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Withoutabox launches online festival submission model Secure Online Screeners
Independent film-maker and festival resource Withoutabox has launched Secure Online Screeners in a move that allows festival to manage submissions entirely over the internet.
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NewsCircus Road takes worldwide rights to Right To Bear Arms
Producers reps Circus Road Films has acquired worldwide rights to Blue Wood Films’ Right To Bear Arms and is in talks with North American distributors.
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NewsGwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw join Screen Gems' Love Don't Let Me Down
Gwyneth Paltrow will star opposite country singer and actor Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meester in Screen Gems’ drama Love Don’t Let Me Down.
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NewsBahamas to honour Johnny Depp with career award
Three-time Academy Award nominee Johnny Depp will collect the Bahamas International Film Festival’s career achievement award later this month.
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NewsVideo game hot-shot Keith Arem to direct Frost Road
Keith Arem, director of the video game Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 that achieved $550m in sales in its first five days earlier in the month, will make his feature directorial debut on the action thriller Frost Road.
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NewsHurt Locker, The Maid among IFP New York Gotham winners
IFP New York handed out the first prizes in the 2009/10 awards season last night [November 30] as Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker and Robert Kenner’s Food, Inc were named best feature and documentary at the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards in New York.
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NewsAlliance, CBS Films strike Canadian distribution deal through 2012
Alliance Films will handle the release of the CBS Films slate through 2012 under the terms of a deal announced today(December 1).
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NewsSandra Bullock to receive Santa Barbara American Riviera Award
Hot off her second $100m-plus film of the year, Sandra Bullock will receive the 25th Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s American Riviera Award on February 5.
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NewsPalm Springs to honour Helen Mirren with career award
Helen Mirren will receive the 21stPalm Springs International Film Festival’s Career Achievement Award on January 5.
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Camelot fetches worldwide rights to family title Wiener Dog Nationals
Camelot Entertainment Group has picked up worldwide distribution rights to the upcoming family film Wiener Dog Nationals that is set to begin filming in 2010.
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NewsGreg Silverman promoted to new development and production role at Warner Bros
Greg Silverman has been promoted to the newly created position of executive vice-president of creative development and production at Warner Bros.
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NewsParamount takes US rights to red-hot Oren Peli's Area 51
Paramount Pictures has reunited with Paranormal Activity (pictured) director Oren Peli, paying high seven figures for US rights to the in-demand film-maker’s alien thriller follow-up Area 51.
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NewsNew Moon leads record Thanksgiving weekend with $42.5m gross
The Twilight Saga: New Moon narrowly held on to its number one berth over a record Thanksgiving holiday weekend that saw it add a further $42.5m over three days and $66m over five according to estimates from Summit Entertainment, raising the domestic tally to $230.7m.
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NewsNew Moon bites further $85.1m out of overseas box office to reach $243m
Summit Entertainment’s Twilight Saga: New Moon maintained a devastating early pace as an estimated $85.1m international haul in the second weekend raised the tally to $243m.
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FeaturesThe golden night
The Golden Globes is hoping to make its annual banquet awards presentation (Jan 17) even more lively than usual with the addition of Ricky Gervais as host.
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NewsIFP names Joana Vicente interim executive director as Michelle Byrd departs
Joana Vicente (pictured) will serve as interim executive director of IFP following the departure of Michelle Byrd, who is stepping down after 16 years of service.
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NewsProtektor, The Good Soldier among winners at Starz Denver Film Festival
Marek Najbrt’s Protektor (still pictured) won the Starz Denver Film Festival’s (SDFF) Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for best feature film as the event came to a close on November 22.
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NewsGravity Films signs Katherine Brooks to direct female jockey biopic Freak
LA-based Gravity Films has attached Katherine Brooks (pictured) to direct its first film Freak, based on the life of Julie Krone, the only female jockey in the US to win a Triple Crown race.
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NewsGirlfriend Experience, Sin Nombre among 38 features to screen in Bahamas
Steven Soderbergh’s drama The Girlfriend Experience and Joshua Goldin’s dark comedy Wonderful World starring Matthew Broderick are among the line-up of 38 features at the sixth Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF).
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NewsOlivia Thirlby to star in Sherry Hormann's The No Game
Olivia Thirlby (pictured) will star alongside Marcia Gay Harden and Shohreh Aghdashloo on Sherry Hormann’s drama The No Game, set to commence shooting in New York and Israel in March 2010.