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Technology's transformation of the film business
A dance floor in Indonesia is not the most likely place for a US seller and a German buyer to negotiate an acquisition deal. Yet with the transformation of the film business due to cellphones, PDAs (personal digital assistant) and other mobile devices, anywhere is valid as a place to ...
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Adam Cohen joins Metan Development Group
Development and marketing executive Adam Cohen has been hired as production executive of original programming at Metan Development Group, the content producer and distributor launched in February to target the Chinese market.Cohen will seek to strengthen ties with feature and televisionproducers in Hollywood with a view to developing the slate. ...
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Sony Pictures Entertainment said to be cutting 300 jobs
Sony Pictures Entertainment is believed to be cutting in the region of 300 jobs in the latest move by a US major to trim costs as the world heads further into recession.Sources at the studio would neither confirm nor deny reportscirculating within Hollywood that the cuts were being implemented.It is ...
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Sony Pictures Entertainment said to be cutting 300 jobs
Sony Pictures Entertainment is believed to be cutting in the region of 300 jobs in the latest move by a US major to trim costs as the world heads further into recession.Sources at the studio would neither confirm nor deny reportscirculating within Hollywood that the cuts were being implemented.It is ...
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Michael Caine to get Lifetime Achievement Award at ShoWest
Michael Caine will receive the ShoWest 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award at the final night banquet and awards ceremony on April 2.Caine will next be seen in Big Beach, Heyday Films, and BBC Films'drama Is Anybody There' that will open in Los Angeles and New York onApril 17.The Veteran English actor ...
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Guy Maddin to shoot short for NFB's 70th anniversary
The National Film Board of Canada has commissioned idiosyncratic auteur Guy Maddin to create a short film to commemorate the NFB's 70th anniversary.The project, Night Mayor, goes before camera on March 9 on location in the filmmaker's hometown of Winnipeg, the city memorialized in Maddin's critical hit My Winnipeg. Maddin ...
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Palm Springs ShortFest moves from August to June
The 15th Palm Springs International ShortFest, Short Film Festival & Film Market has moved forward its dates from August and will run this summer from June 23-29.'We've been considering a date change for some time, and ultimatelydecided that the June dates would provide better placement on theannual festival calendar and ...
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Turner, Warner Bros team for English-language channel for India
Turner and Warner Bros Entertainment have partnered to launch WB, a new 24-hour English-language Warner-branded channel aimed at the Indian market carrying features and television series.Available in Indian homes from March 15, WB will showcase programming licensed from Warner Bros International Television Distribution. The channel will be distributed by Zee-Turner ...
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Film Sales Company takes on two SXSW titles
Andrew Herwitz's New York-based Film Sales Company has picked up domestic sales rights aheadto two films - The Overbrook Brothers and Wake Up - set to world premiere at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival.John Bryant's dramatic competition entry The Overbrook Brothers is acomedy about two brothers in their 30s who ...
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AFI Dallas to open March 26 with Johnson's The Brothers Bloom
Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom will open the AFI Dallas International Film Festival on March 26.The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow and The Brothers Bloom starAdrien Brody will join the previously announced Chinatown screenwriterRobert Towne as recipients of the AFI Dallas Star Award careerrecognition award. Rita Hayworth will receive the ...
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Lionsgate furthers Tyler Perry relationship by acquiring next two films
Lionsgate has wasted little time extending its lucrative relationship with Tyler Perry, whose number one US release Madea Goes To Jail scored a record launch recently for both studio and film-maker and stands at $65.5m after less than two weeks.The company has acquired rights to the prolific film-maker's next twoprojects ...
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Alive Mind takes US rights to Walter's Theater Of War
Richard Lorber's documentary label Alive Mind has acquired the US theatrical, public performance and video rights to John Walter's documentary Theater Of War.Theater Of War stars Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline and is based on TonyKushner's New York Shakespeare Festival production of Bertolt Brecht'sMother Courage And Her Children, inspired by ...
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Black Dynamite sells to Pretty Pictures and Svensk
Pretty Pictures has acquired French rights from T&C International to Scott Sanders' Sundance hit blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite starring Michael Jai White.Pretty Pictures president James Velaise negotiated the deal with LosAngeles-based T&C International chief David Jourdan following meetingsat the EFM last month.Jourdan also reported he had closed a deal with ...
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Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson join Overture's The Crazies
Danielle Panabaker, star of the recent North American box office hit Friday The 13th, and emerging UK talent Joe Anderson have joined Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell in Overture Films' The Crazies.Filming on the reinvention based loosely on George A Romero's 1973thriller is set to begin on March 5 in ...
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Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson join Overture's The Crazies
Danielle Panabaker, star of the recent North American box office hit Friday The 13th, and emerging UK talent Joe Anderson have joined Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell in Overture Films' The Crazies.Filming on the reinvention based loosely on George A Romero's 1973thriller is set to begin on March 5 in ...
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Carolyn Harris, Beatrice Springborn join Basner's FilmNation
Glen Basner's international sales and production company FilmNation Entertainment has hired two executives to head the production arm overseen by Aaron Ryder.Effective immediately Carolyn Harris will join the company asvice-president of production and Beatrice Springborn will serve asproduction executive. Ryder and his team are based in Los Angeleswhile Basner heads ...
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CBS Films takes feature rights to The Christmas Cookie Club
CBS Films and its corporate sibling under the CBS Corporation banner Simon & Schuster have acquired feature rights to the publisher's upcoming release The Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman.Said to be in the vein of The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants andSteel Magnolias, The Christmas Cookie Club centres on ...
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Sam Raimi to debut work-in-progress Drag Me To Hell at SXSW
Director Sam Raimi will debut a work-in-progress version of Universal Pictures' Drag Me to Hell, his long awaited return to the horror genre, at the South By Southwest Festival (SXSW). The film, which stars Alison Lohman and Justin Long, is a tale of a young woman's quest to break an ...
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Watchmen's Snyder to get ShoWest Director of Year Award
Watchmen director Zack Snyder will receive the ShoWest 2009 Director Of The Year Award in Las Vegas on April 2.Snyder shot to fame with the 2004 release of his of zombie remake Dawn Of The Dead and followed that up with the global juggernaut 300.Now all eyes will be on ...
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Film Movement takes North American rights to Munyurangabo
Film Movement has acquired all North American rights to first-time American film-maker Lee Isaac Chung's Rwandan genocide tale Munyurangabo.The feature was shot entirely in the native Kinyarwanda dialect usinga non-professional cast and crew that included genocide orphans.Munyurangabo premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2007 andwill open in May. ...