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Shochiku picks up Kadokawa's Genghis Khan
Japanese major Shochiku has acquired international rights excluding Asia to legendary producer Haruki Kadokawa's $25m Genghis Khan - To The Ends Of The Earth And Sea. Shochiku will distribute the film in Japan and also handle all international sales, excluding Asia, which will be handled by co-producer Avex Entertainment. Domestic ...
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Lionsgate to open Aus/NZ distribution outfit
After many rumours that it was seeking to buy an existing Australian distributor, US-based producer-distributor Lionsgate has confirmed that it is establishing its own operation to cover Australia and New Zealand. ' Australia is a key territory and to not be the person selling your own content is crazy,' said ...
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Leva doc to premiere at San Francisco Film Festival on Apr 26
The 50th San Francisco International Film Festival will host the world premiere of Gary Leva's documentary Fog City Mavericks.The eminently appropriate choice to play at the festival's 50th anniversary proceedings hails the work of George Lucas and other innovative Bay Area film-makers. Lucas and others profiled in the film will ...
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Non-profit Shelley Foundation set up in honour of Waitress director
Andy Ostroy has set up the Adrienne Shelly Foundation dedicated to the memory of his late wife, actor and director who was found dead in New York last November.The non-profit organisation will focus on women with the stated aim of helping to finance student films and independent projects, supplement film ...
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La Vie En Rose to open French cinema Rendez-vous in New York
Olivier Dahan's Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose will launch the 12th Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance's annual showcase of French cinema.La Vie En Rose, which will open Berlin on Feb 8, stars Marian Cotillard and Gerard Depardieu and chronicles the singer's ...
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Rambow sells for $7.5m to Paramount Vantage at busy Sundance
Paramount Vantage finally made a big play at its maiden Sundance, swooping on Garth Jennings' coming-of-age tale Son Of Rambow and Ian Iqbal Rashid's hip-hop drama How She Move for an estimated combined cost of $11.5m.In another intense day of deals in Park City, the Weinsteins announced two more joint ...
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Cinemavault to introduce The Listening to buyers at Berlin
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International has acquired international sales rights to political thriller The Listening and will introduce to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin next month.Giacomo Martelli's film exposes the dangers of Echelon, a real-life surveillance system used by the National Security Agency that has been described in ...
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Reactions in full to Oscar nominations
Al Gore, star of documentary feature nominee An Inconvenient Truth'I am thrilled for our director Davis Guggenheim and producers Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Burns and co-producer Lesley Chilcott. The film they created has brought awareness of the climate crisis to people in the United States and all over the ...
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Trade
Dir: Marco Kreuzpaintner. US. 2007. 113mins.While unconvincing as a muck-raking look at how a network of foreign sex-slave traffickers can operate within the US, Trade often works as a gritty, sordid thriller due to the pulsating, viscerally kinetic direction by German director Marco Kreuzpaintner. Working in Mexico City and the ...
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Son Of Rambow
Dir: Garth Jennings. UK-Fr. 2007. 94mins.An immensely satisfying comedy about childhood friendship, Son Of Rambow is one of those rare British films which is at once culturally specific but directed with such confidence and visual panache that it should enjoy worldwide distribution. The work of hot UK director/producer team Jennings ...
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Patrick Malone heads digital film services at Ascent Media
Ascent Media Creative Services has named Patrick Malone as its director of digital film services, a newly created position.Malone has responsibility for all elements of digital feature film production across One Post, St Anne's Post, Soho Images and Todd AO.Malone joined Ascent in 1997 from Framestore CFC. He moved to ...
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Ex Drummer stirs controversy among Belgian exhibitors
In advance of its world premiere in the Tiger Competition in Rotterdam this weekend, Koen Mortier's Ex Drummer is provoking controversy in Belgium. One leading arthouse exhibitor, Studio Skoop in Ghent, has refused to show the film, which features scenes of graphic violence, rape and self mutilation. Industry sources have ...
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Berlinale's new short film programme names 16 competitors
The Berlinale's new Short Film Competition has selected 16 films from 12 countries for this year's line-up. The new shorts programme intends to focus more attention on the short format following the merging of the Competition and Panorama short film programmes. A three-woman international jury of the producers Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima ...
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UK's Network plans re-release of restored Things To Come
UK distributor Network is planning a theatrical and DVD release of the newly digitally restored sci-fi classic Things To Come, the post-war apocalyptic HG Wells tale. The film will screen on May 2 and May 4 at the London Sci-Fi Film Festival (May 2-7). The DVD release, with bonus features ...
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CASE STUDY - Famous
Actor-turned director Griffin Dunne found himself juggling both roles with mockumentary Famous, his first venture into digital film-making. John Hazelton reports on the making of the film.Summer 1999New York-based independent producer Dolly Hall (High Art, The Incredible True Adventures Of Two Girls In Love) is sent a script by actress ...
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Jeanada to star in Michael Radford's La Mula
Up-and-coming Spanish actor Oscar Jaenada has been tapped for the lead in Michael Radford's new Spanish-language feature La Mula.Jaenada will star alongside Maria Valverde (Melissa P) in the Spanish Civil War-set bittersweet comedy about a soldier who discovers a mule in the middle of a battlefield and decides to keep ...
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Canet awarded prize for best French thriller
The 2007 Jacques-Deray Prize for the best French thriller has beenawarded to Guillaume Canet's Ne Le Dis A Personne. The award is givenby the Lumiere Institute and was created in 2005 in memory of Deray whowas vice-president of the Lumiere Institute.Canet's second feature was adapted from the book by HarlanCoben ...
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Multi-million dollar boost for Irish film
The Irish government has pledged $188m (Euros 145) to support the Irish Film Board's work until 2013.The investment forms part of the $238bn seven-year National Development Plan, details of which were revealed yesterday.It will be allocated to the Irish Film Board to support its work, and particularly to support international ...
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Films Distribution picks up Lost In Beijing
France's Films Distribution has acquired worldwide rights to Chinese female director Li Yu's Lost In Beijing (Pingguo), produced by Fang Li's Laurel Films, which has been selected for competition at this year's Berlin film festival. The film is currently in post-production and is scheduled to be submitted to Chinese censors ...
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Laura Mana to direct La Roldana
Laura Mana has signed on to direct ambitious 17th century biopic La Roldana for Spain's Maestranza Films.Seville native Paz Vega (Spanglish, 10 Items Or Less) has expressed interest in taking the lead role of the talented sculptress in the vibrant 17th century setting of Seville who defied her family's wishes ...