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Leomax starts shooting Grace next week in Canada
Los Angeles and Berlin-based Leomax Entertainment will begin principal photography on the thriller Grace starring Jordan Ladd on April 21 in and around Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.The story follows a grieving woman who learns that her unborn child has been brought back to life with horrifying consequences.Paul Solet adapted the screenplay ...
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Redwood Palms, Truly Indie, Magnolia form threeway on Graduation
Redwood Palms Pictures has teamed up with Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's Truly Indie and Magnolia Pictures on the release of Mike Mayer's teen heist film Graduation.Redwood Palms Pictures and Truly Indie will handle the theatrical release in select markets on May 2 and Magnolia Home Entertainment will handle DVD.Riley ...
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Matt Dentler leaves SXSW to join Cinetic in New York
Matt Dentler is leaving his job as producer of the South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) to head the programming and marketing division of Cinetic Rights Management (CRM).Janet Pierson, a former producers rep who was involved on films like She's Gotta Have It, Clerks and Slacker, will replace Dentler, who ...
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Academy announces calendar for Oscars 2009
The 81st Annual Academy Awards will take place on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences president Sid Ganis announced the date along with the rest of the timetable on Monday [April 14].Official Screen Credits forms are due on December 1, nominations ...
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Woman wins top award at Beverly Hills Film Festival
The 8th Annual International Beverly Hills Film Festival (BHFF)'s Golden Palm Award for best film in all categories went to Ziad Hamzeh's Woman while Heitor Dhalia's Brazilian feature Drained won the foreign film category.Andrea Melton was named best actress for Time and Justin Lerner won best director for The Replacement ...
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Jaman.com acquires package of films from BBC Worldwide
Online distributor Jaman.com has acquired a collection of films from BBC Worldwide America to add to its growing library.Titles include Abortion Ship, a profile of the Women On Waves activists who facilitate women from countries where abortion is illegal; Face To Face With Sir Ian McKellen; and Jon Jones' drama ...
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Daily rejoins Fox to spearhead Blu-ray marketing in North America
Mary Daily has been named executive vice president of marketing for North America at Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.Daily previously worked for the studio for nine years in its European marketing unit in London, when she pioneered the concept of selling television programming to consumers via VHS and DVD.She will ...
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Visit Films acquires international rights to Momma's Man
Ryan Kampe and Sylvain Tron's fledgling sales company Visit Films has acquired international rights to Azazel Jacobs' comedy Momma's Man, which premiered at Sundance earlier in the year.Visit will commence sales in Cannes next month on the story of a businessman who moves back in to his parents' downtown New ...
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Bartha stars opposite Zeta-Jones in Freundlich's The Rebound
Justin Bartha has joined Catherine Zeta-Jones in The Film Department's upcoming romantic comedy The Rebound, written and to be directed by Bart Freundlich.The Film Department is financing and producing the film, which is set to start production on April 21 in New York.Tim Perell, Freundlich, Mark Gill and Robert Katz ...
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Munyurangabo, Stranded takes top prizes at Sarasota Film Festival
Lee Isaac Chung's feature Munyurangabo and Gonzalo Arijon's documentary Stranded: I Have Come From A Plane That Crashed On The Mountains won the key competition prizes at the 2008 Sarasota Film Festival as Joshua Safdie's The Pleasure Of Being Robbed took the Independent Visions Competition Award.All three winners receive a ...
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Horton leads international box office with $10.6m weekend
Fox International ruled the roost yet again as Dr Seuss' Horton Hears A Who! swept past the $100m mark thanks to an estimated $10.6m weekend haul from 5,300 screens in 56 markets. The family film stands at $104.9m and has become the highest grossing international release from the Dr Seuss ...
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Belladonna, Matson team to bring Latin American films to US
New York-based Belladonna Productions and NYC distributor Matson Films have partnered to acquire six new films from emerging South American directors to distribute theatrically in the United States using a unique brand sponsorship model.The Buenos Aires office of Streiffschuss Films AG will be identifying Latin American movies for the New ...
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Prom Night screams to top of domestic box office for Screen Gems
Screen Gems' horror film Prom Night had too much in the tank as it launched at number one on approximately $22.7m, some $11m ahead of Fox Searchlight's new police thriller Street Kings in second place.However the box office slide continued as the top 12 releases combined for $82.6m, down 16% ...
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Gavin Reardon heads IM Global's new TV division
Sales company IM Global has expanded again by creating IM Global Television.Gavin Reardon has been named president of the new division. He was most recently president of action programming distributor And Action! Distribution.IM Global Television will acquire and license a wide range of television and digital broadcast material including ...
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Adrien Brody replaces Liotta in Dario Argento's Giallo
Oscar winner Adrien Brody will replace Ray Liotta as the detective character in cult horror-master Dario Argento's up-coming English language film Giallo, which starts shooting in Turin as of mid-May.The casting update was confirmed by Giallo producer Rafael Primorac of LA-based Arramis Films, who told ScreenDaily.com the film had to ...
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Writers Guild of America West fetes Tom Schulman
Writers Guild Of America West (WGAW) board of directors member Tom Schulman will receive the WGAW's Valentine Davies Award in recognition of his career and service to the industry.Schulman has been a WGAW member since 1986 and served as president of the Writers Guild Foundation from 1998 to 2002. He ...
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IFP Market recasts itself as Independent Film Week
With its 30th anniversary coming up in September the IFP has renamed its annual IFP Market to Independent Film Week.The event is also on the move from from Soho's Angelika Film Center and Puck Building to new digs at Chelsea's Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.) and nearby venues.Organisers have also ...
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Phang's Half-Life wins Gen Art jury prize
The 13th Annual Gen Art Film Festival Acura Grand Jury Award for Best Feature went to Jennifer Phang's Half-Life and the Acura Grand Jury Award for Best Short went to Christina Voros' The Ladies.The Stargazer Award honouring breakout talent for excellence in acting went to Luis Chavez from the short ...
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Canadian producers seek Criminal Code reference in tax amendment
Canada's film production representatives are calling for the federal government to amend controversial tax legislation by making reference to the nation's Criminal Code. In a presentation to the Canadian Senate today, the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) and the Association des producteurs de films et de television du ...
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Quentin Tarantino to give Cinema Masterclass at Cannes
Quentin Tarantino, who once declared having 'devoted his life to cinema, his favourite obsession', is to give the Cinema Masterclass at the coming Festival de Cannes, May 14-25.The announcement adds to mounting excitement about this year's event. As previously reported Jim Jarmusch will receive the Carrosse d'Or statue from France's ...