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Last Chance Harvey will open Palm Springs festival on Jan 6
Joel Hopkins' romance Last Chance Harvey and Guillermo Arriaga's drama The Burning Plain bookend the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, set to run from January 6-19.The line-up of 210 films culled from 73 countries includes the US premiere of Nigel Cole's road movie $5 A Day and the ...
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ITVS International Call 2008 backs five documentaries
Independent Television Service (ITVS) has boarded five projects from its recently completed ITVS International Call 2008 that drew 385 submissions from 74 countries.Since 2005, nearly 100 international programmes including Ari Folman's acclaimed Waltz With Bashir have been supported through ITVS International's Global Perspectives Project and its International Media Development Fund.The ...
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Christopher Nolan to receive ASC Board Of Governors Award
The Dark Knight director, producer and co-writer Christopher Nolan will receive the American Society Of Cinematographers' Board Of Governors Award during the 23rd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration in Los Angeles on February 15.Nolan's credits include Batman Begins, Memento, The Prestige and Insomnia.'Chris Nolan is infused with talent with ...
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49 songs cleared for contention at 81st Academy Awards
Forty-nine songs will vie for the best original song at the 81st Academy Awards on February 22.The original songs and the film in which they appear are listed belowin alphabetical order by song title:Another Way To Die Quantum Of SolaceBarking At The Moon BoltThe Boys Are Back High School Musical ...
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The Film Department to remake Italy's Perfect Man with Chelsom
The Film Department has hired Peter Chelsom to direct The Perfect Man, a remake of Luca Lucini's 2005 comedy L'Uomo Perfetto.Colleen McGuinness is adapting the screenplay about a jealous young woman who hires a male model to lure a woman away from her best friend.Di Novi Pictures is producing the ...
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DreamWorks' I Love You, Man to open SXSW on March 13
The world premiere of DreamWorks' comedy I Love You, Man starring Jason Segel and Paul Rudd will open the 2009 South By SouthWest Film Festival on March 13.Rudd plays a friendless real estate agent who embarks on a series of 'man dates' to find a best man for his upcoming ...
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Sundance Institute selects 12 projects for annual Screenwriters Lab
Sundance Institute has selected 12 projects for the annual January Screenwriters Lab to be held from January 9-14.The five-day writer's workshop is designed to give independent screenwriters the chance to work intensively on their feature scripts with the support of established writers.The projects selected for the 2009 January Screenwriters Lab ...
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Gumpert promoted to president of department at Columbia Pictures
Andrew Gumpert has been promoted to president of business affairs and administration for Columbia Pictures.Gumpert will work closely with Columbia presidents Matt Tolmach and Doug Belgrad and will not only oversee deal negotiations and administration for the studio but will be integrally involved in the budgeting and financing aspects of ...
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Graham King's GK Films acquires rights to life story of John Martorano
Graham King's GK Films has acquired feature rights to the true-life story of former mobster John Martorano, who was released from prison in 2007 after serving 14 years for murder.King, who recently completed shooting the thriller Edge Of Darkness starring Mel Gibson on location in Massachusetts, will produce the feature. ...
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Day The Earth Stood Still also reigns in North America with $31m
Twentieth Century Fox's sci-fi remake The Day The Earth Stood Still stormed to the top of the charts on an estimated $31m at the weekend to give Keanu Reeves his first number one launch since The Matrix Revolutions five years ago.Reeves stars as an alien who comes to Earth to ...
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Chris Weitz takes on directing reins for Twilight sequel New Moon
Summit Entertainment has confirmed rumours that Chris Weitz will direct Twilight sequel New Moon after the smash vampire romance's original director Catherine Hardwicke pulled out.Weitz previously directed the drama About A Boy and the fantasy adventure The Golden Compass, a project he initially departed in 2005 because he felt the ...
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Bob Yari's US distribution division files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Bob Yari has announced that Yari Film Group's releasing division has been compelled by court order to go into involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy, effective immediately.It is understood the move followed legal action by four creditors. Yari called the events a 'perfect storm' of tightening credit markets and the Axium bankruptcy, ...
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AFI's annual top ten includes Button, Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced its top ten films of the year at the weekend, ahead of the awards ceremony in Los Angeles on January 9.The AFI movie of the year in alphabetical order are: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gran Torino, ...
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Fox rules planet with $39m launch for Day The Earth Stood Still
Keanu Reeves returned with his first number one hit in five years as Fox International's The Day The Earth Stood Still dominated the overseas box office with a $39m estimated haul.Playing in approximately 7,700 screens in 90 day-and-date date markets, the sci-fi remake opened top in 53 markets including the ...
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Hugh Jackman named as host for Academy Awards show
Hugh Jackman will host the 81st Academy Awards on February 22 in what will be the Australian entertainer's first time in the role.'Hugh Jackman is a consummate entertainer and an internationally renowned movie star,' Oscar telecast producer Laurence Mark and executive producer Bill Condon in a joint statement. 'He also ...
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Academy names 15 films in running for visual effects Oscar
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has announced the 15 films selected as semi-finalists for the visual effects Oscar that will be handed out at the 81st Academy Awards on February 22.The films in alphabetical order are: Australia, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Cloverfield, The Curious Case ...
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Summit moves US release of Brothers Bloom from Dec to May 2009
Summit Entertainment has pushed back the North American release of Rian Johnson's adventure romance The Brothers Bloom to 2009. The film was originally scheduled for an Oscar-qualifying run in Dec and an expansion on January 16 but has now been moved to a limited opening on May 15 that will ...
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Fox's Day The Earth Stood Still set for world takeover
Aliens will rule the world this weekend when Fox International unleashes The Day The Earth Stood Still day-and-date with North America in approximately 90 countries.The sci-fi remake stars Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly and touches down in France, Belgium and Switzerland on December 10 and arrives a day later in ...
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Tarantino to receive Legend Award at Capri, Hollywood festival
Quentin Tarantino, currently racing to get his wartime action story Inglourious Basterds ready for a Cannes world premiere, will receive the 13th Capri, Hollywood - Honda International Film Festival's Capri Legend Award.'Quentin Tarantino is one of Hollywood's most prolific film-makers, revered and respected by the entertainment industry and movie audiences ...
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Roadside Attractions takes US theatrical on Alien Trespass
Roadside Attractions has acquired US theatrical rights to RW Goodwin's homage to 1950s sci-fi alien invasion films, Alien Trespass.The film stars Will & Grace's Eric McCormack in his first leading film role since leaving the series and will receive its world premiere at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival ...