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Indian Censor Board derails Darjeeling Limited
Wes Anderson's India-set Darjeeling Limited was derailed in the country where it was filmed last week, when the Indian Censor Board denied the film a certification. The board claimed that the film, which was scheduled for release on Jan 18, did not have adequate permissions to shoot animal life. While ...
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Away From Her
Dir: Sarah Polley. Canada. 110 minsSarah Polley's Away From Her is a lovingly wrought and heartfelt exploration of the end of a complicated relationship. The young Canadian actress has a reputation as a nuanced stalwart of the international indie film scene. That reputation is set for a dramatic transformation. Polley's ...
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European players unite in film drive
As reported in Screen International weekly this morning, the UK's BBC Films, Germany's Kinowelt and Spain's Lolafilms have formed a development and production alliance aimed at creating a European powerhouse that can offer film-makers an alternative to Hollywood.The partners, key film operations in their respective territories, aim for the initial ...
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Oscars analysis: Surprises include Tommy Lee Jones, Laura Linney
Dark dramas There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men led the pack in the nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards with eight apiece. Michael Clayton and Atonement followed with seven each.Those four films together with Juno were nominated for best picture, although Atonement director Joe Wright ...
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Rambo
Dir: Sylvester Stallone. US. 2008. 91mins.Cynically using the decades-long Burmese civil war as a backdrop for grisly and unremitting violence, muscle-headed action flick Rambo comes off as a sad and empty attempt to be politically relevant. Coming almost two decades after the last series entry, and on the heels of ...
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Metrodome plans re-release of Oscar nominated Away From Her
On the back of the two Oscar nominations for Away From Her, the film's UK distributor, Metrodome, has announced plans to revive the film in a limited theatrical re-release in select UK cinemas from Feb 15.Metrodome originally released the film, nominated for best actress (Julie Christie) and best adapted screenplay ...
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Ascot Elite takes Swiss rights to The Interrogation Of Harry Wind
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group has picked up Swiss theatrical and DVD rights to Pascal Verdosci's political thriller The Interrogation Of Harry Wind which began shooting in Basle last week.The adaptation of a novel by Matthias Diggelmann, one of the leading post-war Swiss novelists with Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, stars ...
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Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger found dead
Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger has been found dead at a Manhattan apartment.Police are investigating the death of the 28-year-oldAustralian who was nominated for an Oscar in 2006for his role in Ang Lee's Western.Reportssuggests a possible drugs overdose.The Perth-born actor appeared in Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan film I'm Not There ...
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Smart People
Dir: Noam Murro. US. 2007. 93min.Noam Murro's debut feature Smart People is somewhat deceptive work in which the primary story of a tentative love affair between a difficult and intellectually arrogant university professor and his former student is constantly usurped by the more interesting dynamics of the man's brilliantly acid ...
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Sundance deal-making speeds up midway through festival
Four days of dark pronouncements about the dearth of commercial narrative films at Sundance vanished on Tuesday [Jan 22] as business exploded with a flurry of activity headed by Focus Features' $10m deal for worldwide rights to Andrew Fleming's comedy Hamlet 2.In two other prominent deals, Fox Searchlight reportedly paid ...
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Reactions from 2008 Academy Award nominees
Labour unrest may have taken some of the sparkle out of this year's awards season but it did little to dampen the spirits of Oscar nominees around the world as they reacted to the Academy Awards nominations announcement. In Los Angeles, producer JoAnne Sellar said she and her partner (and ...
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IMAX signs to build two cinemas in Philippines
IMAX Corp. and SM Prime Holdings, the largest mall operator in the Philippines, have signed a deal that will see two IMAX digital projection systems installed at shopping malls in the cities of Manila and Cebu. Both cinemas are expected to open by late 2009. SM already operates an IMAX ...
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Incendiary (2007)
Dir: Sharon Maguire. UK. 2008. 96mins.This relatively large-scale UK production about the human cost of terrorism is an overly earnest, narratively muddled affair notable chiefly for a gutsy performance by Michelle Williams. Although it starts promisingly, Sharon Maguire's first film since Bridget Jones's Diary in 2001 quickly veers into the ...
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Rocket, Walt Disney board Gnome animation feature
As reported in Screen International weekly this morning, Elton John and David Furnish's production outfit Rocket Pictures and Walt Disney Feature Animation have acquired UK animation script A Gnome's Story. Disney, which has a first-look pact with Rocket, is funding development on the original spec script about two rival groups ...
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Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden'
Dir: Morgan Spurlock. US. 2008. 93minsIn Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden', Morgan Spurlock super-sizes the scope of the one-man quest for truth and goes global, searching around the Middle East for the Al Qaeda leader with a $25 million price on his head. After sitting down with ...
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Bell Canada to launch new film download store
Canadian telecom and internet service provider Bell Canada will launch a movie download service in April or May, ScreenDaily.com has learned.Similar in methodology to Apple's iTunes, the new service, called The Bell Video Store will offer Hollywood titles for rental or to own for use on up to three authorized ...
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Karynn Austin leaves TVA for Equinoxe Films
Canadian distribution veteran Karynn Austin has left TVA Films to join Equinoxe Films as director of distribution and marketing. Based in the company's Toronto office, she will oversee all aspects of marketing Equinoxe's theatrical and home entertainment releases in English Canada. Austin has 20 years experience in the business including ...
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Maja Zimmermann joins acquisitions team at Altadena
Maja Zimmermann has joined the acquisitions team for UK-based sales company Altadena Films. She is currently attending Sundance.Zimmerman previously worked in development for Miramax TV and Strictly Films, and has also produced indepdent films and directed 12x12.'We are delighted to have someone with Maja's experience join the Altadena team. Maja ...
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Holroyd starts UK shoot for political thriller WMD
David Holroyd's UK micro-budget political thriller WMD started a four-week shoot on Jan 21.Simon Lenagan, Jo-Anne Knowles, Glenn Conroy, Robert Cambrinus and Burnell Tucker star.The film, inspired in part by reality, is about an MI-6 desk officer who uncovers inaccuracies in evidence about the Iraq invasion.Holroyd makes his feature film ...
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David Bradford joins Future Shorts as managing director
UK-based short film label Future Shorts has hired David Bradford as its managing director.Bradford had been senior advisor at the BBC Trust, head of strategy and ventures at the MOBO Awards, business development consultant at Ministry of Sound and manager of corporate affairs at EMI Group.Fabien Riggall, Director of Future ...