Ben Lavender
Ben Lavender will join LoveFilm as group digital and product director. He joins LoveFilm from the BBC, where he was project manager for celebrity stock market Celebdaq and also pioneered the recent launch of the BBC iPlayer. At LoveFilm, he will develop LoveFilm - including leading new features - across ...
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SVT pulls out most expensive Nordic feature, $30m Arn
Swedish public broadcaster SVT has pulled out of Svensk Filmindustri's Arn-The Knight Templar, the two-film adaptation of Swedish writer Jan Guillou's bestselling trilogy of Arn Magnusson, which - with a $30.3m (Euros 22.8m) budget - will become the most expensive feature production in the Nordic countries. 'Unfortunately Svensk Filmindustri cannot ...
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Shabana Azmi to head jury of new Asia Pacific awards
The Indian actress and humanitarian Shabana Azmi has been named president of the international jury at the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), to be held on Australia's Gold Coast on Nov 13. 'The Asia Pacific Screen Awards is strongly committed to cinematic excellence and the promotion of the regions' ...
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Waintrop named new head of Fribourg festival
Switzerland 's Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF) has found a programmer for the 2008 edition, while Austria's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema will be looking for a new director from 2009. The appointment of French film critic Edouard Waintrop as programmer for the next edition of FIFF (March 1-8, ...
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OTX expands film tracking service in Russia and China
The OTX (Online Testing Exchange) International Film Tracking service is expanding to Russia and China, the first such tracking service in each country. Clients of the consumer research and consulting company will be able to use the service to evaluate marketing campaigns up to five weeks before release. OTX's weekly ...
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A Girl Cut In Two (La Fille Coupee En Deux)
Dir: Claude Chabrol France 2007. 115 mins tbcIt's cynical business as usual for Claude Chabrol, who offers plentiful style and psychological finesse, if few surprises, in his latest jaundiced and sophisticated entertainment. The story of a young woman caught between two rivalrous and highly unsuitable admirers, A Girl Cut In ...