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Jeff Skoll to win Visionary Award at annual PGA Awards
Jeff Skoll will receive the Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) 2009 Visionary Award at the 20th Annual PGA Awards on January 24 in Hollywood.Skoll is a philanthropist and the chairman and founder of Participant Media, which financed such films as The Visitor, Charlie Wilson's War, The Kite Runner, Darfur Now, ...
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Overture signs two-year, first-look deal with Cheadle's Crescendo
Overture Films has signed a two-year first look deal with Crescendo Productions headed by Don Cheadle, Lenore Zerman and Kay Liberman.The arrangement gives Overture access to film product from Crescendo. Cheadle starred in the terrorism thriller Traitor that Overture released in August and went on to gross more than $23m.This ...
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HDNet's Mark Cuban charged by SEC with insider trading
The Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged HDNet founder Mark Cuban with insider trading.The SEC alleges that the flamboyant billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team sold 60,000 shares of internet search engine Mamma.com after he received confidential information about an imminent stock offering.According to the official ...
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Morris, Marsh, Herzog down to shortlist for documentary Oscar
The Academy has unveiled the shortlist of 15 documentaries that will advance to the next stage in 81st Academy Awards.The 15 films are:At the Death House DoorThe Betrayal (Nerakhoon)Blessed Is The Match: The Life And Death Of Hannah SeneshEncounters At The End Of The WorldFuelThe GardenGlass: A Portrait Of Philip ...
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SPHE launches International Product Expansion Group
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has launched the International Product Expansion Group to coordinate the production and acquisition of overseas titles for global distribution by SPHE. Based in Culver City, Los Angeles, the group is headed by newly appointed International Product Expansion vice president Tony Ishizuka.As well as broad operational ...
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Maya backs Robinson brothers thriller Preparation For A Murder
Vertically integrated entertainment company Maya Entertainment has boarded the thriller Preparation For A Murder written and to be directed by Jonathan and R M Robinson.The Robinson brothers make their feature directorial debut on the story of two young men who embark on a hit without realising the repercussions that will ...
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LongTale International sells Milarepa to Axess TV in Sweden
Los Angeles-based LongTale International has licensed Neten Chokling's Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint to Sweden's Axess TV.The exclusive free and pay cable and broadcast rights deal closed at AFM.The Tibetan-language revenge and redemption saga tells of Milarepa, Tibet's greatest spiritual warrior.
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Myriad sells Dino Mom to Gussi, Imagem among others at AFM
Kirk D'Amico's Myriad Pictures' closed key territories on the 3D English-language animated feature Dino Mom at AFM.Myriad holds worldwide rights to the film, currently in production in South Korea, about three children who travel back in time 65 million years.This is the first English-language 3D animated feature to come out ...
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Zvyagintsev's The Banishment wins best film at Lone Star
Andrei Zvyagintsev's The Banishment was named best foreign language film as the Lone Star International Film Festival in Fort Worth, Texas, wrapped at the weekend.Igor Volshin's Nirvana won the grand jury prize for narrative feature competition and Eric Bricker's Visual Acoustics - The Modernism Of Julius Shulman took documentary honours.Clay ...
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Sony Classics takes multiple territory rights on It Might Get Loud
Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed the acquisition from The Little Film Company of Davis Guggenheim's music documentary It Might Get Loud.SPC has taken rights for North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa on the story of the evolution of the electric guitar featuring rock luminaries Jimmy Page, ...
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Dutch Filmworks reports big buys for Benelux at AFM 2008
Dutch Filmworks (DFW) reported brisk business at AFM despite the global economic crisis and acquired Benelux rights to a number of high profile titles including the Sylvester Stallone action saga The Expendables from Nu Image/Millenium.Stallone will direct The Expendables from his own screenplay about a team of mercenaries sent on ...
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LAFF director Raddon donated to campaign to ban gay marriage
Rich Raddon, the director of the Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF), has been the centre of a local firestorm in his hometown after it emerged last week that he had donated $1,500 to the campaign for Yes On 8, the statewide proposition which was narrowly passed on Nov 4, eliminating ...
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US TV network Eurocinema signs carriage deal with DISH Networks
Eurocinema, the US TV network that showcases world cinema, has signed a carriage deal with DISH Networks.'We're delighted to launch on DISH Network, which can now offer its customers access to the multitude of foreign film titles in our library,' Sebastien Perioche, chairman and CEO of Eurocinema's parent company EuroMedia ...
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The Secrets wins audience award at Israel Film Festival in NYC
Avi Nesher's closing night film The Secrets won the 23rd Israel Film Festival's audience award as the event came to a close in New York on November 13.The winners receive a $60,000 package including a full month's use of a 35mm Panavision camera package to shoot their next film in ...
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Pullman, Jenkins, Majidi among Denver Film Festival honorees
Bill Pullman will receive the 31st Starz Denver Film Festival's (SDFF) John Cassavetes Award while Richard Jenkins will be presented with the Excellence In Acting Award.SDFF, which opened on November 13 with a screening of Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom and runs until November 23, will also pay tribute to ...
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Quantum Of Solace makes 007 history with $70.4m domestic opening
Sony/MGM's Quantum Of Solace scored the best launch in James Bond franchise history at the weekend with a thunderous $70.4m that far exceeded predictions and dwarfed the competition.The result beat the previous franchise record of $47.1m set by Die Another Day in 2002 and combined with 007's continued international domination ...
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Quantum passes $250m with ease for SPRI after $56.1m weekend
Smashing its way past the competition with James Bond's trademark ruthless efficiency, Quantum Of Solace leapt past the $250m international and $300m global marks thanks to a further $56.1m overseas haul, according to estimates from Sony Pictures Releasing International.In its third consecutive weekend as the number one international title, the ...
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Japan claims top prizes at Mar Del Plata
Japanese films dominated the awards at the 23rd Mar del Plata Film Festival. Hirokazu Kore-eda received the Golden Astor prize for Still Walking, while Kiyoshi Kurosawa was named best director for Tokyo Sonata.A jury composed of actress/director Sarah Polley (Canada), director Peter Lilienthal (Germany), film-maker Pedro Olea (Spain), DoP Yu ...
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Sundance Institute names eight projects for Middle Eastern Lab
Sundance Institute has announced the eight participants in the recent fourth annual Middle East Screenwriters Lab run by the Royal Film Commission in Jordan in consultation with Sundance Institute.The five-day lab took place from October 14-19 and matched emerging film-makers with creative advisors.The projects and participants selected for the 2008 ...
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Quantum Of Solace to hit six new territories including Mexico
Quantum Of Solace will race towards $250m in international markets this weekend and should cross $300m worldwide when 007 brings the mayhem to North America.MGM/Sony's latest entry in the James Bond canon has been on devastating form since it launched two weeks ago and has amassed more than $190.1m from ...