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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 ...
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Toulon named general counsel at CBS Films
Rik Toulon has been named executive vice president and general counsel at CBS Films.Toulon reports to CBS Films COO Bruce Tobey and will oversee all legal matters on behalf of the division.He arrives from the law firm of Katten Muchin Rosenman where he served as partner in the firm's entertainment ...
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National Geographic to distribute Grand Canyon in 3D worldwide
National Geographic will distribute Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets to mark the film's 25th anniversary in 3D worldwide.The company will sell the film to exhibitors through Cinema Ventures' film distribution arm. Giant screen pioneer Destination Cinema will oversee updates to the script and musical score and the conversion of the ...
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Robert Davi, Bai Ling join US/Russia co-production Magic Man
Robert Davi and Bai Ling have joined Russian star Alexander Nevsky and Billy Zane on the US-Russian Magic Man set to start filming in Las Vegas on June 25.The story revolves around a famous magician (Zane) who is suspected of being a serial killer. Nevsky plays an investigative policeman and ...
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Canadian government to amend tax credit legislation
Amendments proposed by the Canadian Senate will restore the financial security of production tax credits, two senators announced today. Under the proposed changes, the Canadian government will not have the power to deny tax credits based on vague guidelines.The non-elected upper chamber has heard from over 50 witnesses in examining ...
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IMAX signs giant screen deal in Dubai
IMAX Corp. and Dubai-based property developer Meydan LLC have signed an agreement for a giant-screen system to be installed at Nad Al Sheba horse race track, the home of the Dubai World Cup. The installation is expected to be completed by year-end 2009. IMAX says it will be its twelfth ...
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IFC Films buys the world on Medicine For Melancholy
IFC Films has picked up worldwide rights to Strike Anywhere's romance Medicine For Melancholy, which will play in competition in the Los Angeles Film Festival later this week.IFC will release the film in 2009 through its theatrical and VOD day-and-date platform IFC in Theaters.Medicine for Melancholy is a love story ...
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Patricia Clarkson takes lead in Ruba Nadda's Cairo Time
Patricia Clarkson is starring in Ruba Nadda's romantic drama Cairo Time which started shooting this week in Cairo, Egypt.The Canada-Ireland co-production co-stars Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya and Tom McCamus and will shoot through to July 13.Producers on the film are Daniel Iron of Foundry Films (Away From Her, Manufactured Landscapes) ...
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Choke wins narrative feature prize at Maui Film Festival
Clark Gregg's Choke starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston won the narrative feature prize at the 2008 Annual Maui Film Festival while Charles Kinnane's The Human Experience took the documentary award.In the world cinema programme, Amin Matalqa's Captain Abu Raed was named best narrative feature and Christian Karim Chrobog's War ...
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Christian Gaines leaves AFI for Withoutabox.com
Christian Gaines has joined IMDb's festival and networking community 0Withoutabox.com as film festival director.Gaines previously served as director of festivals at the American Film Institute (AFI) where he oversaw festival and film programming projects including AFI FEST.He was heavily involved with the inception of Silverdocs and AFI Dallas International Film ...
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Pope's Toilet rides into US with Film Movement
Film Movement has acquired Cesar Charlone and Enrique Fernandez' Uruguayan comedy The Pope's Toilet and plans a limited release in October followed by DVD roll-out in 2009.The story centres on the people of a small town who prepare to capitalise on an upcoming visit from the Pontiff.The Pope's Visit played ...
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Tim Sommerfeld named svp of creative advertising at Summit
Tim Sommerfeld has been appointed senior vice president of creative advertising at Summit Entertainment.Sommerfeld gets to work straight away on upcoming releases Fly Me To The Moon, Twilight, Sex Drive, The Brothers Bloom, Push and Knowing.He most recently served as creative director and producer at The Ant Farm, where he ...
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Universal acquires graphic novel series The Last Call from Oni
Universal has acquired the graphic novel series The Last Call from Oni Press and has hired Evan Spiliotopoulos to adapt the screenplay.The Last Call was first published in 2007 and centres on two joyriders who have the misfortune to get hit by a train that happens to be an inter-dimensional ...