The Los Angeles Film Critics Association made its selections for the best of 2000.
Leading the award winners was Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Chinese-language epic from director Ang Lee,
which won Best Film and Best Music. The Best Director award went to Steven Soderbergh
for Traffic and Erin Brockovich. He also won the prize for Best
Cinematography (under the pseudonym Peter Andrews). Julia Roberts won the Best
Actress award for her turn in Erin Brockovich, and Best Actor was...
Andrucha Washington's comedy Me,
You, Them (Eu, Tu, Eles) took the top prize, the Gran Coral, at the
22nd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana. The festival
ran from December 5 through 15 and screened more than 350 films, after an opening
ceremony featuring Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Other winning films were That’s
Life (Asi Es La Vida) from director Arturo Ripstein, which took home
the Grand Jury Prize. The second Place went to Nueces Para ...
Shockwave.com
has announced that it will acquire AtomFilms in a stock swap. In the new arrangement,
Shockwave shareholders will own 70% of the consolidated company and AtomFilms
shareholders will own the remaining 30%. The chairman of the new company will
be Rob Burgess, chairman and CEO of Shockwave parent Macromedia. Mika Salmi,
founder and CEO of AtomFilms, will be CEO....
102 Dalmatians by Kevin Lima
If a leopard can never change its spots, how about a Dalmatian-killer? The devilish De Vil is released from prison after some shocking treatment and claims that she is a reformed woman. With great fur-vour Cruella's new incarnation as animal-rights activist ('call me Ella'), throws out the minks and stoles, and puts time and great fortune into an animal sanctuary. But can a felon reform? Cloe (played by Alice Evans), Dalmatian owner and Cruella's probation officer,...
Slamdance Film Festival has joined forces with Marco Weber's Atlantic Streamline,
to create Slamdance Entertainment, reported Variety. One of the goals
of the new group is to create a European version of the festival, which would
be held in Germany this summer. In addition to its festival, Slamdance hosts
several On-the-Road events, where they screen festival films in cities beyond
Park City. This traveling version of the fest has gone as far as New York City
and Cannes....
Only 24 years old, Brody has already worked with some of the world's greatest
filmmakers. His filmography includes such hits as Ken Loach's Bread
and Roses, Terence Malick's The
Thin Red Line and Spike Lee's Summer
of Sam. Now Brody can add one more director to this list: Roman Polanski.
The young actor has signed to star in Polanski's upcoming film The Pianist,
which is set in Warsaw. He will be seen next in The Affair of the Necklace,
which co-stars 2000 Oscar winne...
Although he was commissioned to create several songs for the upcoming Disney
animated feature The Emperor's New Clothes, Sting's songs will barely
be heard when the pic hits theaters this weekend. According to a Disney spokesman,
six songs were cut after the film became more of a comedy than a drama. Now,
a behind-the-scenes documentary about Sting's ordeal with the Mouse House is
set for release next year. Called The Sweatbox (produced by Sting's wife
Trudie Styler) the...
Following on the heels of the Vivendi/Univeral and Pathe/TF1 fusions comes Gaumont
and Pathe's announcement: the creation of Europalaces. The two leading French
distributors intend to unite their theatres in France and Europe (Italy, the
Netherlands, Switzerland) representing over 700 theatres. With Argentinian Eduardo Malone (Vice President of
Pathe) at the helm, this merger means that Europalaces will become one of Europe's largest distributors. ...
Denis Velleneuve's Maelstrom
leads the list of nominees for Canada's Oscar-equivalent, the Genie Awards.
The film won two prizes at the Montreal World Festival and is the Canadian selection
for the Academy Awards. The film stars Marie-Josee Croze, as a woman who accidentally
runs over a man. Another film with many nominations was Clement Virgo's Love
Comes Down, with nine nominations. The awards ceremony will be held January
29 in Toronto. ...
Gregory Mosher, one of the producers of London's West End hit Madame Melville
has announced that he plans to bring the play to New York. Starring former child
star Macaulay Culkin, the story follows a relationship between a British schoolboy
and his teacher. Mosher admitted that he has had trouble securing a theater
on Broadway, and the play will likely be held at the Promenade Theater, which
is just off-Broadway. ...
Jim Carrey (currently starring in the hit The
Grinch) and his girlfriend Renee Zellwegger have broken off their yearlong
romance. The two begin dating after co-starring in Me, Myelf and Irene
and appeared together at several events in order to promote Carrey's The
Grinch. ...
