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Profile: Magnolia Pictures' Magnet label
Tom Quinn has always made it his business - or at least a part of his business - to bring what he describes as 'the A-team of B-films from around the world' to US audiences.One of his first buys when he became head of acquisitions for US theatrical and video ...
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Profile: Sundance Institute Arthouse Project
Everyone, of course, knows about the festival. And pretty much everyone in the independent-film world is familiar with the other long-standing programmes - from the film-makers labs to the producers conference - that Robert Redford's Sundance Institute runs alongside its annual Park City get-together.The Sundance Institute Arthouse Project is a ...
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Syria: Postcard from Damascus
With the recent emergence of film festivals in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the Middle East's festival calendar is getting busy. But one of the oldest in the region - the Damascus International Film Festival - is determined to raise its international profile, despite operating on budgets that are a fraction ...
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Profile: UK producer Simon Jordan
A self-made millionaire with investments in restaurants, magazines and property, Simon Jordan now wants to be a British film mogul.Already a minor celebrity in the UK and popular with the tabloids as the young, outspoken owner of Championship football club Crystal Palace, Jordan is taking his first steps in celluloid ...
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Awards Countdown - Best actor/Best supporting actor - Command performances
BEST ACTOR: THE TOP 10 CONTENDERS1. SEAN PENNMILKThe performance (according to Screen's review): "Penn gives one of the most likeable star turns of his career as Harvey Milk, a performance filled with passion, humanity and humour which should lodge him firmly in contention for best actor awards." (Mike Goodridge)The politics: ...
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Preview: Dubai International Film Festival
'Dubai is a marketing machine. Everybody knows that,' says Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) chairman Abdulhamid Juma. His comment comes at the end of a month that has seen, as if to prove his point, the $2m celebrity-crammed, Kylie Minogue-serenaded opening of Dubai's crunch-defying Atlantis, the Palm mega-hotel.Interview with festival ...
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Special Feature - Competition - The Arabic films in contention for this year's Muhr Awards
ADHEN-DERNIER MAQUIS (ALG-FR)Dir: Rabah Ameur-ZaimecheAmeur-Zaimeche directs and stars in this drama about the owner of a factory in an industrial area outside Paris, who builds a mosque for his workers. The film premiered at Cannes in Directors' Fortnight before screening at Toronto. It has also been shortlisted for France's Louis ...
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Diplomat, Chunhyang triumph in Hawaii
The 20th edition of the Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF) awarded the top prizes in its competition section to Im Kwon Taek's Chunhyang, which took the best feature award, and Tom Zubrycki's The Diplomat, which won best documentary.Chunghyang, based on a popular Korean folk song, premiered at Cannes this ...
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Interview: Festival director Masoud Amralla Al Ali
Festival director Masoud Amralla Al Ali reveals his hopes for this year's festival.What is the blueprint for a good festival'The most important thing is to have an identity and a vision to shape the path the festival takes. As we all know, there are thousands of film festivals around the ...
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Arabian Nights - Stars in their eyes
The embodiment of Diff's mandate to promote Arab film-making on the world stage is the festival's out-of-competition Arabian Nights selection: a line-up of Arab films from the last 12 months. This year's pick includes the kind of powerful documentaries one might expect to come out of the Middle East at ...
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Special feature - Beyond the festival - 'Every new mall has a multiplex'
The multiplex at Dubai's vast Festival City shopping mall is offering cinema-goers a choice of 14 movies this month. The majority are Hollywood blockbusters such as Ridley Scott's Body Of Lies, and High School Musical 3: Senior Year, screened in English with Arabic subtitles. The city's sizeable Indian community might ...
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Profile: Dubai Film Market and Film Connection
‘We want to give people good business opportunities as well as supporting film-makers,’ says Jane Williams, head of the Diff’s industry office, of Dubai Film Connection (DFC), which was established during last year’s festival as the Middle East’s first feature and documentary film co-production market.
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Distribution - Warm embrace in Taiwan
Something is brewing in Taiwan. In the past 12 months it has become a more active buying market for international films, home to new distributors with deep pockets, while Hong Kong companies, such as Filmko, are launching local production offices to benefit from government subsidies and local talent. At the ...
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International - A shot at the title
Four new releases entered the top 10 in Screen's international chart for the November 28-30 weekend, during which Quantum Of Solace held on to its position at the top of the table with a $20.6m weekend haul.Transporter 3 was the highest new entry at number three, following openings in France, ...
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In Focus: 3D cinema faces big international challenges
At the 3D Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles this week, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg again made the case for the enormous potential that 3D cinema offers the industry.Already 2009 is shaping up to be the key year for the technology; a total of 15 3D presentations are scheduled, including ...
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Justin Chadwick to direct Tenderness Of Wolves for Film4, Target.
Justin Chadwick will direct a feature adaptation of by Stef Penney's Costa Prize-winning novel The Tenderness Of Wolves.Chadwick is writing the script and will direct the film for Film4 and Target Entertainment Group. Production is set to begin next year on the project, which was developed by Film4's Katherine Butler. ...
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Madagascar 2 set to land across western Europe for PPI
DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa on $78.3m opens in 13 territories through PPI this weekend and will pose the mightiest challenge to Sony Pictures Releasing International's Quantum Of Solace.Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa arrives in France, French-speaking Switzerland, Switzerland and Belgium on December 4, followed by Germany, German-speaking Switzerland and ...
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Nick Meyer leaves Paramount Vantage, Guy Stodel stands in
Paramount Vantage president Nick Meyer is leaving the company and executive vice president of production and acquisitions Guy Stodel will step in as the division shifts its focus to acquisitions and international productions.The shock departure comes as part of sweeping cuts across the Paramount fold announced earlier in the day ...
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Lanzarote's Spanish Screenings unveils line-up
The Spanish Film Screenings for Europe, held on the Canary Island of Lanzarote, has unveiled the line-up of films set to premiere and screen at this year's second annual edition (Nov 29-Dec 1).Most of Spain's leading production outfits are represented in the 33 films confirmed for screening. This year, buyers ...
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Lin, Pan share top prize at Taipei projects market
Lin Yu-hsien's road movie 2menwalking and Pan Baochang's thriller Parkour Boys shared the $15,000 top prize at the fourth edition of the Film & TV Co-Production Meeting (formerly called the Taipei Film & TV Project Promotion) held from December 2-4. Lin's film is about a father and son who embark ...