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Watchmen's Snyder to get ShoWest Director of Year Award
Watchmen director Zack Snyder will receive the ShoWest 2009 Director Of The Year Award in Las Vegas on April 2.Snyder shot to fame with the 2004 release of his of zombie remake Dawn Of The Dead and followed that up with the global juggernaut 300.Now all eyes will be on ...
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Film Movement takes North American rights to Munyurangabo
Film Movement has acquired all North American rights to first-time American film-maker Lee Isaac Chung's Rwandan genocide tale Munyurangabo.The feature was shot entirely in the native Kinyarwanda dialect usinga non-professional cast and crew that included genocide orphans.Munyurangabo premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2007 andwill open in May. ...
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Alexander promoted to senior executive VP at Sony International
Ralph Alexander has been promoted to senior executive vice president of international operations and distribution at Sony Pictures Releasing International.Alexander will oversee 23 managing directors as well as the generaloperational and administrative issues of the territory offices. Hewill also work on a wide range of issues arising out of the ...
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NewsTribeca to open with Woody Allen's Whatever Works
The world premiere of Woody Allen’s Whatever Works starring Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley Jr will open the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival on April 22.The picture’s North American distributor Sony Pictures Classics plans a summer release and said the opening night ...
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Benjamin Button crosses $175m but Watchmen looms
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button continued a magnificent overseas run through Warner Bros Pictures International to remain top of the Hollywood pack as it soared past the $175m mark. Its domination looks likely to end next weekend, however, when Paramount Pictures International launches the graphic novel adaptation Watchmen day-and-date ...
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Slumdog Millionaire bounces 45% after Oscar wins
The Tyler Perry phenomenon - with Madea Goes To Jail - rolled on at the weekend and eclipsed The Jonas Brothers to hold on to its number one berth for the second consecutive weekend on an estimated $16.5m for $64.9m through Lionsgate.Revenues for the top 12 releases climbed for the ...
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NewsPeter Scarlet resigns as artistic director of Tribeca Film Festival
Peter Scarlet has resigned his post as Tribeca Film Festival’s artistic director, ten days after it was announced that former Sundance director Geoff Gilmore will arrive in Marchto take up an expansive new role at the New York event.
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Australia nears $150m with final territory opening in Japan
Warner Bros Pictures International's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button has reached $161m from its overseas adventure and will look to hold on to its international crown this weekend.However with no new releases scheduled for the next several days thedrama may struggle against Sony Pictures Releasing International'sbanking thriller The International ...
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Regent takes US rights to Spottiswoode's Shake Hands With The Devil
Regent Releasing has picked up US rights from Halifax Film to RogerSpottiswoode's drama Shake Hands With The Devil and will release inthe summer.Roy Dupuis stars as Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, a Canadianformer United Nations military officer who alerted the world toongoing atrocities in the war between African Hutu and Tutsi tribes.Deborah ...
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How will film festivals survive the funding crunch'
A snapshot is emerging of an international festival landscape in dramatic flux, as festivals of all sizes are being forced to look anew at how they operate.Last autumn the Jackson Hole Film Festival in Wyoming announced it was shutting down after barely five years of existence, a victim of the ...
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Awards - Oscar winners - Millionaire's playground
When we started out we had no stars, no power or muscle to do what we wanted. But what we had was a script that had mad love and a genius director ... and we had partners in Film4, Pathe and Fox Searchlight."Celador chief Christian Colson's words after hoisting aloft ...
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Dutch DP Anton Van Munster dies at the age of 74
Anton Van Munster, the award-winning cinematographer and brother of producer-director Bertram van Munster, died on February 11 in Holland after a brief illness. He was 74.After studying cinematography in Rome at the Centro Spirimentale Di Cinematografia, Van Munster worked for many years with Dutch director Bert Haanstra. Their work on ...
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Zac Efron to be honoured at ShoWest as Breakthrough Performer
Zac Efron is the latest name to be added to the honouree roster at ShoWest and will collect the 2009 Breakthrough Performer Of The Year Award on April 2.Efron appeared on stage in a musical number at the 81st Annual Academy Awards last weekend and his credits include the High ...
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Oscilloscope takes domestic rights to Oscar-nominated Garden
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired all North American distribution rights to Scott Hamilton Kennedy's Oscar-nominated documentary The Garden.The New York-based company plans a theatrical release this spring and DVD release in early summer on the story of a political wrangle over the fate of a community garden.David Fenkel negotiated the deal ...
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Regent sets May as US release for Oscar winning Departures
Regent Releasing and Here Media will release their Japanese foreign language Oscar winner Departures in May, the distributor said following the picture's Academy Awards win at the weekend.Yojiro Takita's victory marked the first time Regent and Here received an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category and the ...
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Coppola's Tetro set for US release through Zoetrope on June 11
American Zoetrope will self-release Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro in limited release in the US on June 11 based on the first original screenplay by Coppola since The Conversation in 1974.The story tells of two brothers, of family lost and found, and the conflicts and tragedies within a highly creative Argentine-Italian ...
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Cooper named comedy star of the year at ShoWest
Bradley Cooper will receive the ShoWest 2009 Comedy Star of the Year Award on April 2 in Las Vegas.Cooper will next be seen in Warner Bros'' Las Vegas-set comedy The Hangover on June 12 opposite Justin Bartha and Zach Galifianakis and his previous credits include Wedding Crashers, Yes Man and ...
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Magnet Releasing imports Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson to US
Magnet Releasing has acquired US rights to Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson following the drama's Sundance and Rotterdam screenings. The film had its world premiere at the London Film Festival last year.This is the second time Refn has partnered with Magnet after the distributor and its sister company Magnolia released his ...
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Salomon signs on to direct Rocky Marciano boxing biopic
Mikael Salomon has signed on to direct M.E.G.A. Film's boxing biopic Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story.According to M.E.G.A. Film's founder Morris S Levy, who will produce, this is the first authorised picture about the sporting legend's life and will reveal new details from the fighter's younger brother Lou Marciano.The story ...
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Anaheim University names digital school after Akira Kurosawa
Anaheim University in southern California is to launch a state-of-the-art digital school named after Akira Kurosawa on March 23, the day the late Japanese film-maker would have turned 99.The Anaheim University Akira Kurosawa School Of Film will unveil details of its online digital film programmes and other initiatives on the ...