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Hays and Mullen join TIFF Canadian programming team
The Toronto International Film Festival has added two new faces to its Canadian programming team. Montreal-based academic and film journalist Matthew Hays joins Jesse Wente and Steve Gravestock on the feature film selection committee.Programming veteran Kathleen Mullen will handle the Short Cuts Canada selection for TIFF 2008 along with programmers ...
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Carlos Acosta to star in $3m feature for Rosa Bosch
Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta is set to star in a dramatic feature inspired by his own life story. The film, based on the Acosta biography No Way Home, will shoot in Cuba and the UK. Acosta's nephews will play him as a younger man.The $3m project is being produced ...
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Andre Van Heerden named CEO of Cloud Ten Pictures
Andre Van Heerden has been promoted to CEO at Cloud Ten Pictures, the Canadian producers of the Left Behind series of Christian films.Katherine Kunberger has been brought in as president and Michael Walker as vice president of marketing and operations as the company prepares it upcoming release Saving God starring ...
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Rose and Ravid named to vice presidents at Senator US
Marco Weber's Senator Entertainment has promoted Rachel Rose to vice president of production and finance and hired Orly Ravid as vice president of acquisitions and domestic distribution.Rose has been with Senator for two years and most recently served as executive director of production and finance.Ravid, a former Maxmedia executive, will ...
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Mendes starts production on Big Beach/Focus romantic comedy
Production is set to get underway in Connecticut this week on Sam Mendes' untitled contemporary comedy starring Leatherheads lead John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Toni Collette and Cheryl Hines.Novelist Dave Eggers and his wife Vendela Vida wrote the screenplay and Focus Features is co-financing with producers Big Beach and ...
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Disney unveils nature documentary label Disneynature
Walt Disney Studios unveiled Disneynature on Monday [April 21], a dedicated nature documentary label and the first new Disney brand to launch in 60 years since the True-Life Adventures documentary series launched in 1948.The unit will be based in France under the leadership of Jean-Francois Camilleri, the former senior vice ...
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Apatow, Ryan to receive awards at Nantucket Film Festival
Judd Apatow will receive the Suzanne And Bob Wright Screenwriter's Tribute Award at the 13th Annual Nantucket Film Festival in June.Apatow produced Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which opened in second place in the North American charts at the weekend, as well as 2007 hits like Superbad and Knocked Up, which he ...
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The Cavanaughs wins Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship
Sundance Institute and the Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship have announced [April 21] that this year's Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship goes to John Morgan and Meg LeFauve and their project The Cavanaughs.Presented in partnership with the Maryland Film Office, the annual fellowship provides Morgan and LeFauve with a $10,000 grant to help with ...
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Bornedal's The Substitute wins audience award at Sprockets
Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal's The Substitute won the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature Film at the 11th Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children. The story follows a group of school children who suspect their substitute teacher may be an alien. Best animated film honours went to US filmmaker ...
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Grain, Ch'tis win critics, audience awards at COLCOA in LA
Abdellatif Kechiche's Cesar-winning The Secret Of The Grain won the first ever critics award at the 12th annual City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COLCOA) in Los Angeles over the weekend.COLCOA, a week of French film premieres in Hollywood, ended on Sunday and also announced that Dany Boon's smash hit ...
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Princess Ka'iulani wraps in Hawaii and moves to UK shoot
Princess Ka'iulani, formerly titled Barbarian Princess, has ended the four-week Hawaiian leg of its shoot. The production will now move to shoot for 10 days in Norfolk, England by the end of April.Matador Pictures and Island Film Group's project is based on the true story of a Hawaiian princess who ...
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Nayar, Grushow team up for digital studio Filmaka
LA-based producer Deepak Nayar and former Fox TV chief Sandy Grushow have officially launched Filmaka, an ambitious 'digital studio' and online creative community which plans to create a new model for identifying talent and developing entertainment properties.Nayar founded the company, which is based at www.Filmaka.com, in late 2006 as a ...
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Icarus buys North American rights to Bitomsky's Dust
Boutique North American distributor Icarus Films has acquired German film-makerHartmut Bitomsky's documentary Dust.Bitomsky's film explores the omniscient particles in a manner that attempts to offer new insight into our bodies, the environment and the cosmos.The film premiered in Venice and screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Philadelphia ...
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Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate team for premium TV, VOD service
Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate will jointly launch a premium TV channel and Video On Demand (VOD) service in autumn 2009 featuring new and library film titles and original programming from the studios.The new venture will have access to Paramount and Paramount Vantage titles released theatrically on or after January 1 ...
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Toronto's Stardust Pictures preps $10m comedy Wing Man
Toronto-based Stardust Pictures has completed financing on its first feature, the $10m comedy Wing Man that will shoot in Toronto in the late summer.Harland Williams will direct and Stardust's Justin L Levine and Howard Kerbel will produceStardust recently acquired Canadian rights to Jamie Kennedy's documentary Heckler and will release on ...
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Jackie, Jet Li and Sarah Marshall storm domestic box office
The long awaited on-screen union of Jackie Chan and Jet Li reaped rewards for Liosgate and The Weinsten Company as The Forbidden Kingdom leapt to number one thanks to an estimated $20.9m three-day gross.The martial arts adventure takes place in modern-day America and a mythical past in China where a ...
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Horton leads international box office by a whisper over 21
Horton Hears A Who is making hay while the sun shines. Two weeks before Iron Man launches across the globe the Fox International children's tale continued to dominate overseas as an estimated $9.7m from approximately 5,300 screens in 52 markets raised the tally to $117.7m.The film is easily the biggest ...
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Mexico's Olaizola wins best film at BAFICI for Intimacies
Mexican Yulene Olaizola's first feature Intimacies of Shakespeare And Victor Hugo won the prize for best film in the international competition at the tenth Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI).China's Night Train, directed by Diao Yinan, took the Special Jury Prize and the one for Best Actress (Liu ...
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Lifesize picks up LARPing documentary Monster Camp
New Jersey-based distributor and worldwide sales agent Lifesize Entertainment has picked up Cullen Hoback's documentary Monster Camp.The film offers a glimpse into the world of live-action role playing - known as LARPing - in which players immerse themselves in the video game phenomenon World Of Warcraft. Aaron Kirk Douglas produced.'Monster ...
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Odd Lot signs two-film deal with Freestyle led by Bottle Shock
Odd Lot International has signed a two-picture deal with US distributor Freestyle Releasing after the parties acquired the California wine industry drama Bottle Shock.Freestyle will release in North America and Odd Lot International will commence foreign sales at Cannes next month. The parties will collaborate on another, yet to be ...