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Telefilm backs seven feature projects from Quebec
Telefilm Canada has announced it will invest in seven Quebecois feature projects, including the true-life story of airline pilot Robert Piche, who glided his powerless jetliner to a safe landing across hundreds of miles of open ocean. Piche will be directed by Erik Canuel from a screenplay by Chantal Cadieux ...
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Alexander promoted to senior executive VP at Sony International
Ralph Alexander has been promoted to senior executive vice president of international operations and distribution at Sony Pictures Releasing International.Alexander will oversee 23 managing directors as well as the generaloperational and administrative issues of the territory offices. Hewill also work on a wide range of issues arising out of the ...
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NewsElephant Eye sells Sundance winner to France, Spain and Greece
Elephant Eye Films has sold distribution rights to France (ARP), Spain (Filmax) and Greece(Videorama)for Lee Daniels’ Sundance winner Push
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Slumdog Millionaire bounces 45% after Oscar wins
The Tyler Perry phenomenon - with Madea Goes To Jail - rolled on at the weekend and eclipsed The Jonas Brothers to hold on to its number one berth for the second consecutive weekend on an estimated $16.5m for $64.9m through Lionsgate.Revenues for the top 12 releases climbed for the ...
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Regent takes US rights to Spottiswoode's Shake Hands With The Devil
Regent Releasing has picked up US rights from Halifax Film to RogerSpottiswoode's drama Shake Hands With The Devil and will release inthe summer.Roy Dupuis stars as Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, a Canadianformer United Nations military officer who alerted the world toongoing atrocities in the war between African Hutu and Tutsi tribes.Deborah ...
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Dutch DP Anton Van Munster dies at the age of 74
Anton Van Munster, the award-winning cinematographer and brother of producer-director Bertram van Munster, died on February 11 in Holland after a brief illness. He was 74.After studying cinematography in Rome at the Centro Spirimentale Di Cinematografia, Van Munster worked for many years with Dutch director Bert Haanstra. Their work on ...
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Zac Efron to be honoured at ShoWest as Breakthrough Performer
Zac Efron is the latest name to be added to the honouree roster at ShoWest and will collect the 2009 Breakthrough Performer Of The Year Award on April 2.Efron appeared on stage in a musical number at the 81st Annual Academy Awards last weekend and his credits include the High ...
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Oscilloscope takes domestic rights to Oscar-nominated Garden
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired all North American distribution rights to Scott Hamilton Kennedy's Oscar-nominated documentary The Garden.The New York-based company plans a theatrical release this spring and DVD release in early summer on the story of a political wrangle over the fate of a community garden.David Fenkel negotiated the deal ...
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Regent sets May as US release for Oscar winning Departures
Regent Releasing and Here Media will release their Japanese foreign language Oscar winner Departures in May, the distributor said following the picture's Academy Awards win at the weekend.Yojiro Takita's victory marked the first time Regent and Here received an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category and the ...
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Coppola's Tetro set for US release through Zoetrope on June 11
American Zoetrope will self-release Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro in limited release in the US on June 11 based on the first original screenplay by Coppola since The Conversation in 1974.The story tells of two brothers, of family lost and found, and the conflicts and tragedies within a highly creative Argentine-Italian ...
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Cooper named comedy star of the year at ShoWest
Bradley Cooper will receive the ShoWest 2009 Comedy Star of the Year Award on April 2 in Las Vegas.Cooper will next be seen in Warner Bros'' Las Vegas-set comedy The Hangover on June 12 opposite Justin Bartha and Zach Galifianakis and his previous credits include Wedding Crashers, Yes Man and ...
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NewsAscot picks up five more titles in EFM
Leading Swiss independent distributor Ascot Elite, acquired the rights for German speaking Europe to another five titles to add to the previously announced black thriller comedyChawby Shin Jeong-Won.The Zurich-based group picked up Gerald McMorrow’s thriller Franklyn, starring Ryan Philippe, Sam Riley and Eva Green, which will ...
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Magnet Releasing imports Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson to US
Magnet Releasing has acquired US rights to Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson following the drama's Sundance and Rotterdam screenings. The film had its world premiere at the London Film Festival last year.This is the second time Refn has partnered with Magnet after the distributor and its sister company Magnolia released his ...
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Salomon signs on to direct Rocky Marciano boxing biopic
Mikael Salomon has signed on to direct M.E.G.A. Film's boxing biopic Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story.According to M.E.G.A. Film's founder Morris S Levy, who will produce, this is the first authorised picture about the sporting legend's life and will reveal new details from the fighter's younger brother Lou Marciano.The story ...
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Anaheim University names digital school after Akira Kurosawa
Anaheim University in southern California is to launch a state-of-the-art digital school named after Akira Kurosawa on March 23, the day the late Japanese film-maker would have turned 99.The Anaheim University Akira Kurosawa School Of Film will unveil details of its online digital film programmes and other initiatives on the ...
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E1 strikes film and TV content deal with iTunes in Canada, US, UK
Canadian media company E1 is offering its film and TV content via iTunes online stores in Canada, the US and the UK. The company's key launch title is the blockbuster Twilight, which it distributed theatrically in Canada and the UK. 'We are excited to be able to offer film and ...
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Hamptons moves festival forward by a week to Oct 8-12
Seeking to benefit the local economy, the board of directors of the Hamptons International Film Festival has moved this year's event forward by one week to take place over Columbus Day Weekend holiday and run from October 8-12.The 17th annual event will remain based in East Hampton with additional venues ...
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NewsSlumdog takes eight Oscars including best picture, best director
Slumdog Millionaire wins 8 Oscars including best picture and best director.
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Poul, Wright to adapt Dews' Must Read After My Death
Alan Poul and Craig Wright have optioned the family story captured in documentary Must Read After My Death and plan to co-produce the feature film which Wright will write and Poul will direct.The documentary, directed by Morgan Dews, was released Friday (February 20) at New York's Quad Cinemas and in ...
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NewsOscar winners - Slumdog Millionaire wins Best Picture
Winners of the 81st Annual Academy AwardsBest Supporting ActressPenelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina BarcelonaBest Original ScreenplayDustin Lance Black, MilkBest Adapted ScreenplaySimon Beaufoy, Slumdog MillionaireBest Animated FeatureWall-E, Andrew StantonBest Animated ShortLa Maison en Petits Cubes, Kunio KatoArt DirectionThe Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Donald Graham Burt (art direction) ...