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Greetings From The Shore wins Staten Island Film Festival
Greg Chwerchak's opening night drama Greetings From The Shore won best feature at Staten Island's SINY Film Festival and star Kim Shaw was named best actress as the event came to a close at the weekend.Anthony Tarsitano was named best director for Calling It Quits and star Dennis Boutsakaris took ...
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Mandate backs feature of hit online short Jay And Seth...
Mandate Pictures has green-lit a feature based on the action comedy short Jay And Seth Vs The Apocalypse from co-writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.Mandate is in talks with directors and has earmarked a 2009 production start on the adaptation of the short, which starred Rogen and Jay Baruchel as ...
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Paulo Coelho recruits MySpace users for feature compilation
Author Paulo Coelho is working with MySpace on the creation of his first feature film, The Experimental Witch.The project is inspired by Coelho's most recent book The Witch Of Portobello, and will use the concept of 'mash up' videos. MySpace users will submit original videos and music and then Coelho ...
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Bruno wins HBO Documentary/Film Independent fellowship
Bruce Dern is among the Fellows and their projects selected by Film Independent for its 6th annual Fast Track film financing initiative.Fast Track connects participants with financiers, production companies and industry professionals during the Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF), which takes place from June 19 - 29.Film Independent also announced ...
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Mark Waters to receive AFI's Franklin J Schaffner Alumni Medal
Mean Girls and The Spiderwick Chronicles director Mark Waters will receive the American Film Institute's (AFI) 2008 Franklin J Schaffner Alumni Medal in honour of his 'extraordinary creative talents' on June 12.Waters was a member of the AFI Conservatory's directing class of 1992 and graduated alongside Darren Aronofsky, Doug Ellin ...
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The Film Source picks up horror movie Deadwood Park
Alex Massis' Florida-based sales and marketing company The Film Source has acquired international rights to Eric Stanze's horror title Deadwood Park.William Clifton stars as a young man who returns to his home town in the hope of solving a decades-old mystery surrounding the killing of 26 children, one of whom ...
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Tribeca launches Reframe as system to find rare film and video
Tribeca Film Institute has launched the digitised one-stop shop Reframe to help the film community market and locate classic and rare film and video.Reframe converts all content to high quality digital files, returns a digital copy to the rights holder for free and allows them to make their content available ...
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UK line producers, production managers plan US visit
The UK Film Council, in an effort to stimulate inward investment production in the UK, is taking eight UK line producers and unit production managers to Los Angeles next week to meet with US studios and independent productoin companies.British Film Commissioner Colin Brown is leading the trip, also organised with ...
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Shakespeare And Victor Hugo takes prize at Transilvania
The Intimacies Of Shakespeare And Victor Hugo, a feature-length documentary from Mexican director Yulene Hugo, took the top prize at the seventh Transilvania International Film Festival.Director Yulena Olaizola received the festival grand prize, and Euros 10,000, from Catherine Deneuve. Deneuve was likewise honored with a lifetime achievement award, which she ...
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Michele Garra promoted to svp of Asia Pacific at SPHE
Michele Garra has been promoted to the newly created position of senior vice president of Asia Pacific for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE).Sony's former managing director of Australia and New Zealand will move from Sydney to the studio's Los Angeles headquarters in Culver City.Reporting to executive vice president of international ...
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Panda-monium at North American box office for DreamWorks
Kung Fu Panda ate up the competition as it shot to the top and left no doubt about what was the biggest comedy in North America over the weekend.The DreamWorks Animation hit grossed an estimated $60m through Paramount, approximately 50% more than Sony's Adam Sandler comedy You Don't Mess With ...
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Carrie Bradshaw kicks Indiana Jones off international perch
Sex continued to sell overseas as New Line's hit adaptation Sex And The City booted PPI's Indiana Jones and Kung Fu Panda into second and third place, respectively.The comedy saga about four Manhattan women added an estimated $38.1m from 25 new territories and robust holdovers to stand at $91.3m. Combined ...
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Second Cinema Verite to focus on intercultural understanding
The second Cinema Verite, the international rendezvous for socially conscious cinema, will take place this year in Geneva on Oct 9-10 and then in Paris on Oct 11-12. This year's theme is 'Intercultural Understanding And Dialogue Between Peoples' to coincide with and celebrate the first anniversary of the UN Declaration ...
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PPI's Panda kicks out in nine markets, Sex expands global seduction
Paramount Pictures International is in the enviable position of having two bona fide blockbusters in play as it prepares to launch a third this weekend.As Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull nears $300m and Iron Man consolidates its new status as an inductee of the $200m club, ...
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Irish Film Festival launched in Los Angeles this October
The inaugural Los Angeles Irish Film Festival will run from October 2-5 at the Clarity Theatre in Beverly Hills.Festival directors Lisa McLaughlin-Strassman and Niall McKay aim to develop the profile of Irish cinema and to this end will programme features, documentaries and shorts and stage on-stage interviews.The event is sponsored ...
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Kaczorowksi joins Grosvenor Park as partner, Alper as principal and COO
Los Angeles, London and Toronto-based film financing company Grosvenor Park has named Joseph C Kaczorowski partner and David Alper principal and COO.Kaczorowski most recently served as president of House Of Blues Entertainment, while Alper most recently managed Relativity Media's single-picture equity financing and production business.Backed by a New York-based alternative ...
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Jorge Camara re-elected as president of HFPA
Jorge Camara will serve his sixth term as president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) after he was re-elected to the post on Wednesday night [June 5].
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Russian thriller Magic Man to shoot entirely in US
Billy Zane and Russian action star Alexander Nevsky will star in the US-Russian co-production thriller Magic Man that will shoot entirely in the US.Stuart Cooper will begin directing this month in Los Angeles on the story of a famous magician who might also be moonlighting as a serial killer. George ...
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IFP selects 11 narrative projects for Filmmaker Lab
IFP has selected the 11 narrative feature projects for the Independent Filmmaker Lab support programme set to run from June 10-13.Narrative Lab participants will also be eligible for the Independent Filmmaker Finishing Grant, a new $50,000 annual award courtesy of an anonymous donation.The juried award will be presented at the ...
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Yacovlef, Melocchi attach Leder, Fall to music-themed projects
Beverly Hills-based Little Studio Films partners Alexandra Yacovlef and Alexia Melocchi are fast-tracking the music-themed dramas Woody, Cisco And Me and Stalking Simon Le Bon.Mimi Leder will direct Woody, Cisco And Me from the novel of the same name by Jim Longhi is set during the second world war and ...