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Oscilloscope takes worldwide on Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie
Oscilloscope Laboratories has taken worldwide rights to Jay Delaney's documentary Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie and will release it today [October 17] at the Pioneer Theater in New York and on DVD in winter 2009.The film is styled as a buddy movie about Bigfoot researchers Wayne Burton and Dallas Gilbert ...
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Eurocinema's Namer to give keynote at China conference
VOD service Eurocinema's head of North American operations Larry Namer will give the keynote speech along with News Corp Europe chairman I Martin Pompadur at China's first International Media And Technology Conference, which runs from October 22-25.The symposium is co-sponsored by the China Radio And Television Association (CRTA) and the ...
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LongTale International picks up international on Strathairn drama
LongTale International has acquired international rights to Eithor/Or Films' off-beat drama The Sensation of Sight starring David Strathairn.Aaron J Wiederspahn directed the story about a middle-aged English teacher's search for meaning amid the ache of despair.Jane Adams, Ann Cusak, Elisabeth Waterston, Joe Mazzello, and Scott Wilson round out the key ...
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Taraji Henson takes lead in No More Bloodshed
Taraji Henson, who recently starred in Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys, will star in the quirky thriller No More Bloodshed that is set to begin shooting in Los Angeles in March 2009.The film centres on a paroled hit man determined to change his life and reclaim the son he's ...
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New York Critics to announce annual awards on Dec 10
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) will hold its annual vote on the year's best in film on December 10 and the awards ceremony will take place at Spotlight in New York City on January 5 2009.The group's outgoing chair and Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum also announced that ...
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Twilight's Rathbone joins cast of Clive Barker adaptation Dread
Twilight cast member Jackson Rathbone has joined the cast of UK-based Matador Pictures and LA-based Midnight Picture Show's Clive Barker adaptation Dread, which has begun five-week principal photography in the UK.Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment holds worldwide rights and will commence sales at AFM in Santa Monica next month on the ...
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Number One With A Bullet to open Hollywood Film Festival
The West Coast premiere of Jim Dziura's gun violence and hip-hop documentary Number One With A Bullet and the world premiere of Jeremy Benson's horror film Live Animals bookend the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival, scheduled for October 22-26.Among the line-up of 70 films are the centerpiece screenings of Fashion ...
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Forward Motion acquires worldwide rights to For My Father
Toronto-based Forward Motion has acquired worldwide rights to the Israeli thriller For My Father from Israel's Praxis Films and Spring Hill Entertainment and Germany's Relevant Film. The film screens in competition at the Hamptons International Film Festival this week.Dror Zahavi's film has toured the European festival circuit and earned seven ...
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Kimmel takes on sales for Paper Man with Daniels, Reynolds
Kimmel International will commence sales at AFM on the coming-of-age tale Paper Man starring Jeff Daniels, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone and Lisa Kudrow.Michele and Kieran Mulroney make their directorial debut on the film; they recently co-wrote the DC Comics' adaptation Justice League for Warner Bros.Paper Man chronicles the unlikely ...
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Dakota Fanning gets the year's Rising Star award at Palm Springs
Dakota Fanning will receive the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Rising Star Award at the festival's annual awards gala on January 6, 2009.Festival chairman Harold Matzner made the announcement in Beverly Hills last night [October 14] at a reception hosted by festival board member Stephen Breimer.'Dakota Fanning ...
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Inglourious Basterds starts shooting for TWC, Universal
Principal photography commenced last week on location in Germany on Quentin Tarantino's world war two adventure Inglourious Basterds - spelt that way as per the producers.The ensemble cast includes Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Daniel Bruhl, Til Schweiger, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, B J Novak, Julie Dreyfus and Cloris ...
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Colin Callender leaves HBO Films after 21 years at the company
Colin Callender is stepping down as president of HBO Films after 21 years at HBO and plans to launch his own company.The move had been expected since last year when Callender lost out in the race to lead HBO following Chris Albrecht's departure. The decision to take HBO Films out ...
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Lingusitics expert to give keynote address at AFCI Cineposium
Linguistics expert Richard D Lewis will give the keynote address 'When Cultures Collide' to kick off the 33rd annual AFCI Cineposium in November in Wellington, New Zealand.The Association Of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) Cineposium International Conference is held annually in a leading film production centre and the event is expected ...
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Last Chance Harvey gets world premiere at AFI FEST
Joel Hopkins's romance Last Chance Harvey will receive its world premiere on November 8 after joining the AFI FEST 2008 line-up as a late entry.Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson star in the London-set tale of an unhappy man whose fortunes change when he discovers an unlikely companion at his daughter's ...
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Isidore Mankofksy to receive ASC Presidents Award
Isidore Mankofsky will receive the American Society Of Cinematographers Presidents Award at the 23rd Annual American Society Of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards on February 15 2009 in Los Angeles.Mankofsky began his career making documentaries and shooting newsfilm at a television station in Reno, Nevada. He made more than 100 educational ...
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Hoffman, Brolin, Scott Thomas to be honoured at Hollywood Awards
In the latest round of honourees announced by the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, Dustin Hoffman will receive the career achievement award while Josh Brolin is named actor of the year and Kristin Scott Thomas is feted as actress of the year.Hoffman won two Oscars for Kramer ...
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Regent takes US rights from Fortissimo to The Song Of Sparrows
Regent Releasing has acquired US rights from Fortissimo Films to Iranian foreign-language Oscar submission The Song Of Sparrows from Majid Majidi.Regent plans a limited release in spring 2009 on the contemporary drama, which premiered at Berlinale last winter and tells of a poor man whose personality changes when he acquires ...
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Colin Stanfield takes over as executive director of Nantucket festival
Independent producer and festival veteran Colin Stanfield is taking the reins at the Nantucket Film Festival after founder and current executive director Jill Burkhart announced she was relinquishing oversight of day-to-day operations to chair the festival's board of directors.Stanfield will commence work immediately in advance of the 14th edition that ...
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Penelope Cruz to receive Santa Barbara's top award in Jan 2009
Penelope Cruz will receive the 24th Santa Barbara International Film Festival's (SBIFF) Outstanding Performer Of The Year Award on January 31, 2009.Cruz is currently filming Nine for the Weinsteins and starred this year in Woody Allen's comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona and the Philip Roth adaptation Elegy.She was nominated for an ...
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Guillaume Depardieu dies tragically at 37 from pneumonia
Guillaume Depardieu, the actor son of Gerard Depardieu, died on Monday [October 13] in a French hospital from pneumonia. He was 37.Depardieu died at the Raymond-Poincare hospital west of Paris after he was flown back from Romania, where he contracted a pulmonary illness during filming.Despite winning the Cesar for the ...