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Francis Ford Coppola finishes 63-day shoot of Tetro
Francis Ford Coppola has wrapped on his latest feature Tetro after 63 days of principal photography in Buenos Aires and Patagonia. A spring 2009 release is anticipated.Additional shooting of a ballet by Ana Maria Stekelman will still take place in Madrid but the main leg of the shoot is complete. ...
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Toronto books best of Cannes in first programme announcement
The Toronto International Film Festival announced its first tranche of titles, including Cannes competitors such as Atom Egoyan's Adoration, Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale, Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah and Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or winner The Class. All four will be North American premieres screening as Special Presentations. Kim Jee-woon's The Good, ...
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Zaillian, Mandate buy debut screenplay from Jens Assur
Steve Zaillian and Mandate Pictures have acquired the debut feature screenplay from photojournalist and acclaimed short film-maker Jens Assur.The script, entitled Close Far Away, was purchased through Zaillian and Mandate's newly formed co-venture Film Rites, which has a joint first-look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment.Assur is attached to direct, while ...
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Liberation buys North American rights to Irish drama Eden
Liberation Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Declan Recks' Irish drama Eden.The company plans a theatrical release in autumn for the picture, which screens at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this week and premiered at Tribeca in April.Reck's adaptation of the Eugene O'Brien play examines a troubled marriage ...
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MSNBC launches film division to produce documentaries
MSNBC has launched MSNBC Films to produce and showcase documentaries on television and support festival runs and theatrical releases. The initiative will kick off with Kurt Kuenne's Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father, in which Kuenne sets out to commemorate his murdered friend and learns that ...
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Focus Features starts Africa First Program for emerging film-makers
Focus Features has established the Africa First Program offering five prizes of $10,000 to emerging film-makers of African nationality and residence.The money will go towards production and/or post-production on a narrative short film made in continental Africa that taps the resources of the local film industry.The five film-makers selected will ...
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AMPAS invites 96 countries to submit films for foreign language Oscar
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has posted entry forms for the 81st Academy Awards' foreign language competition to 96 countries.Countries need to be return the forms so they are received at the Academy by October 1. To qualify for the 81st Academy Awards a film must be ...
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Cole promoted to evp of media at Universal Pictures
Suzanne Cole has been promoted to executive vice president of media at Universal Pictures and will continue to oversee the studio's print, broadcast, online and outdoor media strategy.Cole has served as senior vice president of media since 2004 and continues to report to president of marketing Eddie Egan.During her nine-year ...
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SILVERDOCS fetes The Garden, The English Surgeon
Scott Hamilton Kennedy's The Garden won the SILVERDOCS Sterling US Feature Award and Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble The Water earned a special jury mention.Geoffrey Smith's The English Surgeon won the Sterling World Feature Award and a special mention went to Chao Gan's The Red Race.In the Sterling Short ...
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Justin Long, Fred Willard join Cera in Youth In Revolt
Justin Long and Fred Willard have joined Michael Cera and newcomer Portia Doubleday on the cast of Dimension Film's tale Youth In Revolt.Zach Galifinakis, Ari Graynor, Erik Knudsen, Adhir Kalyan, Jonny Wright, Tricia Mara and Mary Kay Place have also come aboard.The Permut Presentations and Shangri-La Entertainment project is based ...
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Academy welcomes 105 new members including Cotillard, Haneke
The Academy Of Arts & Sciences has welcomed 105 new members into its hallowed ranks representing 'artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.'Among the new members were Oscar winners from 2007 such as Marion Cotillard (best actress), Diablo Cody (best original screenplay), Didier ...
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Ballast, Frozen River win top prizes at Provincetown Film Festival
Ballast director Lance Hammer won the John Schlesinger Award for a first time film-maker as the 10th Provincetown Film Festival came to a close at the weekend.Another Sundance premiere, Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, won the audience award for best feature while Irena Salina's FLOW: For Love Of Water took the ...
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Chapa to star in Gangster for his own Amadeus Pictures
Amadeus Pictures is lining up a July start in Los Angeles for its action adventure Mexican Gangster starring company founder and president Damian Chapa.Mexican Gangster is based on the true story of Johnny Sun, an ex-con who struggles to break free from his former life of crime.Christine Manoukian, Romanian newcomer ...
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Man On Wire, American Teen among winners at Nantucket
FM Strype's Anna Down East won Showtime's Tony Cox Screenplay Competition as the 13th Annual Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) came to a close on Sunday (June 22).Showtime's Tony Cox Award For Screenwriting was presented to Daniel Schechter for Goodbye Baby, while the second annual Adrienne Shelley Excellence In Filmmaking Award ...
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Paramount gets to $1bn in domestic grosses in record time
Paramount Pictures has crossed the $1bn mark in domestic ticket sales in record time just days after its international division PPI achieved the same feat. Paramount becomes the first studio to reach the milestone this year and bettered the old record by three weeks.The studio was the first to reach ...
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She Unfolds By Day wins grand jury prize at CineVegas
Rolf Belgum's She Unfolds By Day won the 10th Annual CineVegas Film Festival's grand jury prize while Rachel Samuels' Dark Streets earned a special jury award.Bill Pullman received a Special Jury Award for his role as the science fiction writer William J Frick in Your Name Here.Aaron Rose and Joshua ...
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Carell's Smart roundly beats Myers' Guru at US box office
The changing face of US comedy delivered a stinging rebuke to the old guard as Steve Carell, one of the biggest success stories of recent years, outgunned the prodigal genius Mike Myers, back in his first live-action role in five years.Get Smart, in which Carell reprises the role of the ...
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Indiana Jones reclaims international crown
Indiana Jones ruled the roost over the weekend thanks in large part to a spectacular $13.1m number launch in Japan that left Paramount/PPI within touching distance of $400m.It was close at the top. Marvel Studios' The Incredible Hulk, released almost everywhere through Universal/UPI, bashed its way through 12 new territories ...
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Bertha Bay-Sa Pan lauches New York-based Slew Pictures
New York-based Bertha Bay-Sa Pan has launched Slew Pictures to focus on making 'universal stories that will both entertain and inspire' and has lined the company's first feature, Almost Perfect.Pan wrote and will direct the story in New York this autumn of a young career woman who tries to pick ...