January 20 - 27, 2001 (Park City, Utah)
For the 2001 edition, Slamdance has announced the 12 features that will compete
in this year's seventh annual event. Organizers received a record 2326 submissions,
an increase of almost 300 submissions from last year, according to Peter Baxter,
festival Executive Director/Co-Founder. "Close to half of the features submitted
- and a third of the ones selected - were shot on digital or video. It's a huge
increase from a year ago,"...
Although Don's Plum, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, can not be sold or
released in the US, it will be shown at the upcoming Berlin Film Festival in
February. Don's Plum was made for under $100,000 over four years ago
was selected for the Panorama Section of the Berlin Film Festival. Starring
DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Kevin Connolly, and Amber Benson and directed by first-timer
R.D. Robb, the film follows a group of twentysomethings in Los Angeles. The
film attracted last c...
January 18 - 27
The 28th edition of the Brussels International Festival will take place in the
theatres of Kladaradatsch! Palace, UGC De Brouckere, Kinepolis and the Film
museum. This year, the Festival also cooperates with the Goethe-Institut Brussel,
focusing on the young German directors of the nineties. Already confirmed on
the lineup is Tom Tykwer's The Princess and The Warrior by Tom Tykwer,
the director of Run, Lola Run.
...
Claude Chabrol’s Merci
Pour Le Chocolat has won France’s coveted Prix Louis-Delluc, which is
awarded by a jury of critics chaired by Cannes Film Festival President Gilles
Jacob. Chocolat,
which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, stars Isabelle Huppert.
The Louis-Delluc prize for a first film went to Laurent Cantet’s Resources
Humaines. ...
Actor Nicolas Cage will receive the Charles A Crain Desert Palm Award on January
13, 2001 at the upcoming Nortel Networks Palm
Springs International Film Festival. Other honorees at the event will be
Ridley Scott, (who will receive the Director's Achievement Award) and Randy
Newman (who will receive the Frederick Loewe Award). Previous recipient of the
awards include John Travolta, Sylvester Stallone, and Susan Sarandon. ...
Will Ang Lee's highly praised Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, be invited into the pantheon of non-English-language
productions to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture? Since the Academy
Awards began in 1927, only six foreign-language films have been nominated in
that category. Although none of them has taken home the Best Film prize, both
The Emigrants (1972) and Life is Beautiful (1998) won the Oscar
for Best Foreign-Language Film when they were also nominated in...
The story of 42 high school students forced to kill each other on a deserted
island, Battle Royale is on the verge of being banned in Japan. Directed
by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Takeshi Kitano, the film was criticized after
a screening for Japanese officials as being "violent" and "antisocial." Though
the Battle Royale was ready for release with a restriction for viewers under
16, the government is now seeking to ban the film altogether. ...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day star Edward Furlong is struggling to stay
straight after a month in drug and alcohol rehab. The actor checked into a center
in Malibu, California, after friends urged him to "slow down." Although it has
been reported that Furlong's substance abuse includes cocaine and heroine, he
insists that he does not like cocaine and "never did heroine."...
Universal is planning a sequel to its teen comedy hit American Pie with
J.B. Rogers in the director's chair and a comeback cast that may include Jason
Biggs, Chris Klein, Tara Rein, Shannon Elizabeth, Eugene Levy and Mena Suvari.
The script was written by the same Adam Herz who penned the original. A small
budget film that cashed in big at the box office, American Pie launched
the careers of many of its fledgling actors....
For several months now while hopping from festival to festival (Paris,
Cognac, Cannes,
Deauville), Brian De Palma was expected to be
preparing the November shoot in France for his next film Femme Fatale.
For this thriller, Uma Thurman had agreed to the lead role, but has since declined
to join Quentin Tarantino for his new film Kill Bill, especially written
for her. Jennifer Lopez also declined the role. The latest news in the saga
is the male lead, which has been si...
Tsui Hark, l'enfant terrible de Hong Kong réalise, avec Andrew Chen, le film d'animation adapté de son chef d'oeuvre. Le résultat est un film visuellement fou. Un mélange assumé et rocambolesque d'aventure, de romantisme, de magie, d'humour, où se téléscopent le Moyen-Age et l'ère de la révolution industrielle.
...
Lynne Ramsay's first feature Ratcatcher won the Grand Prix for the Best Film
at the second annual International Film Festival Bratislava. Held in the
Slovak capital, the festival is one of the premiere showcases for Central
European film....
Twenty five year old Momo, a homeless man, has just been granted permission to have an arranged marriage with Malika, a 17 year old Algerian virgin. Always on the lookout for female company, Momo starts to fantasize about married life. But if he dares to touch Malika, he will fall from his new emotional high...
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