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Film-makers meet to build on UK-India co-production treaty
UK and Indian film-makers gathered at a summit in London yesterday, October 23, to explore how they can work more closely together to benefit the industries in both countries. The ' UK and India the shape of things to come' summit followed on from the public launch of the UK-India ...
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Film-makers meet to build on UK-India co-production treaty
UK and Indian film-makers gathered at a summit in London yesterday, October 23, to explore how they can work more closely together to benefit the industries in both countries. The ' UK and India the shape of things to come' summit followed on from the public launch of the UK-India ...
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Wild Bunch sells Javier Fesser's Camino to several territories
Spanish director Javier Fesser's controversial, but popular religious family drama Camino has been sold by Wild Bunch to several territories, including Latin America and India.Currently on general release in Spain through Alta Films, the film has been picked up by SPI for Poland, Quality Films for Latin America, Alliance for ...
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Basil Iwanyk set as Intermedia production chief
After months of speculation, Warner Bros executive Basil Iwanyk has joined Intermedia as president of production. He will oversee the company's producer alliances and focus on developing and producing big budget studio films.Iwanyk started his career as a trainee agent at UTA, moving to Warner Bros as a creative executive ...
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Jean-Julien Baronnet becomes CEO of EuropaCorp
EuropaCorp has announced the appointment of Jean-Julien Baronnet to the post of chief executive. The company has also reinforced its board with the nomination of new administrators including Herve Digne, currently president of Postmedia Finance, and Gregoire Chertok of Rothschild & Cie.Europa co-founder, Luc Besson, retains his position as president ...
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Costa Films seals co-production deal for News of a Kidnapping
Costa Films has sealed a co-production deal with Mexico's Argos Comunicacion, Colombia's Caracol TV and a Spanish company to be announced, to adapt Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez's epic novel Noticias De Un Secuestro (News of a Kidnapping) for the big screen.Mexican film-maker Pedro Pablo Ybarra will direct the $5m ...
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Asia Pacific Screen Awards unveil jury members
Filmmakers from India, China and Korea have joined jury president Bruce Beresford for the judging of next month's Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs). Included is one of India's most highly regarded filmmaking veterans, actor and director Aparna Sen (Mr And Mrs Iyer). The chief creative officer responsible for commissioning Bengali ...
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Tulpan takes best film and director at Tokyo fest
Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan was awarded the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix at today's conclusion of the 21st Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). The crystal trophy was accompanied by a cash prize of $100,000. Click here for review. Dvortsevoy also won the best director prize for the film, his feature directing debut. ...
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High School Musical dances to 22-country $40m opening
High School Musical 3: Senior Year finished top of the class overseas thanks to an estimated $40m haul from 3,100 screens in 22 countries through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International that set a new opening weekend record for an international launch in October.Dominant in North America as well with ...
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High School 3 beats off Saw V in blockbusting US box office weekend
Hollywood served a timely reminder that film-going appears to be recession-proof as two mighty brands powered the box office to its biggest weekend of the last ten weeks.The top 12 films climbed 40% against the same period last weekend after grossing approximately $120m and were led by Disney Channel's phenomenally ...
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34 films from 24 EU countries to screen at AFI's European Showcase
AFI has unveiled the complete line-up for the 2008 edition of its AFI European Union Film Showcase, to run at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland, from November 6-25.Thirty-four films from 24 EU countries, including 11 official foreign language Oscar submissions, will screen. The films are: Eldorado from ...
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Saw V
Dir: David Hackl. US. 2008. 92 mins.Halloween staple Saw's serial killer Jigsaw died two episodes ago, so Saw V is forced to move supporting characters to centre stage and supply new twists to events that occurred in previous films, making it mostly of interest to franchise fans. In some ways, ...
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Murphy, Broadbent and Gleeson sign up for Perrier's Bounty
Cillian Murphy, Jim Broadbent and Brendan Gleeson have signed to star in Perrier's Bounty, a Parallel Films and Number 9 Films production. The film will be directed by Ian Fitzgibbon (A Film With Me In It) from a script by Mark O'Rowe (Boy A, Intermission).Perrier's Bounty will be produced by ...
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Nick Love starts UK shoot of Vertigo production The Firm
Principal photography has started on The Firm, written and directed by Nick Love (The Business, The Football Factory) starring newcomer Paul Anderson, Calum MacNab (The Football Factory) and Daniel Mays (Shifty).The $4m (£2.5m) film is produced by Allan Niblo and James Richardson of Vertigo Films. Shooting will take place in ...
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Lions Gate buys US rights to The Whole Shebang
Easily the most acquisitive of domestic distribuors at present, Lions Gate Releasing has bought US rights to romantic comedy The Whole Shebang from David Kirkpatrick's Original Voices Inc. The film, directed by George Zaloom and starring Stanley Tucci and Bridget Fonda, is the first from Kirkpatrick's new venture which is ...
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Passengers
Dir: Rodrigo Garcia. US. 2008. 93 mins.A handful of eerily-staged scenes and a surfeit of passably evocative production design can't save the otherwise muddled Passengers, in which Anne Hathaway stars as a grief counsellor assigned to help survivors of a fiery plane clash. In trying to tick a wide variety ...
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KOFIC unveils Korean film industry rescue package
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced a plan to revitalise the ailing local film industry, starting with the creation of film funds worth a combined $55.5m - including a $3.4m fund for international co-productions and another of the same amount for 'diversity films' (ie arthouse films). After coming under ...
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The Man Who Loves (Uomo che ama, L')
Dir: Maria Sole Tognazzi. Italy. 2008. 97 mins.Maria Sole Tognazzi's second feature, which opened this year's Rome Film Festival, has the merit of offering a rarely-seen woman's take on a man's experience of love. But behind the smokescreen of its play with the audience's gender expectations and its tricksy (but ...
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Opium War
Dir/scr Siddiq Barmak. Afghanistan-Japan-Korea-France. 2008. 92 mins.There could be a good film hiding somewhere behind Afghan director Siddiq Barmak's tragicomic parable about his country's two main industries - war and opium. But it's not up there on the screen. This Best Foreign Film Oscar candidate is a misguided, amateurish attempt ...
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The Past Is A Foreign Land (Il passato è una terra straniera)
Dir: Daniele Vicari. Italy. 2008. 120 mins.Italian director Daniele Vicari's latest outing is uneven but compellingly-dark. Shot, scored and directed with terrific command of atmosphere, this study of the relationship between a conflicted law student from a good family and the dangerous but attractive working class card-sharp he takes up ...