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Philippe Martinez is back with Cinepro Pictures, directing film
Former Bauer Martinez chief Philippe Martinez has resurfaced with Tampa Bay, Florida-based Cinepro Pictures and commenced principal photography on thriller The Stream Experiment starring Val Kilmer, Armand Assante and Eric Roberts.Martinez himself is directing and producing from a screenplay by Rob Malkani about six people trapped in a Turkish bathhouse. ...
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Allen's Vulcan to partner with Infinity on Nine Mile Falls
Vancouver-based production company Infinity Features has partnered with Paul G Allen's Vulcan Productions to produce Deb Caletti's young adult novels as a series of films titled Nine Mile Falls.Infinity's Rob Merilees and Vulcan's Michael Caldwell are producing and Allen, Jody Patton and Richard Hutton are serve as executive producers.The five ...
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Wang's Princess to receive free release on YouTube in US
Magnolia Pictures will distribute Wayne Wang's The Princess Of Nebraska as a free release on YouTube's recently launched internet platform YouTube Screening Room on October 17.The release of The Princess Of Nebraska ties in with Magnolia's theatrical release of Wang's companion film A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers on September ...
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Mill Valley Film Festival to open with Religulous, Bees
Religulous and The Secret Life Of Bees will open and American Violet starring Alfre Woodard and Israeli drama Lemon Tree will close the 31st Mill Valley Film Festival, which runs from October 2-12.The festival will pay tributes to Woodard, Swedish actress Harriet Andersson and screenwriter Eric Roth, who wrote the ...
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Magnolia picks up worldwide rights to Diary Of A Mad Black Man
Magnolia Pictures has picked up worldwide rights to Tim Alexander's feature directorial debut Diary of A Mad Black Man.The story uses a series of vignettes to explore the nature of relationships between black men and the stereotypes and resentment that lurk within.Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles called it a 'firecracker of ...
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New Line options How To Be Single for Flower Films to produce
New Line Cinema has optioned Liz Tuccillo's best-selling novel How To Be Single and will produce with Nancy Juvonen and Drew Barrymore's Flower Films.Tuccillo is a former writer for Sex and the City and co-wrote the book He's Just Not That Into You, which was also acquired and produced by ...
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Gus Van Sant to receive tribute at Gotham Awards
Gus Van Sant will receive a Gotham Awards Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards on December 2 in New York.Van Sant directed Milk, which stars Sean Penn as the assassinated gay supervisor of San Francisco and will be released through Focus Features on November 26.In recognition of Van Sant's ...
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Millstein, Morris promoted at Disney Animation, Pixar
Disney animation executive Andrew Millstein has been named general manager for Walt Disney Animation Studios and industry effects production executive Jim Morris will take on a parallel role as general manager for Pixar Animation Studios.Both will be responsible for guiding overall operations of their respective studios and will continue to ...
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Hollywood marketing agencies creative trade organisation
Hollywood marketing agencies have formed the trade organisation AEMA. Bob Farina of The Cimarron Group has been named chairman. Member agencies include In Sync Advertising, The Ant Farm, Anticipation Group, Intralink, Crew Creative and Bemis Balkind.'An organisation like AEMA is long overdue,' Farina said. 'In this constantly shifting landscape that ...
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Govan's Rain to open Bahamas International Film Festival
Maria Govan's drama Rain, one of the first indigenously produced films to come out of the Bahamas, will open the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), set to run from December 4-11 in Nassau.Rain received its world premiere in the Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival last weekend and ...
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imegenation abu dhabi forms $250m financing fund with Participant
Participant Media and imagenation abu dhabi have formed a five-year $250m revolving fund to finance a slate 15-18 of narrative features.Participant will take the lead in developing and will oversee production and find worldwide distribution. Participant Media CEO Jim Berk said the company had been looking to secure a multi-year ...
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Tippett to receive Georges Melies Award from Visual Effects Society
Phil Tippett, who founded Tippett Studio and won an effects Oscar for his work in Jurassic Park and a Special Achievement Academy Award for Return Of The Jedi, will receive the Visual Effects Society's (VES) George Melies Award For Artistic Excellence.The Melies Award, given to individuals who have 'pioneered a ...
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Summit picks up Hurt Locker, IFC Films gets Che at Toronto
Summit Entertainment has picked up US rights to Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker in the second significant domestic deal of the festival. The distributor closed the deal late on Tuesday night and plans to release the film in 2009. The deal follows a successful North American premiere for the war ...
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Rampling, Bruhl, Friel to star in Amiel's WWI comedy Angel Makers
Charlotte Rampling will star alongside Daniel Bruhl and Anna Friel in London-based The Producers' first world war dark comedy Angel Makers which Jon Amiel will direct.Benno Furmann, Moritz Bleibtreu, Anne-Marie Duff and John Hurt round out the key cast. The Producers principal Jeanna Polley is producing and is currently scouting ...
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Arclight, Escape Factory and Infinity team up for Altitude
Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films, Vancouver-based Escape Factory and Infinity Features will produce the supernatural thriller Altitude.Short film-maker Kaare Andrews will direct the story of a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends who battle a malevolent force when their plane malfunctions. Paul A Birkett wrote the screenplay.Principal photography is set ...
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DeVito, Winkler, Zwick honoured by Israel Film Festival
Danny DeVito, Irwin Winkler and Edward Zwick will be honoured at the 23rd annual Israel Film Festival, which runs in New York from October 29-November 13.DeVito will receive the Lifetime Visionary Award, Winkler the Lifetime Achievement Award and Zwick the Outstanding Achievement In Film award. Zwick's second world war Resistance ...
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IFC Films picks up North American rights to Everlasting Moments
IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Jan Troell's pan-Scandinavian co-production Everlasting Moments screening here and will release the film next year through IFC In Theatres.Troell wrote the screenplay with Niklas Radstrom and Agneta Ulfsater Troell; the story depicts cultural shifts told through the history of a late ...
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Fox Searchlight pays $4m for US rights to The Wrestler
After a cautious start sorely lacking in buzz and domestic deal-making, TIFF sprang into life yesterday as Fox Searchlight paid $4m for US rights to Darren Aronofsky's Venice Golden Lion winner The Wrestler.Searchlight beat out bids from Lionsgate, Sony and Overture Films before it closed the deal with CAA in ...
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Finneran named senior consultant at Sundance DFP
SILVERDOCS festival director Patricia Finneran will move over to the Sundance Institute as the Documentary Film Programme's senior consultant, New York, commencing on November 1.Finneran replaces Bruni Burres, the long-time executive director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, who is moving to a full-time position as executive producer at ...
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CMG seals three-picture deals with Poland, Turkey
Edward Noeltner's Cinema Management Group has closed sales on its key Toronto sales titles Zambezia, Killer Bean Forever and The People Speak.Poland's Vison Film and Turkey's Film Pop acquired rights to the trio. The animated feature Killer Bean Forever is based on Jeff Lew's short Killer Bean 2: The Party, ...