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Lorber HT Digital picks up Intangible Asset, Nollywood Bablyon
Lorber HT Digital has acquired all North American rights to Emma Franz's documentary Intangible Asset #82 and US theatrical rights and public performance rights to Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal's documentary Nollywood Babylon.Intangible Asset #82 will receive its North American premiere at the South West Film Festival on March 14 ...
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Rebecca Yeldham named director of Los Angeles Film Festival
Rebecca Yeldham has been unveiled as the new director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Film Independent announced today [March 12].Yeldham acknowledged 'trying times' in the festival sector and said she looked forward to bringing her global perspective to bear on a festival that was 'uniquely positioned' to embrace the ...
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Juan Antonio Bayona said to be in talks for Summit's Eclipse
Summit Entertainment is believed to be on the cusp of signing the upcoming Spanish film-maker Juan Antonio Bayona to direct Eclipse, the third instalment in its Twilight franchise that will open on June 30, 2010.Bayona directed the Spanish-language Gothic tale The Orphanage, whichgrossed more than $78m worldwide after premiering at ...
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Mobile sector, Asia, Middle East trumpeted as new finance sources
With the hedge funds gone and banks fleeing the scene like rats from a sinking ship, the next wave of capital for a largely cash-strapped film industry will come from the mobile telephony sector, according to a leading Hollywood executive.'A lot of it will be tied to technology and the ...
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Sarasota to open with Oren Moverman's The Messenger
The 11th-annual Regal Entertainment Group Sarasota Film Festival will kick off in the Florida city on March 27 with a screening of Oren Moverman's The Messenger. The military-themed drama, which won the Berlinale's Silver Bear for Screenwriting, stars Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton and Jena Malone. Foster, Harrelson and ...
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Tribeca adds world premieres by Steven Soderbergh, Cheryl Hines
The Tribeca Film Festival has unveiled the remainder of its 2009 programme with the out-of-competition selections for its Encounters, Spotlight, Showcase, Restored/Rediscovered and Midnight sections.In Encounters, 10 of the 11 narratives and documentaries are world premieres. Those include Cheryl Hines' directorial debut Serious Moonlight written by the late Adrienne Shelly ...
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John Cooper steps up as director of Sundance Film Festival
John Cooper has been named director of the Sundance Film Festival in a widely expected move that takes immediate effect in the wake of Geoff Gilmore's departure.The popular and highly respected Cooper joined Sundance Institute in 1989 and will serve as the festival's artistic director leading programming and strategic growth ...
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Shetty, Yip join Marvel's new international advisory board
Marvel Entertainment has formed an international advisory board as it seeks to export the brand to key foreign markets in the wake of the global success of films like Iron Man.James F Halpin, a Marvel director since March 1995, will chair the board, while Marvel's president of worldwide consumer products ...
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Anil Kapoor to receive tribute at Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles
The 7th Annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles will pay tribute to Bollywood star Anil Kapoor, now famous in the west for his role in Slumdog Millionaire. The festival will close with Megan Doneman's documentary Yes Madam, Sir.The festival will be held from April 21-26 at The ArcLight in ...
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Hawaii Film Partners set to start shooting romantic adventure
Hawaii Film Partners will begin principal photography on March 16 in Hawaii on the romantic adventure You May Not Kiss The Bride.Set in Chicago and Tahiti, the picture stars Dave Annable, Mena Suvari, Katharine McPhee, Vinnie Jones, Tia Carrere and Ken Davitian.Annable plays a Chicago pet photographer who accidentally maims ...
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Redford to receive honour from San Francisco Film Festival
The San Francisco Film Society will honour Sundance founder Robert Redford with the Peter J Owens Award at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival on April 30.The Owens Award, named after the longtime arts patron, philanthropist and Film Society board member, honours an actor whose work exemplifies 'brilliance, independence ...
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Sass, Peterson hired in key postions at Werc Werk Works
Elizabeth Redleaf and Christine Kunewa Walker's production and finance company Werc Werk Works has appointed Geoff Sass chief marketing officer and Andrew Peterson (pictured) vice president of production.Sass will oversee strategic development of the Werc Werk Works brand as well as all marketing and advertising on all company projects, which ...
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Sprockets to host North American premiere of Letter For The King
Two Dutch child-oriented features will make their North American premiere at the upcoming Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children. The festival unveiled its line-up of 29 features and 41 short films in an announcement today.Most prominent is Dutch filmmaker Pieter Verhoeff's period adventure Letter For The King, reportedly the ...
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Cast assembles for UA's The Cabin In The Woods
Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz and Jesse Williams will join previously announced Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford in UA's horror project The Cabin In The Woods.Drew Goddard is directing from a screenplay by Goddard and Joss Whedon, who is also producing. Details of the plot ...
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Bratt's homegrown La Mission to open San Franciso Film Festival
Peter Bratt's redemptive drama La Mission will open the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from April 23-May 7.Bratt's brother Benjamin Bratt stars in the tale of an ex-con whose powerful bond with his son and his peaceful way of life are threatened by a sudden revelation. Erika ...
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Ted Hatfield to receive career achievement award at ShoWest
Regal Entertainment Group director of film marketing Ted Hatfield will receive the Marvin Levy Career Achievement in Film Marketing Award at ShoWest 2009.Hatfield will collect the honour on April 1 in Las Vegas. He joined Regal Entertainment in 1997 after serving seven years as vice-president of exhibitor relations at Sony ...
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Costa-Gavras to receive film-maker focus at COLCOA in April
Costa-Gavras will be the subject of this year's 'Focus On A Film-maker' at the 13th annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COLCOA), the annual showcase of new French cinema in Los Angeles which this year takes place April 20-26.The director's latest film Eden Is West, which closed Berlin this ...
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First Run takes US rights to documentary Four Seasons Lodge
First Run Features has acquired US rights to New York Times journalist Andrew Jacobs' documentary Four Seasons Lodge and will announce the theatrical release date shortly.Jacobs' picture recounts the final season for a group of Holocaust survivors that gather each year in a mountain idyll located in New York's Catskills. ...
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Wolfe Releasing takes US rights to Pedro Zamora biopic Pedro
Wolfe Releasing has acquired domestic rights to the feature Pedro, based on a screenplay by Milk Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black about the life of the Real World star and AIDS activist Pedro Zamora, who died aged 22.Quinceanera film-makers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland executive produced the film. Nick ...
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Mitchell Micich, Amy Dotson promoted at IFP in New York
Mitchell Micich has been promoted to deputy director, finance & operations at New York's independent film non-profit organization IFP and Amy Dotson has been promoted to deputy director.Both report directly to IFP executive director Michelle Byrd. Meanwhile Jennifer Smith is named producer of the Gotham Independent Film Awards.Micich is a ...