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Strong documentary presence at Diagonale showcase of Austrian cinema
Documentaries are once again out in force at this year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film (April 1-6) which opens in Graz on Tuesday evening with the world premiere of Othmar Schmiderer's Back To Africa.Poool Filmverleih will release the film, which follows five artists of Andre Heller's 'Afrika Afrika' musical ...
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Celtic Media Festival selects seven feature dramas in shortlist
The 2008 Celtic Media Festival has announced the shortlist of seven films competing for the Bronze Torc for Excellence for Feature Length Drama.They are The Last King Of Scotland, Kings, Cre na Cille (Graveyard Clay), The Midnight Drives, Dressing Granite, Calon Gaeth, and Seachd - The Inaccessible Pinnacle.The festival will ...
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Fact Not Fiction launches Welcome Aboard Toxic Airlines
UK-based Fact Not Fiction Films is planning an April DVD launch of its feature documentary Welcome Aboard Toxic Airlines.The 93-minute film is an investigative documentary about how airline crews and passengers can be exposed to hazardous chemicals in unfiltered air.Fact Not Fiction founder Tristan Loraine was a commercial airline pilot ...
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Deutchman joins Studionext as CEO
Ira Deutchman has joined New York-based online entertainment producer Studionext as its CEO. The founder of Fine Line Features and, more recently, Redeemable Features is the latest high-profile film industry executive to join the dotcom fray. Studionext, which launched last year with the backing of private investors, has what Deutchman ...
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Leatherheads
Dir: George Clooney. US. 2008. 113 mins.Part screwball romance, part sports comedy, George Clooney's third film behind the camera, the period piece Leatherheads, goes back to the early days of American professional football. Loose-limbed, loquacious and exceedingly affable, the movie finally comes unglued in the final third, when forced to ...
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Superhero Movie
Dir: Craig Mazin. US. 2008. 86 mins.For the most part a dispiriting, tedious send-up of superhero story cliches, Superhero Movie starts out with a full head of steam but quickly flags, struggling to fill out both its costume and its running time. Like the worst of its downmarket, quick-buck spoof ...
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Street Kings
Dir: David Ayer. US. 2008. 107 mins.A violent thriller about police corruption in Los Angeles, Street Kings retreads territory already covered by director David Ayer in Training Day and Dark Blue, which he wrote, and Harsh Times which he wrote and directed. Everything here is predictable, from the tired plot ...
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Aspect Film takes on sales for Journal Of A Contract Killer
UK-based sales company Aspect Film Ltd has taken on worldwide rights to Tony Maylam's female assassin thriller Journal OfA Contract Killer.The story is based on true events in the UK and Italy about an assassin who turns on her mafia bosses after her child is kidnapped. Justine Powell and Isabella ...
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Cannes Atelier to welcome Lou Ye, Benedek Fliegauf
The fourth Cannes Atelier of the Cinefondation will welcome 15 projects from 14 countries. The selections include the new films from Milky Way director Benedek Fliegauf and Summer Palace director Lou Ye.Now in its fifth edition, L'Atelier seeks to help directors with financing and project completion.The directors and producers will ...
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Dir: Nicholas Stoller. US. 2008. 112 mins.The Judd Apatow comedy machine reaches new heights with this instant classic from director Nicholas Stoller, star/writer Jason Segel and producer Apatow. Consistently funny, remarkably tender and absolutely contemporary in its depiction of young twentysomethings, their social mores and concerns, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is ...
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Nim's Island (2007)
Dirs: Mark Levin & Jennifer Flackett. US. 2008. 96 mins.A smart and lively family film boasting star draws in Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster and Gerard Butler, Nim's Island is destined to have a long life on multiple platforms over many years. Young children of both genders and, importantly, their parents ...
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Fortissimo takes on Tribeca world premiere Chevolution
Fortissimo Films has acquired all rights outside North America for the documentary Chevolution.Netflix's Red Envelope Entertainment financed the film.Trisha Ziff and Luis Lopez directed the documentary about Alberto Korda's iconic photograph of Che Guevara. The film's interviewees include Gael Garcia Bernal, Antonio Banderas, Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine ...
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Warner Bros Germany checks into The Last Station
Warner Bros. Pictures Germany will distribute Michael Hoffman's The Last Station which begins shooting from April 7 at locations in Brandenburg as a production of Egoli Tossell Halle, a production-specific outfit set up by Berlin-based Egoli Tossell Film and the UK-based Zephyr Films run by Chris Curling.The drama of Count ...
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Jobson starts Edinburgh shoot for New Town Killers
Richard Jobson has started shooting chase thriller New Town Killers in Edinburgh.Dougray Scott, Alastair Mackenzie, James Pearson and Charles Mnene lead the cast.Jobson also wrote the story, which follows two disenchanted bankers who try to play manhunt with society's marginal figures.Luc Roeg of London-based Independent is producing with Jobson. Backers ...
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Digital alliance to compete with Sky PerfecTV
Japan's largest trading house Mitsubishi Corp has joined forces with four corporate allies to enter the communications satellite (CS) broadcasting market, currently dominated by the Sky PerfecTV platform. According to a basic agreement signed on September 28, Mitsubishi, Nippon Television Network, Japan Satellite Broadcasting, NTT DoCoMo and NTT Communications have ...
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THE DISTRIBUTION REVOLUTION CHAPTER 7: WHY NOW'
There are essentially two reasons to embrace any fundamental business change: because you want to or because you have to. Given the uncertainties outlined in this report - and the necessity to pay the bills - it is hardly surprising that enthusiasm for any kind of digital revolution is limited.Having ...
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James E Curry joins LA law firm Sheppard Mullin
James E Curry has joined the Century City office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP as partner in the law firm's entertainment and media group.Curry most recently practised as a founding partner with White O'Connor Curry in Century City.Curry is an experienced trial attorney who specialises in business lawsuits ...
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Slavoj Zizek to preside as guest director at Telluride in Aug
Slavoj Zizek will preside as guest director of the 35th Telluride Film Festival, which is scheduled to run from Aug 29-Sept 1.The Slovenian-born political philosopher and academic has written more than 50 books covering a diverse array of subjects ranging from Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch to Wagner and cyberspace. ...
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Cinema Libre picks up worldwide rights to disFIGURED
Cinema Libre Studio has picked up worldwide rights to Glenn Gers' disFIGURED, which makes its world premiere at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival on Apr 1.disFIGURED stars Deidra Edwards and Staci Lawrence as strangers who meet through a California-based Fat Acceptance group and become firm friends. Launchpad Productions' David ...
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Veteran international executive Sandy Cobe dies in Los Angeles
Veteran international sales executive Sandy Cobe died on Feb 20 in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 79.Cobe's varied career included work in exhibition, sales and production and he served on the board of directors of the AFMA (now IFTA) from 1982 to 1992.Born in New York City, ...