All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1179
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Zvyagintsev's The Banishment wins best film at Lone Star
Andrei Zvyagintsev's The Banishment was named best foreign language film as the Lone Star International Film Festival in Fort Worth, Texas, wrapped at the weekend.Igor Volshin's Nirvana won the grand jury prize for narrative feature competition and Eric Bricker's Visual Acoustics - The Modernism Of Julius Shulman took documentary honours.Clay ...
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Sony Classics takes multiple territory rights on It Might Get Loud
Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed the acquisition from The Little Film Company of Davis Guggenheim's music documentary It Might Get Loud.SPC has taken rights for North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa on the story of the evolution of the electric guitar featuring rock luminaries Jimmy Page, ...
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LAFCA to announce winners on Dec 9, present awards on Jan 12
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) will announce this season's winners immediately after the voting meeting on December 9.The 34th annual film achievement awards ceremony will take place on January 12 at the InterContinental Los Angeles in Century City.LAFCA president Lael Loewenstein made the announcement earlier today [Nov 17]. ...
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Dutch Filmworks reports big buys for Benelux at AFM 2008
Dutch Filmworks (DFW) reported brisk business at AFM despite the global economic crisis and acquired Benelux rights to a number of high profile titles including the Sylvester Stallone action saga The Expendables from Nu Image/Millenium.Stallone will direct The Expendables from his own screenplay about a team of mercenaries sent on ...
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The Secrets wins audience award at Israel Film Festival in NYC
Avi Nesher's closing night film The Secrets won the 23rd Israel Film Festival's audience award as the event came to a close in New York on November 13.The winners receive a $60,000 package including a full month's use of a 35mm Panavision camera package to shoot their next film in ...
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Pullman, Jenkins, Majidi among Denver Film Festival honorees
Bill Pullman will receive the 31st Starz Denver Film Festival's (SDFF) John Cassavetes Award while Richard Jenkins will be presented with the Excellence In Acting Award.SDFF, which opened on November 13 with a screening of Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom and runs until November 23, will also pay tribute to ...
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Quantum Of Solace makes 007 history with $70.4m domestic opening
Sony/MGM's Quantum Of Solace scored the best launch in James Bond franchise history at the weekend with a thunderous $70.4m that far exceeded predictions and dwarfed the competition.The result beat the previous franchise record of $47.1m set by Die Another Day in 2002 and combined with 007's continued international domination ...
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Quantum passes $250m with ease for SPRI after $56.1m weekend
Smashing its way past the competition with James Bond's trademark ruthless efficiency, Quantum Of Solace leapt past the $250m international and $300m global marks thanks to a further $56.1m overseas haul, according to estimates from Sony Pictures Releasing International.In its third consecutive weekend as the number one international title, the ...
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Sundance Institute names eight projects for Middle Eastern Lab
Sundance Institute has announced the eight participants in the recent fourth annual Middle East Screenwriters Lab run by the Royal Film Commission in Jordan in consultation with Sundance Institute.The five-day lab took place from October 14-19 and matched emerging film-makers with creative advisors.The projects and participants selected for the 2008 ...
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Profile: Arclight Films
Gary Hamilton's Australian-US company Arclight Films is no stranger to the circuit but buyers may have detected a change in tone over recent months. Hamilton was at the AFM in Santa Monica this week with the first fruits of his new direction away from being primarily a financing and sales ...
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Quantum Of Solace to hit six new territories including Mexico
Quantum Of Solace will race towards $250m in international markets this weekend and should cross $300m worldwide when 007 brings the mayhem to North America.MGM/Sony's latest entry in the James Bond canon has been on devastating form since it launched two weeks ago and has amassed more than $190.1m from ...
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Bahamas Festival to close with Spike Lee's Miracle Of St Anna
Spike Lee's second world war saga Miracle At St Anna will close the fifth Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), which runs from December 4-11.'I am so pleased to be welcoming Spike Lee's wonderful film back to Nassau, Bahamas, as Miracle Of St Anna was shot on Rose Island,' festival founder ...
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Jay Fukuto named head of studio at Film Roman
Jay Fukuto has been promoted to head of studio at animation creators Film Roman and will oversee the company's animation production operations for features, home entertainment, TV and visual effects.Fukuto most recently served as head of production for Film Roman and will report directly to by Kent Rice, the CEO ...
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Bregman's Likely Story to film The Amateur American with Ross Katz
Likely Story has acquired feature rights to the upcoming political thriller novel The Amateur American and set Ross Katz to adapt the screenplay and direct.New York-based Likely Story and the production company's founder Anthony Bregman will produce the story based on J Saunders Elmore's novel about a young American in ...
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Mickey Rourke gets American Riviera Award at Santa Barbara
Mickey Rourke, receiving rave reviews for his performance as a washed-up fighter in The Wrestler, will receive the 24th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival's American Riviera Award on January 30.Rourke will join a pantheon of previous recipients that includes Tommy Lee Jones, Forrest Whitaker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Bacon ...
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Cinetic's CRM launches online venture with Amazon, CreateSpace
Cinetic Rights Management (CRM) has launched an online distribution venture with Amazon Video On Demand and CreateSpace DVD On Demand.Select titles will be made available to consumers exclusively as CRM and Amazon Video On Demand will curate a slate of approximately 20 films each month.The venture launched on November 13 ...
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Ron Howard to receive lifetime achievement award at Palm Springs
Ron Howard will receive the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Director's Lifetime Achievement Award on Jaunary 6.Howard's latest film Frost/Nixon will open through Universal on December 5 and follows a long line of credits that includes A Beautiful Mind, which earned him the Oscar in 2001, The ...
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NewsBusiness review: American Film Market
Film buyers are not easily impressed. They like to bemoan the lack of inspiring new product at markets. Their plaintive cries have been particularly loud this year and to be fair the familiar gripes that echoed through the corridors of the Loews and Le Merigot hotels at last week’s AFM ...
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Hollywood power names line up for first PGA conference next June
James Cameron, Clint Eastwood, Rob Lorenz, Lucy Fisher, Doug Wick, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Gale Anne Hurd will take part in the Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) first annual Produced By Conference in Los Angeles next summer.Kathleen Kennedy, Mark Gordon, Marshall Herskovitz, Chuck Lorre and the producing teams from ...
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Hollywood power names line up for first PGA conference next June
James Cameron, Clint Eastwood, Rob Lorenz, Lucy Fisher, Doug Wick, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Gale Anne Hurd will take part in the Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) first annual Produced By Conference in Los Angeles next summer.Kathleen Kennedy, Mark Gordon, Marshall Herskovitz, Chuck Lorre and the producing teams from ...