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PiFan 2013: Preview Part I - Puchon Choice (Main Competition)

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PiFan 2013: Preview Part I - Puchon Choice (Main Competition)

PiFan 2013: Preview Part I - Puchon Choice (Main Competition)

Posted: 10 Jul 2013 03:30 AM PDT

The 17th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival kicks off next Thursday and it's high time that James and I combed through the program to pick the highlights of this year's festival. Here's is the first part of the preview, for Puchon Choice, the international competition section. A pretty eclectic bunch as always and, unlike last year, there's one local film in the mix....

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Magnet Takes US Rights For Ruairi Robinson's LAST DAYS ON MARS

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 11:32 PM PDT

Ruairi Robinson is no stranger to the pages of Twitch. We have been following the career of the talented filmmaker from his short films, his near collision with the latest attempt at a live-action Akira film by Warner Bros, and now his feature film debut The Last Days on Mars.The U.S. rights for Robinson sci-fi thriller have been picked up by Magnet Releasing. No word yet if there will be a theatrical release but in the press release below Magnet at least plans a VOD launch later this year.MAGNET TAKES US RIGHTS TO SCI-FI THRILLER THE LAST DAYS ON MARS FROM FOCUS FEATURES INTERNATIONALThe Ruairi Robinson Directed film Debuted in Director's FortnightNew York (July 9, 2013) - The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing, genre arm of...

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Madman Teams With WASTELANDER PANDA For New ABC iView Series

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 10:00 PM PDT

We're big fans of Madman Entertainment here at Twitch and now we've got another reason to be. Madman's production division has partnered with Epic Films, ABC TV's iView platform and the South Australian Film Corporation (them's the ones that backed Danger 5!) to create new episodes of the awesome apocalyptic webseries Wastelander Panda.The deal will result in six 10-minute episodes that will build on the existing content created by the team at Epic Films in Adelaide. The aim is to have the project developed and ready to introduce it to potential international partners at this year's AFM conference. Here's the rest of the detail from the press release, with some quotes:"Madman Production Company (MPC) is thrilled to be working in partnership with Epic Films. In establishing...

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China Box Office: Johnnie To's BLIND DETECTIVE Bests Keanu's MAN OF TAI CHI

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 08:05 PM PDT

Female-centric youth comedy Tiny Times holds on to the top spot for a second week, but Johnnie To's Blind Detective easily outperforms Keanu Reeves' actioner Man of Tai Chi. Rank Title Origin 1/7-8/7 (US$M) Total (US$M) Screening days 1 Tiny Times China $24.41 $67.67 11 2 Blind Detective Hong Kong/China $13.65 $13.65 4 3 Man of Steel USA $10.87 $58.20 18 4 Badges of Fury China $9.23 $42.74 17 5 Man of Tai Chi USA/China $2.85 $2.85 3 6 Happy Heroes China $2.33 $4.47 10 7 Sammy's Adventures 2 China $0.77 $1.70 10 8 The Deadly Strands China $0.61 $0.61 3 9 Singing When We Are Young China $0.20 $0.20 4 10 Mysterious Face China $0.17 $3.77 24 Tiny Times, the directorial debut from novelist...

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Exclusive Clip: Noomi Rapace Discusses Her DEAD MAN DOWN Character's Figurative And Real Scars

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 03:30 PM PDT

Dead Man Down, the English-language thriller from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev, is out this week on DVD and Blu-ray, and we've got an exclusive clip featuring the film's leads Noomi Rapace and Colin Farrell discussing their emotionally-ravaged characters. From the official synopsis: Niels Arden Oplev, the acclaimed director of the original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, makes his American theatrical debut with the new action thriller, DEAD MAN DOWN. Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace star as two strangers who are irresistibly drawn to one another by their mutual desire for revenge. The film co-stars Academy Award® nominee Terrence Howard and Dominic Cooper, from a screenplay by J.H.Wyman (Fringe). Dead Man Down is available this week from Sony Home...

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Guanajuato 2013 Announces Lineup And The Visit Of Danny Boyle And Darren Aronofsky

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 03:00 PM PDT

The 16th edition of the Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF), one of Mexico's most important film festivals, will begin on Friday, July 19 with the Mexican premiere of Sundance and Cannes winner Fruitvale Station. This and the rest of activities were announced yesterday during a press conference in Mexico City. GIFF 2013 will be celebrated in two cities of the Guanajuato state: San Miguel de Allende (from July 19 to 23) and Guanajuato Capital (from July 24 to 28). The opening film in Guanajuato Capital is Amat Escalante's Heli, being the film's Latin America premiere (Heli will open in Mexico until August 9). But my most anticipated film of the festival is actually the one programmed for the closing day: Nicolas Winding Refn's newest Only...

