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Hot Trailer: ‘The Flowers Of War’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday October 20, 2011 @ 12:06pm PDTTags: China, Christian Bale, Movie Trailer, Oscar Best Foreign Language Film Category, The Flowers Of War

A 20-minute snippet of the Christian Bale-starring The Flowers Of War, China’s official entry into the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar race, was shown to buyers last month at the Toronto Film Festival. Now comes a trailer for Zhang Yimou’s true-life drama set against the backdrop of the 1937 Nanking Massacre (the film had been titled Heroes Of Nanking). It will be a unique property to market for whoever acquires U.S. rights: The film is about 60% Mandarin-language and 40% English; in this trailer, there are subtitles for both. The film will have its world premiere in Beijing on Dec. 16.

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TOLDJA! Academy Unveils 63 Entries In Foreign-Language Oscar Race

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 2:08pm PDTTags: 84th Annual Academy Awards, Oscar Best Foreign Language Film Category

OSCARS: 63 Films In Competition For Foreign-Language Film Academy Award

Beverly Hills, CA – Sixty-three countries, including first-time entrant New Zealand, have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 84th Academy Awards®. The 2011 submissions are:

Albania, “Amnesty,” Bujar Alimani, director;

Argentina, “Aballay,” Fernando Spiner, director;

Austria, “Breathing,” Karl Markovics, director;

Belgium, “Bullhead,” Michael R. Roskam, director;

Bosnia and Herzegovina,”Belvedere,” Ahmed Imamovic, director;

Brazil, “Elite Squad: The Enemy Within,” José Padilha, director;

Bulgaria, “Tilt,” Viktor Chouchkov, Jr., director;

Canada, “Monsieur Lazhar,” Philippe Falardeau, director;

Chile, “Violeta Went to Heaven,” Andrés Wood, director;

China, “The Flowers of War,” Zhang Yimou, director;

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Oscar-Nominated Susanne Bier Remaking French Thriller ‘Rapt’

By TIM ADLER in London | Wednesday February 23, 2011 @ 12:19pm PSTTags: In A Better World, Movie Deals, Movies, Oscar Best Foreign Language Film Category, Susanne Bier

EXCLUSIVE: Susanne Bier’s film In a Better World is Denmark’s Foreign Language Film nomination for Sunday’s Oscars. Now she plans to direct a remake of French kidnapping thriller Rapt for Smuggler Films before the end of this year. The Danish … Read More »

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OSCAR: Academy Chooses 9 Films For Foreign Language Race

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 19, 2011 @ 9:38am PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Movies, Oscar Best Foreign Language Film, Oscar Best Foreign Language Film Category, Oscars

Beverly Hills, CA — Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 83rd Academy Awards®.  Sixty-six films had originally qualified in the category.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:

Algeria, “Hors la Loi” (“Outside the Law”), Rachid Bouchareb, director;
Canada, “Incendies,” Denis Villeneuve, director;
Denmark, “In a Better World,” Susanne Bier, director;
Greece, “Dogtooth,” Yorgos Lanthimos, director;
Japan, “Confessions,” Tetsuya Nakashima, director;
Mexico, “Biutiful,” Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, director;
South Africa, “Life, above All,” Oliver Schmitz, director;
Spain, “Tambien la Lluvia” (“Even the Rain”), Iciar Bollain, director;
Sweden, “Simple Simon,” Andreas Ohman, director

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‘Crazy Heart’ Helmer Scott Cooper In Remake Of Thriller ‘Carancho’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 15, 2010 @ 3:48pm PSTTags: Movies, Oscar Best Foreign Language Film Category, Scott Cooper, Trailers, Video
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EXCLUSIVE: Remake rights are being shopped this week for Carancho, the Pablo Trapero-directed thriller which Argentina has submitted for the Best Foreign Language category of the Academy Awards. Crazy Heart helmer Scott Cooper is attached to direct the remake, from … Read More »

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