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Sundance Documentary Film Program banks on 20 projects
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program has announced the 20 projects awarded financial and creative support from the Sundance Documentary Fund.Nearly 800 film-makers working in more than 70 countries submitted projects in what amounted to twice as many entries as there were last year.The grant recipients include six first-time feature ...
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CP Global signs first-look deak with Japan's Formula Entertainment
CP Global, the parent company of Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters' Cerenzie-Peters Productions, has signed a first-look deal with Japan's Formula Entertainment.CP Global and Formula chief Daisuke 'Dais' Miyachi and CP are preparing to adapt John Woo's 1986 crime drama A Better Tomorrow and are in talks on developing two ...
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Canada's Sook-Yin Lee starts shoot of Year Of The Carnivore
Canadian actress Sook-Yin Lee has begun principal photography on her directorial debut Year Of The Carnivore. The film, which is shooting outside of Vancouver, is co-produced by Vancouver-based Screen Siren Pictures and Toronto-based The Film Farm, producers of Atom Egoyan's Adoration. Screen Siren's Trish Dolman is producer with Kryssta Mills ...
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Paul Gross in the saddle for William Phillips' Gunless
Fresh from the success of his WWI epic Passchendaele, Canadian actor Paul Gross has signed for the lead in writer-director William Phillips' Gunless, a fish-out-of-water tale of a US gunslinger in the distinctly unwild Canadian West. The project will be coproduced by Toronto's Rhombus Media and Vancouver's Brightlight Pictures. Rhombus ...
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Rich Raddon resigns as director of LA Film Festival
Rich Raddon has resigned his post as director of the Los Angeles Film Festival in the wake of his much publicised $1,500 donation to the Yes On 8 campaign in support of the ban on same-sex marriages in California.Raddon, a devout Mormon who has served as director since 2000, issued ...
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Alan Zhang opens US offices in LA for his Red Maiden Entertainment
Alan Zhang, the film-maker and CEO and founder of Beijing-based Red Maiden Entertainment, has opened the company's Los Angeles offices in Beverly Hills.The move coincides with the theatrical release in China of Zhang's directorial debut Waiting In Beijing, a romance that will open in the US on December 12 through ...
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Lea Pool begins shooting Une Belle Mort in Luxembourg
Swiss-Canadian filmmaker Lea Pool has begun principal photography on Une Belle Mort for Montreal-based Equinoxe Pictures and Luxembourg's Iris Productions. At a budget of $4.3m (C$5.4m), it is the first-ever official Canada-Luxembourg coproduction.The screenplay is co-written by Pool and Quebecois novelist Gil Courtemanche, based on his 2005 novel of the ...
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du Toit named director of programming at Palm Springs
Helen du Toit will serve as director of programming at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF), set to run from January 8-19.Du Toit recently served as co-director with Carl Spence, who has segued into the role of lead programmer.She served in the festival's programming department in 1991 for ...
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Twilight's international numbers bigger than first thought
Twilight grossed $9.6m from 1,275 venues in five international territories in a significant rise from initial estimates released by Summit International over the weekend.The vampire romance stormed to number one in Italy in the sixth biggest launch of the year on $5.8m from 601 prints and topped the charts in ...
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Tribeca Film Festival Doha to be launched November 2009
Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) and New York's Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) are to launch a new international film festival, Tribeca Film Festival Doha. The first festival will take place November 10 - 14, 2009 and be presented at Doha's Museum of Islamic Art and in cinemas across Doha.The announcement was ...
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Italian distribution of Oliver Stone's W. secured by Dall'Angelo Pictures
W., Oliver Stone's biopic of outgoing US president George W. Bush has been picked up by independent Italian distributor Dall'Angelo Pictures. The deal was agreed immediately following the film's Italian premiere on opening night of the 26th Turin Film Festival.It was brokered between QED International's executive vice-president of international distribution, ...
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SAG call for strike authorisation even as economic crisis deepens
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) said on Saturday [Nov 22] that it will ask its 120,000 membership to authorise a strike after negotiations with the studios collapsed despite the assistance of a federal mediator.The vote would take more than a month and require more than 75% approval to pass. The ...
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Quantum leads international pack, but Twilight draws blood in four markets
Sony Pictures Releasing International's Quantum Of Solace remained the number one overseas title as an estimated $40.6m from 10,400 screens in 72 markets raised the running total to $309m.Combined with the $109m running total in North America the James Bond saga stands at $418m worldwide. Key international drivers were number ...
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Summit exceeds expectations with $70.6m opening for Twilight
Summit Entertainment's Twilight exceeded grand expectations to deliver the biggest pound-for-pound launch of the year with an estimated $70.6m three-day debut that will instill confidence in an independent sector rattled by the financial crisis and the renewed prospect of an actors strike.Tween power turned out en masse for Catherine Hardwicke's ...
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Weinstein Company lays off 24 employees, 11% of workforce
The Weinstein Company has become the latest prominent Hollywood business to cut staff in the economic crisis, laying off 24 employees or approximately 11% of the workforce.Sources did not name individuals or specify which departments have been hit, although it is understood the redundancies affect all departments and go across ...
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Summit greenlights New Moon after spectacular Twilight opening
Buoyed by spectacular opening day results for Twilight, Summit Entertainment has taken the widely anticipated step of greenlighting the sequel New Moon. The vampire romance is estimated to have grossed $35.7m on Friday, an astonishing amount driven by record pre-sales. Approximately $7m of that amount comes from Thursday midnight screenings. ...
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LA-based Producer's Utopia launched as new production tool
Los Angeles-based producer Andria Litto is one of the partnerslaunching Producer's Utopia, a new technology platform for the filmindustry.The secure Web-based programme (www.producersutopia.com) is used for storing and sharing documents related to film development and production, including scripts, contracts, budgets, call sheets, correspondence, deal memos, budgets, schedules and distribution agreements. ...
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Danish dark comedy Terribly Happy to get English-language remake
Stillking Films and Fine & Mellow are planning an English-language remake of the Danish film Terribly Happy, with Henrik Ruben Genz remaining in the director's chair.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com from his Prague office, Stillking managing director Matthew Stillman said the film would be a scene-by-scene remake of the original, which won ...
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Summit's Twilight arises in Russia, Italy, Mexico, Sweden
Quantum Of Solace should cross $300m this weekend after racing to $267.4m through Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI).The latest James Bond saga opens in Australia on November 19 followed by Spain on November 21 and is expected to deliver strong holds in all its territories. Casino Royale amassed more than ...
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Image Entertainment merges with Nyx Acquisitions in $100m deal
Nyx Acquisitions and Image Entertainment have merged in a $100m deal whereby Image stockholders will receive $2.75 per share in cash.The parties said the acquisition price represented a 299% premium to Image's closing share price of $0.69 on November 20 and a 267% premium to the 30-day average closing price ...