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Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page flock to Mandate's Peacock
Mandate Pictures has cast Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page in the psychological thriller Peacock. The story takes place in a small Nebraskan town where Murphy's schizophrenic character fools inhabitants into thinking he is man and wife. Page will play a struggling mother who holds the key to his ...
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Jerusalema
Dir/scr: Ralph Ziman. South Africa. 2008. 118mins.The third feature of Ralph Ziman, the new South African action movie Jerusalema is reportedly drawn from actual events. More accurately it is inspired from the watching of a lot of movies, combining and cannily poaching parts of the original Scarface, Superfly, GoodFellas, New ...
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Picture Entertainment, Plum take on Faulkner's Intruder In The Dust
Picture Entertainment and Plum Pictures are partnering on an adaptation of William Faulkner's 1948 classic Intruder In The Dust.Intruder tells the story of black farmer Lucas Beauchamp who is falsely accused of murdering a white man in Depression-era Mississippi. Locked in jail and facing the imminent arrival of a lynch ...
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New Line's John Sinayi joins Overture Films as SVP
Overture Films has hired John Sinayi as senior vice president theatrical distribution. Sinayi previously served as vice president/district manager of Western and Central Divisions for New Line Cinema where he worked in both the Los Angeles and Dallas offices. During his 14-year tenure at New Line he oversaw ...
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Canadian Film Centre receive C$1m donation from Cineplex
Canadian exhibitor Cineplex Entertainment is providing the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) with a five-year C$1m donation as well as a C$100,000 endowment towards an annual scholarship to aid one film resident. In return, the CFC Film program will be named the Cineplex Entertainment Film Program. The scholarship will be similarly ...
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Austria's Revanche takes Europa Cinemas Label in Berlin
The Europa Cinemas Label at Berlin has gone to Gotz Spielmann's Revanche from Austria.The prize is awarded to the best European film in Berlinale Panorama, as judged by a jury of four Europa Ciemas exhibitors.The honour comes with the support of the Europa Cinemas network of exhibitors, which will give ...
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Everything is Fine (Tout est parfait)
Dir: Yves Christian Fournier. Canada. 2008. 118mins.Quebec director Yves Christian Fournier's first feature, Everything is Fine, is a sombre, frequently moving portrait limning the emotional and social aftermath of a tragedy. Fournier's reach sometimes exceeds his grasp, but his complicated and nuanced study of sorrow and loss is sharpened by ...
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Berlin Talent Campus score prize goes to Conrad Oleak
The Berlinale Talent Campus has come to a close, with Conrad Oleak from Germany taking the top prize in the Volkswagen Score Competition.He did a new score for an excerpt of Platz im Schatten by Sophie Narr.He now gets a one-week trip via Dolby to Los Angeles to visit top ...
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UK's Sky Movies Indie gets broadcast rights to Spirit Awards
UK channel Sky Movies Indie has struck a deal for the exclusive UK broadcast of Film Independent's Spirit Awards. The winners are announced in Santa Monica February 23 and highlights will be shown at 9 pm GMT March 1 on Sky Movies Indie.The channel will also run a week's worth ...
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AtomFilms links with Jonze, DiCaprio
Director Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) has joined the advisory board of on-line distributor AtomFilms and will create three original shorts for exclusive distribution by the company. AtomFilms is also teaming up with Leonardo DiCaprio's Birken Interactive Studio to launch a short film festival. The two-year deal with Jonze includes ...
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Dublin opens tonight with In Bruges with Farrell and Gleeson present
The opening of the Jameson Dublin International Film FestivalInternational tonight and the annual Irish Film & Television Awardson Sunday launch a hectic week of international guests, awards andscreenings in Ireland's capital.The festival launches this evening with the European premiere of Sundance opener In Bruges with writer/director Martin McDonagh and leading ...
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Delphis strikes Japanese deal for Berlin selection Dunya & Desie
Berlinale Generation 14plus selection Dunya & Desie has been sold to Japan's Wako. The Dutch teen movie, starring EFP Shooting Star Maryam Hassouni, had its world premiere in Berlin.Montreal-based Delphis Films is handling sales. Producers are Netherlands-based Lemming Film with co-producers A Private View (Belgium) and Motion Investment Group (Belgium).The ...
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Copyright issues revisited as European Comission opens consultation
The debate on content copyright in the digital age has taken another twist as the European Commission announces a new public consultation on copying levies on electronic and digital equipment.The EC aims to simplify the way levies are dealt with across all 27 Member States and address the latest issues ...
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Strong casts line up for new Italian films from Tognazzzi, Corsicato
Two new Italian films set to shoot this spring -- The Man Who Loves and Seeds Of Discontent - have both pulled together strong casts. Principal photography of The Man who Loves (L'uomo che ama), directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi, will begin February 25 in and around Turin.The film features ...
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Cine Qua Non, Creek & River partner for Korean push
The Korean subsidiaries of Japanese film producer-distributor-exhibitor Cine Qua Non (CQN) and contents rights management company Creek & River have partnered to promote Japanese films in the Korean market. Through a tie-up with Cine Qua Non Korea, Creek & River Korea will handle licensing of theatrical distribution, broadcast and remake ...
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Berlin Generation 14plus youth jury prize goes to The Black Balloon
The Berlinale's youth jury in the Generation 14plus section have given their Crystal Bear for best feature to Elissa Down's The Black Balloon from Australia.The jury said: 'We were very moved by the close to life story portraying the everyday life of an extraordinary family in this film. We were ...
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Padilha's The Elite Squad takes Golden Bear in Berlin
Click on film title to see reviewBrazilian film The Elite Squad by Jose Padilha was the surprise winner of this year's Golden Bear at the Berlinale, beating off critics favourites such as There Will be Blood and Happy-Go-Lucky. It is the first Brazilian film to receive the top honour in ...
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US box-office bounces with Jumper; Hannah Montana nears $60m
Fox's sci-fi adventure Jumper starring Hayden Christensen as a globe trotting teleporter stormed to the top of the domestic charts at the weekend on an estimated $27.2m.The film has grossed $33.9m since it opened on Thursday and also stars Samuel L Jackson, Diane Lane and Jamie Bell. Doug Liman directed.Opening ...
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Kinowelt seeks to buy Village's German cinemas
Kinowelt, Germany's fast-moving licensing and distribution conglomerate, is poised to become one of the country's leading exhibitors.It is involved in exclusive talks with Village Roadshow to buy a majority stake in the eight German multiplexes owned by the Australian group. Kinowelt was unable to confirm details about the size or ...