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Lance Still joins TWC as evp of promotions and integrated marketing
Lance Still has arrived from New Line as executive vice president of promotions and integrated marketing for The Weinstein Company (TWC).Still will oversee global promotions, branded entertainment, consumer products, licensing, product integrations, corporate sponsorship and strategic alliances for TWC and Dimension Films.Still will be based in Los Angeles and reports ...
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here! buys North American rights to Sarif's I Can't Think Straight
here! Films has acquired North American rights to author and film-maker Shamim Sarif's lesbian romance I Can't Think Straight.Sister company Regent Releasing will distribute Sarif's The World Unseen on November 7 in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto followed by I Can't Think Straight on November 21 in the same ...
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Jim Sherry moves in at Maple Pictures as co-president
Jim Sherry, the former managing director of Alliance Atlantis' Motion Picture Distribution (AAC MDP), is joining Toronto-based distributor Maple Pictures as co-president.Sherry will share the presidency with current co-president Laurie May while colleague Brad Pelman will become COO. Pelman will also head up Maple Films, a new branded distribution label. ...
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Flash Of Genius wins Alfred P Sloan prize at the Hamptons
Marc Abraham's Flash Of Genius starring Greg Kinnear as the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper has won the Hamptons International Film Festival's $25,000 Alfred P Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize.The cash prize is awarded to a feature that 'explores science and technology themes in fresh, innovative ways and depicts ...
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John Boorman to be feted at Montreal's FNC
Film director John Boorman will receive a lifetime achievement award at the upcoming Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal, October 8 to 19. The British director will present his 2006 film, The Tiger's Tail, starring Brendan Gleeson, as well as three of his best-known works, the cult classic Zardoz, Leo ...
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Franco, Hawkins to receive breakthrough acting awards at HFA
James Franco and Sally Hawkins, riding high following acclaimed performances in Pineapple Express and Happy-Go-Lucky, will receive the breakthrough acting awards at the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards gala on October 27.Doubt director John Patrick Shanley and Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will each collect breakthrough honours for ...
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Imagi raises $30m in financing to develop four CG-animated films
Imagi International Holdings announce today [Sept 16] that it has raised $30m in financing through two separate subscription agreements.Both agreements are expected to be completed later this month subject to regulatory procedures. The proceeds of the two transactions will be used to develop four CGI animated features including Astro Boy ...
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Star India, STAR DEN Media Services to carry MGM Channel in India
MGM is extending its cable channel reach into India after signing a deal that will see News Corp's Star India and DEN Digital Entertainment's STAR DEN Media Services carry the MGM Channel in the world's third largest cable market.The MGM Channel is currently available in India through satellite group Dish ...
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Everlasting Momentsis Swedish pick forBest Foreign-Language Oscar
Swedish director Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) has been entered as Sweden's candidate forthe best foreign-language filmOscar. Click here to see Screen review.The film stars Finnish-Swedish actress Maria Heiskanan, with Sweden's Mikael Persbrandt and Denmark's Jesper Christensen.Everlasting Moments is a Danish-Swedish co-production, realised by Thomas Stenderup, of ...
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Baader Meinhof Complex is German entry for foreign language Oscar
Germany has announced its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar as Uli Edel's The Baader Meinhof Complex.The film chronicles the Red Army Faction terrorist group, which terrorised Germany in the 1970s. Itstars Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck and Johanna Wokalek.The filmhad its world premiere in Munich this week and ...
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Sony Classics buys Toronto doc favourite Every Little Step
Sony Pictures Classics has beaten out other bidders and picked up North American and Australian rights to Every Little Step hot on the heels of the documentary's world premiere at Toronto. Click here to see review.Endgame Entertainment served as majority financier and produced the project, which traces performers as they ...
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Dark Sky strikes alliance with Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix
Dark Sky Films has struck an alliance with Larry Fessenden's New York-based production company Glass Eye Pix, whose drama Wendy And Lucy starring Michelle Williams played at Toronto last week.The partners will make films that Fessenden described as 'little bit pulpy, a little bit high-brow' and kick off with the ...
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San Francisco Film Society launches $25,000 doc award
The San Francisco Film Society has launched a new $25,000 Golden Gate Award for investigative documentaries to be presented at the Film Society's San Francisco International Film Festival next spring.Society top brass will also introduce an annual week-long theatrical run of a leading non-fiction film beginning this autumn with Secrecy ...
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Rockwell, Roberts to star in The Winning Season for Gigi, Plum
New York-based Gigi Productions and Plum Pictures have attached Sam Rockwell, Emma Roberts and Rob Corddry to star in the comedy The Winning Season, set to begin shooting in October in the New York region.James Strouse will direct The Winning Season from his original screenplay about a washed-up divorcee basketball ...
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Hanks to receive gala tribute at Film Society Of Lincoln Center
Tom Hanks is next in line to receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center's gala tribute and will be guest of honour at a special event on April 27, 2009.Hanks becomes the 36th recipient and follows in the footsteps of Jane Fonda, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Shirley Maclaine, Federico Fellini, ...
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Focus, Coens have career best openings with Burn After Reading
Fuelled by high profile world and North American premieres at Venice and Toronto, Focus Features scored its first number one launch and the Coen Brothers enjoyed the best debut of their careers as Burn After Reading opened top of the charts on an estimated $19.4m.The all-star ensemble dark spy comedy ...
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Mamma Mia! leads international with $17.5m weekend for UPI
Universal films ruled the roost at the weekend led by an estimated $17.5m haul for Mamma Mia! from 4,296 sites in 44 territories through UPI that took the musical adaptation over $300m.The film opened top in France on $2.4m and Belgium on $1m, as well as in French-speaking Switzerland on ...
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Slumdog Millionaire takes prestigious audience prize at Toronto
Click on film name's to see reviewDanny Boyle's Mumbai-set Slumdog Millionaire won the Cadillac People's Choice Award as the Toronto International Film Festival wrapped its 33rd edition on Saturday. The award comes with a cash prize of $14,000 (C$15,000).Accepting the award on behalf of Boyle, actress Freida Pinto saluted Mumbai, ...
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Mamma Mia! set to surge past $300m with France, Mexico openings
Universal UPI's smash stage adaptation Mamma Mia! is set to lead the international weekend again. The musical blockbuster has reached $288.6m and will cross $300m this weekend, driven by six launches that include France, French-speaking Switzerland and Belgium on September 10 followed by Hong Kong a day later and Mexico, ...
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IFC Films takes domestic rights on Levring's Fear Me Not
IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Kristian Levring's Danish drama Fear Me Not, which received its word premiere in Toronto's Contemporary World Cinema section last weekend.Ulrich Thomsen stars as a man whose mood begins to swing violently after he undertakes clinical trials for an anti-depressant drug.Levring wrote ...