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Archives for: May 20085
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Toronto shorts fest announces lineup
Thursday May 22nd 2008The Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival unveiled its lineup yesterday, led on opening night by festival award winners Jesse Rosensweet’s “Paradise” (Canada) and British filmmaker Pinny Grylls’ “Peter and Ben.” The festival, organized by Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Center film school, will feature 268 shorts from 31 countries from June 10-15 in Toronto.
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Quebec filmmaker tackles Montreal massacre
Wednesday May 21st 2008CANNES, France – Quebec filmmaker Denis Villeneuve has come to the Cannes Film Festival with a short film about gluttony that has people talking. Back home in Canada, he’s working on a dramatic feature about the 1989 Montreal Massacre that has people holding their breath: “Everybody I know is afraid[…]
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SAG brass cheered as members coalesce
Wednesday May 21st 2008SAG made a major push at solidarity with more than 400 of its rank-and-file members at a town hall-style meeting to discuss the recent formal negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. The meeting late Monday in Beverly Hills came after SAG and the AMPTP broke off[…]
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Spike Lee gets critical in Cannes
Wednesday May 21st 2008Spike Lee is in Cannes to promote his Italy-set war film “Miracle at St. Anna,” but he couldn’t resist taking a few swipes at some fellow directors, including Joel and Ethan Coen and Clint Eastwood. Speaking about death in his World War II period drama, Lee said that, unlike the Coens, he was respectful in the way he portrayed death.
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Buyers waiting for ‘Che’
Tuesday May 20th 2008Today Cannes gets its first look at the most talked-about property for sale here: Steven Soderbergh’s two-film, Spanish-language biography of Che Guevara, consisting of “The Argentine” and “Guerrilla.” Some studios and specialty labels, including Soderbergh’s former home base at Warner Bros., passed on financing the two pics, but buyers are hovering.
ARCHIVES
Archives for: May 20085
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Toronto shorts fest announces lineup
Thursday May 22nd 2008The Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival unveiled its lineup yesterday, led on opening night by festival award winners Jesse Rosensweet’s “Paradise” (Canada) and British filmmaker Pinny Grylls’ “Peter and Ben.” The festival, organized by Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Center film school, will feature 268 shorts from 31 countries from June 10-15 in Toronto.
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Quebec filmmaker tackles Montreal massacre
Wednesday May 21st 2008CANNES, France – Quebec filmmaker Denis Villeneuve has come to the Cannes Film Festival with a short film about gluttony that has people talking. Back home in Canada, he’s working on a dramatic feature about the 1989 Montreal Massacre that has people holding their breath: “Everybody I know is afraid[…]
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SAG brass cheered as members coalesce
Wednesday May 21st 2008SAG made a major push at solidarity with more than 400 of its rank-and-file members at a town hall-style meeting to discuss the recent formal negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. The meeting late Monday in Beverly Hills came after SAG and the AMPTP broke off[…]
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Spike Lee gets critical in Cannes
Wednesday May 21st 2008Spike Lee is in Cannes to promote his Italy-set war film “Miracle at St. Anna,” but he couldn’t resist taking a few swipes at some fellow directors, including Joel and Ethan Coen and Clint Eastwood. Speaking about death in his World War II period drama, Lee said that, unlike the Coens, he was respectful in the way he portrayed death.
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Buyers waiting for ‘Che’
Tuesday May 20th 2008Today Cannes gets its first look at the most talked-about property for sale here: Steven Soderbergh’s two-film, Spanish-language biography of Che Guevara, consisting of “The Argentine” and “Guerrilla.” Some studios and specialty labels, including Soderbergh’s former home base at Warner Bros., passed on financing the two pics, but buyers are hovering.
ARCHIVES
Archives for: May 20085
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Toronto shorts fest announces lineup
Thursday May 22nd 2008The Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival unveiled its lineup yesterday, led on opening night by festival award winners Jesse Rosensweet’s “Paradise” (Canada) and British filmmaker Pinny Grylls’ “Peter and Ben.” The festival, organized by Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Center film school, will feature 268 shorts from 31 countries from June 10-15 in Toronto.
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Quebec filmmaker tackles Montreal massacre
Wednesday May 21st 2008CANNES, France – Quebec filmmaker Denis Villeneuve has come to the Cannes Film Festival with a short film about gluttony that has people talking. Back home in Canada, he’s working on a dramatic feature about the 1989 Montreal Massacre that has people holding their breath: “Everybody I know is afraid[…]
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SAG brass cheered as members coalesce
Wednesday May 21st 2008SAG made a major push at solidarity with more than 400 of its rank-and-file members at a town hall-style meeting to discuss the recent formal negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. The meeting late Monday in Beverly Hills came after SAG and the AMPTP broke off[…]
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Spike Lee gets critical in Cannes
Wednesday May 21st 2008Spike Lee is in Cannes to promote his Italy-set war film “Miracle at St. Anna,” but he couldn’t resist taking a few swipes at some fellow directors, including Joel and Ethan Coen and Clint Eastwood. Speaking about death in his World War II period drama, Lee said that, unlike the Coens, he was respectful in the way he portrayed death.
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Buyers waiting for ‘Che’
Tuesday May 20th 2008Today Cannes gets its first look at the most talked-about property for sale here: Steven Soderbergh’s two-film, Spanish-language biography of Che Guevara, consisting of “The Argentine” and “Guerrilla.” Some studios and specialty labels, including Soderbergh’s former home base at Warner Bros., passed on financing the two pics, but buyers are hovering.
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