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La Vie En Rose to open French cinema Rendez-vous in New York
Olivier Dahan's Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose will launch the 12th Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance's annual showcase of French cinema.La Vie En Rose, which will open Berlin on Feb 8, stars Marian Cotillard and Gerard Depardieu and chronicles the singer's ...
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Non-profit Shelley Foundation set up in honour of Waitress director
Andy Ostroy has set up the Adrienne Shelly Foundation dedicated to the memory of his late wife, actor and director who was found dead in New York last November.The non-profit organisation will focus on women with the stated aim of helping to finance student films and independent projects, supplement film ...
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Leva doc to premiere at San Francisco Film Festival on Apr 26
The 50th San Francisco International Film Festival will host the world premiere of Gary Leva's documentary Fog City Mavericks.The eminently appropriate choice to play at the festival's 50th anniversary proceedings hails the work of George Lucas and other innovative Bay Area film-makers. Lucas and others profiled in the film will ...
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Bon Cop, Kigali lead Jutra Award nominations in Quebec
Bon Cop, Bad Cop and Un Dimanche A Kigali (A Sunday In Kigali) each received 12 nominations as Quebec's Jutra Awards announced the contenders for the 2007 edition. Philippe Falardeau's Congorama followed with six nominations, including Best Picture, while Stephane Lapointe's La Vie Secrete Des Gens Heureux (also a Best ...
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Dreamgirls leads Oscar nominees but shut out of Best Picture race
Dreamgirls led the Oscar race with eight nominations this morning but the hit musical was shut out of the best picture and director categories. It also took three nominations in the best song category, meaning that it could only win five Oscars at most. Best picture nominees were Alejandro Gonzalez ...
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Paramount signs first-look deal with MTV Films Europe
Paramount Pictures International has signed a three-year first-look deal with London and Los Angeles-based Zilli Films, which operates MTV Films Europe. CEO and founder Jonathan Zilli and head of development and production Bobby Allen run Zilli Films, which has the license to develop MTV branded feature films in Europe. MTV ...
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Paris Hilton-starrer starts production for Purple Pictures in LA
Hadeel Reda's financing and production company Purple Pictures has begun principal photography in Los Angeles on its debut feature The Hottie And The Nottie.Joel David Moore, Christine Lakin and Paris Hilton star in the comedy about a young man who learns he will only be able to get a date ...
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Avalanche of pricey Sundance deals includes Clubland, Waitress, Joshua
The trickle of deals quickened to a torrent in Park City on Monday as buyers announced a slew of expensive acquisitions.Warner Independent Pictures (WiP) paid in the region of $4m for North American, UK and German rights to the comedy Clubland late in the afternoon. Separately, UK-based Goalpost Film sold ...
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Furst, Kessel to head productions and acquisitions for Overture
Sean Furst and Robert Kessel have been appointed executive vicepresidents of productions and acquisitions at Starz' new theatricaldivision Overture Films.Furst will be based at Overture's Los Angeles headquarters and Kesselwill operate out of New York. Furst's brother Bryan arrives as seniorvice president of productions and acquisitions and will also be ...
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Sundance deal-making starts slowly, but finally takes off
After several days of toe-dipping, buyers in Park City finally took the plunge and closed a flurry of deals at the weekend.Corporate stablemates Picturehouse and New Line swooped on rights to Seth Gordon's Slamdance documentary The King Of Kong.The Weinstein Company paid in the region of $4m for worldwide rights ...
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Kasell steps down as executive director of Hamptons Film Festival
Denise Kasell is leaving her post as executive director of the Hamptons International Film Festival after nine years at the event.Board chairman Stuart Match Suna and the Hamptons board are searching for a replacement. Artistic director Rajendra Roy remains in place.'Denise's tenure has been a boon to the Hamptons Film ...
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Vantage teams with Morgan Stanley for $150m financing fund
Paramount Vantage has set up a $150m film financing fund with Morgan Stanley called Marathon Funding, which will invest in the production of at least 15 films.The arrangement covers Babel, as well as the 10 films scheduled to open through Vantage this year. Titles include Paul Thomas Anderson's oil prospector ...
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Little Miss Sunshine surprise winner of the PGA prize for best film
Fox Searchlight's Little Miss Sunshine trumped heavyweights Babel, Dreamgirls, The Queen and The Departed at the Producers Guild of America (PGA) awards in Los Angeles on Saturday [Jan 20].The comedy won the night's big prize, the Darryl F Zanuck award, in a result that recognised producers Marc Turtletaub, David T ...
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Stomp has second weekend at top of North American box office
Screen Gems' Stomp The Yard remained on top for the second consecutive while Fox's Night At The Museum held firm in second place and crossed $200m in its fifth weekend.Dance drama Stomp The Yard raised its tally by an estimated $13.3m to $41.6m while $13m eased Night At The Museum ...
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Little Miss Sunshine surprise win at PGA awards
The producers of Little Miss Sunshine were the surprise winners of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) theatical motion picture award.The winner of the award has matched the best picture at the Oscars for 11 of the last 17 years.Marc Turtletaub, David T Friendly, Peter Saraf, Albert Berger and Ron ...
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Sundance Film Festival 2007
Reviews (A-Z)(Click to go to review)An American Crime (Tommy O'Haver, US)Although excruciating to watch, Tommy O'Haver's real-life crime drama is so well-crafted and well-acted that it resonates long after the credits, says Mike GoodridgeCatch And Release (Susannah Grant, US)Susannah Grant's ambitious romantic comedy-drama is a jumble of tones unsuccessfully searching ...
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Eight major territories, led by Italy, show box-office increases this week
Eight major territories collectively saw box-office increases compared to the same week last year, due to the success of big-name studio films this week, according to Screen International's own Screen Index. Italy leads the increase - the territory was up 43% after The Pursuit Of Happyness grossed $4.7m in its ...
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Discovery steps In The Shadow Of The Moon
Discovery Communications and its Discovery Films unit have acquired rights to London-based DOX Production's and Passion Films' In The Shadow Of The Moon, set to get its world premiere here today (Friday).Discovery Films, the theatrical documentary unit of DCI, will take an equity interest in North American theatrical distribution, branding ...
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Nair takes the reins of Depp-starrer Shantaram for Initial
Initial Entertainment Group and Infinitum Nihil have signed Mira Nair to direct the upcoming India-set epic Shantaram.The announcement follows a prolonged period of negotiations to find a suitable film-maker that at one point included Peter Weir before the Australian director left the project.Johnny Depp will star in the adaptation of ...
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IndieVest launches production/distribution arm with Burton, Wall
Wade H Bradley, the CEO and founder of film financing outfit IndieVest, has launched production and distribution house IndieVest Pictures and hired Mark Burton (pictured above) as head of production.Former Rogue Pictures co-founder Matt Wall has been appointed vice president of development and Bradley expects to announce his distribution chief ...