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Eastwood to receive Palm Springs career achievement award
Clint Eastwood will receive the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's Career Achievement Award on January 6.Eastwood directed the current awards season contenders are Gran Torino, in which he stars, and Changeling, which stars Angelina Jolie.He will next direct and produce The Human Factor about Nelson's Mandela's first term ...
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Aida LiPera joins Visit Films as manager of acquisitions, festivals
Former Edinburgh Film Fest programmer Aida LiPera has joined New York-based Visit Films as manager of acquisitions and festivals.LiPera is a native New Yorker who spent five years in the UK and co-produced Edinburgh's Mirrorball strand, curating a variety of cinemas programmes and live events.In September 2007 she served as ...
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Untitled Sam Mendes comedy now has a name - Away We Go
Focus Features has announced that Sam Mendes' upcoming contemporary comedy will be called Away We Go.The film follows the journey of an expectant couple as they travel the US in search of a place to put down roots and raise a family.John Krasinski from TV's The Office and Saturday Night ...
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Andrew Rona confirmed as Silver Pictures president
Former Rogue Pictures co-president Andrew Rona has been confirmed as the new president of Joel Silver's Warner Bros-based Silver Pictures.Rona will also join Steve Richards as co-president of Silver's genre banner Dark Castle Entertainment and starts work in his dual post in January 2009.Silver Pictures is currently in production on ...
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Los Angeles critics name Wall-E best picture as Oscar race begins
In a bold move that defies traditional thinking, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) named Wall-E its best picture of the year while The Dark Knight was runner-up.Danny Boyle took the best director prize for Slumdog Millionaire, with The Dark Knight again taking the silver medal for Christopher Nolan.In ...
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Nick Phillips promoted to svp of production at Screen Gems
Screen Gems has promoted Nick Phillips from vice president of production to senior vice president of production.Phillips will oversee production on select titles including the remake of the 1971 thriller Straw Dogs, which Rod Lurie will write and direct.Phillips will continue to report to Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper. He ...
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Tim Connors named COO at Marvel Studios
Tim Connors has been named Marvel Studios COO and will manage the company's day-to-day business affairs and transactions.Connors previously served as executive vice president of business affairs and operations since December 2006 and his in-tray includes managing a slate that includes Iron Man 2 on May 7 2010, Thor on ...
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Milk, Benjamin Button lead nominations for BFCA Awards
Milk and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button entered the awards fray today [December 9] with eight nominations apiece from the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA).The Dark Knight, Doubt and Slumdog Millionaire tie with six nominations each and will contest the best picture prize with Milk, The Curious Case Of ...
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Jim Fredrick moves to Screen Gems as evp of marketing
Jim Fredrick has joined Screen Gems as executive vice president of marketing, effective immediately.Fredrick replaces Marc Weinstock, who has transitioned to co-president of worldwide marketing for the studio.Reporting to Sony's worldwide marketing and distribution chairman Jeff Blake, Fredrick will get to work on campaigns for such 2009 Screen Gems titles ...
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Milk to receive Stanley Kramer Award from Producers Guild
The Producers Guild Of America's annual Stanley Kramer Award recognising work that 'dramatically illuminates provocative social issues' will be presented to Focus Features' drama Milk.The film stars Sean Penn as the real-life slain gay San Francisco city official and was directed by Gus Van Sant. Josh Brolin, James Franco and ...
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I Sell The Dead to open 15th Slamdance Film Festival
The US premiere of Glenn McQuaid's comedy horror I Sell The Dead starring Dominic Monaghan and Ron Perlman will open the 15th Slamdance Film Festival, which runs from January 15-23.As always the festival will run concurrently with Sundance and screen roughly 100 features, short films and music videas. Twenty features ...
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Lion's Den, Cold Lunch take prizes at Bahamas Film Festival
Pablo Trapero's Lion's Den won the 5th Bahamas International Film Festival's Spirit Of Freedom: Narrative award while Cold Lunch by Eva Sorhaug of Norway collected the New Vision Award.The Spirit Of Freedom: Documentary prize went to Chai Vasarhelyi's Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love and Darier Hentsch's Gone Fishing ...
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3 Seasons wins Canadian competition at Whistler
Jim Donovan's 3 Seasons won the C$15,000 Borsos Competition for Best New Canadian Feature as the 8th annual Whistler Film Festival wrapped over the weekend. Marie-Helene Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu's Before Tomorrow, was given special mention by jury president Donald Sutherland and his fellow jurors, filmmakers Sturla Gunnarsson and ...
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PPI's Madagascar 2 scores sensational $50.2m international weekend
Madagascar 2 dominated the international box office this weekend with an estimated $50.2m haul through PPI from 5,129 sites in35 territories that raised the relatively early tally to $125m.The animated sequel opened top in Germany on $11m from 820 venues including previews and produced the biggest single day for any ...
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Christmases top in North America, Twilight rallies in third weekend
Warner Bros' comedy Four Christmases stayed atop the charts in its second weekend while Summit's indie phenomenon Twilight surged past Buena Vista's Bolt to claim second place in its third weekend as the top 12 releases amassed $77.5m, driving overall box office to a 6% climb on last year.Four Christmases ...
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Jonathan Demme options Michel Faber novella The Courage Consort
Director Jonathan Demme will keep working in both documentary and narrative film-making after the success of his recent return to fiction, Rachel Getting Married. Demme has optioned Michel Faber's The Courage Consort and plans to develop the screenplay in 2009.Demme is a big fan of Faber's work and says 'Robyn ...
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Nick Meyer leaves Paramount Vantage, Guy Stodel stands in
Paramount Vantage president Nick Meyer is leaving the company and executive vice president of production and acquisitions Guy Stodel will step in as the division shifts its focus to acquisitions and international productions.The shock departure comes as part of sweeping cuts across the Paramount fold announced earlier in the day ...
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Profile: Magnolia Pictures' Magnet label
Tom Quinn has always made it his business - or at least a part of his business - to bring what he describes as 'the A-team of B-films from around the world' to US audiences.One of his first buys when he became head of acquisitions for US theatrical and video ...
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Profile: Sundance Institute Arthouse Project
Everyone, of course, knows about the festival. And pretty much everyone in the independent-film world is familiar with the other long-standing programmes - from the film-makers labs to the producers conference - that Robert Redford's Sundance Institute runs alongside its annual Park City get-together.The Sundance Institute Arthouse Project is a ...
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Madagascar 2 set to land across western Europe for PPI
DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa on $78.3m opens in 13 territories through PPI this weekend and will pose the mightiest challenge to Sony Pictures Releasing International's Quantum Of Solace.Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa arrives in France, French-speaking Switzerland, Switzerland and Belgium on December 4, followed by Germany, German-speaking Switzerland and ...