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Gooding tostar in heist thriller Hero Wanted for Millenium
Cuba Gooding Jr has signed to star in Millennium Films' Hero Wanted, which is scheduled to begin shooting in April in Bulgaria.Brian Smrz makes his directorial debut on the story of a garbage collector who stages a heist so he can play the hero and impress his girlfriend. When the ...
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AFCI launches Global Initiatives to assist producers
The Association Of Film Commmissioners International (AFCI), which is staging its annual Locations Trade Show in Los Angeles April 12 to 14, is launching a series of AFCI Global Initiatives.The initiatives include a worldwide educational programme covering the breadth of the film commission profession, easy access to the most current ...
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Women directors dominate SXSW awards
Films by women directors dominated the prizes at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW), the hip indie film festival and conference held in the Texan capital city of Austin.Jamie Babbit's narrative feature Itty Bitty Titty Committee won the top dramatic jury prize taking Best Narrative Feature. Jennifer Venditti's Billy The ...
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Showest keynotes offer upbeat message
Showest's state-of-the-industry addresses by Motion Picture Association of America chairman Dan Glickman and National Association of Theater Owners president John Fithian had an upbeat message.Both men characterised the record of 2006 movie attendance as an upswing and predicted even better performance in 2007. The MPAA last week announced 2006 US ...
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Spike Lee to receive directing award at 50th San Francisco festival
Spike Lee will receive the Film Society Directing Award at the upcoming 50th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) that runs from Apr 26-May 10.Lee will collect the honour at the Film Society Awards Night on May 3, when attendees will see a reel of Lee's film-making highlights followed by ...
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Book will open, Eagle to close 10th Bermuda festival
Paul Verhoeven's Black Book and Taika Waititi's Eagle Vs Shark bookend the 10th Bermuda International Film Festival, which runs from Mar 16-24.Bermuda-born actor Earl Cameron will return to the island to be honored with a film retrospective and take part in an on-stage interview on Mar 17. Cameron's credits include ...
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Tribeca adds star-studded world premieres in Encounters section
The Tribeca Film Festival unveiled the Encounters, Restored/Rediscovered and Midnight sections yesterday [March 13], as well as two special events.The new Encounters section is designed to offer provocative film-making from new and established talents. Screenings include the world premieres of The Air I Breathe starring Forest Whitaker, Brendan Fraser, Andy ...
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Mittur moves to Paramount for interactive and mobile job in Asia
Pradeep Mittur has been appointed Paramount Pictures' vice president of interactive and mobile entertainment for the Asia Pacific region.Based in Singapore, Mittur will drive Paramount Digital Entertainment's interactive and mobile businesses across the region, and explore new revenue streams and technologies.Mittur, who will report to senior vice president of interactive ...
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Viacom files $1bn lawsuit against Google, YouTube
Viacom has filed a lawsuit suing Google and its hugely popular online video subsidiary YouTube for $1bn yesterday [March 13] for making available close to 160,000 unauthorised clips of Viacom material.In papers filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the plaintiff claimed that the ...
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Argentinian co-productions go global, new deals announced
Argentina's film institute (INCAA) announced at Mar del Plata Film Festival new co-production agreements with China, Israel, France, Germany and Switzerland to be signed in the next weeks. 'We are very hopeful about the future. We have signed a similar agreement with Spain four years ago, and now more than ...
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International distributors, exhibitors call for cheaper digital options
After an upbeat presentation by Paramount Pictures International Andrew Cripps on the opening day of ShoWest, the tone darkened somewhat as attendees heard a somber warning about the cost of digital conversion.Speaking on a panel entitled Digital Cinema - The Way Forward, Warner Bros International Cinemas Millard Ochs called for ...
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Dimension to produce biker gang pic Hell Ride
Dimension Films will produce the biker gang revenge story Hell Ride starring Larry Bishop, who will direct from his own screenplay.Michael Steinberg and Shana Stein of Steinberg & Stein Production will produce the Quentin Tarantino presentation alongside Bishop, with production set to begin in spring 2007.Hell Ride centres on The ...
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Apted, Dahl, Gibney, Burns films among Tribeca world premieres
The 2007 Tribeca Film Festival has announced this year's world narrative and world documentary features and Spotlight selections.Eighteen narrative features and 16 documentaries from 25 countries - including 10 world premieres - will vie for combined unrestricted cash prizes during the festival, set to run in New York City from ...
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Argentina to sign co-production deals with China, France others
Argentina's film institute INCAA announced at the Mar del Plata Film Festival yesterday that new co-production agreements were due to be signed with China, Israel, France, Germany and Switzerland in the coming weeks.'We are very hopeful about the future. We signed a similar agreement with Spain four years ago, and ...
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Picturehouse marches with Jacquet on Fox & The Child
Picturehouse has acquired US rights from Wild Bunch to Luc Jacquet's March Of The Penguins follow-up The Fox & The Child.The Bonne Pioche production was first announced at Sundance 2006 and is being produced by Jacquet's team of Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud and Emmanuel Priou.The Fox & Child is based ...
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Future expands US office with appointment of Charlotte Koh
Future Films USA has hired former Fox Searchlight executive Charlotte Koh as its business development executive. Koh will report to Future USA's CEO Simon Horsman. Future said it would expand further in the coming months with the appointment of a production and development executive.At Fox Searchlight, Koh was a Creative ...
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Tribeca and RES founders team for Tomorrow Unlimited
Tribeca Enterprises, parent company of the Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca Cinemas, is partnering with some of the former heads of RES MEDIA group for a new venture, Tomorrow Unlimited LLC. Tomorrow will be led by CEO Karol Martesko-Fenster and COO John Turk, who co-founded and ran digital film and ...
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Palm gets domestic on Mitsuru's Glamorous Life
Palm Pictures has picked up North American rights to Meike Mitsuru's political satire The Glamorous Life Of Sachiko Hanai.The distributor plans an April 2007 release on the story of a call girl who develops psychic powers after she is shot in the head.The woman soon finds herself being pursued after ...
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Violin, Banished, Red Road take top honours at Miami
Francisco Vargas Quevedo's El Violin from Mexico and Marco Williams' Banished from the USA won the respective Ibero-American drama and documentary competition sections at the 24th annual Miami International Film Festival during the awards evening on Saturday night (March 10).Meanwhile, Andrea Arnold's much acclaimed Red Road won the World Cinema ...
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De Bokay takes reins of Miami Film Festival from Guillemet
Patrick De Bokay is to succeed Nicole Guillemet as director of the Miami International Film Festival. Guillemet had announced last year that she would be leaving the festival after this year's event which finished yesterday (Sunday).French-born De Bokay's career has principally been in film marketing and advertising and has held ...