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AFI Dallas festival adds two cash & services awards
The AFI Dallas International Film Festival will bestow two new awards at its upcoming event, which runs from Mar 27-Apr 6.The Best Texas Film and Best Environmental Film will be sponsored by MPS Studios and Current Energy, respectively, in addition to the existing $25,000 Target Filmmaker Awards for Best Narrative ...
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Ruud Lamers to leave Warner Bros after 25 years
Managing director of Warner Home Video Benelux Ruud Lamers will leave the company on Apr 30.Lamers joined Warner Home Video Benelux upon its inception in 1982 and since then has been involved in many developments such as retail sell-through, the launch of DVD and digital distribution.'The last quarter of a ...
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UPI plans to march Elite Squad across Latin America
Universal Pictures International (UPI) plans to release Jose Padilha's $5m Elite Squad in theatres throughout Latin America following the film's Golden Bear win at Berlin. 'We are presenting Elite Squad in main Latin American festivals to generate a media exposure for the film,' says Mauricio Durán, UPI VP for of ...
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Vantage Point shoots down US box office with $24m opening
Sony's presidential assassination thriller Vantage Point featuring an ensemble headed by Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox led the board at the weekend as it launched on a $24m estimated gross.Fox's adventure Jumper slipped to second place on a distant $12.7m for $56.2m while Paramount's family saga The Spiderwick Chronicles ranked ...
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Juno wins three at Independent Spirit Awards
Juno was named best feature at the 2008 Spirit Awards presented by non-profit group Film Independent at a ceremony on Santa Monica Beach on Saturday.Jason Reitman's smash hit comedy also won trophies for Ellen Page (best female lead) and Diablo Cody (best first screenplay).Director Reitman, however, was beaten to the ...
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Sony Classics picks up I've Loved You So Long for US
UGC International has sold Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long... (Il Y A Longtemps Que Je T'Aime...) to Sony Classics for the US. The film, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius and Laurent Grevill, ran in competition in the recently-wrapped Berlin Film Festival where it earned strong ...
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Big Screen Entertainment Group teams with Five Star Picture
Big Screen Entertainment Group (BSEG) has entered a joint venture with Florida production companies Five Star Pictures for the primary purpose of producing feature films in Florida.Over the coming weeks, BSEG and Five Star will be announcing specifics regarding their partnership, which includes over a dozen film projects, most with ...
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Screen Opinion: The Red-Stained Carpet
No matter which film walks home from Sunday's Oscar ceremony with the big prize, it will mark another victory for the US-centric studio apparatus otherwise known as Hollywood. Even at the more artistic fringes of the film-making spectrum, the big-six movie conglomerates still exert a gravitational pull on the marketplace ...
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Video-on-demand - Right here, right now
In an increasingly on-demand world, video-on-demand (VoD) represents a growing opportunity for film distributors and producers. But grasping that opportunity will mean forging relationships with a new generation of rights buyers and structuring deals that produce significant new revenue without eroding income from established ancillary outlets, especially the vital DVD ...
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Oscar favourite No Country opens in nine markets for PPI
Fox International's sci-fi adventure Jumper will be the one to beat following its storming overseas launch last weekend. The film has reached $37.8m after approximately one week in release and will spring up in several territories this weekend including France on Feb 20.Also for Fox, Oscar nominated comedy Juno has ...
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Swinton, Murray, Bernal, Hurt join cast of Jarmusch's latest
Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Gael Garcia Bernal, John Hurt, Hiam Abbass, Paz De La Huerta, Alex Descas, Youki Kudoh, Jean-Francois Stevenin and Luis Tosar have joined Jim Jarmusch's tentatively titled The Limits Of Control.Isaach De Bankole stars as a mysterious loner in the story, which began filming earlier this month ...
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HBO takes over US pay-TV rights to Taxi from Discovery
HBO Documentary Films has acquired domestic pay television rights to Alex Gibney's Oscar nominated documentary Taxi To The Dark Side.The film will debut on HBO in September after HBO executives brokered a deal with Discovery Communications. THINKFilm holds theatrical rights.Taxi To The Dark Side investigates the homicide of an innocent ...
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Chi McBride and Bow Wow join cast of Driving Lessons
Chi McBride, Jermaine Williams and musician Bow Wow have joined Dermot Mulroney and Hope Davis on the cast of Driving Lessons, which is set to begin filming in Los Angeles in early March.Vivi Friedman will direct the story of an unhappily married couple who get a second chance after the ...
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Frozen River, La Zona, Ballast among New Directors/New Films
The Film Society Of Lincoln Center and The Museum Of Modern Art have announced the line-up for the New Directors/New Films series to run in New York from Mar 26 to Apr 6.The 37th edition will present New York premieres of 26 features and six shorts and kicks off with ...
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Canada's Strategic Partners market to spotlight South America
Filmmakers and financiers from Brazil, Argentina and Mexico will join international delegates at this year's Strategic Partners Co-Production market in Halifax, Nova Scotia (September 12-14).Run in conjunction with the Atlantic Film Festival, this three-day concentrated market has a strong core attendance from Canada, the US and the UK, as well ...
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King, Verbinski team on 'mould-breaking' animation
Oscar-winning producer Graham King has teamed up with blockbuster filmmaker Gore Verbinski, fresh off his Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy, to develop an untitled animated feature that he will direct with a view to creating a new box office franchise.Both parties are eager to move ahead quickly on the big ...
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CineVegas celebrates 10th birthday with LA highlights series
CineVegas Film Festival has curated CineVegas: 10 Years On The Edge, a series of individual festival highlights set to run in Los Angeles in April to mark the event's 10th anniversary.Programmed in association with Cinefamily, which runs the Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles, the series will kick off on ...
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Bulzoni returns to York Entertainment as president
Steven Bulzoni is returning to Los Angeles-based DVD distributor York Entertainment and has been appointed president of domestic entertainment.Bulzoni will report directly to CEO Tanya York and oversee all functions of domestic operations including sales, licensing, marketing, acquisitions, and operations.He previously served as general manager from 1998-2004. York Entertainment releases ...
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Universal signs deal to produce movies based on Hasbro games
Universal Pictures and Hasbro have formed a six-year strategic partnership to produce at least four motion pictures based on Hasbro brands, including Monopoly, Candy Land, Clue, Ouija, Battleship, Magic, The Gatherin and Stretch Armstrong.Under the terms of the deal, Hasbro will partner exclusively with Universal Pictures for feature films, with ...
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Film Department taps Bickel as new international chief
Steven Bickel has replaced Elizabeth Kim as president of international at Los Angeles-based The Film Department.Bickel starts work on Feb 25 and reports directly to CEO Mark Gill and president and COO Neil Sacker.It is understood that the departure of former Lionsgate executive Kim after barely six months in the ...