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UK Creepsville Wraps Principal Photography

10 July 2009 7:47 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

A new film from fledgling director Mj Dixon is reported to have wrapped up principal photography over in the UK. Mycho Pictures was kind enough to drop us a note on the status of Creepsville as well as a film synopsis and breakdown to let us know what we're in for. Read below!

Creepsville follows Linden, a young man on a night out with his girlfriend. When the couple get into the wrong taxi, a nightmare quickly develops that finds Linden on the run from three masked maniacs and his girl friend, Amy, in even bigger trouble. Shot on location in Lancashire, England, Creepsville is a strong, terrifying horror story with plenty of gore and action on the side. The film features several set pieces including a daring rooftop battle, an epic hospital siege, and a huge underground finale set on an abandoned train.

The creatures and makeup in the

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Cherry Tree Lane Next For Cottage Team

7 July 2009 11:51 PM, PDT | From EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news

Paul Andrew Williams is about to start principal photography on Cherry Tree Lane, his follow up to the hit and miss slasher comedy The Cottage, and his gritty urban debut London to Brighton.According to the short piece over at Screen Daily, the film is being produced by Williams' own Steel Mill Pictures, with funding from the UK Film Council.Plot-wise, we're told it's a home invasion thriller, with a couple terrorised by a gang of youths on the trail of their son (wonder what he did?). Difficult to predict the final tone though, given the director's previous. There's nothing especially wrong with The Cottage, but many felt it was an odd direction to take after London to Brighton's social conscience and verite style: a bit like Ken Loach deciding to follow up Poor Cow with a Hammer Dracula.No clues from Williams either, who says that "Cherry Tree Lane is tense,

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Woman on The Verge: “Surrogate” Director Shalom Ezer Breaks Out In Edinburgh

27 June 2009 6:46 PM, PDT | From indieWIRE - People | See recent indieWIRE - People news

Unfortunately, the reason many in the international film world first heard of writer-director Tali Shamon Ezer’s “Surrogate” was not because of the film itself, but because of its place at the center of a bit of a storm between director Ken Loach and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.  A few days after the film festival slated “Surrogate”‘s international premiere, Loach urged for a boycott of the fest because organizers had accepted …

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Woman on The Verge: “Surrogate” Director Shalom Ezer Breaks Out In Edinburgh

26 June 2009 4:46 PM, PDT | From indieWIRE - People | See recent indieWIRE - People news

Unfortunately, the reason many in the international film world first heard of writer-director Tali Shamon Ezer’s “Surrogate” was not because of the film itself, but because of its place at the center of a bit of a storm between director Ken Loach and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.  A few days after the film festival slated “Surrogate”‘s international premiere, Loach urged for a boycott of the fest because organizers had accepted …

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Woman on The Verge: “Surrogate” Director Shalom Ezer Breaks Out In Edinburgh

26 June 2009 4:46 PM, PDT | From indieWIRE - People | See recent indieWIRE - People news

Unfortunately, the reason many in the international film world first heard of writer-director Tali Shamon Ezer’s “Surrogate” was not because of the film itself, but because of its place at the center of a bit of a storm between director Ken Loach and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.  A few days after the film festival slated “Surrogate”‘s international premiere, Loach urged for a boycott of the fest because organizers had accepted …

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Woman on The Verge: “Surrogate” Director Shalom Ezer Breaks Out In Edinburgh

26 June 2009 4:46 PM, PDT | From indieWIRE - People | See recent indieWIRE - People news

Unfortunately, the reason many in the international film world first heard of writer-director Tali Shamon Ezer’s “Surrogate” was not because of the film itself, but because of its place at the center of a bit of a storm between director Ken Loach and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.  A few days after the film festival slated “Surrogate”‘s international premiere, Loach urged for a boycott of the fest because organizers had accepted …

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'The Hangover' wins UK box office

18 June 2009 7:56 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

The Hangover has landed at the top of the UK box office on its debut weekend. The raunchy Las Vegas-set comedy pulls in £3.2 million to knock Terminator Salvation from the top of the chart. Night At The Museum 2, Drag Me To Hell and Angels & Demons complete the top five, each slipping a place from last week. The box office also sees new entries from horror remake The Last House On The Left (number seven) and the Ken Loach/Eric Cantona team-up Looking For Eric (at eight). (more)

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Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

16 June 2009 2:45 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Director: Michael Bay

Screenwriters: Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman

Starring: Shia Labeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro

Running time: 150 mins

Certificate: 12A Claiming a hollow victory in this summer's battle of the giant robots, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen crunches metal louder and more rambunctiously than Terminator Salvation. They're both poor films, but at least Michael Bay's effort is content with being stupid and silly. Unlike McG's Terminator revival, this doesn't flail aimlessly hoping to find profundity in its B-movie idea. For better or worse, Fallen fulfils expectations. It never wants to be a Ken Loach film, it's Michael Bay unwisely off the leash, all explosions, momentum and paper-thin characterisation. The spectacle is impressive, (more)

By Simon Reynolds

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opening in the U.K. June 12: ‘The Hangover,’ ‘Fired Up!,’ ‘The Last House on the Left,’ more

