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Hot Docs unveils 36 world premieres
New films from Kevin McMahon, Larry Weinstein and John Greyson were among the 36 world premieres unveiled as the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival announced its full line-up today. The festival runs in Toronto from April 30 to May 10.McMahon’s Waterlife explores the complex ecology of and environmental damage wrought ...
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Babelgum offers mobile video application to US users
Online content platform Babelgum has released a US version of its mobile video application. At the same time the babelgum.com website has been redesigned with a Flash-based player.Babelgum had previously launched its mobile services in the UK and Italy.In the US, the mobile appication is free and available for download ...
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Salon's pan-Asia alliance sets three new films led by Eat, Drink 2
Companies under Hong Kong’s Salon Films’ pan-Asia alliance have announced new production projects including three projects from Taipei-based Zoom Hunt International.Producer Hsu Li-kong and his Zoom Hunt International is preparing the sequel to Ang Lee’s 1994 classic Eat Drink Man Woman, tentatively titled Eat Drink Man Woman II, a project ...
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Michael Bay to receive ShoWest Vanguard Award
Michael Bay will receive the ShoWest 2009 Vanguard Award forExcellence in Filmmaking at a ceremony in Las Vegas on April 2.Bay directed this summer’s tentpole release Transformers: Revenge OfThe Fallen, the sequel to his 2007 smash Transformers.His films have grossed more than $3bn worldwide and include PearlHarbor, Armageddon, The Rock, ...
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Regent takes international rights to Weaver's Weather Girl
Regent Worldwide Sales has acquired international rights to Blayne Weaver’s romantic comedy Weather Girl starring Tricia O’Kelley and Mark Harmon.Regent spotted the film at Slamdance and struck the deal withSubmarine. The story centres on a Seattle TV weather girl who embarkson an affair with her brother’s best friend after she ...
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Anne Hathaway to play Judy Garland in TWC's Get Happy
Anne Hathaway, nominated for a lead actress Oscar last season for Rachel Getting Married, is attached to star for The Weinstein Company as Judy Garland in film and stage versions of Gerald Clarke’s biography Get Happy: The Life Of Judy Garland.Get Happy is based on hundreds of interviews and Garland’s ...
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Tribeca All Access selects 27 projects from US, UK, Australia, Canada
The Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca Film Institute have selected 27 projects for the 2009 Tribeca All Access programme, which encourages industry support of filmmakers from traditionally underrepresented communities.TAA, supported by Bloomberg, is now in its sixth year, and will run during April 20-25 during the TFF.Participating directors and screenwriters ...
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Gran Torino leads international box office with $8.8m take
Gran Torinoruled the roost of Hollywood releases overseas over a modest weekend as the drama grossed a further estimated $8.8m from more than 2,500 screens in 38 markets through Warner Bros Pictures International, raising the tally to $60m.The film launched in second place behind Slumdog Millionaire in Brazil on $409,000 ...
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NewsSummit has number one $24.8m domestic hit with Knowing
Summit Entertainment proved there is more to the ambitious company than the Twilight franchise with a strong $24.8m number one launch of its sci-fi adventure Knowing, which stars Nicolas Cage as an astrophysicist who tries to avert global catastrophe.The debut comfortably beat off challenges from DreamWorks-Paramount’s gross-out comedy I Love ...
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SnagFilms adds deal with International Documentary Association
Days after SnagFilms announced a documentary partnership with Hulu, the online cinema venture has struck another alliance with the International Documentary Association.The partnership will include the creation of an IDA Channel onSnagfilms.com and the embedding of SnagFilms widgets on the IDA'swebsite.Branded content from IDA's Documentary Magazine and its website willalso ...
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Producer Paul Mezey looks outward from NYC
Paul Mezey does not have the insular New York mind-set of some independent producers based in the Big Apple. One of his next two productions, Joshua Marston's Blood Feud (working title), will shoot in Northern Albania while David Riker's The Girl will shoot in Texas and Mexico.He has also gone ...
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Cherien Dabis on Amreeka
Cherien Dabis' feature debut Amreeka, a richly observed story of Arab-American immigrants in middle America, hits very close to home. 'I grew up in Ohio, going back to Jordan every summer,' Dabis says. 'I had a sort of identity crisis - I wasn't American enough for the Americans nor Arab ...
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Catherine Hardwicke returns to Summit for If I Stay
Catherine Hardwicke may not be returning to direct the Twilight follow-up New Moon for Summit but director and studio will work together again on the drama If I Stay.Based on Gayle Forman's book of the same name that will be published this spring by Penguin Young Readers Group imprint Dutton ...
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UPI's Duplicity goes out day and date in UK, Australia, Spain
Warner Bros Pictures International’sGran Torinoand PPI’sWatchmenwill continue to battle it out this weekend but they’ll face challenges from a trio of new arrivals. UPI launches the crime caperDuplicityin 11 territories, Sony rolls out its hit US comedyPaul Blart: Mall Copin several markets, and PPI unleashesMonsters Vs Aliensin two territories.Clint Eastwood’s ...
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Egoyan's Chloe will continue to shoot around Neeson's schedule
Production on Atom Egoyan's Chloe will continue in the wake of the death of actress Natasha Richardson, the wife of the film's star, Liam Neeson.Richardson died Wednesday in New York following a ski accident in the Quebec resort of Mt. Tremblant. The New York City medical examiner's office said the ...
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US PR outfit Falco Ink launches division specialised in Hispanic media
Falco Ink partners Janice Roland and Shannon Treusch announced they have launched a film and television division specialising in Hispanic media.Soldanela Rivera has been hired to oversee the division; she has worked extensively in production and marketing in film and the performing arts, with more than 15 years of experience ...
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Tyson, The Cove to close AFI Dallas festival on April 2
James Toback's Tyson and Louie Psihoyos' The Cove will share the AFI Dallas International Film Festival's closing night gala presentation spotlight on April 2.The following day Peter Bogdanovich will receive the AFI Dallas Star Award in recognition of his career achievements in cinema.Sony Pictures Classics holds North American rights to ...
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SnagFilms strikes content deal with Hulu documentary channel
Online distributor SnagFilms has announced it will provide portions of its video library to the new documentary channel on Hulu, the online video service that offers features, TV shows and clips for free.In addition to featuring documentaries from SnagFilms' library of 600 titles, the Hulu documentary channel will provide viewers ...
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Sorority Row cast named Showest Female Stars Of Tomorrow
The female ensemble cast of Summit Entertainment's upcoming horror remake Sorority Row will jointly receive the ShoWest 2009 Female Star Of Tomorrow Award.Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung, Audrina Partridge, and Margo Harshman will be presented with the award at ShoWest's final night banquet and award ceremony on ...
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Natasha Richardson dies after skiing accident at age of 45
Natasha Richardson, the Tony Award winning stage and screen star and scion of British performing arts royalty, has died following a skiing accident. She was 45.The daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and the late director Tony Richardson was flown to hospital close to her home in New York on Tuesday evening ...