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	<description>Never the Same Ole Same Ole</description>
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		<title>Sundance Film Festival broadens its scope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Between cost over-runs and final-cut fights, director Terry Gilliam, 69, is no stranger to difficult film productions. Still, nothing prepared him for the tragedy that marred the making of &#8220;The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.&#8221; Midway through production of the fantastical adventure, his star, Heath Ledger, died. &#8220;I was too distraught to work out what to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disney to slash Miramax Films staff to 20, reduce releases to 3 a year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walt Disney Co., looking to rein in costs at its Hollywood studio as it focuses on mainstream movies, is slashing staff by 70% at its Miramax Films specialty label and is substantially reducing the number of pictures it releases. The retrenchment, which has been foreshadowed in Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger&#8217;s strategy to emphasize family [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rmafilms.com/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Indie Film Producers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent passing of master film director Yu Hyon-mok has dealt a great loss for all of us in cinema and other fields in Korea, and elsewhere around the world. Yu was one of the greatest filmmakers Korea has ever produced. His movie &#8220;Obaltan (The Accidentally Fired Bullet)&#8221; has ranked as the best film in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rmafilms.com/?p=23</link>
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		<title>The living-room TV, not Cannes, may be independent film&#8217;s best friend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, filmmakers flocked to the Cannes Film Festival to sell their independently financed movies, confident they&#8217;d soon see their work exhibited in movie theaters. Like so many show business dreams, those visions have been vanishing quickly as numerous distributors of film-festival fare closed their doors after losing money or corporate support. But there&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Rachel&#8221; among top Spirit picks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES (Reuters) &#8211; Border smuggling crime movie &#8220;Frozen River&#8221; won best picture and breakthrough acting awards at the Gotham Independent Film ceremony on Tuesday, as well as sharing top billing in nominations for the Spirit Awards for independent filmmakers. Melissa Leo, 48, was named by IFP, organizer of the Gotham awards, as breakthrough actor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glut of Films Hits Hollywood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HOLLYWOOD &#8212; When Meg Ryan and Antonio Banderas signed up to star in an independently produced comedy-action movie called &#8220;My Mom&#8217;s New Boyfriend,&#8221; the film&#8217;s backers figured they had a slam dunk &#8212; a modestly priced film with bankable stars that would surge at the box office. The producers say the $17 million movie scored [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rmafilms.com/?p=16</link>
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		<title>Making a smart entrance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE new American comedy Smart People has a cast that the director of any independent movie would covet. Dennis Quaid appears as a wearied, widowed university lecturer and father to Vanessa (Ellen Page). He is the brother of Chuck (Thomas Haden Church) and potential squire of a doctor played by Sarah Jessica Parker. Director Noam [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rmafilms.com/?p=14</link>
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		<title>Dollars and sense of film financing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MOVIES may be pure entertainment but financing them is serious business, and as movie-making opportunities increase in Singapore and other less-mature markets in Asia, finding the funds to fuel the process will be crucial to the health of the industry. Even as new media emerges on a seemingly daily basis to provide viable alternatives to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rmafilms.com/?p=12</link>
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		<title>Independent movie theaters fill niche</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, the Pleasant Street Theater in Northampton was playing &#8220;Waitress,&#8221; the independent film about a pregnant woman who dreams of escaping from her controlling husband, when owner Bob Lawton noticed that the Amherst Cinema&#8217;s Web site featured the film as a coming attraction. &#8220;He called me and asked us to take &#8216;coming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rmafilms.com/?p=10</link>
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		<title>Parker Posey: Not your average indie queen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES &#8211;Parker Posey doesn&#8217;t pick at her lunch. She doesn&#8217;t push the slab of salmon around her plate, pretending to eat. No, she takes normal-size bite after normal-size bite (although she does pass on the bread, natch). Even more than her status as indie movie queen, this action sets her apart from her acting peers. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rmafilms.com/?p=8</link>
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