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Interview: Thierry Fremaux
Cannes' general manager Thierry Fremaux has become a respected trendsetter, carving his mark on the festival by welcoming feature documentaries and animations into the competition and embracing US film-makers.In the week the 2008 Cannes line-up is unveiled, Fremaux talks to Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte about where he plans to take the festival ...
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Universal to enter Japan's CS market
Universal Studios is tying up with Japanese companies including Hitachi and the Asahi media group to enter the communications satellite (CS) broadcasting business in Japan. The partners will launch a joint venture company in April to provide broadcasting services starting from autumn 2001. They plan to use the Universal film ...
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Filmaka- the contest Engine
Deepak Nayar's original idea in hatching Filmaka in late 2006 was to create a platform for pitching material that would then be judged by peers and a panel of A-list judges.The concept was that aspiring film-makers submit one to three-minute short films to the site on designated themes. Every month, ...
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United States - A one-shot deal
On a sombre late March morning in Chicago before dawn breaks, it is day four of shooting on Helix, the first feature from the Beverly Hills-based production company Windward Entertainment.The story, about the kidnap of a young woman (played by Alexa Vega), is drawn from an actual incident involving Aram ...
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United Kingdom - Virtuous circle
It is a bitterly cold February day in deepest Nottinghamshire in the middle of England, with rain-clouds looming. But that does not stop cast and crew from braving the elements and putting their Thai curry lunch on hold while their enthusiastic, perfectionist director Stephan Elliott freeze-frames the shot he is ...
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Australia - Hopscotch jumps to next level
Independent Australian distributor Hopscotch is reinventing itself. The company's ambitious managing director Troy Lum wants to transform Hopscotch from a theatrically-focused distributor to a vertically integrated, content-driven entity.'When the digital era really hits, producers will reap the rewards,' says Lum. 'Distribution is changing because people consume content in different ways ...
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United Kingdom - Character Counts
Bob Hoskins' ease at switching from cuddly to menacing has kept his career ticking along nicely for decades. Since 1980's The Long Good Friday launched him as a film star, the actor has worked with Steven Spielberg, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Oliver Stone and Atom Egoyan.Hoskins has also lent his support to ...
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Set visit: Lone Scherfig's An Education
It is the Easter holidays and in a quiet Japanese school in West London, Danish director Lone Scherfig is shooting a scene with a school orchestra in an airy assembly hall.With its dark wood the hall looks right at home in the early 1960s period in which An Education is ...
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Special report: Hollywood goes anglophile
'Britain isin a golden era right now, particularly with directors,' says David Livingstone, worldwide president of marketing and distribution at UK powerhouse Working Title.Will and actors' strike benefit UK talent'At that company alone, there are new projects in the works from Edgar Wright, Joe Wright, Kevin Macdonald and Paul Greengrass. ...
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UK Special - Picket line - Strike one'
With a possible US actors' strike on the cards this summer, could it be a boom time for UK actors'Don't count on it, even if a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) strike goes ahead. All the leading UK actors are members of SAG as well as UK actors' union Equity, so ...
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UK Special - Hot Brits At The Box Office
ACTORSW/wide grossSacha Baron CohenBorat (2006)$261.5mTalladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (2006)$163mAli G Indahouse (2002)$23.3mWhat's next: He creates another memorable character in Bruno, for Universal.Gerard ButlerW/wide grossNim's Island (2008)$38.9mPS I Love You (2008)$141m300 (2007)$456.1mThe Phantom Of The Opera (2004)$155mLara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life (2003)$156.5mWhat's next: Stars in ...
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International - Mangas draw audience
Japanese animated sequels came up trumps this weekend with two entries from Toho entering the top 15 and generating a combined $6.5m in their home territory.Detective Conan: Full Score Of Fear came in at number seven with a $4m take over 335 screens for an enormous $12,087 screen average - ...
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Belgrade cinemas hold one-day celebration
The citizens of Belgrade were treated to free cinema admissions for one day on Friday (October 6) as distributors and exhibitors celebrated the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic's ten-year dictatorship.Among the films screening for free were Mission Impossible 2, Gladiator and Hollow Man. The National Film Archives went one step ...
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The critical view: the art of the film ending
Those of you who have been living in a forest hut for the last year and haven't got around to seeing the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men should stop reading here.This week my subject is film endings - in particular the frustratingly brilliant climax to their adaptation of ...
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The Edge Of Heaven claims four Lolas
Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven (Auf Der Anderen Seite) picked up four Golden Lolas, including for Best Film, at the German Film Awards at the weekend in Berlin.Produced by Akin's own company Corazon International, the film also received the Lolas for Best Direction, Best Screenplay and Best Editing (Andrew ...
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Match Factory adds Liverpool to its Cannes slate
The Match Factory has added Argentinian film-maker Lisandro Alonso's Liverpool as the fifth title in its sales lineup for next month's Cannes Film Festival.Alonso's film will have its world premiere in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar and be the director's fourth time in Cannes after his debut La Libertad in Un ...
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Speed Racer
Dirs: Andy & Larry Wachowski. US. 2008. 130 mins.Tatsuo Yoshida's beloved 1960s anime TV series finally gets the big-screen treatment, after many false starts, from the Wachowski Brothers who deliver a large-scale assault on the senses which is as exhausting as it is entertaining. Pitched tonally to young kids, but ...
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Who is selling what: Cannes' sales slate stories
The following stories about sales company slates will be frequently updated in the run-up to the Cannes market.The names of sales companies are in alphabetical order. Click on a story for more.Arclight Arsenal to pre-sell Gooding comedy Harold AWP picks up The Lena Baker Story Icelandic comedy among new titles ...
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CEC hires Yann Le Quellec as European chief
Citi affiliate Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC) has hired EWB Finance co-founder Yann Le Quellec as managing director.Le Quellec will head the company's new European operation CEC Europe in Paris and will report directly to CEC's president and CEO, Benjamin Waisbren.CEC Europe will provide structured financing solutions to European media and ...