12 June 2009 4:12 PM, PDT | From www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news

The Hangover: Aka Guys Do Stupid Things When They’re Drunk, and Even Stupider Things When They’re Not. Fired Up!: They sold this film to American audiences by making sure there was a prominent Fu on all the posters and such. I wonder if they’re trying the same in England... The Last House on the Left: If you like rape porn, you’ll totally get off on this. New Town Killers: Ooo ooo ooo, Doctor Who Matt Smith’s new companion Karen Gillen is in this as “Young Girl in Bus Station”! Awesome! (Oo, also: Dougray Scott. Nice.) [IMDb] Looking for Eric: Ken Loach’s new film. It’s about a postman. I don’t think postmen go postal in England, and anyway, even if they did, I don’t think Ken Loach would make that kind of movie. [official site] Chi bi: Woo-hoo, it’s John Woo. It

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MaryAnn Johanson

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Loach, Cantona on 'Looking For Eric'

12 June 2009 1:00 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Eric Cantona was a legendary goal-scorer for Manchester United in the '90s, but he was banned from the game for nine months after practising a kung-fu kick on a member of the crowd. He later held an extraordinary press conference in which he made an obscure comment about hungry seagulls. Perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised that he's teamed up with social-realist director Ken Loach for the much-acclaimed Looking For Eric. Digital Spy hears from Loach and Cantona about their shared vision and the significance of seagulls. Eric, what was it about Ken that made you want to work with him?

Eric: "It was my two brothers, Jean-Marie and Joel, who wrote two pages of a story. They wanted to make a movie and we went to a French production company called Why Not, and the first name we put on the list was Ken Loach. It was a dream for all of us,

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By Stella Papamichael

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Cantona: 'Looking For Eric' is universal

9 June 2009 8:18 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Eric Cantona has insisted that Looking For Eric, his film collaboration with acclaimed British director Ken Loach, can reach an audience beyond football fans. Cantona appears as himself in the movie, offering advice to a down-and-out postman who idolised him while he played for Manchester United. "It's not only a film about relationships between fans and idols," Cantona said at the UK press conference to promote the film. "It's also a love story, a story of a man who's depressed, has problems in his relationships with his step-children. All the (more)

By Simon Reynolds

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Interview: Ken Loach Talks 'Looking for Eric'

9 June 2009 6:29 AM, PDT | From IFTN | See recent IFTN news

Last seen in Ireland clutching a fistful of IFTAs for his acclaimed feature 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley', Iftn catches up with Brit director Ken Loach ahead of the nationwide release of his latest pic 'Looking For Eric'. Creating a stir at the Cannes Film Festival last month, 'Looking for Eric' sees Loach and his screenwriting partner Paul Laverty team with Manchester United footballing legend Eric Cantona to produce one of their most hotly anticipated features to date. Once again the award winning director brings his unique directing flair to the big screen and creates a touching story that explores themes of loss, friendship, family, depression and survival. Iftn finds out more…

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Top 10 Best Scenes from Cannes 2009

27 May 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- When you cover a film festival of the size of Cannes, it is the standalone celluloid moments within a film that make the draining process of spending half the day in the dark actually worthwhile. I've decided to list some of the better shots, scenes and sequences of the films that I bring back from my fresh Cannes 2009 memories. I could have easily made a list of thirty, there are many yummy scenes worth pointing out in better than average films such as Broken Embraces, Air Doll, Up and Tales From the Golden Age all the way down to films that left me unimpressed such as Tsai Ming-Ling's Faces (with a Nathalie Baye crawling out from underneath a table), but I decided to go with a strict minimum. Here is a list of ten which I'll attempt to highlight without spoiling it for those who haven't yet seen the films.

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Cannes #10: And, at last, the winners are...

25 May 2009 11:30 PM, PDT | From blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news

Now I understand why Cannes 2009 opened with Pixar's "Up." They knew what was coming. Has there ever been a more violent group of films in the Official Selection? More negative about humanity? More despairing? With a greater variety of gruesome, sadistic, perverted acts? You know you're in deep water when the genuinely funniest film in the festival is by a Palestinian in today's Israel, whose material includes a firing squad, a mother with Alzheimers, and a hero with dark circles under his eyes who never utters a single word.

And most of these films were not over quickly. Not that there's something wrong with a film running over the invisible 120-minute finish line, if it needs to, and is a good film. I regret that not all the 21 films in this year's selection were good. And that's not just me. The daily critics' panel for Le Film Francais was as negative as I've seen it,

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"The White Ribbon" Wins Palme d'Or at Cannes

25 May 2009 7:36 PM, PDT | From Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news

Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon," a black-and-white drama set in a rural German village on the eve of Wwi, received Cannes' highest honor, the Palme d'Or at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.

Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" won best actor for Christoph Waltz (the only honor given to an American production). Now, being Asian myself, I was proud to see fellow Asian folks winning some much-touted categories.

Although there's drama!

