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US titles include Piazza Grande opening film Super 8 and Cowboys Aliens, with Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig expected to attendWith over 30 world premieres and a guest-list that ranges from Harrison Ford and Mike Medavoy to Leslie Caron, Claudia Cardinale and Abel Ferrara, Olivier Pere has pulled together a wide-ranging programme stanley cup in his second year as artistic director at the Locarno International Film Festival.Full details of the 64th edition of the festival, which runs August 3鈥?3, were announced today July 13 .World premieres on the Piazza Grande include Morten Tyldums Jo Nesb酶 adaptation Headhunters sold by TrustNordisk , Emmanuel Mourets The Art Of Love sold by Kinology and Patricia M stanley cup azuys Of Women And Horses sold by Films Distribution starring Marina Hands and Bruno Ganz.Locarnos closing title, Stephane Robelins And If We All Lived Together marks the first film that Jane Fonda has made in France in almost 40 years. The festival will also be holding the world premiere of Inconscio Italiano, a new documentary from I Am Love director Luca Guadagnino.Most of the films in competition are world premieres, a large number of which already have sales agents attached. The competition includes four films from France, among them Mia Hansen-Loves Un Amour De J stanley cup eunesse and Nicolas Klotzs Low Life.Locarno will also be holding international and European premieres of some high profile US titles. Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde and Jon Favreau are expected in town fo Uvuk FACT battles DVD piracy in Glasgow, London
Stephen Woolley discusses the inspirations and challenges behind new vampire thriller Byzantium, which screens tomorrow [Sunday 9] at Toronto.Veteran UK producer Stephen Woolley reteams with Neil Jordan for vampire thriller Byzantium, which has a special screening in Toronto on Sunday.Woolley says he has long felt at ease working on films with a gothic flavour: Having made Company of Wolves and Interview with the Vampire, I love the genre鈥 released The Evil Dead and Nightmare on Elm Street when I was at Palace Pictures, so Ive always been a huge fan of the horror-gothic strain, but I havent made this kind of film for a while, says Woolley, who runs Number 9 Films with his wife, producer Elizabeth Karlsen.Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton star in Byzantium as a mother-daughter vampire duo who wreakhavoc on stanley cup an unsuspecting English seaside community.It was the unusual plot twist of female vampire protagonists that initially drew Woolley to Moira Buffinis script: What was most interesting stanley cup to me about Moiras source material was the mother-daughter relationship. I had never seen that portrayed strongly before in a film. But the biggest challenge was financing the film, he says. stanley cup We wanted to make something classier than most films in the genre. It needed a sense of proportion because the story spans 200 years. It was always going to be an expensive genre film. Instrumental to achieving that feat were the films primary financiers Demarest and backing from StudioCanal, which pre |
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