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Emerging Pictures continues to expand its alternative content roster following a deal to become the exclusive North American theatrical distributor of CielEcrans live ballet programming.Emergings ballet roster includes performances from Moscow by the Bolshoi Ballet and from Paris by the Paris Opera Ballet. The season will begin on December 19 with a live broadcast from Moscow of the Bolshois performance of Tchaikovskis The Nutcracker.Emergings expanded Ballet In Cinema series joins its established successful Ope
stanley cup ra In Cinema programme, now in its fourth season.Managing partners Ira Deutchman and Barry Rebo negotiated the deal with CielEcran director general Marc Welinski.
stanley cup CielEcran is a subsidiary of Gaumont-Pathe. It has always been our goal at Emerging to offer the worlds greatest cultural brands in cinemas, Deutchman said. With the addition of the Bolshoi and the Paris Opera Ballet, we have taken another step in achieving that goal. These spectacular productions should have a broad appeal to audiences of all ages and throughout North America. I am very excited at the idea of bringing the best two European ballet companies live to the American public, Welinski said. It will be a unique opportunity to attend beautiful performances, which will be magnificently shot in High Definition and 5.1 Sound. TopicsDistribution No comm
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The Montreal WorldFilm Festival has unveiled its 2004 competition line-up, including the worldpremieres of Paul McGuigan s MGM/Lakeshore Entertainment-backed Wicker Park and new films from Chile sRaoul Ruiz, Greece s Nikos Panayotopoulos and Australia s Craig Monahan.The 28thMWFF, which runs August 26 to September 6, also features several worldpremieres out of competition such as the Chile-Mexico-Spain co-production The Last Moon. As well, the festivalannounced its Panorama Canada selection of local films, and retrospectives ofGreek auteur Theo Angelopoulos and Serbian filmmaker Krsto Papic.Wicker Park, parts of which were shot in Montreal, features Josh Hartnett as a mancaught in an obsessive search for a woman he fell deeply in love with, but whothen vanished without trace. The film, which also stars Rose Byrne, MatthewLillard and Jessica Pare, is a remake of 1996 French hit L Appartement, itself an homage to Hitchcock classic Vertigo. Wicker Park opens in North America on September 3.Ruiz s Dias De Campo, a Chile-Franceco-productio
stanley kubek n, explores the nature of memory as two old-timers reminisce aboutlife and love, whi
stanley us le Panayotopoulos Delivery,visits the underbelly of contemporary Athens
stanley usa in a story about a drifter whobecomes entangled between lowlife and the law. Monahan s Peaches is set in two time frames and focuses on three verydifferent but intertwined love stories.In all, 19 films willcompete for affections of the eight-member international jury, chaired thisyear by Fren
