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Global Film Initiative announced films for 2008 Global Lens series
Award-winning films from Argentina, China, Croatia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Lebanon, Philippines and South Africa will headline the Global Film Initiative's Global Lens 2008 film series.'The films selected for Global Lens 2008 are beautiful, powerful stories that represent the best of cinema from around the world,' Global Film Initiative chair of ...
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Chris Carlisle takes over from Schwartz at New Line
Former head of marketing for FOX Broadcasting and the FX Network Chris Carlisle has been named as Russell Schwartz' replacement as head of domestic marketing at New Line.Carlisle will report directly to Rolf Mittweg, New Line's President and chief operating officer of worldwide marketing and distribution, and will co-report to ...
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Montreal boasts 53 world premieres in competition sections
The Montreal World Film Festival today announced the films in Official Competition, First Films Competition and World Greats (Out of Competition) for the 31st event.Of 230 features, 53 are world premieres, 56 are international premieres (premieres outside the country of origin), 59 are North American premieres, and 42 are Canadian ...
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Meyers promoted to evp, business affairs, at Focus Features
Focus Features has promoted Howard Meyers to executive vice president of business affairs.Meyers will serve as co-head of the department alongside executive vice president of strategic planning, business affairs and acquisitions Avy Eschenasy. Based in the company's West Coast offices, he reports directly to Focus ' chief executive officer James ...
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Bright promoted to vice president and partner at LA's Insignia Inc
Eddie Michaels, chief executive officer and president of Beverly Hills-based publicity and marketing firm Insignia Inc, has promoted the company's six-year senior associate Erik Bright (pictured) to vice president and partner.Bright will continue to head the company's film and television production publicity division as well as manage and oversee media ...
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US Women In Film teams with GM for Emerging Filmmakers Award
Women In Film (WIF) and the General Motors Corporation (GM) have announced the second annual WIF/GM Acceleration Grant for Emerging Filmmakers.The 2007 WIF/GM Acceleration Grant for Emerging Filmmakers will again be presented to five up-and-coming female film-makers, chosen through an application process overseen by a WIF selection committee comprised of ...
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Kuffman, Boyd, Pereira, Kim join Odd Lot executive ranks
Odd Lot Entertainment has bulked up its executive suite, hiring Keith Kauffman as senior vice president of business and legal affairs, Andrew Boyd as director of marketing and publicity, Yvette Pereira as manager of accounting, and Shirley Kim as manager of international business affairs.Natalya Petrosova, formerly vice president of finance, ...
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de Heer, Makhmalbaf films among TIFF Visions world premieres
New films from Rolf de Heer and Hana Makhmalbaf will make their world premieres as part of the Visions programme at the Toronto International Film Festival, the festival announced today. The 13 titles join the seven titles already announced, including Roy Andersson's You, The Living and Ulrich Seidl's Import Export, ...
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Sony Classics takes North and South America on Brick Lane
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North and South American rights from The Works International to Sarah Gavron's London-set immigrant romance Brick Lane.Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson, Harvey Virdi and Zafreen star in the tale of a Bangladeshi woman who struggles after she comes to London to be in an ...
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Harrison, Perkins join LA-based Fifteen Minutes PR
Former Paradigm corporate communications chief Bill Harrison has resurfaced at Howard Bragman's LA-based consultancy Fifteen Minutes PR. Lisa Perkins has also joined the Los Angeles-based company from Creative Public Relations, where she served as senior publicist since 2002. Bragman has also promoted Gabriel Serrato to partner.'Bill Harrison is one of ...
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Hairspray honoured with ensemble acting nod from Hollywood Awards
Hairspray will be honoured with the 11th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards' Hollywood Ensemble Acting Of The Year Award - Musical/Comedy.The awards will be handed out at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony on Oct 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.'We are very proud that we will be recognising ...
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Steve Coogan to play Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards on screen
Steve Coogan will star in Eddie The Eagle as the eponymous British ski-jumper whose last place ranking in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary endeared him to tens of thousands of fans and came to epitomise British eccentricity and spirit.Producers John Heyman and Rupert Maconick are lining up a January ...
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Credit crunch may squeeze slate funders, says Fazio
The rising cost of credit in the US sparked by the recent collapse of the mortgage sector has made film financing a more precarious business, according to Deutsche Bank's new global head of media and entertainment structured finance Laura Fazio.'People are concerned that the debt costs around these transactions have ...
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Peter Paige to star in Brazilian drama Copacabana
Peter Paige from the Showtime series Queer As Folk has joined the cast of Roberto Jabor's Brazilian drama Copacabana, Of Love And Shadows.The $5m English-language production will commence principal photography in Rio De Janeiro in March 2008 and weaves together the stories of a treacherous drag queen, a nightclub diva ...
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Weinstein Company launches $285m Asian film fund
Harvey and Bob Weinstein have announced their long-planned $285m Asian film fund to finance the development, production, acquisition, marketing and distribution of Asian-themed films over the next six years.The Weinstein Company (TWC) will handle worldwide distribution for all films under the deal and domestic DVD distribution will go through Genius ...
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Russell Schwartz leaves New Line after six years
Russell Schwartz is leaving his position as New Line's president of domestic theatrical marketing after more than six years in the role.Schwartz will remain in place until the end of August, by which time studio's leadership will expect to have found a replacement. Beyond that he will be available as ...
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Josh Hartnett to star in George Ratliff's End Zone
George Ratliff, writer-director of psychological thriller Joshua (which debuted at Sundance and is in Locarno's competition this week) has recruited Josh Hartnett to appear in his next feature, End Zone. Hartnett will play a star player at a West Texas College who becomes increasingly obsessed with the threat of nuclear ...
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Simpsons continue to burn up international box office
International audiences kept The Simpsons Movie at the top of the overseas market for the second consecutive weekend as Fox International's comedy added an estimated $47.3m from 6,600 screens to raise the tally to $187m.Weekend business was driven by a robust $6.9m number one debut in Mexico on 850 screens ...
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Cannes titles to play at Hawaii International Film Festival
More than 150 features from global film-makers will screen at the 27th Annual Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival, which runs from Oct 18-28.The 11-day Oahu event includes screenings of Bela Tarr's The Man From London and Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Ploy from this year's Cannes Film Festival.Justin Lin's US mock documentary ...
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Dan Brown's Pierre wins top honours at SWSXclick
Dan Brown's Pierre won the 4th annual SXSWclick Festival's Grand Jury Prize and Will Elliott's Peterson's Savings And Loan took top honours in the audience award.Pierre won the Animate-It section, Peterson's Savings And Loan won the Old School Shorts, and Ubuntu by David Serota won the Really Real Shorts programme.Always ...