All Screen articles in 29 May 2009
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NewsCity Island wins Heineken Audience Award
Raymond De Felitta’s comedy City Island, starring Andy Garcia and Julianna Margulies, has won the eighth annual Tribeca Film Festival Heineken Audience Award.De Felitta will receive a cah prize of $25,000 for his film, which received its world premiere during the festival and tells of a Bronx family riddled with ...
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NewsEverybody Dies But Me wins East End festival prize
Valeriya Gai Germanika won the award for Best International First Feature at London’s East End Film Festival.
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NewsMagnolia acquires The Eclipse
Magnolia Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Conor McPherson’s The Eclipse.
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NewsPublic Enemies named LA Film Festival centrepiece screening
Michael Mann’s Depression era gangster thriller Public Enemies starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard will receive its world premiere as the centrepiece screening for the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs from June 18-28.
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NewsFocus Features starts sales on Adrift
Focus Features International start sales in Cannes on Heitor Dhalia’s Brazilian sexual awakening tale Adrift, which screens in Un Certain Regard.
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NewsFilm Movement picks up Gigante
US distributor Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Adrian Biniez’s Uruguayan comedy Gigante.
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Red Giant Studios to release 3D short The Way To Heaven
Dalton Grant Jr and Cindy Rangel’s new animation and effects studio, Red Giant Studios, will release its first 3D CG-animated short The Way To Heaven in July.
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Trans Atlantic Partners coproduction training session announces participants
Trans Atlantic Partners (TAP), an international coproduction training program for Canadian and European producers, has announced its inaugural line-up. A partnership between Halifax-based Strategic Partners and Germany’s Erich Pommer Institut, TAP will feature thirty film and television projects, including French family feature Inside from Laurent de Bartillat and producer Geoffroy ...
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Kimmel International adds Trust to Cannes slate
Mark Lindsay’s New York-based sales company Kimmel International has bulked up its Cannes slate with international rights to the espionage thriller Trust starring Kiefer Sunderland, Billy Crudup and Guy Pearce.
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NewsGerry Noble steps down as Peace Arch Group CEO
Gerry Noble has resigned as Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc’s CEO, effective immediately.
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NewsPeace Arch to bring Oh My God to Cannes
Peace Arch Entertainment has acquired international rights to Oh My God, Peter Rodger’s documentary in which celebrities, religious leaders and ordinary people discuss their perception of god.
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SPC chiefs Michael Barker and Tom Bernard extend Sony contracts
Sony Pictures Classics co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard have extended their contracts with Sony Pictures Entertainment for a further four years.
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Fantastic Films boards Michael Madsen thriller Outrage for Cannes
Roxane Barbat and Fred deWysocki’s Fantastic Films International have boarded worldwide rights to the thriller Outrage starring Michael Madsen.
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E1 expands first-look deal with Christian Larouche
E1 Entertainment is expanding its first-look deal with Montreal production and distribution executive Christian Larouche through the launch of a new subsidiary, Les Films Christal.
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NewsRachel Weisz to star in political thriller The Whistleblower
Rachel Weisz will star as a Mid-Western police officer who exposes a United Nations cover-up in post-war Bosnia in the political thriller The Whistleblower.