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All Americas articles – Page 318
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Utah increases rebate to film-makers from 10% to 15%
The Utah Film Commission has increased by 50% the rebate available to film-makers through the State's Motion Picture Incentive Fund (MPIF).The incentive package rises from 10% to a 15% post-performance rebate for every dollar spent in the state of Utah.The cap on the fund remains at $500,000 and the budget ...
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Global Film Initiative appoints six new board members
The Global Film Initiative has announced the appointment of six new members to its board of directors.The new recruits join the current six-member board in advising the Initiative and its ongoing expansion of the Global Lens touring film series and related programmes.Now in its fifth year, the Initiative recently introduced ...
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IMAX to install cinema in Nanjing multiplex
IMAX Corp and Nanjing Deji Plaza Co, based in the Chinese city of Nanjing, have signed an agreement that will see an IMAX cinema installed in the new Deji Plaza Mall shopping complex. The cinema, which will be capable of playing both IMAX 2D and 3D pictures, will be part ...
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Spottiswoode Rwanda drama to open Atlantic Film Festival
Roger Spottiswoode's Rwanda genocide drama Shake Hands With The Devil will open the 27th Atlantic Film Festival on September 13. Based on the memoir by Canadian Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, leader of the UN force that was unable to prevent the 1994 atrocity, the film stars Roy Dupuis in the lead ...
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Burnett Fefferman gets top publicity job at IDP/Samuel Goidwyn Films
Liza Burnett Fefferman has been named senior vice president of publicity at IDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films.Effective immediately, Fefferman will head the PR department overseeing the company's film slate in addition to managing corporate publicity and branding. Based in New York, she reports to IDP president Michael Silberman.She most recently served as ...
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Walden options family comedy Relativity by Peter Craig
Walden Media has optioned Peter Craig's family comedy screenplay Relativity.The story revolves around parents who on the occasion of their 35th wedding anniversary gather their children to reveal a big secret that sends shockwaves through the family.Vice president of development Evan Turner brought the project to the company and will ...
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Samuel Goldwyn to handle US distribution of Southland Tales
Samuel Goldwyn Films will release Richard Kelly's Southland Tales in the US on Nov 9 in association with Destination Films and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group.The long awaited release follows the film's world premiere at Cannes 2006, when Kelly's follow-up to his 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko came under fire ...
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Meirelles' Blindness sees start of shoot in Toronto
Fernando Meirelles has begun principal photography on Blindness, a $25m multi-territory co-production adapted from the novel by Jose Saramago by Don McKellar. The film stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Maury Chaykin and Gael Garcia Bernal. McKellar is also a featured player. The ...
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Edith Kramer named guest director at Telluride 2007
Edith R Kramer will be the guest director at the Telluride Film Festival, which runs in Colorado from Aug 31-Sept 3.Kramer is renowned for her work in film preservation and collection development, and previously served as senior film curator and director of the Pacific Film Archive at the University of ...
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ICM, MGlobal Trust team on LA-based Indian Splendor
Prominent Indian film-makers, performers, and business and spiritual leaders will descend on Southern California next month to attend a celebration to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Indian independence.India Splendor will take place from Aug 10-15 and is being hosted by MGlobal Trust in association with ICM and the UCLA School ...
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Legendary Hungarian DP Laszlo Kovacs dies at 74
Laszlo Kovacs, the Hungarian-born cinematographer who fled his country during the 1956 revolution and went on to become one of the most influential DPs in Hollywood, died at his Beverly Hills home on Jul 22, aged 74.Kovacs amassed a sterling body of work during the late 1960s and early 1970s ...
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Film Independent names ten projects in first Screenwriters Lab
Film Independent has announced the 10 projects and fellows in the annual Screenwriters Lab, which runs in Los Angeles from Jul 30-Sept 12.Jeff Kleeman will teach the Lab, which is sponsored by the Writers Guild of America, West. Guest speakers include The Good Shepherd writer Eric Roth and The Dead ...
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Veteran PR executive Gardner dies in New York, aged 88
Public Relations executive Margaret Gardner died at her Park Avenue apartment in New York City on Jul 19 following a battle against cancer. She was 88.Gardner was born in Marinette, Wisconsin, and moved to Los Angeles after finishing high school to join her brother, the producer Arthur Gardner, who at ...
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Bromstad to head international TV production at NBC Universal
Angela Bromstad has been named president of international television production at NBC Universal International.Based in London to head the new division, Bromstad will spearhead television content partnerships and oversee an increase in local production across all territories.She previously served as president of the Los Angeles-based NBC Universal Television Studios, now ...
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Romero's Diary Of The Dead heads TIFF Midnight Madness
George Romero's Diary Of The Dead was one of the titles announced in the Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness sidebar today. The festival also announced titles in its child-oriented Sprockets Family Zone programme and the experimental strand Wavelengths. Diary follows a group of student filmmakers whose amateur horror production ...
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Arndt promoted at NBC Universal TV Distribution
Haydn Arndt has been promoted to senior vice president, sales liaison at NBC Universal International Television Distribution.Arndt, who most recently served as vice president, sales liaison, overseeing Australia and New Zealand, will continue to be based in NBC Universal's Sydney office.Since joining NBC Universal in 2005, he has overseen the ...
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Brazilian admissions steady but ticket price rise boosts sales 4%
Brazilian cinema admissions in the first six months of 2007 matched the figures for the same period last year, with attendance up only 0.15%. Box-office sales, however, rose 4% thanks to increase in ticket prices. According to Filme B, a local film company that reviews theatrical market numbers, Brazil's total ...
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Chuck And Larry squeeze Harry at US box office
Universal's comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry cut short Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix' table topping career as it opened number one on an estimated $34.8m.Audiences preferred the new Adam Sandler and Kevin James story of friends who fake a gay civil union to the ...
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Wine growing comedy prepares to uncork
Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Freddy Rodriguez, Rachael Taylor from Transformers, Chris Pine, and Eliza Dushku will star in Randall Miller's wine growing comedy Bottle Shock.The IPW, Zin Haze and Unclaimed Freight Production joint enterprise will begin shooting in the Napa and Sonoma Valley regions of California on Aug 1.Jody Savin ...
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Universal's Wanted finishes Czech leg of shoot
Timur Bekmambetov wrapped production on Universal's Wanted in the Czech Republic on Saturday. The crew now moves on to Chicago, where they will shoot Aug 7-17. Czech press reported Bekmambetov as saying the budget of the film was $50m. The film is the first in production and distribution deal between ...