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Preview: Montreal World Film Festival
Montreal's World Film Festival (WFF) enters its 32nd year in a state of suspended animation. Is it, as its mercurial president Serge Losique claims, a festival of discoveries' Or is it a repository for films that no-one else has selected'At the opening press conference on August 5, the line-up was ...
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TIFF adds 13 world premieres to Discovery, Vision and Vanguard
The Toronto International Film Festival added a further 13 world premieres to an already impressive line-up, as it completed the slates for the Discovery, Visions and Vanguard programmes. Among the seven Discovery world premieres announced are Brian Goodman's What Doesn't Kill You, starring Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo as Bostonian ...
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Torresblanco to present film keynote speech at Strategic Partners
Frida Torresblanco, the New York-based producing partner of Alfonso Cuaron's Esperanto Films, will present the opening keynote speech at Halifax's Strategic Partners International Co-Production Market (Sept 12-14).Torresblanco's credits include Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, Neils Mueller's The Assassination of Richard Nixon and Sebastian Cordero's Cronicas. Presenting the television keynote speech ...
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Tropic Thunder to strike in San Sebastian
San Sebastian has announced that Ben Stiller's film Tropic Thunder will be in official selection, out of competition, at this year's festival.Stiller and actor Robert Downey Jr. will be at the Basque festival to present the film, which is being released in Spain by Paramount Pictures Spain on Sept 26.Tropic ...
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Heineken to kick off Quantum Of Solace promotions in October
Heineken International will launch a worldwide promotional campaign for the forthcoming James Bond film Quantum Of Solace.The MGM/Columbia release of an EON production will hit cinemas in November 2008.This marks Heineken's fifth consecutive partnership with the Bond franchise.The campaign, featuring new Bond girl Olga Kurylenko, was shot using actual film ...
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Paula Wagner steps down as CEO of United Artists
Paula Wagner has stepped down as CEO of UA 21 months after she accepted the challenge of rebooting MGM's specialty label.Wagner, who took on the role of CEO and co-owner at the studio with her longtime business partner Tom Cruise, said she planned to return to a full-time producing role ...
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Magnolia's Six Shooter series to kick off with Let The Right One In
Magnolia Pictures' genre arm Magnet Releasing announced the Six Shooter Film Series today [13] that will kick off on October 24 with Tomas Alfredson's Swedish horror and Tribeca Film Festival best narrative feature winner Let The Right One In.The series will continue on November 21 with Hal Halberman and Jeremy ...
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Larson's Bloom takes top prize at HollyShorts
Lance Larson's Bloom earned top honours and a $2,000 VFX package as the 4th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival came to a close at the weekend. The prize for best student short and a five-day HVX-200 HD Camera rental package was awarded to David Jibladze for Beholden. Benedict Campbell ...
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IFP No Borders selects 37 projects for co-production market
IFP has unveiled the 37 projects selected for the No Borders International Co-Production Market that will take place during the 30th Annual Independent Film Week, set to run in New York from September 14-19. Now in its 14th year, No Borders is designed to connect US and international narrative ...
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Seven projects get $80,000 from Gucci Tribeca Doc Fund
Seven projects have been selected to receive grants from the Tribeca Film Institute and Gucci's new Gucci Tribeca Documentary Finishing Fund. The selected film-makers and their projects stand to receive a total of $80,000 in grants. They are: Andrew Berends (Delta Boys), Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman (If A ...
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Martin-Smith's Stone Of Destiny to close Toronto
Charles Martin Smith's Stone Of Destiny will be the closing night Gala at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. TIFF announced the title as well as an additional 20 Special Presentations, including 12 world premieres from major filmmakers.Among the debuts are Stephan Elliott's Noel Coward adaptation Easy Virtue, featuring Colin ...
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Chile, Dominican Republic/Mexico take awards at Locarno Open Doors
Filmmakers from Chile, Dominican Republic/Mexico and Guatemala were the recipients of the awards presented on Wednesday at the end of the Open Doors Factory organised by the Locarno International Film Festival with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).Two grants for development and production worth $46,000 ...
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Sky Movies co-finances Rocky Horror Picture Show remake
The UK's Sky Movies is co-financing a remake of musical hit The Rocky Horror Picture Show.The original film's executive producer, Lou Adler, is working with BermanBraun and Fox TV to remake the cult classic for MTV in the US and SkyMovies in the UK.Cast and director will be announced later. ...
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Visit Films takes on Tariq Tapa's Venice title Zero Bridge
Visit Films has acquired worldwide rights to Tariq Tapa's feature directorial debut Zero Bridge ahead of its world premiere in Venice.Zero Bridge was shot entirely in the Indian-occupied city of Srinagar, Kashmir, with a cast of local, non-professional actors and recounts the story of a teenage pickpocket who forms a ...
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David O'Connor promoted to brand management SVP at Universal
David O'Connor has been promoted to the newly created position of senior vice president of brand management and marketing services at Universal Pictures. O'Connor, an 11-year Universal veteran who previously served as vice president of marketing services and brand management, continues to report to marketing and distribution president Adam ...
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Eastwood's Changeling unveiled as Centerpiece film at New York Film Festival
The North American premiere of Clint Eastwood's Changeling starring Angelina Jolie has been unveiled as the centerpiece screening of the 46th New York Film Festival, set to run from September 26-October 12.Darren Aronofsky's drama The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke, which gets its world premiere at Venice later this month, will ...
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Eastern Promises, Fugitive Pieces lead DGC awards nominations
David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises and Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces led the pack as the Directors Guild of Canada announced the nominees for its 2008 awards. Both films had nods for Best Director, Best Picture Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Production Design and Outstanding Team Achievement, an award presented to all ...
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Natalie Portman makes directorial debut with Venice short Eve
American actress Natalie Portman's directorial short film debut Eve will open The Venice Film Festival's Corto Cortissimo section dedicated to short films.Portman will preside over opening events for that section onSept 1. She was featured in Venice last year in her cameo in Wes Anderson's Darjeeling Unlimited.Portman's debut, entitled Eve, ...
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MGM takes on Kaufman and Agosto's action comedy
MGM has acquired Ken Kaufman and David Agosto's untitled action comedy pitch with Get Smart director Peter Segal attached to direct.Segal will also produce with his longtime producing partner Michael Ewing and Andrew Lazar. Kaufman wrote The Missing and Space Cowboys while Agosto was his uncredited co-writer on Curious George.Callahan ...
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National Board of Review sets 2009 awards for January 14
The National Board Of Review Of Motion Pictures (NBR) will hold its annual awards gala on January 14, 2009 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. This year's gala will celebrate the NBR's centennial year. The body's president Annie Schulhof said members 'could not be prouder to continue ...