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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Award Ceremony:
Friday, September 5th 2008, 10 A.M.
Press Conference Room - Palazzo del Casino - Venice Lido
We are proud of the continuous spontaneous confirmation of the talents in
Italian and international cinema and we wish to return the star system's
award tribute with the third edition of the Persol Style Award on the
occasion of the 65th Venice International Film Festival, the ideal showcase
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Hollywood studios appeared to be holding back a number of high-profile films until November and December
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
Based on journalist Mark Boal's real experiences following bomb disposal experts in Iraq, The Hurt Locker isn't just a welcome return to big-screen action from director Kathryn Bigelow (who has wrung both fame and infamy with Near Dark , Strange Days and Point Break ). It's an assured, confident, swaggering piece of moviemaking that manages to not only evoke every war of the 20th century but also,...
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Approaching Lost (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Evangeline Lilly says that she has carefully hand-picked her movie roles because she wants to make sure that the film speaks to her. “If I’m putting my face and my name and my image to any piece of art, that art has to be a part of my soul and my spirit,” Evangeline says. [...]
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Film News: 'Locker,' 'Che,' 'Wrestler' all sold at Toronto -- Kathryn Bigelow wanted to tackle a toxic genre: Iraq war movies. Darren Aronofsky wanted to cast a toxic movie star: Mickey Rourke. Steven Soderbergh wanted to make not one, but two two-hour biopics in Spanish. All three projects sold in Toronto, backed by foreign sales companies, not studios or specialty divisions.
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Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Greetings all! El Chivo here. The big headlines from the first half the Toronto may be dying down, but there are still a lot of good films out there to be seen.SLUMDOG MILLIONAIREDanny Boyle film, based on the novel "Q&A" about an orphan ("slumdog") in Mumbai who ends up on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. It doesn't sound like a good idea for a film, but it all works thanks to...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Film News: Actor to head jury at Swiss festival -- Peter Fonda has been elected prexy of the feature film jury at the Zurich Film Festival, which announced its lineup Thursday.
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Two more major sales today from Toronto: Steven Soderbergh's Che sold to IFC and Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker sold to Summit Entertainment. Both of these sales have been causing eyebrows to be raised and are interesting choices, especially Che. As everyone should know by now, Che is a two part epic about Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, that has been in constant debates over whether...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Filed under: Action , Drama , Festival Reports , Podcasts , Politics , Interviews , Toronto International Film Festival , War The Hurt Locker sees director Kathryn Bigelow craft a big, booming tale of tension based on journalist Mark Boal's experiences and interviews with bomb disposal experts in the streets of Iraq. Toronto didn't just see The Hurt Locker earn raves from many critics; it also saw...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Film News: Summit picks up Bigelow's 'Hurt Locker' -- There were signs of life in Toronto’s sluggish acquisitions market on Wednesday as IFC made a surprise acquisition of all U.S. distribution rights to Steven Soderbergh’s "Che," while Summit snapped up domestic theatrical rights to Kathryn Bigelow’s war action-thriller "The Hurt Locker."
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Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
THE HURT LOCKER • Summit Entertainment has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the action war drama THE HURT LOCKER which was a special presentation film at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow and penned by Mark Boal, THE HURT LOCKER stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Suhail Al-Dabbach, Christopher Sayegh, Evangeline Lilly with Guy...
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Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Welcome to round 2 of our epic non-coverage of the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), in which we live vicariously through our friends and neighbors around the web. In this edition, we've got more buzz from the festival as well as some films being picked up for distribution. As ...
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RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Festival pick-ups find their Oscar chances
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Cat Bauer | 09/04/2008
( VENICE, ITALY ) This morning at the International Venice Film Festival, I came out of the screening of director Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, The Hurt Locker, deeply shaken. As I've said repeatedly, I have deliberately isolated myself from images of war. According to the speakers at the press conference, Americans, too, have been deliberately isolated from images of war -- but not by personal choice....
