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Toronto unveils rest of line-up for a total of 249 features
World premieres from Paul Schrader, Neil Burger, Rod Lurie and Anne Fontaine were among the titles unveiled as the Toronto International Film Festival released the balance of its 2008 line-up.Screening in the Masters programme, Schrader's Adam Resurrected stars Jeff Goldblum in an adaptation of Israeli writer Youram Kaniuk's story of ...
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MercuryMedia on board for Dominick Dunne: After The Party
MercuryMedia has taken on worldwide distribution rights (excluding Australia) to Kirsty de Garis and Timothy Jolley's feature documentary Dominick Dunne: After The Party.The 84-minute feature recently premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival.Jolley and de Garis made the film through their own Australia-based company Road Trip. Executive producers are Sue ...
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Watchmen rights spur legal debate between Warner/PPI and Fox
The fate of Warner Bros/Paramount Pictures International's scheduled spring 2009 release of Watchmen hangs in the balance after it emerged yesterday that Twentieth Century Fox may still hold distribution rights to the graphic novel adaptation.On Friday a US federal judge threw out a motion by Warner Bros to dismiss a ...
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Virtual studio Indiepix invests in first five documentaries
IndiePix Studios, the virtual studio and IndiePix production arm that launched in June, has unveiled the five films on its inaugural slate.IndiePix has invested more than $700,000 in the projects and will serve as executive producers on every title. IndiePix Studios chief Ryan Harrington said he planned to release the ...
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Virtual studio Indiepix invests in first five productions
IndiePix Studios, the virtual studio and IndiePix production arm that launched in June, has unveiled the five films on its inaugural slate.IndiePix has invested more than $700,000 in the projects and will serve as executive producers on every title. IndiePix Studios chief Ryan Harrington said he planned to release the ...
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Rena Ronson wins WIF Business Leadership Award
William Morris Independent co-head and William Morris Agency senior vice president Rena Ronson will receive Women In Film's (WIF) Business Leadership Award later this year.Ronson will receive the honour along with Lifetime Television Network consultant Susanne Daniels at the Business in Leadership Awards on November 1 in Century City.The second ...
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Nome Proprio, Cochochiwin atBrazil's Gramado festival
Murilo Salles' Nome Proprio, the story of an intense young woman who dedicates her life to writing, won the award for best Brazilian film at the 36th Gramado film festival.Held in a small town in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, the festival highlights Brazilian, Latin American and ...
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Former THINKFilm executive launches Variance Films
Former THINKFilm director of distribution and marketing Dylan Marchetti has launched Variance Films and will kick off with the domestic releases of Walking On Dead Fish and Smother.Variance will target small films that typically struggle to get into theatres in an increasingly overcrowded market place and Marchetti plans to be ...
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Tropic Thunder wins at domestic box office with $26m weekend
DreamWorks-Paramount's Tropic Thunder 'got some' at the weekend, to paraphrase the marketing slogan deployed on posters across the US, as the action comedy outgunned The Dark Knight to open top on an estimated $26m over three days.The story of a catastrophic film shoot in the South-East Asian jungle launched on ...
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The Dark Knight reconquers international with $42.4m weekend
The Dark Knight wrestled the overseas crown from The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor as it soared past $300m thanks to an estimated $42.4m weekend haul that raised the tally to $328.6m.Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) chiefs said the Batman epicwas active on more than 7,700 screens in 60 ...
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Alcon acquires film rights to graphic novel Cryptozoo Crew
Warner Bros-based Alcon Entertainment has acquired rights to Jerry Carr and Allan Gross' graphic novel Cryptozoo Crew and the script adaptation from Joe Gazzam.Cryptozoo centres on a member of a secret organisation charged with protecting the identity of rare animals classified as cryptids who teams up with a beautiful doctor ...
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Davis, Harris, Fox attached to star in The Cellar
London and Los Angeles-based Cool Hand International has optioned the psychological horror script The Cellar from writer-director John Gary and has attached Lucy Davis, Jared Harris and Emilia Fox to star.Brian Cox is also confirmed for a cameo role in the tale of a group of wedding guests who get ...
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Popular LA journalist Yani Begakis dies at 81
Yani Begakis, a veteran LA-based film journalist and longtime member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), has died in Los Angeles at the age of 81.An enormously popular and well-respected man, Begakis was a fixture in Hollywood with a deep love - and intensive knowledge - of movies as ...
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Isabelle Huppert to be honoured at Montreal Film Festival
French actress Isabelle Huppert will be presented with a career achievement award at the upcoming Montreal World Film Festival. The MWFF, which runs August 21 to September 1, will screen five of her performances, including her latest, Ursula Meier's Home. The other titles are Violette Noziere (1978), Madame Bovary (1990) ...
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Danny Huston, Novakovic, Roberts join Edge Of Darkness
Danny Huston, newcomer Bojana Novakovic and Shawn Roberts have joined Mel Gibson and Robert De Niro in GK Films' thriller Edge Of Darkness, which is due to begin filming in Massachusetts later this month.Based on the BBC mini-series of the same name, Edge Of Darkness will be directed by Martin ...
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars launches in 22 international territories to chase Knight, Mummy
The Dark Knight will soar past $300m this weekend as it bids to reclaim the overseas crown from The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor - however the force may be with an entirely new release. Warner Bros Pictures International's crime epic The Dark Knight stands at $285.9m and ...
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Warner Bros pushes back Harry Potter 6 to July 2009
In a move that highlights the crucial strategic role played by global day-and-date releases, Warner Bros has pushed back Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince from November 21 to July 17 2009.The sixth episode in the studio's highly successful children's fantasy franchise will now open day-and-date domestically and in the ...
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Canadian festivals - Telefilm plays the Canada card
In July, Telefilm Canada introduced a new regime for its festival funding. In essence, eligible Canadian film festivals will be required to increase the number of Canadian films they screen in order to qualify for funding.The issue came up at the opening press conference of Montreal's World Film Festival (Wff). ...