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Slumdog, Striped Pyjamas win Audience Choice Awards at Chicago
Danny Boyle's UK-US adventure romance Slumdog Millionaire and Mark Herman's UK-US Holocaust tale The Boy In The Striped Pajamas were awarded the 44th Chicago International Film Festival's Audience Choice AwardsAudiences chose the winners after more than 170 films from more than 45 countries screened at the festival.The festival ran from ...
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Wysocki to receive 2008 Sundance screenwriting fellowship
Sundance Institute Feature Film Programme has announced that Jonathan Wysocki will receive the 2008 Lynn Auerbach Screenwriting Fellowship with his project All Fall Down.Wysocki developed All Fall Down in June at Sundance Institute's 2008 Screenwriters Lab. The story takes a satirical look at the post-9/11 zeitgeist and explores the fallout ...
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Rousselet launches Vendome Pictures with $115m credit facility
Longtime French producer Philippe Rousselet has formed Vendome Pictures to develop, produce and finance roughly 15 features over the next five years in the $10-40m range.Vendome is backed by a $115m revolving credit facility funded by a consortium of banks led by CIT and RBS Greenwich Capital, a mezzanine facility ...
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Cinemavault takes on sales for Where God Left His Shoes
Toronto-based Cinemavault has picked up from Paul Allen's Vulcan Productions the drama Where God Left His Shoes starring John Leguizamo.Salvatore Stabile directed the take of a down-and-out boxer who takes his young son on a journey around New York City to look for a home on Christmas Eve.The film premiered ...
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Shoreline takes on worldwide rights to Tom Cool
Morris Ruskin's Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights ahead of AFM to director Ron Carlson's comedy Tom Cool.Mila Kunis, Clifton Collins Jr, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Michael Rapaport, Jason Mewes and Tony Todd star in the story of a young man who lands his dream job as a driver for an escort ...
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Summit International takes on Tornatore's $30m Baaria
Summit International has boarded worldwide rights excluding Italy ahead of AFM to Giuseppe Tornatore's $30m epic Italian drama Baaria.Italy's Medusa Film and Tarak Ben Ammar's France-based Quinta Communications produced the story and Quinta had previously handled sales.Medusa holds Italian rights to the Sicilian-set comdy spanning three generations from the 1930s ...
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SPRI looking for big numbers from Quantum in three territories
Bond is back. Sony Pictures Releasing International unleashes Quantum Of Solace in its first three territories this weekend in what is expected to be a boisterous launch for the fresh 007 adventure.The follow-up to the hugely successful 2006 release Casino Royale sees Daniel Craig reprise his role as the British ...
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Peace Arch picks up three for international sales
Peace Arch Entertainment Group has picked up international rights to the dark comedy Nobel Son, the drama Explicit iLLS and the thriller Two: Thirteen.The company will showcase all three films at the AFM along with Goal 3: Taking On The World, the final episode in the Goal football trilogy.Nobel Son ...
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Reiko Bradley moves to head Seven Arts International
Heading into the AFM, Reiko Bradley has been named president of Seven Arts International.Bradley will oversee all aspects of Seven Arts Pictures' burgeoning international sales and distribution operations as well as domestic distribution and the marketing of all Seven Arts titles. She will also play a key role in evaluating ...
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Profile: Donald De Line
When former studio chief Donald De Line left the executive suite to become a producer, he decided to get his hands dirty rather than produce from afar. 'There are producers who sit in an office and producers who like to be on set, in the midst of the action,' De ...
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The Hurt Locker kicks off 23rd Mar del Plata Film Festival
The 23rd Mar del Plata Film Festival, which takes place in Mar del Plata, Argentina from Nov. 6-16, has announced that the festival will open with Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq bomb squad movie The Hurt Locker with Bigelow and writer Mark Boal in attendance.Latin America's only FIAPF classified A-level festival will ...
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Metrodome acquires UK and Ireland on 50 Dead Men Walking
Metrodome Distribution has acquired an all rights deal for the UK and Ireland from HandMade Films International to Kari Skogland's Fifty Dead Men Walking, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.Metrodome's Peter Urie struck the deal with HandMade's Guy Collins following robust interest from buyers after the ...
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Ackerman named COO at LA media and research firm Interpret
Aric Ackerman has been appointed COO at Los Angeles-based media and technology research firm Interpret LLC.Ackerman will oversee business development, finance, legal and operations for the company, which helps major entertainment and video game clients devise and assesse their media strategies.Ackerman reports to CEO Michael Dowling and will also be ...
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Telefilm Canada launches production funding for French outside Quebec
Public film financier Telefilm Canada is setting up an investment program for French-language filmmakers who work outside of the province of Quebec. The agency's new Official Languages Activities Program (OLA) will have a total of $1.88m (C$2.3m) to devote to the initiative. While more than 80 per cent of French-speaking ...
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New York's South Asian Film Festival gives The Pool top honours
Chris Smith's The Pool was named best narrative feature and ChristyGarland and Susan Armstrong's Doormat took documentary honours as the2008 fifth annual South Asian Film Festival (SAIFF) came to a close onOctober 25.Dipti Gogna's Narmeen won best short film prize as nearly 200 attendees packed the gala ceremony event at ...
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Lake Tahoe finds a US distribution home with Film Movement
Film Movement has acquired domestic rights to Fernando Eimbcke's Mexican drama Lake Tahoe, winner of the FIPRESCI Award and the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 2008 Berlinale.The film follows the antics of a teenager who escapes from his miserable home life only for his car to break down, leading to ...
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Sam Mendes attached to direct Columbia's Preacher
Columbia Pictures has attached Sam Mendes to direct a feature adaptation of the graphic novel Preacher that Neal Moritz will produce through Original Films banner alongside Kickstart Productions' Jason Netter.This will be Mendes' second graphic novel project after Road To Perdition, although the property's supernatural tone marks a dramatic direction ...
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Goldcrest Independent boards Marceau-Lambert drama Percussions
Goldcrest Independent has acquired international rights to Thelma Films and Cine Nomine's upcoming French romance Percussions starring real-life couple Sophie Marceau and Christophe Lambert.Executive president of sales Pierre Weisbein will introduce the project to buyers at AFM following a seven-week shoot in the Colombia city of Cartagena.Currently in post-production in ...
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Bleiberg to self-distribute Adam for Oscar qualifying run
Bleiberg Entertainment will self-distribute the Holocaust drama Adam Resurrected in New York and Los Angeles for an Academy Awards qualifying run in December.Adam Resurrected premiered at Telluride and Toronto recently and will screen at the AFI FEST 2008 on November 8 and 9.Jeff Goldblum stars as a survivor who ends ...
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Regent Releasing picks up worldwide rights to Blue Tooth Virgin
Regent Releasing has swooped on worldwide distribution rights to US comedy The Blue Tooth Virgin written and directed by Russell Brown.Regent plans a limited release in early 2009 following the film's world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival last summer, where it won the special jury award.The story charts ...