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Founded in 1988, the European Film Academy currently unites 1,700 European film professionals with the common aim of promoting Europe's film culture. Here are this year's noms....

It has been a while since we last heard of writer/director Christopher McQuarrie, his directorial debut Artisan’s Way of the Gun was a fun little romp best enjoyed when not taken seriously and his claim to fame is of coursehaving scribed the cult fav. The Usual Suspects. Finally after a couple of years of invovlement, Variety annouced that Maverick Films has set him to direct his second feature with an April start date. Maverick's Mark Morgan and Brent Emery will produce with McQuarrie. Guy Oseary and Tara Pirria are exec producers.

As committees from each individual country select their respective submissions for the Best Foreign Picture Academy Award derby, folks like myself have the arduous task of trying to keep score. Without a doubt the early favorite is Germany’s selection which has already picked up seven German Film Awards this year.

The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal presents its 35th edition from October 18 to 28. On the menu: 189 films from 39 countries, handpicked to bring you the very best of this year’s movies.

There is something sacrireligious about the remake of a film, especially if it is from the hands of the exact same filmmaker, this applies to mostly everyone else unless your name is Michael Haneke. After Sony Pictures Classics profit-making pick-up with last year’s Cache (Hidden), the folks at Warner Independent Pictures are pulling out the checkbook for a multiple territory deal for he rights to Michael Haneke 's English-language debut.