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Bahamas Festival to close with Spike Lee's Miracle Of St Anna
Spike Lee's second world war saga Miracle At St Anna will close the fifth Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), which runs from December 4-11.'I am so pleased to be welcoming Spike Lee's wonderful film back to Nassau, Bahamas, as Miracle Of St Anna was shot on Rose Island,' festival founder ...
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Jay Fukuto named head of studio at Film Roman
Jay Fukuto has been promoted to head of studio at animation creators Film Roman and will oversee the company's animation production operations for features, home entertainment, TV and visual effects.Fukuto most recently served as head of production for Film Roman and will report directly to by Kent Rice, the CEO ...
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Bregman's Likely Story to film The Amateur American with Ross Katz
Likely Story has acquired feature rights to the upcoming political thriller novel The Amateur American and set Ross Katz to adapt the screenplay and direct.New York-based Likely Story and the production company's founder Anthony Bregman will produce the story based on J Saunders Elmore's novel about a young American in ...
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Mickey Rourke gets American Riviera Award at Santa Barbara
Mickey Rourke, receiving rave reviews for his performance as a washed-up fighter in The Wrestler, will receive the 24th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival's American Riviera Award on January 30.Rourke will join a pantheon of previous recipients that includes Tommy Lee Jones, Forrest Whitaker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Bacon ...
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Cinetic's CRM launches online venture with Amazon, CreateSpace
Cinetic Rights Management (CRM) has launched an online distribution venture with Amazon Video On Demand and CreateSpace DVD On Demand.Select titles will be made available to consumers exclusively as CRM and Amazon Video On Demand will curate a slate of approximately 20 films each month.The venture launched on November 13 ...
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Ron Howard to receive lifetime achievement award at Palm Springs
Ron Howard will receive the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Director's Lifetime Achievement Award on Jaunary 6.Howard's latest film Frost/Nixon will open through Universal on December 5 and follows a long line of credits that includes A Beautiful Mind, which earned him the Oscar in 2001, The ...
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NewsBusiness review: American Film Market
Film buyers are not easily impressed. They like to bemoan the lack of inspiring new product at markets. Their plaintive cries have been particularly loud this year and to be fair the familiar gripes that echoed through the corridors of the Loews and Le Merigot hotels at last week’s AFM ...
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Hollywood power names line up for first PGA conference next June
James Cameron, Clint Eastwood, Rob Lorenz, Lucy Fisher, Doug Wick, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Gale Anne Hurd will take part in the Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) first annual Produced By Conference in Los Angeles next summer.Kathleen Kennedy, Mark Gordon, Marshall Herskovitz, Chuck Lorre and the producing teams from ...
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Hollywood power names line up for first PGA conference next June
James Cameron, Clint Eastwood, Rob Lorenz, Lucy Fisher, Doug Wick, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Gale Anne Hurd will take part in the Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) first annual Produced By Conference in Los Angeles next summer.Kathleen Kennedy, Mark Gordon, Marshall Herskovitz, Chuck Lorre and the producing teams from ...
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Richie Mehta's Amal wins best film at MIAAC Film Festival
Richie Mehta's Amal won the Indira Mahindra Award for best film and a $5,000 cash prize as the eighth Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival in New York came to a close.The premiere of Sooni Taraporevala's Little Zizou played on the night and also earned Taraporevala the best screenplay ...
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Gary Hill, co-founder of PR firm Falco Ink, dies after illness
Gary Hill, a founding partner in New York PR consultancy Falco Ink, died on November 7 following a brief stay in hospital.Hill's career in the entertainment industry spanned 25 years. He started out as the assistant to Brian DePalma, working on such films as Scarface, Blow Out and Dressed To ...
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Timbaland enters film business with Duly Noted's Vinyl
Rapper and music producer Timbaland is getting into the film business as his Mosley Media Group and production company Duly Noted Inc announced last night [Nov 12] that production will begin in spring on Richard Zelniker's Vinyl.Duly Noted's Effie T Brown and Mosley's Marcus Spence and Monique Idlett-Mosley will produce ...
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SPWAG confirms multi-territory acquisition of The Book Of Eli
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has unveiled further territories in its multi-territory acquisition at AFM of the apocalyptic thriller The Book Of Eli.Screendaily reported last weekend [Nov 9] that the studio had acquired Australia, Latin America, Spain, Scandinavia and select territories in Eastern Europe from Summit International.A press release ...
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Peter Block's A Bigger Boat kicks off with thriller Frozen
Peter Block's A Bigger Boat has greenlit the thriller Frozen that Adam Green will commence shooting early next year based on his screenplay.A Bigger Boat will produce with Green's ArieScope Pictures and has already closed key pre-sales at AFM through sales partner GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI).Rights have gone to Momentum ...
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UPIE acquires majority stake in Dentsu's DVD outfit Geneon
Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) is acquiring a majority stake in Japanese media conglomerate Dentsu's DVD company Geneon to create a home entertainment marketing and distribution entity in Japan.The transaction is expected to be completed by early 2009. Under the terms of the agreement, Geneon will merge with UPIE subsidiary ...
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Warner's Richard Fox to receive honour from Italian government
Warner Bros' executive vice president of international Richard Fox will receive the honorary title Commander Of The Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic at a ceremony in Rome on November 17.Fox will receive the honour from Gianni Letta, Undersecretary Of State for the Prime Minister, during an event at ...
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Epic sells Blood River to Germany, Russia, Brazil and Argentina
Epic Pictures has closed key sales at AFM on Leonidas Films' horror tale Blood River from director Adam Mason.Rights have gone to MIG Film for Germany, Vox for Russia, Five Stars for Brazil and Argentina, Spentzos Films for Greece and Carisma Films for Poland.Further deals closed with Ster-Kinekor for South ...
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Arthouse picks up worldwide rights to Cajori's Chuck Close
Arthouse Films has picked up worldwide rights to the late Marion Cajori's documentary Chuck Close and will release in early 2009.Arthouse will distribute through its output deals with Mongrel Media in Canada, Revolver Entertainment in the UK and Ireland, Madman Entertainment in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and on ...
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here! takes on domestic rights to Lemhagen's Patrik, Age 1.5
here! Films has acquired North American rights from Svensk Filmindustri to Swedish director Ella Lemhagen's Patrik, Age 1.5.here! sister company Regent Releasing plans a limited release next summer on the adaptation of Michael Druker's stage play about a gay married couple who accidentally adopts a homophobic teenager.Patrik, Age 1.5 premiered ...
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Paris Hilton, Charlotte Rampling join cast of new Solondz picture
Charlotte Rampling, Allison Janney, Ciaran Hinds and Paris Hilton have joined the cast of Werc Werk Works' upcoming Todd Solondz companion piece to his dark comedy Happiness.The 'part-sequel, par variation' to the 1998 release will also star Shirley Henderson, Renee Taylor, Michael Lerner, Michael Kenneth Williams, Chane't Johnson, Paul Reubens, ...