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Neuchatel 2013 Review: CHIMÈRES Heralds a New Talent in Swiss Horror

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 02:00 PM PDT

He's a vampire, and that's OK. Such is the verdict thirtysomething couple Alex and Livia reach about halfway through Chimères, a surprisingly intimate genre work that evokes Kübler-Ross as much as it does Cronenberg. A botched blood transfusion during a Romanian vacation fills Alex with what he later finds out was 'tainted blood'. No matter! He's a professional photographer preparing a big show with girlfriend Livia, and this newfound aversion to light, with nothing to say for a developing taste for blood, is hardly going to put a crimp in their plans. Only, as is often the case with latent vampirism, it really, really does. As his fangs grow in and skin goes pale, he turns inward and falls into a deep depression. She, on...

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Fantasia 2013: Full Line-up is Ready for You to Dig Into

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 01:30 PM PDT

Boasting more than 100 features and a plethora of shorts, special presentations and outdoor screenings, Fantasia just launched their full 2013 website and schedule, and announced the remainder of the titles. Below you will find a return to the world of Child's Play, Frankenstein's Army, two Miike pictures, singing and dancing martial arts mayhem, Danny Trejo hunting zombies, Johnnie To, ice thieves, ladies out for revenge, Roman hot-tub time machines, school shootings, Flemish weepies, Michael Cera, intruders in animal masks, video cassettes, Thai gangsters, Bigfoot, Divine, Israeli pedophiles, Gatchaman and much, much (much) more. The full press release is below: Montreal, July 9th, 2013 - The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the rest of our 120-feature lineup that comprises our 2013 event,...

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January Jones Shoots A Lot of Bad Folks in SWEETWATER Trailer

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Despite a fair number of film roles, Mad Men's January Jones has not been able to break meaningfully into the cinema. In Sweetwater, writer-director Logan Miller has anchored a film around her as an avenging angel in a purple dress.In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory. Those western archetypes are played with a little bot of that old time scenery chewing by Ed Harris, Jason Isaacs and, of course, Ms. Jones. They may be hard to spot, but the talented Eduardo Noriega and Stephen Root (also cameo-ing in the much larger scale The Lone Ranger) round out the supporting cast. While Sweetwater does...

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NYAFF 2013 Review: This VERY ORDINARY COUPLE Aims to Show You What's What

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Grand romance, as depicted on screen, written on the page or sung into a microphone, is the stuff of dreams. We crave it and feel it vicariously through surrogate works. It happens in life too but scarcely as magnificently as we imagine it in our minds. Romcoms spoil us in a way, they invite us to expect something that doesn't exist, at least in a form as ideal as that which is represented in these films. The Korean film industry is famous for romantic fare and for good reason. Mostly fitting within two categories, romantic comedies in the country are frequently fresh, sweet and thoroughly charming (My Sassy Girl and My Scary Girl to name a few) while the more melodramatic romances elicit sobs from...

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Hey, Toronto! Spend An Afternoon In Conversation With Johnnie To For Free!

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 08:00 AM PDT

Okay, Toronto. Here's the thing. Saturday, July 13 is my birthday. I'm turning old. And though I won't be in town myself, that's not going to stop me from giving you something awesome to remember me by. Iconic Hong Kong director Johnnie To is going to be in Toronto over the weekend as part of the sprawling Chinese film retrospective running now at the TIFF Bell Lightbox and while he's there he'll be introducing screenings of some of his films - we'll be giving away tickets for those later - as well as participating in a 90 minute, on stage 'In Conversation With' event that'll be your chance to get right inside his head as he talks through his life and work. And we've got...

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NEW KIDS Directors Look For Love In First BRO'S BEFORE HO'S Stills

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Are Dutch comedy troupe The New Kids growing up? Not bloody likely, frankly, but after a run on television followed by two hugely successful feature films they're moving on to some other things. and the big one at the moment is romantic comedy Bro's Before Ho's - written and directed by Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil with Tim Haars and Huub Smit both in the cast. Now in production, we've got the first quartet of images from the film for your perusal in the gallery below. And while these seem to promise a bit of sweetness and light, let's not forget who we're dealing with. Hopefully a teaser will follow soon ......

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More Frozen Donnie In Extended ICEMAN 3D Trailer

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 06:00 AM PDT

The Donnie Yen starring remake of Clarence Fok's The Iceman Cometh is shaping up to be a rather big deal. So big, in fact, that they're splitting it up into two films rather than the originally intended single outing. And when you've got that much frozen-ancient-warrior-reawakening-in-modern-times action what you clearly need is a longer trailer. So here's one that's twice as long as the original. Marvel at Donnie's flowing locks!...

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