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Roller joins Bank of Ireland's US Media Finance team
Michele Roller has joined the Bank of Ireland's US Media Finance team as Director.She will focus on debt funding solutions for companies in the media sector, offering senior and mezzanine financing to publishing, information services, broadcasting, out-of-home, cable television and digital media companies. Roller previously served as vice president at ...
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Academy unveils 63 foreign language film submissions
63 countries have submitted films for consideration in the foreign language film category of the Academy Awards, it was announced today by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles.The number represents a record for the category and includes first time entrants Azerbaijan and Ireland.FULL LIST OF ...
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Cinemavault acquires Mexico's Used Parts for AFM
Cinemavault Releasing International has added Aaron Fernandez's Spanish-language drama Partes Usadas (Used Parts) to its AFM slate.The film will screen in competition at the Rome Film Festival alongside Cinemavault's drama Canvas with Marcia Gay Harden and Joe Pantoliano.Partes Usadas centres on a 14-year-old boy seduced by the underworld of stolen ...
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Suharjono named svp of Asian distribution at Warner International
Erlina Suharjono has been named senior vice president of Asia Distribution at Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI).Suharjono recently assumed the role of chief representative of Warner New Asia to supervise distribution of the studio's US-made films in China.Based in the Hong Kong office and reporting directly to WBPI distribution chief ...
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IMAX brings forward digital projection system into mid-2008
IMAX Corp. has moved up the launch date of its digital projection system to the second quarter of 2008. IMAX originally expected to have the system ready by the end of next year or in 2009. Digital projection is particularly important for IMAX and those who distribute and exhibit IMAX ...
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Real D signs 500-system deal with Odeon and UCI
Real D has signed another huge deal, partnering with Odeon and UCI for the installation of 500 digital 3-D systems across the UK and Europe. The distribution partnership is Real D's largest international deal to date. The rollout of 500 systems will start immediately and continue for the next two ...
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Sales veteran Adam Wright joins Maverick
Adam Wright has joined Maverick Global, the international sales arm of US home entertainment genre distributor Maverick Entertainment Group, as senior vice president of international distribution and domestic television sales.Wright will report directly to executive vice president Pamela White and will continue to live in Los Angeles, where he most ...
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Arikian leaves EFM to head up Hamptons International Film Festival
Co-director of the Berlin International Film Festival's European Film Market (EFM) Karen Arikian has been named new executive director of The Hamptons International Film Festival.Arikian will assume her duties in March 2008 and will attend the gala opening night on Oct 17 this year as an observer.The executive director's duties ...
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Fogelson, Edgan promoted to president positions within Universal
Adam Fogelson has been appointed to the newly created role of Universal Pictures' president of marketing and distribution and Eddie Egan has been promoted to president of marketing.Fogelson assumes executive oversight of Universal's domestic marketing and distribution divisions as well as marketing and distribution of Rogue Pictures.He reports to Universal ...
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Walter Lassally to receive ASC International Achievement Award
Walter Lassally will receive the 2008 American Society Of Cinematographers' (ASC) International Achievement Award at the 22nd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in Hollywood on Jan 26.Lassally's career spanned 50 years and highlights include the 1965 Academy Award win for Zorba The Greek, a BAFTA nomination in 1984 for Heat ...
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Randolph Paul joins Halcyon as COO in LA
Randolph Paul has joined the Halcyon Company as chief operating officer. He will be based in the Los Angeles office and report to Halcyon co-chief executive officers Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson.Paul is an experienced executive who was present at the inception of Miramax Films in the 1980s before moving ...
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Reygadas' Silent Light takes Golden Hugo at Chicago
Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light from Mexico has won the 43rd Chicago International Film Festival's most prestigious award, the Gold Hugo.The Silver Hugo special jury prize went to Wang Quanan's Chinese entry Tuya's Marriage, and the Silver Hugo Award for direction was presented to Roy Andersson's Swedish film You, The Living.The ...
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Focus bolsters production, Rogue distribution moved to Universal
Focus Features has bolstered its production department as the company moves toward a bigger slate and eyes greater collaboration with parent company Universal Pictures' overseas production group.Focus Features chief executive officer James Schamus also announced that the distribution and marketing of Rogue Pictures releases will henceforth be handled by Universal.Rogue ...
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Shoreline picks up Franco's Max, Kill Kill Faster Faster for AFM
Heading into AFM, Shoreline Entertainment has announced its acquisition of worldwide rights to James Franco's drama Good Time Max also starring Franco and the noir thriller Kill Kill Faster Faster.Franco wrote and directed Good Time Max, about two brothers who grow apart when one becomes a surgeon and the other ...
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IFP to present tribute to Mayor Bloomberg at Gotham Awards
IFP will present a tribute to the New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the 17th Annual Gotham Awards on Nov 27.Bloomberg will be recognised for his leadership in boosting the city's credentials as a film-making hub and for supporting economic, educational, and cultural initiatives throughout the five boroughs including the ...
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Harry Potter 5 breaks $100m gross mark in UK
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix has crossed $100m in the UK, according to fresh data from Warner Bros Pictures International released on Monday [Oct 15].The film reached the milestone in its 14th weekend on release and has grossed $645.2m internationally.The distributor also released final figures for the ...
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US Women In Film name emerging film-maker grantwinners
The national alliance organisation of US Women In Film (WIF) has announced the winners of the second annual WIF/GM 2007 Acceleration Grant For Emerging Filmmakers.The winners are: Jamie Taucher from Sedona, Arizona; Julia Kots from New York, New York; Connie M Florez from Honolulu, Hawaii; Joyce Lee from San Francisco, ...
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Casting Society Of America announces annual Artios nominees
The Casting Society of America has announced the annual Artios Awards nominees, set to be handed out in Los Angeles on Nov 5.In the dramatic feature film category Debra Zane and Jay Binder for Dreamgirls will battle it out with Joanna Colbert for Hollywoodland, Amanda Mackey and Cathy Sandrich Gelfond ...
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Patrick Smith Kelly hired to write GK Films' Benighted
Patrick Smith Kelly has been hired to write the screenplay adaptation of GK Films' adaptation of Kit Whitfield's supernatural novel Benighted.Graham King acquired rights to the book in 2006 and will produce with Andrew Adamson for Warner Bros.Adamson is in talks to direct the story about a minority human population ...
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Jolie gets outstanding performance award from Santa Barbara
Angelina Jolie will be honoured at the 23rd annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) on Feb 2 2008 with the Outstanding Performance Of The Year Award for her role in A Mighty Heart.Jolie plays Mariane Pearl, the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Michael Winterbottom's film ...