According to Variety:

All three of the Asian kudos drew heavy booing from the assembled press corps. Biggest scorn was reserved for the director prize for Filipino Brillante Mendoza.s rape-and-dismemberment drama .Kinatay. (of which even admiring jury member Hanif Kureishi admitted, .I don.t ever want to see it again, myself.), followed by jeers for .Thirst. and mainland Chinese director Lou Ye.s .Spring Fever,. which copped the nod for screenplay (generally seen as its weakest element).

Oooh!

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Antichrist, Thirst lead genre honors at Cannes

25 May 2009 9:49 AM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

The 2009 edition of the Cannes Film Festival has wrapped up, and some much buzzed-about genre titles have walked away with awards.

Charlotte Gainsbourg picked up the Best Actress win for her role alongside William Dafoe in Lars Von Trier's Antichrist (see trailer and clips here); Park Chan-Wook's Thirst (slated for an American remake, details here) tied for the Jury Prize with Fish Tank; and the bloody Kinatay snagged best director for Brillante Mendoza. 

Check out the full list of winners after the jump (courtesy of Variety), and for more on the blood-soaked invasion of genre fare in Cannes, click here.

Intl. Competition Jury Prizes

Palme d'Or

"The White Ribbon" (Michael Haneke, Germany-France-Austria-Italy)

Grand Prix

"A Prophet" (Jacques Audiard, France)

Lifetime achievement award

Alain Resnais, "Wild Grass" (France)

Director

Brillante Mendoza ("Kinatay," France-Philippines)

Jury prize

"Fish Tank" (Andrea Arnold, U.K.), "Thirst" (Park Chan-wook, South Korea-u.S.)

Actor

Christoph Waltz,

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no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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Cannes 2009: The Wrap-Up

25 May 2009 | From ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news

- With no run away, break out titles as in the previous years (Babel, Volver, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Ncfom, Silent Light, The Class, Gomorrah, Synecdoche, New York, Waltz with Bashir) Cannes 2009 might not have been a bust, but it was disappointing to see so many mediocre films make it into the main comp, which could only signify that: Venice and Tiff might have vintage festival editions ahead (we'll be in Toronto covering that festival). It would be unfair to totally dis the festival as there were plenty of other films worth mentioning. At the top of my list is Andrea Arnold's second film, Fish Tank (which shared the 3rd place prize with Thirst). [Update: As an added bonus, check out the video feature (below) which was recorded with Alex Billington from Firstshowing.net. We go over some of the highlights of the fest.] Fish Tank features a delicious performance from a non-actor Katie Jarvis who was picked from obscurity (she was apparently in a heated, public argument with her boyfriend and I'm not sure if it

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Cannes #8: Oh, the days dwindle down, to a precious few...

24 May 2009 10:39 PM, PDT | From blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news

I think I may have just seen the 2010 Oscar winner for best foreign film. Whether it will win the Palme d'Or here at Cannes is another matter. It may be too much of a movie movie. It's named "A l'origine," by Xavier Giannoli, and is one of several titles I want to discuss in a little festival catch-up. Based on an incredible true story, it involves an insignificant thief, just released from prison, who becomes involved in an impromptu con game that results in the actual construction of a stretch of highway. At the beginning he has no plans to build a highway. He simply sees a way to swindle a contractor out of 15,000 euros. He is sad, defeated, unwanted, apart from his wife and child, sleeping on a pal's sofa. What happens is not caused by him nor desired by him. It simply happens to him.

This is one

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Cannes: Rosengje's Top Ten and Miscellaneous Tweets

24 May 2009 8:41 AM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

Our correspondent Rosengje caught 22 films during her Cannes trip. Before Isabelle Huppert's jury bestows the coveted Palme D'Or, I thought we'd let Rosengje offer up her own jury-of-one highlights. She had to miss Precious, Broken Embraces and Un Prophète due to time constraints.

Her five favorite films were...

Marco Bellochio's Vincere. More on this further down.

Alejandro Amenábar's Agora (previous post)

Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank. This family drama was a major hit with the critics and could be up for prizes today. If Andrea Arnold sounds familiar just think Wasp, Oscar's 2004 short film winner about an irresponsible mother (Natalie Press) and her brood of babies. That was a stunning 26 minutes of film so I'm eager to see this one.

Quentin Tarantino's "kosher revenge porn" Inglourious BasterdsJane Campion's Bright Star (previous post)

She also wanted to name '10 things that stuck with me most' with honorable mentions

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NATHANIEL R

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Cannes: Maggie Cheung and Your Nine "Great Directors"

23 May 2009 10:46 AM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

Before the Palme D'Or is handed out, I've got two last bits from our buddy in Cannes but first (sigh) a big old frowny face in regards to the following nugget.

Maggie Cheung's scene in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds was cut before the Cannes opening and will not be restored even though Tarantino is returning to the editing room. Presumably he's tinkering for maximum audience playability. The cutting room floor is a regular habitat for actors with small roles but this time it really hurts: Maggie still works the red carpet, but never the silver screen. She retired from movies after Clean and 2046 five long years ago. Basterds was going to provide us with a rare chance to see one of the most bewitching living actresses on the big screen again. Damn!

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On to cheerier topics.

The generous take on Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock appears to be that it's a "minor" effort.

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NATHANIEL R

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