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P.O.V. to broadcast Israeli Sundance doc Hot House
P.O.V., the long-running strand for non-fiction films on US public television (PBS), has picked up broadcast rights to Shimon Dotan's Israeli documentary Hot House following its recent world premiere at Sundance.The film played in the World Cinema Competition: Documentary programme and examines the lives of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.P.O.V. ...
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Feiffer receives lifetime achievement award from WGAW
Screenwriter, playwright and cartoonist Jules Feiffer will receive the Writers Guild of America, West's (WGAW) ninth annual Animation Writing Award for lifetime achievement.Feiffer's credits include Little Murders (1970) and Carnal Knowledge (1971), both of which earned WGA nominations, as well as 1980's Popeye, directed by the late Robert Altman.He received ...
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Hand Picked duo tune into Vivaldi life-story
Hand Picked Films' Michel Shane and Anthony Romano and financier Carlos Melcer have boarded the musical biopic Vivaldi, which is set to star Joseph Fiennes.Shane and Romano, whose executive producer credits include I, Robot and Catch Me If You Can, will produce alongside Boris Damast and Andrea Kikot of Mechaniks, ...
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Hoskins joins Mitra in Doomsday cast
Bob Hoskins has joined Rhona Mitra on the cast of Rogue Pictures' action thriller Doomsday, Neil Marshall's follow-up to his horror hit The Descent.Production is set to begin on Feb 9 in South Africa. Crystal Sky Pictures' Steven Paul and Benedict Carver are producing and Intrepid Pictures principals Trevor Macy ...
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Mirren, Whitaker win SAG awards in final stages of Oscar race
Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren confirmed their status as favourites to claim the Oscar after they won top honours at the 13 Annual Screen Actors Guild in Los Angeles last night.Confirming that it is a best picture Oscar frontrunner, Little Miss Sunshine won the ensemble cast award, beating heavyweight films ...
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Tijuana, Unsettled are top Slamdance winners
The 13th Slamdance Film Festival announced its 16 film and screenplay prize-winners as the event wound down at the weekend.The festival received a record 3,600-plus submissions from 20 countries for less than 100 slots, and registered approximately 20,000 attendees.There was one high-profile sale, as Picturehouse bought domestic rights to Seth ...
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Padre Nuestro, Manda Bala take top Sundance prizes, as dealmaking slows
The Sundance deals avalanche slowed down as the festival ended over the weekend, with THINKFilm picking up North American rights to David Wain's comedy The Ten in association with City Lights Pictures' joint venture with Warner Music Group division WEA.THINKFilm plans a summer release for the film, which deploys 10 ...
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Producing nominees named for Best Picture Oscar
The producers branch executive committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the final roster of producers nominated in the best picture category for the 79th Annual Academy Awards.Graham King was named sole producing nominee on The Departed, while Brad Grey, Brad Pitt and Martin Scorsese, ...
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Museum remains top for Fox, followed by Happyness, Diamond
Fox International's Night At The Museum remained the overseas champion yet again as it added an estimated $14.6m from 2,500 screens in 48 markets for $193.7m.The family film opened top in Spain on $5.6m from 483 and top in the Philippines on $800,000 from 96. It ranked fourth in its ...
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Epic Movie has epic $19.2m opening for Fox in North America
Fox's incredible run of form continued as the comedy spoof Epic Movie opened atop the charts on an estimated $19.2m, beating out Universal's crime caper Smokin' Aces in second place on $14.3m. Epic Movie, which stars Kal Penn and Carmen Electra and pokes fun at movies from Superman Returns to ...
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Screen Index down 17% this week but Italy is booming
Collective global box-office takings of nine major territories fell 17% this week compared to the same week last year, largely due to drops in North America, France and South Korea, according to the Screen International Screen Index. This week, North America saw a 19.3% dip in its top 30 films ...
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Sundance and NHK announce four winners of filmmaker awards
Sundance Institute and Japan Broadcasting Corporation NHK have announced the winners of the 2007 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards.The four winners will each receive a $10,000 award at the annual awards ceremony on Jan 27 and a guarantee from NHK to purchase the Japanese television broadcast rights upon completion of their ...
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Oscar nominees Dreamgirls, Blood Diamond hit major territories
Dreamgirls, the recipient of eight Oscar nominations on Tuesday, gets its first major international push this weekend.Paramount/PPI executives will be looking to convert the recognition into healthy overseas returns when it opens the hit musical in Italy, Mexico and Spain on Jan 26.Meanwhile the family film Charlotte's Web opens in ...
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Mar del Plata inaugurates $50,000 cash prize for new Latin films
The 22nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival, which runs March 8-18, is launching the Ernesto Che Guevara prize with a cash award of $50,000 for the best film in a new section reserved for first and second Latin American features and documentaries to run parallel to the official competition. ...
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$50,000 cash prize for Latin American films launched
The 22nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival (March 8-18) is set to launch the Ernesto Che Guevara prize with a cash award of $50,000 for Best Film in a new section reserved for first and second Latin American features and documentaries, which will run parallel to the official competition. ...
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Banderas to direct two new projects as Death's Other Kingdom stalls
Antonio Banderas has two new projects in mind to direct in Spain following his Malaga-set drama Summer Rain, screening in both Sundance and Berlin. Banderas said he is moving forward on a long-gestating project about Boabdil, the last Caliph of the Kingdom of Granada, envisioned as a Spain-France-Morocco co-production through ...
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Overture takes US rights to Theron-starrer Ferris Wheel
Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett's Overture Films has made its firstacquisition, picking up all US rights to Charlize Theron's passion project Ferris Wheel.The Canadian shoot wrapped recently yet ICM's independent andinternational film division chief Hal Sadoff wasted little time,brokering the deal at Sundance after showing footage to buyers allweek. No ...
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Reactions in full to Oscar nominations
Al Gore, star of documentary feature nominee An Inconvenient Truth'I am thrilled for our director Davis Guggenheim and producers Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Burns and co-producer Lesley Chilcott. The film they created has brought awareness of the climate crisis to people in the United States and all over the ...
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Cinemavault to introduce The Listening to buyers at Berlin
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International has acquired international sales rights to political thriller The Listening and will introduce to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin next month.Giacomo Martelli's film exposes the dangers of Echelon, a real-life surveillance system used by the National Security Agency that has been described in ...
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Rambow sells for $7.5m to Paramount Vantage at busy Sundance
Paramount Vantage finally made a big play at its maiden Sundance, swooping on Garth Jennings' coming-of-age tale Son Of Rambow and Ian Iqbal Rashid's hip-hop drama How She Move for an estimated combined cost of $11.5m.In another intense day of deals in Park City, the Weinsteins announced two more joint ...