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"JailCity" and "For the Love of God" Take Best Avignon/New York Film Festival Prizes

Daniel Eberle's "JailCity" received the '21st Century Filmmaker Award for Best U.S. Feature' at the 12th Avignon/New York Film Festival Sunday night, concluding this year's event featuring 23 features and 23 short films, panel discussions, filmmaker events, and special guests, John Turturro and Bob Rafelson. The closing night film was Turturro's latest directorial work, "Romance and Cigarettes." Zakia Tahri and Ahmed Bouchaala's "For the Love of God" (Pour L'amour de Dieu, France) won the festival's '21st Century Filmmaker Award for Best European Feature' prize, while Joshua Faudem's "Blues By The Beach" (USA/Israel) took the 'Pierre Salinger...

The Top Ten So Far...

Each week, indieWIRE receives the final weekend numbers for specialty releases in theaters. This is our top ten for the three day weekend so far, with most numbers already in. The top ten is subject to change before the final chart is published tomorrow and the weekly box office column is written. W...

Anchor Bay Scares Up Rights "Behind the Mask"

Starz Media's Anchor Bay Entertainment has acquired all rights to Scott Glosserman's mocku-slasher "Behind The Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon, Mark Ward," vice president acquisitions, Anchor Bay Entertainment announced Monday. The film, which premiered at the 2006 SXSW Film Festival will be largest theatrical release for Anchor Bay Entertainment, which specializes in the horror genre. The company will open the film in the U.S. on Jan. 5, 2007. The film stars Nathan Baesel ("Invasion"), who plays the lead character, and Angela Goethals ("Spanglish"), as well as Robert Englund ("A Nightmare on Elm Street"), Scott Wilson ("Junebug") and Zelda R...

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DISPATCH FROM BRAZIL | Getting Bigger and Better, Mix Brasil Walks the Line Between Experimental and

Turning 14 years old, the Mix Brasil Film and Video Festival of Sexual Diversity has grown from a fringe showing of alternative Brazilian cinema to a popular international queer film festival. Its flagship showing was Nov. 9-19 in Sao Paulo, but the event will also tour to Rio de Janeiro, Niteroi, ...

NY Times | The Master of Time: Wong Kar-wai in America

On SoHo film set last August, Jude Law and Norah Jones were getting intimate. Repeatedly intimate. To be precise, they had kissed upwards of 150 times in the past three days. The occasion for this outbreak of passion was "My Blueberry Nights," the first English-language film by Wong Kar-wai, the maverick Hong Kong director turned avatar of cosmopolitan cool. This particular night was stifling as the crew spilled out of Palacinka, a small cafe on Grand Street that was the principal New York location, preparing for yet another take of the scene known as "the Kiss." The shot lasted less than a minute, but the number of permutations that Mr. Wong...