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Into The Wild, Sicko take top honours at IFP's Gotham Awards
Sean Penn's Into The Wild won best feature for Paramount Vantage and Michael Moore's Sicko from The Weinstein Company was named best documentary at the IFP's 17th Annual Gotham Awards [Nov 28].Ellen Page took home the Breakthrough Actor Award for her role as a pregnant teen in Jason Reitman's Juno, ...
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Naomie Harris to receive tribute at Bahamas Film Festival
Naomie Harris will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Rising Star Tribute on December 11.Harris' credits include 28 Weeks Later, Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 and 3, and Miami Vice.Festival organisers also announced that BIFF's Filmmaker Residency Programme will award $10,000 toward development and production on an independent Bahamian ...
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China's Polybona sets up talent management arm
Beijing-based film distributor Polybona Film Distribution has established an artist management wing - Polybona Artist Management - with actress Huang Yi as one of its first signings. Huang stars in the current hit release Brothers, a gangster drama directed by Derek Chiu, and also starring Andy Lau and Eason Chan. ...
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Sony Pictures Japan earns $140.8m for best year ever
Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan (SPEJ) has recorded its best year ever in the territory, with current total box office earnings of $140.8m (Y15.5bn) the company announced at its year-end press conference. While The Da Vinci Code ($82.26m) was Sony's only Top Ten megahit in 2006, the company has released a ...
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Charlie Wilson's War
Dir: Mike Nichols. US. 2007. 97 mins.In a year when big-name Hollywood talent has plunged headlong into films about war, terrorism and politics, Charlie Wilson's War is both refreshing and disappointing. Refreshing, because it tells its story with such brisk narrative skill and wit. Disappointing, because it assiduously avoids taking ...
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Dinosaur opens Leeds children's festival
Walt Disney Co's Dinosaur gets its first UK public screening as the opening gala film for the Leeds Children's Film Festival (October 7-15).Opening the Leeds International Film Festival, which runs alongside the children's event, is Purely Belter, by Little Voice director Mark Herman. The Newcastle-based comedy makes its English premiere ...
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Five Chinese cinema circuits join forces to protect local films
Five major cinema circuits in China have established an alliance, tentatively titled the Chinese Film Union, which aims to select 50 screens across the country to exclusively show Chinese-language films. The five circuits are Beijing-based New Film Association, Shanghai United Circuit, Stellar Megamedia Circuit, Wanda Cinema Circuit and China Film ...
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Certification opens for new Australian tax rebate
Film Finance Corporation Australia flings opens its doors tomorrow for applications from producers wanting to get an indication that their films will be certified Australianonce completed.The provision certificates they will get (if successful) will give producers the starting point to start using the new film financing system introduced this year ...
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London Film School recruits new patrons for funding appeal
The London Film School (LFS) has welcomed a new group of patrons who support the School's capital appeal. The $14m (£7m) two-year appeal will raise funds to establish a new, larger LFS in London's West End. The new space will have teaching and film-making facilities with public cinemas, a bar ...
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Gondry, Spurlock, Levinson, Haneke films to be unveiled at Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival rolled out the star power as they announced the line-up of Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontier and Park City At Midnight films today [Nov 29].As previously announced the festival will open on January 17 with Martin McDonagh's feature directorial debut In Bruges starring Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell ...
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Prime Focus strikes acquisition deal for Post Logic and Frantic
The Prime Focus Group has moved into the North American market with the acquisition of Post Logic Studios, based in New York and Los Angeles, and Frantic Films VFX, which has offices in Los Angeles, Winnipeg and Vancouver.Financial terms were not disclosed. Prime already has six visual effects and post-production ...
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CNC/FFA joint commission backs new Gaspar Noe film
Three projects were supported by the CNC/FFA's German-French Funding Commission this week from its 'mini-traite' co-production fund.Funding of $737,925 (Euros 500,000) went to Gaspar Noe's Japan-set Enter The Void which is being produced as a majority French co-production by Fidelite Films with Berlin-based Essential Filmproduktion and Italy's BIM Distribuzione. Currently ...
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Fox Baja veteran Arneson moves to Hungary's Korda Studios
After its first shoot for Universal's Hellboy 2 wrapped last week, new Hungarian studio Korda Studios has announced some new key members of its team.Charlie Arneson has been appointed studio manager at Korda. He comes to Hungary after 10 years as head of Fox Baja Studios in Mexico, best known ...
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61 films named eligible for Golden Globe foreign language award
Sixty-one foreign language films have passed eligibility requirements for consideration in the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards in January 2008.
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Winstone, Gooding, Perlman join cast of Untitled Gehenna Project
Ray Winstone, Cuba Gooding Jr and Ron Perlman have signed to Ice Cold Productions' action thriller Untitled Gehenna Project.Jason Connery will direct the story of a team of elite soldiers that uncovers an evil force during a mission to rescue a government scientist from an underground base.Taryn Manning, Franky G, ...
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Equinoxe signs two-year deal for Kimmel slate in French Canada
Montreal-based Equinoxe Films has signed an exclusive two-year deal to release New York-based Kimmel International's slate in all media in English and French-speaking Canada.The upcoming releases include the romantic comedy Management with Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn, the Jack Black comedy Ye Olde Times, and the Haruki Murakami adaptation All ...
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Costume designer Marit Allen dies at 66 in Australia
Costume designer Marit Allen, who recently worked on La Vie En Rose and was collaborating with George Miller on the Warner Bros action title Justice League Of America, died of a brain aneurism in Australia on November 26.Allen was born in England in 1941 and after graduating from the University ...
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AFI DALLAS festival receives $1m gift
AFI DALLAS International Film Festival has received a $1m gift from Dallas philanthropist Nancy Hamon as organisers plan the second festival in 2008.'This is a significant financial milestone for AFI DALLAS as we continue planning for our second festival,' founder, chairman and festival director Liener Temerlin said.'Nancy Hamon has been ...
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Beowulf, Enchanted expected to lead international weekend
Warner Bros Pictures International's (WBPI) Beowulf still looks like the one to beat this weekend as it bears down on the $50m mark.The animated adventure has amassed $48.4m to date and should race toward $75m this weekend with launches in Australia on November 29, Brazil and Sweden on November 30 ...
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The Golden Compass
Dir: Chris Weitz US/UK 118minsA more well-tooled and expertly crafted beginning to a winter franchise is hard to imagine, yet it's this very gleaming perfection that may leave The Golden Compass open to accusations of soullessness and artifice. The perceived Americanisation of the greatest British children's publishing phenomenon since Harry ...