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Film Movement takes domestic rights to The Country Teacher
Film Movement has picked up North American rights to Bohdan Slama's Czech drama The Country Teacher and will release in 2009.The film follows a gay teacher whose jealous ex-boyfriend causes trouble when he arrives in town. Pavel Liksa and Zuzana Bydzovska star.Film Movement president Adley Gartenstein negotiated the deal with ...
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Regent Releasing picks up Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata
Regent Releasing has acquired North American rights to Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner Tokyo Sonata, which received its North American premiere at Toronto recently.Tokyo Sonata will get its New York premiere at the 46th New York Film Festival along with Regent's other Toronto pick-up from Fortissimo, Serbis.Teruyuki ...
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Sean Penn to receive BAFTA/LA's Stanley Kubrick Award
Sean Penn will receive BAFTA/LA's most prestigious honour when he collects the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award For Excellence In Film at the 2008 BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards on November 6 in Los Angeles.Penn won the lead actor Oscar for Mystic River and is expected to figure in this season's awards race ...
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US independent Liberation signs video deal with RYKO
LA-based independent Liberation Entertainment has signed a deal with RYKO Distribution for exclusive rights to all Liberation video releases in the US beginning October 1.The agreement covers all catalogue titles as well as new releases. Upcoming titles include Eden, TOKYO! and Just Buried.'We view this new partnership as a perfect ...
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Slamdance to offer features two hours after festival premieres
Organisers at the 15th Slamdance Film Festival have signed a deal with online distributor Indieroad.net to stream features two hours after their theatrical premiere at the festival.Viewers will be charged $9 per stream with one-third of profits going back to the film-maker. Each selection will be available in two bandwidths ...
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Elliott Associates increases minority stake in Relativity Media
New York based private investment firm Elliott Associates has increased its minority stake in Relativity Media in the second major financing story of the day following Media Rights Capital's deal for a $350m revolving credit facility.Elliott decided to increase its investment on the heels of a profitable summer for the ...
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Hamptons teams with EFP to present three Shooting Stars
The Hamptons International Film Festival has partnered with European Film Promotion to showcase talent from the European Shooting Stars programme, marking the first time the talent campus will come to the US.The festival runs from October 15-19 and will present three stars from the Shooting Stars programme, now in its ...
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Summit sets Oct 23, 2009, as Astro Boy release date
Summit Entertainment will release Imagi Studios' animated feature Astro Boy in North America on October 23, 2009, on more than 3,000 screens.Summit and Imagi are putting together the final details on a marketing plan targeting family and adult audiences. The marketing strategy includes a commitment from a major fast food ...
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Media Rights Capital scores $350m revolving credit facility
Media Rights Capital (MRC) co-CEOs Asif Satchu and Modi Wiczyk announced today [September 22] a three-year $350m revolving credit facility for the company's feature, television and digital content business.The arrangement, which comes in the midst of one of the most severe systemic collapses in US financial history, was provided by ...
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HBO's Sheila Nevins will receive Gotham Award Tribute
HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins will be the subject of a Gotham Award Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards on December 2 in New York.'Sheila has unquestionably been one of the most influential forces in documentary film-making,' IFP executive director Michelle Byrd said. 'She is almost single-handedly responsible ...
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UK effects studio Framestore looks to outside investment
Framestore, the Oscar-winning provider of visual effects, animation and computer generated imagery announced that it plans to consider interest in the company from potential new investors.The company hopes to aid the growth of its business and has instructed Hawkpoint Partners to investigate options, including the introduction of an external investor.William ...
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UPI leads international weekend with Mamma Mia!, Wanted
Mamma Mia! extended its international supremacy courtesy of another solid weekend as Universal's stage musical adaptation reaped a further $14m from 4,359 sites in 48 territories to raise the running total to $334m.The latest estimate combines with the $141m North American tally for a $475m worldwide running total. The film's ...
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Lakeview Terrace tops North American box office with $15.6m
Focus Features' Burn After Reading remained in contention in its second weekend despite slipping to second place behind Sony's thriller Lakeview Terrace, which stars Samuel Jackson as a menacing police officer and launched on an estimated $15.6m.However it is Burn After Reading that will capture the lion's share of attention ...
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Cage, Sena on board for Relativity, Roven's medieval epic
Nicolas Cage will reunite with his Gone In 60 Seconds director Dominic Sena for Relativity Media and Atlas Entertainment's supernatural thriller Season Of The Witch.Production is scheduled to start in Austria and Hungary in early November on the story of 14th century knights who transport a girl suspected of being ...
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DreamWorks closes investment deal with India's Reliance
The long-in-the-works deal between DreamWorks and Mumbai-based media conglomerate Reliance closed today [September 19], paving the way for Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Stacey Snider to leave the Paramount fold following a difficult relationship.Paramount waived any requirement for DreamWorks executives and staff to stay at its Melrose Avenue headquarters in ...
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Burleigh 'Bo' Smith named executive director of Denver Film Society
Burleigh Smith has been named executive director at the Denver Film Society (DFS), ending a six-month search to replace DFS co-founder Ron Henderson.Smith will take the reins on October 14. He has served the last 21 years as the head of film/video and concerts for the Museum of Fine Arts, ...
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Erin Corbett promoted to president of Imagi Studios US
Erin Corbett has been promoted to president of Imagi Studios US; she will continue to report to Imagi Studios CEO Douglas Glen.The pair will oversee development and distribution of the CG-animated theatrical slate led by Astro Boy, which features the voices of Nicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane, Bill Nighy, ...
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Norway names O'Horten as Foreign-Language Oscar submission
Norwegian director Bent Hamer's O'Horten will fly the Norwegian colours for the Oscar nominations as Best Foreign-Language feature, it was announced today (Sept 18) by the Norwegian Film Institute.The film was also scripted and produced by Hamer, for his own BulBul Film and was co-produced with Scanboxfilm, Pandora Film, and ...
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Oscilloscope buys North American rights to Dear Zachary
Oscilloscope Pictures has taken North American rights to Kurt Kuenne's Slamdance and SXSW documentary Dear Zachary.The New York-based company will release Dear Zachary in theatres in partnership with the newly formed MSNBC Films on October 31 in New York, marking MSNBC Films' first release.Dear Zachary is Kuenne's attempt to investigate ...
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IFP gives $130,000 in cash and in-kind awards to emerging talent
IFP presented $130,000 in cash and in-kind awards in support of emerging talent at the group's annual annual Independent Filmmaker Awards yesterday [September 18].In the juried awards, IFP presented the inaugural $50,000 Independent Filmmaker Lab Finishing Grant to Joseph Cashiola for his debut drama A Thing As Big As The ...